May 2024
Reflection
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Circle Normal, IL 61761
On view through Sunday, July 28th
Pleiades Series: Kirsten Cary / Gaby Martinez, Kari Watson / Katinka Kleijn
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Sunday, May 19th, at 8PM
Side Yard Sounds presents: Seajun Kwon + Where Were We: Erez Dessel, Beth McDonald and Tyler Damon
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, May 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
Isaac Julien: Young Soul Rebels (1991)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, May 19th, at 4PM
Femme Fest 2024
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, May 19th, from 3PM - 8PM
LiveRANT Resilient Heart Panel Discussion Crumbling Climate: Navigating the Quiet Terror of Earth Destabilization
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, May 19th, from 1PM - 3PM
Closing Receptions for Working Hands, Thick-Skinned, and Instrumental
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, May 19th, from 1PM - 4PM
WNDR Museum Launch Event for Clue Merchandise Collaboration
@ WNDR Museum
1130 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, May 19th, from 12PM - 3PM
Mending workshop with Michelle Hartney
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, May 19th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
Pulp Painting on Handmade Paper with Don Widmer
@ Colvin House
5940 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, May 19th, from 10am - 1PM
Sensory-Friendly Morning
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, May 19th, from 10AM - 11:30AM
What is Seen and Unseen: Mapping South Asian American Art in Chicago
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616
On view through Saturday, October 26th
In the Realm of Senses presents Creation in Motion: Fioritura
@ Salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
Artist Talk with Joseph Josue Mora
@ Yes Project Space
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 8PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
Caro Murphy: Interactive Experience Design
@ Illinois Tech - Hermann Hall
3241 S Federal St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 7PM - 8PM
Two Artists. One Night
@ J. Emmett Studios
5547 N Ravenswood Ave, Studio 302, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 7PM - 10PM
Elastic Arts 6th Annual Benefit
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 18th, at 7PM
50 YEARS OF CHICAGO FILMMAKERS: WOMEN IN THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, May 18th, at 6:30PM
The Art Party, A Benefit for the Evanston Art Center
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St., Evanston, IL, 60201
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
Ayala: Sacred Matriarchs
@ NYCH Gallery
2025 S Laflin St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
Sean Mullins: It’s a hungry will, don’t you think darling
@ Bodenrader
1620 West Carroll Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 29th
Jeff Rivers: The Jeff Show: Closing Reception
@ Black Artists Network
1901 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL, 60622
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
John Maeda and Anijo Mathew: Redefining Design in the Era of AI
@ Illinois Tech - Hermann Hall
3241 S Federal St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 5PM - 6PM
Miranda July: A Woman’s Quest for Freedom
@ Illinois Tech - Hermann Hall
3241 S Federal St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 5PM - 6PM
MARIANA NOREÑA: TERRITORIO CENIZA
@ Murmuration
2846 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 15th
FRUTA MADURA
@ Fluffy Crimes
1760 W Wrightwood Ave Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
agustine zegers: (d)olor atemporal
@ Prairie
2055 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 29th
Pablo Serrano: CULTURAL CONSTELLATIONS
@ PROSPECTUS ART GALLERY
1210 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, July 7th
Sandra Binion: Figure, Painting
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 4PM - 6PM
Marina Abramović: A Journey Through Performance Art
@ Illinois Tech - Hermann Hall
3241 S Federal St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 3PM - 4PM
Walter Hood: Architecture and Urbanism
@ Illinois Tech - Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship
3137 S Federal St, Chicago, IL, 60616
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 3PM - 4PM
ACRE Summer Daze
@ ACRE Projects
2921 North Clark Street Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 3PM - 8PM
Werk: Chicago’s Premiere Queer Comedy Show
@ The Lincoln Lodge
2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 18th, at 7PM
Hebru Brantley: The Art of Representation
@ Illinois Tech - Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship
3137 S Federal St, Chicago, IL, 60616
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 1PM - 2PM
Artist Talk and Exhibition Tour with Antonia Ruppert
@ Harold Washington Library Center
400 S State St, Chicago. IL 60605
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 1PM - 2PM
LIGHT PLAY
@ Buena Vista Projects
10056 S Ewing Ave Chicago, IL 60617
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, May 19th
Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s
@ Chicago History Museum
1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Friday, June 28th
Deem Symposium | Designing for Dignity 02: A Convening of Possibilities
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 10AM - 6PM
Who Loves the Sun?
