today
Michael Smith: A Return to the Rec Room
@ Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave. Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, May 16th
Tone Glow + Employees Only Present: Grin and Bear It – Cinema of the Dark Clown
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, May 16th, at 7PM
Perspectives from Japan
@ Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, June 12th
The Day Iceland Stood Still (2024)
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, May 16th, at 7PM
BAC’s 13th ANNUAL JURIED ART COMPETITION
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, June 27th
2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash. Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, June 6th
Seen and Unseen
@ The Plan
610 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 29th
Lindsay Olson: The Language of Water: Art, Ecology and Engineering
@ The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
2430 N Cannon Dr, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, September 7th
Fragments
@ Whitney Oliver Gallery
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 16th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
Jenny Chernansky & Penny Cagney: Under The Skin
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
Tactile Terrain
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 29th
Laurie LeBreton: INSISTING AND MAINTAINING
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 5th
Laurie Buman: SANTOS Y MILAGROS (SAINTS & MIRACLES) THE LIGHT WITHIN THE DARKNESS SERIES
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 5th
Tulika Ladsariya: Unseen Currents, Sacred Grounds
@ NEIU Fine Art Center Gallery
5500 N St. Louis Ave, Building E, Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Yollocalli Fundraiser
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
Grishma Shah: Dissonance
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, July 3rd
Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
50 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, August 17th
THIS WEEK
Saturday
May 17th
What Immigrants Bring: Performances
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 24th
Isabella Mellado: Baile Para el Señor de Los Muertos
@ Povos West Town
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
Air is in the Spring : Multi-Disciplinary Art Exhibition | Timeless Arts GS
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N. Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 7 PM - 11 PM
On view through Friday, June 6th
Shared Prosperity: Equity Arts Benefit Dinner
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd FL, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 7PM - 12AM
Maxwell Volkman & Alex Adkinson: The River Sweats with Oil and Tar
@ Gure
DM for Address
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
Amira Diaw: I too pass from the night
@ Hardboiled
DM For Address
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, June 6th
RAPID EYE MOVEMENTS – PICTURE RESTART 16MM SERIES
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, May 17th, at 6PM
Samantha Haring: Safe Havens
@ Studio Break Gallery
1N046 Ridgeland Ave, West Chicago, IL 60185
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 17th
Choreographing the Smart: Calling on the Present
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, May 17th, at 5PM
Ximena Garrido-Lecca: Germinations
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, July 13th
Mond(e): 月亮代表我的心 – Myths for the Moon
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 2PM - 3PM
How art can help us envision climate futures
@ The Theatre School at DePaul University
2350 N Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 1PM - 2:30PM
ACRE Summer Daze
@ McKinley Community Play Garden
3518 S Wolcott Ave, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 12PM - 5PM
Bryana Bibbs: two hundred and fifty-one days: Braiding Histories: Collective Art-Making
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 11AM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, May 18th
Learning Series | The Space Between
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 11AM - 1PM
Sunday
May 18th
Chantal Akerman: D’Est (1993)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, May 18th, at 7PM
Pause
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 East Quincy St, Riverside IL 60546
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 21st
Florasonic: Laura Ortman: The Southwest Northeast Back and Forth Bows
@ Lincoln Park Conservatory
2391 N Stockton Dr, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, May 18th, at 2PM
All Houses Are Haunted Readings at Purple Window Gallery
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, #845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
KING’S ART SHOW @ THE FRIENDLY
@ FRIENDLY COMMUNITY ROOM
6729 W ROOSEVELT RD, BERWYN, IL 60402
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, May 30th
Tacoma Sculpture Park: Closing
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 18th
Noel Herrara: Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Closing
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 18th
Dan Nadel and Chris Ware on Robert Crumb
@ Chicago History Museum
1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 10:30Am - 11:30AM
Monday
May 19th
Daffodil: Vincent Katz and Noa Fields
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, May 19th, from 7PM - 8PM
Diagrams, Systems, Collective Power Workshop Series: Archeology of Diagrams
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, May 19th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, June 16th
Tuesday
May 20th
Exhibit B presents Defiant Acts: James Stewart III and J. Howard Rosier
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, May 20th, from 7PM - 8PM
Wednesday
May 21st
Comfort Film Presents Split Personalities Alternate Dimensions By Johnny Lange
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 21st, from 8PM - 10PM
Ximena Garrido-Lecca: Germinations: Notes on Space-Time
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, May 21st, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, July 13th
Art as Activisim: Speaker Event and Linocut Printing with Advancing Justice Chicago
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, May 21st, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Thursday
May 22nd
Lust for Life, Rock n’ Roll Burlesque
@ Lemon
1600 W. Grand Ave., Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, May 22nd, from 9PM - 10:30PM
Comfort Music: Hunter Whitaker-Morrow & Liz Flood & Tack Anne
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 22nd, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Endless Reveries: Water in Experimental Film with Greta Snider
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 22nd, from 7PM - 9PM
An Evening of Spirited Sound-Making: Activating Ritaj Al-Tanbura
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, May 22nd, from 6PM - 7PM
Conversation: Objects Under Pressure—H. C. Westermann
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 22nd, from 6PM - 7PM
Compass
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, May 22nd, at 6PM
On view through Friday, May 16th
Marianne Lovink: COUNTERWEIGHT
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, May 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 18th
Melissa Weber: ODE TO COMMON THINGS
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, May 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 18th
Friday
May 23rd
Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Sunday, January 11th
GRAYSCALE DANCE Presents: THESE SPACES OF POSSIBILITY
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, May 23rd, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 24th
Ticket of No Return | Film Screening
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660.
Opening Friday, May 23rd, at 7PM
Threadings
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 w 21st Street. Chicago,IL,60608
Opening Friday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Electric Psalms: Narrative & Ritual in the Age of Algorithms
@ Gallery Wrightwood
3325 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 21st
Willie Kohler: There Are Many Nows
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, May 21st
Christine Shallenberg and Aurora Tabar: Tending to the Mother in Me
@ Berger Park Cultural Center
6205 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Friday, May 23rd, at 6PM
George Tonyi: TUNES IN ART
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 18th
Drown-Proofing
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 18th
Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Sunday, January 11th
NEXT WEEK
