May 2025
Eugenio Salazar Castro: This Big Rhythm
@ Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St. STO, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 9th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Berlin Alexanderplatz| Free Film Screening
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, May 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
Cornelia Arts Building May Open Studios – Opening Night
@ Cornelia Arts Building
1800 W Cornelia Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, May 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
Margot McMahon: RING OF FIRE: FRIENDS, REEFS, AND BOUNCING BACK
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, May 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 5th
Lauren Iacoponi and Millicent Kennedy: All Houses Are Haunted
@ Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, Unit 845, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Alexis Estrada: My Vision of You
@ Cleaner Gallery + Projects
1856 N Richmond St. STO, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 9th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Cara Thayer: RUMINATIONS
@ Cara Thayer Artist Studio
1932 S Halsted St, Unit 506, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, June 10th
Tatiana Jackson: In the Flow of Bloom
@ Chicago Grand Gallery
2842 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 9th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
The First Homosexuals Symposium
@ Wrightwood 659
659 Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, May 9th, at 5:15PM
On view through Saturday, May 10th
Conversation Pieces: Irene Hsiao and Julian Stern
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 9th, from 12PM - 1PM
Eshan Rafi: my father’s imagination
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Thursday, May 8th, at 7PM
On view through Monday, May 19th
BITTERROOT (2024) with director Vera Brunner-Sung and actor Wa Yang
@ Block Cinema at Annie May Swift Hall
Annie May Swift Hall, 1920 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 8th, from 7 PM - 9 PM
Bridging The Divide: Arts As Resistance Uplifting APIDA Voices
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Thursday, May 8th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Off the Page: an evening of queer comics readings
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, May 8th, at 7PM
Tom Burtonwood: Recurring
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E. Ontario St., Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, May 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, July 30th
2025 Northwestern MFA Thesis Exhibition: A NEW STATE OF MATTER
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 22nd
Artist Conversation: Lee Kang-Hyo on Tradition as Inspiration
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 8th, from 6PM - 7PM
Antigone Reimagined
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, May 8th, from 6PM - 7PM
parallel + forms = find = forms + parallel
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
Synthesize: Artist Talk with Zach Balousek, Margie Criner, John T. Upchurch, and Lucie Van der Elst
@ Madron Gallery
1000 W North Ave, 3rd Fl, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, May 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 23rd
Laura Cavanagh: Perchance to Dream
@ Stamelos Gallery Center, Mardigian Library-1st Floor, University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Rod,, Dearborn, Michigan 48128
Opening Thursday, May 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, August 10th
Kathie Shaw: Sequences in Time
@ Koehnline Museum of Art
1600 E Golf Rd, Des Plaines, IL 60016
Opening Thursday, May 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, June 27th
Raqs Media Collective: Cavalcade
@ Newberry Library
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 8th, at 4PM
On view through Friday, July 11th
The Night Before: A Bijou Video Presentation
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, May 8th, from 7PM - 9PM
Act Well Your Part, Designing Hull-House Theatre
@ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, May 7th, from 7:30PM - 6PM
Cavalcade: Raqs Media Collective in Conversation
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave Suite 420 Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Wednesday, May 7th, from 5PM - 7PM
Ava Mirage Wanbli: We Live In Every Pixel: Summoner
@ No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Monday, May 5th, at 10:15PM
CONSUMER., IN MASKS & MELON SPROUT,
@ No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Monday, May 5th, at 8PM
HEAR BELOW, a soundwalk through Chicago’s Pedway system with Allen Moore
@ Block 37
108 N State St (near the elevators), Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Monday, May 5th, from 1PM - 2PM
Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Streets of Ulster, with Louise Denver and Dr. Ciara Chambers
@ Media Burn Archive
Online
Opening Monday, May 5th, at 5PM
Horizons, Epiphany I (1973, 2023)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, May 4th, at 7PM
Queer Fiber Artist Night at Dorothy
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, May 4th, from 6PM - 11PM
Art/Access Lab: Incongruent Access
@ Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, May 4th, from 2PM - 4PM
Madeline Aguilar and Jordan Knecht: (un)learning Center
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, May 4th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 1st
Art Talks! Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Sunday, May 4th, from 2PM - 3PM
Jamie Wendt: Book Launch & Signing Event
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, May 4th, from 2PM - 4PM
Ariel Zhang: Distant View Nearby
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, May 4th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 8th
Echo Mutation Closing Reception/Artist Talk
@ Chicago Grand Gallery
2842 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago, Il 60622
Opening Sunday, May 4th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 4th
Intermissions: Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, at 7PM
Side Yard Sounds: Michael Zerang and Chad M. Clark + Bill Harris, Caroline Jesalva, and Jason Stein.
