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How Do We Heal?
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, July 11th
Nina Chanel Abney: Between Us
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, July 11th
teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, February 21st
Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago Grand Opening Celebration and New Onsite Exhibition, “A Palm of Victory,”
@ Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave. Ste. 1580, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, September 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, December 11th
same BUT different
@ DFBRL8R at 31st Street Beach
3155 S DuSable Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Tuesday, September 22nd, from 6PM - 7PM
Leopold Procession
@ MCA Plaza to SAIC Galleries
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, September 22nd, from 4PM - 6PM
Wind Knitting Factory by Dutch Designer Merel Karhof
@ Design Museum of Chicago
72 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, September 22nd, from 11 am - 4 PM
THIS WEEK
Wednesday
September 23rd
Narratives of the Flesh II: Embodied Grief
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, September 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, September 23rd
33rd Chicago Underground Film Festival
@ Chicago
Gene Siskel Film Center and the Harper Theater
On view through Sunday, September 27th
2026 Filter Photo Festival
@ Colombia College Student Center
754 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
On view through Saturday, September 26th
Thursday
September 24th
FILM: Der Heimatlose
@ Landmark's Century Centre Cinema
2828 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 8PM - 10.30PM
And It Is The People Who Should Wield It
@ Mundelein Center for the Fine and Performing Arts
1020 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Kind of Representational
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, November 15th
The Sapphire Gayla: 45 Years of Gerber/Hart
@ Gerber/Hart Library & Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, September 24th, at 7PM
Lecture in Photography with Tarrah Krajnak
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Candace Hunter: Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams?
@ Arts + Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 12th
Lessons in (Art Space Accessibility)
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, November 2nd
Pressure: Shameekia Shantel Johnson, Mark Pascale, & Eric Von Haynes
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Linework: Chicago Comics and Community
@ Cleve Carney Museum of Art
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Thursday, September 24th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 21st
Friday
September 25th
Where Memory Lives: 40 Years of Día de Muertos
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, November 29th
Taffy Pull
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, November 15th
Side Yard Sound: Tommaso Moretti/Elijah Mclaughlin Duo, featuring Mai Sugimoto
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
Chicago Journal of Visual Art Issue I Launch
@ Point Blank
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 25th, at 6PM
Amanda Christine Harth: The Sacred Place of the Most High
@ Design Museum of Chicago
72 E. Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, September 25th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, October 23rd
INK as WITNESS
@ Chicago Justice Gallery
1344 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Where I Sleep – Family Dinner
@ Forum 301
301 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 4th
VALUES :: A Poster Exhibition
@ Two-Thirty
230 W Superior Ave, 3rd Fl, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 6PM - 10 PM
Sonja Thomsen and Aaron R. Turner: LIGHT SLIP – ARCHIVE, ABSTRACTION, & PHENOMENA
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 3rd
Sasha Arutyunova: Wind and Other Dangers
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 21st
Dana De Giulio and Mattthew Girson: Paintings that have the look of paintings that are looked at
@ Material
2025 WBelmont Ave, storefront, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst
@ Fourtunehouse
4410 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, September 30th
Inner Worlds: Visions from the Hirshhorn Collection Works by Mary Bauermeister, Yayoi Kusama, and Niki de Saint Phalle
@ Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago
On view through Saturday, December 19th
Everyday War: Yuan Goang-Ming
@ Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago
On view through Saturday, December 19th
Community Blessings Rangoli Drawing
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 12PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 26th
Live Narrative Painting: Artist Statement
@ CHildhood Fractured's Phygital art galleryy
1432 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, September 25th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, October 2nd
Saturday
September 26th
Qiujiang Levi Lu and Scott Congyu Li: Warp Duo
@ Graham Foundation
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Michael Workman: Writing as Cultural Archaeology and the Poetics of Place
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 12PM - 2PM
DIY Skeletons for Puppet Creatures By Emilie Wingate [Hybrid: In-person or online]
@ Chicago Creative Use Exchange
2124 W 82nd Pl, Chicago, IL 60620
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 1PM - 3PM
Fall Equinox Acoustic Ecology Hike
@ Meadowbrook Nature Preserve
109 W 700 North, Valpariso, IN 46385
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
Lali Khalid: The Distance We Carry
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 3PM - 6PM
Feminism 250: Woman Made America – Closing Reception and Walkthrough
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, September 26th
Pierre Bismuth: Love Bless America
@ Neubauer Collegium for Culture & Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, January 8th
The King, His Armor, and His Armorer—Conserving Britain’s Royal Collection
@ Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 2PM - 3PM
European Day of Languages
@ Alliance Française de Chicago
810 N Dearborn St. Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 1PM - 4PM
Elyse Schauer and Marie Shebeck: Process Art for Burnout (Workshop Series)
@ Roman Susan at Berger Park Cultural Center
6205 N Sheridan Road, Chicago IL
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 12:30PM - 3:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 14th
13th Annual Beverly Art Walk
@ Beverly Art Walk: Uprising Handmade Market
1750 W 103rd St, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 11am - 5PM
Randolph Street Market Festival
@ Randolph Street Market
1341 W. Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 27th
“Diverting coiled shell…”
@ Veilance Headquarters
1500 S Western Ave, Suite 402-403, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 10th
Mid-Autumn Festival
@ Set In Stone Gathering Space
641 East 31st Street Chicago, Illinois, 60616 United States
Opening Saturday, September 26th, from 4:30 - 7:30
Sunday
September 27th
Aron Gent: Recalibration
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, September 27th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 13th
Alec Basse: If I Were You (And I Wish I Was)
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, September 27th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 13th
Araceli Zuniga: Egg Tooth
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, September 27th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 13th
Garden Apartment
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, September 27th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 13th
Sam Dybeck: Christina’s Sentencing
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, September 27th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 13th
The Weaving Mill: LOOMSTATE
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, September 27th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 13th
Matrilineal: Flo & Juarez Hawkins
@ 4th Presbyterian Church
126 E Chestnut St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, September 27th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
On view through Thursday, October 29th
Documentation Workshops and Open Studios
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, September 27th, from 10am - 12PM
Monday
September 28th
Hamza Walker: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
111 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, September 28th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
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