2026 Re/Match Artists 💫
Re/Match is pleased to announce the 2026 Re/Match Artist Cohort - Max Guy, Tali Halpern, Andres L. Hernandez, Dave Lloyd, and Leticia Pardo.
Rooted in advocacy, Re/Match provides financial support to Chicago visual artists to encourage the production of new work, support the sustainability of their arts practice, and celebrate the vibrancy and energy of the visual arts field in Chicago. A sincere thank you to the Nomination Committee & Jurors for your expertise.
This year, Re/Match will distribute $50,000 in unrestricted funds, $10,000 to each of the five artist recipients.
Congratulations to the 2026 Artist Cohort! Follow along this week as we highlight each artist’s individual practice in tandem with @expochicago !
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Year 2 💫 Artist Testimonials
Thank you to our second cohort of artist recipients - Mariana Noreña G, Sebastian Bruno-Harris, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and Hope Wang. This past year, they each represented the tenets of Re/Match and commitment to their creative practice.
To learn more about Year 2, sign up to receive our e-newsletter, link above or visit rematchart.org/contact.
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Re/Match 2026 Artist 💫 Leticia Pardo
Leticia Pardo is a multidisciplinary artist from Mexico City based in Chicago. Her practice reflects on themes of place making, migration, and political boundaries, and how these manifest in the built environment. Pardo’s work often begins as acts of documentation, unfolding into sculptural and spatial investigations through casting, architectural drawing, photography, printmaking, and other media. Through these material investigations, she engages specific sites, unfolding personal and political dimensions within the architectures that shape us socially—from the domestic to the territorial scale.
Her work has been shown at The Arts Club of Chicago, NON STNDRD (St. Louis), the São Paulo Architecture Biennial, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Hyde Park Art Center, MAS Context (Chicago), FotoMuseo Cuatro Caminos (CDMX), among others.
Image: Installation detail of Palíndromo, Parte I: en resistencia al olvido, 2025, Latex and cotton manta registers from abandoned railway tracks built by braceros; wooden ties
Re/Match 2026 Artist 💫 Dave Lloyd
Dave Lloyd is an artist living in Chicago. Describing the underlying motivation of his work, Lloyd says, “it is to integrate art with life and defend against their division.”
His academic training began in 2008 at Elgin Community College, continued at Northern Illinois University, and ended at University of Chicago in 2015. From 2015 to 2023, he developed an artistic practice on nights and weekends. Lloyd showed a group of paintings in the I-90/94 underpass at Sacramento Avenue for 12 hours on September 21st, 2024 and his first gallery exhibition was at Regards (Chicago, IL) in May 2025.
Image: Abstract Painting #2 clamped to #1 and #3, 2011-2018, Oil on canvas, 72 3⁄8 x 47 1⁄4 x 2 1⁄4 in.
Re/Match 2026 Artist 💫Andres L. Hernandez
Andres L. Hernandez is a conceptual artist and educator who explores models for imagining and existing otherwise. Inspired by the cultural knowledge and spatial production of African-descent peoples, his practice encompasses collaborative, socially-engaged, and independent art-making.
Hernandez’ projects include individual and collaborative commissions for Threewalls, University of Arizona, Venice Architecture Biennale, Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Washington University in St. Louis. With the collective Dark Adaptive, he co-developed performances for The Drawing Center, Graham Foundation, MoMA, Sharjah Biennial, and Performa. As part of the duo Two Halves, he performed live soundscapes for cam contemporarie, Elastic Arts, and Museum of Contemporary Photography. Hernandez received degrees from Cornell University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art Education.
Image: Still image of Protest (The Sound of Things Unknown), 2023, Color HD video with sound,TRT: 1:48 minutes
2026 Re/Match Artist 💫 Tali Halpern
Tali Halpern is a queer fiber artist who approaches slow craft as a sacred form of world building. They create rich and layered works about themes that are often deemed taboo or contradictory: sexuality and spirituality, desirability and shame, club culture and addiction recovery. Their multi-process textiles collage together found objects and text, interpreting these as divine messages, hoping to reach others working through deep, internal struggles around self worth, mental illness, and substance use.
Their aesthetics are informed by lived experience in queer and punk counterculture and their process is laborious and meditative, grounding what might appear as controlled chaos in utterly meticulous care. Halpern received a BFA in Studio Arts from Hampshire College in 2016 and a Visionary Award for their MFA from the School of the Art Institute in 2024.
Image: making as being praying hands, 2024, Handwoven fabrics on a TC2, cotton, thread, dye, grommets, rhinestones and beads, 24 x 20 in.
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2026 Re/Match Artist 💫 Max Guy
Max Guy works with paper, video, performance, assemblage, and installation. He uses fast, ergonomic ways to make poetry of the world, filtering it through personal effects. He is inspired by various creative communities he’s been immersed in since childhood.
Guy embraces study and amateurism as a love of doing. He describes his work as “eclectic”— each piece approaches a topic tangentially. Select solo and two-person exhibitions include The Renaissance Society (Chicago, IL), Centralbanken (Oslo, Norway), Good Weather (Chicago, IL), James Cope (Dallas, TX) and Romance (Pittsburgh, PA). Guy received a BFA in 2011 from Maryland Institute College of Art and MFA in 2016 from Northwestern University.
Image: Necropolis, 2025, Laser-cut Dura-Lar, MDF, chalk paint, saw horses, 97 x 49 x 39 in.
Thank you to this year’s jurors - Mary Coyne (Patron), Chanelle Lacy (Gertie) and Jack Schneider (MCA Chicago) - and this year’s Nominators for their dedication to supporting Chicago artists ✨ Artist Award announcements coming soon in tandem with @expochicago 💫
