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.
Jesse Seay: Mechanical Tide
April 25 - July 20, 2008 JUST EXTENDED!
Kinetic wood and metal sculpture by Chicago-based artist Jesse Seay
Rebecca Keller: Victory Garden for the New Millennia
April 26 - September 15, 2008, outdoor installation
Truly a garden for the oil-focused war of the 21st century!
David Lozano: Queer Interiors and Phthalo Blue
May 23 - November 18, 2008, Foyer Project Space
A new 2-floor painted installation and paintings that converge ideas of homoeroticism, architecture, and color.
Kiss on the Cheek: Portraits by Dale Washington
July 6 - October 12, 2008, Gallery 4
A new series of portraits in a variety of media documenting the personalities in the current moment in Chicago’s art collecting community on the South Side.
Are We There Yet?
July 20 - September 28, 2008, Gallery 1
Work by Howard Henry Chen, Alan Cohen, Christine DiThomas, Aron Gent, Rula Halawani, Surendra Lawoti, Curtis Mann, Oscar Palacio, and Adriana Rios. Curated by Dawoud Bey.
Monica Herrera: Strings
July 27 – October 19, 2008 The Cleve Carney Gallery
An interactive sound installation by Chicago-based Mexican artist, Monica Herrera.
Catherine Forster: They Call Me Theirs
August 3 - October 5, 2008, Black Box Gallery, 2nd floor
Outside and inside collide in They Call me Theirs, a sculpture, sound and video installation by Catherine Forster.
Glow: work by photographers on faculty
August 3 – October 12, Gallery 2 & 5
Photography by Ollie Dantzler, Adam Ekberg, Katharine Lion, Krystal Meisel, and Anna Ressman. Curated by Karen Irvine.
The Emergence Project
October 11 - November 16, 2008 The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
Mark Herald and Daniel Sauter create a computer-generated artwork produced in real-time by a live-feed to the 2008 Chicago Humanities Festival.
Not Just Another Pretty Face
October 18 - January 11, Galleries 1 & 2
New work by over 70 artists involved in the Center’s project to bring together artists and patrons.
Mark Booth: Spanish Still Life or A Large List of Merged Animals
October 26 - January 4, 2009 Gallery 4
An audio and visual installation by Chicago-based artist Mark Booth inspired by a still life painting by 17th Century artist, Juan Sanchez Cotan.
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Clothesline: Movement
June 21, 2008
A one day uncurated open art exhibition featuring work by dozens of chicago area artists.
David Gista: Flamenco and Flames
June 21 - July 20, 2008 Outside the Black Box Gallery
Fire drawings by Parisian artist David Gista will be on view at the Hyde Park Art Center outside the Black Box Gallery from June 21 - July 20, 2008.