Exhibitions
Projects range the gamut, from creating solo exhibitions and participating in group shows to designing exhibits and the accompanying catalogs or other exhibition publications.
Your Souls Glow
Jun 27–Aug 4 | Design Museum of Chicago & Young Chicago Authors, United States | Poster 24x36 inches | Poet: Mily Munoz | Group exhibition
Poster included in the Great Ideas of Humanity exhibition, which continues the legacy of the iconic Great Ideas of Western Man campaign, reimagining its vision for a broader, more inclusive future. This latest iteration transforms thought-provoking phrases into striking visual statements, turning ideas into tangible works of art that invite reflection and conversation.
On May 2, 2025, ten youth poets from Young Chicago Authors performed original work at DMoC. Their poems, drawn from the 2025 Rooted & Radical Youth Poetry Festival, inspired artists and designers in the audience to create new pieces, turning an evening of poetry into a powerful exchange of language, design, and shared vision. This program is made possible with funding from the Poetry Foundation.
Reassembly Required
May 2025 | CSI Project Space, Chicago | Solo exhibition and workshop
Works composed of elements from an array of previously assembled works. Similar to collage-making, disparate parts were gathered and then reassembled into new forms. Additionally, works were installed or bound with little planning because improvisation was key and the mode of operation.
Shaking things up and stirring them around—the cutting, mixing, and reassembling of images, compositions, type, language, and structures—was the process. At the opening, there were images, snippets of design work from previous projects, and blank paper of varying stocks to select and have bound (during super quick binding demos) for booklets and notebook takeaways.
Best Laid Plans
Jan–May 2025 | Alcove Gallery, Chicago | Solo exhibition | Organized by Meimei Yu
The act of design ordinarily entails meticulous planning, yet the actual process of making often includes countless directions, variations, and decision-making, with each potential direction leading to multiple variations, and each variation leading to ultimate decisions, resulting in modifications made from initial plans. For some, this can be a frustrating experience. However, instead of seeing deviations as imperfections, these unexpected adjustments can be embraced and perceived as a necessary part of the evolution and refinement of ideas. The best laid plans are flexible and account for change.
Four works:
Corruptions, book and installation (left wall)
Corrupted Lake, installation (center wall)
Wrecked Revival, book and installation (right wall)
Revival of Hecate, film titles sequence (projection)
Slow Down
Apr 2025 | Chicago Collage Community, Chicago, IL | Collage | Group exhibition | Curated by Emily Wilson
Recent collage work was included in the Slow Down exhibition, held by the Chicago Collage Community, which strives to connect and uplift the diverse array of collage artists in the greater Chicago area, ensuring Chicago is in the ongoing conversations about collage art and artists throughout the world.
Fields and The Ghost Inside
Mar–Apr 2025 | Galeria Latarka, Warsaw, Poland | Curated by Stephen Tomasko and organized by Agata Borowska
October–December 2024 | The Little Gallery, Huron, OH | Curated by Stephen Tomasko
Collages included in Modern Fluxus: New Mail Art from Around the World, a group exhibition of international artists, held at The Little Gallery in Huron, Ohio. The work then traveled to Warsaw, Poland, for inclusion in the Modern Fluxus Vol. 2 exhibition, held at Galeria Latarka.
21st Century Deconstruction for Reconstruction
Mar 2025 | Chicago Women’s History Center, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
Jan–Feb 2025 | Typeforce 13, Co-Prosperity, Chicago, IL
Book title and cover | Group exhibition | Project by Heather Snyder Quinn and Ayako Takase
Book included in Bookstand 2125: Matriarchal Design Futures, a global collaborative project that invited artists and designers to imagine and create books from the year 2125. In this speculative future, knowledge and creativity flourish within systems centered on care, nurturing, and collective well-being rather than competition and scarcity.
As a review of the transformative past, 21st Century Deconstruction for Reconstruction reflects upon the sociopolitical ideology and practice of taking things down and reconstituting select parts, which had a significant role in leading to the prosperous, inclusive time of the first quarter of the 22nd century. Utilized as a metaphor, collage images serve to illustrate the text.
The exhibition debuted at Typeforce 13 and later accompanied the Chicago Women’s History Conference 2025: Past & Present Strategies to Advance the Rights of Women.
The Spaces We Call Home: Landscapes
Sep 2024–Feb 2025 | DePaul Art Museum, Chicago | Group exhibition | Curated by Marin R. Sullivan
Bits of color, twisted form, faded words—stimulation is inspiration. The mode of operation is that of a street photographer, constantly noticing the unnoticed: the decrepit, the dilapidated, the dismissed.
Our eyes scan, automatically and systematically, as they move through the city, waiting for delight, for curios to reveal themselves. Whimsy and happenstance are key. When found, these trash treasures are photographed or brought back, examined, and then set aside until one day partnered or grouped with other finds.
Such is the process: hunting and gathering, thinking and making. The eyes, the brain, the heart—they don’t switch off. They invariably detect, desire, and direct the hands, continually compelled.
