Smart Museum of Art

The University of Chicago

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Upcoming Exhibitions

Please note: exhibition dates and details are subject to change. Please check back for the latest information. 

Yellow, blue, and red rectangles of yarn hang on a wall, with thick woven strands hanging down the center of each and gathering in a pool on the ground.

Monochrome Multitudes

September 22, 2022–January 8, 2023

This exhibition offers an expansive narrative of modern monochrome, or “one color,” art.

A black and white photograph of two people dancing close together, their heads almost touching, the man in a suit and shoes and the woman in a dress and barefoot.

not all realisms

February 23–July 9, 2023

not all realisms addresses photography in the context of Africa’s long 1960s—amid resistance, revolution, new nationalist and transnational movements, and the stuff of daily life therein.

An white-haired woman peers through an opening in a sculpture

Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity

Fall 2023

This exhibition positions Ruth Duckworth as an innovative Chicago sculptor, deeply engaged in the natural world and responding to artistic developments in the U.S. in the 1960s and 70s.