April 2018
Ai Weiwei
@ Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University
50 E Congress Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Monday, April 30th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Lecture: Maggie Nelson
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
230 S. Columbus Dr. Chicago, IL
Opening Monday, April 30th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Joshua Gen Solondz
@ The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Monday, April 30th, from 7PM - 10PM
Generations: Mothers and Children
@ Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport 4th FL, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 2PM - 4PM
Continental Breakfast
@ The Condo Association
2700 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 20th
Beauty Breaks: Sheilds & Sustainability
@ F4F
2846 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 12PM - 3PM
Storytelling Series
@ Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, Drawing Room Library
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 11AM - 12PM
Ai Weiwei: Human Flow
@ Northwestern University Arts Circle
1 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 1:30PM - 4PM
Kim Curtis: Reconfigured
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, May 4th
Ai Weiwei on Humanity In Conversation with Ian Buruma
@ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E Randolph Drive, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 12PM - 1PM
The Currency of Social Structure
@ F4F
2846 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 4PM - 7PM
This is Not Art
@ The Overlook
3323 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 3PM - 7PM
Erin Washington: idiot professor
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 26th
Spring Open House : Jornada de Puertas Abiertas Al Publico
@ GnarWare Workshop
1838 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
Cine Mexicano de la Época de Oro
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 1:30PM - 4PM
Alex McKenzie: Carousel
@ Project 1612
1612 W Margaret Ave, Peoria, IL 61604
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 3PM - 5PM
Sheree Hovsepian and Jessica Vaughn: Closing Reception
@ Monique Meloche Gallery
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, April 28th
Queer Film Series: Episode 7: 70s Post-Stonewall Part II
@ Hume
3242 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 6PM - 12am
Lincoln Square Pottery Studio 15th Anniversary
@ Lincoln Square Pottery Studio - Learning Center
4150 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 28th
Prismisms: Spectralina, Brian Kirkbride, and Madeleine Aguilar
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 5th
Love Notes
@ GAG: Garden Apartment Gallery
3528 W Fulton Blvd, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 6PM - 10PM
Chicago Filmmakers Ribbon Cutting + Open House!
@ Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 11AM - 2PM
Meg Duguid: Parade for a Nuclear Bomb
@ boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 28th
Isabel Yellin: Velvet Concrete
@ M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 16th
Teaching Artists Summit 2018
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 10AM - 3PM
Mom’s Day Cards Against Prisons
@ Read/Write Library Chicago
914 N California, Walton Entrance, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 3PM - 5PM
The Hands of a Nation
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 6PM - 10PM
Imani Josey
@ Homan Square Nichols Tower
906 S Homan Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 12PM - 4PM
Zero to Sixty
@ CreativePush Collective
4660 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 11AM - 2PM
Richard Rezac tour: Address and Glen Elder
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 12PM - 2:30PM
On view through Sunday, June 17th
Bronzeville Echoes: Faces and Places of Chicago’s African American Music
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
On view through Sunday, January 6th
Steve Badauskas: BROKEN
@ Standing Passengers
1458 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 25th
Kenneth Josephson with Michael Darling
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 3PM - 5PM
K Ann Horn: Exaggerations in Interim
@ Positive Space Studios
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 28th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 19th
Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber: Empire and Barbara Crane: The Polaroid Years
@ Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 10AM - 12PM
On view through Saturday, April 28th
Alejandro Acierto: YOUARENEVERALWAYSHERE
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 28th
Maeve Jackson
@ Lillstreet Art Center, West Wing, Drawing & Painting Studio
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
SW Water and Light
@ TCC Chicago
2547 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, May 6th
Em’rynn Artunian: Wilderness Spirit Art
@ ORBIT
1350 W Erie St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 6 PM - 8:30 PM
On view through Saturday, June 2nd
Amusia Collective: Man in Motion
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Latinas and their Role in the MeToo Movement
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 2PM - 4PM
Andi Crist: Cord Management
@ Night Light Gallery and Studios
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 15th
Underground Performance
@ Hume
3242 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 8PM - 11PM
The Black Experience III
@ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 8PM - 12PM
MFA SHOW 2018
@ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Galleries
33 S State, 7th floor, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, May 16th
Black Panther: Image, Futurism and Action
@ Chicago Theological Seminary, 4th Floor Chapel
1407 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
Brian Calvin: Pressing On and Barbara Rossi: Slippers
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 26th
Al-Qawi Tazal Nanavati
@ ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 19th
Yu Ling Huang
@ ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 19th
Joseph Bigley
@ ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 19th
Out of Easy Reach
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, August 1st
Inauguration of Shell Beach Gallery
@ Shell Beach
