VIDA SAČIĆ — CV
Croatia / Chicago, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Self-Evident, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL (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
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
Press & Clay, Robert F. DeCaprio Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019
Acute Accents, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, IA
Letters Home, Kerredge Gallery, CCCAC, MI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Center Program Exhibition (cur. Teresa Silva), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (upcoming)
Radical Collaborations, IBé Arts Institute, Hopewell, VA (upcoming)
Terrain Biennial, Chicago, IL
2024
Immigrant Printing in Chicago (cur. Jill Gage), Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Double Stitch (with Kristin Abhalter Smith), Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023
Back to Front: Artists Books by Women (cur. 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 (cur. 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), Terrain Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Continuous Span: Bridge Program showcase (cur. Claudine Ise), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Make Ready for the Revolution, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
2019
Remnants: Works on Paper (with Don Widmer and Sue Fox), Gallery Studio Oh, Chicago, IL
New Impressions 2019, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI
2018
Žene? – Žene! (cur. Smiljana Šafarić Branthwaite), City Museum of Varazdin, Croatia
Ajngelovih 10, Zlati Ajngel Gallery, Varazdin, Croatia
Graphic Content (cur. by Nancy Lu Rosenheim), The Bike Room @ Gallery 350, Chicago, IL
2017
Animation + Printmaking (cur. Barbara Tetenbaum), The Center for Book Arts, New York City
Surface Now (cur. David Armes), Hot Bed Press, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
2016
Correlation Matrix (two person exhibition with David Wolske), DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI
New Impressions in Letterpress, Design College Australia, Brisbane
New Impressions in Letterpress, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI
2015
Type as Image: Lynne Avadenka, Purgatory Pie Press and Vida Sačić, Art Mora Gallery, New York, NY
Personal Histories, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Australia
GRANTS AND STIPENDS
2025 Chicago History Museum - America 250 Commission
2021 Northeastern Illinois University - Summer Research Stipend
2020 Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) - Individual Artist Grant
2014 Northeastern Illinois University - Summer Research Stipend
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES & PANELS
2025
Reclaiming Typographic Lineages, TypeCon 2025, Portland, OR
I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back, 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: Design Discourse, 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
Press & Clay, artist talk, Robert F. DeCaprio Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020
Letterpress Printing in Chicago, CAA conference panel presentation, Chicago, IL
LEAD, Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) Conference panel presentation, online
Silent People Print, Makeready, Symposium for Letterpress Educators presentation, online
2019
A Tool for Understanding, TypeCon 2019, Minneapolis, MN
A Tool for Understanding, Makeready, Symposium for Educators, MICA, Baltimore, MD
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
STA-100 Juried Competition Chair, Society of Typographic Arts, 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 (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, Globe Collection Documentation, 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” — exhibition voted #1 Chicago design exhibition (Feb–Mar 2025 issue)
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,” 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 / 2021
Cathie Ruggie Saunders and Martha Chiplis, For the Love of Letterpress: A Printing Handbook for Instructors and Students, Bloomsbury — first and second editions feature Sačić’s work and that of her students
WORKS HELD IN THE FOLLOWING PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
Rochester Institute of Technology Art Collection, NY
The Chicago Design Archive, Chicago, IL
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
EDUCATION
MFA, Indiana University Bloomington — Summa Cum Laude
Rhode Island School of Design — Summer Institute for Graphic Design Studies
BA, Marian University, Indianapolis — Summa Cum Laude