February 2026
NASHVILLE (1975) in 35mm with Professor Heather Hendershot
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, February 27th, from 6:45PM - 9PM
In the Realm of Senses presents: Myths & Legends
@ Chopin Theatre
1543 W Division St, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Thursday, February 26th, from 8PM - 10PM
Visiting Artist Talk: Leslie Hewitt
@ Northwestern University Department of Art, Theory, and Practice
Kresge Hall 1515, 1880 Campus Dr, Room 1515, Evanston IL 60208
Opening Thursday, February 26th, at 4:30PM
Viva la Vida: Linocuts
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, February 26th, from 10AM - 12PM
Tonja Torgerson: Plant / Person
@ Western Illinois University Art Gallery
Western Illinois University, 1 University Dr, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Tuesday, February 24th, from 430PM - 6PM
On view through Tuesday, February 24th
Mosaic Series
@ Gerber/Hart Library & Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Monday, February 23rd, at 6PM
Soo Shin and Tim Stone: Parallel Acts: A Practice of Staying
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, February 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
Noël Morical and Mat Mancini: Ringleader
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, February 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
Ben Foch: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, February 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
Alexa Viscius: Portraits of People Who Make Music
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, February 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
tether me to the ground or let me float
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, February 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
Forget Me Not
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, February 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
Ross Sawyers Artist Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, February 21st, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 7th
Reclaim
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, February 20th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, April 11th
Curator Walk Through with Donté K. Hayes
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
Perry Pollock: Interplay
@ McHenry County College | Galleries One & Two
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012
Opening Wednesday, February 18th, from 3:30PM - 4:30PM
On view through Friday, February 20th
Norman Teague Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, February 17th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Night School
@ Kiosk
3054 N Sheffield Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, February 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
Winter Torch: A Gathering of Warmth & Resilience
@ Epiphany Center For The Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, February 15th, from 4PM - 5:30PM
Side Yard Sounds presents: Official Claire with Bill Harris and LeRoy Bach
@ compound yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Closing Reception of Hope Is the Last Thing by Rebecca Keller
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
The Closing Reception of How Could We Forget About You by Noel Mercado
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
The Closing Reception of The Language We Create by Chicago Artist Coalition
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
The Closing Reception of Black Female Presence with Shane-Jahi Jackson by guest curator Juelle Daley
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
The Closing Reception of Every Man is an Island by Natasha Moustache
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
The Closing Reception of Jordan Porter-Woodruff’s The Children Play Games
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 14th
Valentine’s Day Pop-up Art Market
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 14th, from 12 PM - 5 PM
On The Same Planet at The Same Time
@ The Beautiful Cat Gallery
1070 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, April 6th
Love Hurts
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 13th
Cori O’Connor: There Are Cracks in Our Souls
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 7th
Nehir Uslu: Holding Space
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 13th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 7th
UNION (2024) with filmmaker Brett Story in-person
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, February 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
SCA Public Program: Paulina Pobocha
@ Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, February 11th, from 6PM - 7PM
Sherwin Ovid: What is the Poesis of Dis-Possession? Cartographies of Spirit and Signal- Reception and talk
@ UIS Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza, VPA 62, Springfield, IL 62703-5407
Opening Wednesday, February 11th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Thursday, February 19th
Valentine’s Portrait Slam!
@ Off Hours Beer Co.
3520 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Wednesday, February 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
Many Times: Performance Afternoon
@ Yes Project Space
3705 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Sunday, February 8th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, February 20th
Bike Winter Art Show 2026
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
Teresa Montoya’s Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years after the Gold King Mine Spill: Opening Keynote
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, June 14th
Silhouette Of A King
@ ELECTRIQSOUL HIDEOUT STUDIOS
216 S Jefferson St. Chicago, IL 60661
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, February 7th
Selena Kearney: Artist Talk
@ Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 1PM - 3PM
The Last Express
@ Chicago Gamespace
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago. IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 11AM - 5PM
Community Day: IAM nourished
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 11 AM - 6 PM
Hilarity Ensues: An Immersive Toaster’s Experience from the Mind of Louis Demarco
@ Open Studio Project
901/903 Sherman Ave, Evanston IL 60202
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 5:30 - 6:30
On view through Saturday, March 28th
Zsófia Ötvös: People
@ CSI projext Space and Gallery
1630 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 7th, at 5PM
On view through Saturday, February 28th
Avant to Live! The Films of Craig Baldwin with guest Brett Kashmere
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
The Dear Road
@ Ukrainian National Museum
2249 W Superior St., Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, February 28th
SWIPE LEFT
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, February 26th
CRAFT : 3rd Annual Black History Month Showcase
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21 St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
Faylita Hicks : The Digital Archives of the Unseen: Poetry and Portraits from the Age of Censorship
@ Walls Turned Sideways
2717 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 24th
CRAFT : 3rd Annual Black History Month Showcase
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 W 21st St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
Primary Pictures
@ crosswalk
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
Multicentered and Reverberating
@ Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago IL 60612
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
Won’t You Celebrate With Me?
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
1431 W Hubbard St, Ste 201, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, March 20th
EROS Returns
@ Chicago Fine Art Salon
2623 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 6th
Ancestral Futures
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 27th
Hai-Wen Lin & Ivan David Ng: Mountain Call
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 14th
Hunter Foster: Involition
@ Good Weather
1524 S Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
On view through Saturday, April 4th
CAUTIONARY TALE : AN INTERACTIVE EXHIBT OF ART BY EVE FLEDERMAN
@ RED JUNE
2020 N LEAVITT ST, CHICAGO, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 6th
“Real shape of the earth”: Short Films with Ben Balcom
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, February 5th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Plans That Did Not Transform
@ National Public Housing Museum
919 South Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, February 5th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
CLEAT Series: Norman Long (Album Release), Regina Martinez
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, February 4th, at 8PM
Artist Talk: Soledad Fátima Muñoz
@ Chicago Justice Gallery
1344 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, February 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
Augmenting the Senses in Art and Medicine
@ Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, February 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
Maria José Murillo: Weaving as a Matrix of Re-existence
@ SAIC
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 66003
Opening Wednesday, February 4th, from 11:15AM - 12:15PM
Stories Sewn
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, Suit 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Tuesday, February 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 20th
Ross Sawyers: The Future Still Isn’t What It Used to Be
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, February 1st, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, March 7th
Eli Williamson: Fellowship
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL, 60201
Opening Sunday, February 1st, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, March 1st
