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PATRON

Contemporary Art Gallery PATRON is a contemporary art gallery space in Chicago founded in collaboration by Julia Fischbach and Emanuel Aguilar.

The program focuses on young and emerging artists with artistic practices that work within a poetic and archeological framework, from aesthetic explorations to social engagement. PATRON is founded on the defining characteristics of a patron for the arts, that is, a person chosen, named or honored as a special guardian, protector, or supporter of the arts. With that model set as a corner stone, the

gallery hopes to open to new and traditional avenues of helping audiences of patrons from all walks of life engage and find access to contemporary art. The gallery has made an important decision to stay and work in Chicago, Fischbach and Aguilar's hometown.

01/29/2026

In solidarity with the nationwide shutdown and general strike, PATRON will be closed tomorrow, January 30. We will resume regular business hours on Saturday.

01/27/2026

Opening Today in Glen Ellyn, IL! Chair-ish: Alex Chitty & Norman Teague at Cleve Carney Museum of Art

Chair-ish is a presentation of multimodal works made in tandem by Chicago-based artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague. Working together for the first time, the pairing of their distinct yet complementary approaches to design, craft, and the love of joyous, intuitive making result in an exhibition where the process "IS" the product. Through a collaborative exchange of tactics and speculations, Chitty and Teague create new works that critique, absorb, reposition and remix the narratives, materials, and aesthetics of modern design while inspiring fresh modes of measuring value and utility.

Chair-ish will be on view through April 11, 2026.

Opening Reception:
Saturday, February 28, 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Image:
Alex Chitty
Men and their Circumstances, 2023
Nickel plated steel, seat from a Mies Van Der Rohe Chair, Brass Seashell Ashtray

01/20/2026

In commemoration of PATRON’s 10th anniversary, we are proud to announce a group exhibition, a person chosen, named, or honored…, titled after the Webster’s Dictionary definition of a “patron.”

On view from January 24 through March 7, 2026, the exhibition celebrates the collector/artist/gallery relationships which have been formative for the growth and prosperity of the gallery, and reflective of the strength and vibrancy of the Chicago arts community at large. Uniting nearly one hundred key artworks acquired from PATRON over the past ten years, the exhibition is intended to acknowledge the growth of individual artist’s practices, and act as a time capsule of the exhibitions, projects, and conversations that marked the last decade. a person chosen, named, or honored… celebrates the individuals, and networks of Chicago that have shaped our history, our present, and our future.

Opening Day:
Saturday, January 24
11:00am - 7:00pm

PATRON
1612 W Chicago Ave

01/08/2026

This Saturday at Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles!

Organized by MOCA Education, The In Session series invites visitors to engage with readings, film/video and writing activities that relate to current exhibitions and are meant to generate self-reflection and group discussion.

The first In Session will focus on Bethany Collins’ Love is dangerous, 2024–25, on view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA as part of MONUMENTS.

In Session will take place in the Reading Room in the galleries at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Capacity is limited to 15 people.

RSVP via link in bio. Tickets include admission to MONUMENTS.

11:30am - 12:30pm PST
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Reading Room (within the galleries)
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Images:
Bethany Collins
Love is Dangerous, 2024-2025
Details

01/06/2026

On view this week at PATRON:
SIMON BENJAMIN
Long, Shore Drift

Collapsing the past, present, and possible futures for those who inhabit, or hold a relation to, coastal regions, Benjamin offers an embodied, physical narrative of the continued impact of colonialism on geo- logical, and cultural ecosystems. The two sculptures in the exhibition, Beeren Eylandt, Lenapehoking.NY.2025.06.19.002 and Beeren Eylandt, Lenapehoking.NY.2025.06.19.003 take their forms from the geological tool used to study the layers and history of the earth.

Assembling found detritus from the shorelines of Brooklyn’s Dead Horse Bay, cornmeal (historically a staple imported into Jamaica as a low-cost food for enslaved people on mono crop plantations), and sand, Benjamin constructs an alternative, partially fictitious record of a coastal site.

Images:
Simon Benjamin
Beeren Eylandt, Lenapehoking.NY.2025.06.19.002, 2025
Cornmeal, sand, beach detritus, non-toxic resin on steel armature
48" x 10" x 10"

12/21/2025

Happy Holidays and New Year from PATRON !

The gallery will be closed Tuesday, December 23, 2025 - Saturday, January 3, 2026. Normal gallery hours resume on Tuesday, January 6. See you soon!

11/26/2025

PATRON will be closed November 27 - November 29 for the upcoming holiday. Normal gallery hours resume next week. Enjoy the holiday and see you soon!

Image:
Installation view, Long, Shore, Drift

11/25/2025

Now on View in Warsaw!

The City of Women at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, featuring artwork by Carmen Winant.

The City of Women offers a multitude of perspectives that refer to both well-known and established research topics related to art created by female artists, and traces the changes in current artistic sensibilities in this area.

The exhibition will be on view through May 3, 2026.

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Marszałkowska 103, 00-110
Warszawa, Poland

Image:
Installation View, The City of Women

Carmen Winant
The last safe abortion, 2024
inkjet photographs, pins
detail
winant

11/21/2025

PATRON will be participating in Art Basel Miami Beach 2025. Embracing the poetic properties of their materials as entry points into research-based and personal narratives, these artists demonstrate rigorous studio approaches that represent leading voices in abstraction and conceptual practice: Lindsay Adams, Simon Benjamin, Bethany Collins, Dianna Frid, Mika Horibuchi, Caroline Kent, José Lerma, Nour Malas, Noé Martínez, Harold Mendez, Kaveri Raina, Charisse Pearlina Weston, and Liat Yossifor.

Booth C14
Public Days | December 5 - 7
Private Days | December 3

Image:
Lindsay Adams
Printer's Row, 2024-2025
Oil on canvas

Nour Malas
Blues in Denial, 2025
Oil and pastel on canvas

Noé Martínez
Humo de pólvora y plumas para saludar a los mu***os, 2025
Oil on cotton with glass inlays and oil on copper with glass inlays

Caroline Kent
Biting one's lip, arranging the cuff on a sleeve, 2025
Acrylic on Belgian linen, ebonized walnut, pigmented cement

Simon Benjamin
Gymnopédie No.11, 2025
Acrylic on silkscreen on canvas

Charisse Pearlina Weston
in this diaphanous stillness, pleasure has been found wanting, 2025
Photographic print on hahnemuhle canvas, fruit, glass shards, shattered tempered glass

07/02/2025

PATRON will be closed for holiday weekend from July 3 - July 7. We hope you have great weekend!

Gallery hours will resume next week as normal.

Images:
Installation view of Carmen Winant: Manuals for Living
Installation view of Alex Chitty: Mine

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1612 W. Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL
60622

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Tuesday	11am - 6pm
Wednesday	11am - 6pm
Thursday	11am - 6pm
Friday	11am - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 6pm

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