May 2025
Exhibit B presents Defiant Acts: James Stewart III and J. Howard Rosier
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, May 20th, from 7PM - 8PM
Daffodil: Vincent Katz and Noa Fields
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, May 19th, from 7PM - 8PM
Diagrams, Systems, Collective Power Workshop Series: Archeology of Diagrams
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, May 19th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, June 16th
Chantal Akerman: D’Est (1993)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, May 18th, at 7PM
Pause
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 East Quincy St, Riverside IL 60546
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 21st
Emmy Bright:Pink Pearls
@ RUSCHWOMAN
2100 S Marshall Blvd Unit 105 Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 6th
Florasonic: Laura Ortman: The Southwest Northeast Back and Forth Bows
@ Lincoln Park Conservatory
2391 N Stockton Dr, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, May 18th, at 2PM
KING’S ART SHOW @ THE FRIENDLY
@ FRIENDLY COMMUNITY ROOM
6729 W ROOSEVELT RD, BERWYN, IL 60402
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, May 30th
All Houses Are Haunted Readings at Purple Window Gallery
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, #845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Tacoma Sculpture Park: Closing
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 18th
Noel Herrara: Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Closing
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 18th
Dan Nadel and Chris Ware on Robert Crumb
@ Chicago History Museum
1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 10:30Am - 11:30AM
What Immigrants Bring: Performances
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 24th
Shared Prosperity: Equity Arts Benefit Dinner
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd FL, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 7PM - 12AM
Air is in the Spring : Multi-Disciplinary Art Exhibition | Timeless Arts GS
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N. Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 7 PM - 11 PM
On view through Friday, June 6th
Isabella Mellado: Baile Para el Señor de Los Muertos
@ Povos West Town
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
RAPID EYE MOVEMENTS – PICTURE RESTART 16MM SERIES
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, May 17th, at 6PM
Amira Diaw: I too pass from the night
@ Hardboiled
DM For Address
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, June 6th
Maxwell Volkman & Alex Adkinson: The River Sweats with Oil and Tar
@ Gure
DM for Address
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
Molly Roth Scranton: Thing Poems
@ boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 21st
Choreographing the Smart: Calling on the Present
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, May 17th, at 5PM
Samantha Haring: Safe Havens
@ Studio Break Gallery
1N046 Ridgeland Ave, West Chicago, IL 60185
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 17th
Ximena Garrido-Lecca: Germinations
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, July 13th
Jean-Claude Rousseau: La Vallée Close (1995)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, May 17th, at 3PM
Mond(e): 月亮代表我的心 – Myths for the Moon
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 2PM - 3PM
How art can help us envision climate futures
@ The Theatre School at DePaul University
2350 N Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 1PM - 2:30PM
ACRE Summer Daze
@ McKinley Community Play Garden
3518 S Wolcott Ave, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 12PM - 5PM
Bryana Bibbs: two hundred and fifty-one days: Braiding Histories: Collective Art-Making
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 11AM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, May 18th
Learning Series | The Space Between
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 17th, from 11AM - 1PM
Michael Smith: A Return to the Rec Room
@ Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave. Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, May 16th
BAC’s 13th ANNUAL JURIED ART COMPETITION
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, June 27th
The Day Iceland Stood Still (2024)
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, May 16th, at 7PM
Perspectives from Japan
@ Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, June 12th
Tone Glow + Employees Only Present: Grin and Bear It – Cinema of the Dark Clown
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, May 16th, at 7PM
Laurie Buman: SANTOS Y MILAGROS (SAINTS & MIRACLES) THE LIGHT WITHIN THE DARKNESS SERIES
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 5th
Laurie LeBreton: INSISTING AND MAINTAINING
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 5th
Tactile Terrain
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 29th
Fragments
@ Whitney Oliver Gallery
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 16th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
Lindsay Olson: The Language of Water: Art, Ecology and Engineering
@ The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
2430 N Cannon Dr, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, September 7th
Seen and Unseen
@ The Plan
610 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 29th
2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash. Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, June 6th
Tulika Ladsariya: Unseen Currents, Sacred Grounds
@ NEIU Fine Art Center Gallery
5500 N St. Louis Ave, Building E, Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Yollocalli Fundraiser
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
50 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, August 17th
Grishma Shah: Dissonance
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, July 3rd
PO Box Poetry Series
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, May 15th, at 8PM
Panel on Chicago Latinx Photography
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, May 15th, at 7PM
Superposition, Chris Riggs, KBD w/visuals by LAM
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, May 15th, at 7PM
Werk: Chicago’s Premiere Queer Comedy Show
@ The Lincoln Lodge
2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 15th, at 7:30PM
