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.
Exhibition Archive
2023
People’s Homes: Emily Fitzgerald and Molly Sherman
Mar 3–Jun 4, 2023
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
Mar 3–Jun 4, 2023
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
Mar 3–Jun 4, 2023
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
Feb 3–May 7, 2023
Fake Plastic Forest at Texas State University
Jan 17–Apr 3, 2023
2022
Brianna Berlanga, Mixed Media and Plantas, 2022.
With Urgency: Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today
Dec 2, 2022–Mar 3, 2023
Fake Plastic Forest
Jul 1–Oct 9, 2022
The Other Side
Jul 1–Oct 9, 2022
The Veterans Book Project
Jun 3–Oct 9, 2022
Andreas Till: De Ami
Jul 1–Oct 9, 2022
Travel Distance curated by Amber Zora
Jun 3–Oct 9, 2022
BSC MOSAIC Student Artists with Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Juan Carlos Escobedo
Found Closet
Jun 3–Oct 9, 2022
NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Round 2
Jan 26–Jul 3, 2022
Jimmy James Canales: The Line Layer
Mar 4–May 29, 2022
Megan Harrison : From Your Brow Rise Leaf and Lyre
Mar 4–May 29, 2022
Installation view of Justin Korver, Buck, 2022. Photo courtesy of Blue Star Contemporary.
Justin Korver: Buck
Mar 4–May 29, 2022
Threads Bare
Feb 4–May 8, 2022
The Sitter at TXST
Jan 31–May 1, 2022
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Black Art Library
Feb 4–Apr 3, 2022
Red Dot Show
Nov 11–Jan 9, 2022
2021
Alex Rubio, Mike Casey, 2021.
Mike Casey
Jun 1, 2021–Sep 22, 2022
Sofia Pina Cervantes, Plastic Tree, 2021.
Loominous
Dec 3, 2021–May 8, 2022
Red Dot Show
Oct 7, 2021–Jan 9, 2022
Video still. Robert B. Gonzales, The Path to Paradise (Begins in Hell), 2021.
PROJECTION/PROJEKTION
Sep 3–11, 2021
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
Jul 1–Sep 5, 2021
Loc Huynh, Mom Making Pho, 2021. Acrylic on Linen, 20 x 16 in.
The Sitter
Jun 3–Sep 5, 2021
COVID Cases by Continents
2021
Weaving with cotton ends and newspaper on a handdyed cotton warp
20 in x 16 in
Doerte Weber: Shed
Jul 1–Sep 5, 2021
Charged Environment, 2020, Ink and colored pencil on antique paper (dated 1934), 13.75 x 11.25 inches
Terran Last Gun
Jul 1–Sep 5, 2021
Hye-Ryoung Min, Untitled from the series Re-membrance of the Remembrance, 2017.
Hye-Ryoung Min: Re-Membrance of the Remembrance
Jan 19–May 3, 2021
Posterworks
Jan 9–21, 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. Sarah Welch, Giveth and Taketh, 2020.
Giveth and Taketh
Feb 7–Aug 2, 2020
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
2019
INFUSION
Jul 23, 2019–Jun 21, 2020
Laeree performing during Teardowns performance on October 4, 2019. Photo credit Francisco Cortes.
Teardowns
Oct 4, 2019–Jan 5, 2020
Installation view. Margaret Craig, Sea Islands, 2019. Photo credit Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray
Sea Islands
Oct 4, 2019–Jan 5, 2020
Installation view. Formal Proof, 2019. Photo credit Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray
Formal Proof
Oct 4, 2019–Jan 5, 2020
Installation detail. Tsuyoshi Anzai, Healthy Machines, 2019. Photo credit Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray
Healthy Machines
Oct 4, 2019–Jan 5, 2020
Makayla Morris, Parker, 2019. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Blue Star Contemporary.
