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65GRAND is a contemporary art gallery that provides artists with the opportunity to present their work in a professional and open environment that encourages an exploratory process. Our mission is to foster art at the forefront of contemporary culture. In addition to our exhibition program, we regularly host artist talks, screenings and other public events that fuel crucial dialogue about contemporary art.


Image: Jonathan Worcester, installation view, Dead Reckoning, 2025 photo credit: Holly Murkerson

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Burnt Mind is an upcoming event featuring the work of Nicholas Szymanski. The event will take place from October 23, 2026, to January 16, 2027, at 65GRAND Project Space located at 3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647. The opening reception is scheduled for Friday, October 23, from 6-9 PM. The gallery is open on Fridays and Saturdays from 12-6 PM and by appointment.

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Holly Murkerson's exhibition \"rough edge\" will be held from October 23 to November 28, 2026, at 65GRAND gallery. The opening reception is scheduled for Friday, October 23, from 6-9 PM. The exhibition explores themes of vulnerability, transformation, and the intersection between the physical world and the body, as captured through photography. The works reflect on the dynamic between fixed and contingent states, as well as the ecological interpenetration of boundaries. The gallery is located at 3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647, and is open on Fridays and Saturdays from 12-6 PM, and by appointment.


Holly Murkerson, swimmer with rock, 2026, gelatin silver print, 6 3/16 x 5 11/16 inches

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Please join us Saturday, January 4th at 2:30 PM for an artist talk with Laura Davis as part of her exhibition Fauna.


Installation view, Laura Davis, Fauna, 2024 - 2025

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Kayla Risko, Towards Morning, 2024, Oil on canvas, 11 x 13 inches

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Please join us Saturday, March 29 at 2:30 PM for an artist talk with Bob Hooper as part of his exhibition The Prime Numbers.

Image: Installation view, Bob Hooper, The Prime Numbers, 2025

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Image: Jonathan Worcester, Untitled, 2024, acrylic on canvas wrapped panel 48 x 68.75 x 3.5 inches

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We will be participating in Art After Hours Friday, April 25 from 6-9 pm.


65GRAND hosts a cocktail reception at the gallery to celebrate current exhibition, Jonathan Worcester: Dead Reckoning as well as EXPO CHICAGO booth presentation featuring Jenal Dolson and William Staples.

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Image: Willie Kohler, Keep On Rowing, 2024, oil on canvas, 52 x 48 inches

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Please join us Saturday, June 7 at 2:30 PM for an artist talk with William Eckhardt Kohler as part of his exhibition There Are Many Nows.


Image: William Eckhardt Kohler, Uttered By Water, 2024, Oil on linen, 48 x 60 inches

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Summer Group Exhibition including: Flor Flores, Daniel Hojnacki, D. Rosen


From left: Flor Flores, Daniel Hojnacki, D. Rosen

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65GRAND presents SCOTT STACK

October 24 - November 22, 2025


Opening Reception: Friday, October 24 (6 - 9PM)


65GRAND is located at 3252 W. North Ave


Image: Scott Stack, G in Portugal, 2020, oil on canvas, 72 x 96 inches 

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Please join us Saturday, November 15 at 2:30 PM for an artist talk with Scott Stack as part of his current exhibition.


Scott Stack, installation view, 2025, image credit: Holly Murkerson

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Image: The Grey Point, 2025, oil on canvas, 52 x 34 inches

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Please join us Saturday, January 3 at 2:30 PM for an artist talk with Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez as part of his current exhibition Entangled Forces.

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Image: Mie Kongo, AFPP No. 13, 2025, Ash flooring planks, oil paint, 19 x 13 x 1 inches, Image credit: Holly Murkerson

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Please join us Saturday, February 14 at 2:30 PM for an artist talk with Mie Kongo as part of her current exhibition Straight Lines and Fragments of Elliptical Lines.

Image: Mie Kongo, installation view, Straight Lines and Fragments of Elliptical Lines, image credit: Holly Murkerson

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65GRAND is pleased to present The Division Street Riots, a new exhibition by Chicago-based artist Carlos Rolón. The exhibition features new graphite and charcoal drawings, works on aluminum, a DIY bicycle sculpture with audio, and a hand-embroidered textile inspired by the 1966 Division Street uprising in Humboldt Park and West Town.

On June 12, 1966, one day after Chicago’s first Puerto Rican Day Parade, police shot 20-year-old Arcelis Cruz near Damen and Division. The incident ignited three days of protest, marking the first major U.S. riot attributed to Puerto Ricans. The unrest exposed systemic police brutality, displacement through urban renewal, substandard housing, and educational inequities. It became a turning point in Puerto Rican civic life in Chicago, catalyzing grassroots political organizing and the transformation with the likes of the Young Lords into a civil rights movement.

