September 2025
Diane Jurado: Artist Talk
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 20th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, September 26th
A Collective Conversation on Latin American Contemporary Architecture
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, Illinois 60610
Opening Saturday, September 20th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Sofia Clausse: ETERNAL RETURN
@ cam.contemporarie
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 20th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, September 20th
INTERTWINED: burns, preserves & restoration Opening Reception
@ North Park Village Nature Center
5801 N. Pulaski Rd. Chicago,Il
Opening Saturday, September 20th, from 12PM - 3:30PM
On view through Saturday, December 20th
Black Women and Clay
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 20th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 16th
Intertwined: Burns, Preserved, & Restoration
@ North Park Village Nature Center
5801 N Pulaski Rd, Chicago, IL 60646
Opening Saturday, September 20th, from 12PM - 3:30PM
On view through Saturday, December 20th
Unboxing Queer History LIVE AGAIN! The Gerber/Hart Fall Benefit
@ Gerber/Hart Library & Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, September 20th, at 7PM
Fady Joudah and Eman Abdelhadi
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 20th, from 6PM - 7PM
Flash Tattoos with Haylie Jimenez
@ Joy Machine
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, September 20th, from 11AM - 5PM
Prison Trauma Healing Circle
@ Walls Turned Sideways
2717 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, September 20th, from 11AM - 1PM
City as Platform: How CAB, CXW, and EXPO CHICAGO utilize global reach for local impact
@ Chicago Athletic Association
112 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, September 20th, from 10AM - 11AM
Red Clay Dance Company, Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, September 20th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Helen Lee/Momentum Sensorium: Curiosities of Wellness in Bodies of Grief and Joy
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, September 20th, from 10:30AM - 5PM
Willea Zwey: Et Sic Videmus
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E. Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 7PM - 8PM
Echoes of Color
@ Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, November 7th
Two Roses and a Briar Pipe
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, October 24th
Vicennium: Practice and Process
@ Chicago Grand Gallery
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 8th
D-Composed & Allison Loggins-Hull | Remix as Ritual: Sound, Space, and Story
@ The Land School
1353 E 72nd St Chicago, IL 60619
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Calvin Coleman: The Recipe
@ Gallery Guichard
436 E 47th St, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
Making A Scene: Paintings and Instllations by Kathy Weaver
@ Simmerling Gallery, Beverly Arts Center
2407 W 111th St, Chicago, IL 60655
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, November 7th
Darin Latimer: Rhinoceros
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 1st
Year One
@ The Plan
610 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, November 2nd
ALTERED PATH: The Framed Art of Ryan Miller
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, September 28th
Allen Wheatcroft: Home + Away / Hemma + Borta
@ Swedish American Museum
5211 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 30th
Día de Muertos: A Celebration of Remembrance
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 19th, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, December 14th
Allison Reimus: Repetition with Variety
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 18th
Pressing on a Bruise
@ crosswalk
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
In the Making: A Public Art Journey Through Washington Park
@ The Arts Lawn
305 E Garfield Blvd Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
Alayna N. Pernell: A layin’ on of hands…
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 25th
氣 : Performance by Irene Hsiao with Dominic Kießling’s “Blob”
@ Narrow Bridge Arts Club
6028 S Champlain Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 5PM - 7PM
Women Embodied + Empowered : Kat Nesbitt + Nikki Van Dyken = Fall of the Equinox
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 4:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Thursday, October 9th
LOUDREADERS
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 4:15PM - 4:45PM
Liz McCarthy: Imperfect Players
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts/Slemmons Gallery
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 22nd
Lumpia Fusion: Filipino Americans at a Crossroads
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 14th
WERIEM: L’esprit de Pierrot
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 22nd
Margaret Crowley: Birthday
@ Epipihany Center for the Arts/Sacristy Gallery
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 22nd
Mather at DuSable: The Art of Mindful Movement
@ DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 10AM - 12PM
SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, February 28th
Natura Non Constristatur
@ SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 15th
Jacqueline Surdell: The Conversion: Rings, Rupture, and the Forest Archive
@ SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 15th
Robyn Mineko Williams & Artists: To Leave You
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, September 19th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2025
@ Multiple
Opening Friday, September 19th, at Multiple
On view through Thursday, February 26th
Over My Head: Encounters with Conceptual Art in a Flyover City, 1984–2015
@
400 N Peoria St Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, October 11th
SHIFT: Fragmented Manifestos
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, Illinois 60610
On view through Saturday, February 28th
Refining The Third Ear – Night 2
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, September 18th, from 7PM - 9PM
Performance by Shelly Expose (Anastasia Sif Karkazis)
@ Tala
1644 W Chicago IL, #1, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 18th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 1st
Artist Talk with Saturn Dougherty and Ruth Keyes
@ Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum
3001 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Thursday, September 18th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Luminarts x Artadia Artist Salon
@ The Driehaus Museum
50 E Erie St, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Thursday, September 18th, from 6PM - 8PM
The Chicago Film Society Presents: COOKIE’S FORTUNE (1999) on 35mm
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, September 18th, at 6PM
Performance: Charles Gaines’s Manifestos 4—The Dred and Harriet Scott Decision
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, September 18th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Open Hours
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Thursday, September 18th, at 5PM
On view through Tuesday, September 30th
Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, September 18th, from 3PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 14th
