Rate My Professor Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford

Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford is Associate Professor of Sculpture and Director of the School of the Arts at Indiana University Northwest, where he has taught since 2018, initially as Assistant Professor. He holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a BA from Bard College, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His prior teaching experience includes Adjunct Assistant Professor and Lecturer in Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2013 to 2018, Lecturer of Drawing and Sculpture at DePaul University from 2011 to 2013, and Instructor of Sculpture at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2008-2009 and 2012. As a visual artist based in Chicago, Hulsebos-Spofford's interdisciplinary practice centers on sculpture, employing techniques such as 3D printing, CNC carving, cast marble, and synthetic materials to create glitched classical forms and contemporary gipsotecas that gather dispersed copies of master works.

He is co-founder and co-director of the nonprofit art collective Floating Museum, alongside Faheem Majeed, Andrew Schachman, and avery r. young, which creates site-responsive museums using Chicago's architecture to engage communities and redistribute cultural capital from downtown to the peripheries. Key projects include River Assembly (2017), where a model of the DuSable Museum floated down the Chicago River; Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats, an inflatable monument addressing erasure and disinvestment in Bronzeville; and forthcoming contributions to the Chicago Architecture Biennial as artistic director and curator. Solo exhibitions feature League of Nations at the Chicago Cultural Center (2021), Garden Gipsoteca at the Arts Club of Chicago (2019), and Hall of Kahn at the Hyde Park Art Center (2013). Group exhibitions include A lion for every house at the Art Institute of Chicago (2022), The Long Dream at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2020), and Sustainable Societies for the Future at Malmö Konstmuseum (2021). He has received the Fulbright Fellowship in Sicily (2010), Illinois Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship (2014), Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, MacDowell Colony Fellowship (2014), Sculpture Space Residency Fellowship (2016), and IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowship (2023). Additional support comes from grants by the Graham Foundation, Joyce Foundation, Terra Foundation, and others. His work has appeared in reviews in Sculpture Magazine, Hyperallergic, Artforum, and the Chicago Tribune, contributing to discussions on museum formations, historical narratives, systems of power, and resource distribution.