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Exhibition Archive

From its beginning in 1986, the Contemporary at Blue Star has hosted a multitude of innovative exhibitions showcasing emerging and established San Antonio, national, and international contemporary artists. Below you can find an ever-growing collection of the Contemporary’s exhibition history. Our online archives currently only date back to 2007, but BSC staff is diligently working to catalog 30 years of physical archives to transfer here.

2023

2022

2021

2020

Jamal Cyrus, Lemon’s New World Blues, 2014.

Please Form A Straight Line

Nov 6, 2020–May 9, 2021

Installation view. Ryan Takaba, A Relationship with Flight, 2020. Image courtesy of BSC.

A Relationship with Flight

Nov 6, 2020–May 9, 2021

Contribute your story to the Sanctuary City Project.

Sanctuary City Project

Nov 6, 2020–May 9, 2021

Theresa Newsome

Theresa Newsome: Objects of Aggression

Nov 6, 2020–May 9, 2021

César A. Martínez, Veterano.

Veterano

Sep 23–Oct 31, 2020

César A. Martínez, El Mestizo, 2017

Red Dot Show

Sep 23–Oct 4, 2020

Victoria Rodriguez, Isolation, 2020. Prismacolor on paper, 11.5 x 14. “While being in isolation for so long, I’ve begun to feel a little out of my mind mentally, and my dreams have become more vivid. It feels like my mind is stretched thin and exhausted. Contrasting those feelings with bright colors associated with more positive feelings, I feel will draw the viewer’s attention to my work.”

Quarantine Diaries

Jun 12–Sep 22, 2020

Installation view of Sarah Welch installation

Installation view. Sarah Welch, Giveth and Taketh, 2020.

Giveth and Taketh

Feb 7–Aug 2, 2020

Documentation of installation

Installation view. Rand Renfrow, More Findings, 2020.

More Findings

Feb 7–Aug 2, 2020

Arturo Herrera, Set #1 Flüsse und Seen, 2012, Silkscreen and mixed media on paper, 26,8 x 20,2 x 1,2 cm, 3 of 12

2020 Spring Exhibitions Preview

Feb 7–May 3, 2020

Novel Ideas at Blue Star Contemporary. Photo credit: Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray

Novel Ideas

Feb 7–May 3, 2020

Candace Hicks

Secret Passage

Feb 7–May 3, 2020

Publishing Against the Grain

Feb 7–May 3, 2020

Zeandra Menjares, In Bloom, 2019.

CUT OUT

Feb 7–May 1, 2020

Johanna Cerda Elizondo Te Amo, Mi Vida, 2020. Oil on canvas. (Above, detail) Leonardo Arteaga Toledo, An Apple, 2020. Ceramic. (Below, detail)

Intuitive Exploration

Mar 5–11, 2020

Novel Ideas Art Book Fair

Mar 6–7, 2020

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2017

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2012

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2007