GLIMPSE ARTIST BIOS
Larissa Borteh (b. Columbus, Ohio) received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2010, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. Recent exhibitions include Nino Mier Gallery (New York); Riverside Arts Center (Chicago); Devening Projects (Chicago); Portrait Society Gallery (Milwaukee); Julius Caesar Gallery (Chicago); Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago); and Minotaur Projects (Los Angeles). Larissa has been a recipient of the George and Ann Siegel Fellowship; Leon Levy Foundation Grant; and a Dave Bown Projects Award. She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, Vermont); The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM) (Reykjavik, Iceland); Kunstnarhuset Messen (Ålvik, Norway); Cow House Studios (Enniscorthy, Ireland); and was a MacDowell Colony Fellow. Larissa currently lives and works in Chicago, IL where she is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Em Davenport (b. 1999, Missouri) lives and works in Chicago, IL. Her practice involves a critical investigation of how artists operate as both producers and products within contemporary media systems. Using multiple formats—painting, assemblage, writing, and curatorial projects—Davenport examines the systems that circulate images, including how identity, belief, and intimacy are performed and consumed. Davenport’s presentations include Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal, QC; Mariposa, Los Angeles, CA; Jessamine, Dallas, TX; Grunt’s Rare Books, Chicago, IL; Entrance, NYC; Emalin, London, EN; Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL; Rudimento, Quito, EC; Jargon Projects, Chicago, IL; My Perfect Environment, Chicago, IL; and New Works, Chicago, IL.
Kate Hefferan (b. 2001, Boulder CO) is a Chicago-based artist primarily working in painting and drawing. She is occupied with how her smoothed or scumbled surfaces can hold metaphor and memory in their materiality. Her work is often informed by literature on, or experience with, desire, uncertainty, and movement. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. Her work has been shown in Chicago with LVL3, Soho House, SAWHORSE, Artruss, Bodock, and Weatherproof, among others. She will present a solo show in Chicago with Point Blank October 16th through November 19th of 2026.
Shelby Keierleber (b. 1991 Fresno, CA) is a visual artist based in Kansas City, Missouri. She received her BFA from the University of Kansas in 2015. Her work mostly consists of representational paintings but ventures at times into interactive installation utilizing other mediums. She has shown work across the midwest as well as in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and New York. Her current practice is focused on the airbrush medium and concerned with the importance of the crop of an image in composition.
Justin Nalley (b. 1987, Detroit, MI) is an artist based in New York. His work has recently been included in group exhibitions at Historic Hampton House (Miami), Eidmann Gallery at Tara Downs (NYC), Turquoise (NYC), Shisanwu (Queens), and Everybody (Tucson). Confession, Nalley’s debut solo exhibition in New York, concluded in August 2026 at A.D. (Queens). He received an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2024 and a BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2010. Nalley is a 2025-2027 resident of the Hercules Studio Program (NYC).
Zsofi Valyi-Nagy (b.1990) is a scholar and practitioner of media art based in Los Angeles and an Assistant Professor of Art History at Scripps College. Her multimodal practice explores the past, present, and future of art and technology and its intersections with gender and disability. Zsofi received her PhD in Art History and her BA in Visual Arts from the University of Chicago. As the July 2026 AIR at Latitude, she developed “Intuitive Imaging Industries,” an installation staging the office of Dr. Fifi Robinson, a fictional West Coast healer and inventor of the Intuitive Imaging Instrument™️, a pseudomedical imaging machine that can “see” any ailment by combining radiography with aura photography.
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