To kick off the 2025 biennial, Terrain is joining forces with Alt_ to bring the Terrain Biennial 2025 Block Party to Austin, Chicago. Join us for a day of community building in celebration of public art. Expect good jams, tasty eats, and fun for grownups and kiddos alike. Programming will include creative activations from Red Line Service Institute, Redemptive Plastics, The.BLKroom, Earth Paint, Cody Norman, and Compound Yellow. Performances include the Frank Morrison Trio, DJ John West, Sylvia Christine, Move Me Soul, Jae Ivlie, Gion Locke, Terry4k, BrandodaProducer,

and Edo Spinz. Learn about our 2025 Artist in Residence program, Biennial projects, and the local organizations that make our work possible.

Admission is free and all are welcome! Bring your friends! Bring your neighbors!

The Terrain Biennial 2025 Block Party is made possible thanks to Alt_, Oak Park Area Arts Council, Illinois Arts Council, the National Endowment for the arts, Hyde Park Art Center Artists Run Chicago 2.0, Compound Yellow, Elastic Arts, and SAIC Service Bureau.

Terrain Exhibitions is pleased to announce the 6th edition of our grassroots public art festival. Terrain Biennial 2025 brings public art to neighborhoods around the world from October 1 – November 15, 2025.

Terrain’s 2025 biennial is all about “DIY”! From crafting to painting, mending to stitching, construction to recycling, artists are resourceful, performing science and alchemy with time and material. DIY is a core value of the Chicagoland art community, with apartment galleries, DIY shows, makerspaces, and lending libraries as key resource hubs for artists.
From October 1 to November 15th, 2025, Terrain celebrates artists who exhibit DIY spirit in their community.

Terrain Biennial 2025 will feature creative activations in seven different countries with over 150 artist projects connecting passerby with contemporary art. This Biennial includes projects in the following US States and countries internationally.

In Illinois Terrain Biennial projects are present in Aurora, Batavia, Berwyn, Bolingbrook, Brookfield, Chicago, DeKalb, Des Plaines, Downers Grove, Evanston, Forest Park, Geneva, Granite City, Grayslake, Mundelein, Oak Park, Park Ridge, Peoria, Peoria Heights, Union, Warrenville, West Peoria, Wheaton and Winnetka.

Further across the USA the Terrain Biennial touches down in the following locations Los Angeles, CA; Colorado Springs, CO; Gary, Indianapolis, Michigan City, IN; Ames, IA;
Cincinnati, OH; Newark, NJ; Pittsburgh, PA; Conway, SC; Austin, TX; West Valley, UT;
Benton + Madison, WI.

Internationally the Terrain Biennial 2025 is represented in Lima, Chile; Randers, Denmark; Thessaloniki, Greece; Bangalore, Bengaluru, Udupi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kolkata, Varanasi, Sullia, Kundapura and Mysore in India; Alghero, Como and Torina in Italy; Istanbul and Adiyaman in Turkey.

Participating artists and curators include abby friend, Adam Farcus, Alex Mendez, Allie Hughes, Amy Shelton, Ann Marie Greenberg, Anni Holm, Assael, Aubrey Ingmar, Babita das, Barbara Sistak Baur, Barbie Perry and Liu Yang, Bethany Cordero, Bethany Johnson, Bill McGrath, Bishal Manandhar, BLOOM by Dana Parisi, Bobbi Meier, Bowen and Gurevich, Breanne Trammell, Catherine Jacobi, Cathleen Cramer, Cathy McCauley,
Charlie Dean, Chelsea Goodwin, Chris Kraniotis, Christ Hodge Lauren Schmidt , Christine Rabenold, Colette Wright Adams, Collage Sisthars, Collens, Connie Noyes, David Vosburg, Debra Kayes, Dynamic Collective, Eli Hunstad, Elisa R. Boughner, Eric Saudi, Erica Hess, Flatlands Creative, Georgia Schwender, Giordano, Greta Bell, Jae Green, Jahanshahi, Jeeone Han and Annika Rae Keckhaver, Jeff Phillips, Jenn Byrne, Jennifer Bastian, Jerry Bleem, O.F.M., Jill Bocskay, Julie Rivera, Kalkova, Kara Cobb Johnson, Katherine Skwira-Brown, Kathryn Rodrigues, Keith Allyn Spencer, Kevin Valentine, Kimmy Noonen, Kristin Taylor, Kristina Sutterlin, Larissa Rolley, Laurie LeBreton, Lederer, Lilach Schrag, Lindsay Johnson, Lisa Nelson Raabe, Luisa Firmado, Lusk, Marea Cordero, Margot McMahon, Marisol Cervantes, McCoy, Meg Guttman, Michele Silvetti-Schmitt, Miles Halpern, Millicent Kennedy, Moed, MotherArt: Revisited, Naomi Elson, Naomi J. Falk, Natasha Ritsma, Patricia Davoust, Paul Hertz, Pia Cruzalegui, Pinar Aral, Porpeglia, Purple Window Gallery, Rachel Davis, Rebecca Griffith, Riverside Arts Center, Roleke, Roz Moreton, Salvatore Siriano, Samiah Fulcher, Saoirse C. Ahumada Furin, Sara Peak Convery, Sarah E. Rieser, Shari Gullo, Sian Barlow, Silvia Corti, Sinor, SK Reed & Kellen Wright, Susan Krueger-Barber, Sydney G. , The Donut Shop Studio, Thomas, Trish Smithing, Veronica Siehl, Veronica Storc & E.A. Stuart, Whitney Johnson-Lessard, Workman, Beatriz Basso, Bhagya Ajaikumar, Chethan kumar, Chitti Prabhala, Dimple B Shah, Harishree y j, INDRAPAL, Janardhan Rao Havanje, JK, Kishan lal, Margherita, Nahusha, Puja dhanuka, Rakshith k, Sandya, Santosh pattar, Smrudhul E, Sriparna Das Chakraborty, and more!

