From CAMH: "About Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… is the artist’s first major museum survey and spans over two decades of his work, from early…

11.15.24 | 03.23.25

From Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is excited to announce the Museum’s upcoming exhibition: Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow, the artist’s…

04.20.24 | 10.27.24

From CAMH: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is excited to announce the upcoming exhibition, Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege, featuring a series of…

05.17.24 | 10.20.24

From Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is excited to open its newest exhibition THIS WAY: A Houston Group Show, which showcases…

12.07.23 | 03.24.24

From CAMH: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is excited to announce its newest exhibition, Six Scenes From Our Future, which will be staged in celebration…

10.26.23 | 03.17.24

From CAMH: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is excited to announce the upcoming exhibition, Jordan Strafer: Trilogy, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. Both perversely…

07.28.23 | 11.26.23

From Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Ming Smith: Feeling the Future explores artist Ming Smith’s unparalleled career and is Smith’s first solo exhibition at a major…

05.26.23 | 10.01.23

From Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is excited to announce the upcoming exhibition, Ming Smith: Feeling the Future. Feeling the Future is artist…

05.25.23 | 10.01.23

From Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s (CAMH) Teen Council is excited to present their 13th biennial exhibition, Where Do We Go From Here? The exhibition…

02.17.23 | 07.02.23

From Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Diane Severin Nguyen: IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS is the first solo museum exhibition of artist Diane Severin Nguyen. The…

10.28.22 | 02.26.23

From Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye, the artist’s first museum solo exhibition, brings together collages, drawings, sculptures, and installations that draw…

09.23.22 | 01.29.23

From the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "About the Exhibition Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks is the debut museum solo exhibition for Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo…

05.27.22 | 10.02.22

From Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Who speaks and who is silenced? What histories or facets of a culture do we privilege and why? How do…

06.10.22 | 08.28.22

From CAMH: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is excited to present the groundbreaking exhibition The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse.…

11.04.21 | 02.06.22

From Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is pleased to present Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye, the first solo exhibition for the…

09.23.22 | 01.29.22

From the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Cauleen Smith: We Already Have What We…

07.15.21 | 10.03.21

From the CAMH: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) announces a new CAMHLAB artist residency to close out the 2021 season. New York-based artist and performer…

09.22.21 | 09.29.21

"ABOUT Julia Sinelnikova is an interdisciplinary artist who works with holograms, performance, and digital culture. Their light installations have been exhibited internationally, and they have…

09.23.21 | 09.29.21

From the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Turn On, Tune In, Tap Out. Organized…

05.13.21 | 08.08.21

"Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves, which brings together paintings by Elizabeth Murray (b. 1940, Chicago, Illinois; d. 2007, Hebron, New York) and the work…

01.21.21 | 05.16.21

From the Museum: "Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is pleased to present Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses, the first museum exhibition…

01.21.21 | 04.11.21

a two-part interdisciplinary exhibition orbiting around the legacy of the late Houston legend DJ Screw. The first section of Slowed and Throwed features unconventional photography and new media produced by…

03.05.20 | 06.07.20

Artist Angel Oloshove checks in with CAMH’s Exhibitions Manager and Assistant Curator Patricia Restrepo during the Covid-19 pandemic. Tune in on our IGTV: https://www.instagram.com/camhouston/ And…

05.27.20 | 05.27.20

Learn more about the exhibition Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses with CAMH’s Exhibitions Manager and Assistant Curator, Patricia Restrepo and…

05.21.20 | 05.21.20

Experience a slice of life from a Houston-area artist in CAMH’s new artist takeover series on Instagram Stories. This week, hear from ethnomusicologist Flash Gordon Parks.…

05.01.20 | 05.01.20

Join Devin Kenny for a preview of his performance essay ‘dando on our YouTube channel. ‘dando, short for ritardando, means to slow tempo gradually to 20 hertz,…

04.30.20 | 04.30.20

Artist Cheryl Donegan checks in with CAMH Exhibitions Manager and Assistant Curator Patricia Restrepo during the Covid-19 pandemic. Tune in on our IGTV (https://www.instagram.com/camhouston/) and…

