May 2022
DANCE PAMOJA CHALLENGE
@ Red Clay Dance Company
Online
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 1:30PM - 2:30PM
33rd Prairie Arts Festival
@ Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts
201 Schaumburg Ct, Schaumburg, IL 60193
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
Maryann Held: Offerings
@ Sideshow Gallery
2219 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, June 16th
Una noche con Susana Zabaleta
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 28th, at 7:30PM
Junli Song: Body Rhythms
@ Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4912 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
On view through Saturday, July 30th
Side Yard Sounds: Hearsay
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Way We See It: A Chicago Zine & Photo Show
@ The Digs Chicago
333 N Oakley Blvd. #305 Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 5PM - 9PM
Kristin Ashley: Nature Spirits
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Marjorie Davidson: Quiet Times: Land & Seascapes
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
NEW WORKS from our 2021 Collective Artists
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Hot Mess!
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave #208 Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 4:20PM - 9:30PM
Together Again – Agitator Pop Up Exhibit and Backyard Barbecue
@ Agitator Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 28th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
Zoe Beaudry: DEEP TIME, GARBAGE MINUTES
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Art Battle Chicago
@ SPIN Chicago
344 N State St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 7PM - 11PM
Nadav Assor & Tirtza Even: Chronicle of a Fall
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 6th
Granite Palombo Amit: THE MOVEMENT FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE NARRATIVE – Exodus and the Divine Humor
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Phil Gayter: MASKERAID
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, July 3rd
A Species of Theft
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 6th
Tigray Art Collective: Wa’ela Exhibition
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
Rick Sindt: Skin Remembers
@ Gallery Victor Armendariz
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
Stevie Hanley: TEMPERANCE
@ Twin
Online
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 12PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, June 27th
Juan Arango Palacios: Amor de mis Amores
@ Jude Gallery
629 West Cermak, Unit 240, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 27th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Jonathan Muecke: Objects in Sculpture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, October 10th
Norman Teague
@ The Art Center Highland Park
1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035
On view through Thursday, July 14th
A is for Albano Artists
@ Jean Albano Gallery
215 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, May 26th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, August 31st
Miniature Marvels: Natural History Through the Looking Glass
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 26th, from 8:45PM - 9:45PM
In Conversation: Artists Devan Shimoyama and Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, and Curator Rikki Byrd
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, May 26th, from 5PM - 7PM
The Guild Complex presents Exhibit B
@ The Chicago Mosaic School
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, May 26th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 8
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, May 26th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
Who Belongs? A Conversation about the Long History of American Identity
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, 60610
Opening Thursday, May 26th, from 6PM - 7PM
Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, May 26th, from 6PM - 7 PM
Released and Abandoned: Forgotten Oddities of the Home Video Era presents: STAR TIME (1992)
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 8PM - 10PM
Smart Reads: Feminism is for Everybody
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 6PM - 7PM
One Night Stand: Charles Williams
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 6:30PM - 7PM
To Render the Infinite: Visual Genealogies of Black Kinship
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
CPS Lives Annual Benefit
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Susy Bielak: Segundo Piso: closing and artist talk
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, May 26th
Chicago Poetry Center’s All Schools Reading 2022
@ The Chicago Poetry Center
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, from 6PM - 6:45PM
VentureCat at Northwestern
@ White Auditorium in the Kellogg Global Hub
2211 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, May 25th, at 6PM
Early LATITUDE Slideshow with Jennifer Keats
@ LATITUDE
Online
Opening Tuesday, May 24th, from 6PM - 7PM
Paul Giallorenzo’s “New Dimensions in Sense-uality”
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Sunday, May 22nd, from 8:30PM - 11:30PM
Break the Siege: Medical Aid for Gaza
@ Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, May 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
Nick Cave and Jack Cave: The Color Is
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Sunday, May 22nd, at 5PM
On view through Monday, May 23rd
BIMBOFICATION SENSATION: Closing reception
@ Povos Chicago
2000 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago IL 60647
Opening Sunday, May 22nd, from 12PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 22nd
Brenda Moore: The Mules of Bray Grove Farm and Other Working Equines
@ Cultivator
202 E Washington St, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Sunday, May 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
Indira Freitas Johnson: A Gathering of Energies, Labor and Love
@ Cultivator
202 E Washington St, Morris, IL 60450
Opening Sunday, May 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
Zarouhie Abdalian: Interregna
@ Haynes
3050 S Haynes Ct, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, June 30th
