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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Puer Aeternus // new work by Todd King & Nicholas Wylie
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ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th St
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, April 30th
Conversation with the Artist: David Leggett
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, April 29th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 29th
R & C Annual Spring Benefit Bash
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave.
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 7PM - 11PM
Scott Horsley: Natural History
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Bert Green Fine Art
8 S. Michigan Ave. Suite 1220, Chicago Il 60603
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, May 18th
Christy Matson: The Sun Doesn’t Show through the Mist until Noon
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Alderman Exhibitions
1138 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 10th
It ain’t over….
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slow
2153 W 21st Street
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 26th
Ear Eater #14: Extravagant Simplicity
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Cathouse
5513 S. Cornell Ave. Apt. #2 Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 8PM - 11PM
We’re All In It Together Now
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Believe Inn
2043 N Winchester Ave, Chicago, IL. 60614
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 26th
Nicholas Cueva: Dolium Volvitur: Art Movements throughout history
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Autumn Space Galley
1700 W Irving Park #207 Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 19th
Contemporary Art and Documentary Practices
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The Renaissance Society
1025 East 58th Street (Swift Hall), Room 310
Opening Saturday, April 28th, from 1PM - 3PM
Erik Peterson: The Middle
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Chicago Artists' Coalition
217 N. Carpenter
Opening Friday, April 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, May 3rd
Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)
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Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street
On view through Saturday, June 9th
Krzysztof Wodiczko: Lecture
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Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Uriel Orlow: Aide-Mémoire
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Presented by the Museum of Contemporary Photography at the Hokin Lecture Hall
623 S. Wabash Ave.
Opening Wednesday, April 25th, at 6PM
Tehching Hsieh Visiting Artists Program Lecture
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
230 S. Columbus Dr.
Opening Tuesday, April 24th, from 5:45PM - 7:30PM
Set Theory, new work by Angela Jerardi & Samantha Rehark
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ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL
Opening Sunday, April 22nd, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 22nd
Hairy Blob
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Ave., Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, April 22nd, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 29th
Celia Weiss Bambara, Kenke, Lage: African Contemporary Dance, Lineage, and New Experiments
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Doukan 7002
7002 N. California, Chicago, IL 60645
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 4:30 PM - 6PM
Spatial Reasoning, new work by Alan & Michael Fleming
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Happy Collaborationists
1254 N Noble St, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, April 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 5th
Beneath the Pavement, Beach
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Document
845 w Washington Blvd 3f, Chicago IL, 60607
Opening Friday, April 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 26th
The T-Shirt Show
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22
6910 Cermak Avenue, Berwyn, IL 60402
Opening Friday, April 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 6th
Columbia College Chicago Interdisciplinary Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition
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Center for Book and Paper
1104 S. Wabash, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, April 20th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, May 18th
Sreshta Rit Premnath
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Tony Wight Gallery
845 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 25th
Matthew Metzger
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Tony Wight Gallery
845 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 25th
Richard Hull / Lilli Carré
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Western Exhibitions
119 N Peoria St, Suite 2A Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, May 16th
Merge Visible
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Prarie Studios
1314 W Randolph Street
Opening Thursday, April 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, April 19th
Surface
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Chicago Art Source Gallery
1871 N Clybourn Ave Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 19th, from 5 PM - 8 PM
On view through Tuesday, June 19th
Adam Blumberg: Boys’ Life
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ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL
Opening Sunday, April 15th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, April 16th
limes and bricks suck pink you tasteless hunk or just limes and brick suck pink or tasteless hunk
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Terrain Exhibitions
704 Highland Ave. Oak Park, IL
Opening Sunday, April 15th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, May 11th
Alison Ruttan: Natural Disaster
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ADDS DONNA
4223 W. Lake, Chicago IL, 60614
Opening Sunday, April 15th, from 4 PM - 7 PM
On view through Saturday, May 12th
Objet Petit Ahh…
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219-21 South Morgan Street, Chicago Illinois, 60608
Opening Saturday, April 14th, from 6PM - 11PM
Newport Room / new work by Paul Erschen
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The Hills
128 N Campbell, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, April 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 29th
In The Spirit of Walser
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Donald Young Gallery
224 S Michigan Avenue
Opening Saturday, April 14th, from 11AM - 5:30 PM
On view through Saturday, May 12th
FLAT 12
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Floor Length and Tux
2332 W. Augusta #3 front
Opening Saturday, April 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 14th
Life Force
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Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 East Quincy St. Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, April 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 18th
Temporal Figuration
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LVL3
1542 N. Milwaukee Ave, 3rd Floor Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Saturday, April 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 13th
Artist Talk: Nina Barnett, Chaz Evans, Kasia Houlihan, Mark Kent, and Brendan Meara
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Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Saturday, April 14th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 14th
Trapped in What I Made Believe
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kasia kay art projects
215 N. Aberdeen St. Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 12th
With Other People With Other Sons
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL. 60622
Opening Friday, April 13th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, April 28th
I can do that
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Variable Space
1564 N. Damen, Chicago, IL, 60622
Opening Friday, April 13th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 27th
In Decay: Stitching America’s Ruins
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Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington
Opening Friday, April 13th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Wednesday, June 20th
Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance
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The Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Ave.
