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Join us in 2022!
Temporarily Closed
All galleries are currently closed for reinstallation. Please plan ahead and mark your calendar for Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine, opening on February 15, 2022. Learn more »
Free and open to the public
All galleries are currently closed for reinstallation. Please plan ahead and mark your calendar for Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine, opening on February 15, 2022. Learn more »
A community art project developed by by Smart Museum 2020–2021 Artist in Residence Irene Hsiao. Share your response »
Staff at the Feitler Center are available to support teaching and research at the University of Chicago. Start a conversation with us »
The objects in our collection support academic and artistic study, inspire new ideas, and foster reflection and conversation by our diverse audiences. Explore the collection online »
Stephanie Smith assumes role of Interim Director of the Smart Museum of Art, bringing 25 years of experience as an arts leader, curator, and writer.
Unyimeabasi Udoh, a Chicago-based artist and graphic designer, and Leslie M. Wilson, the Smart Museum’s Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts (2019–2021), discuss Unyimeabasi's art practice and approach to creating the look of the exhibition not all realisms: photography in africa in the long 1960s.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Public Media Institute, and the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art present a year-long series of experimental audio performances from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a performance artist, writer, activist, and MacArthur Fellow, class of 1991.
Now more than ever, your support of the Smart, our exhibitions, programs, and the care of our collections, is deeply appreciated. Please consider becoming a SmartPartner or making a one-time gift. Thank you!
