Exhibition Archive

The Presidential Library Project: Black Presidential Imaginary addresses the long history of representations of a black president of the United States in visual culture, both comedic and aspirational, through contemporary [...]

In her first solo exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center, A Modern Day Shaman’s Hybrid Devices, Power Objects, and Cure Books, artist Rhonda Wheatley showcases sculptures created using vintage and [...]

Hyde Park Art Center welcomes back artist Jim Duignan to expand on his previous work at the Art Center highlighting art and education in the city in PUBLIC SCHOOL on [...]

Precariat, curated by Ariel Gentalen, showcases artwork by nine Chicago-based artists. While these artists have diverse interests and practice, each individual confronts socially constructed ideas – such as beauty, affluence, [...]

Jessie Mott returns to the Art Center for her first solo exhibition in the space, A Wish to Repair. The exhibition explores themes of intimacy, desire, beauty, anxiety and shame [...]

Installation no.21 illuminates Hyde Park Art Center's facade through the notion of a lit window and its relationship to the immediate neighborhood. During this season of light, Tichy’s work takes [...]

Created by Hyde Park Art Center, Not Just Another Pretty Face allows the Art Center to play matchmaker for artists and potential art buyers, facilitating a fun, accessible commissioning process [...]

Artist Mary King depicts the wide-ranging impact of war in War Stories, a solo show of works on paper. The exhibition will be on view in the Kanter McCormick Gallery [...]

(Re)Public is a group exhibition featuring work by socially-engaged Irish visual artists, dancers, sound artists and filmmakers whose practices engage not only with the complexities of everyday life in Ireland but [...]

Hyde Park Art Center is proud to announce the return of Ground Floor, the fourth iteration of a biennial exhibition that features artwork by some of Chicago’s most promising emergent [...]

Institutional Garbage is an online exhibition that presents the administrative residue of imaginary public institutions produced by artists, writers, and curators. This residue includes but is not limited to contracts, [...]

Hyde Park Art Center is proud to present the fifth annual exhibition of work from participants in The Center Program, the Art Center’s flagship artist professional development initiative. Led by [...]

Hyde Park Art Center is proud to present Taking Shapes, a group exhibition featuring twelve artists and seven curators from the Visual Arts Certificate Program at the University of Chicago [...]

In the exhibition Some Recent Pictures (Chicago), Los Angeles-based artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya presents work connected to his time as a Jackman Goldwasser Resident Artist at Hyde Park Art Center [...]

The narrow passageway becomes an immersive painted installation by Tina Tahir. The interdisciplinary artist makes a quick intervention into the space by experimenting with a temporary site-specific installation of invasive vegetation [...]

Before Hyde Park Art Center existed on its current site, the location was inhabited by the Chicago Beach Hotel (1892-1927). The grand estate was built to host travelers for the [...]

Alice Hargrave balances a sophisticated relationship between place and perception in her most recent photographic work featured in Paradise Wavering. The exhibition will introduce two digital videos and thirty large format [...]

New paintings, drawings, photography, prints, videos, and collages demonstrate the intense study by over 20 teens participating in Hyde Park Art Center’s five teen programs: Writer's Block, @rt+Tech Studio, Photo [...]

Artist Rodrigo Lara Zendejas reimagines the garden of his youth in a new multimedia installation presented in La Paz. Searching for moments where contemporary life and faith collide, Rodrigo Lara Zendejas [...]

Hyde Park Art Center presents the most ambitious project to date by Sabina Ott in  who cares for the sky?, which challenges our understanding of the proverbial mountain in relation to human [...]

Residual Lives features new and recent work by a selection of US-based artists Tyanna Buie, Tirtza Even, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Jenny Polak, Emmanuel Pratt, and the Portraits of Resolution Project [...]

Artist Alex Chitty liberates ordinary objects from their mundane life in her solo show Turning Spoons into Forks. Muted elements of our complex and vibrant physical surroundings are intentionally amplified in [...]

The Weight of Rage is the third annual exhibition of work developed in classes in the Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project at Stateville Prison. The show brings together work from incarcerated [...]

Regenboog Broer features an immersive painting installation using geometric distortion, light and color to transform the passage spaces at the Art Center. Overlapping large-scale monoprints, paintings on canvas and tinted plastics saturate [...]