July 2026
Boy with a Hat: Ed Askew Paintings 2014–2024
@ Soccer Club Club
2923 N. Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, July 31st, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, August 21st
Screen Test
@ Roman Susan at PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Friday, July 31st, from 8PM - 10PM
Knots
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 31st, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, September 20th
Knots
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 31st, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, September 20th
Hao Are You | Free Film Screening
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, July 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
Red Sand Dream: A Solo Exhibition by Amanda Thomas
@ Lots'a Gallery
4150 N Elston Ave, Chicago IL 60618
Opening Friday, July 31st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 29th
Generations of Groove: A Pre-Parade Celebration
@ The Arts Lawn
337 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, July 30th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
The Living Canvas Experience
@ Bramble Arts Loft
5545 N Clark St, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, July 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 8th
VLX 7.4 Experimental Films and Live Sound Response
@ Material
2218 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, July 29th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Daniel H. Hoffman Lecture: Erotic Objects of Everyday Life
@ Flatline Gallery
1925 N Milwaukee ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, July 26th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 2nd
Inhabiting the Fragment: a Poetry and Collage Workshop on Unsettled Territories
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, July 26th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, July 26th
The Future of the Visualist— The Visualist Planning & Working Session
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, July 26th, from 10AM - 12 PM
Side Yard Sounds: An Evening of Improvisation
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 7PM - 9PM
Once Upon a Time Called, Now!
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 East Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, July 25th
the ruins we inherit
@
4901 N Christiana Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, July 30th
Deborah Maris Lader: We Become Birds
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago Il 60603
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, August 29th
Artist Talk for Unsettled Territories
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, July 26th
Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis: A Time-Based Collective Experience
@ 6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 26th
Screening: The Frog and the Water
@ Chicago History Museum
1601 N. Clark Street Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, July 25th, at 1PM
relating or resembling a degree of disorder Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 12PM - 1PM
Randolph Street Market Festival
@ Randolph Street Market
1341 W. Randolph St. Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, July 26th
George Clinton: Mothership
@ MARIANE IBRAHIM
437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Saturday, September 5th
Habitus/Habit(at)
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 8 PM - 10 PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Jesse Bond: OWN WHO YOU ARE
@ SAWHORSE
4222 W. Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 20th
Black and Brown Femme Film Festival
@ Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, July 24th, at 5:30PM
On view through Saturday, July 25th
Artist Talk at SoNa Chicago: Panel Discussion Moderated by Jennifer Armetta, Director, ENGAGE Projects
@ SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, August 1st
SAIC Low-Residency MFA Open Studio Night & Info Session
@ SAIC Galleries
33. E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 4:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
On view through Sunday, July 26th
Art in Transit
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 29th
The Melting Point
@ crosswalk
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, August 2nd
Side Yard Sounds: NadNavillus & ABOLISHVICTORY!
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, July 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
Laleh Motlagh: The Jade
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, July 19th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 20th
Ethan Shay-Cowell: Dog Kicking in its Sleep
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, July 19th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 20th
SAIC Diploma Pickup! Reminder. by Benjamin Holmes
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, July 19th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 20th
Medley by LATITUDE
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, July 19th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 20th
Means of Production by LMRM
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, July 19th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 20th
Max Li: Temple Toys
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, July 19th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 20th
AMERICAN HISTORY QUILTS: Dorothy Straughter
@ Fourth Presbyterian Church
126 E Chestnut St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, July 19th, from 11:15am - 12:15PM
The Sound and the Fury book-release at Tangible Books
@ Tangible Books
3326 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 18th
PBS Spice Road Live at SAI
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, July 18th, at 7 PM
ORGANGRINDER
@ M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, Il 60647
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 29th
Anatomy of Habit Paired Sentinels Record Release
@ Twelve Ten Gallery
1104 West Thorndale Ave, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 6PM - 9PM
This is Hell! Radio presents THIS IS ART! ’26
@ Cary's Lounge
2251 W Devon Ave, Suite 201, Chicago, IL 60659
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Artist Talk: Beyond What the Eye Beholds
@ Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th Street Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, September 13th
The People’s Cup: Futbolito for the Arts. Foosball Tournament and CAD Fundraiser.
