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
Sizhu Li: Moonment: Finding A Way
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.
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
En Las Sombras, Nuestros Fantasmas Acechan (Within the shadows lurk ghosts of our own In the shadows, our ghosts lurk)
Past Exhibitions
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.
With Urgency: Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today
