VIDA SAČIĆ CV
b. 1980, Croatia
EDUCATION
2010
MFA, Indiana University Bloomington, Summa Cum Laude
2010
Rhode Island School of Design, Summer Institute for Graphic Design Studies
2003
BA, Marian University Indianapolis, Summa Cum Laude
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Self-evident, Chicago History Museum (upcoming)
Kinship, Galerija Zlati Ajngel, Varaždin, Croatia (upcoming)
We Print in Fragments, Karas Art Hub, Zagreb, Croatia (upcoming)
2025
Home Body Land, Mana Contemporary Highlights, Chicago, IL (upcoming)
I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back, Lađa X, Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Transitory, LiberSPACE Haustor Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2024
Wavelength, Galerija Flora, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2021
Vida Sačić: Press & Clay, Robert F. DeCaprio Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019
Acute Accents, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, IA
Letters Home, Kerredge Gallery, CCCAC, MI
TWO AND THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019
Remnants: Works on Paper (with Don Widmer and Sue Fox), Gallery Studio Oh, Chicago, IL
2016
Correlation Matrix: Vida Sačić and David Wolske, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI
2015
Type as Image: Lynne Avadenka, Purgatory Pie Press and Vida Sačić, Art Mora Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Center Program Exhibition, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (upcoming)
Terrain Biennial, Chicago, IL (upcoming)
Biennial Art Faculty Exhibition, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
2024
Immigrant Printing in Chicago (curated by Jill Gage), Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Double Stitch (collaboration with Kristin Abhalter Smith), Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023
Back to Front: Artists Books by Women (curated by Martha Chiplis), The Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, VA
Biennial Art Faculty Exhibition, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
2022
Fútbol is Life (curated by Nick Butcher), Public Works Gallery, Chicago, IL
Typeforce 12, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Artists Print! Rochester Institute of Technology at Rochester Art Space, Rochester, NY
SIP: Sequences, Iterations, and Permutations exhibition and Vanderbeek Mural collaboration (led by Jasper Goodrich), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2021
Snacktime Collective, Keep In Touch: Terrain Biennial 2021, Chicago, IL
2020
Grunt Work, with Kristin Abhalter Smith, Art In Place, Terrain Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Bridge Residency Program Exhibition (led by Claudine Ise), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Make Ready for the Revolution, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
Controlling Time, Langer over Dickie (curated by KT Duffy), Chicago, IL
Tangible Type, Du Charme Erdmann Gallery (curated by Stephanie Carpenter), Manitowoc, WI
Penland Winter Residency Showcase, Penland, NC
2019
New Impressions 2019, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI
CPG 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Animated Type Showcase, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
Faculty Biennial, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago IL
2018
Chicago Characters, theMART, Chicago, IL
Stay Golden (curated by Jonathan McGlothin), 50,000 ft, Chicago IL
Žene? – Žene! (curated by Smiljana Šafarić Branthwaite), City Museum of Varazdin, Croatia
Ajngelovih 10, Zlati Ajngel Gallery, Varazdin, Croatia
New Impressions, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI
Graphic Content (curated by Nancy Lu Rosenheim), The Bike Room @ Gallery 350, Chicago, IL
2017
Animation + Printmaking (curated by Barbara Tetenbaum), The Center for Book Arts, New York City
Surface Now (curated by David Armes), Hot Bed Press, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Biennial Faculty Exhibition, NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016
Words Matter 2 (curated by Eileen Madden), Arts on Elston Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Impressions in Letterpress, Design College Australia, Brisbane
New Impressions in Letterpress, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI
Animation+Printmaking Showcase, White Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2015
RITUAL, Reading Room: book show 2015, HBHQ, Philadelphia, PA
Words Matter (curated by Eileen Madden), Arts on Elston Gallery, Chicago, IL
Illinois Art Educator Exhibition, University of St. Francis Art Gallery, IL
New Impressions in American Letterpress, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI
Personal Histories, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Australia
Faculty Biennial, Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014
This is Chicago, presented by AIGA Chicago, Venue One, Chicago, IL
ANIMATED TYPE: A Showcase of Letterpress Animation, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
ANIMATED TYPE: A Showcase of Letterpress Animation, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
2013
RITUAL. Reading Room: book show 2014, 110 Church Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Art of Letterpress II, The Compound Studios & Gallery, Oakland, CA
Crossroads: Book Arts on the Border (curated by Katya Reka), Unsettled Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
23rd Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, UW-Parkside Art Gallery, Kenosha, WI
Hidden Agendas, Atelier 6000, Bend, OR
Homegrown Alphabets, Asheville BookWorks, Asheville, NC
Illustrated Accordion, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI
2012
Faculty Biennial, Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
Typeforce 3, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Readers Art 12, Susan Hansel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
LGNE 30th Anniversary Broadside Exhibit, Letterpress Guild of New England, Jamaica Plain, MA
In and Out of Paper, Paper Circle, Nelsonville, OH
Hamilton Wood Type Printing Museum Benefit Exhibit, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
American Printing History Association Conference Book Fair, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2011
