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Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum of Contemporary Art

The MCA is an innovative and compelling center of contemporary art where the public can experience the work and ideas of living artists, and understand the historical, social and cultural context of the art of our time.
Location
Chicago, United States
Founded in
1967

Past events

Many Tongues. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Many Tongues
15 Feb — 3 May 2020
The Shape of the Future. Courtesy of MCA
The Shape of the Future
19 Oct 2019 — 5 Apr 2020
Assaf Evron. Courtesy of MCA
Assaf Evron
23 Jul 2019 — 16 Feb 2020
Fragments of a Crucifixion. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Fragments of a Crucifixion
25 May — 3 Nov 2019
Prisoner of Love. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Prisoner of Love
26 Jan — 27 Oct 2019
Brendan Fernandes. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Brendan Fernandes
18 Jun 2018 — 13 Oct 2019
Can You Hear Me Now? Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Can You Hear Me Now?
27 Apr — 29 Sep 2019
Virgil Abloh. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Virgil Abloh
8 Jun — 22 Sep 2019
Christina Quarles. Courtesy of MCA
Christina Quarles
4 Apr — 30 Aug 2019
Jonathas de Andrade. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Jonathas de Andrade
6 Apr 2018 — 25 Aug 2019
Jessica Campbell. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Jessica Campbell
18 Dec 2018 — 7 Jul 2019
This Commons Artist Project. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
This Commons Artist Project
22 Jan — 9 Jun 2019
Groundings. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Groundings
3 Nov 2018 — 9 Jun 2019
Emerge Selections. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Emerge Selections
30 Apr — 15 May 2019
Laurie Simmons. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Laurie Simmons
23 Feb — 5 May 2019
Federico Herrero. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Federico Herrero
11 Aug 2018 — 21 Apr 2019
A body measured against the earth. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
A body measured against the earth
25 Aug 2018 — 7 Apr 2019
Heaven and Earth. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Heaven and Earth
21 Oct 2017 — 24 Mar 2019
Enrico David. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Enrico David
29 Sep 2018 — 10 Mar 2019
West by Midwest. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
West by Midwest
17 Nov 2018 — 27 Jan 2019
Picture Fiction. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Picture Fiction
28 Apr — 30 Dec 2018
Mika Horibuchi. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Mika Horibuchi
17 Jul — 2 Dec 2018
I Was Raised on the Internet. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
I Was Raised on the Internet
23 Jun — 14 Oct 2018
The common artist project. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
The common artist project
1 May — 7 Oct 2018
Otobong Nkanga. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Otobong Nkanga
31 Mar — 2 Sep 2018
Endless Summer. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
Endless Summer
27 Jan — 5 Aug 2018
Marco Raya, Night Nurse, 1993/1996. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of Roy and Mary Cullen. Photo: James Isberner, © MCA Chicago (detail)
Surrealism. The Conjured Life
21 Nov 2015 — 5 Jun 2016
Installation view, The Street, the Store, and the Silver Screen: Pop Art from the MCA Collection, MCA Chicago, December 19, 2015-March 27, 2016. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
Pop Art Design
19 Dec 2015 — 27 Mar 2016
Toshiki Okada,God Bless Baseball. Photo: Asian Arts Theatre (Moon So Young) © MCA Chicago. Detail
Toshiki Okada. God Bless Baseball
28 — 30 Jan 2016
Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Das Loch - Im Reich der Sonnenfinsternis, 2010 - 11. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Mary and Earle Ludgin by exchange. Photo: Nick Ash, courtesy Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin
Im Reich der Sonnenfinsternis
8 Jan 2015 — 17 Jan 2016
Wadsworth Jarrell, AACM, 1994. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Adgar Cowans.
The Freedom Principle
11 Jul — 22 Nov 2015
Robert Morris, detail of Untitled (Passageway), 1961. Photo Courtesy Castelli Gallery, New York. © 2014 Robert Morris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
S, M, L, XL
9 May — 4 Oct 2015
Video still, Video Art Manual, 2011. Courtesy the artist; Nagel Draxler, Berlin; Pilar Corrias, London; and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milano.
Keren Cytter
28 Mar — 4 Oct 2015 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Faheem Majeed, Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden, 2012. Hyde Park Art Center. Photo: Tony Smith. Courtesy of the artist
BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works
10 Mar — 16 Aug 2015
Faheem Majeed, If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now, 2012. Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. Photo: David Robert Elliott. Courtesy of the University of Chicago.
Chicago Works: Faheem Majeed
10 Mar — 16 Aug 2015 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Video still, Muster (Rushes), 2012. © Clemens von Wedemeyer and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014. Courtesy of KOW, Berlin.
Clemens von Wedemeyer
21 Feb — 26 Jul 2015 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Doris Salcedo, Acción de Duelo, July 3, 2007. Ephemeral public project, Plaza de Bolívar, Bogotá, 2007. Photo: Juan Fernando Castro. Reproduced courtesy of the artist; Alexander and Bonin, New York; and White Cube.
Doris Salcedo
21 Feb — 24 May 2015 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Richard Hunt, Small Hybrid, 1964. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morton A. Sterling. © 1964 Richard Hunt. Photo: Nathan Keay, © Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Richard Hunt
18 Dec 2014 — 17 May 2015 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Aparna Ramaswamy, Photo: Ed Bock.
Song of the Jasmine
