January 2022
Shonna Pryor: Of Portals and Pathways
@ Material
2025 West Belmont Ave, Chicago IL 60618
Opening Sunday, January 30th, from 11 AM - 2 PM
On view through Monday, February 28th
The Pamphlet Show: Closing Reception
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60622
Opening Sunday, January 30th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, January 30th
A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence: Opening Performance: Mendi + Keith Obadike – Numbers Station 2 [Red Record]
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, January 29th, from 1PM - 1:45PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Asian Improv aRts Midwest Presents: Bass Dreams minus B + Special Guest Mako Sica
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, January 29th, from 7PM - 11PM
And Boldly We Go: Closing Reception
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, January 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 29th
Virtual Intermediate Origami Workshop (January)
@ Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
online
Opening Saturday, January 29th, from 11AM - 12PM
Lecture: Emanuele Coccia
@ THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY
Online
Opening Saturday, January 29th, from 4PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, January 30th
Niki Grangruth + James Kinser: Muse: Artists’ Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, January 29th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, February 19th
Workshop with Lex Lancaster | Abstract Tactics: Queer, Black, and Trans Approaches to the Problem of Visibility
@ Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Friday, January 28th, from 10AM - 11:30AM
Diamond/Kleijn/Roebke, Aaron Shapiro Organ Quartet
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, January 28th, at 8:30PM
Patricia Rieger: Cold Song and Xavier Toubes: Bichos
@ Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, January 28th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 5th
Dennis Lee Mitchell: Ephemeral Smoke
@ Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, January 28th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 5th
Courtney Mackedanz Performs with Hannah Levy’s Surplus Tension
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, January 28th, at 6PM
Lauralynn White: Naked
@ Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, January 28th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Slow Bell TRio + Levinson/Mahlmeister
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, January 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman: Still, Moving Moving, Still
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, March 12th
Arts & Conversations
@ ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, February 19th
Confluence
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 28th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, March 13th
Exhibit B #10: The Season 3 Premiere
@ Guild Literary Complex
Online
Opening Thursday, January 27th, at 7PM
Improvised Music Series: Dave Rempis / Frank Rosaly Duo + Friends
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Thursday, January 27th, at 8:30PM
On Crip*: Liza Sylvestre in conversation with Denny Mwaura
@ Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago
400 S. Peoria St, Chicago, IL
Opening Thursday, January 27th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Live Painting@ Fulton Market Kitchen Featuring Sonia Jia
@ Fulton Market Kitchen
311 N Sangamon St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, January 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
Cameron Clayborn Artist Talk
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, January 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, February 18th
A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Kim Piotrowski: Anxious Heaven
@ O'Connor Gallery of Art, Dominican University
7900 W Division St, River Forest, IL 60305
Opening Wednesday, January 26th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, March 4th
Zine Club Chicago Online x Meanwhile: Over the Hill Edition
@ Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, January 25th, at 7:30PM
Forms & Features Online: Epistle
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Monday, January 24th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Wednesday, January 26th
Tony Fitzpatrick In Conversation with Steven Conrad
@ The Cleve Carney Museum of Art and McAninch Arts Center
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Sunday, January 23rd, from 9AM - 9PM
On view through Monday, January 31st
Virtual Curator’s Talk: Through a New Lens: Works from the World-Wide Mobile Photography Movement
@ Perspective Gallery
online
Opening Sunday, January 23rd, at 2PM
On view through Sunday, January 30th
Shahrbanoo Hamzeh: Home Sweet Home
@ Contemporary Art Center of Peoria
305 SW Water St, Peoria, IL 61602
Opening Saturday, January 22nd, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, February 19th
Stacia Yeapanis and Mayumi Lake Virtual Artists Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, January 22nd, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Reflections of Re-Emergence: Symphonic Identity: Artist talk Lashon Fouché moderated by Wisdom Baty
@ THE cre.æ.tive ROOM
7034 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, January 22nd, from 2PM - 3:30PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Conversation with artist Ana Zanic
@ Geneva Center for the Arts
321 Stevens Street, suite Q, Geneva, IL 60134
Opening Saturday, January 22nd, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, February 18th
Kioto Aoki and Pamela Ramos: Sixth Planet from the Sun
@ LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, January 22nd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, March 6th
Luis Enrique Silvestre: Hershey: Affective Memories
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, January 22nd, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, February 20th
PEPPI BOTTROP | ROBERT JANITZ
@ M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
On view through Saturday, February 26th
Photos at Noon: American Epidemic themes in the MoCP collection
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, January 21st, at 12PM
Dick Higgins: 7.7.73
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, March 12th
Emilio Cruz: Inter-Planetary Slavery: Paintings and Fiberglass Sculpture, 1970-1979
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, March 12th
Women’s Caucus for Art: Occupy the Moment
@ The Bridgeport Art Center, Fourth Floor Gallery
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, January 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, February 25th
GuruShots Photo Exhibition: Chicago Debut
@ The Bridgeport Art Center, Third Floor Gallery
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, January 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, February 18th
Experiments in Dark Matter
@ Mu Gallery
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Friday, February 25th
Nate Young & Cameron Downey in Conversation
@ ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 21st, from 6PM - 7PM
Artist Lecture: Frances Lightbound
@ Bianca Bova Gallery
Online
Opening Friday, January 21st, from 7PM - 8PM
Matt Bellefeuille: Inner Peace
@ Kenosha Area Business Center
5500 6th Ave, Kenosha, WI 53140
On view through Thursday, March 31st
If A Mountain Could Love
