May 2021
From the Magiciens de la Terre to the Global Art Platforms: The Rise of Contemporary African Art
@ DOVA
Online
Opening Friday, May 14th, at 12:30PM
Monuments out of Movements: Redefining Community Spaces
@ Equity Arts
Online
Opening Thursday, May 13th, at 6:30PM
The Formation of Fin de Siècle Vienna
@ Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
online
Opening Thursday, May 13th, from 9:30AM - 11:30AM
Artwork for Healing and Focusing
@ Northern Illinois University (NIU) Art Museum
online
Opening Thursday, May 13th, at 12PM
Virtual Conversation: The Armored Tournament
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
online
Opening Thursday, May 13th, at 5PM
Nandana Dev Sen: Acrobat
@ The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Thursday, May 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
Forms & Features Online: Parataxis
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, May 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Art of the Heist: Arts of Life Annual Benefit
@ Arts of Life
Online
Opening Thursday, May 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Artists’ Visions: Latina/x & LGBTQ Histories, Monuments for Chicago’s Future
@ University of Illinois at Springfield
Online
Opening Thursday, May 13th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
That Image of a Dead Man on DuSable Bridge
@ Art Design Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, May 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
MFA Thesis Celebration!
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
Online
Opening Thursday, May 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, May 21st
Release of LatinXAmerican Spotify Playlist curated by DJ CQQCHIFRUIT
@ DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 12th, at 12PM
Casey Wilson in Conversation with Jessi Klein and Andrew Rannells
@ Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 12th, from 7PM - 8PM
Angel Bat Dawid/Charles Joseph Smith & Marvin Tate/Johanna Brock
@ Constellation Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 12th, at 8PM
Dr. Shantanu Nundy: Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed Is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent It
@ The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 12th, from 6PM - 7PM
Forms & Features Online: Parataxis
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 12th, from 10AM - 12PM
Wendy Brown and Jill Magid
@ Renaissance Society
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 12th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, May 23rd
Detritus and Desire: the 2021 Undergraduate Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition: Artist Talk
@ C33 Gallery
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 12th, at 6PM
On view through Wednesday, May 26th
Alison Bechdel: The Secret to Superhuman Strength
@ Chicago Humanities Festival
Online
Opening Tuesday, May 11th, from 7PM - 8PM
Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! (our labor has become more important than our silence)
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
On view through Tuesday, May 18th
Open Door: Xandria Phillips, S. Yarberry, kiki nicole & Red Samaniego
@ Poetry Foundation
Onine
Opening Tuesday, May 11th, from 7Pm - 8PM
Forms & Features Online: Parataxis
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Monday, May 10th, from 2PM - 4PM
Workshop on Equity and Allyship
@ Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership
Online
Opening Monday, May 10th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
Online
On view through Sunday, May 16th
Detritus and Desire: 2021 Undergraduate Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
@ C33 Gallery
33 E Ida B. Wells Dr, 1st Fl, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Monday, May 10th, from 9AM - 5PM
On view through Wednesday, May 26th
H Y B R I D: 2021 BA Fine Arts Showcase
@ Columbia College Chicago
Online
On view through Saturday, May 15th
Dimitri Pavlotsky: Conversations Beyond Language.
@ Dimitri Pavlotsky
Online
Opening Monday, May 10th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, June 4th
TQC: Flow Symposium Lunchtime
@ Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Sunday, May 9th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
The Impasse of Blackness: Interrogating the Possibility of Resolution
@ Block Museum of Art
Online
Opening Sunday, May 9th, at 12 PM
On view through Sunday, May 16th
Alexandro Segade’s Mordred and Morgana – with performances by C. Bain and Ann Lauterbach
@ RUSCHMAN
4148 N Elston Ave. Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, May 9th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 3rd
TQC: Flow Symposium Attendees Live Performance
@ Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 7PM - 10PM
Planks & Pistils Sidewalk Pop Up
@ The Silver Room
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, May 8th, at 12PM
May Sound Selector Series
@ The Silver Room
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, May 8th, at 1PM
Boom Bloom: Nikki Renee Anderson & Renee Robbins
@ Krasl Art Center
707 Lake Boulevard, St Joseph, MI 49085
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 1PM EST - 2PM EST
On view through Sunday, June 6th
Rebecca Gray Smith: Alphabet & Numbers: The Pandemic Prints
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave Suite 620 Chicago IL 60603
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, June 18th
Street/walk and talk
@ West loop (Outdoor public exhibition)
1640 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 8th
How did we get here?
