Recent Exhibitions

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Exhibition in 2025

• 2025/11/8 – 2025/12/5 Variation of Silence  - A solo show for printmaking and installation artist Joram Ruoran Chen. Curator: Kira Wu

• 2025/10/10 - 2025/11/01 Flowing: Her Form, Her Voice, and Her Space - A group exhibition of muti-medium artworks by emerging and established female artists. The theme of the show has set for challenging and exploring their identity and their capacity of handling divers art mediums. Curator: Kira 

• 2025/09/05 - 2025/09/28 The Edge of Expression - The participating artists were encouraged to explore the themes such as identity, power, freedom, and transformation, these artists confront societal norms, evoke visceral emotion, and ignite critical thought. Curator: Sebastian Thomas, Kira Wu

• 2025/08/15 - 2025/08/17 Push &Pull - The SAIC Department of Printmedia Summer Graduate Exhibition. Curator: Annie Lizak

• 2025/07/17 - 2025/07/27 subVersion Summer Camp - A Joined Workshops with Co-Prosperity Gallery - The camp invites artists, educators, musicians, filmmakers, activists, designers, and peace-loving folks to converge in Chicago this summer—crafting posters, music, t-shirts, and merit badges while forging friendships, building solidarity, and shaping plans for change. A total of ten days camp camaraderie, joy, and resistance against fascist culture. The camp was participated by thousands of folks from Bridgeport as well as other communities throughout the City of Chicago. Curated by Ahniya Butler, S.Y. Lim and program term. 

• 2025/01/17 – 2025/03/07 Imprints of Time - The first show of 2025. All participating artists in the exhibition are set to explore and reflect upon the perception of time. Each artist engages in a dialogue with time, capturing of time, and finding meditation within its imprints. Curator: Kira Wu

