Art Exhibitions in Chicago

101 shows currently on view across 4 venue types

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Matisse's Jazz: Rhythms in Color

Henri Matisse

Art Institute of Chicago

Mar 7 – Jun 1

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Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1974–2024

Carroll Dunham

Art Institute of Chicago

Jan 31 – Jun 1

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EXPO CHICAGO 2026

EXPO CHICAGO

Apr 9 – Apr 12

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Firelei Báez

MCA

Nov 15 – May 31

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Theaster Gates - African Still Life #3: A Tribute to Patric McCoy and Marva Jolly

Theaster Gates

Smart Museum

Sep 23 – Jul 5

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The Other Art Fair Chicago 2026

The Other Art Fair

Apr 9 – Apr 12

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Melville Price

McCormick Gallery

Feb 5 – Mar 20

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Jimmy DeSana, Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Document

Jan 9 – Mar 21

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Jack Poker: Beneath an Economy of Sky

Jack Poker

SoNa Chicago

Feb 20 – Mar 21

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Authorized Entry: Akiva Listman and Sechor

Akiva Listman, Sechor

VSG

Feb 14 – Mar 21

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Spaces for People, Systems for Spaces

Kim Beck, John Behnke, Marshall Brown +13 more

Western Exhibitions

Jan 9 – Mar 21

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Catalyst | Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago

Carlos Barberena, Isamu Guy Conners, María Enríquez de Allen +19 more

Intuit

May 23 – Mar 22

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Melville Price

McCormick Gallery

Feb 5 – Mar 20

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Jimmy DeSana, Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Document

Jan 9 – Mar 21

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Jack Poker: Beneath an Economy of Sky

Jack Poker

SoNa Chicago

Feb 20 – Mar 21

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Authorized Entry: Akiva Listman and Sechor

Akiva Listman, Sechor

VSG

Feb 14 – Mar 21

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Spaces for People, Systems for Spaces

Kim Beck, John Behnke, Marshall Brown +13 more

Western Exhibitions

Jan 9 – Mar 21

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Catalyst | Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago

Carlos Barberena, Isamu Guy Conners, María Enríquez de Allen +19 more

Intuit

May 23 – Mar 22

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Lya Finston: A Lesser Light

Lya Finston

ARC Gallery

Mar 5 – Mar 27

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Cait Hardie: Meander

Cait Hardie

ARC Gallery

Mar 5 – Mar 27

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Iris Goldstein: A New Way of Seeing

Iris Goldstein

ARC Gallery

Mar 5 – Mar 27

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Stand & Bear Witness - exhibit opening

Kateryna Tkachenko, Pat Battle, Darya Foroohar +19 more

Agitator

Mar 7 – Mar 28

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Life Imitates Art

Mario Ayala, Cristine Brache, Caitlin Cherry +17 more

Anthony Gallery

Feb 12 – Mar 28

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Loud & Clear

Jordan "Soup" Campbell

Blanc

Feb 13 – Mar 28

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I Dream I Cross the River in One Stride

Clémence Gbonon, Brittney Leeanne Williams, Autumn Wallace

Mariane Ibrahim

Feb 13 – Mar 28

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I Would Follow Her by Ground and Sea

Ayana V. Jackson

Mariane Ibrahim

Jan 22 – Mar 28

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The Heresy of Legacy

Selva Aparicio, Richard Artschwager, Garry Knox Bennett +14 more

Volume

Feb 13 – Mar 28

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27th International Open

Katalina Barrera, Shweta Bist, Lauren Petrick Brooks +38 more

WMG

Feb 28 – Mar 28

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Bruce Goff: Material Worlds

Bruce Goff

Art Institute of Chicago

Dec 20 – Mar 29

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LENS 2026

Samuel Anderson, Robin Bailey, Terry Barczak +25 more

Perspective Gallery

Mar 5 – Mar 29

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Shaping Vision: Work by the Lillstreet Drawing and Painting Faculty

Sarah Bastress, Erik Brown, Melanie Brown +14 more

Lillstreet

Mar 1 – Mar 31

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Salon Show

Nora Benjamin, Chris Cosnowski, Alli Davis +11 more

Purple Window Gallery

Mar 14 – Mar 31

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Quiet Piggy: We Cannot Be Silenced

Amended Archives, Olivia Rachel Austin, Carrie Bennett +55 more

WMG

Feb 18 – Mar 31

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Michelle Wasson: Songs of the Marauder

Michelle Wasson

Andrew Rafacz

Feb 20 – Apr 4

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When the Div Came Home

Soheila Kayoud

Andrew Rafacz

Feb 20 – Apr 4

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Rafael Tufiño: El Café Portfolio

Rafael Tufiño

NMPRAC

Jan 30 – Apr 4

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Abolición

José R. Alicea, Myrna Báez, Rafael López del Campo +6 more

NMPRAC

Jan 30 – Apr 4

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Japanese Prints from the Collection of Bruce Goff

