Exhibitions & Events
The Contemporary hosts over 12 onsite and offsite dynamic exhibitions every year which include emerging, mid-career, and established artists working in a variety of media to provide a full range of the depth and scope of contemporary art.
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
![A mixed media drawing of acrylic medium and gold pigment on plexi-glass depicts two male figures with arms raised above their heads as if holding a long pieces of wood together. Instead their hands are holding white lines. A series of white lines or bands intersects in the center of the composition, making an abstracted, building like construction. In the background is a textural wash, similar to peeling paint with a water color like effect in the bottom third of the composition. The drawing has a monochromatic, sepia tone.](https://contemporarysa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/16-Golden-Age-of-Construction-view-2.jpeg)
Raul Rene Gonzalez
The Golden Age of Construction
Acrylic medium and gold
pigment on plexi-glass
46 x 48”
2013
Latitudes at Lake|Flato Architects
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C& Center of Unfinished Business at Contemporary at Blue Star
The C& Center of Unfinished Business
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Al Rendon, "Raúl Salinas, 1987." Archival pigment ink print
Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers | Soñadores + creadores del cambio
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Leeanna Chipana, Woman in Blue Hat, oil on board, 16" x 20".
Kaysaypac: Portraits and Figures by Leeanna Chipana
![A dark gallery with three screens. From left to right, a stream over rocks, two hands cupped together holding silver coins, and another stream.](https://contemporarysa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_0274-scaled.jpg)
Xinhao Cheng, still from "Silver... and other Elements", 4 channel video, on view at Contemporary at Blue Star.
Cheng Xinhao: Silver… and Other Elements
Past Exhibitions
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Michael Guerra Foerster: Without a Trace
![A bright green field of trees with a path down the middle and hills in the background. A cropdusting plane flies above a couple of female workers in the trees. Rainbows and a line of cooke bottles decorate the left side of the canvas. In the middle a man sprays a toxic chemical on the field.](https://contemporarysa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Nela-Garzon-Things-Go-Better-with-Coke.jpeg)
Nela Garzón, "Things Go Better with Coke," 2023. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
Vernacular Systems: the 2024 CAM Perennial exhibition
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Joe Harjo, "Mourning the Motherland (Praying)," 2024. Photograph, pigment print. Courtesy of the artist.
Joe Harjo: Indian Removal Act II: And She Was
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Adam Schreiber: Stadtwald at Texas State University
![Woman artist Cathy Cunningham-Little in an apron and black tshirt sitting on a stool in the middle of her studio space.](https://contemporarysa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CCL-credit-Woody-Lawson-3.jpg)
Cathy Cunningham-Little in her studio. Photo by Woody Lawson and VANTAS Productions.
Red Dot Show
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Adam Schreiber, Untitled 2, 2023, Silver gelatin print. Courtesy of the artist.
Adam Schreiber: Stadtwald
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Actions for the Earth Reference Library
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Brittany Ham, Tunnel and Breach oil on paper 5 3/4 in x 7 in, 2023
Brittany Ham: Unmooring
![The Direct Path, 2023, Paper sculpture, 18” x 18” x 3”](https://contemporarysa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/MVell_26.jpg)
The Direct Path, 2023, Paper sculpture, 18” x 18” x 3”
Michael Velliquette: The Direct Path
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Lhola Amira, IRMANDADE: The Shape of Water in Pindorama, 2018-2020, HD video, single channel sound, film still. Image courtesy of SMAC Gallery, copyright Lhola Amira.
Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology
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People’s Homes: Emily Fitzgerald and Molly Sherman
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Dog (Germany)19, 2022, gouache and sumi ink on oriental paper, 9 ½ x13x ½
The Dog Show: Time Traveler Umeyama’s Drawings from the 21st Century, Hiromi Stringer
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Zeke Pena, River History is an excerpt from River Stories (2019), an on going project illustrating oral histories about the River that sustains the present-day Paso Del Norte region.
In Passing: Fronteño Epics Across Time, Juan de Dios Mora and Zeke Peña
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Contemporary at Blue Star installation view. JooYoung Choi, "Like a Bolt Out of the Blue, Faith Steps In and Sees You Through," 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Inman Gallery, Houston. Photo credit: Francisco Cortes
JooYoung Choi: Songs of Resilience from the Tapestry of Faith
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Fake Plastic Forest at Texas State University
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Brianna Berlanga, Mixed Media and Plantas, 2022.
With Urgency: Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today
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Travel Distance curated by Amber Zora
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The Veterans Book Project
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BSC MOSAIC Student Artists with Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Juan Carlos Escobedo
Found Closet
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Andreas Till: De Ami
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The Other Side
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Fake Plastic Forest
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Alex Rubio, Mike Casey, 2021.
Mike Casey
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