04.29.20 | 04.29.20

"Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is pleased to present Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody, the first solo museum presentation of the work of New Orleans-based artist and filmmaker…

12.18.19 | 03.22.20

"Will Boone: The Highway Hex explores the space and time between California and Texas, the Los Angeles River, Interstate 10, why people leave Texas and…

11.09.19 | 02.17.20

"Free Diamonds is a newly developed series of choreographic vignettes. This contemporary new work examines the achievements of many unsung black heroes throughout history, and explores…

01.23.20 | 01.23.20

"Join CAMH’s Teen Council and contemporary art historian Natilee Harren as they present interactive performances and games inspired by the 1960s Fluxus movement. This event…

12.28.19 | 12.28.19

"CAMH’s Open Studio events feature drop-in, hands-on activities that draw inspiration from the exhibitions on view. The first Saturday of every month you will have…

12.26.19 | 12.28.19

A solo exhibition featuring work by Nari Ward. "Nari Ward: We the People is organized by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New…

08.15.19 | 11.30.19

"An exhibition that embodies two of Evans’s bodies of work—song titles fabricated in colored neon and a new work of paint and adhesive vinyl that…

06.28.19 | 10.13.19

"Cassel Oliver will discuss the work of Nari Ward within the scope of her newest exhibition, Cosmologies from the Tree of Life and her forthcoming project, The Dirty…

08.31.19 | 08.31.19

"An exhibition in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The exhibition assembles a local, national, international, and multi-generational group of artists whose…

04.26.19 | 07.28.19

"Organized by CAMH’s Teen Council, this group exhibition features work by over forty Houston-area teen artists. Shapeshifters addresses both instant and continuous responses to rapid…

03.02.19 | 06.16.19

"Over the last decade, Cheryl Donegan has made paintings that are as irreverent and subversive as her widely acclaimed political, feminist approaches to video. Similar…

01.19.19 | 03.31.19

"During a career that lasted just over a decade, Nicolas Moufarrege (1947-1985) created an original and idiosyncratic body of embroidered paintings. Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign—the…

11.10.18 | 02.17.19

Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System is an exhibition investigating the US's criminal justice system. Organized by guest curator Risa Puleo, the show includes…

08.25.18 | 01.06.19

CAMH brings artist Lorna Simpson to Houston as the third speaker for its Gamson Artist Lecture. Simpson will discuss her life and work.

10.24.18 | 10.24.18

Stage Environment: You Didn’t Have to Be There "revisits and reinvigorates CAMH’s longstanding performance focus by showcasing documentation and related ephemera from some of the…

09.08.18 | 10.21.18

An event featuring food, DJ Flash Gordon Parks, and art for college-aged students.

10.12.18 | 10.12.18

"Archive your experience and add to a collaborative scrapbook celebrating CAMH’s 70th birthday. What art experiences would you document in 2018?"

10.06.18 | 10.06.18

"CAMH’s Patron Circle kicks off the 2018-19 season! Presented by Bering's, the Lawn Party at CAMH launches an exciting season for the Patron Circle, a…

09.27.18 | 09.27.18

An exhibition surveying the career of New York-based artist Cary Leibowitz. In his work, Leibowitz explores concepts of popular culture, social commentary, self-loathing, institutional critique, and stand-up comedy.

05.11.18 | 08.26.18

Right Here, Right Now: San Antonio features 19 artists and artist collaboratives living and working in San Antonio, Texas. The show is curated by Dean Daderko and…

04.27.18 | 08.05.18

Join a CAMH FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) team member and an American Sign Language Interpreter for a tour of Right Here Right Now: San Antonio…

06.02.18 | 06.02.18

Dissent and Desire features a selection of 48 photographs and companion text pieces by artists and collaborators Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh. The works explore the…

01.19.18 | 04.29.18

A musical showcase hosted and organized by CAMH's Teen Council. Lineup: Universal Pulp Julia Griffin Rick Glaciers The Drive Nick Vyner DJ performance by Luminosalix…

