May 2018
Lunar Film / Performance Series: Battleship Potemkin
@ Agitator: a co-operative gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, May 31st, from 7:30PM - 10PM
Mitch McEwen
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, May 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Croak! (jokesplaining in the basement of Free Range)
@ Free Range
3257 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, May 31st, from 8PM - 11PM
All City Elementary Art Exhibition
@ Pulaski Park
1351 N Cleaver St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, May 31st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 2nd
Marvin Tate and Avery R. Young
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 1
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 31st, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 28th
From Finland with Love
@ Leather Archives and Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, May 31st, from 7PM - 9PM
Vicko Alvarez
@ Swedish American Museum
5211 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, May 31st, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Beautifools Memoir
@ A Thirst 2018 Artist in Residence (3STAiR) Pop-up
108 N State St, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, May 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, June 13th
CoMISSION Festival of New Works
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, May 31st, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 3rd
In Conversation: Adaptive Leadership
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, May 30th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Assemblage Assembly: On Binding
@ Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
929 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, May 30th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
WILD AMERICAN DOGS REAL BIG TENT REVIVAL
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, May 30th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Stories We Tell: Cuban Short Animations and Fictions 1961-2017
@ La Catrina Cafe
1011 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, May 30th, from 7PM - 9PM
History Lessons: Everyday Objects from Chicago Public Housing
@ National Public Housing Museum
625 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, May 30th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Derek Hess: 31 Days In May
@ Galerie F
2415 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 30th, from 6PM - 10PM
Released and Abandoned: VHS Trailer-a-rama
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 30th, from 8PM - 10PM
Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 4
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Edlis Neeson Theater
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, May 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
Hungry for Stories #13 — Who Reads Poetry ft. Fred Sasaki
@ Read/Write Library Chicago
914 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, May 29th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Option: Bonnie Jones Solo + Talk with Ken Vandermark
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, May 28th, from 7PM - 10PM
C. C.Ann Chen: Clearing
@ Cultivator
202 W Washington St, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Monday, May 28th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Monday, May 28th
Tom Torluemke: Time Well Spent
@ Cultivator
202 W Washington St, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Monday, May 28th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Monday, May 28th
CounterCulture: Hidden Stories of Chicago Past and Present: Closing Reception
@ Bucktown Gallery
2207 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
On view through Sunday, May 27th
Stick: Creative misfit and doodler
@ The Hermosa Walls
2306 N Keeler Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Sunday, May 27th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
The Unsanctioned Sign Company: The Sign Game Workshop
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL, 60302
Opening Sunday, May 27th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 27th
Research Project #17
@ Outerspace
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, May 27th, from 7PM - 10PM
Jessica Campbell: XTC69
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 26th
Curating Chicago with Lynne Warren
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 2PM - 3PM
Morgan Nicolette: Garden of Thought
@ Positive Space Studios
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 10th
We Need To Hide What We’re Doing
@ Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, 60642
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Fugitive Narratives: Story Time
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 2PM - 4PM
Wendy Pearlman
@ Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA)
820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 2nd
All Girl Squirrel Show!
@ Second Story Studios
2251 W Devon Ave, Chicago, IL 60659
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 6PM - 10PM
Journey of a Paper Son
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Raymond B. & Jean T. Lee Center
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 2PM - 4PM
Hidden In Plain Sight
@ All Star Press Chicago
2775 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 6PM - 10PM
Carlos Matallana: Brea a Visual Journey
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 1PM - 2PM
Institute of Queer Ecology: Towards a Common Survival
@ Prairie
629 W Cermak Rd Ste #240, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 1st
Outpost Artist Alley
@ La Michoacana Premium
1855 S Blue Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 10AM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 27th
Force And Motion: J E L L O Performance Series “New Spaces”
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 26th, from 12PM - 4PM
Gabriel Cohen: On the Construction of the Heavens
@ New Works
3403 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, May 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 24th
Moving Out of Reach
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Dave Chow: Switch on the Television When the Sun Sets
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, May 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 29th
Vito Desalvo: Back and Forth
@ Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 25th, from 7PM - 10PM
Caroline Liu: Per·i·pa·tet·ic
@ The Silver Room
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, May 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, June 19th
REMEMBER THAT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN THERE
@ ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 16th
Joan d’Arcambal
@ ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 16th
Susan Smith Trees
@ ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 16th
Plants & Animals: On Monsters, Cyborgs & Other Hybrid Creatures
@ The Learning Machine
3145 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, June 7th
Thinking Sculpture
@ Classics Building
1010 E 59th St, Room 110 Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 24th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Gallery Talk: Oscar Murillo
