Join the Contemporary for the opening of Mark Menjívar’s solo exhibition. Murmurations is an expansive, mid-career survey exhibition highlighting more than  10 multifaceted projects from Menjívar’s body of work from the past 20 years. Broadly, Menjívar works through social practice and participatory education models to focus on community building. In his projects Menjívar creates frameworks for students, community groups, and leaders to come together and have critical dialogues about the issues impacting their lives.

The opening is free and open to all. The Blue Star Arts Complex parking lot fee is $15 on First Fridays. Click here to view our neighborhood parking map for other parking options. 

Join the Contemporary as artist Mark Menjívar walks us through his mid-career survey exhibition, Murmurations. Participants can enjoy complimentary breakfast tacos and coffee as we explore Mark’s unique body of work that focuses on social practice, community building, and participatory education. This event is open to all ages and is free to the public with registration.

 

Join the Contemporary for breakfast tacos and a gallery walk-through with our Red Dot Artist Honoree, Meredith Dean. The walk-through will focus on Dean’s multifaceted artistic practice spanning the last 40 years and will dive into her work and process. This event is free with registration and open to everyone.

 

About the Exhibition 

The Red Dot Show is an annual survey exhibition of San Antonio-based artists contributing their work to Red Dot in support of the Contemporary. It features more than 100 artworks exhibited throughout all four of the Contemporary’s galleries. As Above, So Below is a small survey of work by 2025 Red Dot Honorary Artist Meredith Dean, which highlights her multifaceted practice of the past 40 years. It foregrounds her approaches to observation and mark making as vehicles to connect to deep time and place. Meredith often references various types of maps in the structure of her compositions while building her own language of record keeping. The formal relationship to star charts, topographic and geologic maps, aerial and microscopic imagery are ever present, yet shifted into gestural and abstracted impressions, reliant on color, repetition, and the presence of the hand.

 

Thank You, H-E-B!

This event is made possible with the generous support of H-E-B, celebrating 10 years of South Flores Market! The South Flores Market is home to multiple artworks by the late, great, local artist Chuck Ramirez. Before the artworks debuted at the South Flores Market for its grand opening, they were presented right here at the Contemporary for a special preview. We are so grateful for their support of this and upcoming programs in celebration of the South Flores Market!

Join the Contemporary for a new installment of “Taco Talk” an exhibition program and curator walk-through with coffee and breakfast tacos. Learn more about the artworks in In the Shadows, Our Ghosts Lurk from guest curator Fabiola Iza. Visitors will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage with the curator of the exhibition.

+ Registration is required for this free program (link below).

+ Would you like to support exhibition programs like these? Consider donating $5 with your registration!

 

Join us on First Friday for a pop up studio sale with our 2025–2026 Berlin Resident Artists! Participating artists Brandy González, Anthony Rundblade, and Andrea Willems will have select artwork for sale to raise additional funds to support their residency stay in Berlin. All of the proceeds will directly benefit the artists.

+ The studio sale will take place in our Education Space, located directly between our main gallery entrance and Slab Cinema.

Join the Contemporary for a new installment of “Taco Talk” an exhibition program and curator walk-through with coffee and breakfast tacos. Learn more about the work in Mosh Now, Cry Later  and Alyssa Danna’s Tantalizing Middle Part. Visitors will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage with the artists in the exhibitions.

Registration is required for this free program (link below).

Would you like to support exhibition programs like these? Consider donating $5 with your registration!

The Contemporary welcomes visitors for breakfast tacos and a gallery walk-through with exhibiting artist Sizhu Li. Learn more about Moonment, an ongoing installation project inspired by the Chinese ancient poem “海上生明月，天涯共此时” by Tang poet Zhang Jiuling. Moonment is a site-specific installation that will be on view in the Contemporary’s main gallery.

This event is free and open to everyone with registration (link below).

The Contemporary is excited to welcome visitors to a reception of In Our Own Worlds, a special MOSAIC Student Artist exhibition on view in our inaugural Red Dot Shop.

In Our Own Worlds is a collection of artworks created by the Contemporary’s MOSAIC Student Artists. Working alongside visiting artist Kat Cadena, students reflected on the concept of voice to discuss topics such as human rights and home. The painting workshop encouraged students to research and create their own mini murals on wood panels with alternatively shaped surfaces and textures, providing students a chance to practice problem solving as a muralist.

About the Artists:

River Castillo studies plants, animals, and the way nature coexists with people. They take every opportunity to create art and be a voice for the environment.

Taylor Montemayor is a native San Antonian who took an interest in art at the age of three. She has since been dedicated to sharpening her artistic skills to effectively express her voice and tell her story.

Oscar Magaña is an aspiring illustrator that expresses his personality through silly and original characters. His work is often playful with the goal of cultivating joy and happiness in the world, reconnecting viewers with their inner child.

Join the Contemporary for breakfast tacos and a gallery walk-through with our Red Dot Artist Honoree, Mark Hogensen. The walk-through will focus on Hogensen’s career-spanning presentation of work titled Spatial Geographies, included in the Red Dot Show, and dive into his work and process. This event is free with registration and open to everyone. 
 
About the Exhibition 
The Red Dot Show is an annual survey exhibition of San Antonio-based artists contributing their work to Red Dot in support of the Contemporary. It features more than 100 artworks exhibited throughout all four of the Contemporary’s galleries.