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
Detail Anthony Rundblade, Star Eyes (Guantes), 2023. Concrete, hauling chain, track spikes, magnets, steel plate, found image. 23”T x 16”W x 5”D
Mosh Now, Cry Later: San Antonio’s love of sad rock and its impacts on visual culture
Alyssa Danna, Tantalizing Middle Part, 2025. Photo by Jorge Villarreal.
Alyssa Danna: Tantalizing Middle Part
Installation view, Paloma Rosenzweig
Between 1 (Ente 1) and Between 3 (Ente 3), 2023-2024
Hand-felted wool, ceramics, brass, and natural pigments; Laguna, Mexico City, Mexico
In the Shadows, Our Ghosts Lurk (En Las Sombras, Nuestros Fantasmas Acechan)
Past Exhibitions
Sizhu Li: Moonment: Finding A Way
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
Mark Hogensen, A Landscape of Many Dimensions, 2023. Ink on paper, 50 x 38"
Red Dot Show
Photo credit Josie Norris
Mark Hogensen: Spatial Geographies, 34th Annual Red Dot Show
C& Center of Unfinished Business at Contemporary at Blue Star
The C& Center of Unfinished Business
Al Rendon, "Raúl Salinas, 1987." Archival pigment ink print
Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers | Soñadores + creadores del cambio
Kaysaypac: Portraits and Figures by Leeanna Chipana, 2024. Photo by Beth Devillier.
Kaysaypac: Portraits and Figures by Leeanna Chipana
Xinhao Cheng, still from "Silver... and other Elements", 4 channel video, on view at Contemporary at Blue Star.
Cheng Xinhao: Silver… and Other Elements
Nela Garzón, "Things Go Better with Coke," 2023. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
Vernacular Systems: the 2024 CAM Perennial exhibition
Michael Guerra Foerster: Without a Trace
Joe Harjo, "Mourning the Motherland (Praying)," 2024. Photograph, pigment print. Courtesy of the artist.
Joe Harjo: Indian Removal Act II: And She Was
Adam Schreiber: Stadtwald at Texas State University
Cathy Cunningham-Little in her studio. Photo by Woody Lawson and VANTAS Productions.
Red Dot Show
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
Adam Schreiber, Untitled 2, 2023, Silver gelatin print. Courtesy of the artist.
Adam Schreiber: Stadtwald
The Direct Path, 2023, Paper sculpture, 18” x 18” x 3”
Michael Velliquette: The Direct Path
Brittany Ham, Tunnel and Breach oil on paper 5 3/4 in x 7 in, 2023
Brittany Ham: Unmooring
Actions for the Earth Reference Library
People’s Homes: Emily Fitzgerald and Molly Sherman
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
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
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
Fake Plastic Forest at Texas State University
Brianna Berlanga, Mixed Media and Plantas, 2022.