MoCP The Museum of Contemporary Photography

Columbia College Chicago

Exhibition venues · Chicago, United States

Current & upcoming exhibitions

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

Testaments to the Beautyful Ones

21 Jan 2027 – 16 May 2027

Tatenda Chidora, Fatoumata Diabate, Yagazie Emezi, Zana Masombuka …

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground

by more than 110 artists from MoCP’s permanent collection

10 Sep 2026 – 19 Dec 2026

Hanif Abdur-Rahim, Jody Ake, Harold Allen, Stephen Althouse …

Past exhibitions

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

Prix Pictet : Storm

29 May 2026 – 22 Aug 2026

Takashi Arai, Marina Caneve, Tom Fecht, Balázs Gárdi …

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

MoCP at 50: Collecting Through the Decades

22 Jan 2026 – 16 May 2026

Uta Barth, Harry Callahan, Raul Corrales, Matthew Finley …

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

Channeling: body ←Image→ viewer

2 Sep 2025 – 20 Dec 2025

Laura Aguilar, Pia Arke, EJ Hill, Susan Hiller …

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

Collaboration

A Potential History of Photography in Dialogue with the MoCP Collection

30 May 2025 – 16 Aug 2025

Ansel Adams, Ariella Azoulay, Endia Beal, Wafaa Bilal …

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

Shore|Lines

23 Jan 2025 – 17 May 2025

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

Prospetto a Mare

30 Aug 2024 – 20 Dec 2024

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

Captured Earth

24 May 2024 – 18 Aug 2024

Karl Blossfeldt, Alan Cohen, Barbara Crane, Odette England …

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

Native America: In Translation

26 Jan 2024 – 12 May 2024

Rebecca Belmore, Nalikutaar Jacqueline Cleveland, Martine Gutierrez, Duane Linklater …

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

LOVE: Still Not the Lesser

18 Aug 2023 – 22 Dec 2023

Alia Ali, Jorian Charlton, Jess T. Dugan, Mari Katayama …

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

Shift: Music, Meaning, Context

10 Apr 2023 – 6 Aug 2023

Bani Abidi, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Tony Cokes, Jeremy Deller …

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

Refracting Histories

10 Nov 2022 – 2 Apr 2023

Kelli Connell, Tarrah Krajnak, Natalie Krick, Aaron Turner

MoCP Contemporary Photo · Chicago (US)

1:1

10 Nov 2022 – 2 Apr 2023

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