Hyde Park Art Center is proud to present Ground Floor which brings together work by Chicago’s most promising emerging talent, offering a single destination to discover a spectrum of artists whose work demands to be seen and supported. Based on nominations by respected members of the arts community, Hyde Park Art Center’s Exhibitions Committee of artists and curators select work by recent graduates from each of Chicago’s nationally top ranked Master of Fine Art programs: Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The exhibition is co-curated by the Exhibition Committee including Dawoud Bey (Chair), Michelle Grabner, Caroline Picard, Daniel Sauter, Allison Peters Quinn and other members of the Art Center staff.