April 2026
Perspective(s) Closing Reception
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th St, suite 697, Chicago, IL
Opening Thursday, April 30th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Thursday, April 30th
The Future of the Visualist: Fundraising and Organizational Stability— Working Meeting
@ culture/Math
Online
Opening Sunday, April 26th, from 11AM - 12PM
The Future of the Visualist: Operations— Working Meeting
@ culture/Math
Online
Opening Sunday, April 26th, from 10AM - 11AM
Roots 20 Spring Benefit
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 25th, from 6:30PM - 10PM
Strategies of Resistance: Immigrant Bodies Beyond Assimilation
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 24th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, June 7th
FLORENCE: DAYS OF DESTRUCTION (1966) w/ Melina Avery and Jayme Collins
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 24th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Benjye Troob: Forms & Horizons
@ Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 24th
Out of Office Co-working Event with the CGDC
@ Two-Thirty
230 W Superior Ave, 3rd Fl, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, April 24th, from 10 am - 2 PM
KHARTOUM (2025)
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, April 23rd, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Garry Noland: Loot Box
@ Material
2025 West Belmont Ave, storefront. Chicago, IL 60618.
Opening Thursday, April 23rd, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, May 17th
Izzy Davis: Flagging and Foraging
@ SITE 280 Gallery
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, April 22nd, from 4PM - 6PM
On view through Friday, May 15th
Linda Sormin Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
111 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, April 21st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
PARA.MAR Dance Theatre – “MUJERES” – Community Preview
@ Reva and David Logan Center
915 E. 60th St., Chicago IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 20th, at 7PM
Ben Blount & Catherine Jacobi: Good Trouble
@ Riverside Arts Center
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, April 19th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, June 6th
Hearth: Kai Boone, Carmen Casillas, Fatimah Farooqi, Beck Lech, and Maddalena Piazza
@ Riverside Arts Center FlexSpace
32 East Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, April 19th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 23rd
The Future of the Visualist: Stabilizing the Website — Working Meeting
@ culture/Math
Online
Opening Sunday, April 19th, from 10AM - 12PM
No One Held To Answer – Documentary Screening + Closing Reception
@ SPACE 01
4850 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, April 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, April 18th
Erik Jon Olson: What. A. WASTE
@ ShadowBoxX Gallery
116 Washington St, Waukegan, IL 60085
Opening Saturday, April 18th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Leopold Segedin: Unframed
@ Space 900
816 Dempster St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, April 18th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, April 19th
Matthew Herriot: Surface Veil
@ boundary
2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago IL 60643
Opening Saturday, April 18th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Saturday, April 18th
Aurora Film Society & Meowtel present: 25 Cats From Qatar
@ The Venue
21 S Broadway Ave, Aurora, IL 60505
Opening Saturday, April 18th, from 11:30AM - 1:30PM
Chicago Performance Community Gathering
@ Constellation + Comrade
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, April 18th, from 11am - 3PM
MUJERES
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E. 60th St, Chicago IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 17th, at 7PM
9025 km
@ Ukrainian National Museum
2249 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 17th, from 7 PM - 10 PM
On view through Thursday, April 30th
“Lost in the Flood”: Photochemical Traces of Extreme Weather
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 17th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
AIRMW Presents: K.A – a solo taiko concert by Kioto Aoki
@ The Edge Theater
5451 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640, USA
Opening Friday, April 17th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Rust
@ Project Onward
1200 W 35th St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, April 17th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Perspective(s) Art Activated: The Shared Thread Knot
@ Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
1010 W 35th street, suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, April 17th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Thursday, April 30th
One’s Position (and a route)
@ Roman Susan at Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Friday, April 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 6th
Paths for the Study of Contingent Dimensions
@ Flatline Gallery
1925 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 8th
Ghost Gallery; Grand Opening (Ex. 1)
@ Kimpton Gray Hotel
122 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, April 17th, from 9AM - 8PM
Martin Wong: Chinatown USA
@ Wrightwood 659
659 Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
On view through Saturday, July 18th
New Perspectives in Photography: Two-day Photography Panel Series
@ Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, April 17th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 18th
Conversations at the Edge | An Evening with Maryam Tafakory
@ Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, April 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
Creating Scala
@ Three Top Lounge
1357 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Wednesday, April 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
Chicago Poetry Center’s April Blue Hour Featuring Diego Baez and Samyak Shertok
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, April 15th, from 6PM - 8:30 PM
Probing the Sensorium
@ Midway Studio
6016 S Ingleside Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, April 15th, from 5PM - 6PM
Marina Kuchinski: Close to the Ground
@ Lee E. Dulgar Gallery
15800 S State St, South Holland, IL 60473
Opening Wednesday, April 15th, from 9:45am - 12:30PM
On view through Thursday, May 7th
From the Hands of Our Community: A New Art Shop Opens Its Doors
@ 6311arts
6311 N Clark St, Chicago IL 60660
Opening Monday, April 13th, at 9 am
Onion City: Closing Night – Gangsterism
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Sunday, April 12th, at 7PM
Open Studios at 350 N. Ogden
@ 350 N. Ogden Ave (Second Floor Studios)
350 N Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, April 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
Onion City: Mutable Records
@ Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema
1326 W Hollywood Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60660
Opening Sunday, April 12th, from 4PM - -
Women of BACKBONE
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, April 12th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Onion City: Blue, Blue
@ Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, April 12th, from 2PM - -
tether me to the ground or let me float: Closing
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL, 60607
Opening Sunday, April 12th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, April 25th
Tomás Cantu-Martinez: Distorsión Voraz / Nordic Scenes
@ Artful Framer Studios
2938 N Clark St. Chicago 60657
Opening Sunday, April 12th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Thursday, May 21st
Glimmers: Currents of Illuminations – Screening
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, April 12th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, April 12th
Onion City: Structural Collapse
@ Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL, 60660
Opening Sunday, April 12th, from 12PM - -
ARC Gallery Member Meet & Greet
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, April 12th, from 12PM - 2PM
six words ( )
@ Locker Room
2320 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614
On view through Wednesday, April 22nd
Forget Me Not
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, April 12th, from 2PM - 6PM
Ben Foch: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
@ Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, April 12th, from 2PM - 6PM
Onion City: Late Night With Tycoon
@ Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 11th, at 8PM
Glimmers: Performance by Sebastian Hernandez & Ále ‘Celeste’ Campos
@ The California Clipper
1002 N. California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 8PM - 2:30am
On view through Saturday, April 11th
Public Space Video Space
@ Chicago Public Library, Richard J. Daley Branch
3400 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
On view through Monday, May 11th
Mindy Rose Schwartz: Countersealed
@ M. LeBlanc
3514 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, May 23rd
Danni O”Brien & Kate Klingbeil: Naked From the Horizon Down
@ Junior.
