Edra Soto: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, February 18th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Michael Snow: Sshtoorrty / New York Eye and Ear Control (2005 / 1964)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, February 16th, at 7PM
Art Talks! It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Sunday, February 16th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, April 13th
Let’s Be Real Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, February 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, March 9th
Chicago Calligraphy Collective Weathergrams event
@ Artists Book House
4207 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Sunday, February 16th, from 10am - 4PM
Lampo Performance: HxH
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, Illinois 60610
Opening Saturday, February 15th, at 7PM
The 26th annual bike winter art show
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
The Ryleans
@ Twelve Ten Gallery
1210 W Thorndale Ave. Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 29th
SURFACE TENSIONS: SEVEN FILMS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE IMAGE AND ITS DEPTHS
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, February 15th, at 6PM
B & E Studios: Rack Em’ & Crack Em’
@ Chicago Billiard Cafe
5935 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 15th
Healing House
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 6PM - 12am
Valeria Terrazas: The Bark Before The Bite
@ VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
Naomi Hawksley + Jamieson Pearl: rehearsal
@ Hardboiled
email harboiled.office@gmail.com
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, March 14th
Palak Patel: Throw down
@ Free Range
3257 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
Tempest
@ VSG Gallery
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, March 19th
Smuggle
@ Letters to Nora
1500 S Western Ave, Ste. 407 Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 5th
Threads and Granules – meet the artists – Joanne Aono and Sofía Fernández Díaz
@ O'Connor Gallery
7900 W Division St, River Forest, IL 60305, Lewis Hall, 4th Floor
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Wednesday, February 19th
VESNA JOVANOVIC: FLOSS WAGON
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 15th
The Indians Won: Woven Being Gallery Talk with Marisa Cruz Branco
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 13th
Kent Smith
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 6;39PM - 9:36PM
On view through Saturday, March 15th
Maryam Safajoo: Our Story is One
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, April 11th
Performance: Valentine’s Day with Rapt In Plastic
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, February 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
3-for-1 Psychic Special
@ Steppenwolf's 1700 Theater
1700 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, February 14th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, February 15th
CLEAT Series: Two Halves, Anne Liao, Felipe Tovar Henao, Jack Hamill
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, February 14th, at 8PM
‘EDGING’
@ Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, February 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, March 2nd
Michelle Alexander : MY BODY / YOUR OBJECT
@ Matthew Heberlein contemporary
dm @ fallenroyalty or 832 4834911 for address
Opening Friday, February 14th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, March 14th
Melissa Grace Kreider: Worthy
@ The Center for Mad Culture
410 S Michigan Ave, Suite 419, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, February 14th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 29th
DJ Ca$h Era at Dorothy
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 14th, at 9PM
10 (nearly Annual Be Mine Art Exhibit
@ Greenleaf Art Center and Gallery
806 W Greenleaf Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, February 14th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
Larvavision, Emily Rach Beisel, Whisker w/Ben Schmidt-Swartz, Allen Moore
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, February 13th, at 8PM
Anne Collod: Moving alter-natives
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, February 13th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Thursday, February 13th
TIME PASSAGES (2024) with filmmaker Kyle Henry
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, February 13th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Lonelyhearts
@ M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, February 13th, at 7PM
On view through Friday, February 14th
Boys and Men
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, February 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Artist Conversation: Ingrid Pollard
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, February 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
Justice Lens Film Series: Double Feature screening of Residue and Arkee – artist will be in attendance!
