Do Not Resist? Exhibition   |   January 12 – February 9, 2018

Photo Gallery 

All photo albums by Sarah-Ji unless otherwise noted.

1/12/2018 - Opening at Hairpin Arts Center 
1/13/2018 - Opening at Roman Susan Gallery
1/19/2018 - Opening at Uri-Eichen Gallery
1/20/2018 - Opening at Art In These Times
2/8/2018 - Closing Reception & Mixtape Release
2/9/2019 - Full archive of artwork & artist statements

Do Not Resist? 100 Years of Chicago Police Violence  was a community-based, artist-led, visual project and exhibition, curated by a team of artists within For the People Artists Collective.

The exhibition allowed audience members to engage with Chicago’s history of police violence in order to better understand what led to our present circumstances. The exhibition invited viewers to imagine a future without policing, and served as a space for the general public to envision new structures for community safety that are not reliant on police and prisons.

The exhibition took place in 4 locations, including Hairpin Arts Center (Logan Square), Art In These Times (Logan Square), Uri-Eichen Gallery (Pilsen), and Roman Susan Gallery (Rogers Park). 43 artists from 25 different Chicago neighborhoods contributed works ranging from installations, stained glass, paintings, screen prints, video, and audio. 

The exhibition was paired with teach-ins, workshops, performances, and panels on the topics of policing, challenging state violence, exploring abolition, and community healing.

The Artists

Aisha Oxley
Arella Vargas
Ari Mejia
Asha Edwards
Ava Mohtashemi
C.R. Cooper
Carla Nicol Argueta
Chicago Torture Justice Memorials
Clandestino
Crystal Dunn
Danbee Kim 
Darien Wendell
Dawn Liddicoatt
Eric J. Garcia
Emory Douglas 
Grace Needlman
Hoda Katebi 
Invisible Institute 
Jireh L. Drake 
​Joanna Booth
Johannil Napoleon 
K Rodriguez
Kelly Hayes ​
Kristina Tendilla
Lauren Victoria
Larry Redmond 
Marten Katze
​Mary Zerkel
Meredith Zielke
Monica Trinidad
Nicole Marroquin
Rachel Wallis
Raven Wells
Rebel Betty
Ricardo Levins-Morales
Ruby Pinto 
Salome Chasnoff
Sarah-Ji 
Terry Rudd
Tesh Silver
Theresa Campagna
Tita Thomas
Zitlali Yunuhem

"1917" Installation by Ruby Pinto & Arella Vargas. Photo by Sarah-Ji.

"The Pain to Heal: Perplexity," "The Pain to Heal: Breathe" and "The Pain to Heal: Too Much" by Johannil Napoleon. Photo by Sarah-Ji.

"Present Absence" installation by Salome Chasnoff & Meredith Zielke. Photo by Sarah-Ji.

Cover art by Danbee Kim.

The Do Not Resist? Mixtape

Release date:
8 February 2018 

​This mixtape is part teach-in, part love, and part struggle--captured in song, chants, protests, and interviews.

Many of the tracks were generously contributed by some of Chicago’s most talented artists, many who have been and continue to be directly impacted personally by police violence.

We also included clips from marches and other forms of protest that are exemplary of the fierce resistance to police violence in Chicago; these are part of movement history now, and we shouldn’t forget. Woven throughout the mixtape are clips from two interviews with Mariame Kaba on policing and abolition. Who better to provide the teach-in portion of the mixtape than Mariame, who was such an inspiration for this exhibit, not to mention a teacher and co-struggler for so many of us who are abolitionists? 

- Do Not Resist? Curators Monica Trinidad, Danbee Kim, Ruby Pinto, Sarah-Ji, and Serena Hodges