On view through Sunday, July 1st
I Accidentally Turned Off the Sun: 2012 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 4
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Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Friday, April 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 14th
UK/Chicago Performance
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British Consul General's Residence
161 E Chicago Avenue, Apt 61P1
Opening Friday, April 13th, from 7PM - 10PM
I Believe in Nothing, Everything is Sacred
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Judy A Saslow Gallery
300 W Superior St. Suite 103, Chicago, IL
On view through Saturday, May 26th
Stories of Man
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Judy A Saslow Gallery
300 W Superior St. Suite 103, Chicago, IL
On view through Saturday, May 26th
Embody
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Black Cloud Gallery
1909 S Halsted, Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, April 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, April 25th
Jacqueline Hendrickson: WIWWIW
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DOVA Temporary
5228 S. Harper Ave. Chicago, IL 60615, Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12 PM - 5 PM
Opening Friday, April 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 12th
Scott Nadeau: Insignificant Matter
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Defibbulator
1136 N Milwaukee Ave.
Opening Friday, April 13th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, April 21st
It’s Getting Hot in Here
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Chicago Artists' Coalition
217 N. Carpenter
Opening Friday, April 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, May 3rd
Amanda Greive: The Middle
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Chicago Artists' Coalition
217 N. Carpenter Street
Opening Friday, April 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, May 3rd
Learning Ross & Chiara Keeling-Gonzalez: To Die For
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Rainbo Club
1150 N. Damen Ave.
Opening Thursday, April 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, May 2nd
Survival Techniques
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The Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Ave.
Opening Thursday, April 12th, from 4m - 7PM.
Film Screening: “Before Ai Weiwei” and “Enemies of the People”
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The Museum of Contemporary Photography
Hokin Gallery at 623 S. Wabash Ave.
Opening Wednesday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
Caleb Cole: Other People’s Clothes
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ACRE Projects
1913 w 17th Street, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Sunday, April 8th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, April 9th
Joseph G. Cruz: not a fact, still extremely real
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Comfort Station
Comfort Station Logan Square 2579 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 29th
Black, White, Gold
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Hosted by Casualiving
119 N peoria st 3B
Opening Saturday, April 7th, from 7PM - 3AM
On view through Saturday, April 7th
Artist Talk: Jeremy Bolen, Paul Cowan, Marianna Milhorat, and Neal Vandenbergh
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Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Saturday, April 7th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 7th
Catherine Forster: They call me theirs
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Notebaert Nature Museum Chicago
2430 N. Cannon Dr Chicago, Il 60614
Opening Saturday, April 7th, from 11:30AM - 12:30PM
On view through Sunday, May 13th
Katherine Desjardins: A Provisional Proposition
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kasia kay art projects gallery
215 N. Aberdeen St.
Opening Saturday, April 7th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, April 10th
hArts for Art 3
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LVL3
1542 N. Milwaukee Ave, 3rd Floor Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Saturday, April 7th, from 6PM - 10:30PM
On view through Saturday, April 7th
Ground Up, the Infrastructure of Place
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The Bike Room
1109 W. North Shore Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, April 7th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 12th
James Jankowiak: The Profane Illumination
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Johalla Projects
1821 West Hubbard Street, Suite 110
Opening Friday, April 6th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 4th
Art and the Urban Garden: Brad Temkin, Barbara Cooper, Linda Hoffhines
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Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, April 6th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 29th
On Beyond Zebra: 2012 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 3
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Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Friday, April 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 7th
FRESH FAT
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65GRAND
1369 West Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 5th
Hammes/Payne
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NEW CAPITAL
3114 W. Carroll St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 6th, from 8PM - 12AM
On view through Saturday, April 7th
Contributory
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Spudnik Press
1821 W. Hubbard, Suite 302 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 6th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, May 11th
Russell Tyler: Bad Paintings
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EBERSMOORE
350 N Ogden Ave Unit 450E Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, April 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 18th
Print Me a Square
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I Am Logan Square
2644 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 5th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 5th
Effort
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DEFIBRILLATOR
1136 N Milwaukee Ave.
Opening Thursday, April 5th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, April 6th
ASCII 3
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California Clipper (back room)
1002 N. California Ave.
Opening Thursday, April 5th, from 8:30PM - 10:30PM
Marcia Vaitsman, Art as Social Practice: Hospitality
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Doukan 7002
7002 N. California Ave, Chicago, IL 60645
Opening Tuesday, April 3rd, from 7 PM - 8:30 PM
On view through Saturday, April 7th
Artist Residency Panel Discussion
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Michigan Avenue Ballroom
112 South Michigan Avenue
Opening Monday, April 2nd, from 6PM - 8:30PM
David Salkin: Room for Views
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PEREGRINEPROGRAM
3311 W Carroll Ave. #119
Opening Sunday, April 1st, from 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
On view through Sunday, April 29th
Lip Sync Show
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DEFIBRILLATOR
1136 N Milwaukee Ave.
Opening Sunday, April 1st, from 7PM - 11PM
Twenty-Six / new works by Ben Pegram + Chris Semel
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ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL
Opening Sunday, April 1st, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, April 2nd
David Sprecher: FOOL
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Peanut Gallery
1000 N. California Ave., Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 1st, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 28th
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