@ Chicago Justice Gallery
1344 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, February 13th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
David Linneweh: Veneer
@ Annex Gallery, Heating Plant Annex, Western Illinois University
1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Thursday, February 13th, from 430PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, March 7th
Gray Sound 6: Micah Schippa-Wildfong
@ Midway Studios
929 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, February 12th, at 7PM
WPB Business Mixer | Neighborhood & Arts Guides Release
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N Milwaukee Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, February 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, February 12th
Culture of Care with Dr. Nicole Truesdell Pt. 1
@ Threewalls
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 12th, from 6PM - 7PM
Test Literary Series
@ The Whistler
2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, February 12th, at 6PM
Allen Moore – ART NOW! Lecture
@ Film Row Cinema - Columbia College Chicago
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, February 12th, from 6 PM - 7:30 PM
CAMOC Book Talk – Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Wednesday, February 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
FEK Draw
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Tuesday, February 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Marzena Abrahamik and Flor Flores
@ Lula Cafe
2537 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, February 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, March 25th
Sonoran Desert Well: Land Art at the Border
@ Crowe Hall, Northwestern University
1860 Campus Dr Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Tuesday, February 11th, at 12:30PM
Tromblau&Friends Presents: Because We Love You
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Monday, February 10th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Arrested Adolescence: A Queer Look at Leopold and Loeb with Robert Kloss and Erik Rebain
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, February 9th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Genesis: there are no dead people
@ Chicago Athletic Association, Stagg Court
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Sunday, February 9th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Monday, February 17th
Michael Snow: Breakfast (Table Top Dolly) / Wavelength (1976 / 1967)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, February 9th, at 7PM
Survey
@ Unda.m.93
Dm or email for address
Opening Sunday, February 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 2nd
Jay Wolke – Building Place: Big Boat Little Pond Artist Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St, Riverside IL 60546
Opening Sunday, February 9th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, February 22nd
Erotic Photography Workshop – Dramatic Lighting for Sultry Portraits
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
Midwest Books to Prisoners Benefit: The Ineffectuals, Sister/Brother, Butt Mommy, Brian Klein, Slurname
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 8th, at 8PM
Winter Art Show
@ Art of Gallery
747 S Western, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 7 PM - 9 PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Hal Shipman: Forbidden Love at the Desert’s Edge – Opening and Artist’s Talk
@ Gerber/Hart Library & Archives
6500 N Clark St., Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 26th
Unfolding
@ CSI projext Space and Gallery
1912 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 8th, at 6PM
On view through Thursday, February 20th
Epoch
@ Connect Gallery
1451 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
Animation with Cecilia Beaven
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th Street Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 10AM - 12PM
The Infamous X All Star Press Present: Issue #13 Release Party
@ All Star Press
2775 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, February 10th
Liz McCarthy: THE EXPECTANCIES
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 1st
Arvie Smith: Crossing Clear Creek
@ moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 22nd
Betsy Ross Talks to the Renaissance Society
@ The Renaissance Society, Swift Hall
1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, February 8th, at 3PM
Artist Talk for Tom Burtonwood: Difference and Repetition and Holly Holmes: Findings
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620 Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 3PM - 4:30 PM
On view through Saturday, March 15th
We Will Become an Island: Closing reception
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 3PM - 8PM
Queer Ecologies
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, Room 845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 2PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
Glimpsing the Unseen. Bridge Program Showcase. Artist Roundtable
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Allison Svoboda: In Defense of Beauty
@ OS Projects
601 Sixth St, Racine WI 53403
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, April 12th
Betsy Zacsek: The Cabinet of Secret Art
@ The Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 1 PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, March 9th
Art Talks! It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
On view through Sunday, April 13th
Family Day: Comfy Cozy
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 11AM - 3PM
Family Day: Filling the Paige
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, February 8th, from 10AM - 1PM
Aaron Craig: Road to Joy
@ Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Sunday, March 2nd
Mel Watkin: BIRDLAND
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
CV Peterson: OVERLOOKING POSSIBILITIES: A NATURALIST’S DREAM
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
Annual Festival of Films from Iran
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
On view through Thursday, February 13th
You’ve NEVER been to a PK Psychokinesis mind-OVER-matter SPOON BENDING Party?
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N. Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 7:15 PM - 9:30 PM
On view through Tuesday, January 7th
POSTSCRIPT: Comfort Station’s 2nd Annual Gala
@ Sarabande
2726 W Roscoe St Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 7PM - 11:59PM
Hodges Williams: Maximum Effort
@ Firecat Projects
2019 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
SHORT FILMS BY EDUARDO WILLIAMS (2011-2019) with filmmaker in attendance
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 7PM - 9PM
HARD DONE BY: Contemporary Irish Trans Films
@ FACETS
1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
Aonna Jones: For the Good
@ Marshall J. Gardner Center for the Arts
540 S Lake Street, Gary IN 46403
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, March 14th
Black Lives Matter Exhibition: A Reckoning
@ Dragonfly Gallery and Creative Spaces
2436 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 2nd
Intravenus: A Slide Show by Riley Valentine
@ SPACE.01
2334 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
FOUR WALLS / FOUR ARTIST
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, February 20th
Anti-Valentine’s Day Party
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
Black History Month Showcase
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st Street, Chicago, IL, 60608
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
David Bickerstaff: VAN GOGH: POETS & LOVERS (2024)
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, February 7th, at 5:45PM
On view through Thursday, February 13th
chlee: OF GIRLS AND MEN
@ Fourth Presbyterian Church
126 E Chestnut St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, March 27th
Jeanette May: CURIOUS DEVICES
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
New Skin for the Old Ceremony
@ Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, March 14th
Hitch
@ Point Blank
3317 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 16th
ALLIANCE
@ Vertical Gallery
2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 1st
Christy Grossmann: Something Lost; Something Gained
@ Vertical Gallery
2006 W Chicago Ave #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 1st
Cody Heichel: Ordinary Moments
@ Care of Gallery
990 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, IL 60093
Opening Friday, February 7th, from 5PM - 7PM
MAAMEBEATS at Dorothy
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 7th, at 9PM
A Tale of Today: Materialities
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
50 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, April 27th
