December 2024
The End Is Near
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, December 30th, at 7PM
OFF CENTER: UZI’S PARTY AND NEW WORKS BY LARK LYRA LOU HILL
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Monday, December 30th, at 6PM
Two-Color Riso Print Party
@ Matiz Press
1901 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 28th, from 2PM - 5PM
CPG Meet-Up & Print Party
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 28th, from 1PM - 4PM
Moth Cock | God’s Computer | Anti Soul Organization | Mrs Hands x Mukqs | Eeda
@ Digital Art Demo Space
2515 S Archer Ave, Suite 2, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 27th, at 8PM
Ruby Que: Eveningnessless
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Friday, December 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 5th
Lesbian Holiday Film Series at Dorothy: Happiest Season
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Monday, December 23rd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Olha Fedoruk: Symbols of the Soul
@ Chicago Grand Gallery
2842 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, December 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, January 22nd
Our Last Reception of the Year — 8 Artists — Recent Works
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
Peixuan Ouyang: SOUND BLEEDS
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, December 21st, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Healing House Celebration with Rhythm Factory
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 6PM - 12AM
David Gista: SANCTUARIES: Closing Reception
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, January 3rd
Fetish Film Forum, Edward Scissorhands & Batman Returns!
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 7PM - 11:30PM
World of Variety Holiday Party
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N. Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, December 24th
Jim Yale: FRAGMENTS OF STILLNESS
@ T. Mari Gallery
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 19th
Visiones de Guadalupe: Artist Talk
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 21st, at 2PM
Closing Reception for Gwendolyn Zabicki and Yifan Li Solo Exhibitions
@ Goldfinch
319 N. Albany Avenue
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
DCASE Presents: Open House
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 1PM - 6PM
Edra Soto: La Casa de Todos: Closing Celebration ft. The Seldoms
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 1PM - 3PM
Open House: Closing Reception for our 25 year Anniversary show
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 1 PM - 5 PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Wordly Dis-position: Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, January 26th
Nöle Giulini: Wholly
@ Hans Goodrich
1747 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 10am - 4PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Dieter Roth and Björn Roth: Balabild 5
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, July 6th
TINY WORKS: Closing Night
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
Third Friday Open Studios
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, December 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
Mix Masters
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, December 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
Holly Holmes: Artist Talk
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, December 20th, from 5.30PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, January 3rd
Cameron Spratley & Maxwell Volkman: ‘Bone Thugs ~N~Harmony Korine’ Book Release
@ The Inner Town Pub
1935 W Thomas St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, December 19th, from 8PM - 11PM
Paige Brown: Performance and Conversation
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Thursday, December 19th, at 6:30PM
Up to the Challenge: Art of the Great Depression and World War II From the Museum’s Permanent Collection
@ Koehnline Museum of Art
1600 E Golf Rd Des Plaines, IL 60016
Opening Thursday, December 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 7th
ONEderful: Lula Asplund + Dan Bitney + Ruby Que
@ Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, December 18th, at 8PM
Sacred Harp
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, December 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
Voices | A WTTW News Community Conversation: Exploring Chicago’s Arts Scene
@ WTTW
Online
Opening Monday, December 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
Robot Paradise w/ Brainiac, Pork Belly Hat, Ben Willis & Annick Odom, Christensen/Kaiafas
@ Tritriangle
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, December 15th, at 7PM
Sunday Reading Series: Jaswinder Bolina, Derek Mong, & Douglas Brown
@ Hungry Brain
2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Soapbox: Kai Movagh
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
CHISME: a Holiday Extravaganza!
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
STREET SIGNS: MURALS IN CHICAGO
@ Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, #100, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 2PM - 4PM
Sofia Moreno: Flores Nocturnas
@ Ingrown
1819 S Carpenter St, Chicago, IL60608
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Holiday Spirit 2024: Sit on a Polar Bear’s Lap!
