March 2026
Lauren Lee McCarthy Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, March 31st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Oren Pinhassi: Into Your Arm’s Length
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, March 31st, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, August 8th
Occult Chemistry
@ Chicago Danztheatre
1650 W Foster Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, March 28th, from 10am - 1PM
On view through Sunday, March 29th
Screen Test
@ Roman Susan at PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Saturday, March 28th, at 7PM
Promise(d)
@ Evoke Gallery
3040 N Central Ave, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Saturday, March 28th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Yvonne Doll and Victoria Loeb: The Observed & The Imagined
@ 6311arts
6311 N Clark St, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Saturday, March 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
The Observed & The Imagined
@ 6311arts
6311 N Clark St, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Saturday, March 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 26th
Amy Pearl Lang: CASTLE
@ SAWHORSE
4222 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, March 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 17th
Cheryl Pope: ALL THERE IS
@ moniquemeloche
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 28th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 16th
27th International Open – Closing Reception & Walkthrough
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, March 28th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, March 28th
Hyphen- Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 28th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, April 19th
Wealth Manifestation Art Show
@ C.F.HQ Phigital Art Gallery
1432 W Irving Paer Rd, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, March 27th, from 6PM - 1130PM
On view through Saturday, April 4th
still pouring: 2026 BA Thesis Exhibition
@ Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, March 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 19th
Inaudible Cities: A Hybrid Soundwalk Between Here and Now, There and Then
@ Downtown Chicago
190 S LaSalle St, Chicago IL 60603
Opening Friday, March 27th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Jonas LeRiche: The Art of Becoming
@ Hilton Contemporary | River North
716 N. Wells St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, March 27th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, June 1st
Conversations at the Edge | Volcanoes, Mountains, Forests: Malena Szlam and Jiayi Chen
@ Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, March 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
Jess Atieno: Sightlines, Ghosts, and Other Stories of the Impossible
@ Arts + Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL, 60637
Opening Thursday, March 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 25th
Tell Me What You See
@ Madron Gallery
1000 W North Ave, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, March 26th, from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
On view through Friday, June 12th
Chicago Premiere: Paint Me a Road Out of Here
@ DePaul School of Cinematic Arts
243 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60604
Opening Wednesday, March 25th, from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
JJJJJerome Ellis Performance Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, March 24th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Community Through Collage II
@ Chicago Billiard Cafe
5935 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Sunday, March 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 17th
Andrew Zarou: Waves of Return of Waves
@ Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, March 22nd, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 25th
Taj Matumbi: The Lower World
@ Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, March 22nd, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 25th
The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living- Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, March 22nd, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, April 19th
The Future of the Visualist
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, March 22nd, from 11:30AM - 1PM
No One Held To Answer
@ SPACE 01
4850 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, March 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 18th
Instructions for Care
@ Gallery Wrightwood Logan Square
3325 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, March 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Humidity Studies｜思／私度研究
@ M House
800 W 27th St, Floors 2–3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, March 29th
Ethical Managers Make Their Own Rules
@ Bodenrader
1620 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, March 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 2nd
Pareidolia
@ ShadowBoxX Gallery
116 Washington St. Waukegan, IL 60085
Opening Saturday, March 21st, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 11th
Reggie McFly: Everyday People
@ Parlour and Ramp Gallery
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 21st, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, April 13th
DJ SKID LICIOUS
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL, 60657
Opening Saturday, March 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
The 2nd Annual Shaping Change Facilitator Festival
@ Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, March 21st, from 9AM - 2PM
On view through Saturday, March 21st
Cornelia Arts Building March 2026 Open Studios – Day Two
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, March 21st, from 12 noon - 4 PM
On view through Saturday, February 21st
For The Art Of It All! Newspaper Launch Party
@ Lot'sa
4150 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, March 20th, from 7PM - 9PM
Reclaimed: Works In Clay
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, 4th Floor, 60609
Opening Friday, March 20th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, April 11th
World Play III
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, March 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 18th
Two Summers on Hayes Avenue
@ Roman Susan at Institute of Cultural Affairs
4750 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago IL 60640
Opening Friday, March 20th, at 6PM
Hunter Whitaker-Morrow and Johan Samboní: Low Resolution: Can’t See You
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, March 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 2nd
For the World to Come
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 20th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 10th
Material Inquiry
@ The Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, March 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, April 9th
My Good Hoe as It Bites the Ground Revenges My Wrongs, and I Have Less Lust to Bite My Enemies
@ Point Blank
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, March 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 3rd
Cornelia Arts Building March 2026 Open Studios – Reception Night
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, March 20th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 21st
Janny Baek: Life Forms
@ joymachine
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, March 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 2nd
Vida Sačić: Self-Evident
@ Chicago History Museum
1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, March 19th, from 7 PM - 8:30 PM
On view through Tuesday, March 31st
Art After Work: IAM crafting
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, March 19th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
An Ecstatic Evening
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, March 19th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Chicago Poetry Center’s March Blue Hour Featuring April Gibson and Mira Cameron
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, March 18th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Hungry Hill: A Film by Mieke Vannechelen and Michael Holly
@ John David Mooney Foundation
114 W Kinzie St, Chicago IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, March 17th, from 5:30PM - 9PM
Earth Tomes
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, March 15th, at 7PM
On view through Sunday, March 15th
*Footnote
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, March 15th, from 2PM - 4PM
Carrie Gundersdorf: Junonia
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, March 15th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 2nd
Carriage
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, #3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 3rd
Sentrock Print Release + Closing Reception
@ Joy Machine
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, March 14th, from 5PM - 7PM
Imagining Tomorrow – Closing Reception
@ Forum301chicago
301 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, March 14th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 14th
Salon Show
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St. #845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 14th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, March 30th
Waves: Up From Here
@ Beverly Phono Mart
1802 W 103rd St, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, March 14th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, April 25th
7th annual Women’s History Month Symposium!
