February 2026
OPC: Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB)
@ The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, February 16th, at 6PM
Stories Sewn
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Monday, February 16th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, February 20th
Night School
@ Kiosk
3054 N Sheffield Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, February 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
Sunday Reading Series: David Baker, Julie Iromuanya, & Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
@ Hungry Brain
2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, February 15th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
if i were a blade of grass by Niya Gao – Closing Reception
@ SPACE 01
4850 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Sunday, February 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 15th
ILA X AIR
@ Kimball Arts Center
1757 N Kimball Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, February 15th, from 3PM - 6PM
Eli Keszler: Performance
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, February 15th, at 2PM
Immigrant Owned: Photographer Jonathan Castillo in Conversation
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Sunday, February 15th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Winter Torch: A Gathering of Warmth & Resilience
@ Epiphany Center For The Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, February 15th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
Elastro: Westerlund/Hagen, Bonnie Han Jones, Clinkman/Greene
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, February 14th, at 8PM
Side Yard Sounds presents: Official Claire with Bill Harris and LeRoy Bach
@ compound yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Closing Reception of The Language We Create by Chicago Artist Coalition
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
The Closing Reception of Every Man is an Island by Natasha Moustache
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
The Closing Reception of How Could We Forget About You by Noel Mercado
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
The Closing Reception of Hope Is the Last Thing by Rebecca Keller
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
The Closing Reception of Black Female Presence with Shane-Jahi Jackson by guest curator Juelle Daley
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
The Closing Reception of Jordan Porter-Woodruff’s The Children Play Games
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 14th
Lauren Spencer King: In Pursuit
@ Regards
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 28th
All My Love
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 2PM - 5PM
The Uncivil Canvas: Art in the Age of Discord – Closing Reception & Walkthrough
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 2 PM - 4 PM
On view through Saturday, February 14th
Continuing Resistance: A Century of Black Liberation (1925–2025)
@ Kavi Gupta
835 W Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Monday, April 20th
Menasa+: Thresholds of Representation
@ Kavi Gupta
835 W Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Monday, April 20th
For the Love of CAD
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 1PM - 4PM
BEING HUMAN
@ Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, March 8th
Akiva Listman and Sechor: Authorized Entry
@ VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 21st
Valentine’s Day Pop-up Art Market
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 12 PM - 5 PM
Valentine’s Day Artisan Market
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 12PM - 7PM
With Love – Arts & Vendors Fair
@ Kinowerks
5645 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 11AM - 4PM
On view through Tuesday, March 31st
Family Day: Rooted in Clay
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 11AM - 2PM
Floating Monuments: for Mecca
@ DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Monday, February 16th
MENASA+: THRESHOLDS OF REPRESENTATION
@ Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL
835 W Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Monday, April 20th
K8 Hardy: Outfitumentary (2016)
@ Hans Goodrich
1747 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
Yes Project Space turns 2!
@ Yes Project Space
3705 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 20th
On The Same Planet at The Same Time
@ The Beautiful Cat Gallery
1070 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, April 6th
It Will Destroy You
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 19th
Hay _____ en Casa
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
NOW IS THE TIME!
@ Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
Your Name Spelled in Soap
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago Il 60622
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, March 7th
Yours,
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, March 1st
Love Hurts
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 13th
Cori O’Connor: There Are Cracks in Our Souls
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 7th
Nehir Uslu: Holding Space
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 7th
The Heresy of Legacy
@ Volume Gallery
1700 W Hubbard St Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 28th
SHIFT Housing Summit: Afternoon Session
@ 840 Michigan Ave
840 Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 2:30PM - 6:15PM
Out of Office Co-working Event with the CGDC
@ Two-Thirty
230 W Superior Ave, 3rd Fl, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 10 am - 2 PM
SHIFT Housing Summit: Morning Session
@ National Public Housing Museum
919 South Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 9AM - 12:40PM
Seven Signs
@ See You Soon, Kimball Arts Center
1757 N Kimball Ave Unit 203C, Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 5PM - 10PM
I Dream I Cross the River in One Stride
@ MARIANE IBRAHIM
437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, March 28th
UNION (2024) with filmmaker Brett Story in-person
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, February 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
Conversations at the Edge | Priit Pärn and Olga Pärn: Luna Rossa
@ Siskel Film Center
164 N State St Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, February 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
Emma Dwyer and Izze Norman: Public Reading
@ Seerveld Gallery
6601 W College Dr, Palos Heights, IL 60463
Opening Thursday, February 12th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, March 12th
Daniel Hojnacki: Weathering, to Form More Time
@ Hana Pietri Gallery
2950 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Thursday, February 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 15th
Life Imitates Art
@ Anthony Gallery
1360 West Lake Street Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, February 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
VOICES: Penny Lane
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St., 5th Floor Room 5100, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, February 12th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
SCA Public Program: Paulina Pobocha
@ Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, February 11th, from 6PM - 7PM
Artist Salon: How to Buy Live Work Space
@ ArtHouse Chicago
3317 W Fullerton #, Chicago, Il 60647
Opening Wednesday, February 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Drink & Draw: Draw Your Demands
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, February 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Test Literary Series
@ The Whistler
2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, February 11th, at 6PM
Sherwin Ovid: What is the Poesis of Dis-Possession? Cartographies of Spirit and Signal- Reception and talk
@ UIS Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza, VPA 62, Springfield, IL 62703-5407
Opening Wednesday, February 11th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Thursday, February 19th
Valentine’s Portrait Slam!
