Norman Teague

Early life and education Teague grew up on the South Side of Chicago in Bronzeville, Teague received an BA degree in product design from Columbia College Chicago in 2014. He then went on to pursue a master's degree in designed objects from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which he received in 2016.

Career In 2016, Teague co-founded with Fo Wilson the design studio blkHaUs Studios in Chicago. He's installation was titled: Re+Prise playing on the words of reprise and repetition. Leslie Lokko, was appointed the director, her theme focused on The Laboratory of the Future. Teague's has also exhibited Re+Prise at Carnegie Museum of Art in 2024. Lokko is a Ghanaian-Scottish architect, academic and writer.

He is best known for his furniture, some of which resides in the museum collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, He has also worked in performance art, installation art, and sculpture. Teague has worked with notable collaborators such as Theaster Gates, and acted as a consultant on The Barack Obama Presidential Center with the firm Ralph Applebaum.

His work was in the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

For the 2025 exhibition Pirouette: Turning Points in Design at MoMA, Teague was invited by Paola Antonelli to present "C" for Chair at a special Abecedarium where "Twenty-six designers, scholars, DJs, photographers, and entrepreneurs [...] each present[ed] on one paradigm-shifting object or idea, each corresponding to one letter of the alphabet."