Newcity Official Guide to EXPO CHICAGO

OFFICE OF THE MAYOR CITY OF CHICAGO

BRANDON JOHNSON MAYOR

Dear Friends:

On behalf of the City of Chicago, I am honored to welcome all those participating in and visiting the eleventh edition of EXPO CHICAGO, the International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, April 11–14, 2024.

Chicago is honored to welcome premier art galleries from across the globe, along with leading international collectors, curators, directors, and art enthusiasts to our city. I am proud of what this extraordinary event has become and thrilled for the opportunity to showcase all that Chicago has to offer to the international arts community. I commend all those working with EXPO CHICAGO for being at the forefront of visual arts and for the advancement of creativity.

As home to one of the country’s oldest, and most established arts communities, Chicago hosts exciting events that highlights a diverse array of artistic mediums including music, dance, performance, literary arts and more, and continuously draws people from around the world to witness these captivating displays of talent. From independent artists to incredible public art installations, historic architecture and showstopping performance, art truly enhances the human experience and embodies all that Chicago stands for.

I hope that during your stay in Chicago you take the time to see all the City has to offer. Explore our downtown and lakefront areas, tour the vibrant neighborhoods across our city, sample our diverse cuisine, visit our distinguished universities, and our world-class museums. I hope your visit to EXPO CHICAGO is enjoyable. Best wishes for continued success.

Sincerely,

Brandon Johnson Mayor, City of Chicago

OPENING NIGHT

Thursday, April 11 | 6:00–9:00pm

Admission to Opening Night at EXPO CHICAGO grants ticketholders exclusive first-look access alongside premier offerings. Benefits this year include discounts on frieze magazine subscriptions, admission to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and a complimentary ride on Navy Pier’s iconic Centennial Wheel.

General admission tickets for EXPO CHICAGO are not valid for Opening Night

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A TOUR THROUGH CHICAGO’S ARTS

Writer and curator Denny Mwaura details the exciting spaces bolstering the city’s art scene.

Between Chicago’s well-established art institutions to its independent art spaces, the city’s refreshing and dynamic exhibition programming spotlight its major cultural significance in the Midwest. EXPO CHICAGO, recently acquired by Frieze, brings together local, domestic, and international galleries and creatives to witness what the city offers. Here is some of the city’s robust arts programming:

JANUARY 25

“an

object that is no longer an artwork”

I went to see British artist Ghislaine Leung’s exhibition “Holdings” at the Renaissance Society. Ever since, I’ve been puzzled by what an artwork can be, what it is, and what it can do. I mean that in an endearing way. The show’s title signals lending a hand—one to grasp, to capture. Leung has me asking what are the things, people, and infrastructures that I depend on to survive, and how does my dependence on them hinder my life? Familiar ready-made objects spread across the chapel-like hall: a sheet of plasticcovered bubblegum pink fabric on the floor, an unoccupied ergonomic office chair at one corner, stacked pink and blue foam mats on casters, a child’s school portrait hung on a frame’s backside, a baby gated. “Wouldn’t it be Lovely”, sung by Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 musical film My Fair Lady, reverberates in the expansive room.

I h ad highly anticipated the exhibition, having admired Leung’s restrained interdependent practice, which marries her personal life with an institution’s infrastructure and history to reveal ways aesthetic, monetary, and emotional value are determined and their effect on our lives. Those objects have history written on their surfaces—the office chair’s placement seems to reference that of a similar office chair installed at artist Trisha Donnelly’s 2008 exhibition at the Ren (as the institution is familiarly called). Pulled from the Ren’s archive, stacked white and orange fabric pieces, from Daniel Buren’s 1983 exhibition at the Ren, are repurposed into “an object that is no longer an artwork”—many of the “scores” take this title. The Ren holds on to the remains, not knowing yet what to do with them.

Leung is also self-referential. The pink fabric and baby gate are a nod to her role as a mother. The Hepburn musical piece playing from a small Bluetooth Anker speaker is a remembrance of her father, who loved American films. Identity is brought to the surface, but not in the most clear-cut representational manner.

Ghislaine Leung, Holdings, installation view, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2024, Photo: Bob. 6

FEBRUARY 17

The Day Thelonious Monk Died

I met my friend Paula at the Graham Foundation for a daylong series of performances coinciding with the opening of artist Cally Spooner’s solo exhibition, “Deadtime, an anatomy study”. I’d skimmed through the program, recognizing some well-known artists and intellectuals: Ralph Lemon, Tony Cokes, Wendy Brown.

We sat for at-times humorous talks, invigorating and elusive performances, and provocative readings co-organized by Spooner and Hendrik Folkerts, a former Chicago resident, now curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Cokes’ performance lecture—an essay soundtracked by a shuffled shoegaze, drum-and-bass, and jungle music playlist—addressed a range of topics from the government-funded infrastructures that made these genres thrive in 1990s England to the relationship between boredom and cellphones.

After Ralph Lemon’s riotous and ranting performance, I wanted to shake off whatever energy transferred from both his screaming and his collaborator Darrell Jones’ flinging his body across the stage. Our attention swayed between Lemon’s reading, Jones’ movement, and the latter’s Thelonious Monk shirt. I take a coffee break before Nuar Alsadir’s reading from her book Animal Joy (2022) about her experience at clown school. The book blends references to psychoanalysis, US presidential politics, and the author’s personal life to make a case for how we can access an authentic “me”. One passage, in particular, moved me: “The process of trying to find your clown involves going through a series of exercises that strip away layers of socialization to reveal the clown that has been there all along—or, in [D.W.] Winnicott’s terms, your ‘True Self’.”

Paula and I leave for Eli Greene’s first show at Regards Gallery in Ukrainian Village. On view are large, composite image transfers on vellum borrowed from Rewind and Play, Alan Gomis’ archival documentary film on Thelonious Monk. The film highlights the dehumanizing gaze to which Thelonious Monk was subjected during the filming of a 1970 French television program. Greene, like Gomis, lays bare what was lost in the making of the aired documentary, magnifying details like the pianist’s eyes and two glasses of water resting on his piano. Until I told her, Greene didn’t know that her show opened on the day Monk died 42 years. It was purely coincidental, she said. While Greene’s show will have closed before EXPO CHICAGO, you can catch her at the Graham Foundation on Friday, April 12, where she will perform with artist Tina Wang on the occasion of Julia Phillips’s Energy Exchange (2023) book launch.

DENNY MWAURA

FEBRUARY 25 Emerging Platforms

There’s been a recent emergence of independent art spaces and publishing platforms for young artists and writers—a necessity if we’re to create welcoming spaces that shift attitudes around how art is experienced. The recent launch of Jupiter magazine by its co-founders Camille Bacon and Daria Simone Harper brought together Chicago’s Black filmmakers kelechi agwuncha, Jada-Amina Harvey, and Paige Taul for a presentation centered on imaging Black life on screen. agwuncha’s film tether blended a visual performance of the filmmaker jumping and swinging a tetherball along with audio from celebrated Black authors discussing the significance of flight in Black traditions and artistic productions. I was hypnotized by its thumping soundtrack and luminous red color-grading. Another uncompromising platform spearheading experimental filmmaking is Inga Bookshop, where screenings and readings have amplified the voices of marginalized communities on a global scale.

As EXPO CHICAGO approaches, arts organizer and curator Francine Almeda is preparing for the inaugural opening of Tala Gallery. Named after the Filipino goddess of the morning and evening star, the West Town gallery has a communal atrium, an exhibition room, and a library to house Chuquimarca’s book collection. As for how the space is organized, Almeda drew inspiration from the chromaticity used to determine a star’s temperature, which the young architects Roland Knowlden and Katie Lee rendered into a fluid, multifaceted venue. Tala coincides with EXPO CHICAGO and opens on Friday, April 12, with a group exhibition featuring meditations on processing loss and grief through ranging perspectives and media by local artists.

Denny Mwaura is a Chicago-based curator and writer. He is the Assistant Director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Installation view of Deadtime, an anatomy study, featuring works by Cally Spooner, Fainted Pear and Screen Test for the Psoas Muscle, 2023/2024, Graham Foundation, Chicago, 2024. Photo: Nathan Keay.

2024 PARTICIPATING GALLERIES

The Galleries section of EXPO CHICAGO hosts 170 leading international exhibitors from 29 countries and 75 cities, presented alongisde one of the highest quality platforms for global contemporary art and culture.

# 1 93 Gallery Paris, Venice

A ACA Galleries New York

Allouche Gallery New York, Los Angeles

G alería Artizar Canary Islands

Ascaso Gallery Miami

B Richard Beavers Gallery Brooklyn

B ogéna Galerie Saint-Paul de Vence, Phoenix

C Casemore Gallery San Francisco

Casterline|Goodman Gallery Aspen, Santa Fe

Cernuda Arte Coral Gables

G alerie Charlot Paris, Tel Aviv

Catharine Clark Gallery San Francisco

Ethan Cohen Gallery New York, Beacon

La Cometa Bogota, Madrid, Medellin, Miami

CONVERSO MODERN Chicago

Corbett vs. Dempsey Chicago

C ynthia Corbett Gallery London

Cristea Roberts London

CURRO Guadalajara

D DC Moore Gallery New York

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Los Angeles

DOCUMENT Chicago, Lisbon

E EBONY/CURATED Cape Town, Franschhoek

Donald Ellis Gallery New York, Vancouver

Les Enluminures Chicago, New York, Paris

Everard Read Cape Town, Johannesburg, Franschhoek, London

F Eric Firestone Gallery East Hampton, New York

G alerie La Forest Divonne Paris, Brussels Forum Gallery New York

Freight+Volume New York

Friedrichs Pontone New York

G G ana Art Seoul, Los Angeles

Thomas Gibson Fine Art London

H Haines San Francisco

Hakgojae Gallery Seoul

half gallery New York, Los Angeles

Jack Hanley Gallery New York, East Hampton

Harper’s New York, East Hampton, Los Angeles

Richard Heller Gallery Los Angeles

Antoine Helwaser Gallery New York

HESSE FLATOW New York, Amagansett

HEXTON Gallery Aspen

Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery London, Berlin, West Palm Beach, Schloss Goerne

Bill Hodges Gallery New York

Nancy Hoffman Gallery New York

Rhona Hoffman Gallery Chicago

Edwynn Houk Gallery New York

Hunter Dunbar Projects New York

I

Mariane Ibrahim Chicago, Paris, Mexico City

J Charlotte Jackson Fine Art Santa Fe

B ernard Jacobson Gallery London

G alerie Judin Berlin

K Kasmin New York

David Klein Gallery Detroit

Michael Kohn Gallery Los Angeles

G alerie Carole Kvasnevski Paris, New York

L Labor Mexico City

LEE & BAE Busan

G alerie Christian Lethert Cologne

Library Street Collective Detroit

Jane Lombard Gallery New York

Diana Lowenstein Gallery Miami

David Lusk Gallery Memphis, Nashville

M MAĀT Paris

McCormick Gallery Chicago

Miles McEnery Gallery New York

moniquemeloche Chicago

Nino Mier Gallery Los Angeles, New York, Brussels

G allery MOMO Johannesburg

G alerie Myrtis Baltimore

N NIL Gallery Paris

O Claire Oliver Gallery New York, Santa Fe

ONE AND J. Gallery Seoul

P Pablo’s Birthday New York

Pentimenti Gallery Philadelphia

Perrotin Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, Los Angeles

G erald Peters Contemporary Santa Fe

PIERMARQ* Sydney

The Pit Los Angeles, Palm Springs

G alerie Poggi Paris

Pontone Gallery London

R Revolver Galería Lima, Buenos Aires, New York

G alerie Richard Paris

G alerie Robertson Arès Montréal

Nara Roesler São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York

Ar thur Roger Gallery New Orleans

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery New York

Ruttkowski;68 Cologne, Düsseldorf, Paris, New York

RYAN LEE Gallery New York

S SARAI Gallery Tehran, Mahshahr

Secrist | Beach Chicago

SEIZAN Gallery New York, Tokyo

William Shearburn Gallery St. Louis

SmithDavidson Gallery Amsterdam, Miami

Sous Les Etoiles New York

Southern Guild Cape Town, Los Angeles

MARC STRAUS New York

T Hollis Taggart Contemporary New York

Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York, Singapore, London

Tandem Press Madison

Taylor | Graham New York, Greenwich

Duane Thomas New York

Paul Thiebaud Gallery San Francisco

V Vallarino Fine Art New York

VETA by Fer Francés Madrid

Vielmetter Los Angeles Los Angeles

Volume Gallery Chicago

2024 PARTICIPATING GALLERIES

W G alerie Olivier Waltman Paris Weinstein Hammons Gallery Minneapolis

Y Yares Art New York, Santa Fe, Beverly Hills

Timothy Yarger Fine Art | YARGER PROJECTS Los Angeles, New York

Z Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery Dubai, Luxembourg, Paris

Anthony Goicolea, Fountain, 2021. Courtesy of Galerie Poggi, Paris.

