April 2022
Kiah Celeste: All the best
@ DOCUMENT
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Nyeema Morgan: The Set-Up
@ PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, May 28th
Wheel of Life: Curatorial Tour & Artist Talk
@ Virtual
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 3PM - 1PM
On view through Saturday, July 2nd
Elastro Series: Mike Weis, P.M. Tummala, Rocio Zavala, Allen Moore
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 30th, at 8:30PM
Corrine Slade & Araceli Zuniga: Embodiment
@ FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave, #220, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 19th
Ball Bearing
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave #3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 12th
Matthew Fischer: Therianthrope
@ Paris London Hong Kong
1709 W Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Chicago Markets for Makers
@ Artifact Events
4325 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 11AM - 5PM
Strange Reverie: Reception and Studio Open House
@ Gallery PINK
149 Harrison St, Oak Park, IL 60304
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 26th
The Art of Race in Revolutions / La raza en el arte de las revoluciones
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 11AM - 12PM
Rachel de Cuba & Hale Ekinci: When or if I was there
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid
2233 S Throop St, #419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, June 11th
Side Yard Sounds presents: Akjai
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 7PM - 9PM
arTEA Party and Spring Market
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 10 AM - 3 PM
On view through Sunday, May 1st
John Heliker: Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, June 4th
Bed-Stuy to Chi: Artists from LAND Studio & Gallery
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Kelly Boehmer: Growling Stomach
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
Meryl Levenstein: Found My Footing on the Forest Floor
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
Gina Litherland: Braids of the Past
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, June 4th
Michael Pellew: No Life Till Kings County
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Elyse Martin: SERENDIPITOUS FLOW
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
Dreaming Circles
@ THE cre.æ.tive ROOM
7034 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Movie Night! Bullet Laced Dreams ~ fundraiser for Chicago Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (CCHRP)
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 5:45PM - 7:30PM
Key Change
@ Weinberg Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave #101, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 16th
Matthew Lax : A TIRED DOG IS A GOOD DOG, PART ONE
@ table
3240 N Springfield Ave. Chicago IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 2nd
Aranda\Lasch and Terrol Dew Johnson: BUNDLING
@ Volume Gallery
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Ella Rose Flood: Memorial Universe!
@ Jargon Projects
3310 N Milwaukee Ave, Suite 202, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 12th
Jack Smith
@ David Salkin Creative
1709 W Chicago Ave, #2A, Chicago, Il, 60622
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Soft Tread
@ The Latent Space
4150 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
#5WomenArtists: New Narratives in the Americas Collection
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, April 28th, from 2PM - 3PM
Morbid Curiosities: After Hours Tour
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, April 28th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Lauren Bon Lecture
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, April 28th, from 12PM - 1PM
THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND PETE (2013)
@ The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, April 28th, at 6PM
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, April 28th, from 6PM - 7 PM
Making Mexican Chicago: Meet the Author Mike Amezcua
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, April 28th, from 6PM - 7PM
A Conversation Series on Museum Practice: On Counterpoints
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 27th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
One Night Stand: Pauline Simon
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 27th, from 6:30PM - 7PM
Colin Mustful Presents on The King’s Anatomist and Andreas Vesalius
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, April 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
Tanda: Southeast Asian Disco: The Aesthetics of Optimism Under Oppression
@ Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 27th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Zine Club Chicago Online: Poetry Zines Edition
@ Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 26th, at 7:30PM
Soundtrack: Kioto Aoki
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 26th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Olmsted in Chicago: South Park Then and Now
@ Hyde Park Historical Society
Online
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Book Club: The King’s Anatomist by Ron Blumenfeld
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Tuesday, April 26th, from 6PM - 7PM
Crip Paint Power: Portrait Series
@ Bodies of Work
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 26th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Jenny Kendler: In the Shadow of the Sundial
@ Goldfinch
319 N. Albany, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, April 24th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
Kristoffer Ala-Ketola: Dreams & Delusions
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, April 24th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
Joe Namy: Intermissions with Cristal Sabbagh and Norman W. Long
@ Renaissance Society
5811 S. Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL
Opening Sunday, April 24th, from 4PM - 5PM
Noël Morical: Lollygagging
@ Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, May 28th
Sequences, Iterations, and Permutations (SIP)
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, July 24th
DANCE PAMOJA CHALLENGE
@ Red Clay Dance Company
