4th Ward Project Space is an artist-run exhibition space that honors the artistic direction of individual artists and seeks to cultivate an inclusive audience. 4WPS operates without regard to commercial interests.

AMFM is an (art)ist organization for the people featuring emerging and established artist. Our website and curated events include content of local artists and creatives from all over the globe in partnerships and activations. Through programming, AMFM combines the arts to cultivate community, diversity, inclusivity, intergenerational engagement and of course good vibes with a purpose, mission, or cause.

Blum & Poe was founded by Tim Blum and Jeff Poe in Santa Monica, CA in 1994 as a space to show local and international contemporary art in all media. Blum’s extensive experience in the Japanese art world combined with Poe’s keen knowledge of emerging artists in Los Angeles resulted in an international program of influential artists. The gallery now has locations in Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo.

BOZOMAG is an art gallery situated in the Poolhouse of a Residence in Los Angeles.

Brittany is an Art Space in Vallejo, CA and Riverside, IL.

Chicago Manual Style and P.S. (Publishing Services) is a dual-format project space positioned at the convergence of exhibitions and publications headquartered in a garage in Chicago, IL. Directed and curated by Stephanie Cristello, the program is dedicated to exhibition making as practice-based research featuring established and emerging artists.

Founded in 2004 by John Corbett and Jim Dempsey, Corbett vs. Dempsey is an art gallery with an associated record label, book imprint, and historical archive, specializing in contemporary art, art in Chicago, and improvised and experimental music.

Extase started as an apartment gallery in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago in 2018 and operated in that location for 3.5 years. The building has since sold, but Extase remains committed to working with and supporting predominantly local artists by exhibiting their art in varying formats. Extase is managed by Julia Birka-White, Director of Rhona Hoffman Gallery and graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Art History Masters program.

Flyweight is a 1:12 scale exhibition space run by Clare Torina and Jesse Cesario (Brooklyn, NY)

The Franklin is an artists-run project space that welcomes artists and curators to engage with the East Garfield Park and Humboldt Park communities through cultural events. The Franklin is located in the backyard of Edra Soto and Dan Sullivan’s home.

Goldfinch is a commercial gallery that seeks to provide compelling physical, conceptual, and discursive frameworks for artists and contemporary visual practices. Our exhibitions include artists’ talks, informal salon discussions, and publications. Located in East Garfield Park, Goldfinch is surrounded by dozens of artists’ studios. In keeping with this context, we strive to bring an experimental, studio-like sense of curiosity and play to our exhibition program.

Good Weather is a contemporary art gallery from North Little Rock, Arkansas founded in 2011. The gallery formed through an innate familial approach and from a desire to seed, locate, and bring contemporary art discourse in and to Arkansas. Following thirty-eight solo shows and a dozen offsite and hosted exhibitions, the gallery’s primary location—originally housed within a one-car suburban garage in the Lakewood neighborhood of North Little Rock.

The Green Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

HG was founded in 2019 by Peter Anastos. It is an artist-run space based out of the old Drag City office and recording studio. HG prioritizes working with emerging artists and artists with ties to the midwest.

Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, research and training opportunities for curators and diverse audiences around the world. Established in 1975 and headquartered in NY, ICI connects emerging and established curators, artists, and art spaces, forging international networks and generating new forms of collaborations.

Latent Space is an artist-run project space in the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Left Field is located in Los Osos, a small town on the central coast of California, which is halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco just off highway 1. The gallery presents exhibitions with the primary goal of bringing to our region, contemporary art not otherwise seen here.

Founded in Milan in 1987, MASSIMODECARLO played a fundamental role in introducing Italian artists to international audiences, as well as bringing the most interesting voices of the art world to the Italian scene, promoting the establishment of a vital dialogue between artists and national and international institutions. Over the years, the gallery’s artists have gained international recognition and a place in important public and private collections.

MICKEY is a contemporary art gallery in Chicago, IL specializing in emerging contemporary artists with an emphasis on installation based work.

Murmurs is a multifaceted art space located in LA, championing experimental and emerging art practices. Murmurs exists to challenge what is expected of an arts space by providing a new model of a multifaceted platform for strengthening community solidarity and building consciousness in order to transform reality.

Founded in 2018, ODD ARK•LA is an artist-run space located in Los Angeles, California. A platform for contemporary art, exhibitions, performance and sound works. A core value of the gallery is to responsibly interact with the local community while creating an exhibition program that reflects diversity, focusing on working with emerging and mid-career artists.

Patel Brown highlights alternative perspectives and encourages experimentation alongside innovation in both its programming and operations. Identifying gaps in representation and opportunities guided by collaboration and community, the gallery’s program looks to traditions in culture and identity, and how they are increasingly challenged by the globalized world.

Pickleman is a peripatetic arts project that blurs the line between artist, collector, curator, and audience.

Prairie is an independent exhibition space for contemporary art in Chicago, IL. Working in the long-tradition of artist-run spaces in the city, Prairie was established in 2017 by artists Jack Schneider and Tim Mann with the aim of creating a venue for emerging art and a platform for critical discourse.

Selenas Mountain is a contemporary art gallery in Ridgewood, NY. The program presents a diversity of voices and mediums, with a focus on thematic group exhibitions and original solo exhibitions by emerging contemporary artists. The gallery is an artist-run space co-founded by Chicago natives/The School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni Olivia Swider and Michael Fleming.

Based in Los Angeles, Serious Topics is the brainchild of artist couple Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster that hosts wildly experimental, collaborative projects that are conceptually messy and attempt to embody the spirit of art.

Ми - художня галерея, розташована всередині колишнього приватного бару, заснованого колишнім польським футболістом і тренером Олімпійських ігор, що розташована в районі автосалонів, які в основному вживані в місті Чикаго, який гноиться всередині прихованого, але дуже реального " це те, що ви робите», ставлення, яке набагато кращим прикладом є його місто-побратим Київ!

SPACES commissions artists from around the world—at all stages of their careers—to make new work that is responsive to timely issues. We use these projects as a jumping off point to create educational initiatives that help develop a more informed citizenry. We also distribute grants to artists outside of our residency and exhibition programs.

Spaysky Fine Art Gallery llc is an artist-run space in Southwest Detroit with a temporary annex space in Chicago's Midland Warehouses. SFAGLLC has specialized in producing shows that highlight the works of emerging and underrepresented artist peers through several iterations and locations.

Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam founded The Suburban in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, IL in 1999. Relocated to Milwaukee, WI in September 2015, The Suburban continues its legacy as a project space honoring the tradition of artist directed programs.