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Our picks for must-see exhibitions September 28, 2023 'Back to the Stars' For Sanford Biggers’s fourth solo show with Monique Meloche Gallery, the New York-based artist will show... Read more

2024 Bermuda Biennial Jurors Revealed

September 20, 2023 April sees the opening of the 2024 Bermuda Biennial , sponsored by Bacardi Limited – BNG’s flagship exhibition and a... Read more

September Art Picks

September 12, 2023 September 14-October 28, 2023 Sanford Biggers: Back to the Stars moniquemeloche: 451 N Paulina St, Chicago Free Read more

Alums Sanford Biggers, Steffani Jemison, Clifford Owens, and Patricia Treib Named Guggenheim Fellows

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants made for between six to twelve months. They aim to help provide fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. July 13, 2023 Read More Read more

Brooklyn artist Layo Bright receives the 2023 Pittsburgh Glass Center's Ron Desmett Award

July 13, 2023 Brooklyn-based artist Layo Bright has been named as the 2023 recipient of the Ron Desmett Memorial Award celebrating artists 'who... Read more

Wandering Eyes: Can't-Miss Art Shows to See This Summer, and Beyond

Stateside and abroad, artists are bringing fresh perspectives to familiar paths. July 11, 2023 Elsewhere, others are sifting the sands of time: At Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago, Sanford Biggers will soon turn his... Read more

ADAA Names Exhibitors for 35th Anniversary Art Show in November

June 22, 2023 The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has lined up 78 exhibitors from its membership for the 35th edition of... Read more

New York's 'El Museo del Barrio' reinvents itself with new permanent collection

May 24, 2023 If there is a museum in New York that is a breeding ground for concepts, proposals and political demands, it... Read more

Plant Talk: Endangered Plants Find New Life in Ebony G. Patterson's Coming Exhibition

May 24, 2023 The Earth is in a constant process of turning over from old to new. This summer’s art exhibition of Ebony... Read more

A Conversation with Layo Bright

May 19, 2023 Ep.151 features Layo Bright. Mining personal archives and collective experiences, her sculptural practice interrogates how materials shape perception, culture, and... Read more

A Conversation with Maia Cruz Palileo

May 19, 2023 Ep.152 features Maia Cruz Palileo (they/them), a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, installations, sculptures, and drawings navigate themes of migration and... Read more

Chicago Oomph Powered by EXPO CHICAGO is a curated roundup of the best contemporary art exhibitions and events held by galleries, museums, and institutions in town during the international exposition, April 2023.

May 19, 2023 The works on view map an archival, geological, and spiritual topography of the Palileo family’s homeland—the Philippines—and are inspired by... Read more

Ruth Foundation Gives $1.25 M. to 56 Arts Organizations Selected by Artists

May 19, 2023 The Ruth Foundation for the Arts has announced the 56 arts and cultural organizations that have been selected for its... Read more

Summer Art Preview

May 19, 2023 Just as flowers take root in graveyards, the lavish, colorful installations of the Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson reflect nature’s... Read more

High Museum announces Driskell Prize winner: Ebony G. Patterson

January 31, 2023 Multi-media artist Ebony G. Patterson is the winner of the David C. Driskell Prize, the High Museum of Art announced... Read more

A Cheerleader for Artists

How Monique Meloche's Intelligent Optimism Helped Her Become a Master of Discovery January 1, 2023 Talking Art with Chicago Gallerist Monique Meloche is an excercise in keeping up. Walking me arounf her exhibition with Arvie... Read more

Two Story Mural by Candida Alvarez To Be Unveiled at Fashion Outlets in January 2023

December 16, 2022 Next month THE COLLECTION: Where Art Meets Fashion, the multifaceted contemporary art program located within Fashion Outlets of Chicago in... Read more

Work In Progress: CAC Annual Fundraiser

September 22, 2022 September 22, 2022 Chicago Artists Coalition is thrilled to present WORK IN PROGRESS 2022, Radiance + Reunion, in-person on Thursday, September 22 at... Read more

Brendan Fernandes Featured in the Arts Newspaper

July 29, 2022 The Chicago-based multimedia artist Brendan Fernandes recently released his book Re/Form with Milan-based publisher Skira Editore to chronicle his Noguchi... Read more

Ebony G. Patterson | Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms | ICA Watershed

May 26 – Sep 5, 2022 at ICA Watershed May 25, 2022 In summer 2022, the ICA Watershed presents Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms, an exhibition of large-scale installations by six international... Read more

Dan Gunn in The Regional at CAC Cincinnati

February 15, 2022 The Regional is the first major multi-museum survey dedicated to contemporary artists based in the Midwest and will feature new... Read more

