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Exhibitions in Chicago in December 2026

30 events from Tuesday, December 1 to Thursday, December 31, 2026. Busiest venues: Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago History Museum.

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

Visual arts
until Dec 31

Double Feature with Short Subject

Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 31

Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s

Chicago History Museum · Lincoln Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost

Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop
- Visual arts
Other
until Jan 31

Anne Frank The Exhibition

Griffin Museum of Science and Industry · Hyde Park
Visual arts
until Feb 7

Chicago Works | Mike Cloud: Worldless Obstruction

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago · Streeterville
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 25

Embroidered Traditions from Morocco to Afghanistan

Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 25

Abigail Lucien: Blood of the Earth

Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jun 20

Atrium Project: Celeste Rapone

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago · Streeterville
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 31

Kenzi Shiokava

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago · Streeterville
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jul 11

From the Center: Looking at Lucy Lippard

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago · Streeterville
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 7

Lee Miller: Fearless

Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism

Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop
- Visual arts
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Visual arts
until Dec 11

Karimah Ashadu: Machine Boys

Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 14

Slow Dance

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago · Streeterville
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 18

Jill Mulleady: The Passenger

Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jul 11

How Do We Heal?

Smart Museum of Art · Hyde Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jul 11

Nina Chanel Abney: Between Us

Smart Museum of Art · Hyde Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Feb 21

teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity

Smart Museum of Art · Hyde Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 20

Utamaro: Elements of Beauty

Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 14

Tony Cokes: On Boredom

Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop
- Visual arts
Other
until Jan 3

After the Age of Dinosaurs

Field Museum · Museum Campus
Other
until Dec 31

Aquí en Chicago

Chicago History Museum · Lincoln Park
Other
until Dec 31

Injustice: The Trial for the Murder of Emmett Till

Chicago History Museum · Lincoln Park
Visual arts
until Dec 31

Nuestras Historias: Stories of Mexican Identity from the Permanent Collection

National Museum of Mexican Art · Pilsen
- Visual arts
Other
until Apr 11

Pokémon Fossil Museum

Field Museum · Museum Campus
Visual arts
until Jan 31

US at 250: Dorian Sylvain, We Weave Our Future

Chicago History Museum · Lincoln Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 31

Where Memory Lives: 40 Years of Día de Muertos

National Museum of Mexican Art · Pilsen
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Feb 21

¡TINTA ARDIENTE!

National Museum of Mexican Art · Pilsen
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 1

Body and Being in African Art

Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 1

Beatriz González: In Series and Full Color

Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop
- Visual arts

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