October 2025
Ryan Burns: Homecoming
@ Crosswalk
1856 N Richmond st, Chicago, il, 60647
Opening Friday, October 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 7th
Deferred Reality: Reimagination of the American Dream | Nikko Washington & Jacob Rochester
@ VSG Contemporary
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 6th
知無不言: Let Me Tell You All I Can
@ SITE Sharp Gallery
37 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, October 17th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, November 14th
Cornelia Arts Building October Open Studios 2025 Day One
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia, Chicago IL 60657
Opening Friday, October 17th, from 5PM - 9PM
Kirin Kane: Within, Without
@ Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, October 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, November 6th
Jill Birschbach / Ken Minami: Scapes
@ Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, October 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
Michael J. Miller: A Measure of Time
@ SoNa Chicago Art Gallery
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 6th
知無不言: Let Me Tell You All I Can
@ SITE Sharp Gallery
37 S Wabash Ave, 1st Fl, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, October 17th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, November 14th
West Loop Contemporary Fine Art Expo
@ Plumbers Hall
1340 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, October 17th, from 11AM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 19th
THE LEOPARD MAN (1943) in 35mm
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Leather and Kink Symbolism in the AIDS Memorial Quilt
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, October 16th, from 7PM - 8PM
Conversation with Iris Morales and Jacqui Lazú
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, October 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 8th
Kentucky Route Zero: Jake Elliott, Tamas Kemenczy, and Ben Babbitt
@ Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
Flor Flores: mirror moment
@ Ralph Arnold Gallery
1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Thursday, October 16th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 22nd
Theaster Gates: OH, YOU’VE GOT TO COME BACK TO THE CITY
@ GRAY
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, October 16th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, December 20th
Rituals of Presence
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
1431 W Hubbard St, Suite 201 Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, October 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, December 11th
Join Chicago’s Stream of Faces: Get Filmed by Artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo Oct 16 & 18
@ 150 Media Stream
150 N Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606
Opening Thursday, October 16th, from 11AM - 1PM
On view through Friday, March 20th
Chicago Poetry Center Presents: October Blue Hour Featuring Rhoni Blankenhorn & Alicia Wright
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, October 15th, from 7:30PM - 9PM
WOLFEN (1981) in 35mm
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, October 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
Awilda Sterling DuPrey: Taller Comunitario de Arte del performance
@ El Schomburg
2538 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
The Renaissance Society Student Committee
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, October 15th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
@ The Art Institute of Chicago,
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Monday, January 5th
Beatriz González: A Total Artist
@ Logan Center for the Arts, Penthouse Room 901
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, October 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Doug Fogelson: Signal/Noise
@ old friends
3405 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, October 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 14th
The Chicago Film Society Presents: Celluloid Now Program 6 — Celluloid City Chicago
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Sunday, October 12th, at 5PM
The Chicago Film Society Presents: Celluloid Now Program 5 — Celluloid City Seoul
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Sunday, October 12th, at 2:30PM
Chicago Sukkah Design Festival
@ James Stone Freedom Square
3615 W Douglas Blvd, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, October 12th, from 2PM - 4PM
William J. O’Brien: From Here to There
@ Visual Arts Gallery at GovState
1 University Parkway, University Park, IL 60484
Opening Sunday, October 12th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, November 14th
Lampo: Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Saturday, October 11th, at 7PM
Manifestations
@ HAZ Room
1706 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Saturday, October 11th
Tardigrade iNspired | aCrylic + cAnvas | rObert J. sOller : mAking the ‘gRade
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 8th
Sculpture & Film
@ CSI Project Space
1912 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, November 21st
Erik L. Peterson – Sunset Oasis Artist Walk and Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 East Quincy Street, Riverside, Illinois 60546
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 18th
Object Lessons
@ T Mari Gallery
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL. 60622
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 9th
Finding My Way
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 8th
WMG Project Space: Sofía Fernández Díaz
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S. Halsted St.
