September 2026
The Poor Farm Experiment, Leopold Benches: A P(o)or(t)ch Theater (MIDWEST REDUX)
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, September 18th, from 10am - 12PM
On view through Sunday, September 20th
Forever Yours: A Celebration of Tattooing
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, 4th Floor, 60609
Opening Friday, September 18th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 7th
Dont Come to My Art Show
@ Childhood Fractured's Phygital Art Gallery
1432 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, September 18th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, September 25th
Free Jazz Orchestra
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
Human-Nature
@ The Franklin
3522 W Franklin Blvd, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, September 17th
Art of Science: What Color were Ancient Statues?
@ Parlour & Ramp Gallery
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
Jesús Hilario-Reyes
@ Tala
1644 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 21st
Lucía Garcés Dávila – Ojo Al Aviso – From Ecuador to Chicago: A Photographic Panorama of Visual Street Communication
@ Sulzer Regional Library
4455 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Wednesday, September 30th
Laleh Motlagh: Rooted. Uprooted. Chicago Exhibition Week Reception
@ SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 7th
Guida Family Creative Wing Open Studio Night
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
NICK FURY: Last Train To Harlem
@ Gallery 1701 at Chicago Center for Arts and Technology (CHICAT)
1701 W 13th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, October 2nd
RaDLOW Publication Launch + Reception
@ Industrious
24 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Thursday, September 17th, at 6PM
Artist Talk: Exploring “The Hellstroms of Melrose Street c. 1915” with Thomas Hellstrom
@ Swedish American Museum
5211 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 4th
Chapter 4: On “tomato/tomato” Olivia Isabel Rosato & Kiana Shahnia – ACT I:GUIDES
@ State VIII Project, Studio 8 (2nd floor), Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, October 6th
VOICES: Dakota Mace
@ Center for Native Futures
56 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 5PM - 6PM
GORDON CHEUNG: CONSENSUAL HALLUCI/NATION
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 6067
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 21st
Karla Wong: Journeys of Being
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, January 10th
Brian Holmes and Claire Pentecost: Lessons in (Conviviality)
@ Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 5PM - 7PM
Olivia Zubko: Nymphaeum
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Suite 2C, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 31st
Affairs to Remember
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Suite 2C, Chicago, IL, 60622
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 31st
Debut | SATELLITE Project Space
@ SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
Death Magic with guest curator Ryan M. Pfeiffer
@ Circle Contemporary - West Town
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, September 25th
Alexandra Barth: The Awnings
@ Document
1709 w Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 7th
Art After Subcultures: Sean Tatol and Troy Sherman in Conversation
@ Gertie
400 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, September 17th, at 4PM
Learn With Media Burn!
@ Media Burn Archive
348 N Ashland Ave #1D, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, September 17th, from 5PM - 7PM
Elaine Lemieux and Sharkey Zalek: Mooove Voice (Workshop Series)
@ Roman Susan at Loyola Park Fieldhouse
1230 W Greenleaf Ave, Chicago IL 60626
On view through Tuesday, November 10th
CXW KICKOFF CELEBRATION AT KAVI GUPTA
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, September 16th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, November 21st
Clotilde Jiménez: Éramos silencios
@ Mariane Ibrahim
437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL, 60622
On view through Saturday, October 31st
Xenia Mansour: Concerts of Dance
@ Driehaus Museum
50 East Erie St, Chicago, IL, 60611
On view through Saturday, September 19th
The Aurora Film Society Presents: “Glengarry Glen Ross”
@ The Venue
21 S Broadway Ave, Aurora, IL 60505
Opening Wednesday, September 16th, from 06:30 PM - 10PM
Drink & Draw: Fugitive Impressions Vol. 3 with Miguel Limón
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, September 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
Blue Hour ft. Hussain Ahmed and Ali Black
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, September 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
Zoe Butler: “Virtual Mas” Creative Coding and 3D Workshop
@ Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines-Mana Contemporary 5th floor
2233 S Throop St, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, September 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
82 Nights Only*
@ Gertie
400 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL, 60642
Opening Wednesday, September 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 13th
Hallowed Scale and Compass
@ O'Connor Gallery
7900 W Division St, River Forest, IL 60305
Opening Wednesday, September 16th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, October 28th
Brendan Fernandes: Score for the Murphy Auditorium
@ Driehaus Museum
50 East Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, September 16th, from 4PM - 6PM
ADVANCE PREVIEW OF CONSENSUAL HALLUCI/NATION WITH GORDON CHEUNG
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, September 16th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, November 21st
Trooper
@ Komechak Gallery at Benedictine University
5700 College Rd, Lisle, IL 60532
Opening Wednesday, September 16th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, October 21st
Teenager Hamlet 2006
@ Mavra
5338 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago IL 60630
Opening Tuesday, September 15th, at 7PM
On view through Friday, September 18th
Pope.L: No Thing Skin Sets
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Tuesday, September 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 31st
Hamza Walker: The Renaissance Society Years
@ CONSTELLATION
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Monday, September 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
Catherine Opie Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, September 14th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Exhibition Architecture: A conversation with Koray Duman
@ Graham Foundation
4 West Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Monday, September 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
Janine Mileaf and Ann Toebbe Lead Tour and Discussion of Mernet Larsen: Situational Awareness
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario Street Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Monday, September 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, December 18th
FREE FILM: B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin (1979–1989)
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420 Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Monday, September 14th, at 6PM
2026 DSI Production Institute Film Showcase
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, September 13th, at 1PM
Malt Adult Animation Nite
@ Color Club
4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, September 13th, at 7PM
Robert Chase Heishman: Common Bond
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, September 13th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 11th
Road to the Farthest Room | Jobe Gemmell Hughes | Julia Firestone Callis | Ben Driggs
@ Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, September 13th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
Robert Fields: EVERY NOW N’THEN . . .