@ Smart Museum of Art
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Opening Thursday, May 24th, from 6PM - 7PM
To Be Seen and Heard: Curator Talk
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, May 24th, from 7PM - 8PM
Barbara Diener: Phantom Power
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, May 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
Kikù Hibino and Guests
@ Threewalls
2738 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 24th, from 7PM - 9PM
Celebrating the Illinois Bicentennial
@ Chicago Cultural Center, Renaissance Court Gallery
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, May 24th, from 4PM - 6:30PM
On view through Thursday, July 5th
JACK &
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, May 24th, at 7:30 PM
On view through Saturday, May 26th
Brontez Purnell: Unstoppable Feat—The Dances of Ed Mock
@ The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
929 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 24th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Those People
@ Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W Superior St, Ste 203, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, May 24th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Wednesday, May 30th
Lightworks: The Films of Sky David
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, May 24th, from 7PM - 11PM
Force and Motion: The Runaways Lab presents the Blue Hour
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 24th, from 7:30PM - 8:45PM
Sean Keller: Automatic Architecture
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Singing in Dark Times IIII
@ The Seminary Co-op / 57th Street Books
1301 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Inquiry 01
@ Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, May 23rd, from 5:30 PM - 8 PM
On view through Sunday, August 12th
The Joy of Sound / La Felicidad del Sonido (2016)
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 23rd, from 8PM - 10PM
From the Real to the Surreal Art
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, May 23rd, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Sunday, May 27th
Visiting Artist Talk + Community Dinner with Jess Atieno
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Wednesday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Everyday Resistance: The Art of Living in Black Chicago
@ Arts Incubator
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 6th
Then Now Next
@ Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design
610 N Fairbanks Ct, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
Sun Ra Birthday Celebration
@ Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Tuesday, May 22nd, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Imagining Change in Cycles of Incarceration
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, May 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Designing Women: Florence Knoll
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, May 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Welcome Reception for Sunmi!
@ Chicago Publisher's Resource Center
858 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, May 22nd, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Arts Alliance Illinois 6th Annual Benefit Luncheon
@ Marriot Marquis
2121 S Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Monday, May 21st, at 11AM
On view through Monday, May 21st
Jason Kahn Solo and Jason Kahn, Carol Genetti Duo
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, May 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
Celia Calder: Queer Dance Connection: A Workshop Series
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, May 20th, at 3PM
Olivia Schreiner: Nascent Things: Artist Talk
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, May 20th, from 1PM - 2:30PM
Women Painting Men
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, May 20th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 23rd
Gina Hunt: Azimuth
@ THE FRANKLIN
3522 W Franklin Blvd, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Sunday, May 20th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, August 4th
r clarke-davis: stuff
@ free range
3257 W Lawrence Ave Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Sunday, May 20th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Wednesday, June 20th
Mara Baker: A Mountain One Fence High—A Ribbon Two Yards Wide
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, May 20th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 1st
Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists (CAVA) 2018 Members’ Show
@ Beverly Art Center
2407 West 111th Street, Chicago, IL 60655
Opening Sunday, May 20th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, July 1st
Amy Babinec: Golden Rule
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy St., Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, May 20th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 23rd
1-DOPE-ART-PARTY
@ Pilsen Alliance
1744 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, May 20th, at 7PM
Martin Hurtig
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, May 20th, from 2PM - 5PM
Machete Mama: Dreamtime Portals and Spirit Healing
@ Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, May 20th, from 1PM - 3PM
Conversation with Dianna Frid and Karen Manchester
@ GOLDFINCH
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 2PM - 4PM
Specks of Earth
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2nd, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
Chicago Resilience Festival
@ Douglas Park
1858 S California Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 12PM - 4PM
Artifacts
@ National Veterans Art Museum
4041 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, September 22nd
Swing Set Drum Kit
@ Raymond Park
1700 Hinman Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 10AM - 3PM
Twisted Party for Twisted Oyster
@ Your Happy Place Liquors
2501 A N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 5th
Reparations Live!: Black Rest As a Radical Act
@ Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
Images on File: Closing Reception
@ Stuart & Co. Gallery
2250 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 2PM - 4PM
Sounds of Nature At Night: Soundwalk with Eric Leonardson
@ West Ridge Nature Preserve
5801 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60659
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Davis McCarty: Quantum Me
@ The Beverly Area Arts Alliance / Alderman Matt O’Shea
S Walden Pkwy & W 99th St, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 5:30PM - 9PM
Chicago Workshop: Type Design for Non-Type Designers
@ Firebelly
1402 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 9AM - 5PM
Clare Rojas: Egret
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 7th
Kristen Van Deventer: Les Mis
@ Regards
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
Dock 6 Design and Art 11
@ Dock 6 Collective
2100 N Major Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 2PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 19th
Chicago Zine Fest 2018 Exhibitor Day
@ Local 130 Plumbers Union Hall
1340 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 19th
