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 […]
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 Paige identifies as being in his peer-to-peer creative network. The parapluie, or umbrella in French, is how Paige describes the circles of artists that mutually […]
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 works of art from both Chicago and Mexico by some of the leading artists participating in the World’s Fair, along with contemporary artworks by Mexican-born, […]
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 experienced, marking indelible moments in time. The GREYSTONE Collective is an established Home + Studio for Black Queer + Trans Makers. Indelible ORIGINS celebrates the odyssey […]
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, a hallmark of Chicago Imagism, stands out with its gripping yet enigmatic aesthetic, evolving from early technical depictions of women's hairstyles to mature pieces exploring […]
Presented as part of Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, this pop-up installation at BUILD Chicago on the city’s West Side features the work of Sasha Phyars-Burgess and Karim Kal. Both artists embrace traditional black-and-white photography to explore the urban environment and the communities that live within it. They have photographs on display […]
Enjoy some creative time with drop-in sketching at the Art Institute of Chicago inspired by the rich, abstracted forms of Chicago artist Christina Ramberg. This program is led by Chicago-based artist and educator Cameron Mankin and open to all experience levels. All materials are provided. Meet in Griffin Court. No registration required. Free with general […]
Presented at 6018North in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, this exhibition is part of Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, It features the works of the five photographers who explore notions of frontier, immigration, and diasporic identity. Jonathan Michael Castillo and Gilberto Güiza-Rojas focus on the notion of work, Rebecca Topakian and Marion Poussier question […]
Presented as part of Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, this outdoor installation takes place at Experimental Station in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. It shows photographs by two artists living and working on Chicago’s South Side, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal and Tonika Lewis Johnson, with a series of images produced along the Paris transit system […]
This multi-site photographic exhibition presents recent works by ten artists who engage with the dynamic social landscapes of Chicago or Paris, staging a cross-cultural reflection on contemporary life in two global cities. The artists presented are Chicago-based artists Marzena Abrahamik, Jonathan Michael Castillo, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal, Tonika Johnson and Sasha Phyars-Burgess, and Paris-based Gilberto […]
Join Villa Albertine for the opening of Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, an outdoor installation at Experimental Station in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood, to meet the artists and curators in person. Photographs by two artists living and working on Chicago’s South Side, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal and Tonika Lewis Johnson, are shown here on 61st […]
In conjunction with Hyde Park Art Center's exhibition, The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige, Honey Pot Performance (HPP) presents The People’s Ring Shout, an experimental movement and sound workshop inspired by traditional ring shout rituals. As a core symbol in Honey Pot Performance’s practice, they engage this early Black Americana form of movement, song, […]
Join Villa Albertine for the vernissage of the exhibition Opening Passages : Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris at 6018North. Meet the artists and curators in person and gain insights into the creative processes behind the captivating works on display. Part of a multi-site project produced by Villa Albertine and its City/Cité program, this exhibition showcases the works […]
Join the Alliance Française for an engaging discussion featuring French photographers Assia Labbas and Rebecca Topakian and American photographer Sasha Phyars-Burgess in conjunction with the French American exhibition Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, on view at the Chicago Cultural Center and three other venues across Chicago. During this conversation moderated by curators […]
Villa Albertine presents a gallery talk in the exhibition Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris at the Chicago Cultural Center. Curators Carl Fuldner and Pascal Beausse (Centre national des arts plastiques) host a conversation between photographers Jonathan Michael Castillo, Gilberto Güiza-Rojas, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Karim Kal, and Marion Poussier focused on documentary strategies […]
Join Villa Albertine for the inauguration of Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, a pop-up exhibition at BUILD Chicago in the Austin neighborhood, to meet the artists and curators in person. Part of a multi-site project produced by Villa Albertine and its City/Cité program, this exhibition showcases the works of photographers Sasha Phyars-Burgess and Karim Kal. […]
Christina Ramberg was a beloved and central figure in the history of contemporary art in Chicago. Her work was fueled by a diverse array of source material, including a variety of works in the collection of the Art Institute. Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective showcases not only much of her body of finished work, but many objects, like […]
Join Center for Native Futures for a closing reception for their exhibition Native Futures and a talk with exhibiting artist John Hitchcock (Comanche, Kiowa). Artist talk: 1:00-2:00 pm. Reception: 2:00-5:00 pm. John Hitchcock was born in 1967 in Lawton, Oklahoma. He is a contemporary artist and musician. He earned his MFA in printmaking and photography […]
In her brief but impactful career, Chicago artist Christina Ramberg ruptured representations of gender. Whether in early work featuring the ahistorical, often abstracted female body or in her eventual depictions of a more disregulated, deconstructed body, willfully ungendered or regendered, Ramberg questioned and dissected the gender conventions that defined both her time and ours. In […]
Join Blanc Gallery for the closing of Lawrence Agyei: DRILL, an exhibition celebrating the historic South Shore Drill Team (SSDT), and a special performance by SSDT in Blanc's courtyard. Free and open to the public. This event is supported by Hyde Park Art Center’s Artists Run Chicago Fund in partnership with Art Design Chicago.
