Angelina Marcelina - Aben McComiskey
angie personal cartography
seafood city
dissonance of a home (2005?, 1987?, 2008?)
the islands remember everything
Angelina McComiskey (b. Seattle, Washington) is an interdisciplinary artist and emerging curator based in Chicago, Illinois. Working across print, drawing, and fiber, her practice explores memory, archival material, cultural inheritance, and the construction of identity through domestic objects. Rooted in her Filipino heritage, her work considers how material can preserve, obscure, and transform memory across generations.
Alongside her artistic practice, McComiskey's emerging curatorial work centers on artists whose practices engage archives, memory, and material culture as sites of personal and collective history among their respective experiences. She is interested in exhibitions that celebrate and bring artists into conversation around individual narratives that reveal broader histories.
McComiskey received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2026, where she was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Scholarship.
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EDUCATION
2026 BFA Studio (emphasis in print media and art administration), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
(Forthcoming) 2026-27 Short-term Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
2026 Travel Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2025 (June) Studio Residency, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
2023 Contemporary Practices Buonanno Scholarship (Nominee), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2022 - 2026 Distinguished Scholar Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 In-Between (Curated by Callie Lauderback), Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL
2025 Edition and Subtraction, Free Range Gallery, Chicago, IL
2025 Basalt, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
2025 Halo Halo Project, Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL
2022 ArtBash, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2026 - Present Audio Visual Events and Exhibition Technician for Media Integrated Technology Solutions, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2025 - 2026 General Museum Operations Intern, Heritage Museum of Asian Art, Chicago, IL
2025 (Summer) Studio and Teaching Assistant, Coyote Central, Seattle, WA
2024 Gallery and Vintage Store Assistant, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 - 2023 Student Committee Member of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Access and Visibility Committee, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2026 Curator, under quiet light, whispers fade together, Living Systems Galleries, Chicago, IL
2026 Curator, softly, it remains, James B Marco Gallery, Chicago, IL
2025 Co-curator with Ana Maloletkina, Edition/Subtraction, Free Range Gallery, Chicago, IL
2025 Press release, Basalt, SAIC Galleries, Chicago
VOLUNTEER
2026 Volunteer (Cataloguing, Archiving, Curation), Filipino American History Society, Chicago, IL