April 2022
Faysal Altunbozar & E. Saffronia Downing: Flattened Flora: A Compass Sampler
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 12th
Expressive Exuberance
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 22nd
LEVIATHAN (2012) with filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel
@ The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 15th, at 7PM
Makeba Kedem-DuBose: Monochrome Tone
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 1st
Autumn Knight: M___ER
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 14th, at 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 16th
The Obama Portraits: Portraits of Black Presidents
@ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, April 14th, from 2PM - 4PM
An Evening with Nick Briz
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 14th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
Open Door Reading: Madeleine LeCesne, Michell Nicole Miller, Nat Pyper & Ang Zheng
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, April 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
Remaking the Exceptional Curators in Conversation with Prof. Christina Rivers
@ DePaul Art Museum
online
Opening Wednesday, April 13th, at 6PM
A Conversation Series on Museum Practice: On Collaboration
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 13th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Ray Yoshida’s Home for his Muses
@ John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Art Preserve
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 13th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
2022 MFA Thesis Show: Ouroboros
@ Gallery 400
400 South Peoria St., Chicago IL
On view through Friday, April 22nd
Love That Story: Jonathan Van Ness in Conversation
@ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, April 13th, from 8:30PM - 9:30PM
Tanda: Creating Care-filled Igbo Architecture(s)
@ Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 13th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Latina Community Voices
@ Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
On view through Saturday, July 9th
Fred Moten
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 12th, from 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Town halls: RADICAL IMAGINATION: PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN ON PAY TRANSPARENCY
@ 2nd Story
Online
Opening Monday, April 11th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Ocean Vuong: Time is a Mother
@ The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 11th, at 6PM
Miller & Shellabarger: Loving Repeating
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Saturday, September 3rd
EXPO CHICAGO: /Dialogues (April 10)
@ Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL, 60611
On view through Sunday, April 10th
Virtual Event: ALL OUR FAMILIES: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship by Jennifer Natalya Fink
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Sunday, April 10th, at 4PM
Olivier Bodart: Risk Areas
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, April 10th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 8th
The Portal Reframed
@ Leslie Wolfe Gallery, Old Town Art Center
1763 N North Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, April 10th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Thursday, April 28th
Melanie Flood: Notions
@ RUSCHWOMAN
2100 S Marshall Blvd. Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, April 10th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, May 22nd
EXPO CHICAGO: /Dialogues (April 9)
@ Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL, 60611
On view through Sunday, April 10th
Brandon Breaux: BIG WORDS
@ Blanc Gallery
4445 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 27th
Women Must Write Herself: sonja thomsen and Jen Delos Reyes in Dialogue
@ 062
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, April 9th, at 3PM
On view through Sunday, April 10th
Katie Vota and Paul Gerard Somers
@ Ignition Project Space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
Elena Ailes and Antonio López: Maw
@ Apparatus Projects
1500 S Western Ave, #407, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 12th
Spaysky Fine Art Gallery LLC at Good Weather, Volume II: Jim Chatelain, Nastassia Kotava, Alivia Zivich
@ Good Weather
1524 S Western Ave, Suite 121, Building A, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 7th
First Peoples Poetry Reading: A Tribute to the Living Nations, Living Words Project
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 11am - 12PM
Art on theMART Presents New Spring Program
@ theMART
222 W Merchandise Mart Chicago IL 60654
Opening Saturday, April 9th, at 8PM
Cultures of Belonging Book Launch
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 2PM - 3PM
Agave!: closing reception
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 9th
Sunrise Movement Workshop
@ Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 1PM - 3PM
SPENCER HUTCHINSON & RENEE BAKER: EXPRESSIVE GEOMETRIES
@ R.MONA
1724 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 9th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, May 6th
Sabrina Lozada: Saturday Mornings
@ Positive Space Studio
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
On view through Saturday, April 30th
Zohra Opoku: Have Arisen…
@ MARIANE IBRAHIM
437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, May 14th
EXPO CHICAGO: /Dialogues (April 8)
@ Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL, 60611
On view through Sunday, April 10th
Juan Arango Palacios and Kevin Sabo: Bimbofication Sensation
@ Povos Chicago
2000 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 22nd
Context 2022
@ Filter Space
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
Open Labs #1: Meredith Haines + Shalaka Kulkarni
@ High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL, 60608
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
BARELY FAIR
@ Color Club
4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 10th
Devan Shimoyama: A Counterfeit Gift Wrapped in Fire
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 11th
Alisa Sikelianos-Carter: Stars Are Born In Darkness
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 11th
Threaded Together
@ Alma Art + Interiors
3636 S Iron St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 31st
AfriClassical Futures Series: Renee Baker
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 8th, at 8PM
2022 MFA Thesis Show: Fade into Me: Identity and Abstraction
@ Gallery 400
400 South Peoria St., Chicago IL
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 8th
Sugar Coating
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 8th, at 6:30PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