What is a landscape but fields of color and texture that form spaces for contemplation, reflection and repose. Warm colors and cool colors, neutrals and brights—a feast for sight and soul.
Gallery tour with the artists on February 6, 2025, 6pm.
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20 Years of the Chicago Design Archive
Aug 2024–Feb 2025 | Design Museum of Chicago | Power Typeface, Managing Change book, and Chicago Design Through the Decades | Group show | Co-curated by Lara Allison | Organized by Chicago Design Archive with support from The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
Three works included in the 20 Years of the Chicago Design Archive exhibition held by the Chicago Design Archive (CDA). It celebrated two decades of preserving historically important works and the archive’s continuous expansion to reflect Chicago’s vibrant design scene. Since 2003, CDA has been the premiere online repository for Chicago-related graphic design, experiential design, and product design, with the majority of works in the collection produced in the last hundred years.
There’s So Much I Wish I Could Tell You
Aug–Dec 2024 | Alcove Gallery, Chicago | Collage and installation | Group exhibition | Organized by Meimei Yu
Seven collages in addition to an installation of the collage-making process were included in the exhibition There’s So Much I Wish I Could Tell You.
’STACHE
Nov 2024 | Alcove Gallery, Chicago, IL | Collage | Group show | Curated by Richard Zeid
Collage works included in exhibition held to raise funds in support of the Movember Foundation. Movember is an annual event held during the month of November where men grow mustaches to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health, and suicide prevention.
Seeing, Thinking and Making
Sep–Oct 2024 | Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | Group exhibition
Poster included in Poster Stellars Intercontinental exhibition of winning works selected in the Poster Stellars international design competition.
The poster was created to promote Special Topics in Design: Seeing, Thinking and Making—a course, authored and taught by Guy, facilitating the exploration and practice of both traditional and digital image-making modes. It offered a platform to experiment with image as a language, utilizing abstraction and juxtaposition in a variety of media.
Chicago Stars
Sep 2024 | Flag Fest, Taste of Chicago, IL
Jul 2024 | Field Day Festival, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Flag 54 x 36 inches | Group exhibition | Organized by Design Museum of Chicago in partnership with Terra Foundation for American Art
As an amalgam of two loves (the city and the practice of experimental typography), the concept of the flag design is driven by the Chicago flag itself, however, in place of stars, star-shaped letterforms display the word Chicago. The idea is a play on semiotics, as it utilizes a highly recognizable form but provides a twist. Familiarity supplies the entry point of engagement and, at the second that a difference is detected, it is anticipated that the realization that the stars are actually letterforms creates a gratifying aha moment.
Grimoire
Jul 2024 | TypeCon Gallery, Revolution Hall, Portland, OR | Book cover | Group exhibition | Organized by Society of Typographic Aficionados
Book cover design included in the showcase of winning work from the TypeCon Design Competition. The exhibition accompanied TypeCon, the leading international conference on typography and design.
The Meta Book
Sep 2023–ongoing | Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, IL | Exhibition concept, semipermanent installation, and catalog | Organized by Chas Cassidy
Featuring the book design work of Guy’s former students from Columbia College Chicago, The Meta Book exhibition is held at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago. The initial exhibition run coincided with Banned Books Week, which celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools across the country.
FutureArchive
Apr 2023 | UIC Architecture + Design Studios, Chicago, IL | Book design of project documentation | Group exhibition | Organized by UIC Architecture and UIC Design
Book included in exhibition accompanying FutureArchive—a conference aimed at sparking the development of a new study and publishing center at Chicago’s public research university, and to creating an exchange around the relevance and potentials of archives for schools of architecture and design today.
The book, VPAC: A New Front Door, was one of three competing architectural proposals commissioned by UIC and exhibited previously in Back to the Future: Visualizing the Arts at UIC, which celebrated a long architectural history of projecting possible futures. On the design team led by Andrew Zago, the documentation book and supporting exhibition graphics were created for Play — a strategy developed by Zago Architects — to consider the design of a UIC Visual & Performing Arts Center (VPAC).
Chicago Design Through the Decades
Nov–Dec 2022 | Full exhibition run
Jun 2022 | Popup/advance screening coinciding with NeoCon
Art on theMart, Chicago, IL | Exhibition concept and creative direction, plus team collaboration | Curated by Cynthia Noble
Chicago Design Through the Decades is a swift, exciting journey through the history of Chicago design spanning the last one hundred years. The project is based on the vast collection of the Chicago Design Archive (CDA), the premiere and permanent online record of Chicago design, currently holding over 3200 examples of work by over 1100 Chicago designers. It was exhibited through two screenings in 2022 at Art on theMart, which features an outdoor public platform using 34 projectors and the largest projection viewing area in the world — 2.5 acres (approximately two football fields) — on the side of a massive and architecturally notable building situated along the Chicago River in downtown Chicago. More…
Recognition:
Creative Quarterly | Runner-up
Print Awards | First Place
Muse Creative Awards | Gold
Vega Digital Awards | Gold
Remnants Redux
Sep–Nov 2022 | Alcove Gallery, Chicago, IL | Solo exhibition | Curated by Debra Kayes and organized by Meimei Yu
Derived from the earlier Remnants: Recombined, Reconsidered exhibition, Remnants Redux is the abridged reinterpretation of our cross disciplinary work exploring the boundaries of graphic design through photography, collage, and other media.
