Thalya Annick Jouin is a French-American artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Her interdisciplinary practice primarily focuses on creating sculptures and objects from handwoven cloth and industrial materials. Her work explores labor, value and the ways usefulness is constructed, displayed, and performed. Balancing between the serious and the frivolous, she combines visual markers of functionality with ornamental details. She holds a BFA with a concentration in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Education

2025 BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

Group exhibitions

2025 Spring Undergraduate Exhibition SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL

2024 Death Lullaby Comfort Station, Chicago, IL

Publications

2023 Salganicoff, S. C. How it’s made: Crafting present archaeology with artist Thalya Jouin. School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

https://www.saic.edu/news/how-its- made-crafting-present-archaeology-artist-thalya-jouin

2024 Aikhionbare, Marley, and Lester, Rowan, editors. The Kingfisher Magazine , Mirabillia, no. IV, pp. 5–8.

Awards

2021 Honors Merit Scholarship , School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Selected professional experience

2025 Design Intern - Lelièvre Paris

2023 Lithography Intern - Idem Paris - Paris, France

2021 Assisitant Archivist - Jouin Manku Design Studio - Paris, France

2019 Intern - Sarah Sze Studio - NYC, New York