May 2023
Lime: a Garden Gathering with Yasmin Spiro
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 20th, at 12PM
Boar, Melon, Jackie, Mallory Qiu, Gordon Fung, Some), Instinct Control, Selving
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 20th, at 8PM
Eliza Fernand: 1-833-NATR-XXX 🏖️ Beach Zine Release
@ Pratt Boulevard Beach
W Pratt Blvd and Lake Michigan
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 3PM - 5PM
Fetish Film Forum – Pleasure
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
How to Support Students Facing Trauma: Self-Taught Art and Other Tools
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 10AM - 2PM
Electro Funk: RAS Terms Solo Show
@ Chicago Truborn
1741 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 24th
Superhero Walking Tour
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 1PM - 2:15PM
Open Windows
@ Tom Robinson Gallery
2416 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 4PM - 9PM
Shake Shook Shaken: Echo w/ Anabel Hirano
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, May 20th, at 12PM
The Art Party 2023
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, May 20th, at 6PM
Renegade Chicago
@ Renegade Craft
5614 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, May 21st
Set Design Workshop: Create Your Utopia
@ Central West Center
2102 W Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 1PM - 3PM
Lecture: Behind and Beyond Abstraction—Lui Shou-Kwan and His Soulmates
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 2PM - 3PM
TAKING ROOT: Poetry Event
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 1PM - 5PM
José Taymani: 𝓐𝓹𝓼𝓲𝓭𝓮
@ Prairie
2055 W Cermak Rd Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, July 9th
Chicago Zine Fest 2023
@ Plumbers Union Hall
1340 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, May 20th
Teacher Fellowship Program 2022–23 Student Exhibition
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, June 18th
Adaption: Exhibiting Art from Women Incarcerated
@ One Heart One Soul
2875 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 11AM - 5PM
11th Annual Juried Art Competition
@ The Bridgeport Art Center, Third Floor Gallery
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, July 7th
Derrick Woods-Morrow: Gravity Pleasure Switchback
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago IL 60607
On view through Saturday, August 5th
The B-Sides: Studio Out Takes: 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition: center • part:
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 19th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 11th
Brady Matteson, Cinchel (w/Akousen & Neil Jendon), Mrs. Hands
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 19th, at 8PM
Jayjet Moving Pictures ( Audiovisual Performances )
@ Digital Art Demo Space
2515 S Archer Ave, Suite 2, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 19th, at 8PM
WORKING MEMORY: Tristan Meinecke and Robert Bruce Tague, Architects
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, July 21st
Mel Keiser: The Life and Deaths of The Mels–Here Lie the Bones
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, May 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, July 9th
Julia Fish: Hermitage Threshold/s — scores + bricks
@ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, June 24th
Jessica Jackson Hutchins: Jaywalker
@ Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, May 19th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, June 16th
IZ Mozer: LITTLE WONDERS
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 307, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
The Brave, The Bold, The Beautiful
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, June 16th
The Shwang Out curated by Take Some Leave Some
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, May 19th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
A City-Informed Practice: An Artist Talk with AIR Kale Serrato Doyen
@ LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 19th, at 6:30PM
AITIS BAND live at Regards!
@ Regards
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 19th, at 7PM
Salvador Jiménez-Flores: Caminantes
@ Manuel Pérez, Jr. Plaza.
