EXPO CHICAGO has revealed the first details of its 2025 edition, taking place April 24 – 27, 2025, at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall with Northern Trust as Presenting Sponsor. Now in its second year as part of the Frieze network, EXPO CHICAGO will feature more than 170 leading galleries from 36 countries and 93 cities. New initiatives for 2025 include a major new partnership with the Galleries Association of Korea, as well as CONTRAST, a new section developed by Lauren Haynes. These will be presented alongside the fair’s core Galleries section and a compelling array of projects including the fair’s much-celebrated EXPOSURE, PROFILE and IN/SITU sections, as well as this year’s Special Exhibitions, and Editions + Books.
“Looking ahead to the 2025 edition of EXPO CHICAGO, we’re excited to showcase an incredible lineup of curatorial talent, gallery presentations, special projects, and collaborations aimed at engaging new audiences,” said Tony Karman, President and Director of EXPO CHICAGO. “With the continued support of Northern Trust, EXPO CHICAGO remains a vital hub for collectors, artists, curators, architects, designers and all those passionate about art.”
"As we enter the second year of EXPO CHICAGO as part of Frieze, we are proud to expand on new initiatives, including a significant collaboration with Korea, made possible through Frieze’s global reach,” said Kristell Chadé, Executive Director of Fairs at Frieze. “We look forward to presenting a dynamic selection of artists and exhibitors, while exploring how the cross-pollination between our fairs can add value to each, fostering new connections and opportunities across regions.”
Curator-Led Initiatives
Building on the fair’s strong foundations, the 2025 fair will feature a series of bold curator-led initiatives.
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Lauren Haynes, Head Curator, Governors Island Arts and Vice President for Arts and Culture at the Trust for Governors Island, will organize a new section of galleries and artist presentations, titled CONTRAST. Participating galleries include GRAY, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, The Melrose Gallery, and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.
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Rosario Güiraldes, Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will return for the second year to lead EXPOSURE, spotlighting solo and two-artist presentations from galleries ten years and younger. This year’s focus includes galleries from Latin America, particularly Argentina and Brazil, alongside emerging Chicago-based galleries.
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Jessica S. Hong, newly appointed Chief Curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO, will curate IN/SITU, featuring large-scale installations and site-specific works at Navy Pier. The program will highlight artists working in collaborative and intergenerational practices, exploring themes of exchange and tradition.
New Partnership with the Galleries Association of Korea
In a significant new partnership, EXPO CHICAGO will introduce a collaboration with the Galleries Association of Korea (GaoK), to present a selection of 20 leading Korean galleries within the fair’s core Galleries section. This initiative, supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korea Arts Management Service, builds on the successful synergy between Kiaf SEOUL and Frieze Seoul.
HWANG Dalseung, President of the Galleries Association of Korea, said, “We plan to support 20 major galleries in Korea to enter the Chicago art market on behalf of the association and Korea in various ways together with the government. This event was based on the synergy between Kiaf SEOUL and Frieze Seoul, which have already created a new model of win-win through fair-to-fair collaboration in the contemporary art market, where various entities are collaborating in various ways, and this time we will take the first step towards the internationalization of Korean art distribution with EXPO CHICAGO.”
Confirmed participants in Highlights of the Gaok collaboration are Gallery Baton, BHAK, Gana Art, Keumsan Gallery, Sun Gallery, ONE AND J. Gallery, PYO Gallery, and 313 Art Project.
Further Highlights
The 2025 edition of EXPO CHICAGO will welcome a dynamic roster of galleries both returning and new from across the United States and beyond. Cities represented nationally include Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Miami, Portland, Nashville and Santa Fe. Internationally, galleries from cities such as London, Paris, São Paulo, Bangkok, Toronto, Singapore, Stockholm, Tokyo, Istanbul, and Johannesburg will also participate.
Across the fair more than 50 exhibitors are new additions for the 2025 edition. Highlights include Lehmann Maupin, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Two Palms, ILY2, april april, Mitre, Megan Mulrooney, Gratin, OCHI, and Alberta Pane.
Over 100 exhibitors are returning to the fair including Nara Roesler, David Nolan Gallery, Eric Firestone Gallery, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, moniquemeloche, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, The Hole, Library Street Collective, Almeida e Dale, PATRON, Charlie James Gallery, DOCUMENT, Les Enluminures, Miles McEnery Gallery, RYAN LEE Gallery, Southern Guild, 56 Henry, Fragment, TERN, Spinello Projects, and The Pit.
In addition to the core section, Special Exhibitions will showcase presentations and site-specific work by non-profit organizations. The Editions + Books section offers a robust showcase of artist books, editions, prints, and more.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
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Friday, April 25, 2025 | 11:00am – 7:00pm
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 11:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 11:00am – 6:00pm
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EXPO CHICAGO
EXPO CHICAGO showcases leading contemporary and modern art galleries each April at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, alongside a diverse and inventive program of talks, on-site installations, and public art initiatives. Inaugurated in 2012, EXPO CHICAGO draws upon the city’s rich history as a vibrant international cultural destination, while highlighting the region’s contemporary arts community. In 2023, EXPO CHICAGO was acquired by Frieze, the world’s leading platform for modern and contemporary art. For more information on EXPO CHICAGO, visit expochicago.com.
