Apr 11th 2024

EXPO CHICAGO: DIALOGUES (Day 1)

@ EXPO CHICAGO

600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL 60611

Opening Thursday, April 11th, from 2PM - 8PM

On view through Sunday, April 14th

THURSDAY, APRIL 11

2:00 – 3:00PM
FOR FREEDOMS | ART MAKING AND THE SOCIAL CHANGE STAGE: CURATING CIVIC LISTENING THROUGH ART IDENTITIES

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Panelists |  Antonius-Tín Bui (Artist), Lisa Lee (Cultural Activist and Executive Director, National Public Housing Museum), Shinique Smith (Artist), and Jake Troyli (Artist). Moderated by  Toni Anderson (Consciousness Engineer, Healer and Human Design Strategist)

Join For Freedoms in a conversation exploring how social-political narratives expand and restrict artists’ practices and shape civic culture. The discussion will explore the role of listening in art, community, and our shared humanity.  Founded in 2016 by a coalition including Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Michelle Woo, and Wyatt Gallery, For Freedoms is an artist-led organization that centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse and direct action dedicated to fostering an environment of listening, healing, and justice through a wide range of creative engagement.

For the /Dialogues Stage (stage right), For Freedoms commissioned a series of limited edition prints by moniquemeloche artists Candida Alvarez, Antonius-Tín Bui, Shinique Smith, and Jake Troyli. Click here to shop or contact For Freedoms to inquire about presales.

3:30 – 4:30PM
ENTRE HORIZONTES

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Panelists | Candida Alvarez (Artist, moniquemeloche) (SAIC Professor Emerit), Omar Velázquez (Artist, Corbett vs Dempsey) (SAIC MFA 2016). Moderated by Carla Acevedo-Yates (Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago)

Join curator Carla Acevedo-Yates with artists Candida Alvarez and Omar Velázquez as they discuss the importance of Puerto Rican representation within local collections and institutions. Acevedo-Yates’ most recent exhibition at the MCA, entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico, examines the artistic genealogies and social justice movements that connect Puerto Rico with Chicago. By bridging these two horizons, the exhibition traces correspondence concerning place and identity across visual art and social justice formats. Featuring works by an intergenerational group of artists with ties to Chicago, the exhibition presents Puerto Rican painters who use printmaking techniques and approaches alongside artists who address social and political issues through their work.

Presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

7:00-8:00PM
THE CULTURE | HIP HOP & CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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Panelists | Chance the Rapper, Thelonious Stokes (Artist), and Asma Naeem Ph.D. (Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director, Baltimore Museum of Art). Moderated by Nate Freeman (Vanity Fair)

Join Chance the Rapper in conversation with artist Thelonious Stokes and Asma Naeem, curator of the exhibition The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century which traveled from the Baltimore Museum of Art to the Saint Louis Art Museum in 2023. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of hip hop’s birth, the exhibition brought together the past two decades in hip hop considered through a wide range of artifacts and mediums. Featured in the exhibition—alongside iconic works like Gordan Parks’ photograph A Great Day in Hip Hop (1998) and Mark Bradford’s stunning canvas Biggie, Biggie, Biggie (2002)— was the same red overalls (designed by Sheila Rashid) and classic black ‘New Era 3’ cap worn by Chance the Rapper at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. Here, Chance will discuss contributions to hip hop through his career and his involvement in contemporary art through a multi-year collaboration with visual artists from his upcoming Star Line Gallery album. Thelonious Stokes, a trained oil painter, filmmaker, performance artist and designer, grew up with Chance on Chicago’s South Side. To this day, they are collaborators and friends, having previously worked together on the Black Star Line festival in Ghana, in Italy during the Venice Biennale, and are currently collaborating on artwork for Chance’s latest multidisciplinary piece, ‘The Last Stair.’ Stokes is now based in Florence where he is the founder of The Black Academy of Art. Moderated by Nate Freeman of Vanity Fair, the panel hopes to contribute to the growing scholarship around hip hop and its contributions to international contemporary art.

