From the Contemporary Austin: "This is the first U.S. museum exhibition of Tenant of Culture, a moniker for the artistic practice of Hendrickje Schimmel (b.…
January 31 through August 03, 2025
RAVEN HALFMOON: FLAGS OF OUR MOTHERS
From the Contemporary Austin: "Raven Halfmoon’s (b. 1991, Caddo Nation; lives and works in Norman, Oklahoma) touring solo exhibition will span both of The Contemporary…
January 31 through August 03, 2025
JIAB PRACHAKUL: SWEET SOLITUDE
From the Contemporary Austin: "This is the first solo museum exhibition of artist Jiab Prachakul (b. 1979, Nakhon Phanom, Thailand), a self-taught artist, originally trained…
January 31 through August 03, 2025
HOST: Katarina Janečková Walshe
From The Contemporary Austin: "Katarina Janečková Walshe's painterly practice has long explored complexities of female-identified experience, including sexuality, domesticity, and motherhood. Ten years ago, when…
September 06 through December 08, 2024
Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses
From the Contemporary Austin: "Description: Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses surveys six decades of the prescient, genre-defying work of artist Carl Cheng (b. 1942, San Francisco;…
September 06 through December 08, 2024
LUBAINA HIMID: MAKE DO AND MEND
From the Contemporary Austin: "Lubaina Himid (b. 1954, Zanzibar; lives and works in Preston, UK) is the recipient of the 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art…
March 01 through July 21, 2024
Yes, And: A HOST: Fusebox program with Gesel Mason
From the Contemporary Austin: "Marking the last of three HOST: Fusebox programs and celebrating the winding down of Lubaina Himid: Make Do and Mend, we invite you to…
June 15 through June 15, 2024
From the organizers: "Tomorrow is Cancelled is a one-night, multi-media installation and performance presented by theater artist Jim Findlay in collaboration with sound/video artist Jim…
May 29 through May 29, 2024
From the Contemporary Austin: "This fall, The Contemporary Austin presents This Land, a group exhibition exploring the social and ecological effects of colonialism and capitalism…
September 28 through January 28, 2024
From the Contemporary Austin: "Working across sculpture, video, sound, and performance, Aryel René Jackson (born 1991, Louisiana) explores landscape as a site of personal representation. In…
September 28 through January 28, 2024
IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY
From the Contemporary Austin: "This fall, The Contemporary Austin will present works by eight artists in a group exhibition exploring how narratives and storytelling shape…
September 17 through February 12, 2023
From the Contemporary Austin: "Winner of the 2022 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, Tarek Atoui (Lebanese, born 1980 in Beirut) is a Paris-based…
April 09 through August 14, 2022
DANIEL JOHNSTON: I LIVE MY BROKEN DREAMS
From The Contemporary Austin: "Organized by The Contemporary Austin, Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams is the first-ever museum survey of works by the visionary…
September 11 through March 20, 2022
From The Contemporary Austin: "Crit Group Reunion brings together artists who have participated in the museum’s Crit Group program, showcasing the spectrum of contemporary art in…
September 11 through January 16, 2022
The Devil and Daniel Johnston Screening
For ticketing to this event, go here. From The Contemporary Austin: "Friday, November 12 on the Jones Center rooftop. Doors open at 5:30pm, Film begins…
November 12 through November 12, 2021
From the Contemporary Austin: "Torbjørn Rødland (born 1970 in Stavanger, Norway) works with analog technology and readymade spaces to create photographs that render the everyday uncanny.…
January 23 through August 15, 2021
To register for the March 2 artist talk with Deborah Roberts & Heather Pesanti, go here. From the Contemporary Austin: "The first solo Texas museum…
January 23 through August 15, 2021
NICOLE EISENMAN: STURM UND DRANG
"As the winner of the 2020 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, New York–based artist Nicole Eisenman presents a solo exhibition at The Contemporary…
February 27 through November 15, 2020
An annual celebration event from the Contemporary Austin. From the Contemporary Austin: "The Contemporary Austin is proud to take part in the Austin Museum Partnership’s…
September 20 through September 20, 2020
Attached to History: Queer Archives and Contemporary Art and Design
Andy Campbell is an art historian, critic, and curator whose work considers how contemporary art and design interfaces with the archives of marginalized communities. In…
March 12 through March 12, 2020
Rooftop Art and Design Film: The Proposal
A film screening by Jill Magid. "Luis Barragán is among the most celebrated architects of the 20th century. Upon his death in 1988, much of…
October 07 through October 07, 2019
Abraham Cruzvillegas: Hi, How Are You, Gonzo?