Kawase Hasui, Yoshida Hiroshi, Oda Kazuma +2 more

Art Institute of Chicago

Jan 7 – Apr 6

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Chair-ish

Alex Chitty, Norman Teague

CCMA

Jan 22 – Apr 11

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The Division Street Riots

Carlos Rolón

65GRAND

Mar 6 – Apr 12

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Paper Remix: Exploration in Collage Students of Bonnie Katz

Julie Blackman, Laura Boehm, Karen Gaebe +4 more

EAC

Mar 7 – Apr 12

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EXPO CHICAGO 2026

EXPO CHICAGO

Apr 9 – Apr 12

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The Glass Eyeball: Vistas

LCE

Jan 16 – Apr 12

Featured Reception Apr 9

The Other Art Fair Chicago 2026

The Other Art Fair

Apr 9 – Apr 12

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Leah Ke Yi Zheng: Change, I Ching (64 Paintings)

Leah Ke Yi Zheng

The Renaissance Society

Jan 10 – Apr 12

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Context 2026

Andrés Altamirano, Mark Ambruster, Joshua Aronson +22 more

Filter Photo

Mar 6 – Apr 18

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Debra Kayes: I seem to be a verb.

Debra Kayes

TSA

Mar 7 – Apr 18

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Junonia

Carrie Gundersdorf

4WPS

Mar 15 – Apr 19

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DUALITY

Sabrina Katz, Bumpy Wilson, Dan Gemkow +20 more

Jackson Junge Gallery

Mar 2 – Apr 19

Reception Mar 27

2026 BA Thesis Exhibition: still pouring

Lucy Bulley, Raquel Dawson, Ayla Eichler +3 more

LCE

Mar 27 – Apr 19

Art in Bloom

Georgia O'Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz

MAM

Apr 16 – Apr 19

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Illinois High School Art Exhibition 2026

BAC

Mar 20 – Apr 19

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It Will Destroy You

Michelle Alexander, Lauren Bertelson, Matias Brimmer +20 more

UIMA

Feb 13 – Apr 19

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Vertical Gallery's all-star 13-Year Anniversary Show

Andria Beighton, Blake Jones, Grant William Thye +10 more

Vertical Gallery

Mar 13 – Apr 19

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MENASA+: Thresholds of Representation

Alemeh Bagherian, Haya Zaidi, Gordon Cheung +6 more

Kavi Gupta

Feb 14 – Apr 20

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Continuing Resistance: A Century of Black Liberation (1925–2025)

Kerry James Marshall, Mary Sibande, Stephen Shames +10 more

Kavi Gupta

Feb 14 – Apr 20

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Keiichi Tanaami - Red Shade

Keiichi Tanaami

CvD

Mar 13 – Apr 25

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Robert Nickle - Collages 1966–1979

Robert Nickle

CvD

Mar 13 – Apr 25

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B. Ingrid Olson - All Lock No Key

B. Ingrid Olson

CvD

Mar 13 – Apr 25

Reception Mar 22

The Lower World

Taj Matumbi

Devening Projects

Mar 22 – Apr 25

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Waves of Return of Waves

Andrew Zarou

Devening Projects

Mar 22 – Apr 25

Now Open Reception Mar 20

Nyeema Morgan : take my wife…PLEASE!

Nyeema Morgan

PATRON

Mar 20 – Apr 25

Now Open Reception Mar 20

Daniel G. Baird : Margin

Daniel G. Baird

PATRON

Mar 20 – Apr 25

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Rieles y Raíces: Traqueros in Chicago and the Midwest

NMMA

Nov 21 – Apr 26

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Living with Modernism: Kelli Connell's Pictures for Charis and Double Life

Kelli Connell, Edward Weston

EAM

Jan 25 – Apr 27

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Carmen Neely: a trace beyond the life of the body

Carmen Neely

Mariane Ibrahim

Feb 2 – May 2

Pulse

Bianca Brandolino, Sabrina Rose Sabella

Purple Window Gallery

Apr 10 – May 2

Reception Apr 4

Nelson W. Armour: Teaching

Nelson W. Armour

Perspective Gallery

Apr 2 – May 3

Now Open Reception Mar 20

Janny Baek: Life Forms

Janny Baek

Joy Machine

Mar 20 – May 9

Reception Apr 10

Sheri Rush - The Calm of Chaos

Sheri Rush

McCormick Gallery

Mar 26 – May 9

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Forty Tows

Mario Ayala

Anthony Gallery

Mar 12 – May 10

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Yoonshin Park: Prompt and Prompted

Yoonshin Park, Kimberly Bailey, Miriam Bisby +10 more

HPAC

Jan 24 – May 10

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This Side of the Stars: Rauschenberg's "Stoned Moon" in the Company of Kite, Paglen, and Yi

Robert Rauschenberg, Kite, Trevor Paglen +1 more

Haggerty Museum

Jan 23 – May 16

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Let the Real World In

Kirsten Leenaars

Haggerty Museum

Jan 23 – May 16

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Declaration of ____

Aaron Hughes, Art Build Workers, Nicolas Lampert +1 more

Haggerty Museum

Jan 23 – May 16

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MoCP at Fifty: Collecting Through the Decades