Opening Night at EXPO CHICAGO 2023. Photo: Kevin Serna.

EXPOSURE

The EXPOSURE section, installed on the main floor of the exposition, features solo and two-artist presentations represented by galleries ten years and younger. Focusing on a curated selection of emerging artists, EXPOSURE is curated by Rosario Güiraldes, Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

56 HENRY New York

65GRAND Chicago

Abattoir Cleveland

Addis Fine Art London, Addis Ababa Afriart Kampala

Aicon Contemporary New York

Anthony Gallery Chicago

El Apartamento Havana, Madrid

Bill Arning Exhibitions Kinderhook, New York

Baert Gallery Los Angeles

Rutger Brandt Gallery Amsterdam

Louis Buhl & Co. Detroit

CARVALHO PARK Brooklyn

Jonathan Carver Moore San Francisco

Cob London

Dreamsong Minneapolis

Duran | Mashaal Montréal

EUROPA New York

Fragment New York

Geary Millerton, New York

Gether Contemporary Copenhagen

The Hole New York, Los Angeles

Johansson Projects Oakland

Jupiter Miami Beach

LatchKey Gallery New York

Efraín López New York

Make Room Los Angeles

Martin Art Projects Cape Town

MICKEY Chicago

THE MISSION PROJECTS Chicago

Montague Contemporary New York

Moosey London, Norwich

Marisa Newman Projects New York

NOME Berlin

Patel Brown Toronto, Montréal

Povos Chicago

Niru Ratnam London

Residency Art Gallery Inglewood

SEPTEMBER Kinderhook

SGR Galería Bogotá

Chris Sharp Gallery Los Angeles

TERN Nassau

Hannah Traore Gallery New York

VERVE São Paulo

Voloshyn Gallery Kyiv

WILDING CRAN GALLERY Los Angeles

Zielinsky Barcelona, São Paulo

Rosario Güiraldes, Curator, EXPOSURE, EXPO CHICAGO 2024.

Alicia Reyes McNamara, Wild Shiver, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Niru Ratnam, London.

Photo: Damian Griffiths

Opening Night at EXPO CHICAGO 2023. Photo: Justin Barbin.

PROFILE

PROFILE presents solo artist booths and focused projects by established international galleries. Showcasing ambitious installations and tightly focused thematic exhibitions, this section features major projects by a single artist or collective, providing a curatorial platform for solo presentations.

Chambers Fine Art New York

Dep Art Gallery Milan, Ceglie Messapica

Thierry Goldberg Gallery New York

Michael Janssen Berlin

Kalashnikovv Gallery Johannesburg, Cape Town

KORNFELD GALERIE BERLIN Berlin

Kravets Wehby Gallery New York

LnS GALLERY Miami

LUCE GALLERY Turin

walter maciel gallery Los Angeles

Philip Martin Gallery Los Angeles

Nazarian / Curcio Los Angeles

Newzones Calgary

Fredric Snitzer Gallery Miami

Mindy Solomon Gallery Miami

Spinello Projects Miami

Cristin Tierney Gallery New York

Maximillian William London

Anna Zorina Gallery New York

EDITIONS + BOOKS

Editions + Books showcases a cross-section of established and emerging artists. From limited edition collectibles to commissioned prints, the exhibitors offer a diverse array of print media, spanning across photography, collage, printmaking, and art monographs.

ART FOR CHANGE New York

Artbook + MCA Chicago Store New York, Chicago

F.L. Braswell Fine Art Chicago, Lakeside Chicago Printmakers Collaborative Chicago

Flying Horse Editions at University of Central Florida Orlando

Bert Green Fine Art Chicago

Lusenhop Fine Art Cleveland

Manneken Press Bloomington

Normal Editions at Illinois State University Normal

Powerhouse Arts Brooklyn

René Schmitt Berlin, WOL

Stoney Road Press Dublin

Swivel Gallery Brooklyn

Wildwood Press LLC St. Louis

Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952/1968. Courtesy of Lusenhop Fine Art, Cleveland.

Amir H Fallah, Empire, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles.

KARA WALKER

February 15—May 18, 2024

The Ballad of How We Got Here, 2021

Opening Night at EXPO CHICAGO 2023. Photo: Kyle Flubacker.

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS

The Special Exhibitions section features curatorial projects by select regional, national, and international non-profit institutions, museums, and organizations. Complementing the surrounding elements of the fair, this program illustrates and preserves the important relationship between contemporary and modern art and non-profit organizations.

6018North Chicago

AMFM Chicago

Aperture New York

Art Design Chicago / Hyde Park Art Center Chicago

Artadia Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco

Arts of Life – Circle Contemporary Chicago, Glenview

BLANC GALLERY Chicago

Center for Native Futures Chicago

Chicago Artists Coalition Chicago

The Conservation Center (TCC) Chicago Contour Art Gallery Vilnius

CPS Lives Chicago

The De Looper Foundation Washington, DC

Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago Chicago For Freedoms

Museum of Science and Industry Chicago

OSMOS New York, Stamford

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago SkyART Chicago

PUBLICATIONS

Visit a select roster of local and international publications including magazines, journals, and quarterlies featuring the best in contemporary art and culture. Publication booths offer the opportunity to subscribe-in-person and purchase collectible print editions.

Apollo Artforum

Chicago Gallery News

Newcity

Esse

frieze magazine

Poetry

Lawrence Agyei, DRILL - Personal Series, 2021. Courtesy of Blanc Gallery, Chicago.

Courtesy of frieze magazine.

SOUTH SIDE

COME EXPLORE ARTS + CULTURE

Arts + Public Life

Thu-Sat 1-5PM

301 E Garfield Blvd

On view: I Brought You Flowers/Te Traje Flores

DuSable Black History Museum & Education Center

Wed-Sun 11AM-4PM

740 E 56th Pl

Multiple exhibitions & educational opportunities

Hyde Park Art Center

Mon–Thu 10AM-7PM; Fri 10AM–4:30PM; Sat 10AM4PM; Sun 11AM–4PM

5020 S Cornell Ave

Multiple exhibitions & familyfriendly activities

Logan Center Exhibitions

Tue-Sun 9AM-9PM

915 E 60th St

On view: 2024 BA Thesis

Exhibition: ARACHNIDAE

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society

Mon–Fri 9AM-4PM

5701 S Woodlawn Ave

On view: Christopher Williams: Radio/Rauhfaser/Television

Smart Museum of Art

Tue-Sun 10am–4:30PM

5550 S Greenwood Ave

On view: Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan

South Side Community Art Center

Wed–Sat Noon-4PM

5550 S Greenwood Ave Events, exhibitions, & museum collections.

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC)

Tue-Sun 10AM–4PM; Fri 10AM–8PM

1155 E 58th St

Explore current & special exhibits, multiple galleries, & collections.

The Renaissance Society

Wed-Fri Noon-6PM; Sat-Sun 10AM-6PM

5811 S Ellis Ave

On view: Ghislaine Leung: Holdings

UChicago Library

Mon-Thu 8AM-12AM; Fri 8AM-11PM; Sat 9AM-11PM; Sun 9AM– 12AM

1100 E 57th St

On view: Bibliosaurus! Dinosaurs in the Popular Imagination

UChicago Special Exhibit Hutchinson Courtyard 1131 E 57th St

Jessica Stockholder: For Events

arts.uchicago.edu/

/Dialogues

Presented in partnership with the  School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), /Dialogues brings together leading curators, artists, designers, and arts professionals for a series of panel discussions on topics of the moment including the civic responsibilities of the artist and art institution, the role of art in global catastrophe, alternative modes of making and exhibition, and curatorial collaboration.

This year’s program will take cues from EXPO CHICAGO and Independent Curators International (ICI)’s first ever curatorial conference, Curating and The Commons. Panels will address themes of institutional problem solving; biennial and triennial programs and how they engage with the cities they are hosted within; and the civic role of the artist, collector, and curator.

Soho House Snug, located within the /Dialogues stage area, provides EXPO CHICAGO guests a space to connect with one another while enjoying panels, book signings, and interstitial video presentations from Art21 and Daata.

EXPO CHICAGO 2023, Chance the Rapper in conversation with Hank Willis Thomas, Navy Pier. Photo: Faith Decker.

THURSDAY, APRIL 11

2:00-3:00pm

FOR FREEDOMS | ART MAKING AND THE SOCIAL CHANGE STAGE: CURATING CIVIC LISTENING THROUGH ART IDENTITIES

PANELISTS

Antonius-Tín Bui (Artist), Lisa Lee (Cultural Activist and Executive Director, National Public Housing Museum), Shinique Smith (Artist), and Jake Troyli (Artist). Moderated by Toni Anderson (Consciousness Engineer, Healer and Human Design Strategist).

Join For Freedoms in a conversation exploring how social-political narratives expand and restrict artists’ practices and shape civic culture. The discussion will explore the role of listening in art, community, and our shared humanity. Founded in 2016 by a coalition including Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Michelle Woo, and Wyatt Gallery, For Freedoms is an artist-led organization that centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action dedicated to fostering an environment of listening, healing, and justice through a wide range of creative engagements.

3:30–4:30pm

ENTRE HORIZONTES: CARLA ACEVEDOYATES IN CONVERSATION WITH CANDIDA ALVAREZ AND OMAR VELÁZQUEZ

PANELISTS

Candida Alvarez (Artist, moniquemeloche) (SAIC Professor Emeritus), Omar Velázquez (Artist, Corbett vs. Dempsey) (SAIC MFA 2016). Moderated by Carla Acevedo-Yates (Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago).

Join Carla Acevedo-Yates with artists Candida Alvarez and Omar Velázquez as they discuss the importance of Puerto Rican representation within local collections and institutions.

Acevedo-Yates’ most recent exhibition at the MCA, entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico, examines the artistic genealogies and social justice movements that connect Puerto Rico with Chicago. By bridging these two horizons, the exhibition traces correspondence concerning place and identity across visual art and social justice formats. Featuring works by an intergenerational group of artists with ties to Chicago, the exhibition presents Puerto Rican painters who use printmaking techniques and approaches alongside artists who address social and political issues through their work.

7:00–8:00pm

THE CULTURE | HIP HOP & CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE 21st CENTURY

PANELISTS

Chance the Rapper, Asma Naeem Ph.D. (Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director, Baltimore Museum of Art). Moderated by Nate Freeman (Vanity Fair).

Join Chance the Rapper in conversation with Asma Naeem, co-curator of the exhibition The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century which traveled from the Baltimore Museum of Art to the Saint Louis Art Museum in 2023. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of hip hop’s birth, the exhibition brought together the past two decades in hip hop considered through a wide range of artifacts and mediums. Featured in the exhibition—alongside iconic works like Gordan Parks’ photograph A Great Day in Hip Hop (1998) and Mark Bradford’s stunning canvas Biggie, Biggie, Biggie (2002)— was the same red overalls (designed by Sheila Rashid) and classic black ‘New Era 3’ cap worn by Chance the Rapper at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. Here, Chance will discuss contributions to hip hop through his career and his involvement in contemporary art through a multi-year collaboration with visual artists from his upcoming Starline Gallery album. Moderated by Nate Freeman of Vanity Fair, the panel hopes to contribute to the growing scholarship around hip hop and its contributions to international contemporary art.

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

12:00–1:00pm

SCREENING: AWARD-WINNING ART21 FILMS

Producing more films than ever before, 2023 was a banner year for Art21. This film series highlights just some of the notable films of last year. Dive deep with newly-featured artists like Miranda July, Christine Sun Kim, and Wong Ping. Catch up on recent projects from artists featured in earlier seasons of Art in the TwentyFirst Century like Kerry James Marshall and Sarah Sze Jurrell Lewis, Assistant Curator at Art21, will join for a Q&A following the screening.

2:00pm–3:00pm

DIRECTORS SUMMIT | PAVING COMMON GROUND: PART I

PANELISTS

Liz Andrews, Ph.D. (Executive Director, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art), Vanja V. Malloy, Ph.D. (Dana Feitler Director, Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago), Zoë Ryan (Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania), and JoAnne Northrup (Executive Director and Chief Curator, Nerman Museum Contemporary of Art). Moderated by Jill Snyder (Principal, Snyder Consultancy).