1950 S Troy St, 3F, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 24th
AN EVENING WITH THE CURATORS: RECEPTION AT KAVI GUPTA WITH NARIMON SAFAVI
@ Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd.
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, April 20th
The Fool
@ Research House for Asian Art
3217 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 2nd
Wallace Bowling: Ensemble
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 13th
Onion City: Ventured Gains
@ Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 4PM - -
Seeds of Resilience
@ Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Isaac Couch: The Blue Works
@ compound yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, Il 60302
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Lois Baron: REAL ILLUSIONS
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 2PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, May 9th
Onion City: Afterimage
@ Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL, 60660
Opening Saturday, April 11th, at 2PM
ASMA: Dramatic Dinosaur
@ Prairie
2055 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, May 24th
Baby Teeth Art Exhibition
@ Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 2 PM - 5 PM
On view through Sunday, April 12th
Glimmers: Performance by Camila Arévalo & Panel with Yelaine Rodriguez
@ Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, April 11th
Book Launch & Conversation: Alice Tippit: Rose Obsolete
@ EXPO Chicago
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, April 11th, at 12:30PM
On view through Sunday, June 21st
SPRING OPEN STUDIOS 2026
@ MANA CONTEMPORARY
2233 S Throop Street
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 12PM - 5PM
Onion City: Invisible Cities
@ Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL, 60660
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 12PM - -
IN CELEBRATION OF SPRING: BRUNCH WITH KAVI GUPTA WITH NARIMON SAFAVI
@ Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd.
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Monday, April 20th
Noah Kashini: Garden of Earthly Delights
@ Green Garnet Press
2233 S Throop St, Studio 421, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 12PM - 5PM
Taking Root: A Filipino American Art Exhibition
@ The Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago (FAHSC) | 3rd Floor Gallery
Mana Contemporary, Suite 316, 2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 12 PM - 4 PM
On view through Sunday, April 26th
Unordered List of Dreams — Spring 2026 Undergraduate Exhibition Public Closing Reception
@ SAIC Galleries
33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 11th
Uncover the Smoking Gun
@ Chicago Gamespace
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 11th
Grey James: PJOB
@ Bert Green Fine Art
8 S Michigan Ave, Suite 620, Chicago IL 60603
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 13th
Onion City: Beyond Resolution – Films by Sabine Gruffat
@ Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL, 60660
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 6M - -
Taking Shape
@ GAG
3528 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, April 11th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Monday, May 11th
Onion City: [We Don’t Know Yet] What A Cinema Can Do
@ Public Works Gallery
2141 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 10th, at 8PM
Zach Harris – MetroGnome
@ Soccer Club Club
2921 N Cicero Ave, Chicago IL 60641
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, May 15th
Onion City:
@ Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, April 10th, at 6PM
Allen Vandever Birthday Art Show every one gets free art!
@ Childhood Fractureds Phygital Art Gallery
1432 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 6PM - 1130PM
On view through Saturday, April 18th
Brooke Raven: TAILGATER
@ crosswalk
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, May 1st
Primeval Conditions
@ The Sunday Standard
2837 w Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL, 60647
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 7th
Lo Marie: Windy City Tells
@ Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 31st
A Hair Never Dissolves
@ The Plan
610 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 10th
LVL 3 EXPO Week Extended Open Hours
@ @ LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, #3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, April 12th
FUORI (2025)
@ The Block Cinema
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Life is an Art: IAM the party Intuit’s annual gala
@ City Hall Events
838 W Kinzie St, East Entrance, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 5:30PM - 12AM
Conditions of Encounter
@ Forum301
301 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, April 25th
Liliana Porter: The Strange Task
@ SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 13th
UNREAL
@ SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, June 13th
Haya Zaidi: Up Against
@ Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd.
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, July 11th
Noelle Africh, “Signal” Artist Talk
@ Twelve Ten Gallery
1104 West Thorndale Ave., Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, April 10th
Life is an Art: The Collection of Jan Petry
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Friday, March 12th
Impressions of a City: Drawings by Marvin Young
@ Intuit Art Museum
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Sunday, August 23rd