Presented in partnership with CULTURED. Artbook & MCA Chicago Store will host a signing for The Culture catalogue with Asma Naeem following the conversation.

 

About EXPO CHICAGO
EXPO CHICAGO returns to historic Navy Pier on April 11–14, 2024 for its eleventh edition. The Galleries section features leading international exhibitors presented alongside one of the highest quality platforms for global contemporary art and culture. Additional sections include: EXPOSURE, featuring solo and two-artist presentations represented by galleries ten years and younger; PROFILE, presenting solo booths and focused projects that showcase ambitious installations and tightly focused thematic exhibitions; Editions + Books, showcasing limited editions and publications offering a diverse array of print media and object-based practices; and Special Exhibitions, featuring select regional, national, and international non-profit institutions, museums, and organizations.

EXPO CHICAGO 2024 will welcome 170 leading international galleries representing 29 countries and 75 cities from around the world. Countries represented at the 2024 exposition include: Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States.

The EXPO CHICAGO 2024 Selection Committee is comprised of the following leading gallerists: John Corbett and Jim Dempsey | Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago; Leslie Hammons | Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis; Rhona Hoffman | Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Miles McEnery | Miles McEnery Gallery, New York; Monique Meloche | moniquemeloche, Chicago; Nick Olney | Kasmin, New York. With the advisement of the Selection Committee, Rosario Güiraldes | Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will be curator of the EXPOSURE section —highlighting solo and two-artist presentations of emerging work from galleries ten years and younger.

Galleries

193 Gallery, Paris, Venice
ACA Galleries, New York
Allouche Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Galería Artizar, Canary Islands
Ascaso Gallery, Miami
Richard Beavers Gallery, Brooklyn
Bogéna Galerie, Saint-Paul de Vence, Phoenix
Casemore Gallery, San Francisco
Casterline|Goodman Gallery, Aspen, Santa Fe
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables
Galerie Charlot, Paris, Tel Aviv
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, Beacon
La Cometa, Bogotá, Madrid, Medellin, Miami
CONVERSO MODERN, Chicago
Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London
Cristea Roberts, London
CURRO, Guadalajara
DC Moore Gallery, New York
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles
DOCUMENT, Chicago, Lisbon
EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, Franschhoek
Donald Ellis Gallery, New York, Vancouver
Les Enluminures, Chicago, New York, Paris
Everard Read, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Franschhoek, London
Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Galerie La Forest Divonne, Paris, Brussels
Forum Gallery, New York
Freight+Volume, New York
Friedrichs Pontone, New York
Gana Art, Seoul, Los Angeles
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
Haines, San Francisco
Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
half gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, East Hampton
Harper’s, New York, East Hampton, Los Angeles
Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles
Antoine Helwaser Gallery, New York
HESSE FLATOW, New York, Amagansett
HEXTON Gallery, Aspen
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, Berlin, West Palm Beach, Schloss Goerne
Bill Hodges Gallery, New York
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Hunter Dunbar Projects, New York
Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago, Paris, Mexico City
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Galerie Judin, Berlin
Kasmin, New York
David Klein Gallery, Detroit
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, Paris, New York
Labor, Mexico City
LEE & BAE, Busan
Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne
Library Street Collective, Detroit
Jane Lombard Gallery, New York
Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Nashville
MAĀT, Paris
McCormick Gallery, Chicago
Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
moniquemeloche, Chicago
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, New York, Brussels
Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg
Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore
NIL Gallery, Paris
Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, Santa Fe
ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul
Pablo’s Birthday, New York
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
Perrotin, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, Los Angeles
Gerald Peters Contemporary, Santa Fe
PIERMARQ*, Sydney
The Pit, Los Angeles, Palm Springs
Galerie Poggi, Paris
Pontone Gallery, London
Revolver Galería, Lima, Buenos Aires, New York
Galerie Richard, Paris
Galerie Robertson Arès, Montréal
Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Paris, New York
RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
SARAI Gallery, Tehran, Mahshahr
Secrist | Beach, Chicago
SEIZAN Gallery, New York, Tokyo
William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis
SmithDavidson Gallery, Amsterdam, Miami
Sous Les Etoiles, New York
Southern Guild, Cape Town, Los Angeles
MARC STRAUS, New York
Hollis Taggart Contemporary, New York
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, Singapore, London
Tandem Press, Madison
Taylor | Graham, New York, Greenwich
Duane Thomas, New York
Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
Vallarino Fine Art, New York
VETA by Fer Francés, Madrid
Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Volume Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris
Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis
Yares Art, New York, Santa Fe, Beverly Hills
Timothy Yarger Fine Art | YARGER PROJECTS, Los Angeles, New York
Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Dubai, Luxembourg, Paris

