November 2025
Rob Croll: Waymark: Closing Performance and Conversation
@ Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, November 30th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, November 30th
Closing Performance of Liz McCarthy: Imperfect Players
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, November 22nd, from 5:30 PM - 6 PM
Small Works Member Show – Opening Reception
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, November 22nd, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, December 20th
Up North Art Pop-up Show
@ Bramble Arts Loft
5545 N Clark St, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, November 22nd, from 1PM - 4PM
SOLO SUNNY (1980) in 35mm
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, November 21st, from 7 PM - 9 PM
Fruity Night
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, #2 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, November 21st, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, January 11th
Captured Moments: The Stories the World Tells Back
@ Bridgeport Art Center – Art of Imagination Gallery, Gallery Row ID 1315 & 1345
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, November 21st, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Post-Digital Landscapes: Curtis Anthony Bozif, Ruth Lantz, & Jonathan Worcester
@ ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
Clark Arts Center, 5050 E State St, Rockford, IL 61108
Opening Friday, November 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, December 12th
Evanston Art Center’s 23rd annual Winter Arts & Crafts Expo – Preview Party!
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, November 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 20th
The Luminous Bond
@ Zhou B. Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, November 21st, from 6 PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, December 12th
Post-Digital Landscapes: Curtis Anthony Bozif, Ruth Lantz, & Jonathan Worcester
@ ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
Clark Arts Center, 5050 E State St, Rockford, IL 61108
Opening Friday, November 21st, from 6 PM - 8 PM
On view through Friday, December 12th
Annual 12×12 Art Exhibition
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, November 21st, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 10th
FLOCK’s Holy Grail
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, November 20th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Tactics to Avoid Art Censorship Online
@ Lawyers for the Creative Arts
Online
Opening Thursday, November 20th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
Chicago Poetry Center Presents: November Blue Hour Featuring Iain Haley Pollock and Keetje Kuipers
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, November 19th, at 7:30PM
Artist Talk: Ellen Altfest at Rising Fawn
@ Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, November 19th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, December 20th
ATP Visiting Artist Talk: Tempestt Hazel
@ Northwestern University Department of Art, Theory, and Practice
Kresge Hall, 1880 Campus Dr, Room 1515, Evanston IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, November 19th, from 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Jill Mulleady
@ Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, November 17th, from 6PM - 7PM
Hattie Lee Mendoza: Resilient Joy
@ McHenry County College | Epping Gallery
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake IL 60012
On view through Friday, December 19th
Malt Adult #33
@ Color Club
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, November 16th, at 7PM
Exsanguination
@ DFBRL8R at Hairpin Art Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 8PM - 10PM`
On view through Saturday, November 15th
SIDE YARD SOUNDS: LEROY BACH & MAI SUGIMOTO WITH SPECIAL GUEST TYLER DAMON
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
Performances of Gender Multifariousness
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
H Marsh Schenck: Both/And: A Queer Archive of Belonging
@ boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 13th
great mud flood
@ SAWHORSE
4222 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, November 15th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, January 4th
JUNK DUMP ISSUE 7 LAUNCH PARTY AND POP UP SHOW
@ Point Blank
3317 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
Angela Ferrari: Los Caballos
@ Povos West Town
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, November 15th, at 5PM
Art on My Mind A Chicago Critics Table Public Salon Series
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 4PM - 6PM
Fall Winter Artists in Residence Exhibition Opening
@ The Kimball Arts Center
1757 N Kimball Ave
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, January 31st
From Battlefields to Brushstrokes
@ Geneva American Legion Post 75
22 S 2nd St Geneva, IL 60134
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 2PM - 6PM
Artist Talk: Michael J. Miller
@ SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art
1527 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
On view through Saturday, December 6th
African Poetry Book Distribution Project: Poetry Reading and Research
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 1PM - 3PM
LIT! Site-Specific Installations by Maria Burundarena and Luftwerk: Curator Gallery Talk
@ Lubeznik Center for the Arts
101 W. 2nd Street, Michigan City, IN 46360
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
On view through Sunday, February 15th
Anthony Vizzari – Artist Talk / Studio Visit
@ Riverside Arts Center at A&A Studios
7947 Ogden Ave, Lyons and 32 East Quincy St, Riverside, IL
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 11AM - 12:30AM
On view through Saturday, December 6th
MadMade Print Fair
@ Access Living
115 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, November 15th, from 12PM - 4:30PM
Firelei Báez
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, May 31st
Jane Alexander: Infantry with beast
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, January 12th
Lia Kohl // Alta Vista
@ Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL, 60618
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 8PM - 10PM
Reel Politik: PUTNEY SWOPE (1969) with cartoonist Nathan Gelgud
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 7PM - 9:30 PM
Dmitry Samarov: Art for Other People’s Books
@ Firecat Projects
2019 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, February 28th
Sarah Whyte, And The Spaces Between
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, December 19th
Lit & Luz: Live Magazine Show
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Elizabeth Joo: What Remains After Night
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Friday, December 5th
Gudunk! TOSSAROSE Fourth Petal
@ TOSSAROSE Artist Collective
1707 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, November 14th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 22nd
Marking Time
@ The Plan
610 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, December 21st
Catie Burrill & Aespyne Alix – Living Madness: Anguish, Joy, and the Terrors of Existence
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
How Close Can You Get To A Stranger
@ Tala
1644 W Chicago Ave, #1, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 23rd
CHICAGO CRYPTIDS: A SEVENTH CORENR GALLERY GROUP SHOW
@ HOWLING PAGES
4354 N Milwaukke Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 5PM - 9PM
Pedro Montilla: Mirar abajo
@ moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, January 10th
Maia Cruz Palileo: Branch Dance
@ moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, January 10th