2342 W St Paul Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 6PM - 12AM
On view through Friday, April 27th
Body as Image
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, May 17th
Benjamin Larose: Dot your i’s with Hearts
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, May 17th
Jonathan Herrera: Entre Rios y Montañas
@ Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 9th
In Motion: Performance and Unsettling Borders
@ Northwestern University, Axis Lab
1120 W Argyle Street Chicago, IL, 60660
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 29th
Advanced Fiber Open Studios
@ LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, 10th floor, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 4PM - 6PM
BEVERLY FRESH: Really Somethin Else
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 5th
Climate Science and Democracy
@ Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 9AM - 5PM
Persistence of the Unsorted
@ Garfield Park Conservatory
300 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Wednesday, October 31st
Out of Easy Reach
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 5th
Volta Photo: Starring Sanlé Sory and the People of Bobo-Dioulasso in the Small but Musically Mighty Country of Burkina Faso
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Griffin Court and Galleries 188–89
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 19th
Risograph Redesigned Pop-up Gallery
@ Chicago Design Museum
108 N State St, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 3PM - 7PM
Art of Spring Exhibition
@ Gallery 1070
1070 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
Lunar Film/Performance Series: Nosferatu
@ Agitator: a co-operative gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
Repost Pop-up Exhibition
@ Reclaimed Bar and Restaurant
3655 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 7PM - 10PM
Meet the Experts: Art Rescue 911
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Coping with Violence: Manifestos and Metamorphosis
@ Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Special Collections Reading Room
37 S Wabash Ave, 508, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
Timothy Hiatt: Music/Moments?Muses: Closing Reception
@ Bucktown Gallery
2207 N Western Ave C2, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 6:30 PM - 9 PM
On view through Thursday, April 26th
Nicole Etienne: The Darling Buds of May and Sandra Yagi: Holiday in Hell
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, April 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, June 22nd
Unlocking Sounds of the Past
@ Northwestern University, Annie May Swift Hall
1920 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 25th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Video Playlist: Ten Toes Down
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, April 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
I’m not sure what you mean?
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 25th, from 8PM - 10PM
Richard Shipps: Dancing In The Counterform
@ State Street Gallery
401 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Tuesday, April 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, April 26th
In Progress: Amir George
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
MAS Context: Terry Evans
@ Chicago Architecture Foundation
224 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60604
Opening Tuesday, April 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
Earth Day Sustainability Fair
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, April 23rd, from 10AM - 2PM
Art Words Symposium
@ MacLean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, April 23rd, from 4.00PM - 7.30PM
Option: Macie Stewart Solo; Macie Stewart and Julian Kirshner Duo
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, April 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
Guest Curator Series: Emily Hutchings
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, April 23rd, from 8PM - 10PM
The Spice of Life Variety Show
@ Reunion Chicago
2557 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, April 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
Roberta Reb Allen: Examined Lives
@ Woman Made Gallery
2150 South Canalport 4A 3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 22nd, from 2PM - 4PM
Juan Lugo: Remembering
@ A Shot of Art at Perkolator
6032 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Sunday, April 22nd, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 22nd
Artecito Anfibios / Amphibians
@ OPEN Center for the Arts
2214 S Sacramento Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, April 22nd, from 11AM - 2PM
Sunday Seam Rippers Open Studio
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, April 22nd, from 1PM - 3PM
Josh Dihle: Low Relief Inferno
@ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
Dmitry Samarov: Still judging ’em by their covers
@ Rainbo Club
1150 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 18th
Richard Rezac: Address
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 17th
Sharon Bladholm: Verdant Passion
@ Cultivate Urban Rainforest & Gallery
704 Main St, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 24th
Read/Write
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL, 60302
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 2PM - 4PM
Gallery Hours with Yasi Moussavi
@ Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 West Hubbard Street #302, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 21st
Pinche Lucha! Poca Lana!
@ Pilsen Outpost
1958 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 6PM - 11PM
Propeller Fund 2018: Walk-In Session 1
@ Cafe Mustache
2313 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 1PM - 2:30PM
Traversing the Scaffolding
@ The Condo Association
2700 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
Evan Fusco and Elise Parisian: Out of Sight, Out of Body
@ Apparatus Projects
2639 W Ainslie St, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 19th
For[e]ward
@ Loyola University Museum of Art
820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 12th
UnCovered: Wrapped Up
@ 1100 Florence
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 1PM - 3PM
LOUD!
@ Wildrose Brewing Company
1104 E Main St, Griffith, IN 46319
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
