April 2017
[Body Text]: A Creative Writing Workshop
@ Raw Space
1104 S Wabash Ave, 2nd fl, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 12PM - 3PM
Poetics: A Conversation about Queer Spaces of Color
@ LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 6:30PM - 8:30 PM
On view through Saturday, April 15th
CC Ann Chen: Color is a faraway place
@ Slow
2153 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 13th
Squat: Eileen Rae Walsh
@ Loo
2153 W 21st St, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 13th
Winter In America: Tribute to Gil Scott Heron
@ The California Clipper
1002 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 10PM - 1am
On view through Saturday, April 15th
Mengda Zhang: You Think You Know Me
@ gallery no one
1579 N Milwaukee Ave, Rm 303, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
On view through Saturday, April 15th
MCA Live: Neighborhood Dances
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 1PM - 5PM
MCA Talk: Tania Pérez Córdova
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 3PM - 4PM
Keeley Haftner: limitless future, limited reflection
@ Paris London Hong Kong
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Robert Kameczura: One Man Exhibit
@ Prak-sis Contemporary Art Association
16 W Ontario St, 1st FL, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 4PM - 7PM
John Opera
@ DOCUMENT
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Sustain: Performance as Activism
@ Lillstreet Loft
4437 N Ravenswood Ave, 2nd Fl, Chicago, Illinois 60640
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 7PM - 10PM
Elijah Burgher: The Dead Know Everything + Sofia Moreno: She-King the Origin of Perversion, Idolatry and Neo Pharmaco Mythology
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 27th
Taking up “too much” space
@ Archer Beach Haus
3012 S Archer Ave #3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 7PM - 12AM
Submissive Exhibitions
@ MISSION
1431 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 15th, from 11am - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 22nd
Pete Hillstrom: Sublands
@ TCC Chicago
2547 W. North Ave., Chicago, IL, 60647
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, April 23rd
Aspects of the Whole: Closing Reception
@ Studio Oh!
1837 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, April 27th
Amina Ross and Kevin Stuart: Heard Animal
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 14th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 13th
Alexandra Nelson: 100 Ways of Looking for Here
@ Friendzone
3323 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry
@ Public Access
3306 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 6th
Jeffrey Cortland Jones + Sara Pittman
@ Matthew Rachman Gallery
1659 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 28th
Danny Sobor: Joined//fading
@ Gallery F
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 7th
“NO”: Igniting Oppositional Consciousness
@ Uri Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL60608
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6PM - 10PM
Intercessions: Art as Intervention and Prayer
@ Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Sunday, May 21st
Darcy Neal, Gin Hell, Venomenema, Instinct Control
@ TRITRIANGLE
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 9PM - 11:59PM
Gary LaPointe Jr: BACK BURNER
@ Randy Alexander Gallery
1926 S. Wabash Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60616
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6 PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 13th
Elizabeth Smarz: Mirrors
@ Slate Arts and Performance
3203 W. North Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 7PM - 10PM
Gallery Talk: Intersections
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 12PM - 1PM
The Work of Melvin King: A Chicago Experience
@ William Hill Gallery
6144 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL 60637-2528
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Social Media Charm School
@ Open TV (beta) at the Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Nick Lacke: Art At The Burlington Bar
@ The Burlington Bar (Temporal Exhibitions)
3425 Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 9PM - 2AM
Insurrection
@ DfbrL8r
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60642
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 9PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, April 15th
Anarchist Print Fair 2017
@ DfbrL8r
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60642
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 10AM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 16th
Artist Member Spring Exhibition
@ Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, Illinois 60302
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 7PM - 9PM
Scenes From The Internet + The EFIList
@ Free Range
3257 W Lawrence Ave Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, April 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Wael Shawky: Cabaret Crusades
@ Conversations at the Edge
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Are We Really Going to Live Forever?
@ Pritzker Auditorium at Harold Washington Library
400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 6PM - 7:15PM
Shelby Gahm: Layers
@ C33 Gallery
33 E Congress Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Monday, May 1st
West Side/South Side: Bridging the Divide
@ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
#AiWeiwei
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL60605
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, July 2nd
William Cordova Networking Event: Part 2
@ Threewalls
2738 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
Self-publishing for Activism
@ Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
929 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
The Rear View Mirror Sessions: The Excellence of Donny Hathaway
@ Arts Incubator in Washington Park
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Hokin Honors 2017 Exhibition
