Current exhibitions
Co-Prosperity is thrilled to announce that the application for 2027-28 SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS is now open! Apply by August 24th for a 6-week exhibition!
Applications will be reviewed by artists, curators, and organizers on the Co-Prosperity Programming Council and applicants will be notified in early September. Eligibility, Images from past exhibitions, and the blueprint of the gallery space are viewable in the application—click the links below to start!
The application for exhibitions will close August 24th, 11:59PM CST with no extensions.
Between Memory and Becoming: Manifestations of Black Motherhood
August 14 - September 25 , 2026
Organizers: Wisdom Baty and Alyssa Martinez
Curatorial Fellows: tiffany m johnson and Oguguam (OG) Ugwuanyi
Exhibiting Artists: Alexy Irving-Alleyne, Andrea Hill Fitzgerald, Grandeast Wright, Summer Coleman, and Teni Odunsi.
Opening Reception: August 14th 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
WILD YAMS is pleased to present Between Memory and Becoming: Manifestations of Black Motherhood. A cumulative exhibition that brings together the work of WILD YAMS SEED Residency cohort artists Alexy Irving-Alleyne, Andrea Hill Fitzgerald, Grandeast Wright, Summer Coleman, and Teni Odunsi. Through mixed media, sculptures, photography, paintings, and texts, the cohort of artists trace connections between the natural world, diasporic traditions, and practices of survival. Between Memory and Becoming: Manifestations of Black Motherhood pokes holes in spaces of silence and absence while reflecting on mothering through lived experiences and historical memory. Together, the works narrate the varying ways of always becoming and carrying forward forms of care that are often unseen, undervalued, or erased. The exhibiting artists reflect Black motherhood back in all its forms as a praxis and as unfixed.
a creature who is aware of joy and despair and everything in between
Katharine Joy Houpt
August 14 - September 25 , 2026
Opening Reception: August 14th 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
In this solo show, artist Katharine Joy Houpt engages in a slow, expressive fiber arts process to create an absurdly large anthropomorphic creature and its dreams and memories, split into ten quilted panels. The work examines embodiment of subjectivity within an environment, a peek into a creature’s inner world within outer world constraints. The artist created the site-specific work for this show with the form of the building in mind, and allowed the materials including found and reused fabrics to intuitively inform who the creature has become. Katharine draws on the aesthetic tradition of Chicago Imagists, combined with fiber arts techniques including improvised quilting, free-motion quilting, appliqué, trapunto, and embroidery, to mirror the joy and the struggle of creating in a world that can hold incredible awe, humor, delight, disappointment, sadness, and rage all at once. This work is about attempting to curiously pay attention to all of it, and the imaginative impact of that awareness and unawareness on a body.
Community Kitchen Dinners:
Recipes for SurvivancE
SAVE THE DATE:
August 31st (Kurdish Dinner)
Two seatings each night:
5:30 - 7:00 PM + 7:30-9:00 PM
Join us for a series of community kitchen dinners, made from recipes for survivance, storytelling, and solidarity.
Survivance, as writer Gerald Vizenor explains, is an active sense of presence over absence, the continuance of stories, and the refusal of mere victimhood; in those dinners we are showing cultures that practice survivance through the continuance of recipes from their homeland gathering around a dinner table.
Inspired by artist projects responding to the imperial occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan including Enemy Kitchen and Combat Kitchen, Community Kitchen Dinners will feature conversations around food, memory, migration from regions the US/Israel empire is currently devastating.
Past PROGRAMS and exhibitions
About Co-Prosperity Chicago
Co-Prosperity is a gallery and HQ for Public Media Institute: a non-profit organization that brings you independent media projects like Lumpen Magazine, Lumpen Radio, and Lumpen TV, a gallery in upstate New York, Buddy (an artist store at the Chicago Cultural Center), and MdW: a coalition of artist-run organizations in the Midwest!
Come visit us at 3219 S MORGAN ST, Chicago, IL, and follow us on Instagram to see our Open Hours!