The Hyde Park Art Center is the oldest alternative contemporary art venue in Chicago. Presenting innovative and challenging approaches to the visual arts, the Art Center showcases work that traverses all forms of media and encourages creative collaboration. Our exhibitions, installations, artist/curator talks, discussions and events invite visitors to experience the unexpected and explore untraditional topics in a stimulating and fun environment.
The Way Things Are
December 20 - April 8, 2010
A temporal, site-specific installation by Bob Peters and David Schutter.
Andreas Fischer: Ghost Town
January 17 - April 18, 2010, Gallery 2
Ghost Town features a series of recent oil paintings by Andreas Fischer held in conjunction with a related show at the Gahlberg Gallery/McAninch Arts Center at the College of DuPage.
Aspen Mays: From the Offices of Scientists
Janurary 24 - April 25, 2010, Cleve E. Carney Gallery
A new installation of photography and sculpture by Aspen Mays imagining what Knowledge might look like.
Stan Chisholm: ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened
January 31 - June 6, 2010, Gallery 5
Juxtaposing the fake and the real, Stan Chisholm builds a new site-specific figurative/landscape work that experiments with different narrative sources, genres and materials.
Notes to Nonself
February 11- May 2, 2010, Gallery 1 & the Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
Navigate through a bombardment of virtues, vices, and resulting neuroses common to the American experience in the latest collaborative installation by Diane Christiansen and Shoshanna Utchenik featuring a new animation by Diane Christiansen with Shelley Dodson and Matt Marsden.
Ps & Qs
February 28- June 6, 2010, Gallery 4
This group exhibition curated by Shannon Stratton and Jeff M. Ward showcases work by seven American artists making formal, non-objective work in painting, sculpture and photography.
Selected Shots from Young Photographers
April 25 - July 25, 2010, Gallery 2
The fifth annual exhibition featuring the best new photography from nearly 30 budding young artists enrolled in Chicago Public Schools.
Jennifer Mannebach: Pantheon Wave
May 16 - August 22, 2010, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
Jennifer Mannebach incorporates the glass façade of the Art Center as her canvas to secure her elaborate and subtle large scale paper installation.
Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism
May 23 - August 8, 2010, Gallery 1
A major touring exhibition of international contemporary art drawn from the French regional contemporary art collections (the Frac).
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Flow Interrupted
February 1 - March 1, Black Box Gallery 2nd Floor
Featuring work by Brett Ian Balogh, Grégory Chatonsky, Luis Felipe Carli, chdh collective, Claudia Hart, Aaron M Higgins, Terry Nauheim, and Alessandro Perini.
Close Encounters
November 8, 2009 -January 24, 2010 Gallery 1 & 5
Participating Artists: Daniel du Bern, Tania Bruguera, Walter Hood, Truman Lowe, and Wayne Youle