To celebrate the 100th year of the Union League Club of Chicago’s clubhouse, JDMF apprentice Quentin Colson designed banners using John David Mooney’s original artwork, which are currently installed along Jackson St between Clark and Dearborn on six lampposts 🌸
We had a great time with the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums at the @artinstitutechi last week! Hearing from the curators about three paintings in the Northern European art collection was a special opportunity, as we discussed the theme of art as a carrier of faith 🖼️
Our screening of Hungry Hill last week was a great success! We welcomed members of the Irish Consulate as well as filmmaker Mieke Vanmechelen to the foundation, as well as friends from across Chicago. Thank to you all who came for a very memorable St Patrick’s Day evening ☘️ John David Mooney’s watercolours are still up and available to view at the International Currents Gallery, open 11-5pm every weekday!
Preview for tonight’s screening of Hungry Hill, which starts at 5:30pm in the International Currents Gallery at JDMF 🐑 Join us this evening to hear from the director Mieke Vanmechelen, who will be discussing the film after the screening! 📍Location: 114 W Kinzie Street, Chicago, IL 60654
☘️🐑 Setting up for the upcoming exhibition of John David Mooney’s paintings of Southern Ireland, opening March 17th alongside our screening of ‘Hungry Hill’, directed by Mieke Vanmechelen. Mieke will be joining us to discuss the film, alongside the Consul General of Ireland, Brian Cahalane, who will open the evening’s celebration. Find out more about the event through our link in bio!
☘️Join us on St. Patrick’s Day for a special screening of ‘Hungry Hill’, a film by directors Mieke Vanmechelen and Michael Holly. ☘️
One of John David Mooney’s favorite films, with loving images of the southwest of Ireland, Hungry Hill follows the day-to-day lives of a community of sheep farmers who are in perpetual negotiation with the demands of the terrain, changing societal attitudes, and the impact of globalization.
Director Mieke Vanmechelen will be joining us to discuss the film, alongside the Consul General of Ireland, Brian Cahalane, who will open the evening’s celebration.
Location:
The John David Mooney Foundation
114 W. Kinzie St., Chicago
Valet parking & reduced-rate parking available.
Nina Murashkina is a Ukrainian artist based in Spain and John David Mooney Foundation alumni, who was an artist in residence at the Foundation between April and June 2025. Her works explore the feminine figure from a mythical perspective, blending magic and reality to create bold heroines who inhabit her paintings.
Her solo exhibition ‘Beasts’ held at the International Currents Gallery within the Foundation featured works such as ‘Her Beast’ and ‘Equality’, which draw on Ukrainian naïve art, Indian and Japanese visual traditions to convey Murashkina’s unique and vivid sensibility. Her surrealist series considers the metaphorical companion of the Beast to her female figures; “For the women who inhabit my painted worlds, the Beast becomes a rite of passage. Sometimes she is stilled by its presence, shaken by what it awakens in her. At other times, she rides it with fearless grace, carried through dreamscapes shaped by desire and fear.”
Our Artists in Residence program allows artists access to a studio and gallery space in our Foundation’s main building, fulfilling the Foundation’s mission to support artists and make art publicly accessible. Our International Currents Gallery features artists whose work has not been presented before in Chicago.
Celebrating JDM Foundation alumni Arvedo Arvedi, who was an artist in residence at the foundation in 2025, hosting his exhibition “LINGUAGGI DIVERSI- Antiche Memorie” (Different Languages- Ancient Memories)
In his work at the Foundation, Arvedi explored the visual language and medium of cave paintings, which he describes as “ancestral signs that appear surprisingly similar in cultures separated by oceans and millennia.”
Arvedi’s work is being featured in his new exhibition “Dancing Warriors” at Rome’s Carlo D’Orta Gallery from March 5th-28th.
Join us on November 19 at 6:00 p.m. for Boundaries/Borders, a conversation with artist Elaine Byrne and Aliza Shvarts, Director of SAIC’s Low-Residency MFA Program and Assistant Professor of Performance.
Together they’ll explore how borders—political, social, and psychological—shape belonging and exclusion, drawing on Byrne’s Drifting Sovereignty and her research into the essay film.
The talk accompanies Byrne’s exhibition Elaine Byrne: Drifting Sovereignty, on view through November 29 in the International Currents Gallery.
Location:
The John David Mooney Foundation
114 W. Kinzie St., Chicago
Valet parking & reduced-rate parking available.
A great opening night for 𝐄𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐲𝐫𝐧𝐞's current solo exhibition 𝘋𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘵𝘺, which continues at @mooneyfoundation Chicago until 29th November.
Exhibition opened by Brian Cahalane, The Consul General of Ireland.
𝐔𝐩𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭
In Conversation: Boundaries/Bordersa Discussion Elaine Byrne & Aliza Shvarts
6:00 p.m. November 19th
John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago
Thanks to @cultureireland for their continued support.
#ElaineByrne #Chicago
Please Join Us Tonight (11/5) from 5:30 - 7:30 PM in our International Currents Gallery for the opening reception of Elaine Byrne’s exhibit, Drifting Sovereignty
This November, a solo exhibition by Elaine Byrne, represented by Kevin Kavanagh Galleries, will be presented at the John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago 👏
'Drifting Sovereignty' is a multidisciplinary exhibition by Byrne exploring the fluid nature of borders through photography, sculpture, video, and performance. Traversing contested geographies, the work reveals how power, identity, and territory are shaped and destabilized by politics and climate change, re-imagining border-scapes as shifting, constructed and deeply human.
🤩 The show, proudly supported by Culture Ireland, will be opened by our very own Consul General Brian Cahalane.
⏰ Opening Reception - Wednesday 5th November, 5.30-7.30pm
📅 This exhibit will run from 5th - 29th November 2025
📍 114 W Kinzie Street, Chicago, IL 60654
ℹ️ For more information 👉
@elainebyrneartist@mooneyfoundation@kevinkavanaghgallery@cultureireland