Wood Type, Evolved: Experimental Letterpress & Relief Printing in the 21st Century (curated by April Sheridan and Nick Sherman), Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Reproduce + Ability (curated by April Sheridan), Southside Hub of Production, Chicago, IL
Faculty Biennial, Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010
Making Art Work, Making Art Work Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Idle Time/Busy Mind, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY
Nurture Art Benefit, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY
North Park Art Walk, Chicago, IL
Indiana University at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI
GRANTS AND STIPENDS
2025
Chicago History Museum, America 250 Commission, Competitive Award
2021
Northeastern Illinois University Summer Research Stipend
2020
Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) Individual Artist Grant
2014
Northeastern Illinois University Summer Research Stipend
GALLERY TALKS, LECTURES & PANELS
2025
Reclaiming Typographic Lineages, TypeCon 2025, Portland, OR
I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back, artist book presentation, Lađa X, Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back, College Book Arts Association Conference, Madison, WI
Producing Culture with Printmaking, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
2024
Wayzgoose Conference Speaker, Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI
Chicago Narratives Storytelling, Art and Design Chicago, The South Asia Institute, Chicago, IL
AIGA Chicago, Design Discourse invited featured speaker, Public Works Gallery, Chicago, IL
Wavelength, Gallery Talk, Flora Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2022
AIGA Chicago, Ask And Give, Typography Research Specialist Presentation, Chicago, IL
2021
Vida Sačić: Press & Clay, exhibition talk and presentation, Robert F. DeCaprio Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020
"LEAD: Letterpress Educators of Art & Design" Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) Conference presentation, online
"Silent People Print," Makeready 2020: A [virtual] Symposium for Letterpress Educators presentation, online
"Letterpress Printing in Chicago: Its Current State, History, and Legacy– a Roundtable Discussion," CAA conference presentation, Chicago, IL
2019
"A Tool for Understanding: Giving Voice to Diverse, Non-traditional, and Low-income Students Through Teaching Letterpress Printing," TypeCon 2019, Minneapolis, MN
"A Tool for Understanding," Makeready: A Letterpress Symposium for Educators, lecture, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Acute Accents, exhibition talk and presentation, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, IA
2018
"A Tool for Understanding: Giving Voice to Diverse, Non-traditional, and Low-income Students ThroughTeaching Letterpress Printing," Design Incubation Colloquium 5.1 talk, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
"Traveling Home," Makeready: A Letterpress Symposium for Educators, lecture, Two Rivers, WI
2017
"Unconventional Conventional: Letterpress Printing in Design Education," UCDA Design Education Summit, panel presentation, Kutztown, PA
2016
Art Insights Spotlights, Artist Lecture, Southern Utah University, UT
RESIDENCIES, WORKSHOPS & PROJECTS
2025
Center Program Artist (program led by Teresa Silva), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2024
Artist in Residence, FlexSpace, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
Artist in Residence, Flora Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2023
Visiting Curator, Craving Stability: Bobbi Meier and Alina Sokolova at Ajngel Gallery, Croatia
2022
Artist in Residence (invited by Amelia Fontanel), Artists Print!, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
Society of Typographic Arts STA-100 Juried Competition Chair, Chicago, IL
2020
Field/Work Program Resident Artist, Chicago Artist Coalition (CAC), Chicago, IL
Winter Resident Artist, Penland School Of Craft, NC
Bridge Program Artist (program led by Claudine Ise), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2019
Artist in Residence, Copper Country Community Arts Center, MI
2018
Printer and Collaborator with Marko Drpić, Tiporenesansa, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015
Project Manager, documenting the Globe Collection, Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, WI
2011
Summer Artist in Residence, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago, IL
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025
Feature interview – Vizkultura, leading Croatian art & culture platform, July 2025
Newcity Magazine, Making An Impression, February 2025
2024
The Chicago Reader, All That’s Fit To Print, December 2024
2018
VoyageChicago Art & Life with Vida Sacic, August 2018
Varazdinski.hr, Vida Sacic: Umjetnost bez romantike je suhoparna i gubi interes publike, April 2018
2016
Martha Chiplis, Correlation Matrix: Contemporary Letterpress Art by Vida Sacic and David Wolske, Exhibition Catalogue, August 2016
Jeff Lowe: Letterpress artist shares inspiration with community members, Iron County Today, March 2016
2015
Jonathan Goodman, Type as Image, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2015
2013
Ruggie Saunders, Cathie and Chiplis, Martha, For the Love of Letterpress: A Printing Handbook for Instructors and Students, published by Bloomsbury, October 2013
Chicago chapter of AIGA, 2013 Chicago Snapshot, Chicago, IL, July 2013
2012
Typeforce 3, exhibit publication, Chicago, IL, April 2013
Chicago chapter of AIGA, 2012 Chicago Snapshot, Chicago, IL, July 2012
2011
Chen Design Associates, Fingerprint No. 2: The Evolution of Handmade Elements in Graphic Design, published by HOW Books, August 2011
COLLECTIONS
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
The Chicago Design Archive, Chicago, IL
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
Rochester Institute of Technology ART Collection, NY
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2023—present
Full Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
2016—2023
Associate Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
2010—2016
Assistant Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
2009—2010
Future Faculty Teaching Fellow, Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, IN
2006—2009
Instructor, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
ACADEMIC WORK
2010—2019
Developed and coordinated the Graphic Design BFA program at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL