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This year's EXPO CHICAGO features more than 200 galleries and exhibiting organizations from around the world – from London to Johannesburg to Seoul, and of course Chicago. Many notable exhibiting galleries operate close to home all year round, and in recognition of the special programming that these Chicago and regional galleries are exhibiting this weekend, we are sharing a wrap–up of what they are showing at EXPO. Many spaces are presenting special exhibitions and exclusive editions that are available for the first time at EXPO CHICAGO 2025.


The details below include information available as of press-time, so we will make updates as we are able in an effort not to leave anyone out. A full list of regional exhibiting spaces is also included at the end. We will be sharing visual updates from the fair all weekend long via Instagram.


Please double check booth details as you are able with an on-site map. 


See you at the fair!


– CGN Staff



Roy Lewis, Man and Boat in Lagos Harbor, 1977


GRAY


• Booth #204


GRAY is participating in EXPO's CONTRAST sector, with selections from So Be It! Asé! Photographic Echoes of FESTAC ’77, an exhibition curated by Chicago-based art historian Romi Crawford.


This presentation unveils visual documentation of one of the most significant, yet lesser known, cultural events of the twentieth century: the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, held in Lagos, Nigeria. Known as FESTAC, the 1977 Pan-African festival and convening, brought together around 17,000 artists from African countries and Black diaspora communities across the world. GRAY’s EXPO Chicago exhibition features photographs by Roy Lewis, Bob Crawford, and K. Kofi Moyo, three members of the United States delegation to FESTAC.


CONTRAST is a new section of galleries and artist presentations for the 2025 edition of EXPO CHICAGO. The inaugural section will be curated by Lauren Haynes, Head Curator, Governors Island Arts and Vice President for Arts and Culture at the Trust for Governors Island.




moniquemeloche


• Booth #305


moniquemeloche presents a selection of works by Luke Agada, Candida Alvarez, Sanford Biggers, Brendan Fernandes, Ebony G. Patterson, Maia Cruz Palileo, Cheryl Pope, and Arvie Smith — artists who engage history, identity, and cultural narratives. Through sculpture, painting, installation, textile, and performance-based media, the works on view explore themes of memory, visibility, and transformation. Presented in conjunction with moniquemeloche’s 25th anniversary exhibition at the gallery, the booth showcases the broad spectrum of practices championed by the gallery, all of which are united by the desire to disrupt and challenge, both formally and conceptually. The gallery is also celebrating 25 years this year.





Florence Solis, Makahiya VII, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 in 


THE MISSION PROJECTS


• Booth #108


THE MISSION PROJECTS presents an EXPOSURE booth at EXPO featuring new paintings by Filipino-Canadian artist Florence Solis (b. 1988). A self-taught artist and professional designer, Solis’s practice explores the complex intersections of womanhood, identity, and cultural heritage. Working through a process of digital collage translated into acrylic on canvas, she delves into the emotional and mental transformations that have shaped her, particularly her experiences as a mother and person of color.




MCA x Hebru Brantley


The Museum of Contemporary Art's exclusive Hebru Brantley x MCA Store Collection features limited edition prints and exclusive apparel, and the collection drops first at EXPO Chicago on April 24—only at the MCA Store booth. Remaining pieces will be made available online at 11 am CST April 25, while supplies last.


Hebru Brantley creates narrative-driven work revolving around his conceptualized iconic characters. Brantley utilizes these characters to address complex ideas around nostalgia, the mental psyche, power, and hope. The color palettes, pop-art motifs and characters themselves create accessibility around his layered and multifaceted ideas. Brantley works in a plethora of mediums and his art challenges the traditional view of the hero or protagonist. Through his characters, Brantley seeks to reassess contemporary culture and mythology through the lens of Afrofuturism.



SOO SHIN, We, Dandelions (A lift), 2024, Brass, steel, 61 1/2\" x 16\" x 19 1/2\" (detail) 


PATRON


• Booth #109


For the 2025 edition of EXPO Chicago, PATRON will exhibit a solo presentation with Chicago-based artist Soo Shin.


