2024 Texas Biennial: The Last Sky
September 27 - March 09,2025
From the Blaffer Museum: "Where should we go after the last frontiers? Where should the birds fly after the last sky? Texas is constructed territory, therefore unstable borders and occupations shape communities and their participants. Systems and structures rise and fall. The collapse produces dust and dirt, yielding material histories written in detritus and debris. In its eighth iteration, the 2024 Texas Biennial, The Last Sky, looks to the still-lingering dust to ask: What happens after the last line in the sand is drawn? Through a collaborative and non-hierarchical approach, Erika Mei Chua Holum, Ashley DeHoyos Sauder, and Coka Treviño co-organized the eighth iteration of the Texas Biennial through friendship, reciprocity, and mutual support. With trifold dreams and visions, the co-curators selected works and artist projects through the 2024 Texas Biennial Open Call. Presented across venues along the Texas Gulf Coast, The Last Sky activates amorphous and overlapping forms of cultural production–performance, cultural preservation, and visual art–shaped and cross-pollinated by collectives and community participation. Through this survey of contemporary art, we looked to artistic acts of continuance and survival. The 2024 Texas Biennial is presented by Big Medium in partnership with Blaffer Art Museum and DiverseWorks. The Texas Biennial is a geographically-led, independent survey of contemporary art in Texas. The program was founded in 2005 by Austin nonprofit Big Medium to provide an exhibition opportunity open to all artists living and working in the state. The eighth edition of this program takes place in 2024, making the Texas Biennial the longest-running state biennial in the country. Since its inception, the program has brought the work of over 300 artists to new audiences, springboarding many artists’ careers and underscoring the diversity of contemporary practice in Texas. The 2024 Texas Biennial The Last Sky is co-curated by Erika Mei Chua Holum, Ashley DeHoyos (Curator, DiverseWorks), and Coka Treviño (Curator and Artistic Director at Big Medium and Founder and Curator of The Projecto). Over eighty artists with significant connections to Texas are participating in the 2024 Texas Biennial: The Last Sky. To learn more, please visit: https://www.texasbiennial.org/"
Reception: September 27, 2024 | 12-5 pm
Blaffer Art Museum
120 University of Houston Fine Arts Building
Houston, TX 77204-4018
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