Organized by Deem, a print journal and online platform focused on design as social practice, this in-person and online hybrid gathering brings together designers, practitioners, and community members to form dialogues around emergent and liberatory directions within design. Following Deem’s first-ever symposium in March 2023—and hosted once again in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art […]
Presented by South Asia Institute and guest curated by Shelly Bahl, this multifaceted project documents the history of South Asian art and artists in Chicago and shares this history through an archival exhibition and an installation of contemporary art. The narrative begins with colonial-era perspectives, including those reflected in documentation and photographs from the Indian Pavilion […]
Chicago activists in the 1960s and ’70s used design to create powerful slogans, symbols, and imagery to amplify their visions for social change. Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s features more than 100 posters, fliers, signs, buttons, newspapers, magazines, and books from the era, expressing often radical ideas about race, war, gender equality, […]
The Bronzeville native and preeminent Black pop artist of his generation, Hebru Brantley, straddles the worlds of fine art, street art, and hip-hop—often name-dropped in rap songs and collected by Jay-Z and LeBron James. Brantley’s work restores innocence to depictions of Black youth, normalizes images of Black children at play, and suggests an entirely new […]
Tune in to Lumpen Radio 105.5 FM for Sala: A Living Room of Ideas, a live radio broadcast presented by Silvia Inés Gonzalez, the administrator of POCAS (People of Color Artist Space). The program features guests Crystle Dino of FMA (Freedom Movement Alignment) and Peregrine Bermas of Dirt and Free World in conversation about connections to […]
Join Chicago History Museum to celebrate the opening of Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s. The Museum's newest exhibition looks at five major social movements of the 1960s and 1970s through the lens of graphic art. The day includes interactive art-making, expert speakers, guided tours of the exhibition, and more! Included with general admission.
Christina Ramberg was a beloved and central figure in the history of contemporary art in Chicago. Her work was fueled by a diverse array of source material, including a variety of works in the collection of the Art Institute. Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective showcases not only much of her body of finished work, but many objects, like […]
As part of Roman Susan’s Navigations series, Chicago-based artist Eliza Fernand invites you to a graveyard meander in Saint Boniface Cemetery. Attendees meet at the cemetery's Ainslie and Clark streets entrance where they listen independently to a 14-minute long guide via phone. Arrive between 3:00 and 4:30 pm to share conversation with the artist and receive […]
Presented as part of Red Line Services’ Designing Belonging series, this Lunch & Learn program features a presentation by Mary Patillio, the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and Black Studies and Chair of the Black Studies Department at Northwestern University, on her landmark work on the intersection of houselessness and criminality. Her talk will explore the […]
As part of Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People The BLACK Domestic Living & Dining Roomscapes, the GREYSTONE Collective presents Meal Time, a performance installation activated by guest artist Shonna Pryor. A space to celebrate the ritual of “breaking bread,” the Black domestic dining room is where family gathers to nourish mind, body, and spirit. Pryor invites guests to […]
The GREYSTONE Collective invites you to the closing reception for Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People: The BLACK Domestic Living & Dining Roomscapes. Featuring two roomscapes, a living room and […]
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