04.05.18 | 04.05.18

In his 20HERTZ lecture, San Antonio artist Justin Boyd will explore "the themes of musical influences in everyday life. Boyd is an artist who explores landscapes,…

05.03.18 | 04.03.18

An exhibition of works by Brooklyn-based artist Christopher Knowles. The artist's work "records and reorders the everyday materials around us using incantatory rhythms and repetition. Typings of…

12.15.17 | 03.25.18

A runway-style fashion show curated and organized by CAMH's Teen Council. The show will feature clothing and accessories designed by Houston-area teens.

03.17.18 | 03.17.18

The Electro Heights Music Showcase is "a melding of contemporary art and synth/MIDI-driven music performances designed to engage the senses. CAMH partners with Royal Raccoon…

03.01.18 | 03.01.18

Margarita with a Straw tells the story of "a rebellious young woman (played by Kalki Koechlin) with cerebral palsy as she leaves her home in…

02.15.18 | 02.15.18

"Steven Evans, Artist and Executive Director of Fotofest International, moderates a conversation between Hrag Vartanian, Co-founder and Editor-in-Cheif of Hyperallergic and Sharon Louden, Artist and…

01.24.18 | 01.24.18

Andy Campbell, Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at the USC-Roski School of Art and Design and former Critic-in-Residence at the Core Program at the MFAH,…

01.20.18 | 01.20.18

A show featuring a new video and two sculptures by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz. The video, Telepathic Improvisation, "uses humans and non-humans, movement, speech, gesture, music,…

09.15.17 | 01.07.18

CAMH’s Teen Council shares new theatrical works, experimental film, and new media performances as they explore how these concepts blur and relate to each other. The…

11.30.17 | 11.30.17

An exhibition featuring more than twenty years of ceramic works by Annabeth Rosen. From CAMH: "Exploring the temporal nature of ceramics, Rosen melds the performative into…

08.18.17 | 11.26.17

An exhibition featuring three artists whose works explore themes of childhood accomplishments, imaginary worlds, and traumas into a dialogue with their present lives. Artists include JooYoung Choi,…

05.19.17 | 09.03.17

An exhibition featuring sculptures, photography, videos, drawings, and participatory works by Paul Ramírez Jonas. From CAMH: "Ramírez Jonas's work galvanizes connections between the personal, the collective,…

04.28.17 | 08.06.17

An evening of films by Tel Aviv-based artists. The program is curated by CAMH Director Bill Arning.

06.15.17 | 06.15.17

An exhibition curated by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's Teen Council. The show includes works by 63 teens that address themes of personal identity.

01.27.17 | 05.07.17

Robert Hodge and Tierney Malone will discuss the process of creating Hodge's album, Two & ½ Years.

05.04.17 | 05.04.17

An exhibition surveying works created by artist Angel Otero from 2006 to 2015. The show includes paintings, collages, and sculptures.

12.09.16 | 03.19.17

An exhibition exploring language, linguistics, and personal communication. The show came out of a continuing mail art exchange between artists Matt Keegan and Kay Rosen.

10.08.16 | 01.15.17

Right Here, Right Now features three exhibitions by Houston-based artists: Amy Blakemore: People, Cars & Buildings, Sculptures, Flowers, and Junk, curated by Dean Daderko. Thedra Cullar-Ledford:…

08.20.16 | 11.27.16

For this exhibition, artist Jae Ko has created a site-specific installation titled flow  流. The work consists of a room-sized sculptural relief constructed from nearly one ton of…

06.17.16 | 09.18.16

Rice University Art Gallery curator Josh Fischer will discuss how installation artists approach creating their work. "Drawing from historical examples, his work at Rice Gallery, and…

08.11.16 | 08.11.16

"Never has an exhibition enjoyed so many moments of extreme visual beauty, cheek by jowl with crude humor and aggressive, roughly rendered texts to create…