@ Tala
1644 W Chicago Ave #1, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 10AM - 6PM
WBEZ Presents: Mortified Live – Summer Vacation
@ Studebaker Theater
410 S Michigan Ave, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
Chicago Artists for Palestine
@ ACRE Projects + The Jewish Museum of Chicago
2921 North Clark Street Chicago, IL 60657
On view through Sunday, June 2nd
Adam Shead, Clark/Walter, Piano Salesman
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 17th, at 8PM
Elemental Meditations Hypnotic Experiments from James Cagle & Paul Sharits
@ Sweet Void Cinema
3036 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL, 60622
Opening Friday, May 17th, at 7PM
Seed Time: WILD RELATIVES (2018)
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 7 PM - 9 PM
Elaine Lemieux and Sara Zalek: Mooove Voice
@ Berger Park Cultural Center
6205 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Festival de Mujeres and Videos of Historic Pilsen
@ 18th Street Casa de Cultura
2057 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Betsy Odom: Elevate
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, July 31st
EMILY PRUYN: Anatomy of A Wave: Fire+Water
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 17th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, July 5th
BRIAN HOLLIDAY
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 17th, at 6PM
Big Tops and Sideshows
@ Bridgeport Art Center, Project Onward
1200 W 35th St Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, May 17th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, June 14th
BILL CONGER: night drops
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 22nd
Sacred Healing Waters Symposium
@ DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 11AM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 19th
Chicago Jazz String Summit
@ Constellation
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 8:30PM - 11:30PM
A City to Wear 4.0
@ Research House for Asian Art
3217 Morgan St, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 17th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, June 6th
PO Box Poetry Series
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, May 16th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Carmen San Sebastián Diez del Sel: RATAS EN BRAGAS
@ Sweet Void Cinema
3036 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL, 60622
Opening Thursday, May 16th, at 7PM
SLIPPAGE presents: re-OrientationS
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, May 16th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 18th
Lecture: Seen and Unseen—Japan’s Postwar Women Printmakers
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 16th, from 6PM - 7PM
2024 ATP Senior Show
@ DITTMAR GALLERY
1999 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 16th, at 6PM
Memory Map
@ Soft Systems
1641 S California Ave Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, May 16th, from 6PM - 10PM
Piece by Piece: Recent Work from Regional Fiber Artists
@ Stamelos Gallery Center
4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128-2406
Opening Thursday, May 16th, from 5 PM - 7 PM
On view through Sunday, August 18th
Smart Salon: Meiji Dress and Self Identity
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 16th, from 4:30PM - 5:30PM
Vibrant Lives: Allen Stringfellow
@ Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
On view through Tuesday, September 3rd
Comfort Film Presents Wulver’s Stane (2024)
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 15th, from 8PM - 10PM
In-Session | The Porch: Places of Belonging
@ Soul Full Chicago
1508 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, May 15th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Panel Discussion: A Conversation About Abstraction in Painting
@ ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, May 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Counterinsurgent: Art Historian T.J. Demos on Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, May 15th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Reiko Tomii: Thinking Operationally
@ Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5560 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, May 15th, at 4:45PM
Making Multichannel Music w/ Allen Moore
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 15th, at 7:30PM
What Came After: An Evening of Poetry with Christopher Stewart and John McCarthy
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Tuesday, May 14th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Hamburg Radio Jazz Orchestra Presents: Chicago Meets Hamburg Sessions
@ Andy's Jazz Club
11 E Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, May 14th, from 6:15PM - 9:30PM
TJ Demos: Public Talk: Gaza: Colonial Violence, Ecocide, and Survival Media
@ Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, May 14th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
AUTHOR STORYTIME WITH Anja Pasquesi
@ Volumes Bookcafe
1373 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, May 14th, from 10:30AM - 11:30AM
Hamburg Radio Jazz Orchestra and Kinan Azmeh: Flow
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Monday, May 13th, at 8PM
Deborah Goodman Davis and Gerald Davis Lecture: Rachel Harrison
@ Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, May 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Geraldine Martinez-Benz: Artist Talk
@ Harold Washington Library Center
400 S State St, Chicago. IL 60605
Opening Monday, May 13th, from 1PM - 2PM
Oleg Kulyk: 21st Century Scream
@ Chicago Grand Gallery
2842 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, May 12th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, June 9th
Baldwin’s N- (1968) // Perfect Image? (1988)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, May 12th, at 4PM
Artist-to-Artist: Sandra Binion in discussion with Corey Postiglione
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Sunday, May 12th, from 2PM - 4PM
Parsons & Charlesworth: Multispecies Inc.
@ Space & Time
3307 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, May 12th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, June 9th
Trio performance: Lia Kohl, Whitney Johnson, Macie Stewart
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 11th, from 8PM - 9PM
7NMS | Marjani Forté-Saunders and Everett Saunders, Prophet: The Order of the Lyricist
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 11th, at 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
Toby Altman: Discipline Park: Release Party
@ PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, May 11th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Jon Jost: WALKERVILLE
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, May 11th, at 7PM
There Are New Suns: Dal Niente + Ana García Jácome & Ariella Granados
@ Aguijón Theater Co.
2707 N Laramie Ave, Chicago, 60639
Opening Saturday, May 11th, at 7PM
GIFT: Live Score by Eiko Ishibashi + Film by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, May 11th, at 7PM
Poets for Palestine
@ Co-Prosperity
3219-21 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 11th, from 7PM - 9PM
Kim Piotrowski: Wall to Wall
@ boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, May 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Zander Raymond: Measuring the Marigolds
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 8th
Bigg Love: The Art of Harm Reduction
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
it’s me, again
@ Izora Contemporary
5301 N Clark St, Second Floor Rear, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, May 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, May 28th
Lawrence Agyei: DRILL: Closing Reception
@ Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, May 11th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 11th
Madeleine Aguilar: yard model
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Saturday, May 11th, at 4PM
On view through Saturday, May 25th
Flores Bailando: Cuban “La Merienda” Mother’s Day Event
@ salonlb.
1010 W 35th St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, May 11th, from 4PM - 8PM