@ Circle Contemporary Chicago
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, January 21st, from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
On view through Friday, March 4th
Conversation with artist Ana Zanic
@ Geneva Center for the Arts
321 Stevens St, suite Q, Geneva, IL 60134
Opening Friday, January 21st, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, February 18th
Rochele Royster in conversation with Jim Duignan
@ DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, January 20th, at 6PM
Virtual Conversation: Ray Johnson c/o
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
online
Opening Thursday, January 20th, at 5:30PM
Celebrating the Visiting Teaching Artists of Forms & Features
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, January 20th, from 6PM - 7PM
By the Book: D. N. Rodowick: An Education in Judgment and Samantha Rose Hill: Hannah Arendt
@ 57th Street Books
1301 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, January 19th, from 12PM - 1PM
Avreeayl Ra: Healing Arts Initiative: Meditation in Motion
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Wednesday, January 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
January Intro to Printing Workshop
@ LATITUDE
1821 W. Hubbard Street, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, January 19th, at 6:30PM
On view through Wednesday, January 19th
Journalism & Police Accountability: Perspectives from the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Torture Justice Center
@ Newberry Library
Online
Opening Wednesday, January 19th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Virtual Conversation: Jami Attenberg & Ada Limón
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, January 18th, at 7PM
Forms & Features Online: Speculative Poetry
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Tuesday, January 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, January 21st
In Progress: Bimbola Akinbola
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, January 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Sissy Bershad: Party Pickins
@ Bubbe Gallery (at the Chicago Cultural Center)
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Tuesday, January 18th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Monday, January 24th
An Unapologetic Dream: A MLK Day Celebration
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, January 17th, from 4PM - 7PM
Football Practice: Imagining Football Futures
@ High Concept Labs
Online
Opening Monday, January 17th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, February 13th
Selections From the Irie Collection
@ McHenry County College | Galleries One & Two
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012
On view through Friday, February 24th
TL Solien: The Lonesome Dervish
@ Devening Projects
3039 West Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, February 19th
Football Practice: Imagining Football Futures
@ High Concept Labs
Online
Opening Sunday, January 16th, from 3PM - 6PM
Evanston Art Center In Focus Lecture: Cortney Lederer: How Art is Getting Us Through the Pandemic
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, January 16th, from 3PM - 4PM
Niki Grangruth and James Kinser: Muse
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, January 16th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, February 19th
Mayumi Lake and Stacia Yeapanis: The Bigger the Fear and Despair
@ Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, January 16th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Tuesday, March 1st
Aya Nakamura: Wayfaring
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, February 26th
Rachel Niffenegger: Opia
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, February 26th
Clifton Henri: FIGHT OR FLIGHT
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Sunday, February 27th
Happy Returns: Counterpoise [Fish out of Water]
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, January 15th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, February 25th
Word of Mouth
@ Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport St, 4A 3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, January 15th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, February 12th
ChrisRWK: Paintings in the Hue of Forever
@ Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Sunday, February 13th
Virtual Artist Talk: General Objects
@ Heaven Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, January 15th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, January 23rd
Brendan Getz: when the after-image is the image
@ Carrie Secrist Gallery
900 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 15th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, February 26th
Man Bartlett: At a Certain Point
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, January 15th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, February 25th
Dmitry Samarov’s new collages!
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
On view through Monday, January 29th
Human/Nature
@ Weinberg Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, March 19th
Ana Zanic: Inner Wanderings
@ Geneva Center for the Arts
321 Stevens St, suite Q, Geneva, IL 60134
Opening Friday, January 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 18th
And Boldly We Go
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 29th
Shape of Things: Closing Reception
@ Mu Gallery
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, January 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, January 14th
No Body
@ Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, January 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, February 19th
To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change
@ Haymarket Books
Online
Opening Thursday, January 13th, at 4PM
Live Throwing @ Fulton Market Kitchen Featuring Zoe Minzenberger
@ Fulton Market Kitchen
311 N Sangamon St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, January 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
Open Door Reading Series: Kofi Antwi, Jesse K Baer, Louise Akers, & Tariq Shah
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, January 13th, from 7PM - 8PM
Pour One Out: A Monthly Storytelling Series
@ Volumes Bookcafe
Online
Opening Wednesday, January 12th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Viva la Vida: Still Life Painting
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
Online
Opening Tuesday, January 11th, at 12PM
WATCHTOWER 12-12-12
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
On view through Saturday, January 22nd
Sanctuary In Chicago & Centro Sin Fronteras
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, January 11th, from 6PM - 7PM
2022 Faculty Biennial
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Monday, January 10th, from 9:30AM - 5PM
On view through Wednesday, February 23rd
Diana Gabriel: Permanence
@ Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, February 12th
Carris Adams: Get Over, Get Under, Get Easy, Get Greasy
@ Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, February 12th
Author Event: Blythe Landry on Trauma Intelligence
@ Haymarket Books
2523 N. Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, January 8th, from 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Reparations Now and Onwards: Voices of Survivors, Advocates, and Next Steps
@ DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Saturday, January 8th, from 11AM - 1PM