Exhibition in 2024 and before

• 2024/08/23 – 2024/09/20 Trace of Life: Solo exhibition of abstract fabric works/installations by Sona Seunga Kim, curated by Kira Wu.  
• 2024/08/16 – 2024/08/23 Veins for the Unseen: a solo conceptual design show. Artist: Sifandi Sun; Curator: Kira Wu 
• 2024/05/17 - 2024/06/06 A City to Wear 4.0: The fourth exhibition exploring the possibilities of painting in our time, featured 12 artists from Asia, S&N America. Curated by Kira Wu.
• 2023/10/06- 2023/10/27 Serenity of Less: The artworks of Dabin Ahn, Myungah Hyon, Aya Nakamura, Mie Kongo, and Kioto Aoki represent the irony of how simple their work might appear which contain layers of untold content, and fits into what might be described as a serenity of less. Curated by Young Sun Choi.
• 2023/06/30 - 2023/07/30 Unwind Unwound: Curated by Michelle Grabner, the former curator of Whitney Biennial of American Art. The exhibition showcases the works of this year's top MFA fiber art graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
• 2022/09/30 – 2022/10/19 And the Pursuit of – Female Artists Invited from Chicago, New York, Boston, China, and Korea. Their works reflect the four pairs of exhibition theme: “Fecundity &  Fertility”, “Fortune & Family”, “Form & Felicity”, “Freedom & Futurism”. 
• 2022/05/06 – 2022/05/29 A Place We Long For/In Searching of Meanings of the Place We’re All Living in Today. 
• 2021/11/05 – 2021/11/23 Three Visages of Nature: A Group Exhibition Exploring the Representation of Nature in History, Cityscape, and Memories. 
• 2021/10/08 – 2021/10/29 In the Narrow Between: Sinophobe Artists in the U.S. Pandemic. 
• 2021/09/09 – 2021/09/30 A City to Wear 3.0 / The third exhibition exploring the possibilities of painting in our time. 
• 2021/07/24 – 2021/08/23 Up Stream / A group show by young artists from Asia and local (Chicago) exploring the presence and the absence of bodies within the pictorial space. 
• 2021/05/21 – 2021/06/20 Goodyears Horses / 2021 MFA Alumni exhibition for the Department of Painting and Drawing, SAIC.  
• 2021/01/18 – 05/31 Climate: Contemporary Landscape in Flux / A virtual show of works by a group artist of different ethnic backgrounds in response to contemporary landscape. 
• 2020/11/12 – 2020/12/30 Ink & Brush: Portraits of David Tepper and Qigu Jiang (an online virtual show which copes with COVID 19 Pandemic). 
• 2019/11/30 5pm – 11pm The 17th Art on Cardboard Show / Co-produced with Project Onward, an art studio/gallery for artists of disability. 
• 2019/10/18 – 11/2 Millennial Pink: Digital and Physical Sexual Crimes in South Korean / Sole show of Eunhye Shin from South Korea. 
• 2019/05/17 – 2019/06/16 The Turf / 2019 MFA Alumni exhibition for the Department of Painting and Drawing, SAIC.  
• 2018/09/21 - 2018/10/17 A City to Wear 2.0 / The second exhibition of works by a group of painters living in the city of Chicago. The show was intended as a survey on contemporary Chicago paintings by young artists. 
• 2018/08/17 – 2018/08/31 Scenes of Resistance in 1968 Chicago: The Photo Archive of K. Kofi Moyo in commemorating the 50th anniversary of the human rights movement in Chicago. (WTTW 11 covered the show)
• 2017/11/17 - 2017/12/09 Mountain and Water / Sole show of artist Mo Chen. 
• 2017/10/20 - 2017/11/12 Ink and Life / A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Andy Hoi-Csiu Chan. 
• 2017/09/08 - 2017/10/02 Five Contemporary Ink Artists from Shanghai / Ink paintings by Cai Yiming，He Saibang, Kong Yi, Liao Yuan, and Wu Yiming. 
• 2016/11/04 - 2016/11/26 Undulating Landscape / Two man show by Canadian photographer Jin Hua and American sculptor Neil Goodman. 
• 2016/10/14 - 2016/10/30 Red Art / Propaganda Posters from the Cultural Revolution period (1966-1976). Co-hosted by Co- Prosperity Gallery. 
• 2016/09/16 - 2016/09/30 An Ink Trio of Abstraction / Ink paintings by Liao Yuan, Zhang Long and Zhang Zhaohui. 
• 2016/04/08 - 2016/04/29 Analog Ram: The Return of Active Memory / Works of six-year experimental drawing project created and conducted by Prof. Mary Lou Zelazny of SAIC.  
• 2015/11/06 - 2015/11/27 In Riotous Profusion: The New Possibilities of Ink Art / Works of eight Avant-guard ink artists invited from China.
•  2015/09/25 - 2015/10/16 Artress / Works of different media by female artists from Colombia, China, UK, Iran, and USA. 
• 2014/11/21 - 2014/12/21 Chiaroscuro / The Rhode Island College Art Department Faculty Show. 
• 2014/10/17 - 2014/11/10 Trouble in Paradise / Two-man show of photographs by Judy Natal and Zhen Han in response to today’s worldwide environmental problems. 
• 2014/09/19 - 2014/10/13 A City to Wear / An exhibition of works by a group of painters living in the city if Chicago. The show was intended as a survey on contemporary Chicago paintings by young artists. 
• 2013/10/18 - 2013/12/03 The Faces of Our Time / Two-man show of works by Xu Hang, ink painter from Bejing and Tony Phillips, a professor from the Painting Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 
• 2013/06/15 - 2013/07/30 Her Life / A life story of Jingxian Yang, an old female member of Chinese Communist Party, told by an installation of photos, videos. Jingxian was presented at the opening on a hospital bed.  
• 2013/03/15 - 2013/04/05 Above and Below the Clouds / Sole show of a Boston based artist Xiaowei Chen.
• 2013/02/14  Letters of Love / handwriting love letters collected by Chicago artist and their friends. 
• 2012/04/20 – 05/15 Phase 1 / Live Archive and Outreach Center at Versionfest / A project of collecting signs used in worldwide Occupy Wall Street Movement and recreating new signs with local materials and characters. 
• 2012/10/19 - 2012/10/26 The Reverie in Zen / Sole show of ink paintings by Zheng Qinyan. 
• 2012/04/20 - 2012/05/15 Gang of Nine / works of five Chicago artists together with four artists invited from Shanghai, China.