We curate and design exhibitions and installations for municipal, institutional, and corporate clients.
Ionit Behar, Chief Curator, is the Chief Curator at DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), Chicago, and the co-founder and co-director of Behar X Schachman. Most recently she curated a large-scale public art project at O’Hare International Airport as part of Behar X Schachman including 17 Chicago-based artists, Nelly Agassi: No Limestone, Nor Marble at the Chicago Cultural Center and an exhibition on the 50 years since the military coup in Uruguay at SUBTE, Montevideo. At DPAM, she curated Selva Aparicio: In Memory Of; A Natural Turn: María Berrío, Joiri Minaya, Rosana Paulino, and Kelly Sinnapah Mary; Solo(s): Krista Franklin; Claudia Peña Salinas: Quetzalli and co-curated LatinXAmerican. Previously she was the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at Spertus Institute, Chicago; Research Assistant for the exhibition Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium at the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Graduate Curatorial Assistant at Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago. Her writing has appeared in exhibition catalogues and art journals such FIELD: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism, The Chicago Reader, THE SEEN, and The Exhibitionist. Born in Israel and raised in Uruguay, Behar holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an M.A. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute, and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Tel Aviv University.
Andrew Schachman, Director of Strategy and Design, is a curator, designer, artist, critic and educator, and the co-founder and co-director of Behar X Schachman. After 20 years of architectural practice, Andrew co-founded and co-directs two non-profit organizations dedicated to research and the production of new models for art and design - exploring relationships between art, community, architecture, infrastructure, and public institutions: Floating Museum and Fieldwork Collaborative Projects. As an artist his work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hyde Park Art Center. As a curator and exhibition designer he was the Artistic Co-director for the 5th edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial titled This is a Rehearsal., and the designer for Singing Stones, a site-specific exhibition by the Palais de Tokyo. Andrew is a Lecturer in Urban Design in the University of Chicago’s Department of Art History. Born in New Jersey, Andrew received his undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago and received his Masters of Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to establishing his own practice, Andrew designed and managed projects for Doug Garofalo, Carol Ross Barney, Perkins + Will, and The Office of Zaha Hadid.