DETAILS
- 25 April 2025
- 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Address Locations across Chicago
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, 60612
222 W Hubbard St, Chicago, 60654
2251 W Grand Ave, Chicago, 60612
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, 60622
451 N Paulina St, Chicago, 60622
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, 60608
1210 W Thorndale Ave, Chicago, 60660
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, 60647
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, 60605
1550 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, 60607
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, 60647
1150 N Damen Ave, Chicago, 60622
1711 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, 60622
2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, 60612
1527 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, 60622
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, 60622
Join EXPO CHICAGO in exploring Chicago's gallery scene at Art After Hours in collaboration with Gertie.
Art After Hours takes place across the city on the Friday evening of EXPO ART WEEK, and features extended hours at contemporary art galleries, as well as special programming including opening receptions, artist talks, and more.
Presented in collaboration with Gertie and Block Club Chicago
Participating Galleries & Programs
65GRAND*
Reception & Extended Hours 6:00–9:00pm
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.
ACRE Projects
Opening Reception 6:00–9:00pm
Join ACRE Projects for the opening of Home, Place and Positionality, a two-person, trans-cultural exhibition featuring works by South Korean-born Haerim Lee and North American-born Fatima Laster.
ARTRUSS
Extended Hours 5:00–9:00pm
Visit solo exhibition by Ari Norris titled Fully Filtered.
Blanc Gallery and South Side Community Art Center*
Extended Hours 6:00–8:00pm
Visit this two part exhibition Futurescapes: Ecowomanist Worldbuilding, at both South Side Community Art Center and a more extensive exhibit of the same group show at Blanc Gallery. With sculptural work as well as film and soundscapes, the artists will more fully develop their themes in the Community that they consider their artistic home.
cam contemporarie
Extended Hours for Erol Scott Harris 6:00–8:00pm
cam.contemporarie presents Harlequin Choreographies, featuring new work by Harris created during his Yale graduate thesis.
Comfort Station
Performance by TAITAIxTina 7:00–8:00pm
TAITAIxTina swims and moves with homemade gelatin objects as she responds to SLAPHAPPY. Audience members are invited to watch the performance and move with her, and take a close look at the objects in the exhibition.
Corbett vs. Dempsey*
Extended Hours 5:00–8:00pm
Corbett vs. Dempsey will have extended hours at their two solo exhibitions by Arch Connelly and Mike Cloud. The Future Reflected, Wallworks 1981–1991 is the first solo exhibition of Arch Connelly's (1950–1993) work in Chicago, the city of his birth, and the first commercial gallery presentation to showcase his artwork since his untimely passing. Circle Chat is an exhibition of new paintings by Mike Cloud. The Chicago-based artist's complex and vibrant paintings often utilize conventional support materials organized in unconventional ways.
DOCUMENT*
Extended Hours for 5:00–8:00pm
DOCUMENT will present extended hours for Chicago-based artist, curator, educator, and non-profit administrator Faheem Majeed’s first solo exhibition with the gallery–featuring a new body of work consisting of wall sculptures and carved objects.
ENGAGE Projects*
Sunset Viewing of Cameron Gainer: Temporal Dispersions 6:00–8:00pm
This exhibition is the first solo presentation at ENGAGE Projects of artist Cameron Keith Gainer's conceptual landscape practice, featuring Gainer's most recent body of photo-based works, Temporal Dispersions, entropic cyanotypes created in the Sonoran Desert where he lives and works.
Freeman's | Hindman
Extended Hours for Post War & Contemporary Art, Prints and Multiples, and Photography Auctions 5:00–8:00pm RSVP
Keep exploring after EXPO CHICAGO with a preview of the Post War and Contemporary Art, Prints and Multiples, and Photography auctions. Enjoy music and refreshments while you browse works by Gertrude Abercrombie, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Nabil Nahas, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, and more.
Elephant Room Gallery
Reception & Extended Hours 6:00–9:00pm
Enjoy an evening of art and refreshments in conjunction with our exhibition Long Distance Alchemy featuring artwork by Corey Hagberg (Crush Entity), Jack Cackovic (Nice One) and Alex Krueger.
GRAY Gallery*
Opening Reception for Apparitions 6:00–8:00pm Details
Celebrate the opening of Apparitions, featuring the work of more than twenty pioneering artists from across the last century who have interrogated a phantom presence. The exhibition includes works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Huma Bhabha, McArthur Binion, Roger Brown, Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, Ewan Gibbs, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Rashid Johnson, Alex Katz, David Klamen, Ana Mendieta, Trevor Paglen, Naudline Pierre, Jaume Plensa, Susan Rothenberg, Mira Schor, Evelyn Statsinger, John Storrs, Kara Walker, and Wilmer Wilson IV.