Bri Beck: [From-Within]
@ The Center for Mad Culture
410 S Michigan Ave, Suite 419, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 5PM - 9PM
The Wild: Marshall Square Sculpture Project
@ OPEN Center for the Arts
2214 S Sacramento Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Friday, November 14th, from 4PM - 8PM
Staple + Stitch Art Book and Print Fair
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, November 16th
Stories in the Wind: A Chicago Diaspora Storytelling Open Mic
@ The Silver Room
1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, November 14th, at 6PM
Djabril Boukhenaïssi: Once upon a midnight dreary
@ MARIANE IBRAHIM
437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, January 17th
Richard Beymer’s THE INNERVIEW (1973) with film preservationist Ross Lipman
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, November 13th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
The World We Had
@ Studio 3614
3614 W Belmont Ave, Chicago IL 60618
Opening Thursday, November 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 30th
Plumbago and the Sun’s Rind: Live Reading and Conversation with Diana Garza Islas
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, November 13th, at 7PM
Roundtable on Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, November 13th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, February 8th
Elaine Lemieux and Sara Zalek: Mooove Voice
@ Roman Susan at Berger Park Cultural Center
6205 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Thursday, November 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
DIVIDED HEAVEN (1964)
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago IL, 60601
Opening Thursday, November 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, December 2nd
Lecture: “My Two Peoples”—Elizabeth Catlett’s Activism in Mexico
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, November 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
Chcago Alliance of Visual Artists Juried WINTER EXHIBITION
@ Renaissance Court at the Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago IL 60602
Opening Thursday, November 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, January 2nd
Comfort Film Presents: True Patriot Love: A Double Feature of Canadian Experimental Film
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, November 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
Printmaking in Process: Anna Kunz, Soo Shin, and Lane Relyea
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, November 12th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Náa’ Reza [Broken Hand]: : A Conversation with Ana Hernández
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, November 12th, at 6PM
Artist Portfolios and Exhibition Opportunities 101
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
1431 W Hubbard St, Suite 201 Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, November 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
the LAND as they left it
@ CWAC Exhibitions
5540 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Friday, December 12th
Palpable
@ The O'Connor Gallery
7900 W Division, River Forest, IL 60305
Opening Wednesday, November 12th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, December 17th
Queers Teach This: Adam J. Greteman In Conversation With Erica Meiners
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, November 12th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
Not a Soft Thing: Artist Talk + Tour
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, 4th fl, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, November 12th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, March 22nd
Native Beadwork Workshop
@ Elgin Community College Jobe Lounge
1700 Spartan Dr, Elgin, IL 60123
Opening Wednesday, November 12th, from 11:30am - 1:30PM
On view through Wednesday, November 12th
The Chicago Film Society Presents: BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) on 35mm
@ Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Tuesday, November 11th, at 7PM
Lit & Luz Festival: la hora de oro
@ The Whistler
2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, November 11th, at 6PM
A.Martinez: En la casa de Mamá
@ Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park University
5134 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Tuesday, November 11th, from 4:30PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, December 12th
From the Same Room: Exhibition Walkthrough with the Artist Magali Lara
@ UNAM Chicago
350 W Erie St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, November 11th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
VOICES: Jason Wesaw
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Room 3226, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, November 11th, at 6:30PM
Reorienting Room: Closing Reception
@ Chicago Athletic Association
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Sunday, November 9th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 9th
“Perpetual Motion Machine” Live!
@ The Ramova Theatre
3520 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60609, USA
Opening Sunday, November 9th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, November 15th
Lit & Luz 2025 Keynote Address with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
@ Pueblo Unido Gallery
6212 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, November 9th, from 2PM - 4PM
Jill Wells: Virtual Artist Talk
@ Fourth Presbyterian Church
Online
Opening Sunday, November 9th, from 12:30PM - 1PM
On view through Thursday, November 20th
Tam Ochiai: Shopping Bag: Screening
@ Hans Goodrich
1747 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, November 9th, from 11AM - 5PM
kg: I Want (Flowers In A Window)
@ The Donut Shop
1656 W Wallen Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, November 9th, from 10AM - 2PM
On view through Saturday, November 15th
Celebration of Life and Exhibition Reception
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, November 9th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, March 1st
Side Yard Sounds presents: Laurentse, Chelsea Bridge, Pan American, Jake Leech and Sam Clapp
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, November 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
Erotic Photography Workshop
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago IL, 60626
Opening Saturday, November 8th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
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@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 6th
An Omnium-Gatherum Exhibit of Gender Multifariousness
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, November 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 6th
UChicago MFA Open Studios
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, November 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
Boz Deseo Garden: Harriet
@ Bodenrader
1620 West Carroll Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, November 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 20th
Making the ‘grade | Robert J. Soller | Tardigrade-Inspired | Chicago Public & Private School Fundraising Event
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N. Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, November 8th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, November 8th
Lampo: Leila Bordreuil and Lee Ranaldo
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, November 8th, at 6PM
Xochitl-Quetzal Aztec Dance Celebration
@ Little Village Branch – Chicago Public Library
2311 S Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, November 8th, from 2PM - 3PM
