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SHANGHAI SEMINARY (est. 2024) is a not-for-profit gallery for contemporary and historical art located in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, IL—the unceded lands of the Council of Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations.

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Geof Oppenheimer: Permission Structures and Decorative Art

September 19 – October 31, 2026

SHANGHAI SEMINARY presents Permission Structures and Decorative Art, an exhibition of new work by Geof Oppenheimer.

One thing remains to be added: since becoming is the foremost consideration in delivery, different things become different people. Indeed, there is in this a certain hidden and inarticulable principle; and, as it has rightly been said, the chief thing in art is that what you do should become yourself. Yet this can neither exist without art nor be wholly taught by art.

—Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, XI.3.177

Geof Oppenheimer was born in Washington, D.C. and lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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