February 2025
Gear Night @ The Museum
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
Boyslut, Squonk, Kitty Euthanasia, Leo Licari
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 28th, at 8PM
Gregory Amenoff: Paintings
@ Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave. Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 11th
Strange Mathematics
@ Soft Systems
3134 W Chicago Ave., Studio M, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
Bike Winter Art Show 2025 – Closing
@ Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 7PM - 10PM
Stone Soup + Artist Talk with Ray Madrigal
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
Mariel Harari: The possibility of an expanse and what interrupts it
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Friday, April 11th
Melissa Broek: PODS | Artist Talk & Closing Reception
@ Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
Bob Hooper: The Prime Numbers
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 5th
BAUBO UNEARTHED: A Trove of Mystery Laughter in the Face of Grief A Conjuring
@ Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 12th
sea salt // stone air
@ ARTRUSS
4553 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 11th
Seonyoung Lee: Woven Emotions
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 28th
Jeremy Carter and Jenny Halpern: Shadow Between
@ NEIU Fine Art Center Gallery
5500 N St Louis Ave, Building E, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
Geoffrey Todd Smith: Assembly
@ Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 12th
Pedro Vaz: Beginner’s Mind
@ DOCUMENT
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 12th
Melissa Leandro: Auto Alejaimento
@ ANDREW RAFACZ
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 12th
Trish Tillman: Tightrope Walker
@ ANDREW RAFACZ
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 12th
GODZILLA vs CHICAGO Group Art SHow
@ Howling Pages
4354 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
Beyond Frames: Black Women Collectors Shaping Cultural Heritage in Chicago
@ South Side Community Art Center
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Friday, February 28th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 29th
Ordinary Wonders
@ Lubeznik Center for the Arts
101 W 2nd St, Michigan City, IN 46360
On view through Sunday, June 15th
Ben LaMar Gay: Provident
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
STILL FILM (2023) with filmmaker James N. Kienitz Wilkins
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Paul Simmons: Blank Slate
@ Wadsworth Family Gallery at Lewis University
One University Parkway, Romeoville, IL 60446
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, March 14th
DARKROOM 2025: Annual Benefit Auction Party
@ Columbia College Chicago Student Center, Museum of Contemporary Photography
754 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Artist talk with Bri Robinson featuring Candace Sanders
@ LATITUDE CHICAGO
Online
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Radicle Conversation: Welcome 2025 Residents
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Archive(s) of Style
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
ArtHouse Chicago’s Artist Salon Series: Building Community/Activating Storefronts
@ Night City
3650 W Wrightwood, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
An Evening with Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
Kwame Alexander Hosts an Evening with Julieanna Richardson in Honor of Nikki Giovanni
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 5PM - 7PM
Michael Hedges: The Long Run
@ McCormick Gallery
2251 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, April 5th
Hope Wang: Asunder / 满地残阳
@ Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash. Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Friday, April 25th
Pleiades Series: Paige Brown / Anaiet.Soul / Carmani Edwards Trio, Jordan Wright / Adina Rose Duo
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, February 26th, at 8PM
Juan Angel Chávez – ART NOW! Lecture
@ Film Row Cinema - Columbia College Chicago
1104 S Wabash Avenue. Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, February 26th, from 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Culture of Care with Dr. Nicole Truesdell Pt. 2
@ Threewalls
Online
Opening Wednesday, February 26th, from 6PM - 7PM
VISITING ARTIST TALK: JORDAN ANN CRAIG
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, February 26th, at 6PM
The Art of Print with Process/Process
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
55 E. Ontario St. Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, February 26th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Exhibition Keynote: Jordan Ann Craig in Conversation with m.s. RedCherries
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, February 26th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, April 13th
“Woven Being” Curator Tour with Jordan Poorman Cocker
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, February 26th, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 13th
Dreaming Home: Cultural Imagination and Racial Realities of Home Ownership
@ Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, February 25th, from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
VOTE 4 VEGA 2124
@ cam.contemporarie
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, February 25th, from 6PM - 8PM
CGDC Celebrates 5 years
@ Design Museum of Chicago
72 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Tuesday, February 25th, from 4:30 PM - 7 PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
Jan Clough: Looking and Thinking
@ Western Illinois University Art Gallery
1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455
Opening Tuesday, February 25th, from 430PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, April 4th
Eric Larson: Backroads
@ McHenry County College | Epping Gallery
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012
On view through Friday, March 28th
Meanwhile: Film Screening and Director Q&A
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Monday, February 24th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
On view through Sunday, April 6th
ONE NIGHT ONLY Piercing Heart
@ Asian Improv aRts Midwest
4875 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60630
Opening Sunday, February 23rd, from 7PM - 9PM
Donald Morgan: Triangle Pusher
@ Devening Projects
3039 West Carroll Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, February 23rd, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 22nd
Julia Hechtman: Apparitions
@ Devening Projects
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, February 23rd, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 22nd
The Pamphlet Show II: Closing Reception
@ Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Sunday, February 23rd, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, February 23rd
