Jim Duignan

Jim Duignan is an artist living and working with Chicago.

As a sculptor, photographer, publisher, educator, Duignan’s work investigates questions of history, activism, and peacemaking in urban, self-educational traditions.

He is the founder of Stockyard Institute, as well as the Art Education program at DePaul University, where Duignan teaches courses about civically-engaged education as a contemporary studio art form.

Select exhibitions include the retrospective, Stockyard Institute: 25 Years of Art and Pedagogy, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2021), Envisioning Justice, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago (2019), PUBLIC SCHOOL, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (2017), Smart Museum, Chicago (2017), the Chicago Cultural Center (2017), Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (2016), Interference Archive, Brooklyn (2015), Sullivan Galleries, Chicago (2014), Kochi-Muziris Biennial, India (2014), and the Hull House Museum, Chicago (2013).

In addition, Duignan's work has been published in The Atlantic Monthly, The Art Newspaper, Prestel Publications (Nick Cave's Epitome), The New York Times, Chicago Reader, New Art Examiner, Chronicle of Higher Education, New City, Chicago Tribune, and many others. His work has been recognized by the Weitz Family Foundation, the Tzeng Family, Illinois Humanities, Artadia, and the Art Institute of Chicago.