AfriClassical Futures Series: Elizabeth A. Baker
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 8PM - 11PM
Hyde Park Art & Centered: A Wellness Day
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 11AM - 4PM
BOUNDARYMIND: Community Recording Session
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 2PM - 5PM
Ukraine Crisis: The World is On the Move
@ Addison Center for the Arts
213 N Lombard Rd, Addison, IL 60101
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Wanting It Both Ways: Artist Talk
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, June 4th
LYNX Project: beautiful small things
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Chicago Japan Film Collective: Japanese Style
@ The Logan Theater
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 21st, at 7PM
Megan Finch: Going-To-The-Sun Sounds: Performance
@ Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 4 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, June 4th
Nicole Leung: Untitled (Nicole Leung is too American to be Chinese and too Chinese to be American)
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 2nd
In-between at rest
@ Produce Model
1918 S Canalport Ave. Chicago IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, June 1st
Summer Session 1
@ Mu Gallery
1541 W Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, May 28th
Zarouhie Abdalian: Interregna
@ Haynes Court
1160 W 31st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, June 30th
Bengali Spiritual Songs by Ochin Pakhi
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Premiere of Breaking the Barrier Short Film & Networking Event
@ The Martin
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
INTIMATE SPACES
@ Fulton Market Kitchen
311 N Sangamon St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 21st
Side Yard Sounds: Flux Bikes + Norman Long & Sara Zalek
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
Sergio Gomez: Transfiguration
@ Oh Art Foundation, Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 20th
Domestic Evil III
@ Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, June 17th
Suzanne Rose
@ Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 30th
René Romero Schuler: Reflection
@ Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 30th
One Lawndale
@ Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
Douglas Blvd. & Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 5th
Eseosa Edebiri: Simulated Rainbow & Kimberly Montiel: Veins Darken With Nectar
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
Cecil McDonald, Jr.: The Making Mask
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 20th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, July 2nd
Panel Discussion, Sandra Binion: the beauty of something ripped
@ Alliance Française de Chicago
810 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 3PM - 5PM
Cecil McDonald, Jr.: The Making Mask
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
Paintbrush Ball 2022
@ Revel Motor Row
2400 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 6PM - Midnight
On view through Friday, May 20th
Fantasía Ariel: Plucked
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago IL 60605
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Annette Baksinskas: Meditations on Shape
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 11th
This Way Home
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Terrain Vague: The Promised Land
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, July 10th
Yaismel Alba Garib: smooth and painful
@ Fracas Art Gallery
Mana Contemporary Building, 2233 S Throop St. Studio 601 Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 18th
Ani Afshar: Veiled
@ Guild Room at Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 9th
In Living Color
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL 61761
On view through Wednesday, August 10th
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, May 19th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Nancy Wong: Noble
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, May 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, June 1st
Architectural History as Migrant History
@ The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, May 18th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Artist Talk with John Neff Featuring Eileen Mueller and Walker Blackwell
@ LATITUDE
Online
Opening Wednesday, May 18th, from 6PM - 7PM
Excess | Twilight
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Wednesday, May 18th, at 7PM
Afro-Punk Creator James Spooner in Conversation with Live Musical Performances
@ EMPTY BOTTLE
1035 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, May 18th, from 8PM - 11PM
Farah Salem
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Tuesday, May 17th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, May 26th
Beate Axmann: Sichtverrückt.Lost and Found: Live Performances
@ DANK Haus German American Cultural Center
4740 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Tuesday, May 17th, at 5PM
On view through Friday, May 20th
Toasting the Revolution
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, 60610
Opening Tuesday, May 17th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
OPC Talk: Aki Sasamoto
@ Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, May 16th, at 6PM
A WONDERFul Sunday Service
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 4PM - 7PM
Beyond the Surface
@ Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods
21850 N Riverwoods Rd. Riverwoods, IL 60015
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, May 29th
Neighborhood Memorial for Victims of Police Violence
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N. Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 11AM - 1PM
STUDIO OpenHouse | WY+TCR 2022 Summer Residency Open Call
@ THE cre.æ.tive ROOM
7034 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 11AM - 3PM
Catherine Schwalbe: Flock
@ Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
Joseph Noderer: The Old Same Place
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 25th
Kintsugi Memory Workshop
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Sunday, May 15th, from 10:15AM - 12:15PM
