Chloë Bass named Freund Fellow for 2026-27

The Sam Fox School has named the next Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow, Chloë Bass, to join the school in the 2026-27 academic year. The fellowship comprises teaching a course at the Sam Fox School and creating work for exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

During her fellowship, Bass will spend time working in studio space alongside MFA in Visual Art candidates as she creates work for her solo exhibition in the museum’s series, “Currents.” Her previous works include “Wayfinding,” a series of site-specific sculptures and audio artwork at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis’s Grand Center Arts District.

“We are delighted to welcome Chloë Bass into the Sam Fox School community,” Amy Hauft, director of the College and Graduate School of Art, shared. “While creating work in residence for her upcoming exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum, she will be teaching a seminar titled Cross-Pollinating, an interdisciplinary collaboration for artists, architects, and designers.” Hauft further described how students with differing forms of expertise will participate in Bass’s clinic on socially engaged practice, dividing into project working groups as they investigate replicable frameworks for collaboration.

“Chloë Bass’s practice unites conceptual rigor with a sophisticated, minimalist visual language,” said Simon Kelly, the Saint Louis Art Museum’s curator of modern and contemporary art. “We’re very excited to host her Saint Louis Art Museum exhibition, which promises to explore important themes relating to intimacy, ecology, and exile.”

About Chloë Bass

Chloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, situation, conversation, publication, and installation. Her work uses daily life as a site of deep research to address scales of intimacy: where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand. She began her work with a focus on the individual (“The Bureau of Self-Recognition”), followed by a study of pairs (“The Book of Everyday Instruction”), and recently concluded an investigation at the scale of the immediate family (“Obligation To Others Holds Me in My Place”). She will continue to scale up gradually until she’s working at the scale of the metropolis. She is currently working on “Since feeling is first,” a series of works examining intimacy at the scale of the courtroom and the law.

About the Freund Fellowship

Established in 1986, the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellowship promotes the exhibition of contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum as well as the teaching of art course while in residence at the Sam Fox School.