May 2024
Celebrate May Day at Haymarket House
@ Haymarket Books
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, May 4th, from 3PM - 6PM
Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
On view through Sunday, January 5th
Praize Productions presents Black Love Reigns Supreme
@ Logan Center
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, May 4th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 4th
2024 School of Art & Design BFA Exhibition
@ Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
On view through Saturday, May 11th
Foreign Exchange: Photography between Chicago, Japan, and Germany, 1920–1960
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, September 9th
Gray Sound 5: Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause
@ Midway Studios
929 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 8PM - 9PM
Necessary Illusions
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 17th
I Like Your Art
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, June 2nd
Natalia Villanueva Linares: Lands of Dual 11
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, June 2nd
THE HILLS (2023) with Ines Sommer
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, May 3rd, at 7PM
Lucky Plush Productions presents: Right Here
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 7PM - 8PM
Reverie
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 7PM - 11PM
Live Arts | Listening Party + Reading with Everett Saunders & Marjani Forté-Saunders
@ Miyagi Records
307 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
The Eleventh Annual Chicago Critics Film Festival
@ Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, May 3rd, at 6:30PM
On view through Thursday, May 9th
WRONG & STRONG: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition
@ Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 9th
Margaret Welsh: Suspension of Disbelief
@ ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Madison Greenstone: Artist Talk
@ Lampo Annex
53 W Jackson Blvd #1656 Chicago, IL 60604
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Miyoko Ito: Needle, Stone, and Mud
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 22nd
Dominick Di Meo: Toroscape
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
Rosa Barba: Radiant Exposures—Facts Run on Light Beams These Days
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
PEDESTRIAN PARTY
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St. #845, Chicago IL, 60608
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 31st
Abraham Cone: Rustle up a Plume of Silt
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 27th
Garden of Liminal Bodies
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 27th
Jaclyn Wright: High Visibility (Blaze Orange)
@ Filter Space
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
West Town First Fridays
@ Creative Coworking
1407 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 3rd
Ruti Modlin: ROOTED
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 24th
NPEPxVI 2024
@ Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Martin Atrium
375 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, May 31st
Ferengi (Stranger) Dienke Groenhout with the Maakfabriek: Workshop
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 4PM - 6PM
Meiji Art and Visual Culture: Symposium
@ International House, The University of Chicago
1414 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 3PM - 6PM
Emmy Star Brown: Familiar Form
@ Vertical Gallery
2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Cultures of Restitution: Decolonial Histories, Justice, and the Museum
@ Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 9AM - 6:30PM
Kari – Live in Chicago!
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 3rd, at 8:30PM
Arts of Life Benefit Auction – Enchanted Garen
@ Garfield Park Conservatory
300 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 6:30PM - 11PM
The Speculative Archive: Deanna Bowen & Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
@ Logan Center
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 7PM - 10PM
May First Friday Opening Reception
@ Peoria Art Guild
203 Harrison St, Peoria, IL 61602
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
Chryssa & New York
@ Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Saturday, July 27th
Experimental Sounds with Kikù Hibino
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 2nd, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Half & Half
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 2nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 16th
Pooja Pittie: Only in Dark the Light: Artist Talk
@ McCormick Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, May 2nd, at 5PM
On view through Friday, May 10th
TASTE OF NIGERIA | African Music and Art Fundraiser Night–
@ Connect Gallery
1520 E Harper Ct, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, May 2nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Virtual: Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire Panel with Alice Wong
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
Online
Opening Thursday, May 2nd, at 7PM
Roland Nurier: YALLAH GAZA (2023)
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, May 1st, at 6PM
Making Multichannel Music w/ Anthony Janas
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 1st, at 7:30PM
Pretty in Paperback: CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS
@ City Lit Books
2523 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 1st, at 6:30PM
