April 2023
A Practicum to Weave a (Willow) Casket
@ Northwestern University Death Studies Research Group
1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 9am - 5PM
On view through Friday, April 21st
Raque Ford: A Better Liar : Listening Session: Mixtape by Wesley Taylor
@ Good Weather
1524 S Western Ave, Ste. 119–121, Building A, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 1PM - 6PM
Derrick Adams: Funtime Unicorn: Ruby Rides Through Four Seasons
@ TheMART
222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, April 14th, at 8:30PM
On view through Wednesday, July 5th
Liz Chilsen: Open Furrows
@ Adds Donna
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 26th
Theodora Allen: Solitaire
@ Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, May 12th
EXPO CHICAGO 2023: Dialogues April 13
@ Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL, 60611
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 1:30PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 16th
EXPO CHICAGO 2023: Vernissage
@ Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL, 60611
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
Reparations of the Heart: Recent Work by Kristin Anahit Cass
@ Stamelos Gallery Center
4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
Urania and the Asclepiades: A Magic Lantern performance by Artemis Willis
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, April 13th, at 7PM
Improvised Music Series: The Brunt
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Thursday, April 13th, at 8:30PM
Comfort Music+ : Homeroom presents Juliana Castro Duperly / Jasmine Mendoza
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Patrick Eugène: 50 Lbs.
@ MARIANE IBRAHIM
437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, May 20th
The Art and Craft of Bookbinding Workshop
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Artini at Gallery Guichard
@ Gallery Guichard
436 E 47th St, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
Boil, Toil & Trouble
@ Art in Common
400 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Sunday, April 23rd
Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America
@ Haymarket Books
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 2PM - 3:30
Tony Fitzpatrick: The Lunch Drawings
@ Povos Chicago
2000 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
At the Limits of Life and Empathy: Dario Robleto and Malcolm MacIver
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 9th
Toward an Anti-Racist Art Ecosystem Conference Series
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Jessi Reaves and Diane Simpson in Conversation with Historian Kate Nesin
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, at 6PM
Mika Horibuchi: Showcase
@ PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Andrew Paul Davis: An Hour of Film and Music
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 8PM - 10PM
Dario Robleto and Malcolm MacIver: At the Limits of Life and Empathy
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
2133 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
Kay Hofmann: Being and Becoming
@ PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre presents: Inside/Out with IDENTITY CITY / BECOMING
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
THE WANDERING WOMB by S.L. Wisenberg
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, at 7PM
Calling on the Past
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
2023 UIC MFA Thesis Show 2: CTRL + histories
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, April 22nd
Nick Estes and Dallas Goldtooth: Environmental, Activist, and Indigenous Energies
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Dave Eggers Does Something Interesting at Quimby’s For His Book The Eyes & The Impossible
@ Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, at 7PM
zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal: The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
@ Arts Incubator Gallery
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
For Freedoms News
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Monday, April 17th
En Iwamura: Blue on the Hill
@ ANTHONY GALLERY
1360 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, at 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 13th
NIGHTINGALE PROJECTS: THE INFERNAL GROVE
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Monday, April 10th, at 6PM
Design and Solidarity Book Launch
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Monday, April 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Anagram Series: Unknown New
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Monday, April 10th, at 8PM
Skin + Masks III: Artist Talk
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
535 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Monday, April 10th, at 5:30PM
Tanda: Afterlife Assemblage: Craft as Speculative Framework for Memorial Practice
@ Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Monday, April 10th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Bird Architecture
@ Ohklahomo
2518 W Iowa St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 9th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Monday, April 17th
Visiting the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago
@ Oriental Institute
1155 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, April 9th, from 12PM - 4PM
Jojo Baby – A Celebration of Life
@ Metro Chicago
3730 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Sunday, April 9th, from 7PM - 11PM
My Body is a Temple
@ Ohklahomo
2518 W Iowa St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, April 17th
Shake Shook Shaken: SHAPE w/ Hunter Diamond
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, April 8th, at 12PM
Latinos in Illinois and the USA: Music as a Cultural History
@ Glen Carbon Centennial Library
198 S Main St, Glen Carbon, IL 62034
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 2PM - 3PM
Prosthesis
@ Haynes Court
3050 S Haynes Ct, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 17th
Traditional Jazz: A Historical Perspective of Early Jazz from the New Orleans and Chicago Era
@ Lombard Historical Society
23 W Maple St, Lombard, IL 60148
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 2PM - 3PM
Virginia Martinez: Adventures with Abuela