UNCHARTED
Oct 4, 2019–Jan 3, 2020
R. Eric McMaster, Pendulum, 2014. Digital video, 5 minute 12 seconds looped. Image courtesy of the artist.
Effort Economy at TXST
Aug 26–Dec 13, 2019
NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Exhibition
NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Exhibition
Jun 27–Sep 29, 2019
Amada Miller, Hollow moon rings like a bell, 2019. Handblown glass and meteorites. Image courtesy of the artist.
Fünf
Jun 7–Sep 8, 2019
IMPRESSION
Jun 7–Sep 6, 2019
Ghostly Demarcations
Mar 1–May 5, 2019
Still from She century, 2015, Julie Favreau courtesy of artist and Division Gallery Montreal
Effort Economy
Feb 1–May 5, 2019
Revision
Feb 1–May 5, 2019
A Conversation
Mar 1–14, 2019
2018
Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly
Oct 4, 2018–Jan 6, 2019
Color of Confusion
Oct 4, 2018–Jan 6, 2019
Gesamtkunstwerk
Oct 4, 2018–Jan 6, 2019
Unearthed: Desenterrado
Oct 4, 2018–Jan 6, 2019
Transitions
Oct 4, 2018–Jan 6, 2019
EPOCH
Jun 23–Dec 15, 2018
This Is Only A Test
Sep 20–Nov 17, 2018
Image Credit: J. McGilvray
From Underfoot: Breaking Through Surface and Ground
Jun 7–Sep 9, 2018
Image Credit: J. McGilvray
A Manhattan Beach Memoir
Jun 7–Sep 9, 2018
Image Credit: J. McGilvray
As Far As The Eye Can See
Jun 7–Sep 9, 2018
Veo Mis Huesos
Jun 7–Sep 9, 2018
Origins, Rations, Extractions at TXST
Mar 19–Aug 26, 2018
Pledges of Allegiance
Jun 6–Jul 3, 2018
Chicas Bonitas
Mar 20–May 12, 2018
Digression
Feb 1–May 6, 2018
Common Currents
Feb 1–May 6, 2018
Manifest
Feb 1–May 6, 2018
Pledges of Allegiance – Rirkrit Tiravanija
Apr 4–25, 2018
2017
Prevalence
Mar 25, 2017–Mar 25, 2018
Home Bodies
Oct 5, 2017–Jan 21, 2018
Origins, Rations, Extractions
Oct 5, 2017–Jan 7, 2018
Phylum
Oct 5, 2017–Jan 7, 2018
Girl You Can
Oct 26–Dec 9, 2017
by Susi Brister, 2014, Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle photo rag, 24 x 20"
Augmented Reality at TXST
Aug 28–Nov 2, 2017
Chroma
Jun 1–Sep 9, 2017
Augmented Reality
Jun 1–Sep 3, 2017
Echo and Narcissus
Jun 1–Sep 3, 2017
Insurrection
Jun 1–Sep 3, 2017
Homage
Feb 2–May 7, 2017
The Blue Hour (A clock stopped)
Feb 2–May 7, 2017
M*dres
Feb 2–May 7, 2017
Turning Memory
Feb 2–May 7, 2017
Calorie
Feb 2–May 7, 2017
Hold Still at TXST
Jan 1–May 1, 2017
2016
Art In The Garden – Alyson Shotz
Jun 30, 2016–May 31, 2017
Beneath Metropolis
Nov 4, 2016–Jan 8, 2017
Reclaimed By Nature
Nov 4, 2016–Jan 8, 2017
Hold Still
Nov 4, 2016–Jan 8, 2017
Flexible Foundation
Nov 4, 2016–Jan 8, 2017
2016, Oil on Paper, 30.5" X 20"
REGENERATION
Nov 4, 2016–Jan 8, 2017
Spill
Oct 28–Dec 10, 2016
Obstacle
Sep 8–Oct 15, 2016
Broken Lens
Aug 4–Oct 9, 2016
Featuring Kirsten Reynolds. On view at 112 Blue Star until October 9, 2016
Splitsplice
Aug 4–Oct 9, 2016
Plexus c18
Oct 1, 2016
Lulu Castillo, "Fusion", Digital Print, 2016
NUCLEAR
Jun 10–Jul 15, 2016
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Organized by Independent Curators International
Do It & Do It (Archive)
Mar 3–May 8, 2016
2016, Intaglio Print, 13”x 13” Suite of 12 prints, Edition of 12
Going On Going
Mar 3–May 8, 2016
Blue Star Ice Company
Mar 3–May 8, 2016
Ezekiel Garcia, Digital Print, PicsArt2, polygen on acer iconia tablet
SEMBLANCE
Mar 3–May 5, 2016
2015
ICON
Feb 1, 2015–Feb 1, 2017
Neon and digital print on wood.
