the
VISUALIST
•
chicago visual
arts calendar
about
archive
submit
past events
Friday
March 28th
Thursday
March 27th
Wednesday
March 26th
Tuesday
March 25th
Monday
March 24th
Sunday
March 23rd
archives
March 2025
February 2025
January 2025
December 2024
November 2024
October 2024
September 2024
August 2024
July 2024
June 2024
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
February 2022
January 2022
December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
March 2021
February 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
December 2018
November 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
August 2016
July 2016
June 2016
May 2016
April 2016
March 2016
February 2016
January 2016
December 2015
November 2015
October 2015
September 2015
August 2015
July 2015
June 2015
May 2015
April 2015
March 2015
February 2015
January 2015
December 2014
November 2014
October 2014
September 2014
August 2014
July 2014
June 2014
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
February 2014
January 2014
December 2013
November 2013
October 2013
September 2013
August 2013
July 2013
June 2013
May 2013
April 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
July 2012
June 2012
May 2012
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
March 2011
February 2011
January 2011
December 2010
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
July 2009
May 2008
April 2008
October 2007
May 2007
January 2007
December 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
December 2005
July 2005
September 2004
February 2004
January 2004
October 2003
September 2003
January 2003
October 2002
September 2002
July 2002
June 2002
March 2002
August 2001
June 2001
May 2001
April 2001
March 2001
November 2000
September 2000
August 2000
July 2000
January 2000
September 1998
March 1998
September 1997
August 1997
May 1997
June 1996
March 1996
January 1996
November 1995
April 1995
January 1995
November 1994
June 1993
April 1993
September 1992
January 1992
October 1991
March 1991
February 1991
May 1990
March 1990
April 1989
March 1989
February 1989
June 1988
February 1988
January 1988
October 1987
March 1987
February 1987
March 1986
February 1986
January 1986
November 1985
March 1985
February 1985
June 1984
May 1984
October 1983
September 1983
January 1979
September 1978
March 1978
May 1972
December 1969
November 1969
September 1969
August 1969
June 1969
May 1969
January 1969
December 1963
November 1963
July 1947
Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
The End Is Near
@
Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, December 30th, at 7PM
OFF CENTER: UZI’S PARTY AND NEW WORKS BY LARK LYRA LOU HILL
@
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Monday, December 30th, at 6PM
Two-Color Riso Print Party
@
Matiz Press
1901 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 28th, from 2PM - 5PM
CPG Meet-Up & Print Party
@
Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 28th, from 1PM - 4PM
Moth Cock | God’s Computer | Anti Soul Organization | Mrs Hands x Mukqs | Eeda
@
Digital Art Demo Space
2515 S Archer Ave, Suite 2, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 27th, at 8PM
Ruby Que: Eveningnessless
@
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Friday, December 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 5th
Lesbian Holiday Film Series at Dorothy: Happiest Season
@
Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Monday, December 23rd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Olha Fedoruk: Symbols of the Soul
@
Chicago Grand Gallery
2842 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, December 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, January 22nd
Peixuan Ouyang: SOUND BLEEDS
@
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, December 21st, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Our Last Reception of the Year — 8 Artists — Recent Works
@
Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
Healing House Celebration with Rhythm Factory
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 6PM - 12AM
David Gista: SANCTUARIES: Closing Reception
@
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, January 3rd
Fetish Film Forum, Edward Scissorhands & Batman Returns!
@
Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 7PM - 11:30PM
Jim Yale: FRAGMENTS OF STILLNESS
@
T. Mari Gallery
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 19th
World of Variety Holiday Party
@
ACRE Projects
2921 N. Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, December 24th
Visiones de Guadalupe: Artist Talk
@
National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 21st, at 2PM
Open House: Closing Reception for our 25 year Anniversary show
@
Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 1 PM - 5 PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Edra Soto: La Casa de Todos: Closing Celebration ft. The Seldoms
@
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 1PM - 3PM
DCASE Presents: Open House
@
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 1PM - 6PM
Closing Reception for Gwendolyn Zabicki and Yifan Li Solo Exhibitions
@
Goldfinch
319 N. Albany Avenue
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Wordly Dis-position: Artist Talk
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, January 26th
Nöle Giulini: Wholly
@
Hans Goodrich
1747 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 10am - 4PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Dieter Roth and Björn Roth: Balabild 5
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, July 6th
Third Friday Open Studios
@
Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, December 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
TINY WORKS: Closing Night
@
Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
Mix Masters
@
Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, December 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
Holly Holmes: Artist Talk
@
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, December 20th, from 5.30PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, January 3rd
Cameron Spratley & Maxwell Volkman: ‘Bone Thugs ~N~Harmony Korine’ Book Release
@
The Inner Town Pub
1935 W Thomas St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, December 19th, from 8PM - 11PM
Paige Brown: Performance and Conversation
@
Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Thursday, December 19th, at 6:30PM
Up to the Challenge: Art of the Great Depression and World War II From the Museum’s Permanent Collection
@
Koehnline Museum of Art
1600 E Golf Rd Des Plaines, IL 60016
Opening Thursday, December 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 7th
ONEderful: Lula Asplund + Dan Bitney + Ruby Que
@
Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, December 18th, at 8PM
Sacred Harp
@
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, December 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
Voices | A WTTW News Community Conversation: Exploring Chicago’s Arts Scene
@
WTTW
Online
Opening Monday, December 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
Modern Tapes ‘Between Sets’ Film Screening w/ Closing (nyc), Sarah Lutkenhaus, Theo Katsaounis / Kat Borderud Duo
@
Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Sunday, December 15th, at 8PM
Robot Paradise w/ Brainiac, Pork Belly Hat, Ben Willis & Annick Odom, Christensen/Kaiafas
@
Tritriangle
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, December 15th, at 7PM
Sunday Reading Series: Jaswinder Bolina, Derek Mong, & Douglas Brown
@
Hungry Brain
2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Soapbox: Kai Movagh
@
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
CHISME: a Holiday Extravaganza!