Shin’s conceptual, sculptural practice examines universal experiences of displacement, connection, and belonging, often using the perimeters and gestures of her own body to realize abstract ideas of distance and place. Originally from South Korea, Shin draws upon her personal journey of migration and connectedness, to inform a materially driven, poetic sculptural practice. Utilizing ceramic, brass, concrete, wood, seawater, and other materials drawn from personal experience, Shin has developed a visual vocabulary that connects what is deeply human to the natural world.



Diane Simpson, Armour Pattern #2, 1975, collagraph print, 35 x 30 1/2 inches, signed and dated recto, edition 2/6. 


Corbett vs. Dempsey


• Booth #230


Corbett vs. Dempsey presents a solo booth featuring a selection of historical prints by Diane Simpson. Created over a period from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s, most of these extraordinary works on paper have never been exhibited. Deploying various techniques including collagraphy and collage, the works' images consist of some of the same types of forms Simpson would explore over the subsequent five decades: architectural shapes and ideas drawn from women's clothing. The earliest prints are uncommonly vivid, later ones more subdued, in browns, blue, and grey tones. Made in tiny editions, some in fact unique, these printworks allude directly to the artist's work in three dimensions; one of them was designed to be cut out and folded into a kind of origami sculpture.



Left: Edie Fake, Two of Wands (Facing), 2025. Right: Edie Fake, Two Of Wands (Future), 2025


Manneken Press


• Booth #472


This will be Manneken’s sixth time exhibiting at EXPO, participating as part of Editions + Books, a distinct gallery section which features artist books, editions and multiples. Manneken Press’s presentation will feature prints by notable contemporary artists, published by and produced at Manneken Press.


2025 is Manneken Press’ 25th anniversary. At EXPO Manneken will acknowledge their silver jubilee year by hanging some of Manneken’s earliest published prints alongside the most recent. Rupert Deese’s Iris suite of six etchings, produced in 2000 were among the first projects. A pair of exquisite etchings with aquatint by Edie Fake and monotypes by Andrea Ferrigno, both published in 2025, represent the latest.


Two aquatints by Jason Karolak and monotypes by Catherine Howe, both from 2024, and Array 1000/Dark Blue, also by Deese, from his 2012 Array opus of woodcuts, and at 45 x 45 inches one of the largest prints published by Manneken Press, will also be on view.


Handmade paper editions by Claire Lieberman, etchings by Jill Moser and Matt Magee, monotypes by Sarah Smelser, Judy Ledgerwood, and Anna Kunz, will round out Manneken Press’ presentation. Several print portfolios, including Ted Kincaid’s Kakistocracy Portfolio, a timely comment on the tenuous state of our nation, will be available to view, as well as new photogravures by Claire Seidl and collaborative monotypes by John Yau and Richard Hull.




Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)


• Booth #256


MoCP will present a selection of fine prints by Henry Nias Business in Arts Fellow Hiwot Ayele-Schutz. Displayed prints are a thematic extension of the museum’s current exhibition Regina Agu: Shore | Lines about environment, place, and identity - on view during EXPO. Fine prints and publications will be available for purchase with guided conversations from museum staff and friends.


On Saturday, April 26, at 1:00 pm there visit MoCP’s booth to celebrate the premier and signing of Regina Agu’s Field Guide by Kris Graves Publishing.




Process/Process


• Booth #449


Process/Process will release an edition with artist Edie Fake at EXPO Chicago. The woodblock print merges Fake's long held interest in queer spaces of potential and vernacular culture with a new subject of chromatic and compositional exploration: the board game.




VOLUME Gallery


Volume Gallery will exhibit a solo presentation of handwoven weavings by Chicago-based artist SHENEQUA.


SHENEQUA’s work is a material celebration of her Afro-Caribbean identity. Born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, raised in Miami, Florida and having studied with master weaver Sebastian Dayi in Ghana, West Africa, SHENEQUA deftly weaves together meaningful materials to honor the resilience, beauty, and creativity of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora. Throughout her practice, she incorporates plaits of synthetic hair and sculptural bobby pins to honor the Black hair salon as a center of community, intimacy, and friendship. Her intricate textiles push the boundaries of form with shifts in scale, organic edges, and improvisational moments.


