the
VISUALIST
•
chicago visual
arts calendar
about
archive
submit
past events
Friday
May 2nd
-
Thursday
May 1st
Wednesday
April 30th
Tuesday
April 29th
Monday
April 28th
Sunday
April 27th
-
archives
May 2025
April 2025
March 2025
February 2025
January 2025
December 2024
November 2024
October 2024
September 2024
August 2024
July 2024
June 2024
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
February 2022
January 2022
December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
March 2021
February 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
December 2018
November 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
August 2016
July 2016
June 2016
May 2016
April 2016
March 2016
February 2016
January 2016
December 2015
November 2015
October 2015
September 2015
August 2015
July 2015
June 2015
May 2015
April 2015
March 2015
February 2015
January 2015
December 2014
November 2014
October 2014
September 2014
August 2014
July 2014
June 2014
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
February 2014
January 2014
December 2013
November 2013
October 2013
September 2013
August 2013
July 2013
June 2013
May 2013
April 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
July 2012
June 2012
May 2012
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
March 2011
February 2011
January 2011
December 2010
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
July 2009
May 2008
April 2008
October 2007
May 2007
January 2007
December 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
December 2005
July 2005
September 2004
February 2004
January 2004
October 2003
September 2003
January 2003
October 2002
September 2002
July 2002
June 2002
March 2002
August 2001
June 2001
May 2001
April 2001
March 2001
November 2000
September 2000
August 2000
July 2000
January 2000
September 1998
March 1998
September 1997
August 1997
May 1997
June 1996
March 1996
January 1996
November 1995
April 1995
January 1995
November 1994
June 1993
April 1993
September 1992
January 1992
October 1991
March 1991
February 1991
May 1990
March 1990
April 1989
March 1989
February 1989
June 1988
February 1988
January 1988
October 1987
March 1987
February 1987
March 1986
February 1986
January 1986
November 1985
March 1985
February 1985
June 1984
May 1984
October 1983
September 1983
January 1979
September 1978
March 1978
May 1972
December 1969
November 1969
September 1969
August 1969
June 1969
May 1969
January 1969
December 1963
November 1963
July 1947
Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
$post = $posts[0]; if (is_day()) { the_time('M jS, Y'); } elseif (is_month()) { the_time('F Y'); } elseif (is_year()) { the_time('Y'); } ?>
Columbia College Chicago BFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
@
Arcade Gallery
618 S Michigan Ave, 2nd fl, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, May 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, May 23rd
A.J. McClenon
@
Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative
1456 E. 70th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 11th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
What do you want (gently)
@
No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave Fl 2 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 11th
It is two minutes to midnight
@
Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W Superior St, Suite 203, Chicago IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 19th
CounterCulture: Hidden Stories of Chicago Past and Present
@
Bucktown Gallery
2207 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 11th, from 6PM - 10:30PM
On view through Sunday, May 27th
Resist! A Visual History of Protest
@
Oak Park Art League
720 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 1st
Public Newsroom #62: Reimagining the High School Newspaper
@
Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
April 1968 and Today: Police and Military Occupation of Chicago
@
Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, September 14th
Quartier Lointains: Emerging AfroFrench filmmakers
@
The Harper Theater
5238 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Philip Carey: Restless Brain Meets Restless Hand
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 13th
Judy Ledgerwood: Chromatic Patterns for the Art Institute of Chicago
@
The Art Institute of Chicago, Bluhm Family Terrace
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, September 30th
Out of Easy Reach Artist’s Dialogues with Ayanah Moor, Bethany Collins, Edra Soto
@
DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Gabriel Zucman: Globalization, Inequality, and Tax Justice
@
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
Leslie Baum on Helen Frankenthaler
@
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 100
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 12PM - 1PM
Propeller Fund 2018: Walk-In Session 2
@
Experimental Station, Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
Columbia College Chicago Art and Art History MFA Thesis
@
Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, May 22nd
Kazumi Seki: Bedtime Breathing
@
Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, May 18th
I Think We’re Alone Now
@
The Block Museum, Alsdorf Gallery
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 24th
The Rear View Mirror Sessions: Patti LaBelle
@
Arts Incubator
301 E. Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
Lesley A. Martin
@
Columbia College Chicago
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, May 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Lesley A. Martin
@
Columbia College Chicago, Ferguson Lecture Hall
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, May 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
Gallery Talk with Poets House
@
Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Wednesday, May 9th, from 12PM - 1PM
Now That’s What I Call Video Art Vol. 18
@
Columbia College Chicago
1104 S Wabash Ave, Room 205, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, May 9th, from 11:30AM - 6PM
Kazumi Seki: Bedtime Breathing
@
Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, May 9th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
On view through Friday, May 18th
Patrick Jagoda and Thenmozhi Soundararajan
@
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
929 E 60th St, Ste 112, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, May 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
Migration and Museums
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, May 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
What Was Painting?