04.30.16 | 08.07.16

Artist Skylar Fein will read a eulogy Larry Rivers wrote for Francis “Frank” O’Hara. Fein makes the case that just as Rivers’s work prefigured Pop Art, the eulogy…

06.25.16 | 06.24.16

An exhibition of works by MPA that are inspired by the possibility of the human colonization of Mars. The show presents a new body of work…

02.27.16 | 06.05.16

An exhibition of works by conceptual artist Jennie C. Jones. Drawing largely from music, Jones' practice is based on the act of listening and translating sound…

12.12.15 | 03.27.16

Maria Chavez introduces the audience to her career as a sound artist. Her work is influenced by change and improvisation, and she is currently a research…

03.17.16 | 03.17.16

Pianist, composer, and bandleader Jason Moran will discuss Jennie C. Jones' work and its relationship to music.

02.24.16 | 02.24.16

An exhibition featuring work by twenty-two artists who have exhibited at the Galveston Artist Residency. The show is curated by Eric Schnell and includes work by Nick…

11.21.15 | 02.14.16

Historian David Getsy will discuss his recent book Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender.

02.13.16 | 02.13.16

Lisa E. Harris will discuss various dimensions of Power as it relates to Work and Time.

02.04.16 | 02.04.16

An exhibition of fashion, accessories, furniture and industrial design by artists working in Texas. The works in the show vary greatly in style and in…

08.22.15 | 11.29.15

Museum director Bill Arning talks with sociologist and author Sarah Thornton about her new publication concerning "the behind-the-scenes practices of working contemporary artists from around the…

11.19.15 | 11.19.15

An multi-media installation reflecting Houston through an ever-evolving, interactive assemblage of audiovisual impressions. The show is a collaboration of Houston filmmaker and community activist Carroll…

07.31.15 | 11.01.15

Pete Gershon will read from his work-in-progress Pow Wow: Contemporary Artists in Houston 1972-1985. This project draws upon archives, magazine and newspaper accounts, and interviews to…

10.08.15 | 10.08.15

A performance by Jeffrey Vallance in collaboration with Reverend Ethan Acres. For this event, Reverend Acres will "assume the character of a Lutheran Minister who has come to…

10.03.15 | 10.03.15

An exhibition surveying artist Marilyn Minter’s explorations of our culture’s deepest impulses, compulsions, and fantasies, as well as the complex and contradictory ideas of the…

04.18.15 | 08.02.15

A group exhibition– the 9th biennial youth art exhibition organized by CAMH's Teen Council–featuring work by 48 Houston-area teen artists in a variety of media…

05.02.15 | 07.19.15

A talk and book signing with artist, curator, and FotoFest Director Steven Evans, held in conjunction with the release of his publication The Number One…

06.25.15 | 06.25.15

A reading by Richard Hell, the author of I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp, is held in conjunction with Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty.

05.23.15 | 05.23.15

A reading by legendary post-punk "lesbian culture hero" and New York-based poet Eileen Myles, held in conjunction with the exhibition Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty.

05.16.15 | 05.16.15

Part of a multi-venue retrospective of work the Houston-born artist Mel Chin, the CAMH presents 19 of Chin’s discrete works made between the early 1970s…

01.17.15 | 04.19.15

Free all-ages museum activities include a participatory collaborative drawing project with Sumi Ink Club and a 2pm participatory performance led by Hope Stone Dance Company…

03.14.15 | 03.14.15

Pushing at our definitions of “performance,” Double Life features a video and performance by Paris-based choreographer Jérôme Bel, a sculptural environment by South Korean artist…

12.12.14 | 03.13.15

Musiqa presents a free, intimate gallery concert at the CAMH featuring the world premiere by Musiqa composer intern Charles Halka, a work for percussion with…

02.26.15 | 02.26.15

The first  solo museum show for Houston musician and visual artist, Robert Hodge. Though his practice has expanded to include site-specific sculpture and hip hop…

