June 2025
Holly Hughes: Is Rape a Crime? Lady dicks, lesbian Columbos, and the performance of rage in MAGA’s America
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, June 30th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Matmos with Mukqs and Mrs. Hands
@ Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, June 29th, at 8PM
Kim Nucc1 & AC Diamond: Heart /Time biofeedback rhythms, part ii
@ Watershed Art and Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, June 29th, at 7:30PM
Fifth City Revisited: Rescheduled
@ 6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, June 29th, at 7PM
Nick Chiado & Allegra Harvard: Various Projections
@ Rainbo Club
1150 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, June 29th, at 7PM
Seen & Unseen: Closing Screening
@ The Plan
610 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, June 29th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 29th
OPTION: PAGASA (Chia Amisola)
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, June 29th, from 3PM - 5PM
Artist Talk – Tom Torluemke: Live! On Paper, 1987 – 2024
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Sunday, June 29th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, July 27th
CFA Open House
@ Chicago Film Archives
329 W 18th St, #610, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, June 29th, from 1PM - 4:30PM
Michael Bever Art Open Studio
@ Michael Bever Art Studio
4809 N Ravenswood, Suite 227-D, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Sunday, June 29th, from 12 PM - 6 PM
Alex Ross: Heroes and Villains
@ Dunn Museum
1899 W Winchester Rd, Libertyville, IL 60048
On view through Monday, February 16th
Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Sunday, October 5th
Iván-Daniel Espinosa: MESSENGERS DIVINOS – mycelium, flesh & earthly entanglements
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Saturday, June 28th, at 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 29th
Apologist, Carrie Decunzo, Patrick Gallagher, Itsï Ramirez, Alex York / Nick YS duo
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 28th, at 7:30PM
Comfort Music: Steve Jansen & Ro Lundberg
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Brendan McAlinden: Summer Residency
@ boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 28th
Jane Leipold & Alex Adkinson: FAR DOWN THE PHANTOM AIR
@ SAWHORSE
4222 W Fullerton Ave Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, June 28th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, August 24th
Life Without Buildings
@ Hans Goodrich
1747 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 9th
Art for the Sole 2
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 9th
CGDC Faculty 2 Release Party
@ The Rodam Social Club
4923 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 4PM - 9PM
Homeroom’s Summer Salon: Party + Fundraiser
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 3PM - 6PM
DUSK: A Marathon of Performances, a Sunset Ceremony, and a Party to Honor the Closing of Links Hall.
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 9:30AM - 12AM
Bridging The Divide: Making and Mending | A Conversation about Arts and Disability
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 2PM - 4PM
Community Day featuring ¡Anímate! Studio and DJ Stain
@ Overton Public Outdoor Plaza
4927 S Indiana Ave, Chicago IL 60615
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, November 14th
Mond(e): 月亮代表我的心 – Performance Installation in Collaboration with Diego Campos
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 5PM - 7PM
more waiting, just a little closer: Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, August 3rd
CAKE 2025
@ The Irish American Heritage Center
4626 N Knox Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Saturday, June 28th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, June 29th
Contemporary Drawings from the Stenn Family Collection
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, September 15th
Soleil
@ De Dualle Gallery
2202 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 28th
Britt Ransom: Numbers Game
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, August 1st
2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas and Jacinda Bullie’s “FILLINZ, Put Some Respect on It!”
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, June 27th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 28th
Mariposa Divina: La Basurita
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, August 1st
Poems While You Wait & Leatherbound Lit Poetry
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago IL, 60626
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
Katsitsionnni Fox: KANENON:WE (ORIGINAL SEEDS) 2024
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Freedom From and Freedom To
@ Chicago Justice Gallery
1344 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Vanessa Damilola Macaulay: Breathing Race into the Machine
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Queer Impressions: Experimental Approaches to Print
@ Ohklahomo
2518 W Iowa ST , Chicago, IL, 60622
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 27th
Elise Blair Bagnoli: Movement in The Walls
@ Matthew Heberlein Contemporary
5 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60602 For entry call 832 4834911
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
Seuil Chung: I See Ghosts
@ Lillstreet Art Center, Annex Gallery
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Monday, June 30th
Artist Led Gallery Tour: Living Without the Gods
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Comfort Music: Heavy Tiny // Nick Noise and RYN
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, June 26th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Art of Science: Simulating and Photographing the Universe
@ Parlour & Ramp Gallery
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, June 26th, from 7 PM - 10 PM
Rosalyn Deutsche
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, June 26th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Under the Sun, As it Were
@ Watershed Art and Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, June 26th, from 5PM - 9PM
Quimby’s After Hours: Raging Oposum
@ Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, June 26th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Tone Glow Presents “The Place Between Our Bodies”
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 25th, at 7PM
Weaving Community