@ Dragonfly Gallery
2436 W Madison St, C-1, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 30th
Chicago: Home of House
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S. Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 2PM - 12:30AM
On view through Sunday, July 11th
2021 School of Art + Design Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition
@ Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
On view through Sunday, May 16th
Shane McAdams: Yes, and…
@ OS Projects
601 Sixth Street, Racine, WI 53403
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 17th
David Leggett: Four Door Lexus
@ Aspect/Ratio Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, June 5th
The Red Wedding
@ RUSCHMAN
4148 N Elston Ave. Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 3rd
Kurt Kramer: Retrographs
@ Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 30th
Anthony Iacuzzi Polytonal: A Visual Monograph of Chicago Architecture
@ Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 30th
DIS-
@ Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4912 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 26th
Hannah Brooks-Motl x Jonathan Rajewski
@ the cclouds
Online
Opening Saturday, May 8th, from 12PM CT - 1PM
Bounce Back
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Floor 2, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Sunday, June 20th
Photos at Zoom Discussion Session: Peter Cochrane
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, May 7th, at 12PM
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue – Claire Corridon (’21) & Karan Gowda (’22)
@ Block Museum
Online
Opening Friday, May 7th, at 12PM
ruby onyinyechi amanze: Thinghood
@ MARIANE IBRAHIM
437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, June 19th
TQC: Flow Symposium Attendees Live Performance
@ Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Friday, May 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
Yannis Tsarouchis: Dancing in Real Life
@ Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Saturday, July 31st
Juan Arango Palacios: Payasadas
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S. Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 21st
Charity Gianforte: Good Trash: a Curation of Fine Refuse
@ Belong Gallery
2172 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 29th
Chelsea Noelle Fetherlin: Live Stream Musical Performance: Self-Titled – Feminist EP
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
Online
Opening Friday, May 7th, from 6PM - 6:15PM
On view through Friday, May 21st
Leticia Bernaus: We Are Safe Here
@ Chicago Artists Coalition (CAC)
2130 West Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, May 7th, from 3PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, June 16th
Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero: Human Shell
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton Street, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, May 7th, from 3PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, June 16th
Translucent Beauty and other Guardians
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton Street, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, May 7th, from 3PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, June 16th
Ephemera: The Power of Impermanence
@ The Art Center Highland Park
1957 Sheridan Rd Highland Park, IL 60035
Opening Friday, May 7th, at 5:30PM
On view through Saturday, June 12th
Juan Arango Palacios: Payasadas
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 7th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 3rd
Gender and Sexuality in Early-Modern European Art
@ Smart Museum of Art
Online
Opening Thursday, May 6th, at 4PM
A Bruising Gaze on a Faltering Landscape: 2021 Art Theory and Practice MFA Thesis Exhibition
@ Block Museum
Online
On view through Monday, June 21st
Poems for Well-Being and Coping
@ Northern Illinois University (NIU) Art Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, May 6th, from 5PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 15th
Migrating Archives of Reality: Programming, Curating, and Appropriation of Non-fiction Film
@ Victor-E
online
Opening Thursday, May 6th, from 7AM - 11AM
On view through Friday, May 7th
Abolitionist Futures
@ Northwestern University Council for Race and Ethnic Studies
online
Opening Thursday, May 6th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
2021 Art and Art History MFA Thesis Exhibition
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
On view through Wednesday, May 26th
Michelle Zauner: Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
@ The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 5th, from 6PM - 7PM
Visual and Critical Studies Undergraduate Thesis Symposium
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
online
On view through Saturday, May 8th
Art History Master of Arts Symposium
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
online
On view through Wednesday, May 5th
Tanda Spring 2021: The Love, Rage & Roses it will take to Welcome the Death of White Manhood, Charles Ryan Long
@ Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 5th
思考回路 • Shikoukairo III: Patterns of Thought
@ Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago IL 60609
On view through Monday, May 31st
Bystander Intervention Training with Advancing Justice
@ Chicago Public Library
Online
Opening Tuesday, May 4th, at 6PM
FEK DRAW Live and Online
@ Leather Archives & Museum
Online
Opening Tuesday, May 4th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Poetry Reading: Rachel Mennies with Cortney Lamar Charleston & Emily Jungmin Yoon
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, May 4th, at 7PM
Caroline Kent: Not buried, just under the surface
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
online
Opening Tuesday, May 4th, from 6PM - 7PM
Faheem Majeed: Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden: Shrouds
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Saturday, July 24th
2021 Graduate Exhibition
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E. Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
On view through Wednesday, May 19th
Re-Fuse 2021
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, May 2nd, from 1PM - 4PM
Andi Crist & JP Culligan: Routine Maintenance
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 1st, from 4PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 29th
Louis Masai Hatch: MEAT my Friends
@ Vertical Gallery
1016 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 1st, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 22nd
Jeanette May: Tech Vanitas
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, May 1st, from 4PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 22nd
Cat Crotchet: Tethered
@ Addington Gallery
704 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, May 1st, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Monday, May 31st
Janis Pozzi-Johnson: BEFORE DURING AFTER
@ McCormick Gallery
835 West Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, May 1st, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, June 25th
Just Above My Wall, (To The Right)
@ South Side Community Art Center
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, May 1st, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Monday, June 21st
Liz Gómez: Lake Journeys To The Ocean
@ The Honeycomb Network
2659 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 1st, from 5PM - 10PM
May Sound Selector Series
@ The Silver Room
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, May 1st, at 1PM
Worker Writers School 10th Anniversary Celebration & Book Release
@ Pilsen Community Books
Online
Opening Saturday, May 1st, from 7PM - 8PM
Paul Ashford Trio
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 1st, from 7PM - 9PM