EXPO CHICAGO celebrates the third edition of the annual Directors Summit, an initiative that gathers an emerging generation of art museum leaders from across the country for two roundtable conversations around civic responsibility and advancing organizational growth and change in response to the call for an equitable, inclusive, and sustainable future. Facing the profound challenges of an election year, the 2024 Directors Summit offers a forum for museum leaders to share how their institutions offer an invaluable “third space” to explore civic discourse and foster common ground. This panel is presented in partnership with Sotheby’s, Bloomberg Connects, Terra Foundation for American Art, and the University Club of Chicago.

3:00–4:00pm

SCREENING: ART21 PRESENTS ARTISTS IN CHICAGO

Art21 presents a selection of films featuring artists living and working in Chicago. Sharing their expertise and wisdom with the next generation, artists like Nick Cave (SAIC Stephanie and Bill Sick Professor of Fashion, Body and Garment), Theaster Gates, Kerry James Marshall, Michael Rakowitz, Jessica Stockholder, and Catherine Sullivan are also educators. Each has taught or is currently teaching at local institutions like School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University. Emma Nordin, Director of Education at Art21, will join for a Q&A following the screening.

Installation view, entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico, MCA Chicago. August 19, 2023 –May 5, 2024. Photo: Shelby Ragsdale, © MCA Chicago.

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

4:00–5:00pm

A LOOK AHEAD TO PROSPECT.6 NEW ORLEANS

PANELISTS

Ebony G. Patterson (Co-Artistic Director, Prospect.6; Artist, moniquemeloche) Miranda Lash (Co-Artistic Director, Prospect.6; Ellen Bruss Senior Curator, MCA Denver), Ashley Teamer (Artist), Bethany Collins (Artist), Didier William (Artist).

Join Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, curators of the sixth edition of Prospect New Orleans, alongside artists Bethany Collins, Ashley Teamer, and Didier William for a preview of new ideas and exciting undertakings by artists involved in the upcoming triennial. Opening November 2024, Prospect.6 titled the future is present, the harbinger is home will posit New Orleans as a globally relevant point of departure for examining our collective future as it relates to climate change, legacies of colonialism, and definitions of belonging and home. This panel is presented partnership with frieze magazine.

5:30–6:30pm

ART CRITICS FORUM | CRITICISM AS PRACTICE

PANELISTS

Christina Catherine Martinez, Michelle Grabner (SAIC Crown Family Professor of Art).

Moderated by Alex Greenberger (Senior Editor, ARTNews).

It is often assumed that art critics spend their time observing the creations of others and penning reviews about what they see at their desks. However, for centuries, many of the finest art writers have been artists themselves.

Moderated by Alex Greenberger, the Art Critics Forum will consider the tradition of the artist as critic, exploring how the experience of being in the studio influences how critics view and write about others’ art. The panel brings together artist-critics Christina Catherine Martinez and Michelle Grabner to discuss the symbiosis between making and critique in their unique practices. This panel is presented in partnership with ARTnews.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13

12:00 — 12:45pm

SCREENING: DAATA | THE ROCKERS UPTOWN (CHICAGO VERSION)

Daata presents a playlist of commissioned video animations that embody the profound, equivalent coolness of the eponymous reggae dub, King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown by Augustus Pablo and King Tubby, released as the b-side to Jacob Miller’s record Baby I Love You So in 1975. Exploring collective memories grounded in music, Daata curator David Gryn showcases the digital work of George Barber, Phillip Birch, Jacky Connolly, Jeremy Couillard, Ollie Dook, Ed Fornieles, Jess Johnson & Simon Ward, Takeshi Murata, Eva Papamargariti, Puck Verkade, and Lu Yang.

1:15–2:00pm ART OUTSIDE THE CENTER PANELISTS

Jenny Moore (Founding Director, Tinworks), Kristy Edmunds (Director, MASS MoCA), and Jodi Throckmorton (Chief Curator, John Michael Kohler Art Center). Moderated by Cortney Stell (Executive Director & Chief Curator, Black Cube).

Join directors Jenny Moore (Bozeman, MT), Kristy Edmunds (North Adams, MA), and Jodi Throckmorton (Sheboygan, WI) in a conversation that will explore exhibition-making in locations outside the country’s art centers. From innovative exhibitions in repurposed buildings to arts meccas far from city centers, the panel emphasizes the transformative potential of art in less conventional settings. At the panel’s core is the recognition that artists play a unique role in bringing audiences to places they might not otherwise travel. This nuanced perspective prompts a profound exploration of the civic responsibilities inherent in situating art institutions in ‘unlikely’ places and the conditions of possibility for new arts spaces to take root. The conversation will be moderated by Cortney Stell of Black Cube, a nomadic contemporary art museum based in Denver, Colorado. This panel is presented in partnership with Esse.

2:00–3:00pm

DIRECTORS SUMMIT | PAVING COMMON GROUND: PART II

PANELISTS

Asma Naeem, Ph.D. (Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director, Baltimore Museum of Art), Brooke A. Minto (Executive Director and CEO, Columbus Museum of Art), Reuben Roqueñi (Executive Director, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art), and Yasufumi Nakamori, Ph.D. (Museum Director and Vice President of Art and Culture, Asia Society). Moderated by Jill Snyder (Principal, Snyder Consultancy).

This panel is presented in partnership with Sotheby’s, Bloomberg Connects, Terra Foundation for American Art and the University Club of Chicago.

3:15–4:00pm

SCREENING: DAATA | DEEP SPACE MATHEMATICS & OTHER STORIES

Curated from the Daata archives, Deep Space Mathematics & Other Stories presents digital and video works that are unpolished yet glamorous, always energetic, girly, and unflinchingly raw. Spotlighting works by Rebecca Allen, Helen Benigson, Keren Cytter, Keiken, Rosie McGinn, Hannah Perry, Georgie Roxby Smith, Molly Soda, Anna Sophie de Vries, Chloe Wise, and Zadie Xa, the playlist takes its title from the featured video by Xa, originally introduced to Daata by Legacy Russell in 2016.

4:00–5:00pm ON COLOR PANELISTS

Amanda Williams (Artist, Rhona Hoffman Gallery), Alteronce Gumby (Artist). Moderated by Jordan Carter (Curator, Dia Art Foundation). Join Amanda Williams and Alteronce Gumby in a conversation moderated by Jordan Carter that will explore the symbolism of color and its broader societal associations through several of the artists’ past and current series. In her breakout series, Color(ed) Theory (2014–16), Williams painted houses in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood that were marked for demolition in a spectrum of monochrome hues associated with Black culture. The photographs that document the intervention serve as a striking interrogation of the inequities in urban development and the question of value in the Chicago community and elsewhere. In Gumby’s work, color is also a tool of investigation, bringing his audience closer to an understanding of light and space. Gumby first began using unconventional materials like resin and glass when he discovered a shattered bus stop pavilion outside his neighborhood bodega in the South Bronx. Series such as The Color of Everything, an exhibition of what Gumby termed ‘tonal paintings,’ use these materials to reference connections between historic color-theory and contemporary interstellar discovery. From Williams’ inquiries into the narrative histories of Black identity through more recent series such as What Black Is This, You Say? to Gumby’s continued exploration of light and tonality in the ongoing series Glass & Gemstones, the conversation investigates the multifaceted role color plays in contemporary art practices. The conversation will be moderated by Jordan Carter, Curator and Co-Department Head at Dia Art Foundation and formerly the Associate Curator in the Art Institute of Chicago’s department of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Wheatfield - A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan - With Agnes Denes Standing in the Field, 1982 Photo: John McGrail, courtesy Agnes Denes and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects.

5:15–6:15pm

DARKROOM A TO Z: PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA IN CONVERSATION

PANELISTS

Paul Mpagi Sepuya (Artist, DOCUMENT, Vielmetter Los Angeles), Silas Munro (Partner, Polymode). Moderated by Drew Sawyer (Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art). Join Los Angeles-based artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya in conversation with Silas Munro on the occasion of Sepuya’s most comprehensive monographic release to date Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Darkroom A to Z, which will be published by Aperture in Fall 2024. Designed by Munro and his studio, the monograph guides viewers through the vast network of subjects, references, and interconnected artist communities within Sepuya’s photographic practice over the past 15 years. Sepuya will speak on the various bodies of work featured in the monograph, in addition to discussing the development of the project and its larger relationship to publishing, zines, and bookmaking. Munro is the founder of Polymode, an LGBTQ+, minority-owned design studio working with various high profile cultural institutions and communitybased organizations across the country. The conversation will be moderated by Drew Sawyer who curated the recent exhibition Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines at the Brooklyn Museum: the first museum exhibition dedicated to the rich history of artist self-publishing and zines in North America. This panel presented in partnership with Aperture.

SUNDAY, APRIL 14

2:00–3:00pm ACTIONS FOR THE EARTH | REFRAMING RELATIONSHIPS TO NATURE PANELISTS

Jenny Kendler (Artist)(SAIC MFA 2006), Katie West (Artist), Zarina Muhammad (Artist). Moderated by Sharmila Wood (Curator, Actions for the Earth).

The recent convergence of worldwide crises— ongoing climate change, entrenched social inequity, renewed concerns over public health, and continued international conflict—demands a revaluation of care for and responsibility to our global community and oppressed local environments. In a conversation coinciding with Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology, a traveling exhibition at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, the exhibition’s curator Sharmila Wood (Australia) sits down with artists Jenny Kendler (USA), Zarina Muhammed (Singapore) and Katie West (Australia) to discuss interdisciplinary and participatory practices that engage the connecting threads of eco-cultural and ecological histories, ancient and Indigenous knowledge, healing actions, cosmology, spirituality, mysticism, and the more-thanhuman world. Specifically, the conversation explores the role of art and artists in the natural environment, looking at their role in regeneration and preservation as the climate crisis deepens.

3:30–4:30pm

USA ARTISTS | ARTISTS MAKING NOW: CONTEMPORARY CRAFT PANELISTS

John Paul Morabito (2024 USA Artist Fellow) (SAIC MFA 2013), Linda Nguyen Lopez (2024 USA Artist Fellow, Mindy Solomon Gallery). Moderated by Judilee Reed (President & CEO, United States Artists).

Join us for a conversation featuring 2024 United States Artists Fellows Linda Nguyen Lopez and John Paul Morabito, moderated by Judilee Reed. Morabito engages queerness, ethnicity, and the sacred through the medium of tapestry reimagined in the digital age. Lopez’s ceramic sculptures explore the poetic potential of the everyday by imagining and articulating a vast emotional range embedded in the mundane objects that surround us. During this panel, Lopez and Morabito will discuss sustaining their respective practices beyond major cities, recent and upcoming projects, and why they are drawn to their specific mediums as tools for expression. The panel is presented in partnership with United States Artists. United States Artists plays a pivotal role in our cultural ecosystem, advancing the well-being of artists through unrestricted funding, tailored professional services, amplifying their work, and improving conditions that support their essential roles in society.

Real-time captioning will be available for all programming on the /Dialogues stage throughout EXPO CHICAGO, accessible via QR code and made viewable via StreamText on any tablet or smartphone. To request ASL interpreter services for any /Dialogues panel, please contact programming@expochicago.com by March 27.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Drop Scene (_1030683), 2018. Image courtesy the artist and Bortolami, New York, DOCUMENT, Chicago and Lisbon, Peter Kilchmann, Paris and Zürich, and Vielmetter, Los Angeles.

Installed within the expansive, vaulted architecture of Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, IN/SITU features large-scale sculptures, videos, and site-specific works. For the 2024 program, Amara Antilla, Independent Curator and Guest Curator at Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Cincinnati, has curated a selection of new and existing works featuring artists from leading international exhibitors participating in the exposition.

Titled after Paul Auster’s 1987 dystopian novel In the Country of Last Things, the 2024 program includes new and existing works in installation, painting, photography, sculpture, sound, and video by fifteen artists examining the precarious nature of contemporary life. The works intervene within interstitial spaces and during pauses in the gallery presentations, bringing together investigations of collective unease during a fractured time, evoking revisionist histories, and moving beyond critique to imagine more just and sustainable futures.

This year’s edition includes works by Iván Argote (Perrotin), American Artist (Labor), Paul Stephen Benjamin (Efraín López), Kiah Celeste (DOCUMENT), Elena Damiani (Revolver Galería), Anne-Karin Furunes (RYAN LEE Gallery), Rico Gatson (Miles McEnery Gallery), Maria Hupfield (Patel Brown), Voluspa Jarpa (NOME), Lucia Koch (Nara Roesler), Josèfa Ntjam (Galerie Poggi), Michael Rakowitz (Rhona Hoffman Gallery), Claudia Peña Salinas (CURRO), Tori Wrånes (Nazarian / Curcio), and Lauren Yeager (Abattoir).

expochicago.com for

information on the 2024 IN/SITU program.

Amara Antilla, Curator, IN/SITU, EXPO CHICAGO 2024

Josèfa Ntjam, Incubateur de révoltes #2 (2023) / MARTHE (2023). Exhibition view : «  matter gone wild », Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, November 2023 - January 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris. Photo : Marc Domage © ADAGP Paris, 2023.

Andrea Galvani, Instruments for Inquiring into the Wind and the Shaking Earth, 2022. Courtesy of CURRO. Photo by Justin Barbin.

CURATORIAL FORUM

EXPO CHICAGO will host its tenth annual Curatorial Forum — the ninth co-organized with ICI (Independent Curator’s International) — to align with the upcoming 11th edition. This program offers mid-career and established curators working independently or with an institutional affiliation the opportunity to engage with their peers and explore significant issues in the field. This year’s forum will feature for the first time a curatorial conference, Curating and The Commons, taking place on-site at Navy Pier with a keynote by Miguel A. López, co-curator for the 2024 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art.

The newly formed conference, Curating and The Commons, will expand beyond the annual convening of 80+ national and international curators. Three panel discussions: Common Knowledge, Common Space, and Common Future have been conceived around key questions and organized on a loose temporal framework. Common Knowledge will reach into the past, and explore how archives, collections, and libraries can shape a collective memory. Common Space is invested in how communities physically shape the present. And lastly, Common Future will examine the civic role that the arts can play in not only imagining, but actively creating a better future.

The 2024 Curatorial Forum is co-produced by EXPO CHICAGO and ICI, and made possible, in part, by the generous support of sponsors 21c Museum Hotel Chicago and the Joyce Foundation, Teiger Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Hartfield Foundation; with additional support by UAP | Urban Art Projects, Terry Dowd, Inc, and Gallagher. It is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.

To learn more about this year’s Curatorial Forum, including a list of 2024 participants, visit expochicago.com

Curatorial Forum at EXPO CHICAGO 2023. Photo: Justin Barbin.

Miguel A. López, Keynote Speaker, Curatorial Forum, EXPO CHICAGO 2024

CURATORIAL INITIATIVES

CURATORIAL EXCHANGE

Through its annual Curatorial Exchange, EXPO CHICAGO remains one of the nation’s only fairs with a dedicated initiative focused on funding global curator exchanges that foster future collaborations for curators on the local, national and international level. The fifth annual exchange is developed in partnership with foreign consulates and cultural organizations from around the world, offering select mid-career and established curators the opportunity to engage closely with their peers through closed-door sessions, and provides access to exhibitions, top private collections, artist studios, museums and institutions throughout the four-day program.

The Curatorial Exchange is developed in partnership with foreign consulates and cultural agencies from countries around the world including the Australian Consulate-General Chicago; the Danish Arts Foundation and the Consulate General of Denmark in New York; Villa Albertine and the Consulat Général de France à Chicago; Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago; Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania in Chicago; the Lithuanian Culture Institute; the Consulado General de México en Chicago; Dutch Culture USA, a program by the Consulate General of Netherlands of New York; Québec Government Office in Chicago; Taipei Cultural Center in New York; and Arts Council of Ireland.

To learn more about this year’s Curatorial Exchange, including a list of 2024 participants, visit expochicago.com

Curatorial Exchange 2023, Ryan Learning Center at Art Institute of Chicago. Photo: Faith Decker.

DIRECTORS SUMMIT

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2024 2:00pm /Dialogues Stage

PAVING COMMON GROUND: PART I PANELISTS

Liz Andrews, Ph.D., Vanja V. Malloy, Ph.D., Zoë Ryan, and JoAnne Northrup.

Moderated by Jill Snyder.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2024 2:00pm /Dialogues Stage

PAVING COMMON GROUND: PART I PANELISTS

Asma Naeem Ph.D., Brooke A. Minto, Reuben Roqueñi, and Yasufumi Nakamori, Ph.D.

Moderated by Jill Snyder.

DIRECTORS SUMMIT

EXPO CHICAGO will celebrate the third edition of the annual Directors

Summit, an initiative that gathers an emerging generation of art museum leaders from across the country for a three-day program of conversations around civic responsibility and advancing organizational growth and change in response to the call for an equitable, inclusive, and sustainable future. Facing the profound challenges of an election year, the 2024 Directors Summit offers a forum for museum leaders to share how their institutions offer an invaluable "third space" to explore civic discourse and foster common ground.

The summit is in partnership with museum consultant Jill Snyder (Principal, Snyder Consultancy) and features a keynote lecture at the University Club of Chicago by Dr. Louise Bernard, Founding Director of the Obama Presidential Center Museum (The Obama Foundation).

2024 PARTICIPANTS

Liz Andrews, Ph.D. (Executive Director, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art)

Vanja V. Malloy, Ph.D. (Dana Feitler Director, Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago)

Brooke A. Minto (Executive Director and CEO, Columbus Museum of Art)

Asma Naeem, Ph.D. (Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director, Baltimore Museum of Art)

Yasufumi Nakamori, Ph.D. (Museum Director and Vice President of Arts and Culture, A sia Society)

JoAnne Northrup (Executive Director and Chief Curator, Nerman Museum of C ontemporary Art)

Reuben Roqueñi (Executive Director, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art)

Zoë Ryan (Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania)

Louise Bernard, Keynote Speaker, Directors Summit, EXPO CHICAGO 2024.

Directors Summit, Designing Inclusive Museums: Part I on the /Dialogues stage at EXPO CHICAGO 2023. Photo: Mario Gallucci.

The 2024 Directors Summit is sponsored by:

Engaging the city’s long legacy of pioneering public art, EXPO CHICAGO presents major initiatives which highlight work by internationally recognized artists, in collaboration with the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), the Chicago Park District and Navy Pier.

OVERRIDE

On view April 1–21

This citywide public art initiative, presented by EXPO CHICAGO and the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), is displayed throughout Chicago’s City Digital Network (CDN). OVERRIDE takes its name from industry terminology referring to the continuation of an outdoor advertising program beyond a contracted period. Fully integrated into the language of advertising and local familiar signage, each work included in the OVERRIDE program presents the opportunity for artists to intercept and push the boundaries of how visual culture is disseminated in our increasingly image-based environment.

Building upon the City of Chicago and DCASE’s longstanding commitment to public art, OVERRIDE provides EXPO CHICAGO a key opportunity beyond Navy Pier to showcase works by leading and emerging local and international artists in neighborhoods throughout the city.

2024 OVERRIDE ARTISTS

Lawrence Agyei | Artist, Chicago

Jada-Amina | Artist, Chicago

Art & Language | René Schmitt, Berlin, WOL

ON THE COVER:

Lucia Koch, Dori, 2017

Courtesy of the artist and Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York. This work is an extension of the 2024 IN/SITU program featured on Page 26.

Raphaël Barontini | Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago, Paris, Mexico City

Jazmine Harris | Artist, Chicago

Tom Jones II | Artist, Chicago

Lucia Koch | Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York

Judy Ledgerwood | Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

Victoria Martinez | Artist, Chicago

Yuge Zhou | Artist, Chicago

Visit expochicago.com for more information on the 2024 OVERRIDE program and featured locations.

Judy Ledgerwood, Jaywalking, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.

IN/SITU OUTSIDE

IN/SITU Outside provides the opportunity for EXPO CHICAGO exhibitors to present temporary public art installations situated along the lakefront and throughout Chicago neighborhoods, presented in partnership with the Chicago Park District (CPD), the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), and Navy Pier.

Continuing installations and other works installed in Chicago Park District locations can be found throughout the city.

Visit expochicago.com for more information on the 2024 IN/SITU Outside program.

CONTINUING INSTALLATIONS

Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy REACH, 2023

Chicago O’Hare International Airport

Nancy Rubins

Dense Bud, 2016

Courtesy of the artist 5400 S Lake Shore Dr

Nancy Rubins

Agrifolia Majoris, 2017

Courtesy of the artist 5300 N Lake Shore Dr

Mark di Suvero

Magma, 2008–2011 and Destino, 2003

Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery

Queen’s Landing and East of Lake Shore Drive and 53rd Street

Bernar Venet

Disorder: 9 Uneven Angles, 2015

Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery

E Ida B. Wells Dr and S Columbus Dr

See full list of public art installations at expochicago.com

Brendan Fernandes

New Monuments | Chicago

April 10–13, 2024

Logan Monument, Grant Park

New Monuments | Chicago by Brendan Fernandes is a public intervention at the General John Alexander Logan Monument in Grant Park. Envisioned as the first in a series of interventions engaging monuments internationally, it features a sculptural installation composed of scaffolding surrounding the monument, marking the space as “in transition”; a durational performance on April 12 from 7:00–10:00pm; and public hours on April 10–13 from 11:00am–5:00pm, during which audiences are invited to respond to Fernandes’ prompt about their visions for new monuments. Responses will be displayed to illustrate this communal moment of self-expression, social engagement, and critical dialogue around the history and current state of monuments in Chicago, and beyond. Produced and curated by Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum, and made possible with generous support from the Chicago Parks District, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the David and Laura Merage Foundation. Special thanks to AIM Architecture, and Project&.

Eddie Martinez

Half Stepping Hot Stepper and Untitled

April 5–August 25, 2024

Compass Rose | Navy Pier

Two sculptures by American artist Eddie Martinez will be installed outside at Navy Pier. Known primarily for his large canvases, Martinez been making sculptures for over a decade. As with his paintings, Martinez’s sculptures are dynamic, colorful and bold explorations of abstract shape, line and form. The eclectic range of materials he employs in his ‘assemblages’ such as plaster, wood, plastic and rubber (not to mention lobster traps, buoys, and a swimming pool ladder) reach their apotheosis in exquisitely cast bronzes. Half Stepping Hot Stepper, enamel and spray paint on bronze, and Untitled, oil paint and enamel on bronze, are at once energetic and exuberant, and equally filled with a sense of melancholy and nostalgia. Presented by Navy Pier.

General John Alexander Logan Monument, Grant Park, Chicago. Courtesy the artist and Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum.

Eddie Martinez, Half Stepping Hot Stepper, 2016. Courtesy of the artist. Photography Credit: JSP Art Photography

MADE FOR ART

Spring into the new season with activities for everyone!

Discover endless delights at Chicago’s premier lakefront destination. Our calendar is packed with exciting events all year round.

Immerse yourself in the world of art at EXPO CHICAGO.

Enjoy seasonal festivities with family and discover FREE weekly programs.

Plan your visit at navypier.org and make the most of the season!

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EXPO ART WEEK

APRIL 8–14, 2024

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 the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE)—presents EXPO ART WEEK, April 8–14, 2024. With the exposition as its centerpiece, EXPO ART WEEK partners annually with the city's most prestigious institutions to feature select aligned programming, including museum exhibitions, gallery openings, and more.

Visit expochicago.com for the most up-to-date information on EXPO ART WEEK 2024.

The following exhibitions are presented as part of Art Design Chicago, a special series of events and exhibitions that highlight Chicago's unique artistic heritage and creative communities. Art Design Chicago is an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with artists and arts organizations across the city. For a full calendar, visit ArtDesignChicago.org.

entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Native Futures

Center for Native Futures

A Love Supreme

Elmhurst Art Museum

Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles and The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige

Hyde Park Art Center

Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories

Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), Chicago Cultural Center

Arte Diseño Xicágo II • From the World’s Fair to the Present Day

National Museum of Mexican Art

MUSEUM LOOP SHUTTLE April 13–14 | 12:00–5:00pm

Catch the Museum Loop Shuttle and visit the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago and EXPO CHICAGO

Pick-ups and drop-offs available at each of the shuttle stops along the route.

The Museum Loop Shuttle departs approximately on the hour

departs from Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Corner of Chicago Ave and Mies Van der Rohe Way

first stop

Art Institute of Chicago

Modern Wing Entrance

second stop

EXPO CHICAGO

Navy Pier– East Entrance 2 and loops back to MCA

FEATURED ALIGNMENTS

RADICAL CLAY: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN ARTISTS FROM JAPAN

On view through June 3, 2024

The Art Institute of Chicago 111 S Michigan Ave

Radical Clay celebrates 36 contemporary ceramic artists— all women—through 40 stunning, virtuosic pieces. Since World War II, women have made influential contributions to the ceramics field in Japan that have not been adequately recognized. This exhibition focuses on the explosion of innovative and technically ambitious compositions by such artists since 1970—a body of work which they developed in parallel with, but often separately from, traditional, male-dominated Japanese practice and its countermovements.