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 8th
Artist Conversation: LaToya Hobbs and Naima Mora on Elizabeth Catlett
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 2PM - 3PM
Groundwaves Generations with MURS
@ National Public Housing Museum
919 South Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 2PM - 5PM
Artist Talk & Book Reading with Audrey Niffenegger
@ Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 2PM - 4PM
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: Abstract Alternatives to Depicting Our World
@ The Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 1 PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 2nd
Between Bedlam
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave #3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, November 30th
Plant Salve Workshop in the Garden
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 1PM - 3PM
Andres L. Hernandez: code: KING ALFRED
@ Blanc Gallery
4445 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, November 15th
The Chicago Film Society Presents: Celluloid Now Program 3 — To the Lamphouse: Light & Lenses for Projection Explained
@ Chicago Film Society Office
RSVP for address
Opening Saturday, October 11th, at 12PM
Indigenous People’s Day Poetry Reading and Open Mic
@ 3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 12PM - 2PM
Midwest SOARRING Harvest Pow Wow
@ DuPage County Fairgrounds
2015 Manchester Road, N County Farm Rd, Wheaton, IL 60187
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 11am - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 12th
Market Day on MLK
@ MLK
4445 S King Dr Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Saturday, October 11th, from 9AM - 2PM
Vesna Jovanovic: Carnival
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, February 15th
Dolls Dolls Demons Dolls
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago IL, 60626
Opening Friday, October 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
The Chicago Film Society Presents: Celluloid Now Program 2 — Notes & Threads
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, October 10th, at 6PM
by-passing-upon || Ro(b)//ert Lundberg
@ Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, October 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 12th
FULL BLEED Gallery Show
@ Quimby's Bookstore
1854 West North Avenue Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 10th, from 5PM - 7PM
Map of Healing Interactive & Immersive Art Exhibit
@ Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, October 10th, at 1PM
On view through Sunday, October 12th
Alana Palomo: The Quiet and the Storm
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, November 6th
Rebecca Griffith: Video Magic 1996
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, November 6th
Just the Other Day: Antifascist Artifacts from the Spanish Civil War
@ Lunk + Hancy
990 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, IL 60093
On view through Tuesday, November 18th
The Chicago Film Society Presents: Celluloid Now Program 1 — Light & Noise
@ Constellation
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, October 9th, at 8PM
Daughters of Anacaona
@ Alliance Française de Chicago
54 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, October 9th, at 6:30PM
Sharon Hayes: Ricerche: four
@ Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Minor Harmonies
@ Tala
1644 W Chicago Ave, #1, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, October 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 8th
Lecture: Public Affections—The Revelations of Scott Burton’s Last Works
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, October 9th, from 6PM - 7PM
Yasmin Spiro: Cornerstone Performance
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, October 9th, from 6PM - 7PM
135 Years in Art & Objects
@ The Hokin
623 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, October 9th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, November 18th
Artists Talk: We Thought We Were Comfortable
@ Waubonsee Community College Arrowhead Gallery
Route 47 at Waubonsee Drive, Sugar Grove, IL 60554
Opening Thursday, October 9th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, October 24th
The Chicago Film Society Presents: Celluloid Now 2025 (October 9 – 12)
@ Constellation, Gene Siskel Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
On view through Sunday, October 12th
Tali Weinberg: Visiting Artist Lecture
@ Cleve Carney Museum of Art
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Opening Thursday, October 9th, from 11AM - 12PM
Mapping Outside the Lines
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
On view through Saturday, February 14th
For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising
@ Women & Children First
5233 North Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Wednesday, October 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
Joan Jonas
@ Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, October 8th, from 6PM - 7PM
The Black Tax with Andrew Kahrl and Tonika Lewis Johnson
@ National Public Housing Museum
919 South Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, October 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Drink & Draw: Drawing Games! with Lya Finston
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, #302, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, October 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Public Talk: Kaneko Tomotaro & Lou Mallozzi
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Tuesday, October 7th, from 7PM - 9PM
Jason Franz: Figure Ensō Twenty-Two Years of Life Drawings
@ Western Illinois University Art Gallery
1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Tuesday, October 7th, from 430PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, November 14th
Pablo Helguera: Distinguished Alumni Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, October 6th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
The Chicago Film Society Presents: Celluloid Now Program 4 — Revolvey & Bullwinkle
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Monday, October 6th, at 6PM
Side Yard Sounds presents: A Noisy Fundraiser for the Trans Empowerment Movement
@ compound yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, October 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
Renee Robbins: Expedition Spectrum Artist Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, October 5th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 18th
HCL Art/Access Lab: Open Lab | Tsehaye Hébert and Terri Lynne Hudson
@ Experimental Station & Zoom
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, October 5th, from 2PM - 4PM
Art Talks! The Block Collects and the 2024-2025 Student Acquisition
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Sunday, October 5th, from 2PM - 3PM
Florasonic: Sarah Belle Reid
@ Lincoln Park Conservatory
2391 N Stockton Dr, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Sunday, October 5th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 23rd
Wind Guide
@ Mayfield
505 Marengo Ave, Forest Park, IL 60130
Opening Sunday, October 5th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, April 5th
Megann Lawlor and Isabella Aguilar: Many Full Circles
@ Mayfield
505 Marengo Ave, Forest Park, IL 60130
Opening Sunday, October 5th, from 2PM - 6PM
Terrain Biennial 2025 Block Party
@ Alt_
5645 W Corcoran Pl, Chicago, IL 60644
Opening Sunday, October 5th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, November 15th
Theaster Gates in Conversation
@ The Land School
1353 E 72nd St Chicago, IL 60619
Opening Sunday, October 5th, from 12PM - 2PM
Drawing On: Closing Reception
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 5th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 5th
Roshini Collective Brunch Reception
@ West Town Chamber of Commerce
1819 W Chicago Ave, # 1, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, October 5th, from 11:30AM - 3:30PM
On view through Sunday, October 5th
Talk | Jeff Mills & Tomorrow Comes the Harvest
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, October 5th, from 10:30AM - 12:30PM
Side Yard Sounds presents: Sam Robinson Trio
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 7PM - 9PM
Erotic Photography Workshop
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Abiotic: Closing Reception
@ Evoke Gallery
3040 N Central Ave, Chicago, IL 60634
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, October 4th
Closing Exhibition Celebration: We Are All Artists
@ Marie | Wesley
1122 West 63rd St, Chicago, IL 60621
Opening Saturday, October 4th, at 6PM
Taking Shape
@ Metiche
5252 W Warner Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 15th
Fixed
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St Unit 845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, October 30th
Robin Givhan on Virgil Abloh
@ Illinois Tech - Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship
3241 S Federal St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 5PM - 6PM
OMAR MENDOZA: SERPIENTE SOLAR – NOCHE OBSIDIANA
@ Povos West Town
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 4th, at 5PM
2WENTY 5IVE: Arts of Life’s Anniversary Benefit Auction
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 5PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 22nd
Erika bb.Hess: Between Worlds
@ Studio Break Gallery
1N046 Ridgeland Ave, West Chicago, IL 60185
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, November 2nd
