July 2025
Fetish Film Forum – La Pieta (2022)
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
subVersion Summer Camp
@ Multiple
Multiple
Opening Saturday, July 19th, at Multiple
On view through Sunday, July 27th
Laura Bernstein, Chris Reeves & Damon Griffin
@ The Lawn
DM For Address
Opening Saturday, July 19th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
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
In Mezzo
@ Logan Square
Logan Square
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, July 18th
Mi(x)ing Zone-Voice Prisms
@ OH Art Foundation, Zhou B Art Center (3/F)
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, August 10th
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
Fawn Penn: Remedy for the Relief of Human Suffering
@ VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 6th
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
Isaiah Lee: This house is an open mouth
@ Matthew Heberlein Contemporary
5 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60602 For entry dm @fallenroyalty or 8324834911
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
2-3 Weeks
@ The Plan
610 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, August 17th
Sébastien Johnson: Gilt Complex
@ VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 6th
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
Mari Miller: Community Dye Pot and Leaf Meditation
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, July 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, July 20th
subVersion Summer Camp
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Sunday, July 27th
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
Natasha Moustache: Water Lines: Artist Talk W/ Camille Gallogly Bacon
@ Blanc Gallery
4445 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Thursday, July 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 26th
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
Master Class Catalogue Release Reception
@ SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, July 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 2nd
Werk: Chicago’s Premiere Queer Comedy Show
@ The Lincoln Lodge
2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, July 17th, at 7:30PM
subVersion Summer Camp
@ Multiple
Multiple
Opening Thursday, July 17th, at Multiple
On view through Sunday, July 27th
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
Stop Motion Plant
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, July 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
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
ReLeaf Print: Closing Reception & Art Making Experience
@ Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
3601 W Douglas Blvd, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 2PM - 4PM
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
José Ibarra Rizo: Shaping the Land
@ Filter Space
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, August 23rd
Pia Sjölin and Anders Knutsson: For the Love of Color and Light
@ Swedish American Museum
5211 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, September 14th
fromsamira: Put it on a shirt
@ Everything store studio space
329 W 18th St, suite 860, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, August 11th
Margaret Archambault: Affect the Effect
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 25th
Monica J. Brown: The Biomythography of Jaybird & The Queen of Hearts
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 25th
Lisa Walcott: For Dear Life
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 25th
Mau Mau: ‘#wishyouwerehere..’
@ Vertical Gallery
2006 W Chicago Ave. #1R, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 9th
Alex Katz: White Lotus
@ GRAY
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, September 20th
Impressions: Works from Chicago Sculpture International
@ Fine Arts Building
410 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, August 25th
Benjamin Cook: Polymodal Translation
@ Zg Gallery
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, August 23rd
Bound Together
@ Art on Sedgwick Gallery
1404 N Sedgwick St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 4PM - 7PM
The Act of Recording is an Act of Love: The South Side Home Movie Project
@ The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 24th
Women to the Front: Artworks from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection
@ Lubeznik Center for the Arts
101 W 2nd St, Michigan City, IN 46360
Opening Friday, July 11th, from 5 PM - 8 PM
On view through Sunday, October 26th
Richard Hunt: Freedom in Form
@ Loyola University Museum of Art
820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Saturday, November 15th
Elastro: Sontag Shogun, Heavy Tiny, Maya Nguyen
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, July 10th, at 8PM
IMAGINARIUM: ORA The limits of the planet
@ TheMART
222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654
On view through Sunday, September 7th
The Seldoms: Superbloom
@ TheMART
222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654
On view through Sunday, September 7th
Pleiades Series: Lex Leto, Jane Marie Rogers
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, July 9th, at 8PM
Comfort Film Presents Professor O’s Producing Festival Best of Shorts!
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, July 9th, from 8PM - 10PM
Dreaming of a Future Catalog Launch
@ The Black Arts Consortium, Abbott Hall
710 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, July 9th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
FEK Draw: Fetish, Erotica and Kink
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Tuesday, July 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Kouri Hall
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, July 8th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Kiss Wine & M. LeBlanc
@ M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, July 8th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, July 8th