A JOURNEY: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE RON AND ANN PIZZUTI COLLECTION

On view through June 2024

The Peninsula Chicago 108 E Superior St

Ron and Ann Pizzuti have been collecting modern and contemporary art over the last 40 years. The Peninsula Chicago presents the exhibition, A Journey, which reflects the Pizzuti’s experiences in art collecting and features a global roster of artists.

NICOLE EISENMAN: WHAT HAPPENED April 12–June 5, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave

What Happened is the first major exhibition surveying Nicole Eisenman’s expansive artistic practice, bringing together roughly 100 works produced from 1992 to today. Formally inventive and materially ambitious, Eisenman works across a range of formats and techniques, from painting to drawing to large-scale murals and installations. A similar sense of variety carries forward into the artist’s subject matter, which features an array of cultural and historical sources, including Renaissance painting, underground comics, and 1930s socialist murals, among many others. Through careful juxtaposition and idiosyncratic detail, Eisenman confronts the most pressing crises of our time, examining significant contemporary moments with a style and vision that is entirely her own. The exhibition is organized by Museum Brandhorst and Whitechapel Gallery, London, and curated by Monika BayerWermuth and Mark Godfrey. The MCA presentation is curated by Jadine Collingwood, Associate Curator, and Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.

Tanaka Yu 田中悠, Bag Work (フクロモノ), 2018. Courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago.

Nicole Eisenman, Sloppy Bar Room Kiss, 2011. Collection of Cathy and Jonathan Miller. Image courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.

Kehinde Wiley, Treisha Lowe, 2012.

Photo: Jason Wyche. Courtesy of the artist and Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles.

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ACTIONS FOR THE EARTH: ART, CARE & ECOLOGY

On view through July 7, 2024

NORA TURATO:

THIS IS A TEST OF SEVERANCE. CAN YOU LET GO?

April 12–June 5, 2024

8:30–10:00pm Projections

ART on THE MART

Visible from Chicago Riverwalk between Wells and Franklin Street

ART on THE MART’s spring season (April 12–June 5, 2024) will kick off to coincide with EXPO CHICAGO’s eleventh edition with a commission by internationally-acclaimed artist Nora Turato. This new projection will explore contemporary society’s fixation with self-optimization while also continuing the artist’s exploration of language. Turato is known for her text-based works and performances addressing the possibilities of language in a culture oversaturated with information. In addition, Nora Turato will perform a new monologue – pool 6 – at the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday, April 13 at 2:00pm. Registration is required.

The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston

Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology is a traveling exhibition that considers kinship, healing, and restorative interventions as artistic practices and strategies to foster a deeper consciousness of our interconnectedness with the earth. The exhibition presents the work of eighteen artists and collectives who foreground reciprocity and exchange in their work by sharing participatory interventions, healing practices, ecology and science, as well as ancient beliefs. The artists create space for honoring ancestors, the significance of Indigenous knowledges, and engage in fantastical speculation through science-fiction and organic, digital, and spiritual network sciences. Curated by Sharmila Wood and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. Hear more about this exhibition by attending Actions for the Earth | Reframing Relationships to Nature on the /Dialogues Stage on Sunday April, 14 from 2:00–3:00pm.

BARELY FAIR April 12–21, 2024

Vernissage | April 12 | 6:00–10:00pm

April 13 | 11:00am–7:00pm

April 14 | 11:00am–6:00pm

April 16–19 | 1:00–6:00pm

April 20–21 | 11:00am–6:00pm

Color Club

4146 N Elston Ave

The fourth edition of BARELY FAIR, Chicago’s international miniature art fair presents a tiny peek inside the programming of thirty-six contemporary art galleries, project spaces, and curatorial projects. Included spaces will exhibit works in 1:12 scale booths built to mimic the design of a standard fair.

Nora Turato, Performance view, Basement Roma, Rome, 2021. Photography: Robert Apa. Credits: Basement Roma/CURA.

Lhola Amira, IRMANDADE: The Shape of Water in Pindorama, 2018-2020. Image courtesy of SMAC Gallery, copyright Lhola Amira.

BARELY FAIR 2023, featuring Lai Yu Tong at April April. Courtesy the artist and April April, New York. Photo: Roland Miller.

EXHIBITION ALIGNMENTS

LOOP / WATER TOWER

21c Museum Hotel Chicago

55 E Ontario St

OFF-SPRING: New Generations

Selina Trepp: Working the Flow

150 Media Stream

150 N Riverside Plaza

Cosmic Rhythms

California Weaving

Addington Gallery

704 N Wells St

Urban Alchemy: Seeking the City’s Spirit

American Writers Museum

180 N Michigan Ave

Dark Testament: A Century of Black Writers on Justice

The Art Institute of Chicago

111 S Michigan Ave

Radical Clay: Contemporary Women

Artists from Japan

Maren Hassinger: This Is How We Grow János Megyik Photograms

Threaded Visions: Contemporary Weavings from the Collection

ART on THE MART

222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza

Nora Turato: THIS IS A TEST OF SEVERANCE. can you let go?

The Arts Club of Chicago

201 E Ontario St

Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable

Buddy

78 E Washington St

A Night Visible to the Naked Eye: Nayeon Yang

Carl Hammer Gallery

740 N Wells St

* Center for Native Futures

56 W Adams St

⁑ Native Futures

Chicago Architecture Center

111 E Wacker Dr

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE)

Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St

⁑ Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories

Design Museum of Chicago

72 E Randolph St

Great Ideas of Humanity: Passing the Torch

Driehaus Museum

40 E Erie St

A Tale of Today | Sif Itona Westberg: Twin Flame, Double Ruin

Elephant Room Gallery

704 S Wabash Ave

Travel Through the Ether

Four Seasons Hotel Chicago

120 E Delaware Pl

Laura Letinsky: The Dust of a Marigold

Gallery Victor

300 W Superior St

Don Pollack

Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia

College Chicago

1104 S Wabash Ave

Regin Igloria: Seven Skins

Heritage Auctions

222 W Hubbard St

Modern & Contemporary Spring Auction Preview

Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago

500 N Michigan Ave

Teatricci

Jean Albano Gallery

215 W Superior St

Artists of the Gallery

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

220 E Chicago Ave

Nicole Eisenman: What Happened

Descending the Staircase

Chicago Works: Maryam Taghavi مریمتقوی ⁑ entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico

Atrium Project: Do Ho Suh

Museum of Contemporary Photography

600 S Michigan Ave

Native America: In Translation

Newberry Library

60 W Walton St

A Night at Mister Kelly’s

NoMI Gallery at Park Hyatt Chicago

800 N Michigan Ave, 7th Floor

Chad Kouri

The Peninsula Chicago

108 E Superior St

A Journey: Highlights from the Ron and Ann Pizzuti Collection

Poetry Foundation

61 W Superior St

Kara Walker: Back of Hand

* SAIC Galleries

33 E Washington St

Spring Undergraduate Exhibition 2024

Stephen Daiter Gallery

230 W Superior St #400

Medium as Message, Generative and Experimental Photography from Chicago

SULK CHICAGO

525 S Dearborn St, #209

Maeve Coughlin: Someone Who Isn’t Me

Zg Gallery

300 W Superior St

Zg Gallery Spring Collection 2024

Rebecca Belmore, matriarch, from the series nindinawemaganidog (all of my relations), 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Aperture. Photo: Donna Hagerman. On view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

NORTH SIDE

Color Club

4146 N Elston Ave

BARELY FAIR

Christina Ballantyne: See-Through Place

DePaul Art Museum

935 W Fullerton Ave

Selva Aparicio: In Memory Of

Experimental Sound Studio

5925 N Ravenswood Ave

Sandra Binion Retrospective Exhibition: Evolution of an idea

Graham Foundation

4 W Burton Pl

Cally Spooner: Deadtime, an anatomy study

International Museum of Surgical Science

1524 N Lake Shore Dr

Jessica Tucker: skin would call a poor eye simple

Jude Griebel: A Body of Others

Lucia Calderon Arrieta: Gloop N Droop Rinconsito

Artifact Events

4325 N Ravenswood Ave

The Other Art Fair

Old Friends

3405 N Paulina St

Ok So We’re Fighting

Stoodio x Stasia’s

44 E Cedar St Calypto

Weatherproof

3336 W Lawrence Ave, Ste 303

The Weatherproof Anniversarial

SOUTH SIDE

4th Ward Project Space

5338 S Kimbark Ave

Ed Oh: Remote

Alma Art and Interiors

3636 S Iron St

CSI x ALMA

Arts + Public Life

301 E Garfield Blvd

I Brought You Flowers

* BLANC GALLERY

4445 S Martin Luther King Dr

Lawrence Agyei: DRILL

Bridgeport Art Center

1200 W 35th St

2024 IHSAE Exhibition

cam contemporarie (in partnership with AMFM)

2233 S Throop, Unit 920

Carina Vargas-Nuñez: mano a mano

Co-Prosperity

3219 S Morgan St

Men I Have Ever Met

The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center

740 E 56th Pl

The Art of our Storytellers: Selection from the Johnson Publishing Company Collection

Fourtunehouse Art Center

4410 S Cottage Grove Ave How We See Things

Good Weather

1524 S Western Ave

Max Guy: Running from one time

Jerry Phillips

Scherben (Berlin) at Good Weather

Heritage Museum of Asian Art

3500 S Morgan St

If The Sky Could Dream

* Hyde Park Art Center

5020 S Cornell Ave

Artists Run the Block

⁑ The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige

⁑ Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC)

1155 E 58th St

ISAC Permanent Galleries

Logan Center Exhibitions

915 E 60th St

ARACHNIDAE: Department of Visual Arts’ BA Thesis Exhibition

* Museum of Science and Industry

5700 S DuSable Lake Shore Dr Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition

Black Creativity: Architecture

National Museum of Mexican Art

1852 W 19th St

⁑ Arte Diseño Xicágo II: From the World’s Fair to the Present Day

Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago

5701 S Woodlawn Ave

Christopher Williams: Radio / Rauhfaser / Television

Prairie 2055 W Cermak Rd

Jenine Marsh

The Renaissance Society

5811 S Ellis Ave

Ghislaine Leung: Holdings

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

5550 S Greenwood Ave

Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan

South Asia Institute

1925 S Michigan Ave

The Paglees: Between Reason and Madness

Materials, Methods and Metaphors: Selected Works from the Hundal Collection

South Side Community Art Center

3831 S Michigan Ave

Bending Light

* University of Chicago

Hutchinson Commons, 1100 E 58th St

Jessica Stockholder: For Events

* Galleries participating in EXPO CHICAGO

⁑ These exhibitions are presented as part of Art Design Chicago, a special series of events and exhibitions that highlight Chicago's unique artistic heritage and creative communities. Art Design Chicago is an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with artists and arts organizations across the city. For a full calendar, visit ArtDesignChicago.org.

Selva Aparicio, East of Eden, 2023. Dandelion seeds and discarded teddy bear from a child's grave. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Daniel Delgado.

