May 2026
Phantom Frame
@ NON STNDRD
2300 Falling Springs Rd., Sauget, IL 62206
Opening Saturday, May 30th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 11th
Closing Reception: Girl Talk by Lindsey Kircher
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 30th, from 1 PM - 3 PM
On view through Saturday, May 30th
Garfield Park Artist Collective Open House
@ Multiple Artist Studios
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 30th, from 11AM - 4PM
My Mother Mountain
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St., Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 8th
PRIDE! Exhibition
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 29th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 5th
My Mother Mountain
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, August 8th
On Wonder, Mind, & Magic: Jeanette Andrews
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
On view through Sunday, August 23rd
The Doctors: Exploring 1970’s Teen Social Scenes and the Emergence of Chicago House Music Culture
@ First Church of the Brethren
425 S Central Park Blvd, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, May 29th, from 6PM - 10PM
Closing Night Celebration for Without Permission
@ Chicago Grand Gallery
2842 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 29th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 29th
TROUBLE THE WATER (2008) in 35mm introduced by Dr. Kate Burrows
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 28th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Exhibitionism Vol.1
@ Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, May 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
Dovewhether Live Show | Female Trouble
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, May 26th, from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Regin Igloria: Mid-day Meditations for May
@ Cultivator
Bray Grove Farm
Opening Monday, May 25th, from 2PM - 5PM
FOTOmercado
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S. Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, May 24th, from 11AM - 6PM
Music Next Door, Someplace Else
@ 6311arts
6311 N Clark St, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Saturday, May 23rd, at 5:30 PM
Bodies Luminous
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, May 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 20th
Day’s End
@ PenArt
3900 County Road F, Fish Creek, WI 54212
Opening Saturday, May 23rd, from 3:30PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 23rd
Lindsey Dorr-Niro: Spectral Psalm
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 23rd, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 20th
Arts of Life Studio Sale at Warm Love Cool Dreams Music Festival
@ Salt Shed
1357 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Sunday, May 24th
Midwestern Biennial 2026
@ Rockford Art Museum
711 N Main St, Rockford, IL 61103
Opening Friday, May 22nd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, September 27th
2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition: Too Much, Not Enough II
@ Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 7th
Hallucinating Hieroglyphs: The Visual Languages of Martin Wong
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Thursday, May 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
Book Launch: How do you throw a brick through the window…
@ UIC Architecture + Design Studios
Room 1100, 845 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, May 21st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Tone Glow Film Festival
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, May 21st, at 6PM
Mark Verabioff – WARM LEATHERETTE
@ Hans Goodrich
1843 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, May 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 31st
Nathaniel Mary Quinn: A Love Letter to My Mother
@ National Public Housing Museum
919 S Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, May 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 23rd
2026 Studio Sale
@ Arts of Life
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, May 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 24th
Aurora Film Society presents: On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
@ The Venue
21 S Broadway Ave, Aurora, IL 60505
Opening Wednesday, May 20th, from 06:30 PM - 10 PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
May Queer Stitch Night
@ Gerber/Hart Library & Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Wednesday, May 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
Chicago’s German-Jewish Labor History with Ben Schacht and Matthew Schlerf
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, May 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
Anything, Everything
@ California Clipper
1002 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, May 17th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, May 17th
Art Salon at Oliva Gallery: Artist-Led Critique & Conversation
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, May 17th, from 2 PM - 4 PM
The Future of the Visualist— Working Meeting
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, #203, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, May 17th, from 10AM - 2PM
Side Yard Sounds presents: Ana Everling & Edinho Gerber
@ compound yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Evanston Art Center’s 37th Annual Art Party
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St., Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
American Surrealism
@ 6311arts gallery
6311 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, May 16th
Bringing Together Established Chicago Artists, Emerging Student Voices, and Inclusive Community Programming
@ 6311arts
6311 N Clark St, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Saturday, May 16th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 4th
Conflict of Interests
@ ShadowBoxX Gallery
116 Washington St, Waukegan, IL 60085
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 13th
Hearth Artist Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center's FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 6th
Will Gabaldón
@ Ackerman Clarke
2544 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 20th
Columbia College 2026 Art History Symposium: When Words Meet Images
@ Hokin Lecture Hall
623 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 1PM - 5:30PM
Data Translation Environment
@ Locker Room
2320 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Tuesday, May 26th
Cornelia Arts Building May Open Studios DAY TWO
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia Ave, Chicago IL 60657
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 12PM - 4PM
Strategies of Resistance: Immigrant Bodies Beyond Assimilation- Virtual Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
Online
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, June 7th
Planting Seeds: An Indigenous Zine Fest
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, May 16th, from 11AM - 3PM
MAKE A FACE (1971) with filmmaker Karen Sperling
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
What We Saved: Femmage Revisited
@ Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 7 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, July 18th
Still After: Threads of Remembrance
@ OH Art Foundation, 2nd Floor Gallery, Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 12th
Between Us: A Collaboration with Atelier Corners in Osaka, Japan
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St. 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, June 27th
Maya Nguyen: I Hear You Can Make A Helicopter Sound With A Flower
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Feel Free
@ Joy Machine
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 27th
I’ve been out killing dandelions
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 31st
Hazel Katz: WHO GETS TO FLY
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 20th
Cornelia Arts Building May Open Studios – Opening Reception
@ cornelia arts building
1800 W Cornelia Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 5PM - 9PM
CAPE Educator Workshop/Third Friday
@ CAPE Gallery
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 29th
Sidewalk Sticker Sale
@ Oak Park Arts District
911 S Taylor Ave, Oak Park, IL 60304
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 4:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Friday, May 15th
Ink & Outrage: 18th-Century Satirical Prints in London & Dublin
@ Driehaus Museum
50 East Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, September 13th
Canvas, Color, & Vision
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St Chicago, IL 60609
On view through Friday, July 3rd
Emma Rossoff
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
Allen Moore: Chasing what the Water Kept and Wendy Robles & Michael Zhang: Atmospheres of Possibility
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 20th
House of Dov’s Three Generations of Women
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, May 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 21st
everything looks blurry
@ Weatherproof
3336 W Lawrence Ave, Ste. 303, Chicago IL 60625
Opening Thursday, May 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 21st
This Perfect Home Inside of a Mountain Nobody Can See Or Hear You in Here
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Graduate Exhibition Two 2026
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, May 13th, from 5Pm - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, May 20th
Hidetaka Suzuki: Breathing
@ Ackerman Clarke
2544 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Urban
@ Art of Gallery
747 S Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, July 1st
your hiding place isn’t water-tight
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave FL 3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 21st
Recursive Island
@ SPACE 01
4850 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, May 19th
50 Zines By Nathan Pearce 50 Zines By Matthew David Crowther
@ See You Soon at Kimball Arts Center
1757 N Kimball Ave, Studio 203C, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 4PM - 10PM
Seeds of Resilience – Closing Reception & Walkthrough
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 2 PM - 4 PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Good Trouble: Ben Blount + Catherine Jacobi Artists Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 East Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 6th
Vanessa Filley: Flying Kites in a Windless World
@ OS Projects
601 Sixth St, Racine, WI 53403
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, July 11th
HOME: Art of Architecture Everywhere
@ Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, June 7th
Watching the Weather: TWISTERS (2024) introduced by Rebecca Ewert
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 12:30PM - 2PM
Film Screening: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
@ Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 11:30AM - 1:30PM
Spring Makers’ Market
@ Robert's Westside, Table & Lain, Brown Cow, and 7410 Madison
Madison Street, Forest Park, IL 60130
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 11am - 4PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Convergence
@ CAPE Gallery
1010 W 35th St, suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 11AM - 2PM
On view through Wednesday, April 29th
Isaac Couch: The Blue Works, closing reception
@ compound yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, Il 60302
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Lois Baron: REAL ILLUSIONS, Closing Reception
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Floating Gardens of the Chicago River and México
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Sunday, October 4th
Paradise Lost II: A Conversation between Sculpturelandia and Dennissa Young
@ Yes Project Space
3705 W Division Street
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 20th
Public Exhibition Tour of Oren Pinhassi: Into Your Arm’s Length
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 9th, from 1:30PM - 2:30 PM
Plumbing the Depths: An Evening of Performance Art
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60618
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE (2022) with filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills
@ The Block Cinema
1920 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Mercury in Reggaeton book launch
@ 18th Street Casa de Cultura
2057 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 8th, at 7PM
COLORS AWAKEN IN OPEN WINDOWS
@ Ukrainian National Museum
2249 W Superior St., Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 7 PM - 10 PM
On view through Sunday, May 31st
Side Yard Sounds presents: ABEEKU + inga
@ compound yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
After we let go
@ crosswalk
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 29th
OVER BY THERE: ALL THINGS CHICAGO
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, June 1st
ChiArts Senior Showcase 2026
@ Patient Info + El Schomburg
902 N Western Ave and 2538 W Division St Chicago IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 16th
The Observed & The Imagined: Closing Reception
@ 6311arts
6311 N Clark St, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Friday, May 8th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, May 8th
Bookstand 2125 by Matriarchal Design Futures Lab
@ Chicago Women's History Center
Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Ave, Suite 403, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 23rd
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Graduate Exhibition Two 2026
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, May 20th
Wild Thing
@ Circle Contemporary Chicago
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 10th
Cherin Kim: Union of Two [이성지합]
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted Street Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 6th
Jeffrey Thiede: Familiarly Surreal
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 8th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 6th
IN THE WAVES (2017) with Jacquelyn Mills at AMS Hall
@ Annie May Swift Hall
1920 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Thursday, May 7th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
