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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
The fool who knows more than the hero, dragonfruit image belies content
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Comfort Station
2579 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
Materials Obsession: Spoken Word Performance
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Gallery PINK
149 Harrison, Oak Park, IL 60304
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 1:30 - 2
On view through Saturday, April 30th
NO: Works by Chiara No
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SAMUEL
1917 W Division St.
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, May 2nd
Gallery Talk with Einat Amir and Scott J Hunter
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Aspect/Ratio
119 N Peoria Street #3D
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
METAPHYSICAL MEATLOAF: Onsmith + Nudd Talk
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Western Exhibitions
845 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, Illinois 60607
Opening Saturday, April 30th, at 4Pm
Mark Klassen: My Office
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Free Range
3257 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, April 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
Analogues
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, May 19th
SAIC MFA Show
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Sullivan Galleries
33 S State St #7, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 11 AM - 7 PM
On view through Wednesday, May 18th
Nicole Hayden
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Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 7PM - 10PM
Iris Bernblum: Today is a New Day
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Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 6PM - 9:30 PM
On view through Thursday, May 19th
Robert Lostutter | Garden & Amy Feldman | Good Gloom
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Avenue 3rd Floor
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Mutations
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Richard Gray Gallery
875 North Michigan Avenue, 38th Floor
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 1st
Fresh Sheet
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Open House Contemporary
740 N. Ogden, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 29th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, September 1st
Puerto Rican hor d’oeuvres and Poetry Reading
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Corner
2912 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60618
Opening Thursday, April 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 22nd
Conversation: Histories Remixed—Rachel Kushner and James Benning
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60603
Opening Thursday, April 28th, from 6PM - 7PM
Unfolded Opening: Spring Fling!
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Chicago Design Museum
108 N State St, Fl 3rd, Chicago, Illinois 60602
Opening Thursday, April 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 30th
Tom Lichtenheld: How to make a living by making things up: A career of silly pictures and made-up facts
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Columbia College Chicago, Design Department
623 S Wabash, Room 203, Chicago IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 28th, at 6PM
Marshall Brown: ZIGGURAT
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 East Ontario Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611
Opening Thursday, April 28th, at 6:30 PM
On view through Saturday, July 23rd
Sophie Calle (Artist’s Talk)
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
230 S. Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL
Opening Wednesday, April 27th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
our duty to fight
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, Illinois 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 11th
Artist Conversation: Helen Maurene Cooper with Hamza Walker
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\Arts Incubator in Washington Park
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Wednesday, April 27th, at 6PM
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave
Opening Tuesday, April 26th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Between the Ticks of the Watch
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Renaissance Society
5811 S. Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, April 24th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, June 26th
Joyce Owens: Intent as Content
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Cultivator
4636 North Ravenswood, #204, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Sunday, April 24th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Tuesday, April 26th
Susy Bielak / Fred Schmalz: ‘Fourth Horizon’ – Spontaneous Cases of Telepathic Communication
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60660
Opening Sunday, April 24th, from 3PM - 5PM
Fred Fleisher: The Unanswered Question Is the Key to Your Soul
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Stuart & Co. Gallery
2250 W Ohio Street, Chicago IL
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
Light, Sound, Body, Machine
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Defibrillator Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 7PM - 10PM
Continental Divide
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Sidetracked Studio
707 Chicago Avenue, Evanston Illinois 60202
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
THE DANISH GIRL: Screening + Discussion
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Woman Made Gallery
685 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60642
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 1Pm - 4PM
Alternative Cartographies
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60615
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, from 2PM - 4PM
Jordan Martins: Closing Reception and Film Screening at The Nightingale
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ThE MISSION, The Nightingale
1431 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60642; 1084 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 23rd, at 3PM-5PM; 5:30PM
On view through Saturday, April 23rd
Shared History: The SAIC 150th/SSCAC 75th Joint Anniversary Exhibition
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The South Side Community Art Center
