June 2025
Holly Hughes: Is Rape a Crime? Lady dicks, lesbian Columbos, and the performance of rage in MAGA’s America
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, June 30th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Fifth City Revisited
@ 6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, June 29th, at 7PM
Artist Talk – Tom Torluemke: Live! On Paper, 1987 – 2024
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Sunday, June 29th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, July 27th
Michael Bever Art Open Studio
@ Michael Bever Art Studio
4809 N Ravenswood, Suite 227-D, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Sunday, June 29th, from 12 PM - 6 PM
Alex Ross: Heroes and Villains
@ Dunn Museum
1899 W Winchester Rd, Libertyville, IL 60048
On view through Monday, February 16th
Iván-Daniel Espinosa: MESSENGERS DIVINOS – mycelium, flesh & earthly entanglements
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Saturday, June 28th, at 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 29th
Art for the Sole 2
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 9th
CGDC Faculty 2 Release Party
@ The Rodam Social Club
4923 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 4PM - 9PM
Bridging The Divide: Making and Mending | A Conversation about Arts and Disability
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 2PM - 4PM
Mond(e): 月亮代表我的心 – Performance Installation in Collaboration with Diego Campos
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 5PM - 7PM
more waiting, just a little closer: Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, August 3rd
CAKE 2025
@ The Irish American Heritage Center
4626 N Knox Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 29th
Britt Ransom: Numbers Game
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, August 1st
2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas and Jacinda Bullie’s “FILLINZ, Put Some Respect on It!”
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, June 27th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 28th
Mariposa Divina: La Basurita
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, August 1st
Poems While You Wait & Leatherbound Lit Poetry
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago IL, 60626
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
Katsitsionnni Fox: KANENON:WE (ORIGINAL SEEDS) 2024
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Freedom From and Freedom To
@ Chicago Justice Gallery
1344 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Vanessa Damilola Macaulay: Breathing Race into the Machine
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Queer Impressions: Experimental Approaches to Print
@ Ohklahomo
2518 W Iowa ST , Chicago, IL, 60622
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 27th
Seuil Chung: I See Ghosts
@ Lillstreet Art Center, Annex Gallery
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Monday, June 30th
Rosalyn Deutsche
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 26th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Under the Sun, As it Were
@ Watershed Art and Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, June 26th, from 5PM - 9PM
Quimby’s After Hours: Raging Oposum
@ Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, June 26th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Tone Glow Presents “The Place Between Our Bodies”
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 25th, at 7PM
Weaving Community
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, June 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Werk: Chicago’s Premiere Queer Comedy Show
@ The Lincoln Lodge
2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 25th, at 7:30PM
Still Here: Poetry & Solidarity
@ National Public Housing Museum
919 S Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, June 25th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
PCRV, Viator, Diagram A, Horaflora, Dan of Earth
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, June 24th, at 8PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, June 24th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Coleman Smoll: Guiding Light
@ Cloudwalk
875 N Michigan Ave 94th floor, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Thursday, April 30th
PUNKS 4 PALESTINE
@ Nabala Cafe
4660 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Monday, June 23rd, from 8PM - 11PM
Field Notes Film Festival
@ Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Monday, June 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
Wafaa Bilal
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, June 23rd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
CGDC June Social Hour
@ Lincoln Park
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Opening Monday, June 23rd, from 6 PM - 8 PM
Imagine, Create Activate! Chicago 2025
@ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
On view through Wednesday, June 25th
2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Dani Oblitas’ “Un/Rerooted” & Selena Lasley’s “TIMEShit”
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, at 7PM
On view through Thursday, June 26th
returning: Leana Allen, Sofía Gabriel, Jordan Knecht, Farah Salem
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 22nd
TRANSVENGENCE VOL. 8: LIBERATION BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
@ Podlasie Club
2918 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, from 7PM - 10:30PM
Born Secret (Cash for Kryptonite)
@ 6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, at 6:30PM
Octavia Butler’s – The Evening the Morning and the Night
@ Front Porch Arts Center
5851 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60644
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, from 3:30PM - 7PM
Medicine for Our Times
@ National Public Housing Museum
919 South Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, at 3PM
OPTION: Sydney Spann
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, from 3PM - 5PM
ON BEING
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago, IL 60618
On view through Saturday, August 2nd
Ruby Greene: Teeth Over Diamonds Hair Over Pearls
@ SPACE.01
2334 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, July 5th
Jan Schrader: Canvas Jazz
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 19th
2nd Taste oÀkójọpọ̀ Presents: The Second Annual Taste of Nigeria, African Art Music Fundraiser Night
@ Connect Gallery
1451 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
ARTISTIC DIALOGUES
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 19th
New Scratchart from Les Scott
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 19th
Tom Pedersen: SUPER SIZED COLORFUL TRAIN PAINTINGS
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 21st
OUR HEAVENLY BODIES
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, June 21st, at 6PM
Martyna Alexander: The Distant Now
@ old friends
3405 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 2nd
Pareidolia
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave #3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 3rd
Opening: The Sticks — New Community Woodshop!
