Exhibitions in Chicago in October 2026

Sunday, October 18, 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

• Visual arts

  until Nov 15

  Saint-Porchaire

  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 Nov 9

  Self, Made: Fourteen Modern Artists from the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection

  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 Oct 19

  Beyond Form: Abstraction at Midcentury

  Art Institute of Chicago · The Loop

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 31

  Kenzi Shiokava

  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago · Streeterville

  • Visual arts

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• 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

• 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

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• Other

  until Dec 31

  Aquí en Chicago

  Chicago History Museum · Lincoln Park

• Other

  until Nov 1

  Fright at the Field

  Field Museum · Museum Campus

• 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

• Other

  until Oct 18

  The Changing Face of Science

  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

Saturday, October 24, 2026

• Other

  —Time not announced

  Threads of a Nation: Preserving Presidential Clothing

  Chicago History Museum · Lincoln Park

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