EXPO ART WEEK

Highlighting the vast cultural opportunities that Chicago offers collectors, dealers, art enthusiasts and visitors, EXPO CHICAGO—in conjunction with Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism and marketing organization and Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE)—presents EXPO ART WEEK (April 10—16, 2023). With the exposition as its centerpiece, EXPO ART WEEK annually partners with the city’s most prestigious institutions to feature select aligned programming, including museum exhibitions, gallery openings, and more.

Explore Featured Alignments presented by institutional partners, galleries, and non-profits; engage with exhibitions, performances, and curator walk-throughs included in EXPO ART WEEK Programs and South Side Openings + Events; view curated film Screenings and Q&As in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center, and immerse in city-wide extended gallery hours during Art After Hours.


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Navigate EXPO ART WEEK, including aligning exhibitions, events, and the best locations to view OVERRIDE | A Billboard Project and IN/SITU Outside.

2023 Exhibition Alignments


LOOP / WATER TOWER

21c Museum Hotel Chicago | 55 E Ontario St
OFF-SPRING: New Generations 

American Writers Museum | 180 N Michigan Ave
Dark Testament: A Century of Black Writers on Justice

The Art Institute of Chicago | 111 S Michigan
Himali Singh Soin: Static Range 
Lygia Pape: Tecelares 
Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears 
Kwame Brathwaite: Things Well Worth Waiting For 
stanley brouwn 
Gio Swaby: Fresh Up

ART on THE MART | 222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza
Art on theMART 2023 Premiere of Derrick Adams: Funtime Unicorn, presented in partnership with Rhona Hoffman Gallery

The Arts Club of Chicago | 201 E Ontario St
Jessi Reaves: All possessive lusts dispelled

Auditorium Theatre | 50 E Ida B Wells Dr
American Ballet Theatre

Buddy | 78 E Washington St
Art 4 Sale: Value Prints

C33-Columbia College Chicago | 33 E Ida B Wells Dr, First Floor
Natasha Moustache: Lerozyon (l-EURO-zhuhn) ​​​

Carl Hammer Gallery | 740 N Wells St
Gallery Artist Group Show

Chicago Architecture Center | 111 E Wacker Dr 
REFRAMED: The Future of Cities in Wood 

Chicago Cultural Center | 78 E Washington St 
Giving Back: The Soul of Philanthropy Reframed and Exhibited 
Surviving the Long Wars: Reckon and Reimagine 

Elephant Room Gallery | 704 S Wabash Ave 
Yams: Ways and Actions

Glass Curtain Gallery | 1104 S Wabash Ave | First Floor
The Taxonomy of Peggy Macnamara 

Gallery Victor | 300 W Superior St
Art Shay | Richard Shay: Photographers 

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | 220 E Chicago Ave 
Duane Linklater: mymothersside 
Enter the Mirror 
Interiors 
Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today 

Museum of Contemporary Photography | 600 S Michigan Ave 
Shift: Music, Meaning, Context 

Newberry Library | 60 W Walton St 
Pop-Up Books through the Ages 

The Peninsula Chicago | 108 E Superior St
Neo Chicago

Poetry Foundation | 61 W Superior St 
Alex Katz: Collaborations with Poets 

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum | 40 E Erie St 
Capturing Louis Sullivan: What Richard Nickel Saw 

SAIC Galleries* | 33 E Washington St 
2023 Spring Undergraduate Exhibition 

Weinberg/Newton Gallery | 688 N Milwaukee Ave #101
For Those Without Choice 

Zg Gallery | 300 W Superior St 
Zg 2023 Spring Collection

NORTH SIDE

Alan Koppel Gallery | 806 N Dearborn St 
Gregory Crewdson: Eveningside

DePaul Art Museum | 935 W Fullerton Ave 
Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities 

Graham Foundation | 4 W Burton Pl 
Katherine Simóne Reynolds: A different kind of tender and the practice of overhealing 

International Museum of Surgical Science | 1524 N Lake Shore Dr 
Michael Lee Zirulnik: Strips & Needles—A Day in the Life 
Deborah Simon: Embroidered Morphologies 

