Who Do Chicago’s Art Fairs Serve?

Who Do Chicago’s Art Fairs Serve?

Gabrielle Garland, "I tried to hate you. I wanted so much to hate you. —Megan Halsey, Re-Animator (1985)" (2026) at Expo Chicago (all photos Natalie Jenkins/Hyperallergic)CHICAGO — Between the scores of working artists, underpaid arts administrators, and wealthy, often well-meaning arts hobbyists with cash to burn on $40 tickets and $7 bottles of Dasani, the question burns: What does Expo Chicago (and its orbit of adjacent fairs) actually do for…

Dealers Are Doing Brisk Business at a Smaller and ‘More Intentional’ Expo Chicago

Tears of joy are not the first thing you expect to hear about at art fairs, but that was the order of the day for Tennessee artist Annie Brito Hodgin at Thursday’s VIP preview at the thirteenth edition of Expo Chicago (April 9–12), where she is showing her paintings with Red Arrow Gallery. “It’s the artist’s first time showing outside Nashville and her first time showing at an art fair, and she’s here with us,” gallery director Ashley Layendec…

Expo Chicago’s local focus pays off as Midwestern collectors, institutions buoy sales

The fair’s first edition under director Kate Sierzputowski aims to offer a more tightly curated experience