10.03.14 | 01.04.15

Now based in Houston, Jazz vibraphonist Damon Choice was a longtime collaborator with the incomparable musician, composer, and bandleader Sun Ra. Choice will discuss Ra’s…

12.11.14 | 12.11.14

The first of "an occasional and ongoing series through which the museum will investigate localized artistic practices." (Read: we'll do shows of local artists from…

08.23.14 | 11.30.14

Regina N. Bradley will explore how the work of Atlanta hip hop duo OutKast grounds what she theorizes as the hip hop South and how…

11.22.14 | 11.22.14

Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock returns to CAMH for a special book signing event in celebration of the release of his latest major catalogue, "Skin and…

10.16.14 | 10.16.14

Founded in 2001, Triple Candie is a research-oriented, independent curatorial agency--run by two art historians--that produces exhibitions about art but largely devoid of it. Its…

10.11.14 | 10.11.14

New video works Andrea Geyer, Camille Henrot, Laure Prouvost, and A. L. Steiner. The lineup is a who's who of recently lauded video artists (who…

06.27.14 | 09.21.14

The first in depth examination of Hancock's extensive body of drawings, collages, and works on paper, featuring more than seventy works of art as well…

04.26.14 | 08.03.14

An evening of experimental literature! Christian Bok is the author of Eunoia, a series of stories written using only one vowel in each chapter. Majorie…

07.12.14 | 07.12.14

This exhibition focuses on three video-based installation works: Xilitla: Dismantled 1; Bulto: Fragments; and Elevator. Working in cinematic installations Smith took an ethnographic approach to…

03.22.14 | 06.15.14

A FotoFest 2014 exhibition featuring a selection of photographs by fifteen artists. Through varying scenes that portray subtle signs of existence to depictions of barren…

03.15.14 | 04.27.14

A presentation in which the artist will discuss his musical upbringing and the influences that continue to shape his career. Following, Fat Tony will perform…

03.27.14 | 03.27.14

A companion to Black in the Abstract, Part 1, this section chronicles the history of black artists whose work relies on restraint.

01.25.14 | 03.23.14

By examining the surfaces of these works, one can reconstruct the painterly decisions that lead to the finished image.

01.18.14 | 03.23.14

Outside the Lines is a six-part exhibition series conceived as a dialogue on contemporary abstraction. Director Bill Arning, curators Valerie Cassel Oliver and Dean Daderko…

10.31.13 | 03.23.14

Donnett presents a lecture held in conjunction with the exhibition Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Egdes/Soft Curves.

03.13.14 | 03.13.14

Recognizing the foreign in the familiar is at the heart of this exhibition which combines abstract paintings with photographs.

01.11.14 | 03.09.14

In honor of the exhibition Outside the Lines and CAMH’s 65th anniversary, Musiqa will be performing Terry Riley’s In C, which is turning 50 in…

01.30.14 | 01.30.14

DeVille's work is featured in both Black in the Abstract, Part 1 Epistrophy and Rites of Spring. She collects discarded materials and assembles them into…

01.09.14 | 01.09.14

Dove, musician, educator, and founder of Nameless Sound will discuss the music of DJ Screw. No one should be surprised that Screw is now getting…

01.09.14 | 01.09.14

Donegan's work frequently moves between video and painting. She is known for a series of video works from the early '90s. Donegan will present examples…

11.23.13 | 11.23.13

For over twenty-five years, Ellen Fullman has worked with her unique musical structure, the “Long String Instrument” (LSI). LSI is an installation of dozens of…

10.19.13 | 10.19.13

For over twenty-five years, Ellen Fullman has worked with her unique musical structure, the “Long String Instrument” (LSI). LSI is an installation of dozens of…

10.18.13 | 10.18.13

In conjunction with her performance on Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th, Ellen Fullman will present a lecture in which she will discuss her…

10.16.13 | 10.16.13

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s work explores the psychological connections of intergenerational relationships within her family through photographs and videos that blur the line between self-portraiture and…

06.21.13 | 10.13.13

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents a performance and installation by composer William Basinski and artist James Elaine. Site-specific installations by the duo will be…

