Upcoming Exhibitions
Tara Donovan: Fieldwork
June 14–September 22, 2019
American artist Tara Donovan transforms mundane materials like plastic straws, index cards, rubber bands, Slinkys, and sheets of mylar into elaborate, mind-bending objects.
Cross Currents / Intercambio Cultural
July 11–August 18, 2019
This exhibition explores how issues of Latin American and Latinx identity and place are manifest in the practices of artists working in Chicago and Havana.
Samson Young: Silver Moon or Golden Star, Which Will You Buy Of Me?
September 18–December 29, 2019
In his first U.S. museum exhibition, Samson Young premieres a trilogy of animated music videos that explore varying concepts of social progress and utopia.
The Chicago Sound Show
September 27–December 2019
This outdoor sound art exhibition presents site-specific works by nine Chicago artists that explore thresholds, passageways, and common spaces across the University of Chicago’s campus.
Meleko Mokgosi: Bread, Butter, and Power
October – December 2019
Meleko Mokgosi’s twenty-panel painting installation explores the theme of feminism in the context of southern Africa.
The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China
February 4, 2020 to May 3, 2020
Since the 1980s, Chinese contemporary artists have cultivated intimate relationships with their materials, establishing a framework of interpretation revolving around materiality.