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

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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
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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