This exhibition examines the artistic genealogies and social justice movements that connect Puerto Rico with Chicago. Featuring works by an intergenerational group of artists with ties to Chicago, the exhibition presents Puerto Rican painters who use printmaking techniques and approaches alongside artists who address social and political issues through their work. entre horizontes (between horizons) […]

The newly formed Center for Native Futures (CfNF) presents this inaugural exhibition featuring more than a dozen established and emerging Native artists from the Great Lakes region. Exhibiting artists include CfNF co-founders Chris Pappan, Monica Rickert-Bolter, and Debra Yepa-Pappan, as well as Noelle Garcia, Kelly Church, Jason Wesaw, Tom Jones, Holly Wilson, John Hitchcock, Camille […]

In this two-part exhibition, designer Norman Teague uses legendary jazz musician John Coltrane’s album A Love Supreme as a personal, cultural, and spiritual touchstone to consider design influences from his lifelong home in Chicago. He explores how the power of bold improvisational jazz and unapologetic Black aesthetics have expanded the minds and inspired creative communities of color. […]

Discover the intricate world of Alice Shaddle (1928–2017), an artist whose practice of more than 60 years in Chicago centered on paper-based creations. Curated by Nicholas Lowe and Lisa Stone, the exhibition introduces Shaddle’s ingenious, original manipulations of paper, revealing her intensive modes of working and inventive use of materials. The exhibition explores Shaddle’s life […]

Lawrence Agyei: DRILL is the artist’s first solo exhibition featuring portraits documenting Chicago’s South Shore Drill Team. Through photographic acuity, Agyei captures the team’s unwavering focus, confidence, and youthfulness as they prepare for the return of the 2022 Bud Billiken parade following their first halt in performances in 35 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

This one-person exhibition features the art of Chicago-based creative Victoria Martinez, who works in a variety of materials and scales, drawing inspiration from the body, the urban environment, architecture, and graffiti.

Longstanding artist, educator, and designer Robert Earl Paige believes beauty should be accessible all around us for everyone to experience. This exhibition presents a survey of textiles, drawings, tiles, prints, and other works that spans over half a century of Paige’s prolific creative practice and aims to encourage us to make art every day. The […]

As part of The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige, the Hyde Park Art Center presents this companion exhibition in an adjacent gallery that features the works of local artists […]

This exhibition examines the 1893 World's Fair as a platform for expressions of cultural identity and reveals how many Chicago and Mexican artists had similar objectives. The exhibition features 19th-century […]

Architecture creates an indelible mark on the landscape; buildings speak to the culture of the people. We are tied together by the stories of our lives and the places we've […]

This retrospective celebrates the remarkable career of Christina Ramberg (1946–1995), best known for her stylized paintings of fragments of the female body that critique physical and social constraints. Ramberg's work, […]