Nearly sixty years later, Rolón revisits this history through a restrained, material language that foregrounds memory, dignity, and collective witness. Drawing from archival photographs and community narratives, the works consider how histories of migration, protest, and belonging continue to shape American cities. At a time of renewed national debate around immigration, civil rights, and ICE enforcement, the exhibition reflects on how communities mobilize in the face of injustice and how solidarity becomes a form of cultural survival.

The creation of this body of work was generously supported by a grant from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE). The artist also acknowledges the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center for providing studio space during the development of the project. Founded in 1971 in the wake of the uprising, the Center remains a vital institution for Puerto Rican arts and culture in Chicago, continuing a legacy of education, preservation, and empowerment. Presenting this exhibition at 65GRAND, which is part of the cultural fabric of Humboldt Park and where the artist lives, brings the work into direct dialogue with the community from which its history emerges.

Rolón (b. 1970) is known for a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and social engagement. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at major institutions including the New Orleans Museum of Art, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Dallas Contemporary, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, among others. In 2007, he represented Ukraine at the 52nd Venice Biennale and is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painting and Sculpture. His work is held in numerous public collections internationally.

The Division Street Riots invites audiences to reconsider a pivotal chapter in Chicago history and its urgent resonance today, asking how narratives of struggle, migration, and cultural pride continue to shape the evolving story of the Americas.

Image: Carlos Rolón, Rebellion, 2026, Graphite on legion paper mounted on Dibond, 24 x 24 inches, Image credit: Clare BrittCARLOS ROLÓN


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Please join us this upcoming final weekend for Carlos Rolón's exhibition: The Division Street Riots

We are extending our hours this weekend to include Sunday, April 12, 12–6pm

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Mekkelson's bass note snare emerges simultaneously from two galleries on opposite ends of Chicago.

65GRAND in the North Side neighborhood of Humboldt Park, features bass note. Sixteen miles away, in the South Side Morgan Park neighborhood, boundary presents snare.

The exhibitions open on April 24 (65GRAND) and April 25 (boundary) and run through May 23.


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Please join us for a new installation, Interrobang, by Jenal Dolson to kick off the project space at 65GRAND. Enveloped in an overtly bright, striped environment, Interrobang stages a dynamic interplay of color, pattern, and optical vibration, destabilizing perceptual assumptions and enacting a phenomenological encounter in which space, surface, and body are inseparably entangled. In this way, the paintings hold gesture as the body holds touch: as residue, as a lingering presence - embodying the interrogative tension of the interrobang itself.


Image: Jenal Dolson, Play House, 2026, oil and pumice on canvas, 41.25 x 34 inches

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Japeth Mennes, 2026

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Please join us Saturday, May 30th at 2:30 PM for an artist talk with Japeth Mennes as part of his current exhibition I will always love ewe.

Please note: Japeth's opening reception is Friday, May 29th, 6:00-9:00 PM


Image: Japeth Mennes, Mailbox Buzzers, (Ultramarine, Ochre, Pink), 2026, acrylic on shaped canvas, 24 x 17 inches

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Within the past several years, I have been making wall-mounted mixed media objects out of everyday materials. With a process-driven, improvisational approach, I allow chance and contingency into the work. A major project has been investigation of the possibilities of salvaged corrugated cartons. I also employ wood elements, both purchased and found, cast-off scraps, repositories of my own and others' decision making. By bringing materials into my studio, I can live with and consider them over time. I begin without a preconceived end in mind and proceed in a spontaneous way, bending, cutting, sawing, ripping, stomping, reconfiguring, gluing, until a form resonates. Surface treatments often include white house paint, scantily applied to suggest weathering and allowing exposure of structural seams. Inspiration for these pieces resides in the pulse of urban surroundings--architecture, construction and the accompanying debris, abandoned structures, fragmentation as well as the anxiety of instability and fragility of life.

For a large part of my career, drawing has been the primary focus of my practice. Strongly influenced by minimalism, I employ varieties of wet and dry media to develop series of works on paper, the content addressing tensions among flat shapes and lines, the energy between them, their relationship to negative space as well as to the edges of the support. My approach is to begin with an element, adding information to develop a visual dialogue, mindful of restraint, challenging myself to know when to stop. The final images are distillations of experiential incongruities, with a prominent role given to negative space, referencing the weight of silence, of things unsaid.

Pivot, 2022. Plywood, Acrylic, 10\" x 6.5\" x 2.5\"

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Please join us Saturday, August 8 at 2:30 PM for an artist talk with Marian Carow as part of her current exhibition Permit Pending


Image: Marian Carow, installation view, Permit Pending, 2026, image credit: Holly Murkerson


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William Staples, Garden, 2026, oil and acrylic on canvas, 14 x 9 inches


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