3831 S. Michigan Ave.
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 2nd
Erik Salgado: Brick Paintings
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The Egg
alley next to 2214 S Sawyer Ave. First garage on the left
Opening Friday, April 22nd, at 6PM
On view through Friday, May 6th
Corazon Community Services Art Show
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Corazon Art Show
5339 W 25th St. Cicero, IL. 60804
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 22nd
Burnt Generation: Contemporary Iranian Photography
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
Columbia College Chicago 600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 21st, at 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
2016 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition
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Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery
619 S. Wabash Chicago IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 21st, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, May 5th
Outing Queer Fluxus: Geoffrey Hendricks and David Getsy in Conversation
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Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, Illinois 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 20th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
The Arts Club of Chicago presents: Lou Mallozzi
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The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, Illinois 60611
Opening Wednesday, April 20th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Ian Lynam: Heft, Gravy & Swing
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ÄKTA
205 W Wacker Dr, Fl 22nd, Chicago, Illinois 60606
Opening Wednesday, April 20th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30PM
Studio Artist and Curatorial Residency Program Residency Application Workshop
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Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington St., Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Tuesday, April 19th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Educating Artists at Ox-Bow: Gossip, Play, and Magical Technologies
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The Leroy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60603
Opening Tuesday, April 19th, from 4:30PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Voices: Erin Manning
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, Illinois 60607
Opening Monday, April 18th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
John Opera & Adam Scheiber: Liquid Intelligence
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Riverside Arts Center
32 East Quincy Street, Riverside, IL
Opening Sunday, April 17th, from 3PM - 6Pm
On view through Saturday, May 14th
Holy Cow! Look at the size of that thing!
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Beverly Arts Center
2407 W. 111th St., Chicago IL
Opening Sunday, April 17th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, June 3rd
Women at Work: Reconstructing the House Dress
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Corner
2912 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60618
Opening Sunday, April 17th, from 9am - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 22nd
Making Out: Visual & Critical Studies MA Thesis Symposium
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SAIC MacLean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60603
Opening Sunday, April 17th, from 11AM - 3PM
Conversation: Reciprocity Failure – Imagining the Cosmos in Art and Science
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LATITUDE
1821 West Hubbard Street, Suite 207 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 17th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Tatjana Jovancevic & Bill McBride: Closing Reception and Artists’ Talk
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Cultivator
4636 North Ravenswood #204, Chicago, Illinois 60640
Opening Sunday, April 17th, from 2PM - 5PM
Sabina Ott: always repeating is all of living
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Aspect/Ratio
119 N Peoria Street #3D, Chicago IL
Opening Saturday, April 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
No Secret
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LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3rd, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Saturday, April 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 22nd
Making Out Exhibition
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DfbrL8r
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60642
Opening Saturday, April 16th, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 17th
Lauren Spencer King & Hirofumi Suda
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Regards
2216 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago IL
Opening Saturday, April 16th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
Jason Lazarus: The Rickshaw
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Andrew Rafacz
835 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago IL
Opening Saturday, April 16th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
Danny Giles: Lyric
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Andrew Rafacz
835 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago IL
Opening Saturday, April 16th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
Machines Of Loving Grace
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New Capital Projects
3114 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60612
Opening Saturday, April 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Art Forms in Flux
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Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60618
Opening Saturday, April 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Susy Bielak & Fred Schmalz: Fourth Horizon
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Audible Gallery at Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave., Chicago IL
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 22nd
Rebecca George: Turn the Other Eye, A Curated Art Party
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Arts on Elston Gallery
3446 N Albany St
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 6 PM - 11 PM
Your body is a battleground
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Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W. Superior Street, Suite 203 Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 9th
Curator’s Talk with Adrienne Kochman, Ph.D.
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 15th, at 7PM
A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron
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Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago
400 S. Peoria St., Chicago IL
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 16th
Julie Rafalski: Dear Mondrian
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts - The University of Chicago
915 E 60th Street, Chicago IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 5:30PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 24th
David Hauptschein: The Mask Behind the Mask, Color Prints
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Gallery Guidara
Zhou B Art Center (Basement), 1029 W. 35th St., Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Wasteland: Drawings by Hollis Hammonds
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Gallery 2506
2506 N California Avenue Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 20th
Jose Aleman Sasieta: Cherubim and Other Angels
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The Mary-Frances and Bill Veeck Gallery
Catholic Theological Union 5416 S. Cornell Avenue, 4th Floor Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 23rd
Freak Out! Exhibition
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Zhou B Art Center
1029 West 35th Street Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
BONES
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Galerie F
2381 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 1st
Opening: Erika Knerr and Min Ju Kim
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Prak-Sis Contemporary Art Association
16 W. Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 5 PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 3rd
Alexandria Eregbu & Rami George: tide/tithe
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Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60642