Raul Corrales, Uta Barth, Dorothea Lange +2 more

MoCP

Jan 29 – May 16

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Firelei Báez

MCA

Nov 15 – May 31

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Matisse's Jazz: Rhythms in Color

Henri Matisse

Art Institute of Chicago

Mar 7 – Jun 1

Featured Now Open

Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1974–2024

Carroll Dunham

Art Institute of Chicago

Jan 31 – Jun 1

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Nature is Arts Muse

Dorian Sylvain, Kari Blak, Amira Sylvain +14 more

HPAC

Jul 31 – Jun 1

Reception Mar 27

Dabin Ahn

Document

Mar 27 – Jun 6

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Weathering, To Form More Time

Daniel Hojnacki

Hana Pietri

Mar 10 – Jun 8

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Evergreen

Elena Ailes, Mark Alcazar Diaz, Kayla Anderson +14 more

ROMAN SUSAN

Mar 10 – Jun 8

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Schippa Wildfong Liberté

Schippa Wildfong

Twelve Ten Gallery

Mar 10 – Jun 8

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John Stezaker - Raft

John Stezaker

GRAY

Mar 28 – Jun 13

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Roger Brown Weathervane

Roger Brown

GRAY

Mar 19 – Jun 13

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Teresa Montoya's Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years after the Gold King Mine Spill

Teresa Montoya

Block Museum

Feb 4 – Jun 14

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The Block Collects: Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing 215

Sol LeWitt

Block Museum

Feb 4 – Jun 14

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Ann Toebbe: Cooler by the Lake

Ann Toebbe

HPAC

Feb 28 – Jun 14

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2026 - Cosmic Connections

Ravi Arupa, Megan Greene, Michiko Itatani

Lubeznik

Mar 6 – Jun 14

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Atrium Project: Edie Fake

Edie Fake

MCA

Mar 25 – Jun 14

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Barbara Nessim: My Compass Is the Line

Barbara Nessim

DPAM

Mar 5 – Jun 21

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Alice Tippit: Rose Obsolete

Alice Tippit

DPAM

Mar 5 – Jun 21

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Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art

Bihyeon (비현), Yi Myeonggi (이명기), Park Rehyun (박래현) +4 more

Art Institute of Chicago

Mar 7 – Jul 5

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Collection in Conversation with Pablo Helguera

Pablo Helguera, Rebecca Horn, Magdalena Abakanowicz

MCA

Aug 2 – Jul 5

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Smart to the Core: Wise to Power

Smart Museum

Sep 23 – Jul 5

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Theaster Gates - African Still Life #3: A Tribute to Patric McCoy and Marva Jolly

Theaster Gates

Smart Museum

Sep 23 – Jul 5

Cydney M. Lewis: Weeds Grow in All Directions

Cydney M. Lewis

HPAC

Apr 4 – Jul 12

Alison Ruttan: The Paradox of Inaction

Alison Ruttan

HPAC

Apr 4 – Jul 12

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Abuela's House

Destyni 'Desi' Swoope

NMPRAC

Sep 6 – Jul 18

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Lucas Samaras: Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking

Lucas Samaras

Art Institute of Chicago

Jan 31 – Jul 20

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Defying Empire: Revolutionary Prints from Britain and America

William Hogarth, Thomas Cook, George Robinson +6 more

Haggerty Museum

Jan 23 – Aug 1

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Oren Pinhassi: Into Your Arm's Length

Oren Pinhassi

Arts Club

Mar 31 – Aug 8

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City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago

Nick Cave, Edie Fake, Mary Patten +2 more

MCA

Jul 5 – Aug 16

Impressions of a City: Drawings by Marvin Young

Marvin Young

Intuit

Apr 9 – Aug 23

Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón

Isaac Julien, Edra Soto, Alberta Whittle +3 more

MCA

Apr 14 – Sep 20

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Cut It Out: Papercutting Traditions and Beyond

Kanako Abe, Blanka Amezkua, Rene Mendoza +24 more

RAM

Feb 18 – Oct 3

Drawing with Metal: Sculpture by Bill Brady

William Brady

Intuit

Apr 9 – Oct 4

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Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and The Survival of a People

La Vaughn Belle, Rebel Betty, Mónica Ching +9 more

NMPRAC

Jan 31 – Oct 17

Brendan Fernandes: In the Round

Brendan Fernandes

Driehaus Museum

Apr 12 – Nov 14

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Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost

Raqib Shaw

Art Institute of Chicago

Jun 7 – Nov 15

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Three Generations Intertwined by Lace

Mili Arango, Lisa Cappalli, Cecilia Fernández Cappalli

NMPRAC

Mar 14 – Jan 9, 2027

Life is an Art: The Collection of Jan Petry

Emery Blagdon, James Castle, Ulysses Davis +10 more

Intuit

Apr 9 – Mar 21, 2027