Perspective Gallery presents "HOLD," Perspective Gallery’s 2026 Invitational Exhibition featuring works by selected BFA students from the School of the Art Institute. Curated by Aimee Beaubien, Professor & Chair in the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "HOLD" features work by six emerging artists currently pursuing their BFA, and working within the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Abigail Brooke Ackles, Ethan Kunoff, Isabel Lim, Collin Lust, Sarah Price, Dev Kili Stolkiner.

The Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, February 7th, 2026 from 5-7pm at Perspective Gallery. Guests will have the opportunity to experience the art firsthand and meet the artists. On Thursday, February 19th at 7 PM, Perspective will host an Virtual Artist’s Talk via Zoom on February 19th, 2026.The curator and the exhibiting artists will be present to answer your questions and discuss their work. Register here for the Artists’ Talk. 

"HOLD" is a meditation on loss, distance, identity, and memory. This exhibition reflects the many ways images attempt to grasp what is already slipping away. Together, these works ask us to

consider what we keep, what we return to, and what holds us. We are invited to enter this space of continuum, where photographs become conduits between generations, between past and present, between the remembered and the reconstructed.