Gift: An Exquisite Exhibition
Dec 3, 2015–Feb 7, 2016
Landscapes By The Book
Dec 3, 2015–Feb 7, 2016
Turn Your Face Toward The Sun
Dec 3, 2015–Feb 7, 2016
EARTHWORKS
Dec 3, 2015–Feb 7, 2016
One-Way Trail, Art In The Garden
Mar 12, 2015–Jan 31, 2016
Narrative Axis
Sep 3–Nov 8, 2015
Territory
Sep 3–Nov 8, 2015
Ezekiel Garcia, oil on canvas, 39" x 39", 2015
XENO
Sep 4–Nov 8, 2015
Opening weekend of Every Day is Ordinary (June – August 2015) , an exhibition curated from the 2014-2015 Blue Star Contemporary Open Call top 10% of applicants
Everyday Is Ordinary
Jun 4–Aug 9, 2015
Dani Toral, Oliver, Oil on Canvas, 33" x 40", 2015
EPISODE
Jun 4–Aug 9, 2015
Installation view of Transmission, on view from June – August 2015
Transmission
Jun 4–Aug 9, 2015
Cynthia Gregory, Wise Stars Bedding Over Me
Of Reference, Of Departure, Of Origin
Jun 4–Aug 9, 2015
Terraced wood, flock, rocks 9x9x5 2014
Stellar Scape
Jun 4–Aug 9, 2015
Back From Berlin
Mar 5–May 10, 2015
The Great Trash Reef
Jan 2–Feb 15, 2015
2014
Installation Shot
Northern Triangle
Dec 4, 2014–Sep 16, 2018
Alegela Fox
Spatial Planes
Dec 4, 2014–Feb 15, 2015
El Intercambio
Tierra Y Libertad
Dec 4, 2014–Feb 15, 2015
Joe Lopez
Del Corazon
Dec 4, 2014–Feb 15, 2015
Emergence
Sep 4–Nov 9, 2014
Tommy Gregory
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Oct 2–Nov 9, 2014
Dark And Lovely
Sep 4–Nov 9, 2014
28 x 24 in. Acrylic and gouache on paper. 2013
Code-Mixing
Sep 4–Nov 9, 2014
Contemporary at Blue Star At Luminaria
Nov 7–8, 2014
Reticence
Sep 4–28, 2014
Tipping Point
Apr 3–Aug 3, 2014
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Plexus No.26
Jun 5–Aug 3, 2014
Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytellers
Jun 5–Aug 3, 2014
Ancestral Archetypes
Jul 2–Aug 3, 2014
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Mixed Mantras
Jun 5–29, 2014
Post Penis
Mar 6–May 11, 2014
Now What
Mar 6–May 11, 2014
Organismo
Mar 6–May 11, 2014
Euroscapes
Mar 6–30, 2014
Art In The Garden 2014
Feb 28, 2014
Stardance
Jan 23–Feb 16, 2014
2013
Smarter, Faster, Higher
Dec 5, 2013–Feb 16, 2014
Broken Landscape III
Dec 5, 2013–Feb 16, 2014
Art In The Garden 2013
Mar 22, 2013–Feb 1, 2014
Faith And Reason
Dec 5, 2013–Jan 19, 2014
Aura
Dec 13–27, 2013
TX★13
Sep 5–Nov 3, 2013
Texas Tough: Jill Bedgood – Book Of Hours: Intervention
Jun 6–Aug 24, 2013
