Gallery Address:
1709 W Chicago Avenue
Suite 2c
Chicago IL 60622 USA
(312) 480-8390
scott@westernexhibitions.com
Gallery hours:
Currently open by appointment, Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 5pm. Please call or email to schedule a visit.
Directions:
1709 W Chicago Avenue is located in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood, in between Wood and Paulina streets. Western Exhibitions shares the 1709 W Chicago Avenue building with Document, Volume Gallery, Paris London Hong Kong and David Salkin Creative, and is directly above Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
Public transit:
CTA BLUE LINE TRAIN (TO FOREST PARK) depart at the DIVISION stop and walk south on Ashland to Chicago, or depart at the CHICAGO stop and walk west.
Gallery Background:
Western Exhibitions was conceived in 2002 as a nomadic commercial gallery, staging shows at apartments, lofts, other galleries and participating in the influential Stray Show. In 2004, director (and ex-artist) Scott Speh first opened a bricks-and-mortar space on Chicago’s west side and after 10 years in the West Loop, moved to Chicago’s West Town neighborhood in 2016, along with Document, Volume Gallery and Paris London Hong Kong.
Western Exhibitions is a contemporary art gallery that shows thought-provoking, and visually innovative artists who work across most media, with an emphasis on personal narratives and cosmologies; LGBTQ and feminist artists and issues; pattern, decoration and surface concerns; works on paper; and artist books. Western Exhibitions presents unique artist projects, curated group shows and maintains a specific inventory of artist books and multiples, gathered together as a sister entity and store, WesternXeditions.
Art Fairs:
FAIR, online 2020
not cancelled Chicago, online 2020
Future Fair, online 2020
Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2020, 2019
NADA Art Fair, Miami 2019, 2018, 2009, 2008
Chicago Art Book Fair 2019, 2018, 2017
Cincinnati Art Book 2019, 2018
EXPO Chicago 2019, 2015
NADA New York 2018, 2012
Editions | Artist Books, New York 2018, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
UNTITLED Miami Beach 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
Code Art Fair, Copenhagen 2017
Outsider Art Fair 2017
LA Art Book Fair 2016
Art Rotterdam 2015
Dallas Art Fair 2015
Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair 2015, 2012
Texas Contemporary, Houston 2013
VOLTA NY 2013
MDW Fair, Chicago 2011
The Armory Show, New York 2009
Art LA 2009
Milwaukee International Art Fair 2008, 2006
NEXT, Chicago 2009, 2008
NY Art Book Fair 2009, 2008
Volta 4, Basel 2008
The Affair at the Jupiter, Portland 2007, 2006
The Stray Show, Chicago 2002, 2001
Press:
Gallery shows have been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Art Papers, Art Review and in several Chicago-based publications. See complete bibliography here.
Submissions:
While we are not actively looking to add to our roster, we might take a look at what you are doing. We invite you to email us with your website address (URL). Please do not email jpegs (emails with an attachment of any kind will be deleted without opening) or mail a package. If you don’t have a website, get one! Also, please don’t expect an immediate response or a critique — there are only so many hours in the day…..
Mailing List:
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