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Preeminent exhibitor of international art, a forum for established and emerging artists, and a celebrated venue for performers since 1916.
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Since 1916, The Arts Club of Chicago has been a preeminent exhibitor of international art, a forum for both established and emerging artists, and a celebrated venue for performers from around the world. For over 95 years, The Arts Club has opened its membership to artists and art patrons, and its exhibitions to the public.

06/01/2026

Cancelled Program

Chicago Poet Laureate Mayda del Valle with Poetry Editor Adrian Matejka

We have unfortunately had to cancel our Tuesday evening (6/2) program, but we hope to build a robust audience for poetry at The Arts Club in the future. All ticket purchases will be refunded.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you at a public program soon.

05/27/2026

Tuesday, June 2

Chicago Poet Laureate Mayda del Valle with Poetry Editor-in-Chief Adrian Matejka

Wine Reception 6:00 pm | Program 6:30 pm | Book Signing to follow

At the beginning of 2026 Mayor Johnson, with DCASE, the Chicago Public Library, and the Poetry Foundation, announced Mayda Alexandra del Valle as Chicago’s Second Poet Laureate. A poet, performer, educator and interdisciplinary artist born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Del Valle brings a multidisciplinary practice rooted in poetry, performance, music, movement and cultural history. She sits down with Poetry editor-in-chief and fellow author Adrian Matejka to discuss her practice and history and present a reading or two.

Register on our website or by using the link in bio!

Complimentary remote viewing

Sliding Scale Tickets available for on-site attendance from $5 to $20 per person (includes one drink ticket)

No one turned away for lack of funds. For ticket assistance, email [email protected]

📸: Seed Lynn

05/08/2026

*Almost sold out!*

Saturday, May 8

1:30–2:30 pm

Tour of 𝘖𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘈𝘳𝘮’𝘴 𝘓𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 with Janine Mileaf

Please join us for a tour of the exhibition 𝘖𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘈𝘳𝘮’𝘴 𝘓𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩, led by Janine Mileaf, Executive Director and Chief Curator at The Arts Club of Chicago. Pinhassi has an important installation of new work at The Arts Club, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Chicago, featuring a series of figural and architectural pieces that occupy the gallery in an encompassing configuration. The exhibition aims to trigger physical engagements with desire and fragility.

Register on our website or through the link in bio.

📸: Michael Tropea

04/21/2026

Tuesday, April 28

Stephanie Morningstar on Plant Wisdom

Across forests and movements, there are already blueprints for how people get each other through hard times. Morningstar’s lecture moves between Indigenous food and plant knowledge, stories of resistance, and the strange genius of the more‑than‑human world to ask what it means to stop waiting for a singular savior and start acting like we are responsible for one another. Skunk cabbage making its own heat under snow, hemlock reishi turning dead wood into medicine, ramps appearing only to those who know how to look, and the Haudenosaunee Dish with One Spoon treaty- a commitment to share land, ask consent, and leave enough for others- all become guides for friendship, collective care, and remembering those who have been lost. Alongside them stand human examples: women who braided seeds into their hair before crossing an ocean, grandmothers leading round dances in shopping malls, micro‑communities that feed each other and hold each other through grief while refusing the colonial status quo.

Free and Open to the Public

Register for both in-person and virtual viewing options using the link in bio.

This program is co-sponsored by Goethe Institute.

Photo: Hemlock Reishi, Stephanie Morningstar

04/04/2026

Now Open

Garden Project

𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘰: 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘢 (109 𝘌. 𝘖𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰 𝘚𝘵.)

Through a material reconfiguration of the Mies van der Rohe stair and walls from The Arts Club building, the installation foregrounds aspects of architectural production often minimized or rendered invisible within dominant historical narratives. Originally produced for The Arts Club’s former location, the stair was salvaged from demolition and reinstalled in the institution’s current building, becoming an object in the collection.

Translating the stair into exposed rebar—a material typically embedded within built infrastructure and intentionally concealed—brings construction to the surface. The seemingly unfinished structure draws attention to manual labor carried out by immigrant workers who have sustained the U.S. building industry. Silicone casts taken from travertine slabs surrounding the staircase function as reversed impressions of the stone, revealing internal veining and voids as surface textures. Together, the rebar structure and silicone casts establish a dialogue between structure and body, visibility and concealment, and value and labor.

