January 1-21, 2022
Reverse Television–Portraits of Viewers (Compilation Tape)
Flint Institute of Arts: 1120 E Kearsley St, Flint, MI
Free

Tues, January 4, 7pm
Sisters with Transistors (2020)
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: 40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL
Free

Wed, January 4, 10am-12pm
Chicago Arts and Culture: Funding and Futures – Focus Group Discussion
DCASE, Arts Alliance Illinois, & the Chicago Cultural Alliance: Online
Free

Thurs, January 6, 12:15pm
Curator’s Tour: A Sense of Place
Fort Wayne Museum of Art: 311 E Main St, Fort Wayne, IN
Free

Thurs, January 6, 8-10pm
Reliving Lost Works: Animating Architecture with Razin Khan
Wrightwood 659: Online
Free

Thurs, January 6, 8-10pm
Whisper & Shout
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria: 305 SW Water St, Peoria
Sold out

January 7-February 4, 2022
REVELATIONS
M Contemporary Art: 205 East 9 Mile, Ferndale, MI
Free

January 7-February 19, 2022
Shahrbanoo Hamzeh: Home Sweet Home
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria: 305 SW Water St, Peoria, IL
Free

January 7-February 26, 2022
Private Quarters III
Volume Gallery: 1709 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

January 7-March 12, 2022
Julia Curran: Corporeal Microcosms
Kranzberg Arts Foundation: 3224 Locust St, Suite 401, St. Louis, MO
Free

January 7-March 19, 2022
Judy Duggan-McCormack: The Presence of Absence
The Foundry Art Centre: 520 N Main Center, St. Charles, MO
Free

January 7-March 19, 2022
Kalven Duncan: through this window, another side
The Foundry Art Centre: 520 N Main Center, St. Charles, MO
Free

Fri, January 7, 12:30pm
Taylor Harris: THIS BOY WE MADE
Women & Children First Bookstore: Online
Free

Fri, January 7, 5-8pm
The Rounds
Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W Fulton St., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, January 7, 5-8pm
Kyle Bellucci Johanson: for spacious skies
Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W Fulton St., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, January 7, 5-8pm
BODY POLITICS
ARC Gallery: 1463 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, January 7, 5-8pm
Patrice S. Nelson: Into the Vanishing Prairie
ARC Gallery: 1463 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, January 7, 9:30pm
Rare Cuts
The Whistler: 2421 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

January 8-February 19, 2022
Dan Gunn: of the land behind them
moniquemeloche: 451 N Paulina St., Chicago, IL
Free

January 8-February 26, 2022
Anneke Eussen: Blank Pages
DOCUMENT: 1709 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, January 8, 11am-1pm
Reparations Now and Onwards: Voices of Survivors, Advocates, and Next Steps
DePaul Art Museum: Online
Free

Sat, January 8, 2-6pm
Liz Chilsen: Messengers: Artist Talk and Closing Reception
Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery and Sculpture Garden: 32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL
Free

Sat, January 8, 2:30-3:30pm
Author Event: Blythe Landry on Trauma Intelligence
Haymarket Books: 2523 N Kedzie Blvd., Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, January 8, 3:30-4:30pm
Tracked & Traced Virtual Sessions
Science Gallery Detroit: Online
Free

Sat, January 8, 4-7pm
Through a New Lens: Works from the World-Wide Mobile Photography Movement
Perspective Gallery: 1310-1/2 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL
Free

Sat, January 8, 6-9pm
Bryana Bibbs: (un)disclosed
1100 Florence Gallery: 1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL
Free

January 9- February 12, 2022
Diana Gabriel: Permanence
Goldfinch: 319 N Albany Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

January 9- February 12, 2022
Carris Adams: Get Over, Get Under, Get Easy, Get Greasy
Goldfinch: 319 N Albany Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

January 10-February 23, 2022
2022 Faculty Biennial
University Galleries of Illinois State University: 11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL
Free

January 10-February 28, 2022
Glenn Belverio: Bad Grrrls (1993)
Wexner Center for the Arts: 1871 N High St, Columbus, OH
Free

January 11-22, 2022
WATCHTOWER 12-12-12
Roman Susan: 1224 W Loyola Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

January 11-25, 2022
Collection Playlist: Reframed: Forgotten Film Remembered
Walker: 725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN
Free

Tues, January 11, 12pm
Viva la Vida: Still Life Painting
National Museum of Mexican Art: Online
Free

Tues, January 11, 1pm
Meet This Author! Kekla Magoon – Revolution in Our Time
Left Bank Books: 399 N Euclid, St Louis, MO
Free

Wed, January 12, 6-9pm
Wednesday Night Jazz Jam
The Dark Room: 3610 Grandel Sq, St. Louis
Free