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, March 14th, from 10:30am - 12PM
Matthew Herriot: Surface Veil
@ boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, March 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 18th
Essence Exhibition – Closing Reception and Artwork Sale
@ ShadowBoxX Gallery
116 Washington St, Waukegan, IL 60085
Opening Saturday, March 14th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 15th
Abigail Pixler: In View of Her
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, April 4th
Cataclysmic Ecstasy and Apocalypse: a Presentation of Drawings
@ UIC 5th Floor Gallery
400 S Peoria St, 5th Fl, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, March 13th, from 7 PM - 10 PM
On view through Sunday, March 15th
Glory! Glory! Salon Talk
@ Zhou B. Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, March 13th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, March 20th
Interval: Portraits Thus Far
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, March 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, June 1st
The Threshold Varies
@ Circle Contemporary Chicago
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, March 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 24th
RBHS AP Art Exhibition
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Friday, March 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 11th
RAC Teaching Artists
@ Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace
32 East Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Friday, March 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 11th
Creativity Fest Community Art Exhibiton
@ Riverside Arts Center at the Town Hall
27 Riverside Rd, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Friday, March 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 11th
Alix Anne Shaw: Immortality
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL
On view through Saturday, April 4th
13-Year Anniversary Group Show
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 19th
Kikù Hibino: OFF.Manual
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, 60608
Opening Friday, March 13th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 14th
Luna Prysiazhniuk: Exposed
@ Chicago Grand Gallery
2842 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 3rd
HANDS ON A HARDBODY: THE DOCUMENTARY (1997) in 16mm
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, March 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
Disappearing Acts: A Sonic Response- Gallery activation
@ Chicago Justice Gallery
1344 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, March 12th, from 7 PM - 9:30 PM
On view through Friday, August 7th
Duplexes
@ Weatherproof
3336 W Lawrence Ave, #303 Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, March 12th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 26th
We Call Each Other
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, March 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
Embodying the Spirit
@ The Checkout
4116 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, March 11th, from 6PM - 10 PM
On view through Thursday, March 12th
The Power of Her Voice: Native Matriarchs Leading Change
@ Elgin Community College Jobe Lounge
1700 Spartan Dr, Elgin, IL 60123
Opening Wednesday, March 11th, from 11am - 1PM
On view through Wednesday, March 11th
Imagining Tomorrow – Closing Reception
@ Forum301chicago
301 W Ohio St Chicago, IL 60629
Opening Wednesday, March 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
Robin Wall Kimmerer Virtual Talk
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
online
Opening Tuesday, March 10th, from 6PM - 7:15PM
Hojalata Workshop
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, 5th Fl Rm 5100, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, March 10th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Li Yao: Maldives
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, March 8th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 19th
Can you watch him while I go smoke?
@ Locker Room
2320 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, March 8th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Tuesday, March 17th
DIBS
@ ROTOFUGI
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, March 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 7th
Botanical Readiness
@ GAG
3528 W Fulton Blvd, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, March 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 3rd
Jesus Monsivais & Scott Mossman: Dimensions
@ The Saw Room at The Alley Gallery
1712 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, March 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 25th
Sound and Textiles
@ KIOSK
3054 N Sheffield Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, March 7th, from 4PM - 5PM
Jesse Howard: Artist Talk
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, March 7th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, March 28th
The Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists 2026 Annual Members Show
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 7th, from 1PM - 3:30PM
On view through Saturday, March 28th
Night of Ideas: Liberty Enlightening the World
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, March 7th, from 1PM - 8PM
Debra Kayes: I seem to be a verb.
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid
2233 S. Throop St., Unit 419
Opening Saturday, March 7th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 18th
Art Talks! Hamdia Traoré’s “Des marabouts de Djenné”
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, March 7th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
NAEA ECAE: VOICES | Workshop and Reception
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, March 7th, from 10AM - 2PM
On view through Saturday, March 7th
Know what you want to know
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, March 7th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 4th
Rashayla Marie Brown: The End(s) of Suffering
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, 60608
Opening Saturday, March 7th, at 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 14th
Cait Hardie: Meander
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, March 27th
Iris Goldstein: A New Way of Seeing
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, March 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, March 27th