10.08.13 | 10.13.13

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents Graphic Design-Now in Production, an international exhibition that explores graphic design work produced since 2000, including posters, books, magazines,…

07.19.13 | 09.29.13

Susan Rogers, Ned Dodington, and Javier Fadul lead an interactive event that will seek to envision Houston. Rogers is the Director of the Community Design…

08.29.13 | 08.29.13

Bill Arning most often prefers music that was notoriously referred to in the film High Fidelity as "sad bastard music." Making connections with audio and…

08.22.13 | 08.22.13

Lectures by filmmaker and independent curator Peter Lucas, and Rusty Arena, the founder of Arena Design, who will be joined in conversation by Hiram Butler…

08.15.13 | 08.15.13

The Contemporary Arts Museum presents 20Hertz, a new lecture series conceived around themes of musical influence in everyday life. The series asks artists, musicians, and…

07.18.13 | 07.18.13

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents its summer music event Steel Lounge Underground. Presented with Derek Jones and Josh Zulu, this event brings together musical…

07.05.13 | 07.06.13

A selection of works by two artists highlights complementary and shared aspects of their works.

03.23.13 | 06.30.13

A group exhibition featuring work by Houston area teen artists, the 8th biennial youth art exhibition organized by the CAMH's Teen Council and guest juror…

03.10.13 | 06.09.13

Eleven young artists from China using video, featuring artists are Chen Qiulin, Chen Zhou, Hu Xiaoyuan, Huang Ran, Jin Shan, Li Ming, Li Ran, Lu…

11.01.12 | 02.17.13

Chronicles the persistence of black performance in the field of visual arts. Featuring video and photo documentation of performances, performance installations and relics, as well…

11.17.12 | 02.15.13

In Transitions, Inc., Danny Tisdale becomes Tracey Goodman, the head of a fictitious company that specializes in transforming one’s physical appearance for the purpose of…

01.19.13 | 01.19.13

In 2011, Clifford Owens asked a group of prominent, intergenerational African American artists for performance scores—written instructions specifying the performer’s actions—which he then performed in…

01.12.13 | 01.12.13

An installation by artist Jonathan Horowitz to coincide with the 2012 American presidential election season. The exhibition will be staged simultaneously at art museums across…

09.28.12 | 11.11.12

Sculptures, tableaux, and photomontages rooted in Alexander's South African experience speak to the porous borders between humans and other forms of animal life. Organized by…

08.11.12 | 11.04.12

A survey of the work of Alvin Baltrop (1948-2004), a bisexual African-American photographer whose work was rarely publicly presented during his lifetime but has become…

07.20.12 | 10.21.12

07.13.12 | 07.13.12

Curator Dean Daderko's debut at the CAMH is a dialogue with the readymade as an art form, featuring 18 artists including Rachel Hecker and William…

05.12.12 | 07.08.12

An evolving exhibition celebrating creative translations and transformations of movie culture. Weekly screenings and events every Thursday evening at 7:30 p.m. at CAMH. Schedule here.

04.13.12 | 07.08.12

A two-part screening of Thom Andersen's film Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), which explores how the city has been used as both a backdrop and…

05.24.12 | 05.24.12

A chromed, fiberglass figure of the iconic artist for your adoration, partly funded by an indiegogo campaign.

10.08.12 | 04.15.12

A travelling show examining the feminist contribution to 70's and 80's deconstructivism, curated by Helaine Posner of the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York…

01.21.12 | 04.15.12

Debra Barrera was born in Corpus Christi, TX and lives and works in Houston. Kristy Peet is an artist living and working in Houston. She…

04.05.12 | 04.05.12

The Houston debut for this Chicago-based, mid-career painter, born in 1946 as the eleventh child in a family living in rural Mississippi. Decidedly minimal, Binion's…

01.06.12 | 04.01.12

Current Core Fellow Anthea Behm works with video, photography, and performance. Celia Butler was an artist in residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

03.22.12 | 03.22.12

Houston artist Seth Mittag's  film work combines his experience as a professional puppet maker and his love for storytelling.  David Politzer is currently in residence…

02.16.12 | 02.16.12

The first comprehensive survey of work by New York-based painter Donald Moffett. Nine important bodies of work created over the last two decades.

