Expo Chicago 2023

Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy reach for the skies with Chicago airport sculpture

The artists’ installation, featuring two monumental hands reaching out to each other, has been installed at O’Hare International Airport

Three US museums use prize funds to acquire works from Expo Chicago

The institutions that won the fair's Northern Trust Purchase Prize selected artwork by artists Mohau Modisakeng, Wole Lagunju and Claudia Peña Salinas for their permanent collections

Dealers report strong first-day sales as Expo Chicago’s largest edition yet draws a 'critical mass' of Midwestern collectors

Collectors from the Midwest and beyond turned up for the fair’s VIP preview, as did the city’s next mayor and one of its most famous rappers

Famed Florida collector Beth Rudin DeWoody shows off her Chicago purchases

Opening during Expo Chicago, the exhibition “Neo Chicago” highlights works in DeWoody’s vast collection by artists with ties to the city, from McArthur Binion and Angel Otero to Amy Sherald

Richard Bell’s activist art hits the big screen in Chicago

Bell is showing in Expo Chicago's sector for large and site-specific works, and is the subject of a documentary screening during the fair

Ukrainian artists reflect on Russia’s war at Expo Chicago

Kyiv-based Voloshyn Gallery is showing works by two emerging Ukrainian artists on its stand at Expo Chicago

'Collect art with passion, purpose and values': Catherine Sarr supports artists through purchases, prizes and residencies

Sarr and her husband, Mamadou-Abou Sarr, organise an annual prize that supports emerging French artists and brings one of them to Chicago for a residency

Expo Chicago foregrounds the city's Argentine connections

Thanks in part to the support of a leading Latin American collector, three Buenos Aires galleries are Chicago-bound for Expo

Size does matter: Chicago's Barely Fair makes a small stand for a more equitable art world

The tiny but mighty satellite to Expo Chicago, where galleries show art in miniature stands, is back and (slightly) bigger than ever

Chance the Rapper becomes Chance the Curator at Expo Chicago

The beloved Chicagoan rapper will present works related to his forthcoming album, Star Line Gallery, at the fair

Curators come together at Expo Chicago to talk care

The fair's forum for curators this year will look not only at issues related to the care of objects, but also caring for staff, visitors, communities and more

Derrick Adams’s unicorns are taking over Chicago

In addition to rideable unicorn sculptures at Expo Chicago, the city’s vast projection art venue Art on theMart will feature footage of Adams’s mystical animal statues

Chicago’s dealers look abroad to widen their reach

As their art-world profiles rise, Windy City gallerists are opening outposts in Mexico, France and Portugal

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Expo Chicago fair turns ten: dealers say low cost of living and greater freedom to experiment nurtures US city’s art scene

Chicago is benefiting from a new generation of innovative collectors and a rich cultural ecosystem

Three US museums win prize to fund acquisitions at Expo Chicago fair

Museums in Seattle, St Louis and St Petersburg will make purchases at the Chicago fair next year thanks to the Northern Trust Purchase Prize

Expo Chicago picks Americas Society and Macba curators to organise fair's special sections in 2023

Museu d'art contemporani de Barcelona curator Claudia Segura and Americas Society director Aimé Iglesias Lukin will oversee the fair’s large-scale art and emerging gallery programmes, respectively