The pioneering initiative, Open Arts, which launched in 2022 with 70% of the courses on a donation basis,  now offers students access to all courses, providing employment security to teaching artists and  fostering culture of giving in community   (CHICAGO) April 17, 2024 – Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces that it has completed the transition to a contribution-based model for 100% of its art classes. The initiative, Open Arts, launched in spring 2022 with 70% of the courses on a contribute-w ..read more

Images available for download HERE The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige explores the artist’s lifelong quest for beauty with over one hundred objects spanning six decades of work CHICAGO (February 21, 2024)— Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non‐profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, proudly presents The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige, the career-spanning survey of artist, designer, and educator Robert Earl Paige (b. 1936). With multimedia works made between 1964 and 2024, this solo show is the largest presentation of the Chicago native’s work to date ..read more

Images available for download  CHICAGO (February 7, 2024)— Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles, introducing the enduring work of the artist (1928 – 2017) to new audiences in Chicago, where her practice was based for over 60 years. On view from March 23 – June 16, 2024, the exhibition and corresponding free public programs are part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage an ..read more

CHICAGO (January 16, 2024) Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, proudly marks the twelfth anniversary of its Jackman Goldwasser Residency. The program offers comprehensive residencies of varying lengths to eleven local, national, and international artists and curators who work across disciplines to address a wide range of social issues, as well as an inaugural Chicago-based curatorial resident who will create a group exhibition addressing pressing civic issues at the Art Center in 2025. The Visiting Residency Program, C ..read more

CHICAGO (November 2 2023)— Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces The United Colors of Robert E. Paige, a career-spanning survey of artist, designer, and educator Robert Earl Paige (b. 1936). With multimedia works made between 1964 and 2024, this solo show is the largest presentation of the Chicago native’s work to date and brings together a selection of Paige’s fabrics and textile work, and rarely seen drawings, assemblages, and ceramic objects that explore the artist’s lifelong quest for beauty. A highlight of ..read more

CHICAGO, IL (December 6, 2023) Hyde Park Art Center, the non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces the fourth phase of Artists Run Chicago Fund, a regranting initiative providing unrestricted financial relief for Chicago’s artist community since 2021. A total of $324,000 is granted to 33 independent artist-run platforms, each awarded $8,000 in unrestricted funds. This year, Hyde Park Art Center partners with the Terra Foundation for America Art to award additional funds to support distinct projects as part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collabora ..read more

CHICAGO (October 11, 2023)— Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non‐profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces programs for Chicago‐based artist Candace Hunter’s largest solo exhibition to date, including activations for Women’s History Month and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. With reading circles, writing workshops, and concerts, exhibition programming will explore the ideas of speculative fiction author Octavia E Butler (1947‐2006), whose works serve as inspiration to Hunter’s most immersive exhibition to date. In The Alien‐Nations and Sovereign States of ..read more

CHICAGO (May 11, 2023)— Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces Multiples and Multitudes, the first solo exhibition of Chicago-based Mexican American artist and educator William Estrada whose socially engaged practice has been rooted in Chicago neighborhoods for the last twenty years. Works in print, photography, performance and video, developed during the artist’s 2021 residency at the art center, will be presented to highlight Estrada’s unwavering commitment to political activism through art. William Estrada: M ..read more

CHICAGO (December 6, 2022)— Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces Destination/El Destino: a decade of GRAFT, the largest exhibition to date of the Puerto Rican artist, educator, and community organizer Edra Soto. Rooted in themes of cultural hybridity, the exhibition features a new large-scale commission of the artist’s GRAFT series with porous sculptures, documentary photographs, drawings, and games that activate the Art Center’s indoor/outdoor main gallery. Creating a playful and open environment for dialogue ..read more

Chicago (November 11, 2022) – Hyde Park Art Center hosts the group exhibition Regarding the Missing Objects, curated by art historian and critic Ruslana Lichtzier, in the Kanter Family Foundation Gallery from November 13 to February 27, 2023. The show presents work by eight contemporary artists who chose to work together in the face of institutional denial while exploring the deep material, social, and spiritual relations to Jewish culture.  Back in 2019, the exhibtion’s artists, Elana Adler, Dana Carter, Tirtza Even, Julia Klein, Jaclyn Mednicov, William J. O’Brien, Ben Segal, and Maggie ..read more