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 Wednesday, April 16th
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
Jennifer Mannebach, Jeffly Gabriela Molina, and Brad Stumpf: Ruminations on Home
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 East Quincy St, Riverside IL 60546
Opening Sunday, April 6th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
IMPACT Performance Festival
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Sunday, April 6th, from 3PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 6th
Victoria Yau Retrospective
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, April 6th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 13th
DIRECT ACTION (2024) w/ filmmaker Ben Russell in person
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Sunday, April 6th, at 12PM
ART ETC CLUB
@ Empty Bottle
1035 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 6th, from 12PM - 5PM
OCFF 2025: FUGUE STATES
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 5th, at 9PM
Nikki Renee Anderson / Amanda Mulcahy
@ Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, May 15th
The Day After, TOSSAROSE Third Petal
@ TOSSAROSE Artist Collective
2147 S Lumber Street Unit 505, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 6:30PM - 11PM
25!
@ moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 23rd
Materialities Community Days
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
50 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 27th
We Are All ARTISTS!
@ Marie | Wesley
1122 West 63rd Street Chicago, IL 60621
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 5PM - 9PM
Frederick Nitsch: The Nervous Circus
@ Gallery 901 @ Open Studio Project
901 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL 60202
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, April 30th
Alana Ferguson: SLAPHAPPY
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 27th
OCFF 2025: VIVID DETAIL
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 5th, at 4PM
Melissa Leandro: Auto Alejaimento: Exhibition Tour + Bifold Release
@ ANDREW RAFACZ
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 12th
OCFF 2025: TAILWIND
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 5th, at 2PM
Jaap Blonk: Ursonate Album Release Event
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, April 5th, at 2PM
Talk | Politics of Poetics: Molly McCully Brown and Matt Bodett
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
So You Want An Award Or Something? Performance
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 19th
POP-UP Dragonfly Workshop
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N. Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 2PM - 4:30PM
Screen Test
@ Roman Susan at Berger Park Cultural Center (Coach House)
6215 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 5th, at 1PM
Jean Alexander Frater: Wee Restless Hours
@ THE MISSION PROJECTS | THE RESIDENCE
email info@themissionprojects.com for an appointment
On view through Saturday, June 14th
Emily Frances Winter: Apparent Paths
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, November 16th
Spring 2025 Undergraduate Exhibition
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St. Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 12th
Better Than Revenge: Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, June 15th
Exhibition Walkthrough – A Rrose By Any Other Name
@ Hans Goodrich
1747 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Saturday, April 12th
SOARING: Life, Light, and Legacy
@ Harris Theater | Millennium Park
205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Tatiana Ivaschenko: Celebration of Life
@ Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago
2249 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 4th, at 7PM
On view through Thursday, April 24th
Performing archives
@ Chicago Cluster Project @ former Hedrich & Blessing Photographers
400 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 4th, at 6:30PM
On view through Wednesday, April 16th
Preston KLIK : Ocean of Devotion
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 6:30 PM - 9 PM
Yimei Emair Zhu: Len!Scape
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 18th
IS THIS THING ON?
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, April 4th, at 6PM
Portals
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 6PM - 10PM
FIRST FRIDAYS ART EXHIBITION
@ TQ EXPERIENCE
1545 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 4th, at 6PM
Echo Mutation
@ Chicago Grand Gallery
2842 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 4th
Cameron Gainer: Temporal Dispersions
@ ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
Ryan Nault: Landscapes
@ MICKEY
1635 W Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 1st
A.R.C. Collective: Member Show
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 27th
Copper Odyssey 2: Museum of Miracles
@ The Center for Mad Culture
410 S Michigan Ave, #419, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Dante Moore: IJBOL FIELDS
@ HAPPY GALLERY
902 N California Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 26th
René Romero Schuler: Behind Blue Eyes
@ Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
Vertical Gallery’s 12-Year Anniversary
@ Vertical Gallery
2006 W Chicago Ave, #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 26th
Favorite Things
@ Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4912 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 4PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, July 31st
Eric Lebofsky: Liminality Blue
@ Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
Travis Donwarner and Brooke Raven: CORN BRED
@ Hexx Gallery
943 N Spaulding Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, April 26th
[WE DON’T KNOW YET] WHAT A CINEMA CAN DO: Expanded cinema
@ Public Works
2141 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 4th, at 7PM
Ordinary Wonders
@ Lubeznik Center for the Arts
101 W 2nd St, Michigan City, IN 46360
Opening Friday, April 4th, from 5 PM - 8 PM
On view through Sunday, June 15th
Onion City Opening Night: MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (2025)
@ FACETS
1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 3rd, at 7PM
Action! Documentary Double Feature
@ LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
929 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 3rd, at 7PM
The New Automat
@ Chicago Cluster Project @ former Hedrich & Blessing Photographers
400 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, April 3rd, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, April 27th
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) | Free Film Screening
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420 · Chicago, IL
Opening Thursday, April 3rd, from 6PM - 8:30PM
VOICES: Y. Malik Jalal
@ Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, April 3rd, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Regarding
@ Leisure
2444 W Division St, Chicago, IL
Opening Thursday, April 3rd, at 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 6th
adrienne maree brown Lecture
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, April 3rd, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Musician Angel Bat Dawid Performs in the Gallery
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, April 2nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