4345 W 26th St, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Friday, May 19th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, May 19th
Art Battle Chicago
@ SPIN Chicago
344 N State St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 19th, from 7PM - 11PM
Grasp Grip
@ Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 19th, from 8PM -
On view through Sunday, May 21st
QUIETLY HOSTILE by Samantha Irby
@ Mundelein Center for the Fine and Performing Arts
1020 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, May 18th, at 7PM
Book Launch: Voices from the Margins
@ Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 6060
Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Summer Series: Facets
@ Harris Theater
205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, May 18th, at 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, May 21st
A Siberian Poetics of Extinction in Cinema
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 18th, at 7PM
Nia Imara: Interconnected: A Journey Through Inner and Outer Space (CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium)
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 3:30PM - 4:30PM
Art Projects For The Now: LL Proyectos & Casa Ma—A panel discussion on Central American Based Art Spaces
@ DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Thursday, May 18th, at 6PM
Fireside Chat and Book Signing: Carolyn Smeltzer
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, 60610
Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Evanston Arts & Craft Beverage Crawl
@ The Main-Dempster Mile
900 Chicago Ave, UNIT 104, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
Drone Rodeo
@ StretchMetal, Grace Place
637 S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
Gallery Talk: Resequencing “The First Time, The Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913)” (2017)
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Art After Work: Tarik Echols
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, May 18th, at 6:30PM
RENBEN 2023: TRU RENAISSANCE
@ DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
Johnny Doley: SCAFFOLD
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 5PM - 7PM
To Ponder: Joseph Lefthand & Noelle Garcia
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Jenny Vyas: BREATHE
@ ARTIST REPLETE
21 E Bellevue Pl, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
WHPK Presents: Passers By
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 7PM - 11PM
IMPROVISED MUSIC SERIES: the mouth is the beginning
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Thursday, May 18th, at 8:30PM
Comfort Music & bodymilk present: Easygoingtech //&// Ashley King
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
The First Painter from the Three American Painters
@ The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago
6400 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL
Opening Wednesday, May 17th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, June 16th
Blue Hour Reading & Workshop Series
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, May 17th, at 6PM
LEVITATE Magazine Launch
@ Volumes Bookcafe
1373 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, May 17th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
All Things Gaga
@ Sidetrack The Video Bar
3349 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Wednesday, May 17th, from 9PM - 2AM
Choreographing the Smart: Calling on the Present
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, May 17th, at 5PM
Anne Elizabeth Moore: Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
@ Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 17th, at 7:30PM
Showtime At The Davis
@ The Davis Theater
4614 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Wednesday, May 17th, from 5:45PM - 8:45PM
Comfort Film Presents: THE TRANSFIGURATION
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 17th, from 8PM - 10PM
Meet & Greet and Performance: Clara Barton
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, 60610
Opening Wednesday, May 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
From the Underground to the Foreground
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, May 17th, at 6PM
The Bavarian Rococo, the Outlier of Eighteenth-Century Art
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, May 17th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Awi’nakola: Regenerating Land and Culture
@ Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, May 17th, from 11:30AM - 1PM
BIANCA by Eugenia Leigh
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Tuesday, May 16th, at 7PM
Book Launch: Let This Radicalize You
@ Haymarket Books
Online
Opening Tuesday, May 16th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Film Screening: The Mind of a Chef with Edward Lee
@ Chicago Public Library - South Shore
2505 E 73rd St, Chicago IL 60649
Opening Tuesday, May 16th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
2023 Public Performances of No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
@ The Harold Washington Library
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Tuesday, May 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, May 18th
Manual Cinema Presents: No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks!
@ Harold Washington Library Center
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Tuesday, May 16th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
In-Person Event: BIANCA by Eugenia Leigh
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Tuesday, May 16th, at 7PM
Mat Rappaport: Treatments: Closing reception & reading
@ Material
2025 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Tuesday, May 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
Soapbox presents: Fleming & Vanessa Oniboni
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, May 16th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
#OTVTonight: A Return to Fellowship
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, May 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
Artist Talk With Jenny Lam
@ The Harold Washington Library
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Monday, May 15th, from 1PM - 2PM
Poetry @ The Green: May 2023
@ The Green at 320
320 S Canal St, Chicago, IL 60606
Opening Monday, May 15th, at 6 PM
On view through Monday, May 15th
Anagram Series: Connor Bernhard Trio & John Wojciechowski / Russ Johnson Quartet
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Monday, May 15th, at 8PM
JACKIE ANDRES: inang/bayan mother/land
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Monday, May 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 1st
Jacob Pet: Spirit is the condition for freedom: 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition: center • part
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, May 15th, at early mornings
On view through Sunday, June 11th
Queer Dance Freakout
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Sunday, May 14th, at 7PM
Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, September 4th
Lilli Carré: Stone Figures Mud Drawing
@ (northern) Western Exhibitions
7933 N Lincoln Ave, Skokie, IL 60077
Opening Sunday, May 14th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, August 13th
Consuewella Africa: Tryptic in MOVE
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, May 14th, from 1PM - 3PM
Chop Suey Men / The Brothers Chen: Chen Yuke Thew, Suey, Foon and Fong
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 West 23rd St, , 4th Flr, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, May 14th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
May 13–Jul 2, 2023
@ Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, July 2nd
Printmaking Workshop with Marimacha Monarca Press
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 13th, at 12PM
Maggie Bridger | Scale
@ High Concept Labs
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 13th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, May 14th
Mapping Black Archives: A Collage Workshop with Alexandra Antoine
@ South Side Community Art Center
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 1PM - 4PM
Infinite Power
@ Studio Nez
803 Van Buren St, Oak Park, IL 60304
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
A Conversation about Mental Illness and Creativity: Artist Talk
@ ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 1PM - 2PM
THE CULTURE CAPSULE
@ 345 ART GALLERY
345 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 3PM - 7PM
Greenleaf Art Center Spring Opening
@ Greenleaf Art Center
1806 W Greenleaf Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
Iris Bernblum Artist Talk with Jennifer Torwudzo-Stroh
@ Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 1PM - 2PM
