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
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.
With Urgency: Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today
Travel Distance curated by Amber Zora
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.