@ compound yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, September 13th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 17th
Public Collectors: Protest Grim Reapers and other publications
@ COMING SOON
3701 W. Division St. Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Sunday, September 13th, from 11am - 2PM
On view through Sunday, September 13th
The Future of the Visualist— The Visualist Planning & Working Session
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, September 13th, from 10AM - 12PM
Abbott Pattison: The Figure Forward
@ Elmhurst Art Museum
150 Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL, 60126
On view through Saturday, January 2nd
La Rentrée deux
@ SITE/less
1250 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 7PM - 10PM
OFF the Couch: a SIMPSONS-inspired Art Exhibition
@ Timeless Arts Gallery & Studio
3040 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL, 60657
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 7 PM - 10 PM
On view through Saturday, October 10th
Laleh Motlagh: Rooted. Uprooted.
@ SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 7th
Joseph Grigely: Monologue of A Deaf Man
@ M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
Reevah Agarwaal: Now I Braid My Own Hair
@ Boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 10th
Meditation at the United Nations
@ Bodenrader
1620 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
Kevin Blake: Sundowning
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, October 17th
Karimah Ashadu: Tendered
@ Then Renaissance Society
5811 South Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, November 1st
Rita Grendze: You Don’t Have to Love Me – Artist Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center's FlexSpace
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 31st
James Hall’s Show and Tell
@ Project Onward
1200 W. 35th St., 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, September 12th
Wind
@ tête-à-tête-à-tête
2539 N Kedzie Blvd, #5e, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 31st
‘Move in Silence’ Pop Up by Sergio Farfan
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 13th
Wicker Park Fine Art Fair
@ Wicker Park
1425 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 10am - 6PM
The Chicago Pottery Market
@ Wilderhouse
1339 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, September 12th, from 10AM - 5PM
Thank You Art Show
@ Childhood Fractured 's Phygital Art Gallery
1432 W Irving Park, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, September 18th
Palak Patel: Can I get my friends to hold my hand?
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, October 9th
Press & Pull: A Legacy of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop: Opening Reception
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 12th
VALUES :: A Poster Exhibition
@ Two-Thirty
230 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 6 PM - 10 PM
On view through Friday, September 25th
Warriors of the Apocalypse
@ House of the Apocalypse
1837 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 9th
10th Annual River North Design District (RNDD) Fall Gallery Walk
@ River North Design District
222 W Hubbard St Ste, 300, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
Whitney Bedford: Nocturnes
@ SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 14th
… before the dawn
@ SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 14th
Clare Rosean CONTROL
@ Zg Gallery
300 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
Amanda Elizabeth Joseph: Fading Pinpricks
@ Zg Gallery
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 24th
Tangible Sound: Arrival to a Higher Ground – Ben LaMar Gay
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 8th
Gallery Conversation: Corn and Cosmos – Elizabeth Pope and Gaby Lavalle
@ Art Institute of Chicago
159 E Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 2PM - 3:30PM
Emma Xhaxho: Close to Pleasure
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 3rd
If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, September 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 19th
F.E.K. Draw
@ GERBER/HART LIBRARY & ARCHIVES
6500 N Clark St 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, September 10th, from 7PM - 9PM
Poetry & Archival Discovery: An Author Talk with Elizabeth Hoover & Noa Micaela Fields
@ Gerber/Hart Library & Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, September 10th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Professional Development: Keywords
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
1431 W Hubbard St, Suite 201, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, September 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Conversations at the Edge | An Evening with Karimah Ashadu
@ Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, September 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Scott Mossman – Up There!
@ Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, September 30th
Lillstreet Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception
@ Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N. Ravenswood Ave.
Opening Thursday, September 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
Lindsay Adams : Errantry
@ Patron Gallery
1612 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 10th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 31st
Claire Sherman : Tannic Waters
@ Patron Gallery
1612 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, September 10th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 31st
Mernet Larsen Situational Awareness
@ The Arts Club Of Chicago
201 E Ontario Street Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, September 10th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Friday, December 18th
Style is the Body Thinking
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, September 9th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, December 5th
Curator’s Tour of “Style is the Body Thinking” with Michelle Grabner
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, September 9th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Saturday, December 5th
SCA Public Program: Stan Douglas
@ Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, September 8th, from 6PM - 7PM
DMITRY SAMAROV: KMR/POTUS—public portraits & private figures
@ Rainbo Club
1150 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Tuesday, September 8th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, October 5th
Tangible Sound: Arrival to a Higher Ground: Marshall Greenhouse
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Tuesday, September 8th, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 8th
SIDE YARD SOUNDS: SAM ROBINSON QUINTET
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, September 6th, from 7PM - 9PM
Closing Reception | Breaking the Silence
@ Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, September 6th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
On view through Sunday, September 6th
Sungho Bae: Apotropaia Closing
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, September 6th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, September 6th