EXHIBITION ALIGNMENTS

WEST SIDE

* 65GRAND

3252 W North Ave

Jenal Dolson: Radicle Dream

Ackerman Clarke

2544 W Fullerton Ave

ANDREW RAFACZ

1749 W Chicago Ave

Soumya Netrabile

* Anthony Gallery

1360 W Lake St

* Arts of Life – Circle Contemporary

2010 W Carroll Ave

With a Little Help From My Friends

ARTRUSS

4553 W Diversey Ave

Esta Casa Es Un Cuerpo / This House Is a Body

A Very Serious Gallery

673 N Milwaukee Ave

Meshuganah

Bodenrader

1620 W Carroll, Flr 2

John Boskovich: Rude Awakening

Cellar Door Provisions

3025 W Diversy Ave

Apparatus Projects presents Megan Capps: amuse-bouche

* Chicago Artists Coalition

2130 W Fulton St

Salvador Andrade Arévalo bARBER and Shonna Pryor

Newcity Breakout Artists Exhibition

Cleaner Gallery + Projects

1856 N Richmond St

Sculpturelandia, Olivia Juarez and Remy

Bordas: Verdant Love Lovey

Emily Harter: Renderer Renders

Comfort Station Logan Square

2579 N Milwaukee Ave

Sang Woo Yoo

* Corbett vs. Dempsey

2156 W Fulton St

Richard Wetzel: Some Must Watch, Paintings, 1983–85

John Chamberlain: Black Mountain Poetry, 1955

David Salkin Creative

1709 W Chicago Ave

Ari Norris: Just Dust

Devening Projects

3039 W Carroll Ave

Eleanna Anagnos: Lucid Tom Meacham: Simile

* DOCUMENT

1709 W Chicago Ave

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Epiphany Center for the Arts

201 S Ashland Ave

Epiphany Center for the Arts Exhibits

ENGAGE Projects

864 N Ashland Ave

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

Facility

3616 N Milwaukee Ave

Ai Kijima: Wanderer’s Tales

Filter Photo

1821 W Hubbard St Context 2024

The Franklin

3522 W Franklin Blvd

Unbroken Chain

Gallery 400

400 S Peoria St

See Saw Seen: 2024 UIC MFA Thesis Show

GRAY

2044 W Carroll Ave

McArthur Binion and Jules Allen: Me and You

Goldfinch

319 N Albany Ave

Leslie Baum: ordinary awe

Andreas Fischer: Sky Hole

Heaven Gallery

1550 N Milwaukee Ave

Gathered in the Stretching Now

Freeman’s | Hindman

1550 W Carroll Ave

Spring Fine Art

imnotArt

1010 N Ashland Ave

Ken Saunders Gallery

2041 W Carroll Ave

Jon Kuhn: Psychodelic Local Neon

LVL3

1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Flr 3

Tooth for a Tooth: 14th Anniversary Show feat. work from Matt Mancini, Noël Morical, Ryan Oskin, Kevin Umaña, & Erin Washington

* Mariane Ibrahim 437 N Paulina St

Lorraine O’Grady: The Knight, or Lancela Palm-and-Steel

* McCormick Gallery

835 W Washington Blvd Pooja Pittie

Cecilia Vicuña, Semiya (Seed Song), 2015. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. On view at The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.

* MICKEY

1635 W Grand Ave

Leonardo Kaplan

M. LeBlanc

3514 W Fullerton Ave

* moniquemeloche

451 N Paulina St

Shinique Smith: Metamorph

PATRON

1612 W Chicago Ave

Harold Mendez + Jamal Cyrus

Patient Info

902 N Western Ave

Jonas Mikosch Müller-Ahlheim

* Povos

1541 W Chicago Ave

Isabella Mellado: Te Diré Quien Eres

Povos Downtown

600 W Van Buren St

Povos x The OG: Locals Only

Regards

2216 W Chicago Ave

Judith Geichman

* Rhona Hoffman Gallery 1711 W Chicago Ave

Jacob Hashimoto: Fables

* Secrist | Beach

1801 W Hubbard St

HILMA’S GHOST | SPECTRAL VISIONS:

A Feminist Collective Signals Magickal Futures

COSMIC GEOMETRIES: The Prairie’s Edge

Slow Dance

319 N Albany Ave

Nicki Cherry: I can be a woman for you

Soccer Club Club

2923 N Cicero Ave

The 777 Club

Tala

1644 W Chicago Ave

Tala Inaugural Opening Exhibition

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art 2320 W Chicago Ave

In Control

* Volume Gallery 1709 W Chicago Ave

Christy Matson

Western Exhibitions

1709 W Chicago Ave

Edie Fake: Persuasions

Frances Waite: I Love It Here

CHICAGOLAND

Art Encounter

927 Noyes St, Evanston Studio, office, and gallery

The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology

THE COLLECTION at Fashion Outlets of Chicago

5220 Fashion Outlets Way, Rosemont The Collection

Edith Farnsworth House

14520 River Rd, Plano

Assaf Evron: Collage for the Edith Farnsworth House

Elmhurst Art Museum

150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst

⁑ A Love Supreme

(northern) Western Exhibitions

7933 Lincoln Ave, Skokie

More Drawings about Buildings and Food

Mayfield

505 Marengo Ave, Forest Park

Grid Lock

Riverside Art Center

32 E Quincy St, Riverside

Susan Giles: Words to Grasp

Mary Porterfield: That Which Remains

CITY-WIDE

Public Art Fund

JCDecaux bus shelters and newsstands across Chicago

Clifford Prince King: Let me know when you get home

Eleanna Anagnos, Atlas (Hugging the Line), 2023. Courtesy the artist and Devening Projects, Chicago. On view at Devening Projects.

Racine, WI 53403

Saturdays

12:00–5:00 pm and by appointment osprojects.art 262-800-3564

OS Projects is a contemporary art gallery featuring visual artists in solo and small group exhibits. The gallery's primary focus is on artists living and working in the Chicago–Kenosha–Racine–Milwaukee urban corridor.

EVENT ALIGNMENTS

TUESDAY, APRIL 9

Event: Get Lit!

5:30–7:30pm

American Writers Museum

180 N Michigan Ave

Spend your happy hours in downtown Chicago by exploring the American Writers Museum’s exhibits with a refreshing beverage in hand. Featuring themed activities that could include live music, poetry exercises, open mics, book swaps, and more.

Conversation: Dawoud Bey and Antawan Byrd on Elegy

6:00–7:30pm

The Arts Club of Chicago

201 E Ontario St

On the occasion of the exhibition and publication of Elegy, artist Dawoud Bey and curator Antawan Byrd will engage in a conversation about the ways in which Bey has reimagined photography’s capacity for considering and evoking the now invisible history of the Black presence in the American landscape.

Performance: Purpose

7:30pm

Steppenwolf Theatre | 1650 N Halsted St

Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Purpose, an epic family drama by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by twotime Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad. Rowdy, hilarious and filled with intrigue, Purpose is an epic family drama—a longawaited world premiere from one of the country’s most celebrated voices. Additional performances take place during EXPO ART WEEK on April 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.

SOUTH SIDE OPENING & EVENTS

As the official start of EXPO ART WEEK, join EXPO CHICAGO on the South Side for an evening of exhibitions, tours, talks, and performances. Visitors are encouraged to explore the many galleries, museums, and exhibition spaces in this dynamic community for arts and culture.

Curatorial Presentation and Tour

4:00–6:00pm

The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center | 740 E 56th Pl Curatorial Presentation in the AMES Auditorium with Danny Dunson, Director of Curatorial Services and Community Partnerships, followed by an exhibition tour in Founders Hall of The Art of our Storytellers: Selections from the Johnson Publishing Company Collection

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Extended Hours and Tours

4:00–8:00pm

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society | 5701 S Woodlawn Ave

Visit the exhibition Christopher Williams: Radio / Rauhfaser / Television during these extended hours hosted by curator Dieter Roelstraete, who will offer guests guided tours of the exhibition.

Performance: In Concert #1: Hold, Weight by Devin T. Mays 5:00–7:00pm

University of Chicago Hutchinson Commons, 1100 E 58th St Devin T. Mays performs In Concert #1: Hold, Weight as part of Jessica Stockholder: For Events, an exhibition that honors Stockholder on the occasion of her retirement from the University of Chicago. The exhibition is anchored by a single sculpture For Events (2015), a platform installed at the heart of the University campus that will feature a series of activations by Stockholder’s colleagues and former students. Organized by Jenny Harris, Clara Nizard, and Michael Stablein Jr. with Logan Center Exhibitions and Art in Public Spaces.

Bending Light: An Artist Talk moderated by Paul Branton

5:00–7:00pm

South Side Community Art Center 3831 S Michigan Ave

Paul Branton will facilitate a talk with the exhibiting artists detailing the exhibition’s themes and subject matter as it relates to explorations of color and identity. The artists explore the impact of color on Black identity, potential, and the intricate interplay between societal perceptions and individual existence. Artists will include Eddie “Edo” Santana, Pearlie Taylor, Courtney Collins, Rober Lewis Clark, and Bryant Lamont.

Extended Hours

5:00–8:00pm

4th Ward Project Space

5338 S Kimbark Ave

Visit Ed Oh: Remote during these extended hours hours for South Side Night.

Extended Hours

5:00–9:00pm

Logan Center Exhibitions | 915 E 60th St

Visit ARACHNIDAE: Department of Visual Arts’ BA Thesis Exhibition during South Side Night.

Extended Hours

6:00–8:00pm

The Renaissance Society | 5811 S Ellis Ave

Visit Ghislaine Leung: Holdings during these special late opening hours to celebrate South Side Night. This exhibition—pothe artist’s first solo presentation at a US museum—brings forward some of the core personal and conceptual underpinnings of her work more often in the background. Through a series of new scores, some presented in their full edition, Holdings negotiates the ways identity is constituted, articulated, accepted or disowned, in terms of both the artwork and the artist herself.

Toyohara Kunichika, panel from Lineup of Five of Your Favorite Actors (Go hiiki haiyū soroe), 1882. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, The Brooks McCormick Jr. Collection of Japanese Prints, 2015.199.

Artist and Curator-led Exhibition Tours

6:00–8:00pm

Hyde Park Art Center

5020 S Cornell Ave

Join Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles curators Nicholas Lowe and Lisa Stone; The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige curator Allison Peters Quinn and exhibition artist Robert Earl Paige; and Through the Hot House artist Aimee Beaubien for tours of the exhibitions on view.

Extended Hours

6:00–9:00pm

BLANC GALLERY

4445 S Martin Luther King Dr

Join BLANC GALLERY on South Side Night to see Lawrence Agyei’s beautiful images of the South Shore Drill team. Our doors will be open late so you can enjoy an evening of art, conversation, and good vibes.

Toast to the South Side

7:00–7:30pm

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago | 5550 S Greenwood Ave

Join EXPO CHICAGO at the Smart Museum for an official toast to start EXPO ART WEEK and celebrate Chicago’s South Side.

Performance: The MIYUMI Project Bridging The Gap

7:30–8:30pm

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago | 5550 S Greenwood Ave

On the occasion of Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan, this performance by Tatsu Aoki’s The MIYUMI Project illuminates the drum traditions of Japanese taiko and jazz, and features first-class improvisers such as woodwind specialists Ed Wilkerson and Mwata Bowden, experimentalist Jamie Kempkers, Tsukasa Taiko, and others.

Performance: ¿Para qué? - Perdón Que No Fue Pedido by Marcela Torres

8:00–10:00pm

Arts + Public Life, Green Line Performing Arts Center | 329 E Garfield Blvd

¿Para qué? - Perdón Que No Fue Pedido, ruminates on acts of reconciliation of past relationships and matriarchal bonds. This performance by Marcela Torres examines gestures of gratitude, appreciation, and the act of bestowing ‘our flowers’ to our ancestors, our mothers, and ourselves.

EXPO ART WEEK APRIL 8–14, 2024

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10

Artist Tour & Talk: Victoria Martinez

12:00–1:00pm

Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE)

Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St

Listen to Chicago-based creative Victoria Martinez discuss her solo exhibition Braiding Histories

OFF-SPRING: New Generations with 21c Chief Curator Alice Gray Stites

4:00–5:00pm

21c Museum Hotel Chicago

55 E Ontario St

Learn about the exhibition OFF-SPRING: New Generations and the artists in the exhibition through this guided tour with 21c Chief Curator and Museum Director Alice Gray Stites.

Opening Reception: Isabella Mellado: Te Diré Quien Eres

5:00–9:00pm

Povos | 1541 W Chicago Ave

Celebrate the opening of Te Diré Quien Eres, a solo exhibition of paintings, photographs, and small works by Isabella Mellado curated by Ché Morales. Works in this show are to the artist as sigils are to the witch, and are a visual exploration of self-actualization through relationships—coven, platonic, romantic, familial and self. The works on display centralize queer narrative, framing it with symbolism taken from mythology, folklore, tarot, astrology and Puerto Rican pop culture.

Newcity Breakout Artists Exhibition

5:00–9:00pm

Chicago Artists Coalition

2130 W Fulton St

In partnership with Newcity and coinciding with EXPO CHICAGO 2024, Chicago Artists Coalition will host an opening reception for the Newcity Breakout Artists Exhibition. Established in 2004, Newcity’s annual Breakout Artists issue has become a leading indicator of future success in contemporary art.

Opening Reception: Harold Mendez and Jamal Cyrus

5:00–9:00pm

PATRON | 1612 W Chicago Ave

Celebrate the opening of solo exhibitions by Harold Mendez and Jamal Cyrus.