@ Off Hours Beer Co.
3520 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Wednesday, February 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
Andrea Kastner “Walking Distance”
@ Western Illinois University Art Gallery
Western Illinois University, 1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Tuesday, February 10th, from 430PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, March 27th
ICE Actions at Arts Venues: Train the Trainer Event
@ Lawyers for the Creative Arts
Online
Opening Monday, February 9th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
IAEA Art Club
@ Illinois Art Education Association
Online
Opening Monday, February 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Prometheus Firebringer: Lecture Performance by Annie Dorsen
@ The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, February 9th, at 5PM
Blaze Lojewski: Psychism – Annual Charity Art Exhibition
@ Dwell Studio Chicago
7449 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Sunday, February 8th, from 2PM - 5PM
“LIT!” Artists Gallery Talk
@ Lubeznik Center for the Arts
101 W 2nd St, Michigan City, IN, 46360
Opening Sunday, February 8th, from 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
On view through Sunday, February 15th
Many Times: Performance Afternoon
@ Yes Project Space
3705 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Sunday, February 8th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, February 20th
Bike Winter Art Show 2026
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
MOJO&MUSE: A Performance Speakeasy
@ Watershed Art and Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
ILARJ No Place Like Home Zine Drop Party
@ Walls Turned Sideways
2717 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
Sheri Rush: The Dwelling Place of Spirits
@ boundary
2334 W. 111th Place
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 7th
Rebekka Federle:Artist Talk
@ Elise Seigenthaler Gallery
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 7th, at 4PM
Teresa Montoya’s Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years after the Gold King Mine Spill: Opening Keynote
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, June 14th
Silhouette Of A King
@ ELECTRIQSOUL HIDEOUT STUDIOS
216 S Jefferson St. Chicago, IL 60661
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, February 7th
Selena Kearney: Artist Talk
@ Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 1PM - 3PM
Community Day: IAM nourished
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 11 AM - 6 PM
The Last Express
@ Chicago Gamespace
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago. IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 11AM - 5PM
PARIS IN BLACK / CHICAGO: WALKTHROUGH & PUBLIC DIALOGUE
@ South Side Community Art Center
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 10AM - 12PM
Hilarity Ensues: An Immersive Toaster’s Experience from the Mind of Louis Demarco
@ Open Studio Project
901/903 Sherman Ave, Evanston IL 60202
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 5:30 - 6:30
On view through Saturday, March 28th
Zsófia Ötvös: People
@ CSI projext Space and Gallery
1630 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 7th, at 5PM
On view through Saturday, February 28th
Transforming Legacies: South Asian Story Painting
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
On view through Saturday, December 12th
Avant to Live! The Films of Craig Baldwin with guest Brett Kashmere
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
The Dear Road
@ Ukrainian National Museum
2249 W Superior St., Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, February 28th
Primary Pictures
@ crosswalk
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
SWIPE LEFT
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, February 26th
CRAFT : 3rd Annual Black History Month Showcase
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21 St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
Faylita Hicks : The Digital Archives of the Unseen: Poetry and Portraits from the Age of Censorship
@ Walls Turned Sideways
2717 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 24th
Un Invierno en Chicago: A Bad Bunny inspired art show
@ AponteART Gallery
5504 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, February 6th
Multicentered and Reverberating
@ Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
Won’t You Celebrate With Me?
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
1431 W Hubbard St, Ste 201, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, March 20th
Hunter Foster: Involition
@ Good Weather
1524 S Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 4th
Winter Florals
@ Third City Studio
5538 W North Ave Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 4PM - 7PM
EROS Returns
@ Chicago Fine Art Salon
2623 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 6th
Ancestral Futures
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
Hai-Wen Lin & Ivan David Ng: Mountain Call
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 14th
CAUTIONARY TALE : AN INTERACTIVE EXHIBT OF ART BY EVE FLEDERMAN
@ RED JUNE
2020 N LEAVITT ST, CHICAGO, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 6th