@ The Hokin Gallery
623 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Grandma’s Kitchen
@ The Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 4PM - 7PM
Conversation: About Ai Weiwei
@ Ferguson Lecture Hall - The 600 Building
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 6:45PM - 9:45PM
The Cinema of Chantal Akerman: Time, Borders, Politics
@ Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, Illinois 60208
Opening Thursday, April 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
Wael Shawky: Visiting Artists Program Lecture
@ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Visiting Artists Program
230 S. Columbus Dr.
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
That Belongs in a Museum
@ The Gallery Cabaret
2020 N Oakley Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
In-Session 3: Jaclyn Jacunski, Norman Long, and Rose Hernandez
@ Thawalls
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Henry Darger’s 125th Birthday Celebration
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 12PM - 8:30PM
Betwixt + Between: Henry Darger’s Vivian Girls
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
This Land is Your Land
@ DfbrL8r
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Sinema Obscura Presents: Animation Compilation
@ Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 8PM - 10PM
2017 Student Annual
@ University Galleries of Illinois State University
11 Uptown Cir, Ste 103, Normal, IL 61761
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 14th
Zion Hill: Envisioning a Black Future
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, April 12th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
MCA Screen: Untitled (Just Kidding)
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, from 6PM - 7PM
Francesco Marullo
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
I’m hurting when you’re not with me
@ Hume
3242 W Armitage Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, from 7PM - 10PM
Open TV Presents: 195 Lewis
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, from 6PM - 8PM
Science, Science Fiction, and Imagining Nature’s Future
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Sharp Building
37 S. Wabash Ave., room 327, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, April 10th, from 4:15PM - 5:45PM
JUST WANT TO TRY YOU ON // BIG GIRL STUFF
@ DFBL8R GALLERY
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago IL
Opening Monday, April 10th, from 8PM - 9:30PM
On view through Tuesday, April 11th
Chicago Emerging Museum Professionals: Museums 101
@ Beermiscuous
2812 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Monday, April 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
Diversity, Dissensus, Performance (and Games)
@ Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
929 E 60th St, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Monday, April 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Dr. Rock
@ The Franklin
3522 W Franklin Blvd, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Sunday, April 9th, from 3PM - 6PM
Lesley Jackson: Walking with Rilke
@ 4th Ward Project Space
5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, April 9th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 7th
Barbara Koenen: #Sunrise #Dawn (2016)
@ Mosnart Visiting Artist Project
11319 S Saint Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60628
Opening Sunday, April 9th, from 3PM - 5PM
Our Rooms Share A Wall
@ Collabo
1930 N Fairfield Ave, Chicago, IL 60647-4207
Opening Sunday, April 9th, from 1PM - 4PM
Battles: SS3 Post-Butoh Festival – Battle #1
@ No Nation Gallery
1542 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 8PM - 10PM
Opie Otterstad: Cubs’ Moment of Victory
@ Narrative Gallery
835 Michigan Avenue
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, April 9th
Alejandro T. Acierto: Breathing Room
@ Roman Susan
1224 West Loyola Avenue
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, April 27th
Burn 353: Through My Mind’s Eye
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Monday, April 29th
The Hard Earth: A Ukrainian Documentary Screening
@ The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
A New Look
@ Monique Meloche Gallery
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 3rd
Joanne Aono and Kate Ingold: Attention is the Beginning of Devotion
@ Victorian House Art Gallery
577 S Main S, Bourbonnais, IL 60914
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Thursday, May 4th
Josh Rios and Anthony Romero: As A Shadow Before The Law (an exhibition)
@ Ballroom Projects
3012 S Archer Ave, #3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 28th
Pekan & Ashwood Presents “Apparitions”
@ The Outtaspace
6840 32nd St, Berwyn, IL 60402
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 6PM - 2AM
2017 BFA Performance Festival
@ SAIC Performance
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 7PM - 11:59PM
Alba Soto: Screwing The Pieces
@ Defibrillator Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
Ghost Pattern Waves
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
Amanda Mudrovich: METAMORPHOSIS
@ La Catrina Cafe
1011 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 11PM
On view through Monday, May 1st
Natural Inclinations
@ Ukrainian Institute Of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 28th
I’m calling from a great distance
@ Spudnik Press Cooperative
1821 W Hubbard ST STE 302, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
17th Annual Spring Art Sale
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 8th
In Acts
@ Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W Superior St, Suite 203, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 10th
Day 2: UChicago’s Centennial Brooks
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 9am - 7PM
12th Annual Juried Photography Exhibition
@ Morpho Gallery
5216 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, May 10th
Sabine Weiss: Intimate Memory
@ Stephen Daiter Gallery
230 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 29th
Anahita Ghazvinizadeh in conversation with Daniel Quiles
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave, #1307, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
Chris Orta and Jose Quezada: The City of Flowers
@ Pilsen Outpost
1958 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 11PM
Marcelo Eli: Earthquake
@ Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, Illinois 60653
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
Johana Moscoso: Round and Round
@ Dole Mansion Gallery
401 Country Club Rd, Crystal Lake, IL 60014
Opening Friday, April 7th, at 6PM
On view through Wednesday, April 26th
1993 Whitney Biennial!: UIC BFA Thesis Show
@ UIC School of Art & Art History
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, April 14th
Yingting Cui and Siman Meng: On the Edge of Virtual Infosphere
@ gallery no one
1579 N Milwaukee Ave Rm 303, Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Friday, April 14th
Sew Show
@ Plus Gallery Chicago
1800 W 18th St 1R, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
Julius D C Bautista and Brad Leslie
@ Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, April 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
Visiting Artist Talk: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, April 6th, from 7PM - 9PM
Chantal Akerman: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
@ Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, April 6th, from 7PM - 9PM