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, July 18th
Jordan Martins: On the Forest Floor | Sound Performances
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
2233 S Throop St, 4th Floor, #419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, August 8th
WORKROOM: Artist Open Studios
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, suite 697, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, August 28th
Steve ‘Stingo’ Badauskas: CROSSROADS
@ Inside Town Art Collective
1954 S. Troy St. 3rd Fl, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 7 PM - 11 PM
On view through Friday, August 14th
Yang Mai: HOLD ME IN YOUR ARMS
@ Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th Street Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, August 16th
My Little Pictures: A James Hall Exhibition
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, 4th Floor, 60609
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, September 5th
After the Flood
@ Flatline Gallery
1925 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
On view through Sunday, August 2nd
AMBIGUOUSLY GAY AMYGDALAS
@ Co-Prosperity (Co-Pro)
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 24th
West Fest Chicago
@ Chicago Avenue between Wood and Damen
1800-2000 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 19th
Selina Trepp: unprofessional practices
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle #103, Normal, IL 61761
On view through Saturday, October 3rd
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – CreatiVets Annual Show
@ LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 9AM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, July 19th
What the Eye Beholds
@ Zhou B Art Center
1029 W 35th Street Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 13th
PO Box Poetry Series
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Thursday, July 16th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Artist Talk | Maya Nguyen
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave #420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, July 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
Speaking Backwards
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Thursday, July 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, August 16th
Artist Talk: Maya Nguyen
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave Suite 420 Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, July 16th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, July 31st
Art After Work: Drawing with Metal
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, July 16th, from 5 PM - 8 PM
Shannon Harris and Jewel Hale: LCCA Fertilizing Freedom, Eardrums and Easels, Exploration of Synesthesia in Sound & Visual Art
@ Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, July 16th, from 4PM - 6PM
Aurora Film Society present: The Red Violin
@ The Venue
21 S Broadway Ave, Aurora, IL 60505
Opening Wednesday, July 15th, from 6:30PM - 10PM
6311arts Workshops: Marks of Art
@ 6311arts
6311 N Clark St, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Wednesday, July 15th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
Chicago Arts Census: Virtual Town Hall
@ Chicago Arts Census
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 15th, from 3PM - 5PM
Housing is the Cure
@ Movement on Montrose
2951 W Montrose Ave, Chicago IL 60618
Opening Wednesday, July 15th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Thursday, September 10th
Postponed: Painting, Land, Friendship: Carolyn Castaño and Arnold J. Kemp
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, July 14th, at 6PM
The Future of the Visualist— The Visualist Planning & Working Session
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, July 12th, from 10AM - 12:30PM
Dhrupad Immersion: Pandit Uday Bhawalkar Live at SAI
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, July 11th, at 7PM
Side Yard Sounds: The Singleman Affair Orpheatric Folk Series
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, July 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Spaces We Create
@ Inside Town
1954 S Troy St, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, July 11th, from 7PM - 12am
On view through Saturday, July 11th
Vicinity 2026
@ Perspective Gallery
1310 1/2 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, July 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, July 26th
Pro/Fuse
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, July 11th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, August 13th
Ed Kashi’s Photos from Too Hot To Work Closing Reception
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 11th, from 3PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 11th
Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, July 11th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 11th
Cindy Bernhard, Larissa Borteh, Mark Ottens, Tom Torluemke, and Frank Trankina: What’s The Story Artists Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, July 11th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, July 25th
Home Grown Vol. 3
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, 60622
Opening Saturday, July 11th, from 12 PM - 5 PM
On view through Sunday, September 6th
Slow Look: The Vivian Girls
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, July 11th, from 10 am - 11 am
Kindred Spirits: Margaret Wharton and Betsy Odom – Free Curator Talk
@ Lubeznik Center for the Arts
101 W 2nd Street, Michigan City, IN 46360
Opening Saturday, July 11th, from 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
On view through Sunday, October 25th
Yurii Bandera: City and Silence
@ Ukrainian National Museum
2249 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 7 PM - 9 PM
On view through Thursday, August 6th
Side Yard Sounds: Wick-Sugimoto-Corsano
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 7PM - 9PM
Wanderland
@ Joy Machine
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
On view through Saturday, August 22nd
Suzy Poling: Systems of Impermanence: Entropy as Impetus for Patterns in Ecological Transformation
@ Zg Gallery
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 29th
Painters’ Painters
@ SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 22nd
Wild Thing, closing reception
@ Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 10th
Flag Feast
@ O'Hare International Airport
Hall of Flags, Terminal 3
On view through Wednesday, September 30th
JOHN BUCK: Mont Blanc on Wood
@ Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St #1e, Chicago, IL 60654
On view through Saturday, August 8th
RETURN TO RETURN
@ HARD RETURN
410 S Michigan Ave #306, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 5PM - 9M
On view through Wednesday, August 5th
Audrey Yang: Sanctuary As Method
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 31st
Ruti Modlin : Saltwater Lullabies
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 31st
Melanie P. Brown: Driving My Meat Machine: Flight Fantasies
@ ARC Gallery
1463 West Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 31st
Heat of the moment
@ Parlour and Ramp
2130 w 21st Street. Chicago,IL,60608
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 1st
Yuliya Klochan: Not a Patient Woman
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 8th
Cash Only: An Ode to Dive Bars group show
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, August 14th
Mia Capodilupo: Hybrid Infestation
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, August 8th
Teen Artist Studio Reception
@ CAPE Gallery
1010 W 35th Street, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Thursday, July 9th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, July 9th
Límites Que Respiran
@ KIOSK
3054 N Sheffield Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Thursday, July 9th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 26th
City of Lost Souls | Free Film Screening
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, #420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, July 7th, from 6PM - 8PM
Free Classical Concert: Rush Hour Concerts Every Tuesday
@ Holy Name Cathedral
735 N State St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, July 7th, from 5:15PM - 6:45PM
On view through Tuesday, August 18th