Ralph Arnold Gallery at Loyola University | 1131 W Sheridan Rd 
Invisible Architecture 

The Salt Shed | 1357 N Elston Ave 
Nikko Washington: Fight of the Century 

Wrightwood 659 | 659 W Wrightwood  
Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk 
Shahidul Alam: Singed But Not Burnt 
Patric McCoy: Take My Picture

SOUTH SIDE

Apparatus Projects | 1500 S Western Ave Suite 407 
John Knight and Libby Rothfeld 

Arts + Public Life | 301 E Garfield Blvd
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born 

Blanc | 4445 S Martin Luther King Dr 
A leap has no return 

boundary | 2334 W 111th Place
Shona Macdonald: Weather Accents

Co-Prosperity Sphere | 3219 S Morgan St 
Angela Davis Fegan: Deep Needle 
SPACORE 

The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center | 740 E 56th Pl 
Diaspora Stories: Selections From The CCH Pounder Collection  

Good Weather | 1524 S Western Ave Ste. 119-121, Building A 
Raque Ford: A Better Liar 
COBRA: 彼らは、透明に、爽やかに、ただ酔いしれ、漂う目玉なのさ They're transparent, refreshing, just intoxicated, drifting eyeballs

Haynes Court | 3050 S Haynes Court 
Prosthesis: Jillian Mayer, Martha Poggioli, Fin Simonetti, curated by Kristin Korolowicz

Hyde Park Art Center* | 5020 S Cornell Ave 
SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: Unlikely Entanglements 

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) | 1155 E 58th St 
Artifacts Also Die
Michael Rakowitz : The invisible enemy should not exist 

Logan Center Exhibitions | 915 E 60th St 
University of Chicago DoVA 2023 BA Thesis Exhibition 

Mana Contemporary Chicago | 2233 S Throop St 
Jonas Mekas, Open Archives presented by Monira Foundation 
Mind Map | Logan Kruidenier 

National Museum of Mexican Art | 1852 W 19th St 
Los huecos del agua - Recent Indigenous Art from Mexico 

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society | 5701 S Woodlawn Ave 
The Chicago Cli-Fi Library 

Prairie | 2055 W Cermak Rd 
Shana Hoehn: Basket Toss 

Produce Model | 1918 S Canalport Ave 
Jackie Furtado and Jessica Tang: The table in the formal room takes the form of the room 

The Renaissance Society* | 5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor 
Aria Dean: Abattoir, U.S.A.! 

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago | 5550 S Greenwood Ave 
not all realisms: photography, Africa, and the long 1960s 
The Metropol Drama 
Calling on the Past: Selections from the Collection 

South Asia Institute | 1925 S Michigan Ave 
Testimonies on Paper: Art and Poetry of South Asian Women 

South Side Community Art Center | 3831 S Michigan Ave 
Andres L. Hernandez, Roland Knowlden, & Tonika Lewis Johnson: "where the light corrupts your face...” 

The University of Chicago Library | 1100 E 57th St 
But Is It a Book? A Choose-able Path Exhibition 

WEST SIDE

65GRAND | 3253 W North Ave
Japeth Mennes: Waltz 

ACRE Projects | 2439 S Oakley Ave 
Eseosa Edebiri: Perhaps Blue is a Cool Color, After All 

ANDREW RAFACZ* | 1749 W Chicago Ave 
Jessie Edelman 
Julia Bland 

Anthony Gallery* | 1360 W Lake St 
En Iwamura: Blue on the Hill 

Cherry Mountain Arts | 836 N Milwaukee Ave 
From Arte Haus To Yours 

Chicago Artists Coalition | 2130 W Fulton St 
Newcity’s Breakout Artists–Twentieth Anniversary Edition Exhibition 

Congruent Space | 1216 W Grand Ave
Grid Crib

Corbett vs. Dempsey* | 2156 W Fulton St 
Sam Gilliam: Driftless 
Jimmy Wright: Down Home 

David Salkin Creative | 1709 W Chicago Ave #2A 
Assaf Evron: Collage for Mies van der Rohe 