Online
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Exhibition Gallery Talk: A Site of Struggle with YWCA Evanston/Northshore’s Equity Institute
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
The Nightingale’s Farewell Festival
@ Nightengale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 12PM - 12AM
On view through Sunday, April 24th
Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, August 22nd
Springboard
@ Mayfield
505 Marengo Ave, Forest Park, IL 60130
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 3PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 30th
Peggy Chiang: spleen and ideal
@ Prairie
2055 W Cermak Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 5th
Joe Namy: Intermissions with Zachary Nicol and Ariel Zetina
@ Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Avenue, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 8PM - 9PM
NEW WORKS from our 2021 Collective Artists
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, May 10th
Susan Schneider: Peaceful
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 12th
Suburban Nostalgia
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 24th
ALCHEMY
@ HOWLING PAGES
4354 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 5PM - 9PM
Side Yard Sounds presents: Mai Sugimoto +
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, at 7PM
Behind the Lens: Sunil Gupta
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, April 22nd, at 12PM
Bidi Bidi Boom Boom: The Selena Tribute Dance Party
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 22nd, at 6PM
Earth Abundance
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 14th
Beate Axmann: Sichtverrückt.Lost and Found
@ DANK Haus German American Cultural Center
4740 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
On view through Friday, May 20th
2022 MFA Thesis Show: Ouroboros: Artist Talk and Reception
@ Gallery 400
400 South Peoria St., Chicago IL
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, April 22nd
Megan Finch: Going-To-The-Sun Road
@ Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 7 PM - 10 PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
The Other Art Fair Chicago
@ Revel Fulton Market
1215 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 11am - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 24th
MAKE A DISTINCTION (2021) and FIELD RESISTANCE (2019) with filmmakers
@ The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 22nd, at 7PM
Benefit for Ukraine: Pictures at an Exhibition
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 8PM - 10PM
Spring Forward: Fashion at Epiphany
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 12PM - 8PM
Ari Norris: Quartet for the End of Time
@ the PLAN
600 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
99TheProducer
@ Mu Gallery
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 22nd
Medicinal Botany Embroidery Workshop
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Jacob Ciocci: Cactus Quark, Why Change, and The Face With No Body
@ Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
Just Earth: Films for a Sustainable Future
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 21st, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Le Voci della Natura: Ecologies and Nature in Italian Arts 3/ Giuseppe Penone: Ecological Thinking
@ Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Online
Opening Thursday, April 21st, from 6PM - 7PM
Art After Work: Earth Day
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Thursday, April 21st, from 5PM - 6PM
What To Send Up When It Goes Down
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
On view through Sunday, May 1st
Not Dead Yet – Evening of Shared Performance
@ SITE/less
1250 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, April 21st, from 12PM - 1AM
On view through Saturday, April 23rd
Monica Ong: Planetaria
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
On view through Thursday, June 30th
Susy Bielak: Segundo Piso
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, April 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, May 26th
Live Throwing @ Fulton Market Kitchen Featuring Fawn Penn
@ Fulton Market Kitchen
311 N Sangamon St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, April 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
The Other Art Fair Chicago
@ Revel Fulton Market
1215 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, April 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 24th
NO ORDINARY MAN (2020) with filmmaker Chase Joynt
@ The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, April 21st, at 7PM
Poetry Salon
@ City Lit Books
2523 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 20th, at 6:15PM
A Conversation Series on Museum Practice: On Context
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 20th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
PO BOX POETRY READING SERIES
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Wednesday, April 20th, at 7:30PM
Tanda: Radicalizing Human Resource: Shifting white-supremacy based practices, systems, expectations and culture to a care-based model
@ Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 20th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
MCA Common Use: Justin Cooper: Access Praxis
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 19th, from 6PM - 7PM
Not Quite: Asian Americans and the “Other” in the Era of the pandemic and the uprising
@ Indian Trails Public Library District
355 Schoenbeck Rd, Wheeling, IL 60090
Opening Monday, April 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Shake / Shook / Shaken
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, April 18th, at 6PM
Abdolreza Aminlari: Location of Home
@ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 16th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
Museum of The Mels Sneak Peek: “I’m Home: Habitats of The Mels”
@ Museum of The Mels (@Wedge Projects)
1448 W Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, April 16th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 24th
Side Yard Sounds presents: Honestly Same + The Luc Mosley Ensemble
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Crossings
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, May 26th