10 — 12 Apr 2015 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Anne Collier, Woman With A Camera (The Last Sitting, Bert Stern), 2009. Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg. Image courtesy the artist and Anton Kern Gallery, New York.
Anne Collier
22 Nov 2014 — 8 Mar 2015 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Sarah and Joseph Belknap, Deflated Exoskin (1) (left) and Deflated Moon Skin (1) (right), 2014. Courtesy of the artists.
BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Sarah and Joseph Belknap
11 Oct 2014 — 24 Feb 2015 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Lula Del Ray. Photo: Katherine Greenleaf.
Manual Cinema: Mementos Mori
15 — 18 Jan 2015 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
David Bowie, The Archer, Station to Station tour, 1976. Photo: John Rowlands. © John Robert Rowlands.
David Bowie is
23 Sep 2014 — 4 Jan 2015 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Rosas danst Rosas. Photo: Herman Soregeloos.
Rosas: Rosas danst Rosas
9 — 12 Oct 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Frida Kahlo, La venadita (little deer), 1946. Private collection, Chicago. © 2013 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo
3 May — 5 Oct 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Alexander Calder, Blue Among Yellow and Red, 1963. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Loan. © 2013 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
Alexander Calder
12 Oct 2013 — 17 Aug 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Isa Genzken, Oil XI, 2007. Installation view at the German Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennial, Venice, June 10-November 21, 2007. © Isa Genzken. Photo: Jan Bitter, Berlin, courtesy the artist and Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin.
Isa Genzken. Retrospective
12 Apr — 3 Aug 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Andy Warhol, Detail of Jackie Frieze, 1964. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, partial and promised gift of Beatrice Cummings Mayer
Warhol and Marisol
21 Sep 2013 — 15 Jun 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
William J. O'Brien, Detail of Untitled, 2007. Collection of Dana Hirt. © William J. O'Brien. Photo: Tom Van Eynde, courtesy of the artist; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York.
William J. O'Brien
25 Jan 2013 — 18 May 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Simon Starling, Autoxylopyrocycloboros, 2006. Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
Simon Starling. Metamorphology
7 Jun — 2 May 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Lilli Carré, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, August 8, 2013. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
Lilli Carré
17 Dec 2013 — 15 Apr 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Jason Lazarus, Standing at the Grave of Emmett Till, day of exhumation, June 1st, 2005 (Alsip, IL), 2005. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, restricted gift of Emerge, Aviva Samet and James Matanky, and anonymous donors, in memory of Andree Stone. © 2005 Jason Lazarus. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
City Self
29 Nov 2013 — 13 Apr 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Elevator Repair Service, Arguendo. Photo: Paula Court
Elevator Repair Service: Arguendo
14 — 16 Mar 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Steve Rowell, Points of Presence, 2010-ongoing, Courtesy of the artist.
The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology
9 Nov 2013 — 9 Mar 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Radio Show. Photo: Steven Schreiber
Kyle Abraham. The Radio Show
20 — 22 Feb 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Paul Sietsema, At the hour of tea (still), 2013. 16mm, silent. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Paul Sietsema
7 Sep 2013 — 5 Jan 2014 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Installation view, BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: José Lerma, MCA Chicago, July 2 - December 3, 2013. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Jose Lerma
2 Jul — 3 Dec 2013 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #86, 1981. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Marshall Frankel Estate
Think First, Shoot Later
18 May — 10 Nov 2013 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Dzine (Carlos Rolon), Get Nailed at the New Museum, 2011. Public intervention and performance. Photo: Chris Mosier, courtesy of the artist, Salon 94, New York, and Paul Kasmin, New York
Homebodies
29 Jun — 13 Oct 2013 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Daniel Clowes, Eightball 17 (cover), 1996. Collection of Daniel Clowes. Image courtesy of the artist and Oakland Museum of California
Modern Cartoonist. The Art of Daniel Clowes
29 Jun — 13 Oct 2013 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Theaster Gates, 12 Ballads for the Huguenot House, 2012. Performance view, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany, image courtesy of Kavi Gupta Chicago I Berlin
Theaster Gates. 13th Ballad
18 May — 6 Oct 2013 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Dan Peterman, Ground Cover, 1995. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of the Susan and Lewis Manilow Collection of Chicago Artists. © 1995 Dan Peterman. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
MCA: DNA Chicago Conceptual Abstraction
18 May — 29 Sep 2013 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Installation view, Gaylen Gerber, MCA Chicago, May 25-Sep 8, 2013. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
Gaylen Gerber
25 May — 8 Sep 2013 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Amalia Pica, Eavesdropping (version #2), 2011, Glasses and glue, Dimensions variable, Collection of James Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach, New York, Photo: Robert Wedemeyer, courtesy of the artist and Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
Amalia Pica
27 Apr — 11 Aug 2013 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

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