Virgil Abloh

Born in Rockford, Illinois, Virgil Abloh was an artist, architect, engineer, creative director, artistic director, industrial designer, fashion designer, musician, DJ and philanthropist. After earning a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he completed a master’s degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago. At IIT, while attending a design studies program devised by Mies van der Rohe, Abloh began to create the principles of his artistic practice. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago presented an important traveling survey of Abloh’s work in the summer of 2019 - one of the most frequented exhibitions in the museum’s history. Abloh was Chief Creative Director and founder of Off-White, as well as Artistic Director of the Louis Vuitton Men’s Line.