April 2025
HyperReal: The Body As Fantasy, The Club As Dreamscape, and Self Invention As Living Art
@ Evoke Gallery
3040 N Central Ave, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
Evanston Woods
@ Space 900
804 Dempster St, Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 20th
ARI NORRIS: Fully Filtered
@ ARTRUSS
4553 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 13th
The Vapours So Whiten and Thicken the Air
@ Studio Break Gallery
1N046 Ridgeland Ave, West Chicago, IL 60185
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 11th
VINCENT HAYNES
@ Ackerman Clarke
2544 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Joanne Greenbaum: Lucky 13
@ Hans Goodrich
1747 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 5 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Anke Loh: RenaisSENSES: Artist Talk
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Toward a Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life: Brian Massumi in conversation with Matthew Goulish
@ Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 2PM - 3PM
Farah Salem: Uninhibited People of the Earth
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, July 20th
CGDC April Social Hour
@ Lost Larson
2140 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 1PM - 3PM
Center Day
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 1PM - 4PM
Margot McMahon and Sandra Wilcoxon: Symbiotic Struggles: Lichen and Coral
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, June 29th
SAIC Printmedia Art Book and Print Fair
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 19th, from 12PM - 5PM
Yasmin Spiro: Cornerstone
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, November 2nd
Elastro: Matthew Ryals, V. Vecker, Ben Zucker / Heather Mease
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 18th, at 8PM
Kaneza Schaal: KLII
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, April 18th, at 7:30PM
Bryce Wilner: Hand Eye: A Study of Tricontinental Photomontage screening
@ inga
1740 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
BARAKA (1992) with composer Michael Stearns in person
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston Il
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 7PM - 9PM
SCA Artist Talk | Jason Moran
@ Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 6PM - 7PM
Brandon Carlton: the undercommons
@ Arts Incubator
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 31st
And Then There Was Everything
@ Joy Machine
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 7th
Jonathan Worcester: Dead Reckoning
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 17th
Fragments
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
Fracture to Flourish
@ VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 6PM - 9:45PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
UIC 2025 MFA Thesis Show: The closest to the future we ever got
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 26th
Jessica Campbell: Dogman Lives on the Ground
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 7th
Sukaina Kubba: Textile Museum
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 7th
Robell Awake: Human Resources
@ Volume Gallery
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 7th
Jana Vander Lee: Resonating Color
@ ANDREW RAFACZ
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Faheem Majeed: All of the Parts
@ DOCUMENT
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 18th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 7th
Kaneza Schaal: KLII
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 17th, at 7:30PM
The Radical Art of the Sandin Image Processor
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
Huguette Caland: Bribes de corps
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, April 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 2nd
Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, April 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 23rd
Developing Dialogues
@ Chicago Cluster Project @ former Hedrich & Blessing Photographers
400 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, April 17th, at 6PM
CAPE Dialogue: Arts Integration as a Cultural Bridge in Schools
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Thursday, April 17th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, May 2nd
Lillian Heredia: Survival of the Sickest
@ Access Living
115 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, April 17th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, May 2nd
DCASE Presents: Open House
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, April 17th, from 4PM - 7PM
Blue Hour
@ Haymarket House
800 West Buena Avenue Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, April 16th, from 7:30 PM - 9 PM
On view through Wednesday, June 18th
Jeff Rivers Artist Talk: American Story
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 16th, from 12:35PM - 1PM
Zine Club Chicago Online: Writing a Letter Zine Workshop
@ Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Tuesday, April 15th, at 7:30PM
Talk | Access Praxis: Pooja Pittie
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 15th, from 6PM - 7PM
Japan’s Great Female Poets
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, July 14th
Who’s Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler in Conversation with Lisa Wedeen
@ Haymarket House
Online
Opening Monday, April 14th, from 7PM - 8PM
OPC: Sam Contis
@ The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 14th, at 6PM
TRAIN RATTLING: AGITATOR MEMBERS SHOW 2025
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 2nd
Meida McNeal & Honey Pot Performance present: Fifth City Revisited
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Freedom From and Freedom To
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, April 12th, at 7PM
Reading sessions
@ Chicago Cluster Project @ former Hedrich & Blessing Photographers
400 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 12th, at 6:30PM
Yuge Zhou: Soft Plots
@ boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