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 14th
David Getsy and Omar Kholeif discuss Queer: Artists’ Writings
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Center on Halsted
3656 N. Halsted St.
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 7PM - 8PM
Ripe Leeks: inner life
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Filmfront
1740 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 8PM - 10PM
PHANTASMAGORIA
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The Stolbun Collection
30 North Michigan Suite 1515 Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, April 14th, from 4:30PM - 7PM
Freedom Dreams in an age of mass incarceration
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Pop Up Just Art Gallery 729 Maxwell Street Chicago, IL
729 Maxwell Street Chicago, IL
Opening Thursday, April 14th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Neighborhood Magic Screening
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Ridge Historical Society
10621 S Seeley Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60643
Opening Thursday, April 14th, at 7PM
My Other Car is a Porsche: Aay Preston-Myint Lecture
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Columbia College Chicago
623 S. Wabash, Room 203, Chicago, IL 6005
Opening Thursday, April 14th, at 6:30PM
Voices: Julia Margaret Cameron and Karl Marx: Photography Art and Capital c. 1867
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, Illinois 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 13th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Gallery Tour with Dianna Frid and Nora Epstein
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DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60614
Opening Wednesday, April 13th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
The Bridge
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Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
5850 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL
Opening Tuesday, April 12th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Thursday, May 19th
MCA Talk: Lynne Warren
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 12th, from 12PM - 1PM
MCA Talk: Seth Boustead
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 12th, from 6PM - 7PM
Art Across Oceans
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Kohl Children’s Museum
2100 Patriot Boulevard, Glenview, IL 60026
Opening Monday, April 11th, from 10 am - 12 PM
On view through Friday, April 15th
Elena Ailes: On Being Sessile
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4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago IL
Opening Sunday, April 10th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 7th
10th Anniversary Film & Video Screening Celebration
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Roots & Culture
1034 N. Milwaukee Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, April 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
Iris Bernblum: Struck
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Terrain Exhibitions
704 Highland Ave
Opening Sunday, April 10th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 1st
Organize Your Own: Thread Makes Blanket reading and book release
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Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery
619 S. Wabash Chicago IL 60605
Opening Saturday, April 9th, at 2PM
Opening Reception // Justin Cooper: Wallpapering the Infinite
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Monique Meloche Gallery
2154 W Division Street
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
hArts for Art 7
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LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave 3rd Floor
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Tuesday, April 19th
Echinacea
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Beautiful
1801 S Peoria St
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
Thomas Kong: Be Happy (A Proposal)
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Roman Susan
1224 W. Loyola Ave Chicago, Illinois 60626
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Tuesday, April 26th
Performed in the Present Tense
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Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, Illinois 60208
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 10AM - 5PM
Anthony Romero & Josh Rios: Please Don’t Bury Me Alive!
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, Illinois 60607
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 12:45PM - 2PM
Adam Holtzman: Mirror Darkly
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Alibi Fine Art
4426 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60640
Opening Saturday, April 9th, from 5PM - 8PM
Organize Your Own: Uptown Tour, Concert, and Time of the Phoenix release
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Uptown neighborhood and Carol's Pub
Tour meets at Target, 4466 N Broadway, Chicago IL 60640
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 4PM - 9PM
Rory Scott: Impermanence: Time. Memory. Space. The Universe
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Essentia
2118 North Halsted St., Chicago IL
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
Relocating Techniques, Edra Soto: Open Hours for Latino Art Now
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Corner
2912 N Milwaukee Ave
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 22nd
CHema Skandal: visit Mágico
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Pilsen Outpost
1958 W. 21st Street, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
The Crystalline Regime
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Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago
400 S. Peoria St., Chicago IL
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 9th
Surface Layers
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Samuel
1917 W. Division St, Chicago IL
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 10th
Carron Little: Neighborhood Magic
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Ridge Historical Society
10621 South Seeley Avenue Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 8th
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