Devening Projects | 3039 W Carroll Ave 
Jodi Hays 
Katrin Schnabl 

DOCUMENT* | 1709 W Chicago Ave 
Meg Lipke: Moon Tempo 

ENGAGE Projects* | 864 N Ashland Ave 
Adam Daley Wilson: THIS IS TEXT BASED ART 

FACILITY | 3616 N Milwaukee Ave
Katrin Schnabl: EWNS
James Jankowiak: Happiness Is

Filter Photo | 1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207 
Context 2023 

Goldfinch | 319 N Albany Ave 
Irene Wa.: Crisálida de sal
Sarah Leuchtner: Sequential Escapes 
A Flatfiles Show  

GRAY | 2044 W Carroll Ave 
Jaume Plensa: Forgotten Dreams 

Hindman Auctions | 1550 W Carroll Ave 
Spring Fine Art at Hindman 

Ingress Gallery @ Soho House | 113–125 N Green St 
Ingress Quarterly Showcase 

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art | 756 N Milwaukee Ave 
Ted Degener: At Home with Artists 
Tarik Echols: Open 

Kavi Gupta* | 835 W Washington Blvd
Allana Clarke 

Kavi Gupta* | 219 N Elizabeth St
Esmaa Mohamoud 

Ken Saunders Gallery | 2041 West Carroll Ave, Suite C-320 
Neon Infinite 

LVL3 | 1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 3rd Floor 
Must-See 

M. LeBlanc* | 3514 W Fullerton Ave 
Group Exhibition 2023 

Mariane Ibrahim | 437 N Paulina St 
Patrick Eugène: 50 LBS 

McCormick Gallery | 835 W Washington Blvd 
Kim Piotrowski: Joy Experiment 

MICKEY | 1635 W Grand Ave 
Michael Madrigali: Big City Nights 

moniquemeloche* | 451 N Paulina St 
Maia Cruz Palileo 

National Hellenic Museum* | 333 S Halsted St 
Gather Together: Chicago Street Photography by Diane Alexander White 
HRH Prince Nikolaos: Resilience 

Paris London Hong Kong | 1709 W Chicago Ave 
Collection Highlights 

PATRON | 1612 W Chicago Ave 
Mika Horibuchi 

The Plan | 610 N Albany
Let Me Be No Nearer: Andrew Bearnot with Morgan Green, Brian Jucas, Hai-Wen Lin, Jonathan Lanier, curated by Esther Espino, Jonathan Worcester

Povos | 2000 N Milwaukee Ave 
Tony Fitzpatrick: The Lunch Drawings 

Regards | 2216 W Chicago Ave 
John Pittman 

Rhona Hoffman Gallery* | 1711 W Chicago Ave 
Spencer Finch 

Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center | 1034 N Milwaukee Ave 
Anwar Mahdi & Val Schlosberg 

Soccer Club Club | 2923 N Cicero Ave
Theodora Allen: Solitaire 

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art | 2320 W Chicago Ave 
Aesthetics of Loss 

Volume Gallery* | 1709 W Chicago Ave, 2nd Floor 
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: I DO 

Watershed Studioworks | 3016 W Belmont Ave 
Kelly Hisagi Rickert: That’s How I Remember It 

Western Exhibitions* | 1709 W Chicago Ave, Suite 2C 
Richard Hull 

CHICAGOLAND

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University | 40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL  
The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

THE COLLECTION at Fashion Outlets of Chicago | 5220 Fashion Outlets Way, Rosemont, IL 
Candida Alvarez: zip me up 
Presented by moniquemeloche* 

Edith Farnsworth House | 14520 River Rd, Plano, IL  
The Last of Animal Builders 

(northern) Western Exhibitions* / WHO Modern | 7933 N Lincoln Ave, Skokie, IL 
Miller & Shellabarger: Photography 

Riverside Arts Center | 32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL
Laura Kina: Over the Rainbow, One More Time 
Regin Igloria: One Ends Another Begins 

 

*Participating in EXPO CHICAGO