January 2025
Elisa Harkins: Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, January 31st, at 7:30PM
What is Love Fashion Show
@ Stan Mansion
2408 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, January 31st, from 7PM - 12am
Let’s Be Real
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd FL, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 31st, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Wednesday, February 19th
De-Assimilate Closing Night feat. Artist Talk and Musical Performances
@ Gallery Wrightwood Logan Square
3325 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, January 31st, from 7PM - 10PM
Shar Coulson: NIGHT SIGHT
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, January 31st, from 6PM - 8PM
Zor Zor Zor: Save Me: Closing Reception
@ Grace Jane
3203 S Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, January 31st, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, January 31st
Crush Loop
@ Grunts Rare Books
1500 S Western Ave, Ste. 403, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, January 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 2nd
The Pamphlet Show II
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 31st, from 6PM - 10PM
3rd Annual Penny Pinch Dutch Auction
@ VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, January 31st, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, February 9th
PURVIS YOUNG: Messenger of Salvation and Liberation
@ Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, January 31st, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 8th
RAYMOND THOMAS: Cry Loud and Spare Not
@ Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, January 31st, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 8th
E. 1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea (2024)
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, January 30th, at 7PM
Textile Stories: A Living Archive: Panel Discussion
@ KIOSK
3054 N Sheffield Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Thursday, January 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
Regina Agu: Shore | Lines
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, January 30th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 17th
Nina Chanel Abney: FLAGGED
@ Anthony Gallery
1360 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, January 30th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 1st
Luis A. Sahagún: In the Gaze of Time: Ritual Portraiture
@ Gordon Parks Arts Hall, The University of Chicago
5815 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, January 30th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, March 7th
Artists in Conversation: Margaret Crowley and Karen Reimer
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle #103 Normal, IL 61761
Opening Thursday, January 30th, from 4PM - 5PM
Let’s Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar
@ Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Sunday, April 27th
Poetry in Translation with Steven & Maja Teref & Alta L. Price
@ Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Wednesday, January 29th, at 7PM
Ignatius Valentine Aloysius and David Allen Sullivan: Salt Pruning
@ The Book Cellar
4736 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Tuesday, January 28th, at 6:30PM
Smart Salon: Art and Infinity, with Dr. W.J.T. Mitchell
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, January 28th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Mystery in the Making: GovState Art Faculty Exhibition
@ Visual Arts Gallery at GSU
1 University Parkway, University Park, IL 60484
Opening Monday, January 27th, from 4PM - 6:30PM
On view through Monday, January 27th
Michael Snow: So is This / Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film (1982 / 1970)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, January 26th, at 7PM
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL: A LETTER TO GAZA
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Sunday, January 26th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Preston Klik: Ocean of Devotion Gong & Crystal Bowl Sound Meditation Journey
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, January 26th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, January 26th
Day 2 of Publication Survey / Life Savings by Public Collectors
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Sunday, January 26th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, January 26th
DIBS: The Annual Grab n’ Go Art Show
@ The Seventh Corner Gallery
4354 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, January 25th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 25th
Zine Club Chicago: No Sleep Til Stapling Zinemaking Hangout
@ Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, January 25th, from 5PM - 9PM
Elisa Harkins: Teach Me A Song
@ Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, January 25th, at 4PM
On view through Friday, February 14th
Jerome Caja: The devil is in the detail
@ Goldfinch Gallery
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, January 25th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 8th
legacy as lexicon, a stand-in for my voice
@ Goldfinch Gallery
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, January 25th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 8th
If the Sky Could Dream: Dragonatomy
@ Heritage Museum of Asian Art
3500 S Morgan St, 3rd Fl, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, January 25th, from 2PM - 4PM
Day 1 of Publication Survey / Life Savings by Public Collectors
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, January 25th, from 12PM - 5PM
Jean-Luc Godard: Adieu au Langage (2014)
@ Letters to Nora
1500 S Western Ave, Room 407-408, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, January 25th, at 12PM
On view through Saturday, February 1st
Finnisage: barely there barely here
@ cam.contemporarie
2233 S Throop St, #920, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, January 25th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, January 25th
Body/building
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, January 25th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, January 31st
Landscape Photographs by Joe Jachna and Michael Tropea
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
On view through Sunday, April 27th
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
On view through Sunday, April 27th
Jordan Ann Craig: it takes a long time to stay here
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
On view through Sunday, April 13th
Charlie Goss: Inner Beauty Outer Expression
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, February 20th
Elastro: Chris Pitsiokos, Anti-Soul Organization, BAKUDI SCREAM
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, January 24th, at 8PM
QUEER HYBRIDITY: SHORT DOCUMENTARIES AT THE EDGE
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, January 24th, at 7PM
Class Act 2025
@ Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660`
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 7PM - 9PM
Jim Yale: FRAGMENTS OF STILLNESS: Art Talk
@ T. Mari Gallery
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
John Behnke: FALSE GUIDES
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 14th
Steven Carrelli: TEASER, TORMENTOR, AND SCRIM
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 14th
Ginny Krueger: THE TRANSCENDENTAL GARDEN
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 14th
Sustenance & Land
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 27th
Olive Stefanski & Jewlya Sturtevant: Hypersurface of the Present
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 1st
Albert Oehlen / Kim Gordon
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 1st
Kelly Reaves: Caviar Nightmares
@ Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St, STO, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
Nina Rizzo: Around (Some Of) the World in Ten Years
@ Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St, STO, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
Rodney Graham: A Little Thought
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 1st
Nothing Is: Sun Ra and Others’ Covers
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 1st
Zeroed In: Student Final Work from ART 250: Between Worlds, Video Games and the Physical
@ VGA Project Lab
2233 S Throop St, #843, Chicago, IL, 60608
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, February 24th
Our Lived Experience
@ The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Cafe Logan
915 E 60th St Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 6th
Cosmo Whyte: The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, January 23rd, from 6 PM - 8 PM
On view through Wednesday, April 2nd
Conversation: The Power of Print—How Magazines Shape Panafrica
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, January 23rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Himalayan Sacred Art in Contemporary Galleries: A Lecture with Professor Robert Linrothe
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, January 23rd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Leopold Segedin: Conflict & Confrontation
@ National Veterans Art Museum
4041 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Thursday, January 23rd, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, October 17th
Ahmed Ozsever: Five Miles/Twenty-Five Years
@ UIS Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza Health and Sciences Building, 201, Springfield, IL 62703
Opening Thursday, January 23rd, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, February 6th
Best Kept Secret: UMD Student, Faculty, and Alumni Art Show
@ Stamelos Gallery Center, Mardigian Library-1st Floor, University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128
Opening Thursday, January 23rd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, April 16th
Soundpost: Renaissance Remix – a classical music and fashion experience
@ Chicago Symphony Orchestra
220 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 6063
Opening Thursday, January 23rd, from 6:30PM - 10:30PM
SCA Art Talk | Judith Geichman
@ Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, January 22nd, from 6PM - 7PM
this is not an exhibition
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Wednesday, January 22nd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, February 16th
Visiting Artist Talk: Carmen Neely
@ Kresge Hall, Northwestern University
1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, January 22nd, at 4:30PM
Talk | New Art School Modality: Making New Monuments
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, January 21st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
NPU Faculty Art Exhibit
@ Carlson Tower Gallery
3225 W Foster Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Tuesday, January 21st, from 4:30 PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, February 14th
Damon McArthur: Works on Paper
@ Western Illinois University Art Gallery
1 University Circle, Macomb. IL 61455
Opening Tuesday, January 21st, from 430PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, February 14th
Emma Stine: Digesting/Disrupting, The Golden Babies
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Monday, January 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, February 20th
Jeanette May: CURIOUS DEVICES
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Monday, January 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition
@ Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
5700 S DuSable Lake Shore Drive
On view through Sunday, April 27th
Gallery Conversation: Letter from Birmingham Jail
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, January 20th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
MLK Day 2025 – Echoes of Freedom
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Monday, January 20th, from 11AM - 4PM
The Internal Life of a Horse on Fire: Closing Event with Lula
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Opening Sunday, January 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 19th
Sunday Reading Series: Jason Koo, Cheswayo Mphanza, & Christian Collier
@ Hungry Brain
2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, January 19th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Michael Snow: La Région Centrale (1971)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, January 19th, at 6PM
Linye Jiang: Undisclosed Location
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 West 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616 4th Floor
Opening Sunday, January 19th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, February 23rd
Evanston Art Center’s 2025 Studio Biennial
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, January 19th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, February 9th
Winter Sound Benefit for Side Yard Sounds 2025!
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, January 18th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Suicide Moi
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, January 18th, at 7PM
Clearance Sale
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, January 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
HER EXPANSIVE SELF: Five Films by Women Exploring Identity and Multiplicity
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, January 18th, at 6PM
Healing House with Rhythm Factory featuring DJ Steve Maxwell and Special Guest DJ Mark Francis
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd FL, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, January 18th, from 6PM - 12AM
Tom Burtonwood: Difference and Repetition and Holly Holmes: Findings
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago IL 60603
Opening Saturday, January 18th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 15th
You, of course
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Saturday, January 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 2nd
Sofia Magdits Espinoza: Encuentros y ceremonias
@ KIOSK
3054 N Sheffield Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, January 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, January 27th
$acred Motherhood
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 18th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, February 15th
Treewhispers 25 year celebration
@ Artists Book House
4207 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, January 18th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 22nd
Lecture: Beads That Speak—Unraveling Stories of East African Artistry
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, January 18th, from 2PM - 3PM
The Upsetters: Closing Reception and Artist Presentations & Discussion
@ Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, January 18th, at 1PM
Art, Activism, Policy, Power: Conveying Migration Stories
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, January 18th, from 11AM - 1PM
On view through Saturday, February 15th
JELLO Presents: The OOZE
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, January 17th, at 8PM
Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists Annual Members Show 2025
@ Bridgeport Art Center | 4th Floor Gallery
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, January 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, March 7th
Imprints of Time
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, January 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, March 7th
TOM ESLINGER: LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, January 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 7th
Paul Branton: LATCHKEY KID: AN INTERNAL PERSPECTIVE
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, January 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 7th
David Ese Gagoh: TEMPLE
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, January 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 7th