Texas Tough: Amita Bhatt – Depends Who You Ask
Jun 6–Aug 24, 2013
Texas Tough: Sharon Kopriva – From Terra To Verde
Jun 6–Aug 24, 2013
Texas Tough: Sherry Owens – Origins
Jun 6–Aug 24, 2013
Kathy Sosa
May 31–Jul 31, 2013
A Forty-Year Overview (1973-2013)
Feb 28–May 11, 2013
Solo Exhibition
Feb 28–May 11, 2013
Continuum
Apr 6–May 11, 2013
Renaissance
May 2–11, 2013
Laden Gesture
Apr 4–27, 2013
Brake
Feb 28–Mar 30, 2013
Art In The Garden 2012
Mar 22–23, 2013
2012
Meet Me In The Bottoms
Dec 6, 2012–Feb 16, 2013
Lines & Other Curves
Dec 6, 2012–Feb 16, 2013
Dirty Dozen
Dec 6, 2012–Feb 16, 2013
San Antonio Painters II
Sep 6–Nov 17, 2012
(Re)Turn
Oct 4–27, 2012
Sky Patterson, Solo Exhibition
May 31–Aug 18, 2012
Texas Sculpture Group Interior Exhibition
May 31–Aug 18, 2012
Passage To The Future
Mar 1–May 5, 2012
Juanito
Mar 1–May 5, 2012
Juxtaposition Of 1970’S With 2012
Apr 5–28, 2012
Spaces In Between
Mar 1–24, 2012
The Texas Sized Print, A Public Art Piece
Feb 2–Mar 8, 2012
2011
Art in the Garden: Texas Uprising – Selections from the Texas Sculpture Group
Mar 11, 2011–Mar 1, 2012
Four Deacades With Colour
Dec 1, 2011–Feb 12, 2012
Featuring Philip John Evett
Dec 1, 2011–Feb 12, 2012
Levelland [Points Of Scale]
Dec 1, 2011–Feb 12, 2012
Reckoning
Dec 1–31, 2011
Prequel
Nov 3–6, 2011
Carlos Betancourt
Sep 1–Nov 6, 2011
Recent Works
Sep 1–Nov 6, 2011
Minimally Baroque
Sep 1–Nov 6, 2011
Bodies Of Work
Oct 6–29, 2011
Looking Back; The Minutia Series Continues
Sep 1–30, 2011
Texas Uprising: Selections From The Texas Sculpture Group Part II
Jun 2–Aug 6, 2011
DySTOPic ProgressiONs
Jun 2–Aug 6, 2011
Kind Of Undisputed
May 5–Jul 7, 2011
Blank Tides
Mar 3–May 14, 2011
Breathing Light
Mar 3–May 14, 2011
Dam the Torpedoes
Mar 3–May 14, 2011
Texas Biennial: Jade Walker
Apr 21–May 14, 2011
Texas Biennial: Tom Orr
Mar 31–Apr 16, 2011
Slow Gemini
Mar 3–26, 2011
Lousie Serpa Photography
Feb 3–12, 2011
Spanish your art – The New Generation
Jan 6–Feb 5, 2011
Requiem for an English Major
Jan 6–29, 2011
2010
Art In The Garden
Oct 14, 2010–Mar 30, 2011
“You Appear To Me To Be Someone Whose Life Is Meaningless.”
Sep 2–Nov 6, 2010
Casual Observer
Sep 30–Nov 6, 2010
This Is Not A Photo Show
Sep 2–Nov 6, 2010
10 Days
Sep 30–Oct 30, 2010
Structural Visions
Sep 25–Oct 10, 2010
“I’d Rather Get Fired Than Quit.”
