Art Institute of Chicago
On view
Body and Being in African Art
50+ African works exploring the body and identity
Beyond Form: Abstraction at Midcentury
65 artists chart abstraction's global rise, 1940-1970.
Self, Made: Fourteen Modern Artists from the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection
Fourteen artists who reinvented themselves beyond the mainstream
The Floating World Emerges: Japanese Prints from the Clarence Buckingham Collection
40 Japanese ukiyo-e prints from the Buckingham Collection
Abigail Lucien: Blood of the Earth
New sculptures on iron, history, and human connection.
Willem de Kooning Drawing
Seven decades of de Kooning's drawing in one landmark show.
Nora Turato: I hear you, I hear you.
A disquieting video flood of self-improvement platitudes.
Embroidered Traditions from Morocco to Afghanistan
70+ works celebrating SWANA embroidery across three centuries
Edgar Calel: Corn Mountain of Life (Ixim Juyu K'aslem)
Maya-Kaqchikel installation art by Edgar Calel
Saint-Porchaire
Nine rare Saint-Porchaire ceramics, unseen since the 1800s.
Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost
A 21-panel epic spanning Kashmir to the Western art world
Jitish Kallat: Public Notice 3
A landmark installation back on Chicago's Grand Staircase
Double Feature with Short Subject
Sunlight and architecture reimagine film projection.
Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
3,000 years of ancient Egyptian art in one gallery
Vilhelm Hammershøi: Pictures from Home
The first North American exhibition devoted to Hammershøi in over 25 years focuses exclusively on his iconic Copenhagen interior paintings, presenting more than half of the 65 domestic scenes he ever made.
Zurbarán: Divine Light
The first major US exhibition dedicated to Zurbarán in 40 years, uniting ~50 works from 30 lenders worldwide to celebrate the Spanish Golden Age master's extraordinary achievements in painting.
Beatriz González: In Series and Full Color
80+ works across González's career, many seen for the first time.
Jill Mulleady: The Passenger
Mulleady's museum debut: ~20 paintings in Chicago
Karimah Ashadu: Machine Boys
Karimah Ashadu's 2024 video explores the informal economy in Lagos through the lens of okadas, commercial motorcycles that form the city's unofficial public transport network.
Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism
75+ works from Cassatt's bold, experimental late period.
Lee Miller: Fearless
A landmark survey of Lee Miller's fearless photography
Past exhibitions (5)
Emerging from Darkness: Prints by Hamanishi Katsunori
Mezzotints by Hamanishi Katsunori at the Art Institute
Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art
140 works tracing 2,000 years of Korean artistic heritage
Lucas Samaras: Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking
Photos, sculptures & paintings from a restless innovator
Revolution to Restoration: French Drawings from The Horvitz Collection
French drawings spanning Revolution to Restoration
Jeremy Frey: Woven
Extraordinary Passamaquoddy basketry elevated to fine art.