Thurs, January 13, 4pm
To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change
Haymarket Books: Online
Free

Thurs, January 13, 4-7pm
Young Adult Lab: a State of Emergence
Contemporary Arts Center Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art: 44 E. 6th St, Cincinnati, OH
Free

Thurs, January 13, 5pm
Medical Humanities: Stories Told Through the Art of Hannah Wilke
Pulitzer Arts Foundation: 3716 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO
Free

Thurs, January 13, 6-7pm
Curator Tour: Lisa Melandri, Wassan Al-Khudhairi, and Misa Jeffereis
Kranzberg Arts Foundation: 3224 Locust St, Suite 401, St. Louis, MO
Free

Thurs, January 13, 7-8pm
Open Door Reading Series: Kofi Antwi, Jesse K Baer, Louise Akers, & Tariq Shah
Poetry Foundation: Online
Free

January 14-March 12, 2022
Crip*
Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St., Chicago, IL
Free

January 14 – March 26, 2022
THE UNDERWORLD: George Crump
South Side Community Art Center: 3831 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

January 14-March 19, 2022
Human/Nature
Weinberg Newton Gallery: 688 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, January 14, 6-9pm
No Body
Cleaner Gallery + Projects: 1856 N Richmond St., Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, January 14, 1-3pm
Chicago Arts and Culture: Funding and Futures – Focus Group Discussion
DCASE, Arts Alliance Illinois, & the Chicago Cultural Alliance: Online
Free

January 15- February 26, 2022
Rachel Niffenegger: Opia
Western Exhibitions: 1709 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

January 15- February 26, 2022
Aya Nakamura: Wayfaring
Western Exhibitions: 1709 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

January 15- February 27, 2022
Clifton Henri: FIGHT OR FLIGHT
Jackson Junge Gallery: 1389 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

January 15- April 3, 2022
Enmeshed: Our Changing Relationship With Space and Time in a World of Digital Interdependence
South Bend Museum of Art:120 S Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, South Bend, IN
Free

January 15- April 4, 2022
Hyper Contemporary
Real Tinsel: 1013 W Historic Mitchell St, Milwaukee, WI
Free

January 15- August 7, 2022
Beverly Fishman: Recovery
MSU BROAD: 547 E Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI
Free

Sat, January 15, 12-1pm
Virtual Artist Talk: General Objects
Heaven Gallery: Online
Free

Sat, January 15, 2-5pm
Man Bartlett: At a Certain Point
Bert Green Fine Art: 8 S Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Sat, January 15, 2-5pm
Happy Returns: Counterpoise [Fish out of Water]
Bert Green Fine Art: 8 S Michigan Ave
Free

Sat, January 15, 5pm
Ravi Shankar: Curated Tour with Brian Keigher
South Asia Institute: 1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL

January 15 – February 26, 2022
Brendan Getz | when the after-image is the image
Carrie Secrist Gallery: 900 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 
Free

January 15 – February 12, 2022
Word of Mouth
Woman Made Gallery:  2150 S Canalport Ave, 4A-3, Chicago, IL
Free

Sun, January 16, 3-6pm
Mayumi Lake and Stacia Yeapanis: The Bigger the Fear and Despair
Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery: 32 E Quincy St., Riverside, IL
Free

Sun, January 16, 9pm
Aerophonic Records Record Release! Rempis/Ra
Hungry Brain: 2319 W Belmont Ave., Chicago, IL
$10

January 16-February 19, 2022
TL Solien: The Lonesome Dervish
Devening Projects: 3039 West Carroll Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Sun, January 16, 3-6pm
Niki Grangruth and James Kinser: Muse
Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery: 32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL
Free

Sun, January 16, 3-6pm
Football Practice: Imagining Football Futures
High Concept Labs: Online
Free

Mon, January 17, 9am-5pm
MLK Day Annual Celebration presented by Citizens
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History: 315 E. Warren Ave, Detroit, MI
Free

Mon, January 17, 2022
Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition Opens
Museum of Science & Industry: 5700 S. DuSable
Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL
$12.95-$21.95

Mon, January 17, 4-7pm
An Unapologetic Dream: A MLK Day Celebration
Green Line Performing Arts Center: 329 E Garfield Blvd., Chicago, IL
Free

January 18-March 25, 2022
Azya Lashelle: Baby, I got the Blues
Fort Wayne Museum of Art: 311 E Main St, Fort Wayne, IN
Free

Tues, January 18, 7pm
Virtual Conversation: Jami Attenberg & Ada Limón
Women & Children First Bookstore: Online
Free