Recent work in vivid colors is inspired by the exuberant Sugar Mas carnival celebrations of Saint Kitts and Nevis, of which her family are longtime participants. Carnivals arose in the Caribbean as independence celebrations, and now the weeks-long festivities feature elaborately costumed dancers, soca music, food, and pageantry. SHENEQUA weaves vibrantly colored fabric with braids of synthetic hair, jewel-like embellishments, strips of Caribbean batik fabric, and iridescent elements, all intertwined to create rich, layered textures that echo African and Caribbean cultural heritage in a striking, tactile display of communal joy.



Read Part II of What Galleries are Bringing to EXPO Chicago 2025




Additional Chicago-based and regional galleries exhibiting at EXPO CHICAGO 2025


DOCUMENT, Chicago, Lisbon 

Les Enluminures, Chicago, New York, Paris 

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

McCormick Gallery, Chicago 

Secrist | Beach, Chicago 


65GRAND, Chicago

Anthony Gallery, Chicago 

Goldfinch, Chicago 

Omenai Gallery, Chicago 

Povos, Chicago 


ENGAGE Projects, Chicago 

 

F.L. Braswell Fine Art, Chicago, Lakeside (Editions + Books)

Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago (Editions + Books)

Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago (Editions + Books)

MCA Chicago Store, Chicago (Editions + Books)


Special Exhibitions


6018North, Chicago

Artists in Public Schools, Chicago 

Arts of Life / Circle Contemporary, Chicago 

Blanc Gallery + South Side Community Art Center, Chicago 

Center for Native Futures, Chicago 

Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago 

Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago 

Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago 

Project Onward, Chicago 

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 

University of Chicago, Chicago

Wrightwood 659, Chicago 

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This weekend's art plans can take you across Chicago, into the far suburbs, and north to Wisconsin.


The Chicago Architecture Center’s annual Open House Chicago opens doors to distinctive spaces, while family activities and an outdoor sculpture tour offer more ways to spend time with art.


Here is a look at what’s on this Saturday and Sunday. Follow the event links for any registration details and updates, and keep an eye on CGN’s calendar as more details are added.


– CGN




Open House Chicago at the Driehaus Museum

Saturday–Sunday, October 17–18; Saturday performance 1–2 p.m.

The Driehaus Museum

Murphy Auditorium, 50 E. Erie St., Chicago


Explore the historic Murphy Auditorium during the Chicago Architecture Center’s annual Open House Chicago weekend. The landmark, reopened after renovation in 2024, also hosts Hanna DiLorenzo’s Behind Closed Doors on Saturday. Entry is free without reservations; access does not include the museum’s exhibition galleries.




Family Day: Proud to Be Me

Saturday, October 17, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

Smart Museum of Art

5550 S. Greenwood Ave., Chicago


Exhibiting artist Nina Chanel Abney guides visitors in creating colorful self-portrait collages. A collaborative card-deck project extends the activities beyond the canvas, offering families a chance to explore identity and creativity together.




Open House Chicago: Etching Demonstrations

Saturday–Sunday, October 17–18, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. each day

WING Studio

4883 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago


Add printmaking to your Open House Chicago itinerary. WING Studio welcomes visitors for etching demonstrations on both days, offering a closer look at an art-making process inside a working studio in Lincoln Square.




Guided Tour of theNate with Director and Curator Jeff Stevenson

Saturday, October 17, 1–2:30 p.m.

Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park

Governors State University, University Park


Head outdoors with Jeff Stevenson for a tour of the South Collection, considering visiting artists’ installations alongside familiar works and their connections to the Earth. Admission is $10. Meet at the F Entrance, wear shoes for grass paths, and dress for the weather; parking is free.




Kevin Blake: Sundowning

Saturday, October 17, 2–4 p.m.

Bert Green Fine Art

8 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 620, Chicago


This Saturday event highlights Kevin Blake’s solo exhibition, guest curated by Dan Cameron. Blake’s paintings scrutinize inherited ideas of masculinity, placing familiar social roles in unsettled situations and revealing vulnerability beneath the outward performance of confidence.