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 8th, at 1PM
The Taxonomy of Peggy Macnamara: Artist Talk
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Caitlyn Doran: Wishful Thinking
@ Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL, 60640
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 5PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, April 14th
2023 Spring Undergraduate Exhibition
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, April 15th
Conversation: Gio Swaby—Love Letters
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 2PM - 3PM
Gio Swaby: Fresh Up
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Thursday, July 6th
Natalie Shugailo: Everything Fades
@ Riverside Arts Center Town Hall Gallery
27 Riverside Rd, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, June 30th
Jackie Furtado and Jessica Tang: The table in the formal room takes the form of the room
@ Produce Model Gallery
1918 S Canalport Ave, Chicago IL 60616
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Honestly Same & Ali/Meryhew/Mendoza
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
On Horizons: Art Talks! With Block Student Associates
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 12:30PM - 10PM
Lotus Laurie Kang: Atrium Project
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, February 11th
Rebecca Griffith + Lauren Iacoponi: There Is Time To Grow Old
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, #845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
Marie Magnetic: Junoesque
@ Little Broken Things
2031 N Milwaukee Ave, #2031, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 19th
Through and Through
@ Agitator Artist Collective
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
Dark Matter Series: Oui Ennui, Jada-Amina
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 7th, at 8PM
Quality Control
@ FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave, Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616
On view through Sunday, May 14th
DONNIE NIE: Envisaged Potentials
@ FLXST Contemporary
2251 S Michigan Ave, Suite 220, Chicago, IL 60616
On view through Sunday, May 14th
Jaume Plensa: Forgotten Dreams
@ Gray Warehouse
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 4:30 PM - 6 PM
On view through Saturday, June 3rd
King’s Big Art Show
@ Kane Space
2316 W North Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
Bryana Bibbs: Numb
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, May 6th
2023 UIC MFA Thesis Exhibition 1: a series of encounters
@ UIC Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
Pia Cruzalegui / Elaine Luther
@ Ignition project space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 29th
For Eternity: 45 Years Of Prince
@ Retreat at Currency Exchange
305 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 9PM
Figures
@ Chicago Fine Art Salon
2623 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 9PM
“where the light corrupts your face…”
@ South Side Community Art Center
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 31st
2023 UIC MFA Thesis Show 1: a series of encounters: Panel Discussion and Closing Reception
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
Spencer Finch: La Grande Jatte
@ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, May 13th
Jackson Moran & Pete Willson: ELECTRIC DITCH
@ Droll
3337 S Wallace St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, May 5th
R&C Spring Gala: Easter Eggs
@ Roots & Culture @ Fairlie
339 N Bell Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 11PM
Open Classroom screening: Aliens (1986)
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 7th, at 7PM
Cristi López: Unravel: Portraits of My Obsessions
@ A Very Serious Gallery
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 13th
Gifted Wings: Closing Reception
@ Jude Gallery
629 W Cermak, Unit 240, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 7th
Michael Madrigali: Big City Nights
@ MICKEY
1635 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 25th
Jessica Laser, S. Yarberry, Jake Fournier and Sasha Debevec-McKenney celebrate PLANET DRILL
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, April 6th, from 7PM - 8PM
Amuleto
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, August 13th
TRACE EVIDENCE by Charif Shanahan
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, April 6th, at 6:30PM
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 6th, at 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
Ann Johnson: Converse & Real Talk
@ Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Thursday, April 6th, at 5:30PM
Claudia Hart: MEMORY THEATER
@ Conversations at the Edge at Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 6th, at 6PM
Joanne Aono, Christine Forni, and Deanna Krueger Artist Talk
@ Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University
1 University Parkway, University Park, IL 60484
Opening Thursday, April 6th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Friday, April 7th
Eseosa Edebiri: Perhaps Blue is a Cool Color, After All
@ ACRE Projects
2439 S Oakley Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Comfort Music+ : Homeroom presents Mallory Qiu’s Choo-Choo-Choo-Choo Station
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 6th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
On the Long 1960s: Sam Nhlengethwa and Boitumelo Tumi Tlhoaele
@ Smart Museum of Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 5th, at 12PM
Jose Olivarez – Promises of Gold
@ Volumes Bookcafe
1373 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, April 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
Links Soirée
@ The Golden Triangle
2035 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Tuesday, April 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
Athena LaTocha Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, April 4th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
The Federal Art Project Collection of Western Illinois University
@ Western Illinois University
1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Tuesday, April 4th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, April 14th
OUTspoken! LGBTQ+ Storytelling
@ Sidetrack The Video Bar
3349 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Tuesday, April 4th, at 7PM
