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.
Past Exhibitions
The Veterans Book Project
BSC MOSAIC Student Artists with Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Juan Carlos Escobedo
Found Closet
Andreas Till: De Ami
The Other Side
Fake Plastic Forest
Alex Rubio, Mike Casey, 2021.
Mike Casey
NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Round 2
Installation view of Justin Korver, Buck, 2022. Photo courtesy of Blue Star Contemporary.
Justin Korver: Buck
Megan Harrison : From Your Brow Rise Leaf and Lyre
Jimmy James Canales: The Line Layer
Sofia Pina Cervantes, Plastic Tree, 2021.
Loominous
Threads Bare
The Sitter at TXST
Black Art Library at Contemporary at Blue Star, 2022. Photo by Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray.
Black Art Library
Red Dot Show
Red Dot Show
Video still. Robert B. Gonzales, The Path to Paradise (Begins in Hell), 2021.
PROJECTION/PROJEKTION
Charged Environment, 2020, Ink and colored pencil on antique paper (dated 1934), 13.75 x 11.25 inches
Terran Last Gun
COVID Cases by Continents
2021
Weaving with cotton ends and newspaper on a handdyed cotton warp
20 in x 16 in
Doerte Weber: Shed
Loc Huynh, Mom Making Pho, 2021. Acrylic on Linen, 20 x 16 in.
The Sitter
Nine Ways to Say Hello
Adobe bricks, mirror, lime wash, mica, cotton, cochineal insects, onion skins. 8’x15’x2’. 2018
Joanna Keane Lopez: The Adobe Color Laboratory
Theresa Newsome
Theresa Newsome: Objects of Aggression
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Sanctuary City Project
Installation view. Ryan Takaba, A Relationship with Flight, 2020. Image courtesy of BSC.