@
Club Nutz
418 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Tuesday, May 8th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, May 8th
Embodying Diaspora
@
Arts Incubator
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, May 8th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, May 8th
Option: Angel Bat Dawid
@
Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, May 7th, from 7PM - 10PM
Collaborative Practices for Artist-Run Spaces
@
Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Monday, May 7th, from 5PM - 8:30PM
First Monday Jazz featuring M+N
@
Currency Exchange Café
305 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, May 7th, from 7PM - 9PM
Tang Chang: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry is Profoundly Beautiful
@
Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, May 7th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, August 5th
The Whole Yadig!? Teen Panel
@
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, May 6th, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 22nd
Anna Kunz: Color Cast
@
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, May 6th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 24th
Dylan Cale Jones: Drawing Session
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, May 6th, from 11AM - 1PM
Felix Mas and Douglas Hofmann: Homage To Woman
@
Martin Lawrence Galleries
5 Woodfield Mall, Schaumburg, IL 60173
Opening Sunday, May 6th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Wednesday, May 30th
Joan Giroux: ecomonopolies
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 11AM - 12PM
On view through Sunday, October 7th
Frank Pollard: Glass Case Mini Art Gallery Opening
@
The WasteShed
2842 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
A Better Tomorrowland
@
SideCar
411 Huehn St, Hammond, IN 46327
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, June 2nd
Volta String Quartet
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 5th
Jason Dunda and Andreas Fischer: Shared Neuroses
@
boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 9th
Warrior Queens Pop-Up Shop
@
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 11AM - 3PM
Sadie Woods: It Was a Rebellion
@
Nichols Tower at Homan Square
http://theradius.us/episode84
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 5AM - 7AM
Christopher Ottinger: Excavations and Lorca Jolene: Liminal Creature
@
Ignition project space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, May 5th, at 6PM
On view through Monday, May 28th
“I’m a game.” Or, “Staying with the Trouble.”
@
Bar4000
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Friday, June 1st
Latinx Nation
@
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 7PM - 12AM
On view through Saturday, May 5th
Peter Broitman
@
Happy Gallery
902 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Tuesday, June 5th
Delicate Cycle
@
World's Largest Laundromat
6246 W Cermak Rd, Berwyn, IL 60402
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, May 6th
Prismisms: Joshua Kent
@
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, May 5th, from 5PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 5th
Emily Hutchings: Give me an account of your doings from the moment that I ceased to be a witness of them
@
Hume
3242 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Steve Hough: Sublime Geometry and Eric Tucker: From the Shore
@
Zg Gallery
300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
Walk on the Wild Side
@
Jean Albano Gallery
215 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 530 PM - 730 PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
Tara Parambi: You Can Buy Happiness But Eventually You’ll Shit It Out
@
AMFM Gallery
2151 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, May 15th
Ye Xuanlin and Sun Yi: Gaze in Silence
@
gallery no one
1579 N Milwaukee Ave, Room 303, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
On view through Thursday, May 31st
The Art of Sitting Quietly and Doing Nothing (2018)
@
The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 7:30PM - 10PM
MoDa: Mother and Daughter Exhibit Together
@
Elmhurst Artists' Guild Gallery
150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 2nd
Ambiguity and Fragments
@
Fulton Street Collective
1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 7PM - 10PM
In the Phantom Tongue of the Mountain Witch
@
LivingRoom
1530 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 7PM - 10PM
Spring Thing ’18
@
Greenleaf Art Center
1806 W Greenleaf Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6PM - 10PM
No Burden For Continuity
@
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 20th
Anahid Ghorbani: The Edge of Shadows
@
Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 26th
Francesco Pergolesi: Tableaux
@
Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 West Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 7th
Climate Change: The Price of Fairness
@
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 3PM - 5PM
Spring Showcase
@
Schneider Gallery
770 N LaSalle Dr #401, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
Perceptions
@
Hofheimer Gallery
4823 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL. 60625
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 5 PM - 8PM
On view through Tuesday, May 29th
Moved to Stillness
@
Gallery19
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
Lauren Sullivan, Kat Gu, Angela Lee: Excavate the Image
@
SITE Sharp
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 4:15PM - 6PM
On view through Wednesday, May 16th
Art Awakening
@
The Art Center Highland Park
1957 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035
Opening Friday, May 4th, at 7PM
Torkwase Dyson and the Wynter-Wells School
@
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Madlener House
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 28th
Public Newsroom #61: Making TV with Aymar Jean Christian
@
Build Coffee
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Post Now and Post New: Afrofuturist Themes in Contemporary Art
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL60605
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Ilit Azoulay
@
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Copyright Protection in the Digital Age
@
LeRoy Neiman Center
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
Remaining Sharp
@
Threewalls
2738 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
Conrad Bakker
@
Art Theory and Practice
Kresge Hall, Rm 1410, 1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL, 60208
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 6PM
MAS Context presents: Nathan Friedman
@
Society of Architectural Historians
1365 N Astor St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, May 3rd, from 6PM - 8PM
In-Session | kevrone. A Panel and Performance
@
Threewalls
2738 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, May 2nd, from 6:03PM - 8PM
Yael Davids
@
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbus Drive Building
280 S Columbus Dr, 319, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, May 2nd, from 5PM - 6:15PM
Lachrymose: Losing the Sky
@
Chicago Picasso
50 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Tuesday, May 1st, from 10AM - 2PM
Ridge Park Art Programming Discussion
@
Ridge Park
9625 S Longwood Dr, Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Tuesday, May 1st, from 6PM - 8PM
In Progress: Food and Labor
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, May 1st, from 6PM - 8PM
America Inside Out: The Muslim Next Door
@
CAIR-Chicago, Azima Center
17 N State St, Ste 1500, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Tuesday, May 1st, from 5:30PM - 8PM
Tricia Van Eck
@
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbus Drive Building
280 S Columbus Dr, 203, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, May 1st, from 5PM - 6:15PM
last page