Aug 26–Oct 2, 2010
Art In The Garden
Mar 25–Sep 30, 2010
Mater Terra
Aug 14–Sep 25, 2010
New Crew Works
Aug 14–Sep 25, 2010
Kathy Drive
Sep 2–25, 2010
Passengers
Aug 5–29, 2010
Fire In The Belly
Jun 3–Aug 14, 2010
Launch-11: Recipients Of The International Sculpture Center 2009 Student Awards
Jun 3–Aug 14, 2010
Selections From Steve Brudniak: Noumenon, And Other New Work
Jul 1–31, 2010
Embedded
Jun 3–26, 2010
Random Elements
May 6–15, 2010
It’s Rigged
Mar 4–May 15, 2010
Amalgamations 25: 28 Artists For 25 Great Years
Mar 4–May 15, 2010
Kyle Olson
The Original Drawings Of James Surls Presented By The Blue Star Print Project
Apr 1–May 1, 2010
A Girl In The Middle
Mar 4–28, 2010
Now That You Are Here, Begin.
Jan 6–30, 2010
Revisitation
Apr 30, 2010–Jun 14, 2009
2009
The History Of The Future
Sep 3, 2009–Nov 13, 2010
Art In The Garden
Jul 16, 2009–Jun 1, 2010
The Familiar Unknown
Dec 3, 2009–Feb 13, 2010
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Tertium Quid, The Third Thing
Dec 3, 2009–Feb 13, 2010
Passage
Dec 3, 2009–Jan 2, 2010
Extensions
Sep 3–Nov 13, 2009
KSOSA BRIDE Final 090809, 9/8/09, 8:30 PM, 16C, 9756x12078 (18+2664), 150%, custom ?????, 1/8 s, R88.5, G25.5, B36.3
Tree Of Life Series: Phase 1
Oct 1–31, 2009
BLACK SITES I
Sep 3–26, 2009
Electroism
Aug 6–15, 2009
Lonely Are The Brave
Jul 2–Aug 15, 2009
And ….
Jul 2–26, 2009
RETROSPECTIVE PART 1: ARTIST’S COLLECTION 1980 – 2009
Apr 2–Jun 16, 2009
Autosave-File vom d-lab2/3 der AgfaPhoto GmbH
Unreliable Narrator
Apr 2–Jun 14, 2009
Introducing Introduction
Jun 2–13, 2009
Country Wave
Apr 2–May 23, 2009
So That We May Find What Has Been Lost
Apr 2–26, 2009
ARTsmart Student Exhibit: Self Image
Mar 5–28, 2009
Optimism And Horror
Jan 22–Mar 15, 2009
Ever Self Ever
Jan 22–Mar 15, 2009
JL050209
Feb 5–Mar 1, 2009
2008
Art In The Garden: Myth Magic And Mysteries: Susan Budge
Jul 10, 2008–Jun 15, 2009
Rimanenze: Lost And Found
Dec 4, 2008–Feb 1, 2009
Journey Into Civilizations
Sep 20, 2008–Jan 5, 2009
New Art In Austin: 20 To Watch
Nov 6, 2008–Jan 4, 2009
The 29th Parallel By The Yard: North America Pattern: Alien Rhythms
Nov 6–30, 2008
Soul Doubt
Oct 2–Nov 1, 2008
Counter-Photography – Japan’s Artists Today
Sep 4–Oct 19, 2008
IRAN: Patrick Zeller Returns From His 2006 Motorcycle Journey
Sep 4–Oct 19, 2008
LANDSCAPES
Sep 4–28, 2008
Moctezuma’s Table
Jul 12–Sep 1, 2008
Reflections
Aug 21–23, 2008
Blue Star 23: Playing With Time
Jun 26–Aug 17, 2008
Exodus
Jun 26–Aug 17, 2008