@ The Sticks
350 N Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
Bibiana Saucedo: Dreaming of Pilsen
@ Sentrock Studio
2059 W 18th St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
Art build in support of Trans Liberation March
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 21st, at 6PM
Alex Chitty: Mine
@ PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Carmen Winant
@ PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Master Class: Art 102 | An Artist Roundtable Discussion
@ SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 3PM - 5PM
Electric Psalms: Artist Talks & Closing Event
@ Gallery Wrightwood Logan Square
3325 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 21st
Talk | Politics of Poetics: Solmaz Sharif and Wafaa Bilal
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 2 PM - 4 PM
On view through Sunday, October 19th
Laura Larson: Hidden Histories of Photography
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 2PM - 3PM
Forms & Features Community Reading
@ Poetry Foundation
Virtual
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 2PM - 3PM
Lecture: Frida Kahlo—The City, the Body, and the Gods
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 2PM - 3PM
Rosa Barba in Conversation
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, June 21st, at 2PM
Jess Bass: The Lemonade Stand
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 1PM - 3PM
Jazmine.: a lot to be grateful for
@ cam.contemporarie
2233 S Throop St, Studio #920, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Looking Closely at The Indifference of Fire: Gallery Talk
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Fetish Film Forum, Equation to an Unknown (1980)
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
Artist Walk with Alex Wolfe
@ Washington/Wabash
29 N Wabash Ave Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 12PM - 2PM
Cornerstone Panel discussion: Geographies of Belonging: Land, Identity, and Collective Memory
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 12PM - 2:30PM
Alessandro Bo: AL MEDIO DÍA + PRÁCTICAS DEL ANDAR ABOUT NOON + WALKING PRACTICES
@ Pueblo Unido Gallery
6212 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, September 6th
Book & Beats
@ Ogden Park
2210 W Pershing Rd Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 12PM - 3PM
Workshop: Body & Clay – A Workshop on Care and Connection
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 11AM - 1PM
Workshop | Politics of Poetics: Solmaz Sharif
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 11AM - 12:3oPM
Pause: Artist Talk and Closing Reception
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 East Quincy St, Riverside IL 60546
Opening Saturday, June 21st, at 3PM
On view through Saturday, June 21st
this is this & that is that & the twain did meet
@ Filipino American Historical Society
2233 S Throop St, 316, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 26th
Elastro: Flanger Magazine, Daniel Van Duerm / Fred Jackson Jr., Janna Lee
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, June 20th, at 8PM
dark by day
@ bodock
3216 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago, 60651
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, July 18th
An evening of Performance Arte Acción – Documentary & Video
@ No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 20th, at 7:77PM
The Pleiades Series: Krissy Bergmark, Billie Howard, Emily Rach Beisel and Edward Wilkerson Jr
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 7PM - 9PM
2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Tuli Bera’s “Bangali Meye”
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, June 20th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 21st
Open House of the only Functioning Research Grade Holography Studio in Chicago
@ Home + Studio of E. Wesly & Sons
5318 S Neenah Ave, Chicago, IL 60638
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
Tarot and Mermaids
@ Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
John Behnke: False Guides and New Horizons
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
Rachel Mindrup: Neurofibromatosis and a Portrait of 1 in 3,000
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 17th
Woven Worlds: Fiber as Medium, Thread as Language
@ South Shore Arts
1040 Ridge Rd, Munster, IN 46321
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, August 23rd
Synchronicities
@ Stasia’s Art Gallery
44 E Cedar St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 6PM - 9:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 13th
Alessandro Bo: AL MEDIO DÍA + PRÁCTICAS DEL ANDAR ABOUT NOON + WALKING PRACTICES
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave Chicago
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 6th
Decade+
@ MICKEY
1635 W Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 10th
Nathan Brad Hall: Undercurrents
@ Gallery VICTOR
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 30th
The Nuestra Plaza
@ OPEN Center for the Arts
2214 S Sacramento Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, September 30th
Alanna Huck-Scarry & Ella Rinaldi: Tussock Clasp
@ Positive Space Studios
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
Nuthu’n to Hyde: Gertrude Abercrombie and the Hyde Park Scene, 1935–75
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, August 23rd
Rosa Barba
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, August 23rd
Richard Landry: One, Two, Three, Four
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, August 2nd
PO Box Poetry Series
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, June 19th, at 8PM
