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EXHIBITIONS
SPACE 01 presents exhibitions that center emerging Black and Brown artists, particularly those who are system-impacted or working outside traditional art institutions. Exhibitions at SPACE 01 use art as a tool for storytelling, political education, and community engagement—addressing themes such as identity, migration, state violence, and cultural resistance. Artists retain autonomy over their work while gaining access to resources, visibility, and opportunities to connect with broader communities.
Email info@s01.world for inquiries about exhibiting art in the space.
CURRENT + UPCOMING:
ARCHIVE:
12.05.2025 - 12.21.2025
Marking a year since The Subconshis Mind, Chicago-based Jamaican American artist Bria Bridges returns to SPACE 01 with a new body of work that pulls people of color into realms of abstraction and surrealism.
11.01.2025 - 11.16.2025
The Body is Chaos is a descent into trauma, desire, and the inner shadow — a visual journey inspired by Dante, Jung, and Nietzsche. The photographs act as fragments of a descent; moments of rupture, images that refuse to settle. Within this confrontation, there is also resilience — the insistence that from chaos, something alive can emerge.
09.05.2025 - 09.07.2025
Human Touch is Program Studios’ first gallery show aiming to promote human creativity in the emerging age of AI. With the rise of AI in commercial art (a large mass of art and the entry point for artists and creatives to make a living) there is growing danger to artists ability to live and compete creatively. As large and small companies both adopt AI creation for all of its pros, it leaves the human artist to hold the burdens of the cons.
06.21.2025 - 07.05.2025
Ruby Greene’s captivating dreamscape installation explores domestic realms of naughtiness, pain, beauty, sexual expression, and the worlds in which they all intersect.
05.17.2025 - 05.31.2025
Octavia Reese was the heart of the art cooperative that later became SPACE 01, and without her vision, our space would not exist as it does today. She built and nurtured a community that uplifted artists, dreamers, and rebels, always making space for those who needed it most. Though her passing has left an unfillable void, her spirit continues to guide us. We honor her legacy by continuing the work she so fearlessly championed—creating, connecting, and choosing love.
Thank you, Octavia, for everything. You are forever with us.
04.30.2025
This one-night exhibition features archived footage from multiple raids by the 14th District CPD on SPACE 01, as well as documentation of the unlawful arrest of gallery founder Trejon D’Angelo on August 21, 2024. Through surveillance video, citations, and official correspondence, the exhibit lays out a pattern of over-policing, bureaucratic obstruction, and municipal neglect — not as isolated incidents, but as routine costs of doing public, creative work in this city.
02.07.2025 - 02.28.2025
“Intravenus is an invitation to explore a true walking contradiction, the feminine experience. She is saccharine, tender, frivolous, defiant, erotic, debaucherous, and hard-as-nails. This exhibition, produced between 2021 to 2023, reflects a progression of girlhood, queerness, and autonomy; a conversation that frames the internal and external reality of being born under punches… each frame is an assembled love letter to the divine feminine.”
-Isabella Rinald
12.14.2024 - 12.28.2024
This evocative collection blends 20th-century surrealism with modern styles, celebrating people of color and women in radiant light. Created over several months, each piece invites viewers to explore raw emotions and the subconscious energy that shapes art.