@
Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
STREET SIGNS: MURALS IN CHICAGO
@
Chicago Art Department
1932 S Halsted St, #100, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 2PM - 4PM
Sofia Moreno: Flores Nocturnas
@
Ingrown
1819 S Carpenter St, Chicago, IL60608
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Holiday Spirit 2024: Sit on a Polar Bear’s Lap!
@
4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 1PM - 4PM
AIRMW: Taiko Legacy 21
@
Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, December 15th, from 2PM - 4PM
Elastro: Choir Siren, Edward Breitweiser, Liz Flood + Hunter Whitaker-Morrow
@
Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, December 14th, at 8PM
Shawn Smith: Remnants
@
Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 5th
Bria Bridges: The Subconshis Mind
@
SPACE.01
2334 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, December 27th
Zor Zor Zor: Save Me
@
Grace Jane
3203 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, February 7th
Mame Cheikh Mbaye: From Dakar: Street Stories: Closing Reception
@
T. Mari Gallery
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 14th
RADIO SHOW
@
Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
The Prarie Review Presents: Comfort Poetry
@
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 4PM - 6PM
Dyke the Halls at Dorothy
@
Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Board Gaymes at Gerber/Hart
@
Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 1PM - 4PM
Forms & Features Community Reading
@
Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Opportunity Please Knock! – Celebrating Oscar Brown Jr.’s Legacy
@
Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Open Lab: Carissa Lee: Thrival
@
High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Monika Wulfers: Artist Talk
@
OS Projects
601 Sixth St, Racine, WI 53403
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, January 11th
Gagizhibaajiwan: Artist Talk: Closing Reception
@
Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 1PM - 2PM
WORKSHOP: Co-Authoring the Story of Art Education: Chicago Bookwork
@
Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 12PM - 3PM
Winter Makers Market
@
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 15th
Strange Magic: Artist Talk
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, January 26th
ReVIEW: ReSOURCE: Art and Resourcefulness in Black Chicago
@
South Side Community Art Center
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 11AM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Teen Creative Agency | Zine Fest for Families
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 11AM - 3PM
Coats and Colors
@
ConTextos Chicago
2240 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 11AM - 3PM
Lightness and Being: Artist Talk
@
SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 11th
AIRMW: Reduction 10
@
The Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, December 14th, at 7PM
Castle Tower Labyrinth: Audio Visual Fantasy
@
Digital Art Demo Space
2515 S Archer Ave, Suite 2, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 8PM - 2AM
CLEAT Series: Bakantez, Kari Watson, PANTY
@
Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, December 13th, at 8PM
Co-MISSION Works-In-Progress Fall 2024
@
Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Performance: Heavy Riffing for Heavy Times
@
International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
Strange Magic
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, January 26th
Wordly Dis-position
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, January 26th
Eileen Feng + Chaeheun Park: […] in a Fallen City
@
Hardboiled
DM For Address
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, January 23rd
Reflections
@
Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Andrea Kaspryk and Janice Martin
@
Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, February 7th
Seeds Healing Stage IV
@
Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
December Open Studio
@
Art Studio of Tiffany Gholar
410 S Michigan Ave., Studio 632F, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, December 13th
Petrichor
@
Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, January 17th
Artist Talk, Workshop & Closing Reception: Pająki (pah-YONK-ee / spiders)
@
Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Friday, December 13th
Snekmas 2024
@
Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 13th, at 6PM
Small Works: 15 Year Anniversary Art Show
@
Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, January 25th
Feast Your Eyes
@
VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 6PM - 10pj
On view through Saturday, January 18th
For the mother of the many changing names: Converstion
@
Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Paradigms (Prints, Drawing, Sculpture)
@
Care of Gallery
990 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, IL 60093
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
Holiday Group Show
@
Vertical Gallery
2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, January 4th
P-P-Punk
@
Chicago Billiard Cafe
5935 W. Irving Park Rd, Chicago, Il 60634
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 7th
Lachlan Hinwood: Spirit Ditch
@
Care of Gallery
990 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, IL 60093
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
Spencer Bower: hold still
@
Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, January 9th
elise blair bognoli: lovecraftian sentimentality
@
Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 6064
Opening Friday, December 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, January 10th
Akio Jeimus/Michel Hartmann, Julian Urrego/Kirsten Carrey, Todd Carter/Norman W Long
@
Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, December 12th, at 8PM
Art of Science: Memory for Artwork is Predictable
@
Parlour & Ramp Gallery
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 7 PM - 10 PM
Memento Mori: From Darkness Comes Light
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, FL 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
Seeing Sound & Hearing Images
@
Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Remembering Ghosts: 2024 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition Closing Event
@
Arts + Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, December 12th
ArtHouse Chicago’s Artist Salon Series: How to Rent Commercial/Studio Space
@
Solflo Life Urban Retreat Center
1834 W North Ave, 2nd fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
VIDEO DATA BANK PRESENTS: ROUNDABOUT FEATURING LIGHT CONE
@
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Allen Moore: Solar Eulogy
@
High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
Terroir and Territory: ART WORKS Project Year-End Event
@
ART WORKS Projects Office and Gallery
625 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
Museums and the Remembrance of the Shoah
@
Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N. Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, December 12th, at 6PM
AGORO album release event: Yaw Agyeman w/ Theaster Gates
@
Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Thursday, December 12th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago
@
Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
On view through Saturday, March 29th
next page
Join our
weekly
newsletter! :)