Remnants: Recombined, Reconsidered
Jun–Aug 2022 | Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Mana Contemporary, Chicago | Solo exhibition and catalog | Curated by Debra Kayes Halpern
Held by Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago, Remnants: Recombined, Reconsidered is a cross-disciplinary exhibition exploring the boundaries of graphic design through photography, collage, and other media. More…
Recognition (for exhibition catalog):
CQ Excellence Award and published in Creative Quarterly Journal
Indigo Design Awards | Silver
Muse Creative Awards | Silver
STA 100 selection
Chicago Design Milestones
Jul 2019 | 150 Media Stream, Chicago | Exhibition concept, creative direction, and catalog, plus team collaboration | Curated by Yuge Zhou
Chicago Design Milestones is a digital media public installation that took place throughout July 2019, at 150 Media Stream in Chicago. It brought to life the evolution of Chicago design by examining and showcasing the historic characteristics of design works from the 1920s to the present. Project material was researched and culled from the vast collection of the Chicago Design Archive, which holds over 3,200 works from over 1,100 designers and 400 firms. More…
Recognition:
CA Award of Excellence and published in Communication Arts
CQ Excellence Award and published in Creative Quarterly Journal
CQ 100 exhibition (NYC) and published in Creative Quarterly 100 Best
Muse Creative Award
Communication Design Scholar Award
STA 100 selection
What Comes After
Mar–Apr 2019 | Alcove Gallery, Chicago IL | Exhibition concept, exhibit design, and publication | Organized by Meimei Yu
This exhibition was created to serve as a manifestation of What Comes After Remix?, an essay by new media theorist Lev Manovich. Exhibition walls and surfaces are covered in a dense layering of images composed by randomly selected found images — a remixing of found images collected from various sources. The 72-page publication takes a similar approach with mixes upon mixes of imagery in densely layered compositions that reflect upon contemporary media culture and the act of appropriation.
Recognition:
CQ Excellence Award and published in Creative Quarterly Journal 57
American Graphic Design Award and published in Graphic Design USA
Outlying
Jan–Feb 2019 | Seerveld Gallery, Palos Heights, IL | Solo exhibition | Organized by Jean Carey
Outlying represents investigation in two areas: outlying design form and outlying design content. Outside of common design practice and, in some cases, common design formats, the works developed for Outlying stem from personal interests in and notions of identity and popular culture, whimsy and improvisation, as well as experimental work with language and typography. Examining form, the works lean outward from standard graphic design practice to areas that are uncommon or blend with other disciplines. Examining content, the works focus on design itself as subject matter. More…
Recognition:
STA 100 selection
Due Influence
Mar–Apr 2017 | Alcove Gallery, Chicago IL | Exhibition concept, exhibit design, and catalog | Organized by Meimei Yu
With the intent of illuminating the creative process, Columbia College Chicago faculty from the areas of Design, Art, Art History, Photography, Illustration, Cinema, Journalism, and Business & Entrepreneurship were prompted to submit a book that was formative to their practice and to write about the significance, and to select a salient quote from the book. The books, quotes, and writings were featured in the exhibition.
The Architectural Imagination: A New Federal Project
2017 | Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, WI
May–Nov 2016 | 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, U.S. Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Exhibit visualizations | Completed in collaboration with Zago Architecture | Curated by Cynthia Davidson
The Architectural Imagination is an exhibition of speculative projects designed for specific sites in Detroit, Michigan, which opened to the public in the U.S. Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. We collaborated with Zago Architecture to design visualizations to be included in the exhibition. The Zago proposal draws upon data from public records, and this information was designed by us as a series of posters to accompany the architectural plans and models. Visualizations include: United States Resettlement Areas (map), Refugee Housing Scenario (map), Refugees Admitted to the U.S. (chart), Resettlement Timeline, Detroit Population (chart), and Project Site (map).
Following the initial public exhibition at the U.S. Pavilion of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, this exhibition traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
VPAC: A New Front Door
Aug 2016 | Gallery 400, Chicago IL | Exhibit design and documentation book | Collaboration with Zago Architecture and Sarah Blankenbaker
VPAC: A New Front Door was one of three competing architectural proposals commissioned by UIC and exhibited in Back to the Future: Visualizing the Arts at UIC, which celebrated a long architectural history of projecting possible futures. On the design team led by Andrew Zago, the documentation book and supporting exhibition graphics were created for Play — a strategy developed by Zago Architects — to consider the design of a UIC Visual & Performing Arts Center (VPAC).