July 2025
Body Bits: poetry, prose and performance in the gallery
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, July 31st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Nadima-Chi
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, July 29th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Artist Workshop: Multimedia Light and Projections with Harro D.B. Schmidt
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, July 28th, from 8 PM - 10 PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Side Yard Sounds presents: Paul Abella’s Questionable Decisions
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, Il 60302
Opening Sunday, July 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
Artist Workshop: Mask Theater and Filming with Marianna Buchwald
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, July 27th, from 3 PM - 5 PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Music Talk | Remembering Charles Stepney, with Duane Powell and the Stepney Sisters
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, July 27th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Copitas de Sol: : A Spirited Mixer
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, July 27th, from 1PM - 6PM
Camera Eye: A Photo Adventure
@ Art Institute of Chicago, Front Steps
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, July 26th, from 2PM - 4 PM
Public Tours
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 26th, at 10AM
Artist Workshop: Light Sculptures with Franz Betz
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 26th, from 12 PM - 4 PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Full Spectrum Features presents Cyberslime at FACETS
@ FACETS
1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, July 25th, from 7PM - 12AM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Wayfinding: Human Intervention
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 30th
Powwow in Pilsen
@ Harrison Park (@ Outdoor Basketball Court)
1824 S Wood St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, July 24th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Eric Capper: Signal Architecture
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Thursday, July 24th, at 5PM
On view through Monday, July 28th
Vanessa Damilola Macaulay: Breathing Race into the Machine: Performance
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, July 24th, from 12PM - 7PM
Maria Gaspar: We Lit the Fire and Trusted the Heat (after Angela Davis)
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, July 23rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Imani Warren: Chrysalis: Reading & Release
@ The Whistler
2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, July 23rd, at 6PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Rotary Connection 222
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, July 22nd, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Pleiades Series: Volta, Hertzwitches + Graphic Score Workshop
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Monday, July 21st, at 8PM
CGDC July Social Hour
@ Ping Tom Memorial Park
1700 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Monday, July 21st, from 6 PM - 8 PM
OFF CENTER: FIVE FILMS BY ROSE LOWDER
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Monday, July 21st, at 6PM
Artist Workshop: Image Transfer Techniques with Jenny and Betty Kirk Chernansky
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, July 21st, from 3 PM - 6 PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Chris Reeves: DISCOTEXTURE, Or, a Performance that Ends with Consensus
@ The Lawn
DM For Address
Opening Sunday, July 20th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Side Yard Sounds presents: Finom (duo) Macie Stewart & Sima Cunningham
@ compound yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, July 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
Mari Miller: Community Dye Pot and Leaf Meditation
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, July 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, July 20th
OPTION: Joe Westerlund
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, July 20th, at 3PM
Farah Salem: Uninhibited People of the Earth: Final Viewing Hours with Artist
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, July 20th, from 1:30PM - 4:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 20th
Women Aging with Wisdom and Grace Salon July Meeting: The Swimmers: A novel
@ Women & Children First
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Sunday, July 20th, from 1:15PM - 2:15PM
Lust for Life: A Rock-Out BurlyQ Revue
@ Lemon
1600 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 11PM - 12AM
Dana Hodgdon: PREPARED TEXTS
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, July 19th, at 6PM
Kimmy Noonen: A Third Way
@ Cultura Ccafe
2943 W Belmont Ave, Chicago IL 60618
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 4:30PM - 6:30PM
On view through Sunday, September 21st
Bryan Byrdlong: Strange Flowers
@ Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 3PM - 4PM
Don Baum, Gertrude Abercrombie, and the Visual Arts in Hyde Park: A Conversation with Charlie Baum
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, July 19th, at 2PM
On view through Saturday, August 23rd
Walking as an Infra-Antenna – Veronica Anne Salinas with Amanda Guitérrez
@ West Ridge Nature Park
5801 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60659
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 2PM - 4PM
On Creative Practice: Tom Burtonwood and Susan Snodgrass
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 2 PM - 3 PM
Entwined: Banner Making
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 1 PM - 3 PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Jarvis Square Music and Arts Festival
@ Jarvis Square
1500 W Jarvis Ave Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 1PM - 10PM
Allison Svoboda: Spirit Hand
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
2233 S Throop St., Unit 419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, August 30th
Fetish Film Forum – La Pieta (2022)
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
Chicago Zine Fest 2025
@ Harold Washington Library
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 11AM - 4PM
Women to the Front: Curator Gallery Talk
@ Lubeznik Center for the Arts
101 W 2nd St, Michigan City, IN 46360
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 11:30 AM CT - 1 PM CT
Prime Time | City in a Garden
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
THE LANDSCAPE IS CHANGING
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Tuesday, August 5th
Kathleen Cecelia Nesbitt: Women Embodied
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
On view through Friday, August 1st
UNLEASHED CONSCIOUS
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
We Need a Hero!
