ON VIEW (at dmoc)
All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions 2024
May 3 – June 10, 2024
Design Museum of Chicago
72 E Randolph St
Chicago, IL 60601
From fundamentals like line, shape, and color to intangibles like communication, creative problem-solving, and risk-taking, the cross-pollination of art and design is undeniable. We’re thrilled to partner with the Chicago Public Schools Department of Arts Education again this year to offer recognition to hundreds of hard-working student artists from across the city.
Coming Soon
The Next Voices Embodied Exhibition
July 13 – October 13, 2024
Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types
November 9, 2024 – April 4, 2025
Pop-up Exhibits
on view now (at Navy Pier)
Chicago: Home of House
Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave (between doors 5 and 6)
Chicago, IL 60611
Chicago is the birthplace of House music. House evolved through the early 1980s and brought together Chicagoans of different races, ages, cultures, and orientations like no other medium of that day. House music was conceived and perfected in bedrooms and basements of Black and Latino youth on Chicago’s South and West Sides.
on view now (at Institute of Design)
ID@85: 85 Years of Making the Future
Institute of Design (ID)
3137 S Federal St, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60616
We have partnered with the Institute of Design to organize this original exhibition, ID@85: 85 Years of Making the Future, which uses 85 key stories to demonstrate the vital role of design — and ID — in improving everyday life, from gas stations to space stations; camping shelters to an app for urban explorers; a better bar of soap to a doable reimagining of water resources for food, energy, and manufacturing.
Past Exhibits
SOLVE: Puzzle Design Exhibit
December 8, 2023 – March 31, 2024
At the Precipice
July 14 – October 30, 2023
All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions 2023
April 27 – June 2, 2023
Free & Open Chicago
November 17, 2022 – April 2, 2023
The Correct Time
July 16 – October 17, 2022
All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions 2022
May 11 – June 22, 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
April 15 – April 16, 2022
All Together Now: Sound × Design
November 13, 2021 – April 3, 2022
All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions 2021
January 1 – December 31, 2021
A Designed Life: Contemporary American Textiles, Wallpapers, and Containers & Packaging, 1951–1954
June 12 – September 19, 2021
Chicago: Home of House at The Catacombs
May 8 – June 30, 2021
All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions 2020
May 29 – December 31, 2020
Great Ideas of Humanity: Passing the Torch
February 25 – December 31, 2020
Setting the Stage: Objects of Chicago Theatre
June 29, 2019 – January 5, 2020
All-City Visual Arts Exhibition 2019
April 10 – May 12, 2019
Keep Moving: Shifting Gears
November 17, 2018 – January 18, 2019
Keep Moving: Designing Chicago’s Bicycle Culture
October 27, 2018 – March 3, 2019
Great Ideas of Humanity: Out of the Container
April 20 – August 18, 2018
HEY! PLAY! Games in Modern Culture
October 20, 2017 – March 10, 2018
Confluence • 20+ Creative Ecologies of Hong Kong
October 14 – November 4, 2017
Dan Friedman: Radical Modernist
April 28 – August 12, 2017
ChicagoMade: Great Ideas of Humanity
December 1 – December 3, 2016
City of Ideas: Architects’ Voices and Visions
October 28, 2016 – February 25, 2017
Unfolded: Made with Paper
April 5 – August 26, 2016
New Horizon: Architecture from Ireland
October 2, 2015 – January 30, 2016
The State of Detroit
April 28 – August 29, 2015
Deborah Sussman Loves LA!
November 13, 2014 – February 28, 2015
Starts/Speculations: Graphic Design in Chicago Past and Future
June 12 – September 30, 2014
Work at Play
June 1 – June 30, 2013
A–Z: Art on Track
September 22, 2012
700 N. Sacramento Inaugural Pop-up
June 1 – June 30, 2012