October 2025
Theaster Gates: Unto Thee
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, February 22nd
M. Carson Day: blue/bird/boy
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 26th
The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon
@ Illinois Tech - Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship
3241 S Federal St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 2PM - 3PM
Carlos Javier Ortiz: Inherit America Artist Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St, Riverside IL 60546
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, October 18th
Matwaala Mehfilm: First-Ever South Asian Poetry Film Festival
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 2PM - 5PM
tianguis
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 2PM - 8PM
José Santiago Pérez: ShimmeRings: Artist Talk
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
2233 S Throop St, #419, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, October 4th, at 1PM
Chicago Ceramics Crawl
@ Various studios across the city
Chicago
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 11AM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, October 5th
Pretty Good Fest
@ Chicago Athletic Association
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 11AM - 6PM
Educator Workshop | Color Alchemy
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 11AM - 1PM
Community on the Make Arts of Life 2000 – 2025 (part deux)
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
On view through Saturday, November 22nd
David Bender: The Forgotten Lives Project
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston IL 60201
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 9AM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 2nd
Queer History Symposium at Gerber/Hart
@ Gerber/Hart Library & Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, October 4th, from 9AM - 5PM
Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
On view through Thursday, February 5th
Natural Histories
@ THE MISSION PROJECTS | THE RESIDENCE
email info@themissionprojects.com for an appointment
On view through Saturday, December 13th
The Witch Project
@ The Den Theatre
1331 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 7PM - 8PM
THE WITCH’S MIRROR (EL ESPEJO DE LA BRUJA, 1962)
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 7PM - 9:30PM
poïsons: a trans reading series
@ Loaves & Witches
6034 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, October 3rd, at 7PM
Aeron Maxwell: “Electro-Glam”
@ Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, November 29th
Yvonne Doll
@ Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Brothers’ Bones Beside
@ Gallery Victor
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 1st
Katherine Skwira-Brown: Sidelighting
@ Point Blank
3317 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 19th
WILLING TO BUILD
@ Walls Turned Sideways
2717 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
ART OF AUTUMN
@ Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 31st
Annual Open House and Huge Art Exhibit at Hubbard Street Lofts
@ Hubbard Street Lofts
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 3rd
VesSouls | FÁTIMA: Artist Talk + Activation
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
1431 W Hubbard St, Suite 201 Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On Creative Practice: Daniel Hojnacki and Pia Singh
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Beyond the Fold: A Journey Through the Realms of Jason Brammer
@ Chicago Truborn
1741 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 5th
West Town Art Walk
@ Multiple
Multiple
Opening Friday, October 3rd, at Multiple
On view through Sunday, October 5th
AfroFuturist Weekend 10 Day 3: AfroBoricua/Afro-Caribbean Celebration
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 3rd, at 8PM
Dorothy’s First Annual: Homo Homecoming!
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 1AM
Elyse Martin: Moving On
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, October 24th
Aesthetics of Power
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, October 24th
CHUCK WALKER 3 days
@ Chuck Walker
1431 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Sunday, October 5th
The Joffrey + Ballet in the U.S.
@ Wrightwood 659
659 Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Saturday, December 20th
Ellen Altfest: Forever
@ Wrightwood 659
659 Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Saturday, December 20th
Scott Burton: Shape Shift
@ Wrightwood 659
659 Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Saturday, December 20th
Surviving the Long Wars Book Discusion w/Faheem Majeed
@ Walls Turned Sideways
2717 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, October 2nd, from 7PM - 9PM
Refining The Third Ear – Night 3
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, October 2nd, from 7PM - 9PM
GBOMA 2025
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, October 2nd, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Jordan Lord: Shared Resources
@ Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 2nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Ann Kogen: STREET
@ Dittmar Memorial Gallery
1999 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 2nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, December 3rd
Facing Pages
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, October 2nd, from 6PM - 7PM
Jessica Zawadowicz: In the middle
@ Seerveld Gallery
6601 W College Dr, Palos Heights, IL 60463
Opening Thursday, October 2nd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, October 30th
AfroFuturist Weekend 10 Day 2: Improvised Music Series x the Dark Matter Series and Residency
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, October 2nd, at 8PM
Celluloid Is Out: Queer Freedom and Subculture of the 1970s
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
On view through Thursday, December 4th
Elaborate
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, October 1st, from 6:45PM - 9:30PM
VOICES: Suneil Sanzgiri
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, October 1st, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Alanna Huck-Scarry: The Promise of Spring
@ DePaul Richardson Art Gallery
2350 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago, IL, 60614
Opening Wednesday, October 1st, from 4:30PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, November 13th
Drone Rodeo: Zander Raymond and Clem Leek
@ The Hideout
1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, October 1st, at 7PM
LUX presents Privacy & Eroticism with Carta Monir, Kate Wagner and Asya Sağnak
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Wednesday, October 1st, from 7PM - 8PM