Luminarts: Visual Arts Exhibition
@ The John David Mooney Foundation
114 W Kinzie St # 1, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, May 15th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
Eine Flexible Frau| Free Film Screening
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, May 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Curatorial Conversation with Jeff Stevenson and Mary Miss
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E. Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, May 15th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Music for Union Station
@ Union Station
225 S Canal St, Chicago, IL 60606
Opening Thursday, May 15th, from 6PM - 7PM
Ghost Forest
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, May 15th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
amateur H|O|U|R
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
Citizenship for All: Storytelling Through Nonggi Making-Workshop Series
@ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, May 15th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Yasmin Spiro in conversation with Seph Rodney
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, May 15th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
McSweeney’s Presents The Make Believers
@ Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 15th, from 5PM - 7PM
Smart Salon: Dieu Donné
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 15th, from 5PM - 7PM
This Perfect Home Inside of a Mountain Nobody Can See Or Hear You in Here
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
Book Presentation / “Pulcinella’s Life, Death and Resurrection” by Antonio Fava
@ Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
500 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1450, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, May 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
ArtHouse Chicago’s Artist Salon Series: Buying Property as a Group/Forming a Co-op
@ Bloomingdale Arts Building
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 14th
Test Literary Series
@ The Whistler
2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 14th, at 6PM
Lecture in Photography: Kristen Gaylord
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, May 14th, at 6PM
Artist Talk: Living Stories – New Works by Le’Ana Asher
@ Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum
3001 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Wednesday, May 14th, from 5PM - 7PM
Leah Flax Barber and Cristina Pérez Díaz
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, May 13th, at 7PM
Acts of Kindness: The Gift Project
@ Co-Prosperity (Co-Pro)
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, May 12th, from 6.30PM - 8.30PM
OPC: Allison Katz
@ The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, May 12th, at 6PM
Karla Kelsey: Transcendental Factory & Matthew Goulish: Kingfisher
@ Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, May 12th, from 4PM - 5PM
Jean-Claude Rousseau: Les Antiquités de Rome (1989 / 1984)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, May 11th, at 7PM
Home: An Exhibition of Palestinian Artists
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Sunday, May 11th, from 12PM - 4PM
Maryam Kashani: Medina by the Bay
@ Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 3PM - 4PM
What Immigrants Bring
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 24th
Elastic Arts 7th Annual Benefit
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 10th, at 7PM
microplastique in Concert
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Visual Storytelling
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Michelle O’Connor: Beyond the Obvious
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Michael Litewski: The Art of CNC Machining
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Sneak Peek | Air-Is-In-The-Spring | Live Graffiti Art Demo by Brazil Oswald
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
Tom Torluemke: Chicago-based artist on the last 40 years
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 3:30PM - 4:30PM
Ballet Chicago: Balanchine & Beyond
@ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, May 10th, at 2PM
Lecture: For the Love of Art—Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 2PM - 3PM
Felipe Macia: Practices of Place
@ Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S. Racine Ave., Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 2PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 7th
Ruminations on Home: Artist Talk and Closing Reception
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 East Quincy St, Riverside IL 60546
Opening Saturday, May 10th, at 2PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
D.E.F. Showcase 2025
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL 60614
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 1PM - 5PM
Mark Brautigam: Things Seem Strong
@ OS Projects
601 Sixth St, Racine, WI 53403
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, July 12th
Graduate Exhibition Two
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Wednesday, May 21st
Bryana Bibbs: two hundred and fifty-one days: Braiding Histories: Collective Art-Making
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 11AM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, May 18th
Sustainability, Community, and the Arts in Chicago
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
Cornelia Arts Building May Open Studios – Day Two
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 11am - 3PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
HOOPcycle Play Session at the MCA
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 11AM - 3PM
Spring Fling Art Show
@ Tiffany Stronsky Gallery & Studio
Kimball Arts Center, 1757 N Kimball Ave, Unit 103A-1, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 11AM - 5PM
Family Day | Playoffs
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 11AM - 3PM
CAPE Convergence
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, May 10th, from 11AM - 2PM
On view through Friday, June 6th
Lampo: Valentina Magaletti
@ Ida Noyes Hall
212 E 59th St, 3rd Floor theater, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 9th, at 8PM
CLEAT Series: Potliquor (Sharon Udoh / Allen Moore), Ishmael Ali
@ Elastic Arts
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 9th, at 8PM