Heritage Auctions
Modern & Contemporary Auction Highlights Reception 5:00–8:00pm
Join Heritage Auctions for an evening preview of highlights from the upcoming Modern & Contemporary auction. Learn more about the auction world and mingle with leaders in the industry while enjoying drinks and small bites. From from Diebenkorn and Thiebaud to Botello and Calder, the gallery will be welcoming and alive with vibrant work.
McCormick Gallery*
Extended Hours 5:00–8:00pm
Visit solo exhibitions by Janis Pozzi-Johnson and Michael Hedges at the gallery during these extended hours.
M. LeBlanc x Good Weather
After Party Pothole 3 at Rainbo Club 8:00 PM–2:00am
Celebrate Art After Hours late into the night with this special after party hosted by famed Wicker Park bar Rainbo Club featuring Pothole 3, a group exhibition of contemporary art organized by M. LeBlanc and Good Weather. Jointly curated by artists Ron Ewert and Cameron Spratley, the exhibition will feature recent sculpture, video, painting, and drawing by an extensive list of local, national, and internationally recognized artists.
moniquemeloche*
Extended Hours 6:00–8:00pm
moniquemeloche is proud to celebrate its 25th anniversary with a landmark exhibition that honors the gallery's legacy of championing diverse artistic voices in Chicago. This milestone showcase will feature new and legacy works by both emerging and established artists from the gallery’s roster, reflecting the core values of innovation, inclusivity, and cultural dialogue that have defined the gallery since its inception.
Pagoda Red
Opening Reception 6:00–9:00pm
Celebrate the opening of Patrick Burns: Concrete Gardens. This exhibition translates the artist's deep love of the land into richly textured mixed-media monochrome paintings.
PATRON*
Extended Hours 6:00–8:00pm
Visit Caroline Kent : The Sentimental Hand during these extended hours at PATRON.
Rhona Hoffman Gallery*
Extended Hours 5:00–8:00pm
This exhibition brings together the work of Giovanni Anselmo, Lucio Pozzi, Edda Renouf, and Richard Tuttle, artists the gallery exhibited in its early years. Each explore material, gesture, and space with distinctive sensitivity. Anselmo harnesses elemental forces, while Tuttle’s playful, erratic forms disrupt conventions of structure. Renouf’s meditative surfaces, shaped by subtle incisions, resonate with Pozzi’s dynamic play of color and composition. United by an embrace of nuance and experimentation, their works reveal the poetic potential of the minimal, where the slightest mark, the boldest gesture, or the quietest presence can transform the experience of seeing.
SECRIST | BEACH*
Extended Hours 5:00–8:00pm
Master Class: Inside the Last American Museum School with SAIC Painting Alumni brings together artworks by over 60 former and current students who studied in the Painting and Drawing Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) between the years 2000 and 2025. Master Class is guest-curated by art historian, Chair of the Department of Painting and Drawing and current faculty member Lisa Wainwright along with SAIC President Emerita, Elissa Tenny.
SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art
Extended Hours 5:00–9:00pm
Visit the exhibition, Article 1: Human Dignity Shall Be Inviolable, featuring the artwork of Kermit Berg. The exhibit highlights both the beauty and the vulnerability of democracy.
SVNGRN
Opening Reception 6:00–8:00pm
Conversations in Color marks the opening of SVNGRN with an expansive, vibrant exhibition that brings together artists from around the world in a celebration of diversity, expression, and connection. Through a kaleidoscope of mediums—painting, textile, sculpture, installation, video, and mixed media—this exhibition invites viewers to listen, reflect, and engage with the many ways color carries meaning across cultures and generations.
Twelve Ten Gallery
Artist Talk with Trey Rozell & Reception 6:00–8:00pm
Twelve Ten Gallery invites you to a conversation with artist Trey Rozell on the occasion of his first solo exhibition with the gallery. His exhibition As above, so below presents a unique durational installation of painted canvases whose terms are constantly exchanged, emphasizing the semiotic, performative and sculptural dimensions of painting and its versatility as a medium still at play.
Volume Gallery*
Extended Hours 5:00–8:00pm
Visit Robell Awake: Digital Talismans during these extended hours at the gallery. Referencing the talismanic traditions embedded in yard shows from America’s Black Belt and Ethiopian magic scrolls, Robell Awake offers talismanic chairs that speak to the spectral nature of our lives online.
Western Exhibitions
Extended Hours 5:00–8:00 PM
Visit two solo exhibitions at the gallery by Sukaina Kubba and Jessica Campbell.
(* denotes EXPO CHICAGO Exhibitor)