Tues, January 18, 10am-12pm
Chicago Arts and Culture: Funding and Futures – Focus Group Discussion
DCASE, Arts Alliance Illinois, & the Chicago Cultural Alliance: Online
Free

Tues, January 18, 6-8pm
In Progress: Bimbola Akinbola
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL & Online

January 19-23, 2022
TNK Fest
Hideout: 1354 W Wabansia Ave., Chicago, IL
$20

Wed, January 19, 1-3pm
Chicago Arts and Culture: Funding and Futures – Focus Group Discussion
DCASE, Arts Alliance Illinois, & the Chicago Cultural Alliance: Online
Free

Wed, January 19, 6pm (EST)
Kirkwood Public Library Presents Nghi Vo
Left Bank Books: Online
Free

Wed, January 19, 6-7:30pm
Journalism & Police Accountability: Perspectives from the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Torture Justice Center
Newberry Library: Online
Free

Wed, January 19, 12-1pm
By the Book: D. N. Rodowick: An Education in Judgment and Samantha Rose Hill: Hannah Arendt
57th Street Books: 1301 E 57th St., Chicago, IL
Free

Wed, January 19, 6:30pm
January Intro to Printing Workshop
LATITUDE: 1821 W. Hubbard Street., Chicago, IL
$70

Wed, January 19, 7pm
Breakaway Shorts
Wexner Center for the Arts: 1871 N High St, Columbus, OH
Free

Wed, January 19, 7-10pm
Avreeayl Ra: Healing Arts Initiative: Meditation in Motion
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave., Chicago, IL
$15

Wed, January 19, 6pm
Virtual Lecture: Ken Lum
Society for Contemporary Art: Online
Free

Thurs, January 20, 6pm
Life Lessons: The Collaborative Process Behind Life Magazine’s Iconic Photographs
Wichita Art Museum: 1400 W Museum Blvd, Wichita, KS
Free

Thurs, January 20, 6pm
Rochele Royster in conversation with Jim Duignan
DePaul Art Museum: Online
Free

Thurs, January 20, 6-7pm
Celebrating the Visiting Teaching Artists of Forms & Features
Poetry Foundation: Online
Free

January 21-22, 2022
Days
Walker: 725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN
$12

January 21-February 19, 2022
Into the Open
Detroit Artists Market: 4719 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
Free

January 21-February 25, 2022
Experiments in Dark Matter
Mu Gallery Chicago: 1541 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

January 21-February 26, 2022
PEPPI BOTTROP | ROBERT JANITZ
M. LeBlanc: 3514 W Fullerton Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

January 21-March 5, 2022
Joshua Penrose: Forward Escape
The Sculpture Center: 1834 E. 123rd St, Cleveland, OH
Free

January 21-March 18, 2022
Solo Exhibition by Meagan Smith
KINK Contemporary: 1305 W 80th St, Cleveland, OH
Free

Fri, January 21, 12pm
Photos at Noon: American Epidemic themes in the MoCP collection
Museum of Contemporary Photography: Online
Free

Fri, January 21, 6-9pm
Dmitry Samarov: Collages + Mute Duo: performance!
Compound Yellow: 244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL
Free

Fri, January 21, 10pm
Blue Hawaii
The Empty Bottle: 1035 N Western Ave., Chicago, IL
$10-12

Sat, January 22, 6-10pm
Kioto Aoki and Pamela Ramos: Sixth Planet from the Sun
LVL3 Gallery: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Tue, January 25, 12-1pm
Artist Talk: Celina Eceiza and Klaire Lockheart
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts: Online
Free

January 26-June 19, 2022
Homebody
Cranbrook Art Museum: 39221 Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills, MI
$6-10

January 26-July 10, 2022
A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: 40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL
Free

Wed, January 26, 4-7pm
Kim Piotrowski: Anxious Heaven
O’Connor Gallery of Art, Dominican University: 7900 W Division St, River Forest, IL
Free

Wed, January 26, 4-7pm
Kim Piotrowski: Anxious Heaven
O’Connor Gallery of Art, Dominican University: 7900 W Division St, River Forest, IL
Free

Thurs, January 27, 7-8pm
Public Assembly
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts: 724 S 12th St, Omaha, NE
Free

Thurs, January 27, 6-7pm
Cameron Clayborn Artist Talk
Columbia College Chicago: Online
Free

January 28-March 13, 2022
ON DRAWING DRAWING ON: Ten Years of Fellowship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
Logan Center Exhibitions: 915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL
Free

Fri, January 28, 10-11:30am
Workshop with Lex Lancaster | Abstract Tactics: Queer, Black, and Trans Approaches to the Problem of Visibility
Krannert Art Museum: 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL
Free