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This week’s art plans can take you across Chicago, into the suburbs, and north to Wisconsin. Bridgeport is busy with Third Friday festivities and Milwaukee’s quarterly Gallery Night MKE is back. New exhibitions, live calligraphy, and an art sale round out Friday’s choices.


Here is a look at what’s ahead on Friday. Follow the event links for registration and updates, and keep an eye on CGN’s calendar as more details are added.


– CGN




Between Reflection and Revelation: David Dunlop’s Material Alchemy

Gallery Night: Friday, October 16, 5–9 p.m.; Gallery Day: Saturday, October 17, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; exhibition opens October 14

JK Art House

191 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, Wisconsin


Make a Wisconsin art outing part of the weekend. David Dunlop combines traditional translucent oil techniques with metal supports, producing paintings whose surfaces change with light and movement. The opening joins Milwaukee’s quarterly Gallery Night MKE, with a free John Michael Kohler Arts Center workshop also taking place in the gallery.


Also taking place is Treasured Postcards on Friday, October 16, 5–9 p.m. This is a John Michael Kohler Arts Center workshop at JK Art House. Inspired by Lenore Tawney’s correspondence, this free Gallery Night workshop invites participants to make small collage postcards from photographs, printed papers, and other materials. Stop into JK Art House’s Parlor to create an artwork that can travel through the mail.




Out There

Gallery Night: Friday, October 16, 5–8 p.m.; Gallery Day: Saturday, October 17, 11 am. Exhibition on view through November 7

Kim Storage Gallery

207 E Buffalo St., Ste 404, Milwaukee, WI 53202


Out There is a two-person exhibition of new work by Hector Acuna and Andy Paczos. The title borrows the advice a teacher gave Paczos at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: look out the window, \"there's lots of good stuff out there.\" He took it, and has painted Chicago from direct observation for three decades since. Acuna works the same way, returning to his Wisconsin sites across multiple plein air sessions and staging handmade props to paint in natural light. Both find their subjects by standing in front of them




Recycled 2026

First Look: Friday, October 16, 5 p.m.; opening-night event at 6 p.m.; sale through October 24

The Art Center Highland Park

1957 Sheridan Rd., Highland Park


Rediscovered art finds new homes at The Art Center’s annual sale, with donated works selected and priced for accessible collecting. Opening-night tickets offer an early look; weekend hours are Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., and Sunday, noon–4 p.m. Entry is free October 19–24.




Calligraphy Performance

Friday, October 16, 5–8 p.m.; artist conversation 5–6:30 p.m.; performances begin at 6:30 p.m.

Research House for Asian Art

3217 S. Morgan St., Chicago


The Becoming Words reception brings calligraphy to life through performances by Hekiun Oda and Bahman Panahi. Panahi joins musician Kerry Leung for Musicalligraphy, while Oda demonstrates his distinctive practice. Food reflecting both artists’ cultures accompanies the evening. Admission is $40, plus the ticket service fee.




Structure in Stature

Opening: Friday, October 16, 6–9 p.m.; on view through November 20

Forum 301

301 W. Ohio St., Chicago


Fashion becomes a meeting point for architecture, sculpture, and performance in this group exhibition. The participating artists examine how clothing shapes bodily presence, from protection and concealment to exaggeration and transformation, and how we construct the space we occupy.




Open Studios Third Friday at the Bridgeport Art Center

Friday, October 16, 7–10 p.m.

Bridgeport Art Center

1200 W. 35th St., Chicago


Explore studios and three gallery presentations: Decadence Deux, presented by Pigment International and September Gray Fine Art; Art Connection: Past Meets Present, from ArtConnectED; and Robert Lipton’s Una Vuelta a Mis Raices. The free evening offers opportunities to encounter artists and their work throughout the building.




Bridgeport Third Friday Art Walk

Friday, October 16, 7–10 p.m.

Bridgeport Artist Community

Multiple neighborhood locations in Bridgeport, Chicago


Extend your Third Friday visit beyond a single building. The Bridgeport Artist Community’s route connects more than 45 galleries, studios, shops, and cultural spaces. Use the linked neighborhood map to plan stops, and check individual venues for their evening hours.