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, June 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
Werk: Chicago’s Premiere Queer Comedy Show
@ The Lincoln Lodge
2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, June 25th, at 7:30PM
Still Here: Poetry & Solidarity
@ National Public Housing Museum
919 S Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, June 25th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
PCRV, Viator, Diagram A, Horaflora, Dan of Earth
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, June 24th, at 8PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, June 24th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Coleman Smoll: Guiding Light
@ Cloudwalk
875 N Michigan Ave 94th floor, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Thursday, April 30th
PUNKS 4 PALESTINE
@ Nabala Cafe
4660 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Monday, June 23rd, from 8PM - 11PM
Field Notes Film Festival
@ Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Monday, June 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
Wafaa Bilal
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, June 23rd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
CGDC June Social Hour
@ Lincoln Park
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Opening Monday, June 23rd, from 6 PM - 8 PM
Imagine, Create Activate! Chicago 2025
@ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
On view through Wednesday, June 25th
2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Dani Oblitas’ “Un/Rerooted” & Selena Lasley’s “TIMEShit”
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, at 7PM
On view through Thursday, June 26th
returning: Leana Allen, Sofía Gabriel, Jordan Knecht, Farah Salem
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 22nd
TRANSVENGENCE VOL. 8: LIBERATION BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
@ Podlasie Club
2918 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, from 7PM - 10:30PM
Born Secret (Cash for Kryptonite)
@ 6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, at 6:30PM
Octavia Butler’s – The Evening the Morning and the Night
@ Front Porch Arts Center
5851 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60644
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, from 3:30PM - 7PM
Medicine for Our Times
@ National Public Housing Museum
919 South Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, at 3PM
OPTION: Sydney Spann
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, June 22nd, from 3PM - 5PM
ON BEING
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago, IL 60618
On view through Saturday, August 2nd
Ruby Greene: Teeth Over Diamonds Hair Over Pearls
@ SPACE.01
2334 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, July 5th
Jan Schrader: Canvas Jazz
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 19th
2nd Taste oÀkójọpọ̀ Presents: The Second Annual Taste of Nigeria, African Art Music Fundraiser Night
@ Connect Gallery
1451 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
ARTISTIC DIALOGUES
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 19th
New Scratchart from Les Scott
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 19th
Tom Pedersen: SUPER SIZED COLORFUL TRAIN PAINTINGS
@ Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 21st
OUR HEAVENLY BODIES
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, June 21st, at 6PM
Martyna Alexander: The Distant Now
@ old friends
3405 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 2nd
Pareidolia
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave #3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 3rd
Opening: The Sticks — New Community Woodshop!
@ The Sticks
350 N Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
Bibiana Saucedo: Dreaming of Pilsen
@ Sentrock Studio
2059 W 18th St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
Art build in support of Trans Liberation March
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 21st, at 6PM
Alex Chitty: Mine
@ PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Carmen Winant
@ PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Master Class: Art 102 | An Artist Roundtable Discussion
@ SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 3PM - 5PM
Electric Psalms: Artist Talks & Closing Event
@ Gallery Wrightwood Logan Square
3325 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, June 21st
Talk | Politics of Poetics: Solmaz Sharif and Wafaa Bilal
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 2 PM - 4 PM
On view through Sunday, October 19th
Laura Larson: Hidden Histories of Photography
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 2PM - 3PM
Forms & Features Community Reading
@ Poetry Foundation
Virtual
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 2PM - 3PM
Lecture: Frida Kahlo—The City, the Body, and the Gods
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 2PM - 3PM
Rosa Barba in Conversation
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, June 21st, at 2PM
Jess Bass: The Lemonade Stand
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 1PM - 3PM
Jazmine.: a lot to be grateful for
@ cam.contemporarie
2233 S Throop St, Studio #920, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, August 16th
Looking Closely at The Indifference of Fire: Gallery Talk
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Fetish Film Forum, Equation to an Unknown (1980)
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
Artist Walk with Alex Wolfe
@ Washington/Wabash
29 N Wabash Ave Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 12PM - 2PM
Cornerstone Panel discussion: Geographies of Belonging: Land, Identity, and Collective Memory
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 12PM - 2:30PM
Alessandro Bo: AL MEDIO DÍA + PRÁCTICAS DEL ANDAR ABOUT NOON + WALKING PRACTICES
@ Pueblo Unido Gallery
6212 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, September 6th
Book & Beats
@ Ogden Park
2210 W Pershing Rd Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 12PM - 3PM
Workshop: Body & Clay – A Workshop on Care and Connection
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 11AM - 1PM
Workshop | Politics of Poetics: Solmaz Sharif
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 11AM - 12:3oPM
Pause: Artist Talk and Closing Reception
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 East Quincy St, Riverside IL 60546
Opening Saturday, June 21st, at 3PM
On view through Saturday, June 21st
