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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.

  • February 26–September 1, 2018

Ed Paschke: Mixed Media

Ed Paschke Art Center
  • March 23–August 19, 2018

Arte Diseño Xicágo: Mexican Inspiration from the World's Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era

National Museum of Mexican Art
  • April 3–July 22, 2018

Into the City: Art in Chicago

Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
  • April 20–August 18, 2018

Great Ideas of Humanity: Out of the Container

Design Museum of Chicago
  • April 28–December 30, 2018

Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  • May 4–August 5, 2018

Flesh: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago
  • May 12–October 28, 2018

Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980

Art Institute of Chicago
  • June 7–August 17, 2018

A Home for Surrealism: Fantastic Painting in Midcentury Chicago

The Arts Club of Chicago
  • June 8–September 3, 2018

Charles White: A Retrospective

Art Institute of Chicago
  • June 28–September 30, 2018

A Johnson Publishing Story

Stony Island Arts Bank
  • June 29, 2018–February 10, 2019

Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
  • July 12–September 14, 2018

Sculpting a Chicago Artist: Richard Hunt and his Teachers Nelli Bar and Egon Weiner

Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College
  • July 14–December 31, 2018

Art of Illinois

Illinois Governor's Mansion
  • August 3–September 30, 2018

LIONS: Founding Years of UIMA in Chicago

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
  • August 16, 2018–January 6, 2019

New to Mia: Art from Chicago

Minneapolis Institute of Art
  • August 30, 2018–March 23, 2019

Between the Buildings: Art from Chicago, 1930s–1980s

Krannert Art Museum
  • September 3, 2018–March 31, 2019

Living Architecture

6018North
  • September 6, 2018–February 17, 2019

Todros Geller: Strange Worlds

Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
  • September 6–December 16, 2018

Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago

DePaul Art Museum
  • September 6, 2018–July 28, 2019

Participatory Arts: Crafting Social Change

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • September 8, 2018–January 20, 2019

The Figure and the Chicago Imagists: Selections from the Elmhurst College Art Collection

Elmhurst Art Museum