Reducing architecture to bone and skin, Carcasa (109 E. Ontario St.) approaches modernism as a system whose authority and visibility were produced through selective recognition. In doing so, it positions architecture as a cultural record of collective making shaped by social relations.

03/31/2026

Now Open

𝘖𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘈𝘳𝘮’𝘴 𝘓𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩

March 31–August 8, 2026

Artist Oren Pinhassi sculpts anthropomorphic forms at great scale that appeal to the senses and intellect at once. He brings to The Arts Club of Chicago a series of figural/architectural works that occupy the gallery in an encompassing configuration, aiming to trigger the physical engagements of desire and fragility. On a basic level, Pinhassi’s forms address viewers as beings. They stand erect, though full of bulbous protrusions and seductive orifices. Yet, they refuse to be fully explicit, instead, seeking to communicate in the manner of poetry. Pinhassi’s towering or sprawling creatures draw upon such ordinary materials as sand, stone, or vinyl. In a process he has named “erotic construction,” Pinhassi uses sensual appeal, rough texture, suggestive pose, and intimate detail to press against the confines of a restrictive society. He has further explained, “The cavities in my work—windows, holes—simultaneously reference the most intimate cavities of the body and, as recognizable architectural elements, become landscapes for this public exchange.” How do streetscapes or open windows suggest encounters or interpenetrations? What are the boundaries between one and another? Why do we fear contact? And where might mutual understanding be found?

03/31/2026

Catalogues for Oren Pinhassi are here!

A limited number will be available both on-site and online for purchase during the run of the exhibition.

A special thanks goes to co-publisher .press and author for her text.

03/30/2026

Today marks 110 years of The Arts Club of Chicago!

On this day in 1916, The Arts Club was founded in the wake of the scandalous Armory Show. In response to the exhibition, The Arts Club’s founders aimed to make a home for challenging art, music, and ideas in the city. The Arts Club has maintained its core interest in presenting culture “in the making”, serving as a key venue in Chicago for the presentation of work by the national and international avant-garde.

Read more about our history using the link in bio or by visiting our website.

Image captions:

1. Sitting room at The Arts Club’s 610 S. Michigan Ave location.

2. Alexander Calder, “Red Petals”, 1942, Arts Club of Chicago. Photo: Frederick O. Bemm, 1942. © 2017 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

3. The Arts Club lounge at the Wrigley Building south tower, 400 N Michigan Ave, n.d. The Arts Club’s first headquarters were located on the fifth floor.

4. Arts Club Executive Director Rue Shaw with John and Xenia Cage, ca. 1942.

5. Current view of The Arts Club’s Salon. Photo by Assaf Evron

6. Rue Shaw and Marc Chagall, ca. 1974.

7. Opening reception for “Cosmo Whyte: The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone”, 2025. Photo by Sarah Elizabeth Larson.

8. The Arts Club’s quarters at 400 N. Michigan Ave, looking East into the large gallery towards Brancusi’s “Golden Bird”, 1937. Photograph by Gordon Coster

9. Opening reception for “Huguette Caland: Bribes de Corps”, 2025. Photo by Sarah Elizabeth Larson.

03/23/2026

Coming up!

𝘖𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘈𝘳𝘮‘𝘴 𝘓𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 opens next Tuesday (3/31).

The artist will be in conversation with Executive Director and Chief Curator Janine Mileaf at 6:00pm that evening. Register for both in-person and virtual viewing options using the link in bio.

The opening and artist talk are free and open to all.

Photo: 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘪𝘳, 2025. Photo by Daniel Kukla. Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery.

03/05/2026

Closing this Saturday (3/7)

𝘛𝘩𝘦 92𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘹𝘩𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴

Thank you to all of this year’s participating artists for making this exhibition a memorable one!

After this Saturday, our galleries will be closed until 3/31. Please join us that evening at 5:30 pm for the opening of 𝘖𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘈𝘳𝘮’𝘴 𝘓𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩. Register for the 6:00 pm artist talk using the link in bio.

📸: Michael Tropea

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