Frieze
Frieze is a leading platform for modern and contemporary art dedicated to scholars, connoisseurs, collectors and the general public alike. Frieze comprises three magazines – frieze, Frieze Masters Magazine and Frieze Week – and numerous international art fairs. Frieze is part of the IMG network.
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Northern Trust
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Galleries Association of Korea
The Galleries Association of Korea was founded in 1976 with a mission to facilitate a broader and deeper appreciation of art in Korea, contribute to fostering a healthy art market, and advance Korean art on the international stage. Today, the Association – consisting of more than 180 galleries nationwide – organizes art fairs (Kiaf SEOUL and Galleries Art Fair), as well as proposing policies for art appraisal committees and revitalizing the art market.
Kiaf SEOUL
Established in 2002 by the Galleries Association of Korea, Kiaf SEOUL is the first international art fair in South Korea. Today, the fair serves as a unique platform that connects the Korean art scene with the global art market. It plays a crucial role in advancing the Korean art market and introduces new perspectives. For more information, please visit https://kiaf.org/ and follow us on Instagram.
Lauren Haynes
Lauren Haynes is Head Curator, Governors Island Arts and Vice President for Arts and Culture at the Trust for Governors Island in New York City. Haynes is a specialist in contemporary art by artists of African Descent and has spent her almost two-decade career at art institutions across the US, including the Queens Museum; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Momentary; and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She has written and lectured extensively on contemporary art and contemporary artists at all stages of their careers. Haynes serves as a trustee-at-large for the AAMC and AAMC Foundation and on the visiting committee for the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Haynes was a 2018 Center for Curatorial Leadership fellow and a recipient of a 2020 ArtTable New Leadership Award.
Rosario Güiraldes
Rosario Güiraldes is a Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Recent and upcoming curated exhibitions include the contemporary group survey Ways of Knowing (2025); Walter Price: Pearl Lines (2024); and the first US retrospective of the work of Abdias Nascimento (2027), supported by a Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation. During her previous tenure at The Drawing Center, she curated the contemporary drawing survey Drawing in the Continuous Present (2022) and monographic shows of the artists Xiyadie (2023); Fernanda Laguna (2022); and Guo Fengyi (2021); among others. Güiraldes holds a master’s degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Buenos Aires. She frequently lectures in universities and institutions, and her writing has appeared in numerous publications and catalogues.
Jessica S. Hong
Jessica Hong is the newly-appointed Chief Curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. Most recently, she was Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Toledo Museum of Art. Prior to TMA, she was the Associate Curator of Global Contemporary Art at Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art and the first to fill this position on the occasion of the museum’s major expansion. During her Boston tenure, she was Assistant Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and part of the new Division of Modern and Contemporary Art that launched the renovated Harvard Art Museums. She was previously based in New York and held curatorial positions at Independent Curators International (ICI), SculptureCenter, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Hong received her M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University.
2025 Exhibitors
** GaoK exhibitor
* CONTRAST participant
Galleries
- 021gallery, Daegu **
- Gallery 41, Seoul **
- 193 Gallery, Paris, Venice
- 313 Art Project, Seoul, Paris **
- A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo
- ACA Galleries, New York
- Addison Rowe, Santa Fe
- Allouche Gallery, New York
- Almeida & Dale, São Paulo
- Galería Artizar, Canary Islands
- Gallery Baton, Seoul **
- Richard Beavers Gallery, Brooklyn
- BHAK, Seoul **
- Bienvenu Steinberg & C, New York
- Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis
- Bogéna Galerie, Saint-Paul de Vence
- Browse & Darby, London
- C24 Gallery, New York
- Casterline|Goodman Gallery, Aspen, Chicago, Nantucket
- Cernuda Arte, Miami
- Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
- Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York
- The Columns Gallery, Seongnamsi, Seoul, Singapore **
- Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London
- Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
- DOCUMENT, Chicago, Lisbon
- EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, Franschhoek
- Everyday Mooonday (EM), Seoul **
- Les Enluminures, Chicago, New York, Paris
- Everard Read, Johannesburg, Cape Town, London, Franschhoek
- Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, New York
- Friedrichs Pontone, New York
- Galerie GAIA, Seoul **
- The Gallery of Everything, London
- Gana Art, Seoul, Los Angeles
- GRAY, Chicago, New York *
- Gallery Grimson, Seoul **
- Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles
- Hexton Gallery, Aspen
- Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, Berlin, West Palm Beach
- Bill Hodges Gallery, New York
- Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
- Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
- Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, Zurich
- Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London *
- Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London, Miami
- ILY2, Portland
- Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, San Francisco *
- Gallery Joeun, Seoul **
- Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, Gyeongju **
- LEE & BAE, Busan **
- Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, London
- Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque
- Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami
- David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Nashville
- JD Malat Gallery, London
- Galeria MaPa, São Paulo
- McCormick Gallery, Chicago
- Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
- The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg *
- moniquemeloche, Chicago
- Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg
- Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert
- David Nolan Gallery, New York
- Gallery Nosco, Brussels
- October Gallery, London
- Claire Oliver Gallery, New York
- ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul **
- Opera Gallery, New York, Aspen, Beirut, Dubai, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Miami, Monaco, Paris, Seoul, Singapore
- Galerie Pici, Seoul, New York **
- Pontone Gallery, London
- PYO Gallery, Seoul **
- Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City
- Rele, Lagos, London, Los Angeles
- Revolver Galería, Lima, Buenos Aires, New York
- Galerie Richard, Paris
- Galerie Robertson Arès, Montreal
- Nara Roesler, São Paulo, New York, Rio De Janeiro
- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
- RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
- Secrist | Beach, Chicago
- SEIZAN Gallery, New York, Tokyo
- SmithDavidson Gallery, Amsterdam, Miami
- SOUS LES ETOILES GALLERY, New York
- Southern Guild, Los Angeles, Cape Town
- Marc Straus Gallery, New York
- Sun Gallery, Seoul **
- Suppoment Gallery, Seoul **
- Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, London, Singapore
- TAI Modern, Santa Fe
- Tandem Press, Madison
- Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore
- Two Palms, New York
- Unix Gallery, New York
- Vallarino Fine Art, New York
- Gallery Vit, Seoul **
- Tanya Weddemire Gallery, Brooklyn
- Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco
- Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis
- Wellside Gallery, Seoul **
- W-galería, Buenos Aires, Pueblo Garzón
- Yares Art, New York, Beverly Hills, Santa Fe
- Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles
- Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg, Dubai, Paris
- Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Berlin, Miami
EXPOSURE
- 56 HENRY, New York
- 65 GRAND, Chicago
- Aicon Contemporary, New York
- Anthony Gallery, Chicago
- april april, Pittsburgh
- Bill Arning Exhibitions, Kinderhook
- Art Latinou, Mexico City
- Baert Gallery, Los Angeles
- Petra Bibeau, New York
- Bianca Boeckel, São Paulo
- Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam
- Jonathan Carver Moore, San Francisco
- Contour Art Gallery, Vilnius
- COTT, Buenos Aires
- DURAN CONTEMPORAIN, Montreal
- Eclectica Contemporary, Cape Town
- Enari Gallery, Amsterdam
- EUROPA, New York
- Fragment, New York
- Geary Contemporary, Millerton, New York
- Goldfinch, Chicago
- Gratin, New York
- GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE, Tokyo
- Hesse Flatow, New York, Amagansett, East Hampton
- Jupiter Contemporary, Miami
- Martin Art Projects, Cape Town
- THE MISSION PROJECTS, Chicago
- Mitre, Belo Horizonte, São Paulo
- Montague Contemporary, New York
- Megan Mulrooney, Los Angeles
- Marisa Newman Projects, New York
- NIL Gallery, Paris
- OCHI, Los Angeles, Ketchum
- Omenai Gallery, Chicago
- Palo Gallery, New York
- Patel Brown, Toronto, Montréal
- PATRON, Chicago
- Povos Chicago, Chicago
- Niru Ratnam, London
- re.riddle, San Francisco
- Rivalry Projects, Buffalo
- Sarai Gallery, Mahshahr, London, Tehran
- Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles
- Superposition, Los Angeles, New York, Miami
- Swivel Gallery, New York
- TERN, Nassau
- Tramo, Buenos Aires
- Verve Galeria, São Paulo
- Maximillian William, London
- Zielinsky, Barcelona, São Paulo
PROFILE
- Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
- Dep Art Gallery, Milan, Ceglie Messapica
- ENGAGE Projects, Chicago
- Fridman Gallery, New York
- Gaep, Bucharest
- The Hole, New York, Los Angeles
- Charlie James, Los Angeles
- Library Street Collective, Detroit
- Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles
- Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary
- Claire Oliver Gallery, New York
- Alberta Pane Gallery, Paris, Venice
- PENTIMENTI, Philadelphia
- PIERMARQ*, Surry Hills, Sydney
- The Pit, Los Angeles
- Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami
- Spinello Projects, Miami
Editions + Books
- Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago
- Bert Green Fine Art, Green
- Lusenhop Fine Art, Cleveland
- Manneken Press, Bloomington
- MCA Chicago Store, Chicago
- René Schmitt, Berlin
- Stoney Road Press, Dublin
- Wildwood Press, LLC, St. Louis
Special Exhibitions
- Arts of Life / Circle Contemporary, Chicago
- Blanc Gallery, Chicago
- Center for Native Futures, Chicago
- Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago
- Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis
- Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
- Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago
- OSMOS / ARTS&REC, New York
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
- University of Chicago, Chicago
- YoungArts, Miami