Jeffrey Michael Austin: Everything Must Go
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 27th
Dear Mama
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave., Chicago, Il 60605
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 8th
Chris Larson: The Residue of Labor
@ ENGAGE Projects
401 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
Open House
@ Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throops St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 8th
The State of Texas vs Melissa (2020) with NPEP & UPEP
@ The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 8th, at 6PM
The Deeply Rooted
@ Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport Ave, 4A-3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
Cat Bowyer, Artist in Residence
@ Baby Blue Gallery
2233 S Throop St, suite 518, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
Eat Up
@ Mu Gallery
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 1130PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
Mediating Between the Senses
@ Mu Gallery
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 1130PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
Artist Statement Performance
@ Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
I Wanna Be You Anywhere
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan st, Chicago, IL, 60608
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
C.J. Pyle: Skin Tight
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
Amin Gulgee: The Spider Speaketh In Tongues
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 11am - 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 9th
Cécile Trentini: Daily Walking
@ 1100 Florence Gallery
1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, April 18th
Mana Contemporary/Open House: Juan Molina Hernández regresa, regresa, regresa (return, return, return)
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid
2233 S Throop St., Unit 419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 16th
Artists Run Chicago: In Focus at EXPO Chicago
@ Hyde Park Art Center at Expo Chicago
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, April 10th
EXPO CHICAGO: /Dialogues (April 7)
@ Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL, 60611
On view through Sunday, April 10th
EXPO CHICAGO: The International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art
@ Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL, 60611
Opening Thursday, April 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 10th
Spring 2022 Speak Café
@ Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Thursday, April 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network
@ Newberry Library
Online
Opening Thursday, April 7th, from 5PM - 6PM
Respect the Mic
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, April 7th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, April 7th
Writing with Fire (2021)
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, April 7th, at 7PM
Agave!: Mezcal tasting and gallery walkthrough
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, April 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 9th
Skin in the Game
@ Fulton Market
400 N Peoria St. Chicago IL 60642
Opening Thursday, April 7th, from 12PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 24th
Arghavan Khosravi: The Witness
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 6th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
Beverly Fishman: FEELS LIKE LOVE
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 6th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
Kamrooz Aram: Privacy: Exhibition Walkthrough
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, April 6th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
On view through Saturday, August 13th
Healing Arts Reception: Observe Sexual Assault Awareness Month
@ 47th Ward Alderman Matt Martin Office
4243 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, April 6th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Tanda: Disruptive Pleasure: Love as an Artistic Practice, Anna Cai
@ Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 6th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Virtual Book Talk: One Hand To Hold, One Hand To Carve
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 6th, from 12PM - 1PM
Andrea Carlson
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, April 5th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Ikko Yokoyama
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 5th, from 7:30PM - 8:45PM
Kamrooz Aram: Privacy
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 13th
Art After Dark: Art and Protest
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 5th, from 7PM - 9PM
Virtual Event: THE TRAYVON GENERATION by Elizabeth Alexander
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Monday, April 4th, at 7PM
Prefiguring Immediacy: Video Art by Mako Idemitsu
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, April 3rd, from 7PM - 9PM
pressed like a breath collapsing into a sigh: Virtual Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
Online
Opening Sunday, April 3rd, from 12PM - 1PM
Michael J Schumacher and Quijote Duo: Room Pieces
@ Mu Gallery Chicago
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 2nd, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Holiday Craft Program: Autism Acceptance Month
@ Chicago Public Library
Online
Opening Saturday, April 2nd, at 11AM
First Saturdays: Queer Self Care Day
@ Chicago Public Library
733 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago IL 60612
Opening Saturday, April 2nd, at 10AM
Film Screening: Poetic Justice (1993)
@ Chicago Public Library
4856 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60651
Opening Saturday, April 2nd, at 1PM
Making Art for the People with Monica Trinidad
@ DePaul Art Museum
online
Opening Saturday, April 2nd, from 2PM - 4:30PM
Freedom From and Freedom To #7
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 2nd, at 8PM
Juan Molina Hernández: regresa, regresa, regresa (return, return, return)
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid
2233 S Throop St, Unit 419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 2nd, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 16th
The Oddities & Curiosities Expo
@ McCormick Place - North Building Hall C1
2301 S King Dr. Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, April 2nd, from 10am - 6PM
Antoine, Daniel, Ingold, & McGhee: Artists Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery and Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL60546
Opening Saturday, April 2nd, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 9th
