October 2026
IAM haunting: A Halloween Artmaking Workshop
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 31st, from 2 PM - 4 PM
Conversation Piece: Rebekah Israel Cross
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, October 30th, from 12:30PM - 1PM
Zombie
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
1431 W Hubbard St, Ste 201, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 30th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, December 10th
Visions May Vary: Reclaiming Mad Cultures
@ Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, October 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
Lecture with Deborah Willis
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography At Columbia College
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, October 29th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Grace Spee: The Feminine Gothic Narrative in Survival Horror
@ Chicago Gamespace
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, October 29th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 20th
Samuel Schwindt: Leather: A Problem of Context
@ Robert F. DiCaprio Art Gallery at Moraine Valley Community College
9000 College Pkwy, Palos Hills, IL 60465
Opening Thursday, October 29th, from 11AM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, December 13th
The Treachery of Biography: The Pitfalls of Writing Artist Profiles and Obituaries – Jori Finkel
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, October 28th, from 4:30PM - 7PM
Sculptural Process Workshop with Gary LaPointe Jr.
@ Kimball Arts Center
1757 N Kimball Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, October 27th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Lessons in (Art Space Accessibility)
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Tuesday, October 27th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Playing Pretend
@ Sculpture & New Media Gallery
15800 S State St, South Holland, IL 60473
Opening Tuesday, October 27th, from 11am - 12PM
On view through Thursday, November 12th
6 Readings
@ Mavra
5338 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago IL 60630
Opening Sunday, October 25th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, November 6th
Iris Bernblum: Palliative Sedation
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, October 25th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, December 2nd
Richard Deutsch and Susan Kraut: The Conversation
@ Riverside Arts Center's Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, October 25th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 28th
Side Yard Sounds: Kouri Hall + Velvet Penny
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 7PM - 9PM
Stacey Lee Gee and markie: ROTATOR PULSE
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 24th, at 7PM
On view through Friday, October 30th
Holding Space: Grounded – Closing Reception
@ Beverly Arts Center
2407 W 111th St, Chicago, IL 60655
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
Retrospective
@ Prairie
2055 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 5th
The Missing Game Warden
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 2PM - 5 PM
On view through Saturday, December 5th
Greater Than the Sum
@ John Michael Kohler Arts Center
608 New York Ave, Sheboygan, WI 53081
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, February 7th
Working Memory, closing reception
@ Saint Xavier University Gallery
3700 W 103rd St, Warde Academic Center, 1st floor, Chicago, IL 60655
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
18th St. Pilsen Open Studios
@ Multiple
Lower West Side between Halsted, Cermak, Western, and 18th St.
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, October 25th
Pretty Good Fest 2026
@ Chicago Athletic Association
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 11am - 6PM
RESISTING THE LONG WAR: Shifting Horizons
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, April 18th
Sewing Do Museum: Opening Weekend
@ Sewing Do Museum
3050 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, October 24th, from 11AM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 25th
THE HAUNTED ART GALLERY!
@ Childhood Fractured’s Phygital Art Gallery
1432 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 7PM - 1130PM
On view through Thursday, October 29th
Once Upon a Time in Vienna
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
The Department of Objects
@ Joy Machine
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
On view through Saturday, November 21st
GLIMPSE
@ Color Club
4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 6th
HOLLY MURKERSON: rough edge
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 28th
NICHOLAS SZYMANSKI: Burnt Mind
@ 65GRAND Project Space
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 16th
Kevin Glass: A Little Song in the Dark
@ Flatline Gallery
1925 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 22nd
Pilsen Open Studios – Kick-Off Party and Fundraiser
@ INDIGO MRKTO
2100 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 25th
Pigmented: Chicago to the World A Black Fine Art Convening
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 11:30AM - 5PM
Fall AIR Open Studio at Kimball Arts Center
@ Kimball Arts Center
1757 N Kimball Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, December 31st
Vital Records
@ Out of Office
3336 W Lawrence Ave, Suite 301, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
Art of Science: Science at Sea: Searching for Signs of Salt
@ Parlour & Ramp
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
Conversations at the Edge | An Evening with Lilli Carré
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Pooja Pittie & Soumya Netrabile in Conversation + Community Dinner
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Leigh Raiford: Lecture in Photography and Book Signing
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Where Are You: Two Films by Camille Billops & Maren Hassinger
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Room 3226, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Modernity in the Making: Eduardo Bello
@ The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 22nd, from 3:30PM - 4:30PM
An Evening with Jim Trainor
@ Chicago Film Society at Constellation
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL, 60618
Opening Wednesday, October 21st, from 8PM - 10PM
The Aurora Film Society Presents: “After Hours”
@ The Venue
21 S Broadway Ave, Aurora, IL 60505
Opening Wednesday, October 21st, from 6:30PM - 10PM
Ronald Rael Lecture
@ Fullerton Hall, The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, October 19th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Minor Gestures and Grammatical Propositions, or One location of the lacunae in which sits the massive capacity for concurrent possibilities of this real: an incomplete field guide to particular subtexts of the magical as articulated in conversation with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of flesh
@ Coming Soon
3701 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Sunday, October 18th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 8th
Carnival Of Souls
@ New View Art Space
122 W Downer Pl, Aurora, IL 60506
Opening Sunday, October 18th, from 4PM - 6PM
Identity Performing Arts 5th Anniversary Gala Performance
@ Edlis Neeson Theater at MCA Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, October 18th, from 3PM - 7:30PM
An O & Their ABC (American Born Cat)
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, October 18th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, November 29th
Architect’s Roundtable 2026
@ Lawndale Pop-Up Spot, Chicago Sukkah Design Festival
3615 W Douglas Blvd, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, October 18th, from 1PM - 2PM
High Score ?
