Next Exhibit (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 Exhibit
on view now (at Institute of Design)
ID@85: 85 Years of Making the Future
October 19, 2022 – December 31, 2023
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