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, from 7PM - 9PM
Support Milk, an upcoming Palestinian short film!
@ Chicago
RSVP for address
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
General Readings Presents Reading the Surreal
@ The Whistler
2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, at 6PM
Conduit
@ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave #3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 15th
Steve Bravo: POPJECTS
@ Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, June 1st
School & Studio Sale + Fundraiser
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, May 25th
Chang-Ching Su: A Dream Cast in Dormancy (Even Shadows Glow in the Dark)
@ Murmuration
2846 W North Ave Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, April 24th
Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom: Talk
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, at 2PM
On view through Sunday, August 31st
Damon Locks: We Are Our People/Listen to This: Artist Talk
@ Goldfinch
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, at 1PM
On view through Saturday, May 3rd
Raissa Bailey: Artist Talk
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, from 1PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, May 30th
Chicago Lady Painters: Spring Party
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd FL, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, from 1PM - 4PM
ALL I WANNA DO (aka STRIKE!) (1998) in 35mm with Ira Deutchman
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston Il
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, from 12:20 PM - 3 PM
Con cariño: Letters to Women in Prison
@ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 3rd, from 11AM - 12PM
How to See in the Dark
@ Co-prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 1st
SO LOVELY TO BE: The Everyday Poetics of Sandra Davis
@ Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, May 2nd, at 7PM
Co-MISSION Works-In-Progress Spring 2025
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 7PM - 8:30PM
SEARCHING FOR MR. RUGOFF (2019) with director Ira Deutchman
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston Il
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 7 PM - 9 PM
Le Hien Minh: Parallel to Hell
@ Co-prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 1st
TRAIN RATTLING: AGITATOR MEMBERS SHOW 2025: Closing
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 2nd
Sheri Smith: When I See, When I Hear, I Draw… Musical Muses and Others
@ August House Studio
2113 W Roscoe St. Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Landscapes
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 25th
2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition: Substitute Equal Amounts (Part 1)
@ Logan Center Exhibitions
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 18th
Molly English & Kristyn McKinney: Animorph
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 2nd, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 7th
Vanessa Woods: Recast
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 21st
SoFo Tap and Full Kit Gear Happy Hour – Chicago Leather Pride Weekend
@ SoFo Tap
4923 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 3PM - 5PM
Silver Screen Society: Plan 75
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Ellen Hanson: Swimmers
@ Care of Gallery
990 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, IL 60093
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 5PM - 7PM
spring air 2025
@ Kimball Arts Center
1757 N Kimball Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, July 1st
다 빈치: Closing Reception
@ Shanghai Seminary
3262 S. Morgan St. Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, May 2nd
Gala de Arte : Orgullo Mexicano
@ Hyatt Regency Chicago
151 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 6PM - 11PM
FIGURES
@ Chicago Fine Art Salon
2623 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 7th
Raissa Bailey: Venus Rising, Axiom Schema
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 30th
A.R.C. Affiliate: Member Show
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 30th
Pat Stephens: Earthy Stories
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 30th
KING’S ART SHOW @ THE FRIENDLY
@ FRIENDLY COMMUNITY ROOM
6729 W Roosevelt Rd, Berwyn, IL 60402
On view through Sunday, May 25th
Country Style U.S.A.
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, June 7th
Drifting Timelines 流动时序
@ Cochrane Woods Art Center
5540 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 2nd, from 3PM - 4:30PM
On view through Saturday, June 7th
Tony Tasset
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, June 7th
The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939
@ Wrightwood 659
659 Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Saturday, July 26th
Screening: VOICES OF DEOLI (2025) with director Lulu Men and producer Joy Ma
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 1st, from 7 PM - 10 PM
Katrin Schnabl: QUALIA: Artist Talk
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, May 1st, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 17th
Mary Patten: At The Risk Of Seeming Ridiculous
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, May 1st, from 6PM - 8PM
Lecture: Face of Our Time—The Radical Art of the Cologne Progressives
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 1st, from 6PM - 7PM
It’s Weird Eggs Were Ever Cheap
@ Bodock
3216 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Thursday, May 1st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 25th
The Face of Our Time: The Radical Art of the Cologne Progressives | Lecture
@ Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Opening Thursday, May 1st, from 6PM - 7PM
The Stain Lab: mud + acid launch
@ The Stain Lab
2108 N Damen Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 1st, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 17th
Artist Meet + Greet: F o u r T e c h s p r e s s i o n i s t A r t i s t s
@ 150 Media Stream
150 N Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606
Opening Thursday, May 1st, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, July 20th