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 1PM - 4PM
AIRMW: Taiko Legacy 21
@ Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 2PM - 4PM
Elastro: Choir Siren, Edward Breitweiser, Liz Flood + Hunter Whitaker-Morrow
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, December 14th, at 8PM
Shawn Smith: Remnants
@ Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 5th
Zor Zor Zor: Save Me
@ Grace Jane
3203 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, February 7th
Bria Bridges: The Subconshis Mind
@ SPACE.01
2334 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, December 27th
Mame Cheikh Mbaye: From Dakar: Street Stories: Closing Reception
@ T. Mari Gallery
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 14th
RADIO SHOW
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
The Prarie Review Presents: Comfort Poetry
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 4PM - 6PM
Dyke the Halls at Dorothy
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Board Gaymes at Gerber/Hart
@ Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 1PM - 4PM
Forms & Features Community Reading
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Opportunity Please Knock! – Celebrating Oscar Brown Jr.’s Legacy
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Monika Wulfers: Artist Talk
@ OS Projects
601 Sixth St, Racine, WI 53403
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, January 11th
Open Lab: Carissa Lee: Thrival
@ High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Gagizhibaajiwan: Artist Talk: Closing Reception
@ Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 1PM - 2PM
Winter Makers Market
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 15th
WORKSHOP: Co-Authoring the Story of Art Education: Chicago Bookwork
@ Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 12PM - 3PM
Strange Magic: Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, January 26th
ReVIEW: ReSOURCE: Art and Resourcefulness in Black Chicago
@ South Side Community Art Center
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 11AM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Coats and Colors
@ ConTextos Chicago
2240 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 11AM - 3PM
Teen Creative Agency | Zine Fest for Families
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 11AM - 3PM
Lightness and Being: Artist Talk
@ SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 11th
AIRMW: Reduction 10
@ The Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, December 14th, at 7PM
CLEAT Series: Bakantez, Kari Watson, PANTY
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, December 13th, at 8PM
Castle Tower Labyrinth: Audio Visual Fantasy
@ Digital Art Demo Space
2515 S Archer Ave, Suite 2, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 8PM - 2AM
Reflections
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Eileen Feng + Chaeheun Park: […] in a Fallen City
@ Hardboiled
DM For Address
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, January 23rd
Wordly Dis-position
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, January 26th
Strange Magic
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, January 26th
Performance: Heavy Riffing for Heavy Times
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
Co-MISSION Works-In-Progress Fall 2024
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Andrea Kaspryk and Janice Martin
@ Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, February 7th
Seeds Healing Stage IV
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
December Open Studio
@ Art Studio of Tiffany Gholar
410 S Michigan Ave., Studio 632F, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, December 13th
Small Works: 15 Year Anniversary Art Show
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, January 25th
Petrichor
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, January 17th
Artist Talk, Workshop & Closing Reception: Pająki (pah-YONK-ee / spiders)
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Friday, December 13th
Feast Your Eyes
@ VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6PM - 10pj
On view through Saturday, January 18th
Snekmas 2024
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 13th, at 6PM
For the mother of the many changing names: Converstion
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Paradigms (Prints, Drawing, Sculpture)
@ Care of Gallery
990 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, IL 60093
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
Lachlan Hinwood: Spirit Ditch
@ Care of Gallery
990 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, IL 60093
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
P-P-Punk
@ Chicago Billiard Cafe
5935 W. Irving Park Rd, Chicago, Il 60634
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 7th
Holiday Group Show
@ Vertical Gallery
2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, January 4th
Spencer Bower: hold still
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, January 9th
elise blair bognoli: lovecraftian sentimentality
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 6064
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, January 10th
Akio Jeimus/Michel Hartmann, Julian Urrego/Kirsten Carrey, Todd Carter/Norman W Long
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, December 12th, at 8PM
Art of Science: Memory for Artwork is Predictable
@ Parlour & Ramp Gallery
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 7 PM - 10 PM
Memento Mori: From Darkness Comes Light
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, FL 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
Seeing Sound & Hearing Images
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Remembering Ghosts: 2024 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition Closing Event
@ Arts + Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, December 12th
Museums and the Remembrance of the Shoah
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N. Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, December 12th, at 6PM
Terroir and Territory: ART WORKS Project Year-End Event
@ ART WORKS Projects Office and Gallery
625 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
Allen Moore: Solar Eulogy
@ High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
VIDEO DATA BANK PRESENTS: ROUNDABOUT FEATURING LIGHT CONE
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
ArtHouse Chicago’s Artist Salon Series: How to Rent Commercial/Studio Space
@ Solflo Life Urban Retreat Center
1834 W North Ave, 2nd fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
AGORO album release event: Yaw Agyeman w/ Theaster Gates
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
