Deb Sokolow,
Professor of Instruction,

Deb Sokolow is an artist and writer whose semi-fictitious drawings and artist books speculate both comically and critically on a number of subjects including architecture, politics, organizational structures and the human psyche. Sokolow’s most recent drawings visualize scenarios in which architecture, design, psychology and social engineering overlap.

Her work has been included in the 4th Athens Biennale (Athens, Greece), the 5th Chicago Architecture Biennial and in exhibitions at Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Siegen, Germany), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Drawing Center (New York), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis), Smart Museum of Art (Chicago), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City) and a MATRIX exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford).

Sokolow’s drawings have been reproduced for BOMB Magazine, Creative Time’s Comics project, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American Comics and in Phaidon’s Vitamin D2, a survey on contemporary drawing. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Dallas Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Sokolow is a recipient of an Artadia award, The Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Foundation Achievement Award, two Visual Arts Fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and residencies at Art Omi in Ghent, New York and Nordic Artists’ Centre in Dale, Norway. Sokolow’s practice is also the subject of a 2026 documentary filmed by Alex Morelli and produced by Pentimenti Productions. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004.

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