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Graduate Meet and Greet
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, September 18th, from 5PM - 7PM
Robyn Mineko Williams & Artists, To Leave You
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, September 18th, from 730PM - 830PM
Chicago Poetry Center Presents: September Blue Hour Featuring Marianne Chan & Meghann Plunkett
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, September 17th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
Zine Club Chicago on Marz Zinemaking Hangout: PERMANENT RECORD
@ Life on Marz Community Club
1950 N Western Ave Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, September 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
Comfort Film and Tone Glow present Don’t Hang Up
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, September 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
Artist Talk: Kenny Schachter and Bianca Bova
@ Old Friends
3405 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Wednesday, September 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 21st
Bridget Smith – ART NOW! Lecture
@ Ferguson Hall - Columbia College Chicago
600 S Michigan Ave, Rm. 101, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, September 17th, from 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Lecture in Photography: Bridget Smith
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, September 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
Steve Reber and Deb Sokolow: Uncertain Contours
@ O'Connor Gallery
Dominican University, 7900 W Division, River Forest, IL 60305, Lewis Hall 4th floor
Opening Wednesday, September 17th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, October 22nd
2025 Filter Photo Festival
@ Columbia College Chicago Student Center
754 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
On view through Saturday, September 20th
Werk: Chicago’s Premiere Queer Comedy Show
@ The Lincoln Lodge
2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, September 17th, at 7:30PM
Temitayo Ogunbiyi: You will have revelations along felled branches and longer roots/routes
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, September 17th, from 5:30 - 8
On view through Friday, December 19th
32nd Chicago Underground Film Festival
@ Multiple
Multiple
Opening Wednesday, September 17th, at Multiple
On view through Sunday, September 21st
Re/Match x Process/Process: Sofía Fernández Díaz Print Release
@ Chicago Athletic Association
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, September 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
Lucretia Martel: THE HEADLESS WOMAN LA MUJER SIN CABEZA (2008)
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, September 16th, at 6PM
James Schenck: Handle With Care
@ Material
2025 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Tuesday, September 16th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, October 7th
Jordan Martins: Visiting Artist Lecture
@ Cleve Carney Museum of Art
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Tuesday, September 16th, from 1PM - 2PM
¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues
@ The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, September 16th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Friday, March 14th
Ten Toes Down
@ South Shore Cultural Center
7059 S South Shore Dr, Chicago IL 60649
Opening Monday, September 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, September 26th
Jaeden Hannus: Self Portrait as a Wisconsin Man
@ SITE 280 Gallery
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, September 15th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, October 17th
First International Mosaic Arts Symposium
@ Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics
1127 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
On view through Sunday, September 21st
Linye Jiang: Scavenger Hunt
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave
Opening Sunday, September 14th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 19th
Carlos Javier Ortiz: Inherit America
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 East Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 14th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 18th
Erik L. Peterson: Oasis: Apparition in Blue
@ Riverside Arts Center's Sculpture Garden
32 East Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 14th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 18th
Renee Robbins: Expedition Spectrum
@ Riverside Arts Center's FlexSpace
32 East Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 14th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 18th
Matthew Katz: Dots and Loops
@ Riverside Arts Center at the Town Hall
27 Riverside Rd, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 14th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 18th
Slow Look: Sunrise on a Water Scene
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, September 14th, from 2PM - 3PM
Transference: Poetry Reading
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, Unit 845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, September 14th, from 2PM - 4PM
The Land School
@ The Land School
1353 E 72nd St Chicago, IL 60619
Opening Sunday, September 14th, from 1PM - 9PM
Annual Community Meeting
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, #302, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, September 14th, from 1PM - 3PM
The Chicago Film Society Presents: BLIND HUSBANDS (1919) on 35mm with live musical accompaniment by David Drazin
@ Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Sunday, September 14th, at 11:30 AM
NEPO
@ Lewis Bag
3808 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 31st
Abiotic
@ Evoke Gallery
3040 N Central Ave, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 4th
Secondary Purpose
@ SAWHORSE
4222 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 26th
Israel Aten: CORE
@ M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
La Rentrée
@ SITE/less
1250 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
A Mosquito Bit My Thumb
@ GURE
DM for address
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, October 13th
North
@ Bodenrader
1620 West Carroll Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, September 25th
Transference
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, Unit 845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 5 PM - 9 PM
On view through Sunday, August 31st
ZODIAC – Archetypes of the Psyche
@ Blackbird Framing
4428 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 1st
Nick Schutzenhofer: Dust Jacket
@ MICKEY
1635 W Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 2nd
The 2nd Annual Art Car Pinewood Derby at The Seventh Corner!
@ The Seventh Corner @Howling Pages
4354 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 4PM - 9PM
Diego Marcon: Krapfen
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 23rd
Conversation: Modern Men—Gustave Caillebotte and the Language of Masculinity
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 2PM - 3PM
New works by Alex Bradley Cohen, Vivian Cohen and Tim Pigott
@ compound yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 11th
Facades: Artist Talk
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 13th, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, September 27th
