Visual Arts Resources
University Resources
Selected Area Museums & Galleries
University Resources
The graduate and undergraduate studios are located in Midway Studios, the landmark working quarters and residence of Lorado Taft, one of the central historical figures in the artistic life of Chicago at the turn of the century. Although these studios are where most art students spend the greatest amount of time, it is only one of several centers for the study of the Visual Arts on the campus at the University of Chicago. These facilities, which provide an invaluable extension of the Studios, include:
The Art History Department
One of the leading departments in the country whose fields of expertise cover the full range of Eastern and Western art history from ancient to contemporary art. The department offices are located in Cochrane-Woods Art Center which also houses a comprehensive slide collection and a computer station for digital imaging.
arthistory.uchicago.edu
The David And Alfred Smart Museum Of Art
An outstanding teaching museum with a large permanent collection of painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, and the decorative arts.
smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
The Oriental Institute Museum
One of the pre-eminent collections of Near Eastern art in the U.S., with artifacts and large-scale sculpture come from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria-Palestine, Persia and Anatolia.
oi.uchicago.edu
The Renaissance Society
Founded in 1915, it is one of the leading North American venues for international contemporary art, with changing public exhibitions in its galleries throughout the year.
www.renaissancesociety.org/site
The Film Studies Center
This facility (under the auspices of the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies) contains over 2500 films and video cassettes. Its collection is broadly historical with an emphasis on American cinema.
filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu
The Franke Institute
Founded in 1990 to establish a research center for humanistic thinkers to do their work and a catalytic initiative to bring together for examination and discussion the best current ideas on humanities topics.
humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/institute
The Contemporary Art Workshop
The Contemporary Art Workshop seeks to provide a forum in which artists, art historians, and art professionals can engage in sustained discussion of the social, economic, and aesthetic underpinnings of recent art practice. Graduate students, faculty, and curators from myriad disciplines are engaged in projects that interlace with these themes. The Workshop will work to create this meeting place for a broad spectrum of participants drawn from within the University of Chicago and without. CAW aims to generate a space in which theory and practice will be brought into productive contact in a supportive yet critical atmosphere.
cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/contemporaryart
University Of Chicago Regenstein Library Special Collections
1100 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
www1.lib.uchicago.edu
Other resources at the University include:
The Medical Library, Crear Library, and the Chicago Humanities Institute.
Selected Area Museums & Galleries
Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago
The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance.
www.mcachicago.org
The Art Institute Of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago holds one of the world's great art collections, including what is considered one of the finest and most comprehensive collections representing every significant movement in Europe and America throughout the 20th century.
www.artic.edu/aic
65 Grand
1378 West Grand
Chicago, IL 60622
www.65grand.com
Alogon Gallery
1049 North Paulina 3R
Chicago, IL 60622
www.alogongallery.com
Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 West Washington, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60607
www.andrewrafacz.com
ARC Gallery
832 West Superior #204
Chicago, IL 60622
www.arcgallery.org
Carrie Secrist Gallery
835 West Washington
Chicago, IL 60607
www.secristgallery.com
Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 West Superior
Chicago, IL 60610
www.edelmangallery.com
Corbett Vs. Dempsey Gallery
1120 North Ashland, 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60622
www.corbettvsdempsey.com
Donald Young Gallery
933 West Washington
Chicago, IL 60607
www.donaldyoung.com
Extension Gallery For Architecture
1835 South Halsted
Chicago, IL 60608
www.extensiongallery.us
GARDENfresh
119 North Peoria #3D
Chicago, IL 60607
www.gardenfresh.org
Green Lantern Gallery & Press
1511 North Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60622
www.thegreenlantern.org
I Space
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
230 West Superior, 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60610
ispace.uiuc.edu
Kavi Gupta Gallery
835 West Washington
Chicago, IL 60607
www.kavigupta.com
Lloyd Dobler Gallery
1545 West Division, 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60622
www.lloyddoblergallery.com
MoniqueMeloche Gallery
118 North Peoria
Chicago, IL 60607
www.moniquemeloche.com
Old Gold Exhibitions & Events
2022 North Humboldt
Chicago, Illinois 60647
www.oldgoldexhibitionsandevents.com
Peter Miller
118 North Peoria
Chicago, IL 60607
www.petermillergallery.com
Rhona Hoffman
118 North Peoria
Chicago, IL 60607
www.rhoffmangallery.com
Richard Gray Gallery
875 North Michigan #2503
John Hancock Center
Chicago, IL 60611
www.richardgraygallery.com
Roots And Culture
1034 North Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60622
www.rootsandculturecac.org
Rowland Contemporary
1118 West Fulton Market
Chicago, IL 60607
www.rowlandcontemporary.com
Roy Boyd Gallery
739 North Wells
Chicago, IL 60610
www.royboydgallery.com
Rowley Kennerk Gallery
119 North Peoria #3C
Chicago, IL 60607
www.rowleykennerk.com
Shane Campbell Gallery
1431 West Chicago
Chicago, IL 60622
www.shanecampbellgallery.com
The Suburban
244 West Lake
Oak Park, IL 60302
www.thesuburban.org
threewalls
119 North Peoria #2D
Chicago, IL 60607
www.three-walls.org
Tony Wight Gallery
119 North Peoria
Chicago, IL 60607
www.tonywightgallery.com
Walsh Gallery
118 North Peoria, 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60607
www.walshgallery.com
Western Exhibitions
119 North Peoria, #2A
Chicago, IL 60607
www.westernexhibitions.com
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
325 West Huron
Chicago, IL 60610
www.zollaliebermangallery.com