Fri, January 28, 6-8pm
Artist Feature: Joseph Tisiga
MSU BROAD: 547 E Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI
Free

Fri, January 28, 8:30pm
Diamond/Kleijn/Roebke, Aaron Shapiro Organ Quartet
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave., Chicago, IL
$10

Sat, January 29, 1-1:45pm
A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence: Opening Performance: Mendi + Keith Obadike – Numbers Station 2 [Red Record]
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: 40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL
Free

Sat, January 29, 7-11pm
Asian Improv aRts Midwest Presents: Bass Dreams minus B + Special Guest Mako Sica
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey Ave., Chicago, IL
$15

Sat, January 29, 2-4pm
A Conversation with Ayana Contreras: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago
Black Metropolis Research Consortium: Online
Free

Sat, January 29, 4-5:30pm
Lecture: Emanuele Coccia
The Renaissance Society: Online
Free

January 31- May 14, 2022
Malika Jackson: Whispers of a World Without Words
Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 S Cornell Ave., Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 1, 2022
Abstraction & Social Critique
Kavi Gupta: 835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 2, 2022
Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
moCa Cleveland: 11400 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH
Free

Through January 2, 2022
Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping
Walker Art Center: 725 Vineland Pl., Minneapolis, MN
$0-$15

Through January 2, 2022
Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth.
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History: 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit, MI
$0-$15

Through January 2, 2022
Grand Prototypes, Humble Tools
Transformer Station: 1460 West 29th Street
Cleveland, OH
Free

Through January 2, 2022
A Cunning Array of Stunts
ACRE Projects @ Drama Club: 2439 S Oakley Ave., Chicago , IL
Free

Through January 4, 2022
Kevin Stuart: between all saints day and halloween
Roman Susan: 1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 5, 2022
Mitli Mitlak: Like You, Like Me
N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art: 52 E. Forest Ave., Detroit, MI
Free

Through January 7, 2022
Vibrant Mechanisms: Kinetic and Sound Art
The Bridgeport Art Center: 1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 7, 2022
Jessica Stockholder: Specific Shapes
Kavi Gupta: 835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 8, 2022
Atomic Number 13
Vertical Gallery: 1016 N. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 8, 2022
ROMANO JOHNSON: The Yellow Moon Healing God
Portrait Society: Historic Third Ward 207 E. Buffalo St. Ste. 526, Milwaukee, WI 
Free

Through January 9, 2022
Time (Constant, Suspended, Collapsed): Neha Vedpathak
Flint Institute of the Arts: 1120 East Kearsley St., Flint, MI
$8-$10

Through January 9, 2022
The Contemporary Print: 20 Years at Highpoint Editions
Minneapolis Institute of Art: 2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN
$20

Through January 9, 2022
leave me letters and dust
Apparatus Projects: 1500 S Western Ave, 4th Floor, Suite 407, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 9, 2022
Stacia Yeapanis: Reliquaries for Clinging and Letting Go
Material: 2025 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 15, 2022
Peter Uka
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery: 437 N. Paulina St., Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 15, 2022
SLAYSIAN 2.0
Co-Prosperity Gallery: 3219 S Morgan St., Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 15, 2022
If This Is a Dream, Please Let Me Sleep
Anthony Gallery: 470 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 16, 2022
as a sort of cloud rather than a bubble
LVL3 Gallery: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave, #3, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 16, 2022
Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake
Pulitzer Arts Foundation: 3716 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, MO
Free

Through January 16, 2022
World’s Stage
Hans Gallery: 2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 16, 2022
GASTROPOETICS
FLXST Contemporary: 2251 South Michigan Ave, Suite 220, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 21, 2022
MATERIAL PERSPECTIVES
Indiana University Northwest Gallery for Contemporary Art: 65 West 33rd Ave, Gary, IN
Free

Through January 22, 2022
A.J. McClenon: Notes from VEGA
Hyde Park Art Center: 5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 22, 2022
Intersections
ENGAGE Projects: 864 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 23, 2022
General Objects
Heaven Gallery: 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 
Free

Through January 23, 2022
Justin Favela: Central American
Des Moines Art Center: 4700 Grand Ave., Des Moines, IA
Free

Through January 23, 2022
Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford: League of Nations
Chicago Cultural Center: 78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 29, 2022
Hannah Levy: Surplus Tension
The Arts Club of Chicago: 201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 29, 2022
Emiliano Cerna Rios: Emilianopolis
boundary: 2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 
Free

Through January 30, 2022
Lydia Ourahmane & Alex Ayed: laws of confusion
The Renaissance Society: 915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL
Free

Through January 30, 2022
Jeannette Ehlers: Take Root
MOCAD: 4454 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI
$5 suggestion donation