Michael Rakowitz

Michael Rakowitz is the Alice Welsh Skilling Professor of Art at Northwestern University, based between Chicago and New York City. His practice spans conceptual art addressing cultural erasure, diaspora, and geopolitical conflict. Notable projects include paraSITE (shelters for the homeless using plastic bags), Spoils (reclaiming Saddam Hussein's looted artifacts), and The invisible enemy should not exist (reconstructing Mesopotamian artifacts using discarded materials).

• Affiliations: Northwestern University Art Department, multiple international museum collaborations

Research focuses on decolonizing cultural narratives through material reclamation and community-driven art. Projects like The flesh is yours, the bones are ours (2015) intertwine Armenian cultural memory with architectural restoration. No academic articles were explicitly listed in the provided texts, though exhibitions function as primary outputs.

No formal grants or student advisories were mentioned. Collaborative projects often involve interdisciplinary teams and international institutions.