PROFILE

Chambers Fine Art, New York
Dep Art Gallery, Milan, Ceglie Messapica
Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York
Michael Janssen, Berlin
Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, Cape Town
KORNFELD GALERIE BERLIN, Berlin
Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York
LnS GALLERY, Miami
LUCE GALLERY, Turin
walter maciel gallery, Los Angeles
Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles
Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles
Newzones, Calgary
Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami
Spinello Projects, Miami
Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Maximillian William, London
Anna Zorina Gallery, New York

EXPOSURE

56 HENRY, New York
65GRAND, Chicago
Abattoir, Cleveland
Addis Fine Art, London, Addis Ababa
Afriart, Kampala
Aicon Contemporary, New York
Anthony Gallery, Chicago
El Apartamento, Havana, Madrid
Bill Arning Exhibitions, Kinderhook, New York
Baert Gallery, Los Angeles
Rutger Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam
Louis Buhl & Co., Detroit
CARVALHO PARK, Brooklyn
Jonathan Carver Moore, San Francisco
Cob, London
Dreamsong, Minneapolis
Duran | Mashaal, Montréal
EUROPA, New York
Fragment, New York
Geary, Millerton, New York
Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
The Hole, New York, Los Angeles
Johansson Projects, Oakland
Jupiter, Miami Beach
LatchKey Gallery, New York
Efraín López, New York
Make Room, Los Angeles
Martin Art Projects, Cape Town
MICKEY, Chicago
THE MISSION PROJECTS, Chicago
Montague Contemporary, New York
Moosey, London, Norwich
Marisa Newman Projects, New York
NOME, Berlin
Patel Brown, Toronto, Montréal
Povos, Chicago
Niru Ratnam, London
Residency Art Gallery, Inglewood
SEPTEMBER, Kinderhook
SGR Galería, Bogotá
Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles
TERN, Nassau
Hannah Traore Gallery, New York
VERVE, São Paulo
Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv
WILDING CRAN GALLERY, Los Angeles
Zielinsky, Barcelona, São Paulo

Editions + Books

ART FOR CHANGE, New York
Artbook + MCA Chicago Store, New York, Chicago
F.L. Braswell Fine Art, Chicago, Lakeside
Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago
Flying Horse Editions at University of Central Florida, Orlando
Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago
Lusenhop Fine Art, Cleveland
Manneken Press, Bloomington
Normal Editions at Illinois State University, Normal
Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn
René Schmitt, Berlin, WOL
Stoney Road Press, Dublin
Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn
TASCHEN, Berlin, Beverly Hills, Brussels, Cologne, Hollywood, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Miami, Milan, Paris
Wildwood Press LLC, St. Louis

Special Exhibitions

6018North, Chicago
AMFM, Chicago
Aperture, New York
Art Design Chicago / Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Artadia, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco
Arts of Life – Circle Contemporary, Chicago, Glenview
BLANC GALLERY, Chicago
Center for Native Futures, Chicago
Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago
The Conservation Center (TCC), Chicago
Contour Art Gallery, Vilnius
CPS Lives, Chicago
The De Looper Foundation, Washington, DC
Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, Chicago
For Freedoms
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
OSMOS, New York, Stamford
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
SkyART, Chicago

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