09.30.11 | 01.08.12

Glen Fogel videotaped all his family's wedding rings  in style of the Home Shopping Network, and pairs them with paintings of enlarged love letters written…

10.15.11 | 12.31.11

New assemblages made specially for the CAMH, said to articulate a  post-AIDS generational identity inspired by the Menil's Twombly Pavillion. May include Yetis and/or a…

07.01.11 | 10.09.11

Featured artists Carrie Schneider and Clarissa Tossin will show images of their work, discuss their inspirations and creative practices, and answer questions from the audience…

09.22.11 | 09.22.11

26 artists who utilize craft, incorporate folklore, and revel in roadside kitsch in an era of virtual neighborhoods and fast-paced Internet communication, organized by the…

07.29.11 | 09.18.11

Co-presented by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Aurora Picture Show, this month's Summer Video Jam features editor and filmmaker John Carrithers, editor and filmmaker…

08.18.11 | 08.18.11

A story-telling panel discussion on the vernacular of Houston with humorist Nancy Ford, architectural gadabout Stephen Fox, graffiti chronicler Alex "PRIMO" Luster, roving food critic…

08.04.11 | 08.04.11

Aurora Picture Show and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston co-present a monthly gathering where local artists show recent film/video works, discuss and answer questions from…

07.14.11 | 07.14.11

The CAMH and MIT List Visual Arts Center present the first museum survey of the work of media artist Stan VanDerBeek. The exhibition is a…

05.14.11 | 07.10.11

The CAMH and its Teen Council present Perspectives 174: Re: Generation curated by Houston artist Robert A. Pruitt. The exhibition centers on, as Teen Council…

04.08.11 | 06.26.11

The first screening of the this Summer's Video Jam Series features experimental filmmaker and animator Kelly Sears and BE Johnny (Bree Edwards and Johnny DeKam),…

06.23.11 | 06.23.11

Answers to Questions features single-channel videos, multipart video installations, sculptural objects, and works on paper and marks the first United States museum survey of work…

02.12.11 | 04.10.11

Often incorporating the camera in his performance works, Owens blurs the boundaries between the documentation of his performance events and the creation of photographic artwork…

01.07.11 | 04.03.11

Born in the State of FLUX/us is a retrospective of Benjamin Patterson's career, spanning nearly fifty years. Emerging in the early 1960s, Patterson helped usher…

11.06.10 | 01.23.11

Berlin-based artist Kirsten Pieroth's project at the Contemporary Arts Museum investigates radio and telephone technology and the work of pioneering radio scientist Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937).…

10.01.10 | 01.02.11

PaperCity Magazine and the Texas Art Team invite you to an Artists Appreciation and Pre-Order Party for the limited-edition, signed-and-numbered book- Texas Artists Today by…

10.28.10 | 10.28.10

Dance with Camera features art works in film, video, and still photography that shows the ways dance has inspired visual artists to record bodies moving…

10.07.10 | 10.17.10

Perspectives 171: Jennifer West is the first solo museum exhibition for this Los Angeles-based artist and is curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, CAMH curator. Working…

07.15.10 | 09.26.10

Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, this group exhibition navigates the boundaries and intersections between the world of fine art and high craft. By including a…

05.15.10 | 07.25.10

San Antonio artist Cruz Ortiz takes over the CAMH for his first museum exhibition with his alien alter ego- the Spaztek, a post-Chicano, post-punk antihero…

05.07.10 | 07.11.10

Odili Donald Odita exhibits new paintings, works on Plexiglas and creates a site-specific exhibition based on the museum's architecture and the "social environment of Houston" (we…