@ Stereo Harmony : Artist Loft Building
2147 S Lumber St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 17th
Tangere
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 6th
Doni Rochelle-Smith: Love Is on the Green Line: A Love Letter to Chicago
@ Fourtune House
4410 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 18th
Thomas Huston: God, Time, and Causality
@ Met him pike hoses
Midland Building, 1500 S Western Ave, Suite 407, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, December 12th
Body – Space – Time: Movement and Coding Workshop by Codemoves
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 2PM - 4PM
Kevin Blake: Sundowning
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, October 17th
Dana DeGiulio & Matthew Girson: Paintings that have the look of paintings that are looked at
@ Material
2025 W Belmont Ave, storefront, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 2PM - 3PM
Closing Reception: Robert Fields: “EVERY NOW N’THEN . . . ”
@ compound yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 17th
OUT IN COLOR: An Intuit Art Museum Activation with playOUT!
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL, 60642
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 1PM - 3PM
Sharon Hoogstraten: Dancing For Our Tribe
@ Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery
201 W 10th St, Lockport, IL 60441
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, March 27th
ESS 40th Anniversary Celebration
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, October 17th, at 8PM
MANA Contemporary Fall Open Studios
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 12PM - 5PM
ebere agwuncha: Woven Vessel Workshop
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, February 28th
Cornelia Arts Building October Open House DAY TWO
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia Ave, Chicago IL 60657
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, October 17th
Marianne Bernstein: Talk to Me
@ Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 12PM - 5PM
Hui-Min Tsen: After Oakenwald. A Field Guide.
@ Roman Susan at Lake Meadows
E 33rd St and S Rhodes Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 17th, at 11AM
Lifestyle
@ Pueblo Unido Gallery
6212 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 11AM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, December 12th
Kind of Representational: Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, November 15th
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Art Exhibition and Online Auction benefitting Center for Story & Witness
@ Online Exhibition and Auction
Online
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 8AM - 12AM
On view through Saturday, November 7th
Documentation Workshops and Open Studios
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 1PM - 3PM
Pleasure Power Portal: A Progressive Performance Experience – Pre Fixe Performance
@ Honey Pot Performance
Location to be disclosed upon ticket purchase
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 25th
Oddball Mini Mart Fundraiser for Project Onward
@ Empty Bottle
1035 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 17th, from 12PM - 5PM
Sounding/BODY: Philomela Fragments with Terns & Ah Young Hong
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, October 16th, at 7PM
A Murmur, A Mutter, A Roar, A Song: Learning the Sounds of the Classroom
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, December 18th
Side Yard Sounds: Peter Maunu & Dave Rempis + Emily Rach Beisel & Michael Zerang
@ compound yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, Il 60302
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
THE MONSTERS ARE COMING. SOME OF THEM ARE ARTISTS.
@ Childhood Fractured's Phygital Art Gallery
1432 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 7PM - 1130PM
On view through Thursday, October 22nd
Hermetic: A Group Exhibition
@ Evoke Gallery
3040 N Central Ave, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
Molly Blumberg: Second Hand
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 27th
Structure in Stature
@ Forum 301
301 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 20th
Jonathan Michael Castillo: Immigrant Owned
@ Oh Art Foundation
3314 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 13th
A Thief in the Night
@ crosswalk
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 6th
Automatic Drawing Workshop
@ Mavra
5338 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago IL 60630
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 6th
Cornelia Arts Building October Open House Opening Night
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia Ave, Chicago IL 60657
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 17th
[color/shift]
@ Filter Space
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 5 PM - 8 PM
On view through Saturday, November 21st
Forever Yours: A Celebration of Tattooing
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 5PM - 9PM
¡TINTA ARDIENTE! : Igniting Community Through Collective Action
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 21st
13th Annual Beautiful Souls Coffin Show
@ Pilsen Arts & Community House
1637 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
Parker Davis: Frame by Frame Animation Basics
@ Mouse Arts and Letters Club
555 W 31st St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Thursday, October 15th, at 7PM
Curator Lecture: Mary Trent on “Cutting and Pasting a World”
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 6PM - 7PM
Anthony Dunn: The Anomaly
@ Dorothea Thiel Gallery
15800 S State St, South Holland, IL 60473-1200
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, November 12th
Mike Rea: Post Wet
@ UIS Visual Arts Gallery
Public Affairs Center (115,) 2200 Ernest Hemingway Dr, Springfield, IL 62703
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
On view through Thursday, November 19th
Lincoln Park Art Night
@ Varios Locations
in Lincoln Park
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Wednesday, November 4th
Beyond the Covers: Gender-Affirming Pelvic Health, One Book at a Time
@ Gerber/Hart Library & Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Alana Ferguson: Follow the Leader, Artist Talk
@ NEIU Fine Art Center Gallery
5500 N St. Louis Ave, Building E, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, October 15th, at 12:15PM
On view through Friday, October 23rd
Jeff Kimmel and Matthew Mallinger: Drone Rodeo Chicago
@ Guild Row
3130 N Rockwell St, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, October 15th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
Alexa Frangos: (Re)arranging, artist talk
@ Perspective Gallery
online
Opening Thursday, October 15th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 1st
Here Is Our Hole In The Ground
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, October 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, November 26th
Professional Development: Effective Exhibition Proposals
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
1431 W Hubbard St, Suite 201 Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, October 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
