The Art Institute of Chicago is an encyclopedic art museum founded in 1879 as both a museum and school for the fine arts. The museum's permanent collection covers nearly 5,000 years of art from around the world, and has grown to nearly 300,000 works, including a collection of Impressionist and post-impressionist pieces.
Housed in a Beaux-Arts style building originally built for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, collections include over 1,000 contemporary works from 1945 to the present, nearly 1,000 works of modern art by artists from Europe and the Americas, more than 3,500 European paintings from the 12th through the 20th century, and five millennia of Asian art.
Please check the museum website for updated exhibition information. Scheduling may have been modified as a result of the temporary museum closure.
Exhibitions & Dates
BARBARA KRUGER: THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU
Sep 19 2021 - Jan 24 2022
Explores her career—from early “pasteups” to digital productions of the last two decades.
Mimi Cherono Ng’ok: Closer to the Earth, Closer to My Own Body
Jun 18 2021 - Feb 7 2022
Photographs and a film inquire into the rich and diverse botanical cultures of the tropics
Nancy Rubins: Our Friend Fluid Metal
Sep 30 2021 - Fall 2022
Two monumental sculptures of found objects explode into space and appear to defy gravity
Onchi Kōshirō: Affection for Shapeless Things
Oct 16 2021 - Feb 14 2022
A major artist of the midcentury sōsaku hanga, or creative print, movement in Japan
Ray Johnson c/o
Nov 26 2021 - Mar 21 2022
The most exhaustive exhibition of the artist’s work in more than two decades
Igshaan Adams: Desire Lines
Apr 2 2022 - Aug 1 2022
20+ projects in this first major solo presentation of Adam's work in the US
Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective
Apr 23 2022 - Aug 22 2022
90 works from all phases of his career
Jonathan Muecke: Objects in Sculpture
May 26 2022 - Oct 10 2022
Explores the relationship between form, material, and perception
CEZANNE
May 15 2022 - Sep 5 2022
Sheds new light on how he created his works, and why his art remains so vital today.
The Golden Age of Kabuki Prints
Jan 15 2022 - Jun 26 2022
The drama of Kabuki theater conveyed in the prints of the Katsukawa School of artists
Morris and Company: The Business of Beauty
Dec 18 2021 - Jun 13 2022
40 works hghlight Morris & Co’s design tenets