Chad Kouri Exhibition Opening

6:00–8:00pm

7th Floor, Park Hyatt Chicago

800 N Michigan Ave

Celebrate artist and musician Chad Kouri’s new exhibition at this cocktail reception. The Chicago-based polymath will bring his Jazz Movement Studies collection to life through a live improvised creation of a monumental wall drawing, while Isaiah Collier and other musicians will interpret and perform the wall drawing as if it were sheet music. NoMI’s culinary team will create interpretations of Kouri’s art through decadent hors d’oeuvres and pastries.

Public Reception for Cosmic Rhythms

6:00–8:00pm

150 Media Stream

50 N Riverside Plaza

Please join the celebration of this firstof-its-kind collaboration between Action Lines Media, the Joffrey Ballet, the Adler Planetarium and 150 Media Stream. Cosmic Rhythms connects the motion of celestial bodies with the motion of human bodies— the relationships that echo throughout the universe. Featuring Adler Planetarium astronomer's expertise, breathtaking imagery, and bold choreography by Joffrey Ballet dancer, Xavier Nuñez, the twentyminute dance film takes audiences on a mesmerizing journey through the cosmos. Meet the artists, astronomers, and dancers; and enjoy light refreshments.

How We See Things Opening Night

6:00–10:00pm

Fourtunehouse Art Center

4410 S Cottage Grove Ave

Celebrate the opening night of exhibition

How We See Things with light refreshments and drinks, and an Afro-Funk DJ set by Leah Damte and Jhanee Kimbrough.

RenBen 2024

7:00–10:00pm

The Former Church of the Epiphany at Epiphany Center for the Arts

The RenBen is an annual fundraising event that raises a significant portion of The Renaissance Society’s annual budget, enabling new artistic commissions, scholarly discourse, and lasting publications. Special features of the evening will be designed by New York–based artist Kevin Beasley, who works in sculpture, sound and performance, with deep collaborative ties to legendary musicians and esteemed artists within his own creative circle. Ticketed event.

EVENT ALIGNMENTS

THURSDAY, APRIL 11

Opening Night of EXPO CHICAGO

6:00–9:00pm

Celebrate the Opening Night of EXPO CHICAGO! In addition to previewing the 170 exhibitors from 29 countries, enjoy exclusive benefits including a complimentary drink, a ride on Navy Pier’s iconic Centennial Wheel, discounts from frieze magazine and MCA Chicago and more. Learn more and purchase at expochicago.tix123.com

Opening Night ticket required (limited availability). General Admission tickets are not valid.

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

Annual Breakfast + BOLT Open Studios

9:00–11:00am

Chicago Artists Coalition | 2130 W Fulton St

The annual breakfast is an opportunity to connect with artists, curators, collectors, and art enthusiasts from around the world, while getting a glimpse into what’s happening in Chicago’s art scene. This year, the exhibitions on view will feature both HATCH and BOLT residents: artists-in-residence bARBER and Shonna Pryor, curated by Abreihona Lenihan; and artist-in-residence Salvador Andrade Arévalo has a solo exhibition; alongside open studios of Abraham Cone, Ále Campos, Alexis de Chaunac, ebere agwuncha, Olya Salimova, and Salvador Andrade. RSVP required.

Museum Highlights Public Tours

3:00pm

American Writers Museum 180 N Michigan Ave

Enhance your visit to the American Writers Museum with a highlights tour presented by the museum’s storytellers. Tours are offered daily at 3:00 pm, and are included with museum admission.

Book Launch: Julia Phillips Energy Exchange

4:30pm

Graham Foundation | 4 W Burton Pl Join Graham Foundation for the book launch of Julia Phillips’ first monograph Energy Exchange (Mousse, 2023), featuring a conversation between Phillips and scholar and writer Nana Adusei-Poku, as well as commissioned performances by artists Tina Wang and Eli Greene. A reception will follow the event; copies of Energy Exchange will be available in the Graham Foundation bookshop. RSVP required

If The Sky Could Dream: Art, Climate, Community, and Social Change

5:00–7:00pm

Heritage Museum of Asian Art 3500 S Morgan St

Elizabeth Corr, Associate Director of Arts and Cultural Partnerships at the National Resources Defense Council, discusses environmental activism in art, including past exhibitions at EXPO CHICAGO, in conversation with a performance installation by Irene Hsiao, as part of the Heritage Museum of Asian Art’s Year of the Dragon: Early China to LEGO exhibition.

EXPO CHICAGO Opening Night 2023. Photo: Justin Barbin.

Reception and Catalog Release Party

5:00–7:00pm

Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago | 1104 S Wabash Ave

Celebrate the catalog release for Seven Skins, a solo exhibition by Regin Igloria. Through the lens of dry absurdity, Igloria explores diverse topics such as survival, competition, and the Western iconography of the outdoorsman.

Heritage Auctions

5:00–8:00pm

222 W Hubbard St

Enjoy photography from the legendary Vivian Maier Collection and Modern & Contemporary highlights from Scully to Stella, all previewed for upcoming auctions.

Freeman’s | Hindman Spring Preview

5:00–8:00pm

1550 W Carroll Ave

Join Freeman’s | Hindman for an after hours preview of our spring Fine Art Auctions. Featuring powerhouse artists such as Gertrude Abercrombie, Andy Warhol, Al Held, Louise Nevelson, Pat Steir, and more, this event is not be missed.

Fine Arts Building Second Fridays

5:00–9:00pm

Fine Arts Building | 410 S Michigan Ave

Second Fridays open studios is a free event for visitors to take a self-guided tour of the Fine Arts Building’s 10 floors of artists studios, meet the artists working here, and learn about the history of this incredible 125-year-old landmark.

Open Studios: Spring 2024

5:30–7:00pm

Art | Design Columbia College Chicago 1104 S Wabash Ave, Basement

Visit the Spring 2024 Open Studios hosted by the Art | Design Department and Career Center. The Columbia College Chicago community and guests are invited to explore the work of their undergraduate and graduate students. Registration required.

Exhibition Opening: Extra --- Ordinary

6:00–10:00pm

1960 N Clybourn Ave

Extra --- Ordinary features new paintings by Andy Paczos, landscapes and interior paintings completed on location. Presented by Future Gods in conjunction with Lorenzo Rodriguez in cooperation with Convexity Real Estate.

EXPO ART WEEK APRIL 8–14, 2024

Opening Reception: BARELY FAIR

6:00–10:00pm

Color Club | 4146 N Elston Ave

The fourth edition of BARELY FAIR, Chicago’s international miniature art fair, presents a tiny peek inside the programming of thirtysix contemporary art galleries, project spaces, and curatorial projects. Included spaces will exhibit works in 1:12 scale booths built to mimic the design of a standard fair.

Opening: Sandra Binion

6:00–9:00pm

Experimental Sound Studio

5925 N Ravenswood Ave

This public event will celebrate the opening of the retrospective exhibition of interdisciplinary artist Sandra Binion’s fivedecade career.

Performance “knock, and the doors of perception shall be opened unto you” by Gordon Dic-Lun Fung

7:00–8:30pm

International Museum of Surgical Science 1524 Lake Shore Dr

Exploring the concept of bodies, minds, and perceptions, this experimental community theater activates the exhibition space of the International Museum of Surgical Science through an intermix of media, technology, and performances. By transforming the space into a gigantic and performative installation, leading artists blur the boundaries between audiences and performers by an overloading amount of actions and happenings.

Brendan Fernandes: New Monuments | Chicago Performance

7:00–10:00pm

Logan Monument in Grant Park, S Michigan Ave & E 9th St

Activating Brendan Fernandes’ site-specific project at the General John Alexander Logan Monument, this durational performance choreographed by Fernandes will feature light, sound, and a cast of dancers from Chicago’s BIPOC and Queer communities. Taking place after dark, the Logan Monument will be illuminated to reveal the dancers’ bodies forming physical expressions of tableaux, incorporating elements of lifting, carrying, and contact improvisation. Free and open to the public.

Pothole² M. LeBlanc x Good Weather

8:00pm–2:00am

Rainbo Club | 1150 N Damen Ave

Good Weather and M. LeBlanc present a group exhibition curated by artists Ron Ewert and Cameron Spratley at Wicker Park’s beloved Rainbo Club, featuring artists Peppi Bottrop, Mike Cloud, COBRA, Ruby Eve

Dickson, Liza Jo Eilers, Raque Ford, Judith Geichman, Gaylen Gerber, Max Guy, Tristan Higginbotham, JPW3, Tony Hope, Arnold J. Kemp, Nazafarin Lotfi, Kunle Martens, Fern O’Carolan, Sara Greenberger-Rafferty, Zack Rafuls, Amber Renaye, Jack Walls, Alex Wolfe, Jason S. Wright, and Bruno Zhu.

Bronzeville The Musical

7:30–10:00pm

Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building 410 S Michigan Ave

Mahdi Theatre Company presents an intriguing, thought-provoking and enchanting soulful musical. Bronzeville The Musical is about a father’s love for his son, the legacy and courage of a people as it honors the significance of the Black Family and its “role” in preserving the community.

Lyracle: Musicians of the Tenshō Embassy

7:30–9:00pm

Logan Center for the Arts | 915 E 60th St

Lyracle’s Early Music program pays tribute to Japanese students (1549–1613) from Jesuit schools in Japan. Actor Danielle Boivin joins five musicians for a blend of music and historical text, honoring the legacy of the accomplished young students.

Nora Turato at ART on THE MART

8:00pm

Chicago Riverwalk Jetty between Wells and Franklin Street

Attend the public launch event for Nora Turato’s ART on THE MART commission and the opening of ART on THE MART’s 2024 season. Chicago community members are invited to join the first public screening of the projection and hear remarks from ART on THE MART leadership.

A Very Serious Gallery

Addington Gallery

Alma Art and Interiors

AMFM

ANDREW RAFACZ

Arts of Life - Circle Contemporary

Bodenrader

CARL HAMMER GALLERY

Cleaner Gallery + Projects

Corbett vs. Dempsey

David Salkin Creative

Devening Projects

DOCUMENT

Elephant Room Gallery

ENGAGE Projects

Epiphany Center for the Arts

Filter Photo

Freeman’s | Hindman

Gallery VICTOR

Gold nch

Friday April 12

GRAY

Heaven Gallery

Heritage Auctions

EXPO CHICAGO Exhibitor

Join us for Art After Hours Powered by Gertie! Sponsored by Arete Wealth & Masterworks, AAH takes place on Friday evening of EXPO ART WEEK, and offers extended hours at over 45 galleries and creative spaces throughout the city of Chicago. With a myriad of exciting events unfolding throughout the evening, be sure to plan your night accordingly using our programming schedule and map. No matter your background–whether you’re an art aficionado or a newly minted collector — AAH is a great place to forge relationships with new galleries, artists and other collectors!

Hilton Asmus Gallery

Hyde Park Art Center

Jean Albano Gallery

Kavi Gupta Gallery

Ken Saunders Gallery

LVL3

M. LeBlanc x Good Weather

@ Rainbo Club

Mariane Ibrahim

McCormic Gallery

MICKEY

moniquemeloche

Old Friends

presented by powered by Extended Hours 5-8pm Programming

PATRON

Povos Downtown Secrist | Beach

Slow Dance

Soccer Club Club

South Side Community Art Center

Stoodio x Stasia’s

SULK CHICAGO

Tala

The Brie Show

Volume Gallery

Western Exhibitions

Zg Gallery

65GRAND

for exact addresses and more info, scan here!

Paddles Up!

Come see what’s on the docket for spring auctions! You can look but can’t buy YET!

Freeman’s | Hindman | 5-8pm

After-hours preview of the spring Fine Art auctions, featuring powerhouse artists such as Gertrude Abercrombie, Andy Warhol, Al Held, Louise Nevelson, Pat Steir & more.

Heritage Auctions | 5-8pm

Enjoy photography from the legendary Vivian Maier Collection and Modern & Contemporary highlights from Scully to Stella, all previewed for upcoming auctions.

Opening Receptions

A Very Serious Gallery | 6–9pm

Meshuganah

Curated by Josh & Megan Rogers

Alma Art and Interiors | 5-10pm

Alma xChicago Sculpture

International Juried Exhibition with Live Music

The Brie Show | 6–9pm

Letters to my younger self

Ken Saunders Gallery | 5-8pm

Letters to my younger self

New on the Block

Late Night

Iconic venues lled with great art, drinks, dancing and vibes!