Visit terrainexhibitions.org to learn more and find projects near you!

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Tags: Abby Friend, Adam Farcus, Alex Mendez, Allie Hughes, Alt_, Amy Shelton, Ann-Marie Greenberg, Anni Holm, Assael, Aubrey Ingmar, Austin, Babita das, Barbara Sistak Baur, Barbie Perry and Liu Yang, Beatriz Basso, Bethany Cordero, Bethany Johnson, Bhagya Ajaikumar, Bill McGrath, Bishal Manandhar, BLOOM by Dana Parisi, Bobbi Meier, Bowen and Gurevich, Breanne Trammell, Catherine Jacobi, Cathleen Cramer, Cathy McCauley, Charlie Dean, Chelsea Goodwin, Chethan kumar, Chitti Prabhal, Chris Kraniotis, Christ Hodge Lauren Schmidt, Christine Rabenold, Colette Wright Adams, Collage Sisthars, Collens, Compound Yellow, Connie Noyes, David Vosburg, Debra Kayes, Dynamic Collective, Elastic Arts, Eli Hunstad, Elisa R. Boughner, Eric Saudi, Erica Hess, Flatlands Creative, Georgia Schwender, Giordano, Greta Bell, Jae Green, Jahanshahi, Jeeone Han and Annika Rae Keckhaver, Jeff Phillips, Jenn Byrne, Jennifer Bastian, Jerry Bleem, Jill Bocskay, Julie Rivera, Kalkova, Kara Cobb Johnson, Katherine Skwira-Brown, Kathryn Rodrigues, Keith Allyn Spencer, Kevin Valentine, Kimmy Noonen, Kristin Taylor, Kristina Sutterlin, Larissa Rolley, Laurie LeBreton, Lederer, Lilach Schrag, Lindsay Johnson, Lisa Nelson Raabe, Luisa Firmado, Lusk, Marea Cordero, Margot McMahon, Marisol Cervantes, McCoy, Meg Guttman, Michele Silvetti-Schmitt, Miles Halpern, millicent kennedy, Moed, MotherArt: Revisited, Naomi Elson, Naomi J. Falk, Natasha Ritsma, O.F.M., Oak Park, Patricia Davoust, Paul Hertz, Pia Cruzalegui, Pinar Aral, Porpeglia, Purple Window Gallery, Rachel Davis, Rebecca Griffith, Red Line Service Institute, Riverside Arts Center, Roleke, Roz Moreton, Salvatore Siriano, Samiah Fulcher, SAOIRSE C. AHUMADA FURIN, Sara Peak Convery, Sarah E. Rieser, Shari Gullo, Sian Barlow, Silvia Corti, Sinor, SK Reed & Kellen Wright, Susan Krueger-Barber, Sydney G., Terrain Biennial, The Donut Shop Studio, The.BlkRoom, Thomas, Trish Smithing, Veronica Siehl, Veronica Storc & E.A. Stuart, Whitney Johnson-Lessard, Workman