Salina Art Center: Sanford Biggers and Karen Reimer

February 15, 2022 The Map vs. The Walk February 9 – April 24, 2022 Karen Reimer The Salina Art Center is pleased to... Read more

Antonius Bui: QUEER ART MENTORSHIP 2022

January 17, 2022 Queer|Art is pleased to announce the twelve Fellows accepted for the 2022 Queer|Art|Mentorship program cycle, and the Mentors with whom... Read more

Conversation@PAM: Artist Gallery Talk with Antonius-Tín Bui and Jennifer Ling Datchuk

January 11, 2022 Join exhibited artists Antonius-Tín Bui and Jennifer Ling Datchuk from Intervention: Fresh Perspectives after 50 Years as they discuss their... Read more

Sanford Biggers Moon Medicin: Mosaic

January 8th, 2022, 6:30 PM January 6, 2022 Moon Medicin: Mosaic January 8th, 2022, 6:30 PM The Phillips Collection presents Moon Medicin: Mosaic Performance, a Centennial commission combining... Read more

Cerebral Woman Art Talk's Podcast with Phyllis Hollis

A Conversation with David Shrobe October 29, 2021 Episode 76 features New York based David Shrobe. He creates multi-layered portraits and assemblage paintings made in part from everyday... Read more

Curator-Led Tour of Ebony G. Patterson at the ICA San José

by Institute of Contemporary Art San José July 22, 2021 On August 21st at 11am, join curators Wassan Al-Khudhairi (Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Chief Curator) and Christine Koppes (Institute... Read more

Free Fall 49 at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art

For two hours a collective body of dancers will fall 49 times July 22, 2021 Free Fall 49 by Brendan Fernandes is an ongoing series of live, dance-based performances and installations responding to the... Read more

Virtual Conversation Moderated by Curator Karen Patterson

July 17, 2021 July 17, 2021 Karen Reimer (American, b. 1958, lives Chicago) is a conceptual craft artist based in Chicago, IL. She has a BA... Read more

The Whitney Museum of American Art Acquires an Ebony G. Patterson

…a possum rises…a black bear falls...a pattoo takes watch…as children whisper through the leaves (2019) by Ebony G. Patterson June 18, 2021 Monique Meloche and Hales are pleased to announce that the Whitney Museum of American Art have acquired …a possum rises…a... Read more

MAD Moments: Craft Front & Center

Online Lab May 19, 2021 In these MAD Moments, chief curator Elissa Auther is joined by the Museum’s curatorial staff—Barbara Paris Gifford, Samantha De Tillio,... Read more

ARTADIA 2021 New York Finalists

Maia Cruz Palileo May 3, 2021 The Finalists will each receive virtual studio visits with second-round jurors, who will ultimately select three artists to receive $10,000... Read more

ARTADIA 2021 Chicago Awardees

NATE YOUNG April 15, 2021 Artadia is honored to partner with three foundations who have committed to supporting exceptional artists in Chicago with these $10,000... Read more

Ebony G. Patterson: Art Against the World Podcast

The Liverpool Biennial “Art Against the World” podcast is hosted by Vid Simoniti. It is a University of Liverpool / Liverpool Biennial co-production. March 25, 2021 How can artists show violence with sensitivity? Painter Ebony G Patterson discusses her portraits of gang members in Jamaica. Photographer... Read more

LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL: Ebony G. Patterson

March 20 - June 20 March 17, 2021 Liverpool Biennial is the largest festival of contemporary art in the UK, with free exhibitions taking place across the city’s... Read more

Exhibition Catalogue: A Tale of Today: Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi

March 10, 2021 The second iteration in a series of contemporary interventions at the Driehaus Museum – presents the work of two Chicago-based... Read more

A Tale of Today: Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi a two person show at Driehaus Museum Chicago

Re-opening March 6 March 6, 2021 The second iteration in a series of contemporary interventions at the Driehaus Museum – presents the work of two Chicago-based... Read more

Sanford Biggers: SCAD deFINE ART 2021 honoree

Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies at SCAD Museum of Art March 2, 2021 Sanford Biggers (b. 1970, Los Angeles) is the recipient of numerous awards and honors: in 2020 he was awarded a... Read more

Candida Alvarez: The second ever recipient of THE HELEN FRANKENTHALER AWARD FOR PAINTING

January 29, 2021 The Foundation for Contemporary Arts presents Candida this award for demonstrating Frankenthaler’s passion for innovation and experimentation in the medium. Read more

BLACK FUTURES

Brendan Fernandes December 20, 2020 NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An archive of collective memory and exuberant testimony. A luminous map to navigate an... Read more