December 2022
When I Blink, You Disappear
@ Ohklahomo
2518 W Iowa St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 30th, at 6PM
Allegra Harvard: 12 Landscapes
@ Weatherproof
3336 W Lawrence Ave, #303, Chicago IL 60625
Opening Thursday, December 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 22nd
AnySquared Studio Day Wednesdays
@ AnySquared
2328 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Wednesday, December 28th, from 4PM - 10PM
Conversation: The Healing Power of Art
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, December 28th, from 6PM - 7PM
AnySquared Studio Day Wednesdays
@ AnySquared
2328 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Wednesday, December 21st, from 4PM - 10PM
International Short Film Day
@ Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
online
On view through Thursday, December 22nd
Workshop: Candle Making & Remembrance
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, December 21st, from 5PM - 7PM
Let There Be Light(s)
@ Gallery 2052
2052 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, December 21st, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Friday, February 17th
Agitator Holiday Market Day
@ Agitator Artist Collective
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, December 18th, at 12:30PM
ELASTRO AV – Night 3 Curated by Carol Genetti w/ Fortieth Day + Noise Crush, Norman Long + More!
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Sunday, December 18th, at 8PM
Resist! A Visual History of Protest
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 17th, at 12PM
On view through Sunday, February 12th
Children of War
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 17th, at 12PM
On view through Sunday, February 12th
Family Holiday Party
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, January 15th
Renegade Chicago
@ Morgan Manufacturing
401 N Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Sunday, December 18th
Elastro A/V 2022 *Night 2* – Curated By Kim Alpert w/ Circuit Ensemble
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, December 17th, at 8PM
Teen Creative Agency | Zine Fest 2022
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 2PM - 4PM
Studio Saturday: Holiday Crafts
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 17th, at 10AM
Winter Sounds: Electro/Acoustic
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, December 17th, at 7PM
Lakefront Anonymous Book Signing with Aron Packer
@ 1100 Florence Gallery
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 12PM - 5PM
Artist In Residence: Latham Zearfoss
@ Tiger Strikes Astroid
2233 S Throop St., Unit 419, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Saturday, February 18th
Max Guy: Artist and Curator-led Exhibition Walkthrough
@ Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
On view through Saturday, February 5th
BEAUTY AWAITS
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 8th
Love Dancing: Documenting Chicago’s Nightlife
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Second Fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, January 15th
ENGAGE Projects
@ ENGAGE Projects
864 N. Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Friday, January 13th
Joseph Cornell Up Close
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, December 16th, at 2PM
Elastro A/V 2022 *Night 1* – Curated By Sky Goodman ‘From the Ether to the Earth’
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W. Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, December 16th, at 8PM
Matchstick Heroines
@ StudioUs
4806 N Clark St. Chicago IL 60640
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, January 30th
Agitator Comics! Works On Paper SALE
@ Agitator Artist Collective
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, January 1st
Renee Robbins: Simple Pleasures and Silver Linings: An Unseen Universe
@ salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, March 17th
DIBS: A GRAB & GO ART SHOW
@ THE SEVENTH CORNER GALLERY
4222 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
MACHA: A Pocha Sister Story
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, December 15th, at 7PM
Art of Science: Artificial Intelligence Assisted Understanding of the Universe
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 7PM - 7PM
Art After Work: Roman Villarreal
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
SlvrRm 25th Anniversary Celebration
@ The Silver Room
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 12PM - 8PM
Millicent Kennedy Talking About Your Work: From Artist Lectures to Networking
@ Dispatch Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features (Online)
@ The Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 7PM - 8PM
AnySquared Studio Day Wednesdays
@ AnySquared
2328 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Wednesday, December 14th, from 4PM - 10PM
We Wanted More (Das Wunder von Taipeih)
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Av, Suite 200, Chicago, lL 60601
Opening Wednesday, December 14th, at 6PM
Forms & Features Online: Asemic Writing
@ The Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Tuesday, December 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, December 19th
Katrin Schnabl: Volution
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
On view through Sunday, January 8th
Soundtrack | Manasseh + the Fam
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, December 13th, from 8PM - 6PM
Lecture Panel: Art Therapy Identity
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Tuesday, December 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
Talleres de Jarana
@ 18th Street Casa de Cultura
2057 W 18th St Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, December 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
In Conversation with Connie Noyes and Tricia Van Eck
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, December 11th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, December 18th
Celebrate Holiday Spirit: Sit on a Polar Bear’s Lap!