Fetish Film Forum – Blind Beast (1969)
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
Mariam Rezaei & Pat Thomas
@ Bond Chapel
1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, at 8PM
Winter Sounds
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 7PM - 10PM
The Films of Amy Halpern + FILM ELEGY reading with Laura Paul
@ inga
1740 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
General Readings: Epistolary Thinking
@ Cafe Mustache
2313 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 5PM - 8PM
Morgan Nicolette: Beneath the Canopy
@ T. Mari Gallery
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 30th
FRUTAS: EMPODERAMIENTO TRANS
@ Roman Susan at Institute of Cultural Affairs
4750 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago IL 60640
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 3:30PM - 6PM
4222 W. Fullerton Grand Opening/ POSIWID closing reception
@ SAWHORSE
4222 W. Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 2PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 22nd
Drone Stories Embroidery Circle
@ South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 2PM - 4PM
Artist Talk: CV Peterson
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 2PM - 3PM
Debut Screening:”Full Contact” by Paige Taul
@ Tala
1644 W Chicago Ave, #1, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, March 1st
Butoh Artist Talk and Community Discussion with Joan Laage
@ Heritage Museum of Asian Art
3500 S Morgan St, 3rd Fl, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 2PM - 4PM
2wenty 5ive Birthday Party + Book Launch
@ Seven Star Venue Space
2017 W Howard St Chicago, IL 60645
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 1PM - 4PM
Picturing Community: Stories in Photographs
@ Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, March 23rd
Art Talks! Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 12:30PM - 1:30PM
On view through Sunday, July 13th
Post-Baccalaureate Annual Exhibition
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 1st
Graduate Exhibition One
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, March 1st
Fun & Funky Arboreal Alphabets with Julie Wildman
@ Artists Book House
4207 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 12PM - 3PM
Screening | Out of the Picture
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 11AM - 1PM
Pipilotti Rist: Supersubjektiv
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, September 14th
Talk | Publishing Arts Criticism
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 22nd, from 2:30PM - 4PM
Lured, Helena Ford, Winter Rose, Janna Lee
@ Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 21st, at 8PM
Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists 36th Annual Members Exhibition
@ Bridgeport Art Center | 4th Floor Gallery
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, February 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, March 7th
Amy Halpern’s FALLING LESSONS (1992) with guest author Laura Paul
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, February 21st, from 7PM - 9PM
Oscar Lopez: Las Caras Lindas: Portraits
@ Humboldt Park Boathouse Gallery
1301 N Humboldt Dr, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 21st, from 6PM - 8:30PM
Dreams on Dreams: A Lifeline for Links Benefit Performance
@ Links Hall
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, February 21st, from 6PM - 7PM
West Loop Contemporary Fine Art Expo
@ Plumbers Hall
1340 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, February 21st, at 6PM
On view through Sunday, February 23rd
Light Preserver
@ Joy Machine
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, February 21st, from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
On view through Saturday, April 12th
Beyond Words
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, February 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
Delisha McKinney: The Colorful Chaos
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, February 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 5th
Javier Jasso: Clasicos Mexicanos
@ USF Art Gallery
25 E Van Buren St, Joliet, IL 60432
Opening Friday, February 21st, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, March 18th
Between Here & There
@ Hokin Gallery
623 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, February 21st, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, March 25th
Opening Reception for CAPE Exhibitions + Snow City Arts Spring Snowcase
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, February 21st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, March 21st
Quill Tremor
@ Positive space studios
3520 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, February 21st, from 6PM - 10PM
Alberto Aguilar
@ ENGAGE Projects
864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, February 21st, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, March 29th
Celebrating Afro-Cuban Artist Wifredo Lam: A Talk with Art Historian Lowery Stokes Sims
@ Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Thursday, February 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
Embodying the Spirit: the body finds its way
@ Visceral Dance
3121 N Rockwell St, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, February 20th, from 8 PM - 10 PM
On view through Sunday, February 23rd
Ground Floor Performance Program
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, February 20th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Celebrating the Visiting Teaching Artists of Forms & Features
@ Poetry Foundation
Online
Opening Thursday, February 20th, from 6PM - 7PM
Justice Lens Film Series: Double Feature Screening of the Kinloch Doc and Ferguson Rises
@ Chicago Justice Gallery
1344 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, February 20th, from 6 PM - 8:30 PM
Curatorial Conversation with Jeff Stevenson and Terry Karpowicz
@ 21c Museum Hotel
55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, February 20th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Tonika Lewis Johnson and Maria Krysan on Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It
@ Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, February 20th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
The Velvet Vixens Present: Boudoir Bliss: a celebration of self love
@ Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, February 20th, at 7PM
CLEAT Series: Annea Lockwood
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Wednesday, February 19th, at 8PM
Blue Hour Featuring Elizabeth Strauss Friedman & Faisal Mohyuddin
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, February 19th, at 7:30PM
Hijx De Viboras Doradas
@ UIS Visual Arts Gallery
One University Plaza Health and Sciences Building, 201, Springfield, IL 62703
Opening Wednesday, February 19th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Thursday, March 6th
