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Art Design Chicago exhibitions and events took place mainly in 2018, with some programming extending into 2019 and beyond. Use the search tool above to explore past, current, and upcoming programming.

  • September 8, 2018–January 6, 2019

3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964–1980

Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
  • September 8, 2018–January 6, 2019

Gilded Chicago: Portraits of an Era

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
  • September 8, 2018–January 6, 2019

Treasures from the White City: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
  • September 13, 2018–March 4, 2019

The Art and Influence of Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs

DuSable Museum of African American History
  • September 13–December 30, 2018

The Time Is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980

Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
  • September 14–October 20, 2018

Chicago Disability Activism, Arts, and Design: 1970s to Today

Gallery 400
  • September 18–December 9, 2018

Up is Down: Mid-century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
  • September 18–December 9, 2018

Break A Rule: Ed Paschke’s Art and Teaching

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
  • September 20, 2018–April 26, 2020

George Kokines: Layers Revealed

National Hellenic Museum
  • September 26, 2018–January 6, 2019

Hairy Who? 1966–1969

Art Institute of Chicago
  • September 28–December 31, 2018

Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World's Fair

Newberry Library
  • October 4–December 14, 2018

Interlocking: Models and Proposals by Virginio Ferrari

Corvus Gallery, University of Chicago Laboratory School
  • October 7, 2018–January 13, 2019

Charles White: A Retrospective

Museum of Modern Art
  • October 11–December 21, 2018

Echoes: Reframing Collage

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago
  • October 11–December 21, 2018

The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics

Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
  • October 27, 2018–March 3, 2019

Keep Moving: Designing Chicago's Bicycle Culture

Expo 72
  • October 27, 2018–March 3, 2019

African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce, and the Politics of Race

Chicago Cultural Center
  • November 1–December 15, 2018

Chicago New Media 1973–1992

Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • November 1, 2018–February 15, 2019

Where the Future Came From

Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
  • November 3, 2018–March 2, 2019

Change the Canvas, Change the World: A Landscape of Cultural Discovery

South Side Community Art Center
  • January 14–March 22, 2019

Chicago by the Book: Pivotal Works that Changed Chicago

Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago
  • February 6–May 6, 2019

H.C. Westermann Goin' Home

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
  • February 17–June 9, 2019

Charles White: A Retrospective

Los Angeles County Museum of Art