Good Weather x M. LeBlanc @ Raibo Club | 8pm-2am

Pothole²

Curated by Ron Ewert & Cameron Spratley

Epiphany Center for the Arts

5pm-12am | Live Music

6-7pm | Guided Tour

7-8pm | Artist Talk: Lynn Basa, Christine Forni & Bobbi Meier

See some great art with a beverage in hand while mingling with old friends (or new?!) and congratulating the artist on their show! Most of the work is for sale so chat up the gallery director if anything stands out!

Elephant Room Gallery | 5–8pm

CZR PRZ: Travel Through the Ether Art After Hours Exclusive Print Ra e

Gallery VICTOR | 5-8pm

Carol Pylant: Equipoise

GRAY | 5-8pm

McArrthur Binion & Jules Allen: Me and You

MICKEY | 5-8pm

Leonardo Kaplan

These are exciting new spaces in the city.

Come see what everyone’s buzzing about!

Tala | 5-10pm

Inaugural Opening Povos | 5-9pm Povos Downtown

Launch Party

Secrist | Beach | 5-8pm

New Gallery Opening

On the Move!

Bop from gallery to gallery — come with a crew or join a new one as you explore art at each stop!

River North Gallery Walk | 5-8pm

Feautring Zg Gallery, Carl Hammer Gallery, Gallery Victor, Jean Albano Gallery, Addington Gallery & Hilton Asmus Gallery

DOCUMENT

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

David Salkin Creative

Ari Norris : Just Dust

Volume Gallery

Christy Matson

Western Exhibitions

Edie Fake & Frances Waite 1709 W Chicago Ave Galleries 5-8pm

Hear from the Artist

For those who want a bit more context, you’ll get to hear from the artists about their work and process directly.

Addington Gallery | 6:30-8pm

Creatives in Conversation:

Artists Seeking Chicago’s Visual Spirit

AMFM | 5-8pm

Open Studio with Marcelo Eli Sarmiento

ENGAGE Projects | 7pm

Artist Talk with Phyllis Bramson, Selva Aparicio, Edra Soto, Margaret Welsh, Alberto Aguilar & Chris Cosnowski

Gold nch | 5-7pm

Artist Meet & Greet with Leslie Baum & Andreas Fischer

Mariane Ibrahim | 4-6pm

Conversation between Lorraine O’Grady & Siddharta Mitter

Stoodio x Stasia’s | 4-5pm

Conversation between Kristin Reger & Kristin Korolowicz

EVENT ALIGNMENTS

SATURDAY, APRIL 13

SCREENING: Art21 Presents Michael Rakowitz in Conversation

1:00–2:00pm

Gene Siskel Film Center | 164 N State St

Join Art21 for a special screening and conversation with celebrated artist Michael Rakowitz. The program will begin with a screening of the Art21 Extended Play film Haunting the West featuring Rakowitz. Following the screening, the artist will join for a conversation.

Roll Call: A Black Women in the Arts Convening

11:00am–2:00pm

South Side Community Art Center 3831 S Michigan Ave

This annual celebratory gathering highlights Black women women/femme/non-binary curators, artists, arts administrators, and culture workers. The event seeks to encourage fellowship and connection amongst Black women in the arts based here in Chicago and elsewhere, alongside mimosas, small bites, and music. SSCAC acknowledges that woman-identifying people are expansive. This event is LGBTQIA inclusive.

Family Day: Paper Quilting Workshop with Jason Wesaw

12:00–2:00pm

Museum of Contemporary Photography 600 S Michigan Ave

Families are invited for an artmaking workshop in creating paper quilts. Attendees are asked to bring their own family photographs, inspired by Wendy Red Star’s collages that weave photographs of her family into Apsáalooke star quilt patterns. This workshop will be led by artist Jason Wesaw, member of the Potawatomi Nation and multi-disciplinary artist who works with ceramics, textiles, paper, and traditional cultural pieces.

Celebrate Neon

12:00–3:00pm

Ken Saunders Gallery | 2041 W Carroll Ave Artists will be present to discuss their work at this special event at Ken Saunders Gallery with drinks and snacks served.

mano a mano

12:00–3:00pm

cam contemporarie (in partnership with AMFM) 2233 S Throop St, #920

Meet the artist Carina Vargas-Nuñez, and view the work presented in their first solo exhibition mano a mano at cam.contemporarie.

Artist Talk: Harold Mendez and Jamal Cyrus

3:00–4:00pm

PATRON | 1612 W Chicago Ave

Listen to artists Harold Mendez and Jamal Cyrus in a moderated discussion at the gallery on the occasion of their exhibition at PATRON.

A Conversation on How We See Things

1:00–3:00pm

Fourtunehouse Art Center

4410 S Cottage Grove Ave

A conversation at the Fourtunehouse Art Center with How We See Things curator and founder Makafui Kofi Searcy, Exhibition Coordinator Udochukwu Anidobu, and a special guest. The event will feature light refreshments and provide space for visitors to view the exhibition and engage in conversation with other attendees.

Performance: Nora Turato—pool 6

2:00–3:00pm

Art Institute of Chicago | 111 S Michigan Ave

Artist Nora Turato explores the anxiety that permeates wellness and self-optimization in a new monologue, pool 6. Drawing from the vernacular of self-improvement, which has widely circulated online and seeped into daily life, pool 6 explores the relationship between perception and well-being. Registration required.

A Conversation on Painting

2:00–4:00pm

Goldfinch | 319 N Albany Ave

Join Goldfinch for a lively, moderated conversation on contemporary painting practices with current exhibiting artists Leslie Baum and Andreas Fischer, both of whom live and work in Chicago. Light refreshments will be served.

Victoria Martinez in Conversation with Iris Colburn

3:00–4:00pm

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE)

Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St

A conversation between artist Victoria Martinez and Iris Colburn, Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

The Weatherproof Anniversarial

4:00–9:00pm

Weatherproof | 3336 W Lawrence Ave

Weatherproof is excited to open our two year anniversary benefit auction, featuring works from more than thirty artists and community members. All works will be on view at Weatherproof, with bidding facilitated online by The Auction Collective.

Publication Release: Nicki Cherry

5:00–7:00pm

Slow Dance | 319 N Albany Ave

Publication release in conjunction with Nicki Cherry’s solo exhibition I can be a woman for you at Slow Dance, featuring writings and images from the artist and additional contributors. Drinks and snacks provided.

Exhibition Opening

5:00–8:00pm

M. LeBlanc | 3514 W Fullerton Ave

M. LeBlanc is proud to present a group exhibition featuring Andy Hope 1930, Sergej Jensen, Cameron Spratley, et al.

Jerry Phillips Exhibition Opening

6:00–8:00pm

Good Weather | 1524 S Western Ave

Jerry Phillips’ presentation of new graphite drawings and collages is the artist’s second solo exhibition with Good Weather and first in the gallery’s Chicago location.

DiscarDisco

6:00–10:00pm

Chicago Athletic Association

12 S Michigan Ave

DiscarDisco is a sustainable sartorial soiree, a detritus dance party, and a conscientious community event featuring a live runway show, dancing, crafting, silent auction and raffle. This fabulous fashion show competition is The WasteShed’s major annual fundraiser, a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to preventing landfill and supporting arts and education.

Art and Madness:

A Special Storytelling Night 7:00–8:30pm

South Asia Institute | 1925 S Michigan Ave

This special storytelling event will be hosted by Jitesh Jaggi, an immigrant South Asian dancer, poet, and storyteller, alongside Chicago’s best storytellers, as they explore everything about art from various media— from writing foibles to painting mishaps, from dancers breaking limbs to filmmakers cutting the scene short. This promises to be a night of funny, emotional, sometimes silly and other times life-altering, stories surrounded by the art works from the collection at South Asia Institute.

Black Arts Gathering: Spring Bling 7:00–10:00pm

Epiphany Center for the Arts 201 S Ashland Ave

Black Arts Gathering is an annual initiative to bring together Black artists, creatives, and arts administrators during EXPO CHICAGO featuring sets from local and visiting DJs alongside visual installations. This year’s party is inspired by iconic photographers Polo Silk and Malik Sidibe, and the influence that fashion has within the art world. The event is curated by EXPO CHICAGO exhibitor, AMFM, Black Fashion Archivist and curator, Rikki Byrd, and artist, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal.

EXPO CHICAGO After-Party hosted by Tala 9:00pm–Late

The California Clipper | 1002 N California Ave

Celebrate EXPO ART WEEK at the historic California Clipper with Night Moves, a premier night of sound and dancing hosted by Tala. Night Moves, queer-friendly and dance positive environment curated by resident DJ’s Jesse Sandwich and Ross Kelly, presents guest DJ Dana this month. The home for endless musically visionary nights, the California Clipper is Humboldt Park’s longest-standing neighborhood bar established in 1937. Hosted by Tala, a gallery and independent contemporary art space in West Town founded and directed by Francine Almeda. Co-hosted by BLESSTONIO, DJ and nightlife curator. $5 entry.

EXPO ART WEEK APRIL 8–14, 2024

SUNDAY, APRIL 14

Isabella Mellado: Artist Talk, Tea, Tarot 12:00–4:00pm

Povos | 1541 W Chicago Ave

An afternoon of tea, tarot, and conversation at Isabella Mellado’s solo exhibition at Povos, “Te Diré Quien Eres”, curated by Ché Morales.

McCormick House Tour

1:00–2:15pm

Elmhurst Art Museum

150 S Cottage Hill Ave, Elmhurst Learn more about the unique history and design of Mies van der Rohe’s 1952 McCormick House, which includes a portion of the A Love Supreme installation by over 30 artists and designers. Tours are led by museum docents. Capacity is limited, advance tickets required.

Opening Reception: Ai Kijima: Wanderer’s Tales

1:00–4:00pm

Facility | 3616 N Milwaukee Ave

Celebrate the opening of this exhibition by Ai Kijima Wanderer’s Tales. In each sculpted painting, the artist stitches together segments from a wide range of source textiles from around the world—Uzbek ikats found in Turkish bazaars, strips of indigodyed Japanese kimonos, Indian silk sarees— managing to reverently preserve phrases from the stories these fabrics tell, while collaging them to tell new stories of her own.

CSO Chamber Music at the University of Chicago

3:00–4:30pm

Mandel Hall | 1131 E 57th St

Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians explore Music in the Vernacular with a well-known Haydn piano trio, Bartók’s Contrasts (with Hungarian & Romanian dance melodies), and a chamber work by Brahms, one of the first of its kind to feature clarinet.

Sydney Gush: Low Fidelity

5:00–8:00pm

Chicago Athletic Association

12 S Michigan Ave

Low Fidelity speaks to the mind, the memory, and the radio. Unreliable, fragmented, transitory; like the fleeting ringing in your ear it oscillates between now and then, here and there. For one evening in Madison Ballroom on the eighth floor, the fourth iteration of the sonic installation comes to life. Twenty vintage AM transistor radio photo cubes rotate and transmit signal simultaneously, featuring street photography taken with Polaroid 600 film. Automated tuning forks offer an uneasy disruption to the sonic field, emphasizing their highly unpredictable and often low audio fidelity.

Unbroken Chain

8:00–10:00pm

The Franklin | 3522 W Franklin Blvd

Unbroken Chain, named after the song by The Grateful Dead, presents works by artists using light, candles and candleholders. This special event will be activated by musical performances.

Lorraine O'Grady, Announcement Card 2 (Spike with Sword, Fighting), 2020. 2024 Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago, Paris, Mexico City. On view at Mariane Ibrahim.

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As the presenting sponsor of EXPO CHICAGO: The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, Northern Trust is delighted to extend you a warm welcome to the 2024 edition of the fair. Whether you are a visitor, exhibitor or one of the many individuals who are instrumental in making this event a success year in and year out, we sincerely hope you share our appreciation for the growth and evolution of EXPO CHICAGO over the last decade-plus.

We are thrilled to once again support emerging artists by awarding the Northern Trust Purchase Prize to three deserving museums: The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Each institution will select artwork from one of the exhibiting Exposure galleries to add to their collections.

Much has changed over the last 11 years, and this year we are excited for EXPO CHICAGO’s first edition as part of the Frieze family. Frieze is one of the world’s leading organizations for contemporary and modern art, and their acquisition of EXPO CHICAGO will undoubtedly help the fair soar to new heights while building on more than a decade of success.

Though change is constant, the dedication and collaborative spirit of the collecting world is steadfast — and our commitment to both arts and culture in our local communities is greater than ever. We are proud to return as presenting sponsor of EXPO CHICAGO for the 10th time. Thank you for taking part in the exposition, and we look forward to seeing you at the fair.

John Fumagalli President, Wealth Management | Central Region Wealth Management

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