Trey Rozell: As above, so below
@ Twelve Ten Gallery
1210 W Thorndale Ave, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 24th
Know
@ Bodenrader
1620 West Carroll Avenue
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 17th
Hannah Gebhart: Tension & Release
@ Izora Contemporary (Pop Up)
1002 W Leland Ave, (Remedy Physical Therapy and Wellness), Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, August 7th
Poetry for David Lynch + Open Mic
@ City News Cafe
4018 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 5 PM - 7 PM
Under All Is the Land
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
Art as Expressions of Liberation
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 12th, at 3PM
On view through Thursday, August 7th
Shir Ende: Spilling, sprawling, and other ways of building
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, April 27th
Lehna Huie: In Remembrance of Us: Artist Talk
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 13th
Smuggle: Closing And Release
@ Letters to Nora
1500 S Western Ave, Ste. 407 Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 12th
Documenting Everyday Life: Illumination of the Mundane
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, Unit 845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 26th
litany
@ Blanc Gallery
4445 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, May 24th
Shake Shook Shaken: REVOLUTIONS
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, April 12th, at 12PM
Exhibition Closing – A Rrose By Any Other Name
@ Hans Goodrich
1747 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 12th, from 11am - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 12th
“Ordinary Wonders” Artist & Curator Talk
@ Lubeznik Center for the Arts
101 W 2nd Street, Michigan City, IN 46360
Opening Saturday, April 12th, at 11:30 AM (Central)
On view through Sunday, June 15th
CLEAT Series: Carl Stone, RXM Reality, Nicole Alonso
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 11th, at 8PM
Owen McCallum-Keeler + Rubén Löwy: Rule of thumb
@ Hardboiled
DM For Address
Opening Friday, April 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 17th
Long Distance Alchemy
@ Elephant Room Gallery
720 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 25th
If I walk through the fire would you join me?
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
PrEPárate
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
Puntadas del Alma: Told Through Quilts
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 12th
Birthday Art Show
@ Childhood Fratureds Phygital art Gallery
1432 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago IL 60613
Opening Friday, April 11th, from 6PM - 1145PM
On view through Sunday, April 27th
Laleh Motlagh: Cultivating Dispersal
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
Light Preserver: closing reception
@ Joy Machine
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 11th, from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
On view through Saturday, April 12th
Kermit Berg: Article 1: Human Dignity Shall Be Inviolable
@ SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 17th
karolina gnatowski: Never, Again!
@ Color Club
4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 4th
Slipcover
@ Point Blank
3317 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 16th
Lucy Wood Baird: What do I call you?
@ Material
2025 W Belmont Ave., Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 4th
Aura Satz: Preemptive Listening
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Ellen Kleckner: Between Horizons
@ UIS Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza Health and Sciences Building, 201, Springfield, IL 62703
Opening Thursday, April 10th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, April 10th
Caroline Kent: The Sentimental Hand
@ PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, April 10th, from 5PM - 7:PM
On view through Saturday, June 14th
Lindsay Adams: All water has a perfect memory
@ PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, April 10th, from 5PM - 7:PM
On view through Saturday, June 14th
ASUNDER / 满地残阳: Catalogue Release Party
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash. Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 10th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, April 25th
Contemporary Curated
@ McCormick Gallery
2251 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, April 10th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, May 23rd
Gray Sound 6: Audra Wolowiec
@ Midway Studios
929 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, April 9th, at 7PM
Test Literary Series
@ The Whistler
2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 9th, at 6PM
Culture of Care with Rhonda Wheatley Pt. 1
@ Threewalls
Online
Opening Wednesday, April 9th, from 6PM - 7PM
book*ish: Rude Girl, by Birgit Weyhe
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, April 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Ben Russell: AGAINST TIME
@ FACETS
1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Tuesday, April 8th, at 7PM
The Sara Albrecht Emerge Artist Talk: Selva Aparicio
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Otobong Nkanga Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, April 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe Screening and Discussion
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, April 8th, from 6PM - 8:30 PM
AIRMW Artist Presentation Series – Kioto Aoki
@ Asian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW)
4875 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Monday, April 7th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
OFF CENTER: DRUMMING AND DUBBING WITH ALEE PEOPLES
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Monday, April 7th, from 6PM -
On view through Thursday, August 7th
OCFF 2025: NICHE APPEAL
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, April 6th, at 5PM
OCFF 2025: (RE)VISITATIONS
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, April 6th, at 3PM
