Exhibitions in Chicago
July 2027
July at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 6 closing, and 4 more on view across the city.
Closing in July
How Do We Heal?11 Jul 2027Smart 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.
Nina Chanel Abney: While Supplies Last11 Jul 2027Smart Museum of ArtFree
Paintings, sculpture, works on paper and installation in which Abney borrows the grammar of advertising to show how extraction, consumer culture, militarisation and environmental decline became routine.
Nina Chanel Abney: Between Us11 Jul 2027Smart 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.
Trương Công Tùng11 Jul 2027The Renaissance SocietyFree
First Chicago solo show for Vietnamese artist Trương Công Tùng: painting, video and installation on how colonialism, war and industrial farming marked the Central Highlands, plus a new commission.
From the Center: Looking at Lucy Lippard11 Jul 2027Museum 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.
Threads of a Nation: Preserving Presidential Clothing18 Jul 2027Chicago 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.
Also on through July
Cleopatra & Egypt's Sunken Citiesto 19 Sept 2027Field 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 Seasons: Time, Change, and the Natural Worldto 20 Dec 2027Art 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.
Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lostto 3 Jan 2028Art 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.
Body and Being in African Artto 1 Mar 2028Art 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.
Image credits
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- How Do We Heal?Courtesy Smart Museum of Art
- Nina Chanel Abney: While Supplies LastCourtesy the artist and Smart Museum of Art
- Nina Chanel Abney: Between UsPhoto Claire Dorn, courtesy Smart Museum of Art
- Trương Công TùngTrương Công Tùng, Installation view of Wake, mayfly…, Kiang Malingue New York, 2026.
- From the Center: Looking at Lucy LippardCourtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
- Threads of a Nation: Preserving Presidential ClothingCourtesy of Chicago History Museum
- Cleopatra & Egypt's Sunken CitiesPhoto: Jerome Delafosse ©Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation
- The Seasons: Time, Change, and the Natural World© 1990, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist.
- Raqib Shaw: Paradise LostCourtesy of Art Institute of Chicago
- Body and Being in African ArtCourtesy of Art Institute of Chicago
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