The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) (Ukrainian: Український Інститут Модерного Мистецтва (Ukrayinskyi Instytut Modernoho Mystetstva)) is a modern art museum serving the Chicago area with an ongoing program of cultural exhibitions, literary events, film screenings, and music recitals.
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.
The immediate neighborhood is home to an ethnically diverse population and offers a wide variety of cultural events.
[2] Their permanent collection also includes the works of many renowned artists, including Alexander Archipenko, Alexis Gritchenko, Mychajlo Andreenko, Jerzy Nowosielski, Emma Andiewska, Patrick Caulfield, Jacques Hnizdovsky Jules Olitski, Patrick Caulfield, Elisabeth Frink, Mary Fedden, Robyn Denny, Richard Hunt, Thomas Kapsalis, Michiko Itatani, Aka Pereyma, Slava Gerulak, Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn, Christina Saj, William Kurelek, Yevgeniy Prokopov, Volodymyr Makarenko, Vadym Meller, Jurij Solovij and many others.
The show was accompanied by protest-themed works from the permanent collection by Ukrainian such as Anton Kandinsky and Jurij Solovij were hung in the galleries.