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, December 11th, from 1PM - 4PM
Ground Floor
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, March 19th
Maker’s Market
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Sunday, December 11th
INK 2
@ Vertical Project Space
2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Sunday, January 1st
Lecture: Photographing the Bundu Helmet Masks of the Mende Peoples in Sierra Leone
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, December 10th, at 2PM
Liz Flores: Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá
@ Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
How Artists with Disabilities Fit into the Greater Art World
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 10AM - 12:30PM
Edra Soto: The Myth of Closure / El Mito del Cierre
@ The Cleve Carney Museum of Art
College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
On view through Sunday, March 5th
Visions of Hope
@ Stola Contemporary Art
3738 W Irving Park Rd Chicago, Il 60618
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 22nd
Holiday Fetish Fair
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 1PM - 6PM
Freedom From and Freedom To
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 10th, at 7PM
Lampo performance with Bonnie Jones
@ Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, December 10th, at 8PM
Family Day: Weaving is Believing
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 1PM - 4PM
Hyde Park Art Center’s Center Day
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 1PM - 4PM
Annual 12×12 Show
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 12PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Rich Klevgard (These Peaches) Solo with special guests Jory Avner, Jodi Walker and Jim Basten
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 7PM - 9PM
Matthew Girson Artist Talk with Anne Harris
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, December 30th
Marina Ross: Everything was Forever
@ Baby Blue Gallery
2233 S Throop St, Room 518, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, January 14th
Window Shopping
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, #845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Tuesday, December 17th
Talk | TCA x Zine Mercado Artists
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Instagram
Online
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
The Land of Arden Community Panel: How Personal Style Heals and Connects
@ Jude Gallery
629 W Cermak Rd, Unit 240, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
345 ART GALLERY ART & SOFAR SOUNDS CONCERT & TOY DRIVE COLLAB
@ 345 Art Gallery
345 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, December 9th, at 7:30PM
Artist Talk: Suzanne Jackson
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, December 9th, at 6PM
Heterosexual Nouns
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Av, Suite 200, Chicago, lL 60601
Opening Friday, December 9th, at 5:30PM
A Letter to the City: “Jail is not my home”
@ Weinber/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, First Floor , Chicago,
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 21st
Andrea Jablonski: CHGOaf
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 7th
Warriors of the Apocalypse
@ House of the Apocalypse
1837 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, January 8th
Madeleine Finley and Eleonore Zurawski: Ties Between
@ Povos Chicago
2000 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, January 25th
Chicago Art Department Artists Market
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
Abraham: Being Mickey
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 21st
Anne Hughes: Phenomena
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 21st
Watershed Studioworks Open Studio and Print Sale
@ Watershed Studioworks
3016 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 10th
Senior Capstone Exhibition
@ Wadsworth Family Gallery at Lewis University
One University Parkway, Romeoville, IL 60446
Opening Thursday, December 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 18th
Cleaner and Greener: Conserving the Lions of Michigan Avenue
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, December 8th, at 6PM
The 50th Anniversary of the Lawyers for the Creative Arts!
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, December 8th, from 5:45PM - 8:30PM
Invisible Labors: Reviving Histories of Women’s Land Work in the Blue Island Ridge Communities, Chicago, Illinois.
@ Jane Addams Hull House Museum
800 S Halsted Ave, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Thursday, December 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
Lap Swim – Studio Sale
@ Sonnenzimmer
4045 N Rockwell St, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, December 8th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Open Door: Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny, Kemi Alabi, Benji Hart & blake nemec
@ The Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, December 8th, from 7PM - 8PM
The Land of Sons
@ Istituto Italiano di Cultura
500 N Michigan Ave, Ste 1450, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, December 7th, from 6PM - 7PM
Artist Talk: Eric Dean Spruth MA, ATR
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, December 7th, from 6PM - 7PM
AnySquared Studio Day Wednesdays
@ AnySquared
2328 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Wednesday, December 7th, from 4PM - 10PM
Reading the Landscape: Camp Sites, Fires, and Cud-Chewers
@ Berger Park Cultural Center (Coach House)
6215 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Wednesday, December 7th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
The Miracle of Bern (Das Wunder von Bern)
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Av, Suite 200, Chicago, lL 60601
Opening Wednesday, December 7th, at 6PM
Drawing and Printmaking in Botticelli’s Florence
@ Istituto Italiano di Cultura
500 N Michigan Ave, Ste 1450, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, December 6th, from 6PM - 7PM
Women in Art, Early Film, and Frank Lloyd Wright
@ Chicago Movie Tours
Online
Opening Tuesday, December 6th, from 7PM - 7:20PM
OUTspoken! LGBTQ+ Storytelling
@ Sidetrack The Video Bar
3349 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Tuesday, December 6th, from 7PM - 10:30PM
Talleres de Jarana
@ 18th Street Casa de Cultura
2057 W 18th St Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, December 6th, from 6PM - 8PM
In Progress | Cat Mahari
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, December 6th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Inside the Cabinet of Curiosities: Author Andrew Hui on Itatani, Borges and Leibniz
@ Wrightwood 659
Online
Opening Tuesday, December 6th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, December 17th
Short Export: Made in Germany 2022
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 200, Chicago, lL 60601
Opening Tuesday, December 6th, at 7PM
Forms & Features Online: Process
@ The Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Monday, December 5th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Wednesday, December 7th
Please Hold from Clapping After the Lecture
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, December 5th, at 5PM
On view through Saturday, February 12th
Connie Noyes: Mending Ruptures
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, December 4th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, December 18th
Day With(out) Art 2022 | BEING & BELONGING
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Sunday, December 4th, from 2:30PM - 3:30PM