02.12.10 | 05.02.10

Birth of Cool marks the first painting retrospective of Pennsylvania-born Barkley L. Hendricks. His dazzling, life-sized portraits of urban dwellers from the northeast are part of…

01.30.10 | 04.18.10

Pruitt has been all over this last year from the TX prize show to the Whitney Biennial. Come check out what he has been up…

03.29.11 | 02.18.10

"Austin-based photographers Anna Krachey, Jessica Mallios, and Adam Schreiber are fascinated by the transformations that occur when the visible world passes through the camera’s lens.…

11.05.09 | 02.07.10

CAMH director Bill Arning's last show from his previous gig at the MIT List Visual Arts Center comes to Houston! This looks to be an…

11.12.09 | 01.17.10

Houston native Jason Villegas returns home in a big way, with an in-your-face installation complete with assemblage, wall murals, and soft sculptures, as well as…

10.30.09 | 11.01.09

Houston's zoning-free approach to land use makes us unique among other large American cities. It adds to the flavor of the city, but has also…

10.02.09 | 10.04.09

CAMH presents the first solo museum exhibition of work by Berlin-based artist Torsten Slama. Perspectives 166 will feature a selection of approximately 35 large drawings,…

07.31.09 | 08.02.09

"The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s Teen Council presents their sixth exhibition of work by Houston-area teens titled Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure. Tasked with openly…

04.24.09 | 05.10.09

We've been looking forward to this ever since Wayne Dolcefino talked smack about a mysterious HAA-funded lesbian puppet show! The scope of this exhibit is…

03.27.09 | 04.12.09

The CAMH presents the first solo museum show of work by San Francisco-based artist Stephanie Syjuco. Check out her "re-imagined Houston newspapers, forged modernist furniture,…

12.11.08 | 02.22.09

Collaborating with The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970 examines the contributions…

10.18.08 | 01.04.09

Experimental music scores viewed as visual art... nice! Every Sound You Can Imagine includes examples by John Cage, Earle Brown, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Marclay, Stephen…

10.02.08 | 12.07.08

Beat the heat and check out Snow, featuring Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Allie Bogle and Houston photographer Libbie Masterson!! The show includes Masterson's 360° view…

07.25.08 | 10.05.08

Sam Taylor-Wood may not be as well known as Damien Hirst, but she's an important member of the YBAs nonetheless, (and her work is infinitely…

08.02.08 | 10.05.08

 As recommended in our 2008 Spring Preview, this should be an outstanding show. For The Old, Weird America, CAMH curator Toby Kamps has selected a…

06.27.08 | 07.20.08

Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee uses video, photography, and performance to "insert himself into cultural events and icons," casting himself as the lead in previously captured…

05.15.08 | 06.13.08

Dawoud Bey really gets around. With international exhibits under his belt and work in collections all over the country, the Aperture Foundation brings Bey's large-scale…

03.14.08 | 05.11.08

The Triennial presents "experimental projects, emerging ideas, major buildings, new products and media that were at that the center of contemporary culture from 2003 to…

01.26.08 | 04.20.08

The last show curated by Paola Morisiani! A group exhibit examining free association or

12.13.07 | 03.09.08

This is the first retrospective of this NYC based painter and will include 75 works from 1972 to the present, along with earlier works examining…

11.03.07 | 01.06.08

LA based Nipper presents her first solo museum show, which features photographs, sculptures and video works. She is presenting a large-scale video projection called An…

09.20.07 | 12.09.07

Organized by the CAM

08.17.07 | 10.21.07

Come out and see Simmons

07.20.07 | 09.16.07

Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Black Light White Noise includes recent works by: Sanford Biggers, Louis Cameron, Kianga Ford, Kira Lynn Harris, Satch Hoyt, Arthur…

05.25.07 | 08.05.07

Juried by Francesca Fuchs and includes local teens. Come see what the kids are up to these days!

05.04.07 | 06.15.07

Read what Kelly Klaasmeyer has to say!

01.01.70 | 05.06.07

Fuchs

04.21.07 | 04.29.07