Exhibitions in Chicago

Chicago History MuseumPast

Barrett Keithley's lobby mural "The People, We Are" responds to the US Constitution, part of the US at 250: Civic Action in Chicago series of artist responses to founding documents.

Museum of Contemporary Art ChicagoPast

Dance as protest, rhythm as power: the exhibition traces the global impact of Caribbean sound and movement, from Jamaican dancehall to reggaetón.

Art Institute of ChicagoPast

More than 200 works from around the world make up the first exhibition to examine the Abstract Expressionist's drawing practice across his seven-decade career.

Museum of Contemporary PhotographyFreePast

Video, audio and photography by Dammeyer Fellow Lali Khalid, made with CAIR Chicago, exploring belonging and resilience in Muslim life. Shown at Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery.

National Museum of Mexican ArtFreePast

Draws a line between the Mexica chinampas of Xochimilco and the floating gardens now installed in the Chicago River, weighing ecological restoration against pollution and commercialisation.

Field MuseumPast

A rotating Comer Gallery series profiling Field Museum scientists (currently Lesley de Souza and Sara Ruane) following their research journeys, passions and personalities.

Art Institute of ChicagoPast

Sixty-five artists from more than 23 countries trace how abstraction emerged as a powerful visual language between 1940 and 1970, a period of global upheaval and transformation.

Art Institute of Chicago

Photography, drawing and sculpture by 14 self-made artists, most working outside the gallery and museum system, from the Sandor family collection.

Richard H. Driehaus Museum

The museum's first artist-in-residence turns the 1926 Murphy Auditorium into a site for sculptural installation, sound and dance, unfolding as episodic performances through 2026.

Art Institute of Chicago

Nine rare Saint-Porchaire ceramics of the French Renaissance from a private collection, most on public view for the first time since the late 1800s.

Field Museum

What happened once the dinosaurs were gone: plants and animals reshaped Earth into a lush tropical world of new giants and tiny survivors, told through fossils, touchable casts and immersive media.

Chicago Architecture Center

Designed and co-curated by Studio Gang, this show confronts the billion bird collisions with glass each year in the US and presents scalable bird-friendly design for cities.

Chicago Architecture Center

Co-curated with Openlands in the Usher Lambe Gallery, tracing the regional landscapes that sustain life around Chicago and the decisions that protected, lost or restored them.

Art Institute of Chicago

An immersive installation of new sculptural objects in which the Haitian American artist explores how iron connects us to histories, the material world, and each other.

Art Institute of Chicago

The museum's first exhibition devoted to the artistic traditions of the SWANA region, with more than 70 embroidered works from the 18th through the 20th century.

Griffin Museum of Science and Industry

A full-scale, fully furnished recreation of the Amsterdam Annex where Anne Frank hid, with more than 100 original objects lent by the Anne Frank House.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The artist's first solo museum exhibition gathers over 50 sculptures from five decades: abstract totems carved from wood, and box assemblages of toys, dried plants and stones.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

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

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.

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.

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.

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.