The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) ( uk, Український Інститут Модерного Мистецтва (Ukrayinskyi Instytut Modernoho Mystetstva)) is a modern art museum serving the
Chicago area
The Chicago metropolitan area, also colloquially referred to as Chicagoland, is a metropolitan area in the Midwestern United States. Encompassing 10,286 sq mi (28,120 km2), the metropolitan area includes the city of Chicago, its suburbs and hi ...
with an ongoing program of cultural exhibitions, literary events, film screenings, and music recitals. UIMA was founded in 1971 by Dr. Achilles Chreptowsky, Konstantin Milonadis and Mychajlo Urban in the heart of Chicago's
Ukrainian Village, Chicago. Its Core Member of the Chicago Cultural Alliance, a consortium of 25 ethnic museums and cultural centres in Chicago.
Six to seven major exhibits are held in the main gallery which occupies . Two side galleries house the permanent collection which includes the work of Chicago artists as well as that of sculptors and painters of Ukrainian descent.
UIMA is committed to a program of exhibitions, concerts, lectures, and multidisciplinary events relevant and challenging to all members of the community. The immediate neighborhood is home to an ethnically diverse population and offers a wide variety of cultural events. UIMA is a not-for-profit organization.
In 2011, the Institute celebrated its 40th anniversary.
In 2010 the museum hosted a career retrospective of the art of
Gladys Nilsson
Gladys M. Nilsson (born May 6, 1940) is an American artist, and one of the original Hairy Who Chicago Imagists, a group of representational artists active during the 1960s and 1970s. She is married to fellow-artist and Hairy Who member Jim N ...
, noted member of the
"Hairy Who" art group.
[Christine Newman, "When Jim Met Gladys", '']Chicago
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Art museums and galleries in Chicago
Ukrainian-American culture in Chicago
Arts organizations of the Ukrainian diaspora
Art museums and galleries in Illinois
Ethnic museums in Illinois
Modern art museums in the United States
Ukrainian museums in the United States
Art museums established in 1971
1971 establishments in Illinois
Cultural centers in Chicago