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.
Pat Swanson: Autofall
April 18-October 17, 2010 Foyer Project Space
A new metal 2-story installation musing on the fate of the auto industry.
Roger Brown: Calif U.S.A.
June 20 - October 3, 2010, Gallery 4
This exhibition focuses on the three-dimensional paintings made by Roger Brown during the 1990s featuring La Conchita clayware.
Ground Floor
August 29 - October 31, 2010, Gallery 1
A survey of new mixed media work by artists coming out of the 2009/2010 MFA programs in Chicago.
Maddie Leach: Signs and wonders shall appear
October 7-10, 2010 at Jackson Harbor
Celebrate National Apple Month with an off-site apple project by Maddie Leach commissioned for the HPAC exhibition Close Encounters.
Kim Piotrowski: Beds and Guns
October 17 - January 30, 2011, Gallery 4
See the two most recent series of paintings by Kim Piotrowski.
Philippe Durand: Rust and Flowers
October 24, 2010 - March 20, 2011, Foyer Project Space
A site-responsive photographic mural by one of our 2010 summer resident artists.
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Pellot Gonzalez Rios
May 30 - August 22, 2010, Cleve Carney Gallery
Recollections of family members and common mementos of Puerto Rican popular culture have inspired emergent Chicago-based artist Josue Pellot to create this new body of sculptures, photographs and paintings.
Jennifer Mannebach: Pantheon Wave
May 23 - August 22, 2010, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
A new adhesive installation on the glass facade of the Art Center.