Exhibitions in Chicago

Field Museum

More than 200 objects raised from ancient Egyptian ports underwater, centred on Isis, Aphrodite, Helen of Troy and queens Cleopatra and Arsinoe II.

The Renaissance SocietyFree

Antoni Miralda's five decades of food-based art, focused on the experiment-cum-restaurant he ran with Montse Guillén in the 1980s, and the table as a place where the personal meets the political.

Art Institute of Chicago

The first US exhibition on Francisco de Zurbarán in 40 years: about 50 works of the Spanish Golden Age painter from 30 lenders worldwide.

The Renaissance SocietyFree

Chicago artist Tony Lewis builds large graphite-and-paper drawings out of stenographic shorthand, turning the marks of written language into abstraction and a comment on social power.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

A new series by the Chicago-based painter, juxtaposing emotions and introducing a flexible structure to his foldable paintings.

National Museum of Mexican ArtFree

More than forty works acquired over sixteen years (photography, painting, sculpture and video) exploring land as a site of belonging, labour and memory, from 19th-century landscapes to contemporary Pilsen.

Smart Museum of ArtFree

Midwest debut of the Tokyo collective teamLab, tracing 25 years of immersive digital work plus a new commission that dissolves the boundary between viewer and artwork.

National Museum of Mexican ArtFree

Prints, objects and archive from Chicago's Latinx printmaking collective Instituto Gráfico de Chicago, shown with Mexican and Chicago print history from the museum's collection.

Art Institute of Chicago

The first exhibition of Colombian artist Beatriz González's works on paper: more than 80 works from six decades, many shown publicly for the first time.

Chicago Architecture Center

Six decades of the CAC, from fighting to save historic buildings during urban renewal to shaping design education and advocacy across Chicago. In the Orientation Space.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Six artists reclaim forms of slowness that resist the contemporary demand to constantly perform, across painting, sculpture, video and live performance.

Art Institute of Chicago

Cokes's first outdoor presentation in Chicago fills the Bluhm Family Terrace with a two-part installation: a billboard viewable from Millennium Park and a freestanding sign, both set to music.

Richard H. Driehaus Museum

Paintings from collector M. Christine Schwartz's gift trace Chicago's fine arts from academic naturalism to impressionism across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Art Institute of Chicago

27 prints placing Japan's sōsaku-hanga (creative print) artists among the global postwar avant-garde, from the museum's Asian art and prints collections.

Field Museum

Fossil Pokémon such as Tyrantrum and Archeops are set side by side with the real fossils that inspired them, including SUE the T. rex. North American debut of the touring Japanese exhibition.

Chicago Architecture Center

Off-site at the 1927 First Presbyterian Church in Woodlawn (6400 S Kimbark Ave): three artists' installations across its grounds and sanctuary, with Arts at First.

Richard H. Driehaus Museum

Thirteen marbles, paintings and archives chart the career of Emma Stebbins, the first woman awarded a public sculpture commission by New York City for Central Park's Bethesda Fountain.

Griffin Museum of Science and Industry

The longest-running exhibition of Black art in the United States, presenting juried work by Black artists from across the country as part of the museum's Black Creativity programme.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

More than 70 works span the Chicago-born artist's career, from his New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club photographs to the Anxious Men and Broken Men series.

Museum of Contemporary PhotographyFree

Eight photographers and six writers document resilient communities across Africa, bridging postcolonial critique with contemporary hope through gender, spirituality, displacement and self-representation.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The Chicago painter's large-scale Sideline (After Ben Shahn) fills the two-storey entrance atrium: four languid women, limbs entwined, waiting for something that never comes.

Smart Museum of ArtFree

A thematic draw from the Smart's permanent collection exploring art and healing across six strands: health, grief, displacement, trauma, mindfulness and protection.

Smart Museum of ArtFree

A large-scale site-specific mural for the Smart's Threshold series, using the flat visual language of diagrams and educational charts to map power, labour, housing and inequality as one system.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Spanning three floors, this exhibition explores the far-reaching impact of art historian, critic and curator Lucy Lippard through themes found in her work.

Chicago History Museum

Garments and accessories worn by George and Martha Washington, John Adams and Abraham and Mary Lincoln, shown alongside the conservation work that keeps them intact.

Art Institute of Chicago

A yearlong photography and media show on seasonal change, with some works rotating in and out as the year turns and others on view throughout.

Art Institute of Chicago

A 21-panel painting over 100 feet wide carries viewers from the nocturnal solitude of the artist's Kashmiri childhood through the frenzy of the Western art world to a fragile, renewed dawn.

Art Institute of Chicago

More than 50 objects from the Arts of Africa collection show beliefs and values surrounding the body shared across the continent, and the distinct cultural forms those ideas take.