Past Exhibitions
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Below is a list of past DCASE exhibitions.
Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar
November 1, 2023—March 10, 2024
The Black Girlhood Altar honors eight Black women and girls: Rekia Boyd, Latasha Harlins, Ma’Khia Bryant, “Hope”, “Harmony”, Marcie Gerald, Lyniah Bell, and Breonna Taylor, whose deaths or disappearances have galvanized A Long Walk Home’s Black girl leaders to be activists and artists. In many cases, injustice defines their afterlives while their stories remain untold, their legacies honored by only a few.
CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal
November 1, 2023—February 11, 2024
The Chicago Cultural Center served as one of the main exhibition venue sites for CAB 5, featuring projects from more than 80 participants from ten countries.
Exquisite Canvas: Mural Takeover by Cecilia Beaven, Miguel A. Del Real, and Anna Murphy
June 10—September 3, 2023
Chicago artists developed original murals throughout the period of exhibition. Through observation of and engagement with the artists as they painted, visitors were active participants in the creation of the artistic work.
Surviving the Long Wars: Reckon and Reimagine
March 12—July 2, 2023
Surviving the Long Wars: Reckon and Reimagine is one of the three featured exhibitions of the second Veteran Art Triennial and Summit. From the “American Indian Wars” to the “Global War on Terror,” Surviving the Long Wars explores the multiple, overlapping histories that shape our understanding of warfare, as well as alternative visions of peace, healing, and justice generated by diverse and entangled communities impacted by war.
First Look: Artworks by the Inaugural Cohort of the CPS RE:ALIZE Early College Arts Program
April 24—May 12, 2023
RE:ALIZE is where Chicago Public Schools student artists engage and experiment with a wide range of materials and concepts under the mentorship of professional artists in residence.
Nelly Agassi: No Limestone, No Marble
September 24, 2022—May 14, 2023
Nelly Agassi’s solo exhibition, “No Limestone, No Marble” was a site-specific installation in the monumental Chicago Rooms gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Ionit Behar and designed by Andrew Schachman.
Giving Back: The Soul of Philanthropy Reframed and Exhibited
February 1—April 30, 2023
Chicago African Americans in Philanthropy (CAAIP) hosted the groundbreaking national exhibition that explores the African-American philanthropy experience and giving traditions grounded in faith, mutuality, responsibility and social justice.
The Great Chicago Fire in Focus
Through Sunday, April 9, 2023
Part of a citywide commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire
Luftwerk: Exact Dutch Yellow
October 22, 2022—January 29, 2023
Exact Dutch Yellow is a new immersive exhibition by the Chicago-based collaborative Petra Bachmaier & Sean Gallero of Luftwerk Studio.
Artists First: 25 Years of Studio Art at Thresholds
October 1, 2022—January 8, 2023
A celebration of Thresholds and its studio artists, and an initial grant made to Thresholds by the Nathan and Kiyoko Lerner Foundation in 1997 to support this program.
An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman
February 26–September 4, 2022
An exhibition by Leslie Baum, Diane Christiansen, and Selina Trepp, organized by Annie Morse
With brilliant color and provocative forms, the artists in this exhibition suggest an alternate universe, at once familiar and surreal, seen through the prism of their invention.
Jin Lee: Views & Scenes
April 2–August 7, 2022
This one-person exhibition by highly respected Chicago photographer Jin Lee features a series of photographs that closely examine landscapes and built environments around Chicago.
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
December 4, 2021–May 29, 2022
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America’s most compelling and controversial artists, Robert Colescott (1925-2009). In his large-scale paintings, Colescott confronted deeply embedded cultural hierarchies involving race, gender, and social inequality in America with fearless wit and irony.
Successful Failures: Thirty Years of Lumpens, Radical Media and Building Communities of the Future
October 16, 2021—February 6, 2022
In Chicago, we can make and do anything we want, when we try. Through the certainty of chance, collective engagement, casual encounters, and accidental actions, The Lumpen Times, an underground magazine, became the hub for a series of cultural platforms spawning hundreds of projects, spaces, happenings, exhibitions, and initiatives.
Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford: League of Nations
June 2, 2021–January 23, 2022
Throughout the underpinning of modernist design, aspirations of efficiency and comfort have galvanized visions of what might be possible in the future. Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford revisits these foundations, seeking fractures, little failures on the surface that reveal the invisible workflow and the breakdown of functionalism.
CHICAGO: Where Comics Came to Life (1880-1960)
June 19–January 9, 2022
This exhibition focused on the origins of the comics in popular publishing, the immeasurable importance of African-American cartoonists and publishing, the first woman cartoonists and editors, the first daily comic strip, and finally the art and comics of undeservedly forgotten Frank King.
what flies but never lands?
June 2—September 5, 2021
what flies but never lands? presents works that, through their own logics and affects, resist the recollective slipstreams of the present. Staged in the Michigan Avenue galleries, what flies but never lands? is gently organized into three concepts, one for each room: swirl, light, and ground.
NKAME: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón (1967–1999)
February 29—May 24, 2020
(Closed early due to COVID-19)
This landmark retrospective is the first in the U.S. dedicated to the work of Belkis Ayón, the late Cuban visual artist and printmaker who mined the founding myth of the Afro-Cuban fraternal society of Abaquá to create an independent and powerful visual iconography.
In Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration
February 15—May 10, 2020
(Closed early due to COVID-19)
First presented by 6018 North in spring 2019, under the title 'Living Architecture,' In Flux is a large-scale, multidisciplinary exhibition that highlights the influence and impact of immigrant artists on Chicago.
Luis A. Sahagun: Both Eagle and Serpent
February 1—April 26, 2020
(Closed early due to COVID-19)
Known for his intricate and fantastical paintings and sculptures built from silicone, lumber, drywall, concrete and hardware, Luis Sahagun creates symbols that represent working-class immigrants in the United States.
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All the Names: Patricia RiegerSeptember 13, 2014—January 4, 2015 With a twist towards the absurd and theatrical, Patricia isolates characters and spaces to suggest drama while encouraging ambiguity.
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