Szukalski. The Mythshaper / Szukalski. Rzeźbiarz mitu

Opening: Friday, October 16, 7–9 p.m.; on view through October 2027

Polish Museum of America

984 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago


A major exhibition revisits Stanisław Szukalski’s complex legacy through sculpture, drawing, prints, and photography. Organized with the POLONIKA Institute, it examines his imaginative mythmaking and contested ideas. Opening admission is $25; a Saturday discussion at 1 p.m. is $20, or $40 for both programs.




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This week’s art plans can take you across Chicago, into the suburbs, and north to Wisconsin. Auctions and museum conversations lead into Lincoln Park Art Night on Thursday, followed by Bridgeport’s Third Friday festivities and Milwaukee’s quarterly Gallery Night MKE. New exhibitions, live calligraphy, and an art sale round out Friday’s choices. Over the weekend, the Chicago Architecture Center’s annual Open House Chicago opens doors to distinctive spaces, while family activities and an outdoor sculpture tour offer more ways to spend time with art.


Here is a date-by-date look at what’s ahead. Follow the event links for registration and updates, and keep an eye on CGN’s calendar as more details are added.


– CGN




Curated: CALDER

Auction: Wednesday, October 14, 10 a.m. Central / 11 a.m. Eastern

Rago and Wright

online bidding


A midweek auction offers another way to engage with art. Rago and Wright’s current Curated: CALDER sale brings the artist’s work to the auction block, with bidding available online. See the current auction catalog for lots and registration.




European Furniture & Decorative Arts

Auction: October 14–15, 10 a.m. Central each day

Freeman’s

1550 W. Carroll Ave., Chicago


Freeman’s two-day sale spans English and Continental furnishings, decorative objects, and sculpture. Collections from across the country, including Barrington Hills, contribute to a selection ranging from clocks and tapestries to Minton porcelain.




Symposium: Religion, Art, and Provenance in Museums

October 14–16

Smart Museum of Art

University of Chicago | Hyde Park


What happens to religious objects when they enter museum collections? Keynotes, panels, and roundtable conversations consider their changing meanings and histories in this multi-day symposium. Consult the program for individual session times and locations.




Art and Women in Sports: Looking at Amber Morningstar

Wednesday, October 14, 3:30–5 p.m.

Block Museum of Art

40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston


Northwestern Athletics’ Ava Earl and Associate Provost Michelle Manno consider Cara Romero’s photograph Amber Morningstar through the lens of women in sports and self-representation. The conversation connects art with identity, teamwork, and the power to shape one’s own image.


Coffee and tea begin at 3 p.m.




Becoming Words: A Joint Calligraphy Exhibition

October 15–November 15; opening reception Friday, October 16, 5–8 p.m.

Heritage Museum of Asian Art and Seldon Institute

Exhibition at Research House for Asian Art, 3217 S. Morgan St., Chicago


Japanese calligrapher Hekiun Oda and Iranian artist Bahman Panahi bring different traditions into conversation, moving from written language toward gesture, abstraction, and sound. The exhibition opens Thursday, followed by Friday’s live performance program and a free artist-led tour Saturday, October 17, 1–3 p.m.



The Fine Art of [Madron Gallery]

Opening: Thursday, October 15, 5:30–8:30 p.m.; on view through December 18

Madron Gallery

1000 W. North Ave., 3rd Floor, Chicago


Madron marks its 25th anniversary with twenty-five works by twenty-five artists from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The free opening joins the fifth annual Lincoln Park Art Night, making it a lively evening to explore Madron, Leslie Wolfe Gallery, gallery 1871, Art City, and Art on Sedgwick.




Wander and Wallow: Must We Dwell — Brian Lathan

Opening: Thursday, October 15, 6–8 p.m.; artist remarks at 6:30 p.m.; on view through November 20

Kavanagh Gallery, Fine Line Creative Arts Center

37W570 Bolcum Rd., St. Charles


Brian Lathan’s brightly colored prints explore the uneasy relationship between escape and self-care. Figures shelter smaller versions of themselves inside exposed headspaces, inviting viewers to consider the habits and interior worlds that sustain us. Meet the artist at the free opening reception.


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View the full CGN Calendar here



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