January 2026
Anju Lukose-Scott | Horizon Lines: Imagining Potentiality
@ CWAC Exhibitions
5540 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, January 23rd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
RE:ALIZE Artist Panel & Closing Reception
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th Street, Suite 697 Chicago, IL 60609-1401 United States
Opening Friday, January 23rd, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, January 24th
2026 Clothing Swap
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Thursday, January 22nd, from 1PM - 4PM
The Young Lords Speak: Conversation and Celebration
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, January 21st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, February 8th
Blood Drive
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, January 18th, from 5PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, January 18th
Bomba Performance at DePaul School of Music
@ Murray and Michele Allen Recital Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center
2330 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, January 18th, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, February 8th
Michael Ireland: Different Strokes
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, January 18th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Wednesday, February 11th
Sturtevant: Ecce Homo
@ SHANGHAI SEMINARY
3262 S Morgan St, Sto, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, January 17th, from 3PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 7th
The Uncivil Canvas: Art in the Age of Discord
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, January 17th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, February 14th
Stable
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave
Opening Friday, January 16th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, March 1st
to see and be seen
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Floor #2 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 16th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, March 1st
Project Onward’s Annual Clearance Show
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, January 16th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Tuesday, February 17th
Ellen Berkenblit: Lines Roar
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, January 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 28th
Imagination Doctors
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, January 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 21st
Goldilocks Moment
@ SoNa Chicago Art Gallery
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, February 7th
No More Parades: Interrupted Joy
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave. Chicago, Il 60605
Opening Friday, January 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 31st
Brian Calvin, Maureen Gallace, Diane Simpson
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, January 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 28th
Lui Shtini: Capo Testa
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, January 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 28th
Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund: Mov Gïele | My Voice
@ Swedish American Museum
5211 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, January 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 12th
Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of DC Punk Fanzines John Davis in Conversation with Liz Mason
@ Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 16th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Alex Tatarsky: Sad Boys in Harpy Land
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, January 15th, at 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, January 17th
Art After Work: IAM crafting
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, January 15th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Drink & Draw: New Year’s Resolutions with Meg and Avery
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, January 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
Something in the Air
@ O'Connor Art Gallery
7900 Division St, River Forest, IL 60305
Opening Wednesday, January 14th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, February 18th
DEI: Legal Information for Arts Organizations
@ Lawyers for the Creative Arts
Online
Opening Wednesday, January 14th, from 1PM - 2:30PM
Chris Strong and Grant Newman
@ Lula Cafe
2537 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, January 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
Sherwin Ovid: What is the Poesis of Dis-Possession? Cartographies of Spirit and Signal
@ UIS Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza, VPA 62, Springfield, IL 62703-5407
On view through Thursday, February 19th
Collaboration in Progress: Normal Editions Workshop at 50
@ University Galleries
University Galleries 11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL 61761
On view through Wednesday, March 25th
Chantal Danyluk: Uncanny Valley
@ Harold Washington Library Center 8th Floor
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
On view through Sunday, March 29th
‘E’ LAUNCH PARTY – A Book Release Celebration!
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Sunday, January 11th, at 7PM
Tongji Philip Qian: if i may (my favorite is TEN SECONDS YUNNAN RICE NOODLE)
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, January 11th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, February 22nd
New Year’s Clothing Swap!
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, January 11th, from 1PM - 4PM
Seasides, Decides: A Play in Six Acts by Jesse Malmed
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, Il 60302
Opening Sunday, January 11th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, January 24th
Juicy After Dark
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, January 10th, from 8PM - 1am
Elastro: Andrea Parkins/ Eliad Wagner, Zouning Anne Liao
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, January 10th, at 8PM
Collin Leitch: The Darling Maneuver
@ Twelve Ten Gallery
1104 West Thorndale Ave., Chicago IL 60660
Opening Saturday, January 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, February 14th
Imagining Tomorrow
@ Forum 301
301 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, January 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, February 14th
Annabel Wolf: WOLF
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Opening Saturday, January 10th, from 3PM - 6PM
Brian Dettmer: In·Formation: Artist Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 East Quincy Street, Riverside, Illinois 60546
Opening Saturday, January 10th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, January 24th
Leah Ke Yi Zheng: Change
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, January 10th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 12th
Jigging Green / Luring Bad
@ Watershed Art and Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, January 10th, from 2PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, January 31st
Creative Space Grand Opening at Douglass
@ Douglass (Anna and Frederick) Park
1401 S Sacramento Dr, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, January 10th, from 1PM - 4PM
Revolutions/Resolutions
@ The Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, January 10th, from 1 PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, February 8th
Emily Lindskoog: Sediment
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
2233 S Throop, 4th Floor, #419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, January 10th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, February 21st
Family Day | Myths and Legends
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, January 10th, from 11AM - 3PM
Family Day: In with the Old
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, January 10th, from 10AM - 1PM
CLEAT Series: Lia Kohl, Big Pal / The Little Streams / Stephan Moore
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, January 9th, at 8PM
Eleonora Bilinska: MY TRIBUTE TO THE CREATOR
@ Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago
2249 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, January 9th, at 7PM
Fork Arts Festival for Prision Abolition
@ Not Not
3950 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, January 9th, at 6:30PM
On view through Saturday, January 10th
Eseosa Edebiri: bitterSWEET
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St., Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, January 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 31st
Unrealism: The Art of Hauptschein, Stone, and Vandever
@ Water Street Studios
160 S Water Street, Batavia, IL 60510
Opening Friday, January 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, February 7th
Violating Community Guidelines
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St Unit 845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, January 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 31st
Housewarming
@ Elise Seigenthaler Gallery
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 9th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 21st
Bias Cut
@ Hans Goodrich, Chicago
1747 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, January 9th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 22nd
Conor Stechschulte: Crepusculine: Closing
@ Quimby's Bookstore
1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 9th, from 5PM - 7PM
Spaces for People, Systems for Spaces
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 9th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 21st
From Its Own Ashes
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
1431 W Hubbard St, Suite 201 Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, January 9th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, January 29th
Jimmy DeSana, Paul Mpagi Sepuya
@ DOCUMENT
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, January 9th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 21st
Mary Lou Zelazny: Rendezvous
@ Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, January 9th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, February 7th
XINGYI ZHAU: Frameworks
@ Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, January 9th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, February 7th
Herman Aguirre: El calor de las hojas
@ Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, January 9th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, February 7th
Barnacles (I love art and art loves me [today we rob Peter, tomorrow we pay Paul])
@ Weatherproof
3336 W Lawrence Ave, #303, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, January 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, February 22nd
Hail Mary Closing Reception
@ Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago IL 60612
Opening Thursday, January 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, January 9th
Screening of Final Obscura by James Fotopoulos & Performance by Billion Children
@ KIOSK
3054 N Sheffield Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, January 4th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
On view through Sunday, January 25th