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
Esther Charbit
@ Gallery AOG
2714 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
Luminosity: The Ocean Between VIII
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 5 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Comfort Music: Jesse Perlstein & Norman Long
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, July 17th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Art Initiative Launch and Artist Reception
@ Skokie Public Library
5215 Oakton St, Skokie, IL 60077
Opening Thursday, July 17th, from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
On view through Thursday, July 17th
Conversation: Caillebotte, Sailing, and Society from Mackinac to the Seine
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, July 17th, from 6PM - 7PM
Art After Work: Superhero Portrait Slam
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, July 17th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Hemispheric Blackface
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, July 17th, from 5PM - 6PM
Werk: Chicago’s Premiere Queer Comedy Show
@ The Lincoln Lodge
2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, July 17th, at 7:30PM
Show & Tell with Rachel Hays of Taxonomy Press
@ Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, July 17th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
IMSS 2nd Annual Art Fair
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, July 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
Chris Hefner and Claire Mooney
@ Lula Cafe
2537 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, July 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Shawnee Dez
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, July 15th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Eliza Fernand: 1-833-NATR-XXX 🏖️ Freshwater Beach Walk
@ Tobey Prinz Beach Park
1101 W Pratt Blvd, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Monday, July 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Lia Kohl
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, July 13th, at 7PM
Zander Raymond, Tianjiao Wang and CM Clemente
@ The Lawn
DM For Address
Opening Sunday, July 13th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
An evening of Performance Arte Acción – Film & Video
@ No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, July 13th, at 6:77PM
20×2 Chicago: Are You Sure?
@ GMan Tavern
3740 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 6061
Opening Sunday, July 13th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
OPTION: Patrick Shiroishi
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, July 13th, at 3PM
Karen Perl: Try to Remember
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, July 13th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, August 10th
Rooted in the Shadow of Coal: Botanical Treasures of the Waukegan Dunes
@ Brushwood Center at the Ryerson Woods
21850 N. Riverwoods Rd, Riverwoods, IL 60015
Opening Sunday, July 13th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, August 31st
Julie Sulzen and Katie Vota: The Intersection of Here & Nowhere
@ Leslie Wolfe Gallery
1763 N North Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, July 13th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Thursday, July 31st
Side Yard Sounds: Cristal Sabbagh with Jayve Montgomery and Nick Turner, and duo Allen Moore and Sara Zalek
@ compound yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
“Working on the Failed Utopia” Returns: Celebration and Film Screening
@ theNate at GovState
1 University Parkway, University Park, IL 60484
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
On view through Saturday, July 12th
Unscripted Streets
@ T. Mari Gallery
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 3rd
Naomi Elson and Rebecca Griffith: Left to Settle
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St Unit 845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 27th
Mac Pierce: DEATHMATCH
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, September 20th
Josh Dihle and Puddles: WHY DID YOU DO THAT?
@ ANDREW RAFACZ
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 4PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 19th
Acts of Care: Nurturing the Present, Shaping the Future
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Erik Wenzel: Tessercats
@ Watershed Studioworks
3016 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, July 26th
Alan Emerson Hicks: Better World: Closing Reception
@ SoNa Chicago Art Gallery
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, July 12th
Screening and Talk | Alma’s Rainbow
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, July 12th, at 2PM
Margaret Archambault: Artist Talk
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, July 25th
Trunk Show
@ Schoolhouse
2247 N Maplewood Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 12th
Spiraling: Eco Art Exhibition
@ Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, August 10th
Low-Residency MFA Thesis Exhibition 2025
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 27th
Entangled Expressions: Exploring the Labyrinth of Linearity
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, September 14th
25th Annual Barrio Arts Festival
@ The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 12th, at 11AM
On view through Sunday, July 13th
Great Ideas of Humanity Art Exhibition
@ The Design Museum of Chicago
72 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, July 12th, at 5PM
On view through Monday, August 4th
CollectedCon
@ Aon Grandballroom Navy Pier
840 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 9am - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 13th
As Light Turns Into Day
@ One River School: Evanston
1034 Davis St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 12AM - 2PM
On view through Friday, August 1st
Sight of Resistance
@ Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 3PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, January 10th
CLEAT Series: 40 Channel Night w/ Shawn Decker + Stephan Moore
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 11th, at 8PM
Side Yard Sounds is excited to present NadNavillus: Dan Sullivan, Andy Hall, Eddie Matthews, Rob Bochnik
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, Il 60302
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Darkening Age
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, July 25th
Ulrike Ottinger: Ticket of No Return (Bildnis einer Trinkerin) (1979)
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W. Hollywood Ave. Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Eden Through A Glory Hole: COMMUNITY SCISSORING
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, July 25th
Flower, Wind and Dog
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 9th
sounds better with you: Closing Reception
@ Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 11th
The World at Work
@ Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, August 22nd
Oscar Arriola: I Feel Love
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