An exhibition across both floors of the museum featuring site-specific, mixed media work by Abraham Cruzvillegas. The exhibition features over thirty"activation" events throughout the run…
March 30 through July 14, 2019
Janine Antoni and Anna Halprin: Paper Dance
Paper Dance is a retrospective featuring thirty years of photographs and sculptures by artist Janine Antoni. The show includes multiple dance performances by the artist that she…
January 23 through March 17, 2019
Jessica Stockholder: Relational Aesthetics
An exhibition of works by artist Jessica Stockholder. "Bringing painting into three-dimensional space, Stockholder uses everyday objects as building materials, celebrating the potential for color, form,…
September 15 through March 03, 2019
Robert Davidson: U and Eye is curated by artist Jessica Stockholder. This show includes works on paper by Davidson and is in conjunction with Stockholder's exhibition, Relational Aesthetics.
September 15 through March 03, 2019
Huma Bhabha: Other Forms of Life
"Other Forms of Life is a survey of recent work by the New York–based artist Huma Bhabha, showcasing key moments in her varied artistic practice…
September 15 through January 13, 2019
A screening of Jim Hodges' new film Jim Hodges (a Trailer). After the showing, Hodges will host a Q&A and "share his plans for a new community…
November 07 through November 07, 2018
Fall 2018 Rooftop Architecture & Design Film Series
This season's series features a look at the life and works of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frei Otto, a Soviet modernist masterpiece and its idiosyncratic architect,…
September 20 through September 20, 2018
An exhibition featuring works by Rodney McMillian, the winner of The Contemporary Austin's inaugural Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize. McMillian's works deal with themes of social and political history,…
February 01 through August 26, 2018
With Liberty and Justice for All Film Series
"Connected by themes of progressive politics and social justice, these films are presented in the context of Jim Hodges's With Liberty and Justice for All…
May 23 through May 30, 2018
A show of works by artist Wangechi Mutu. "Anchoring the exhibition is a new, site-specific edition of Throw, 2017, an action painting generated by a performance…
September 23 through January 14, 2018
A new film by John Bock. The film was shot entirely in and around Austin and is commissioned by The Contemporary Austin. "Labeled an “uncanny musical”…
September 23 through January 14, 2018
Fall Rooftop Architecture & Design Film Series
The Contemporary Austin's Architecture & Design Film Series is back! For tickets and more details, go here.
September 06 through November 16, 2017
Garth Weiser: Paintings, 2008-2017
The first monographic museum survey of works by American painter Garth Weiser. Drawing on the cannon of abstract art, Weiser's recent paintings attempt to rebuke technology…
April 02 through August 22, 2017
London-based artist Mark Lewis makes short, non-narrative films that closely consider the modern urban environment. The Contemporary Austin commissioned Lewis to create a new film that…
April 02 through August 22, 2017
Conversation: The Sound of Science
Mexico City-based composer Felipe Perez Santiago joins Austin's Graham Reynolds for a conversation about the Golden Hornet Composer Laboratory's The Sound of Science project, in…
June 21 through June 21, 2017
A community potluck celebrating the Texas Biennial 2017, presented by Big Medium. Come socialize with those involved with the biennial, and meet its curator, Leslie Moody…
June 07 through June 07, 2017
"With Liberty and Justice for All" Film Series
A short series featuring four films about intersectional LGBTQ experiences.
May 04 through May 04, 2017
Tony Conrad: Completely In The Present
A film chronicling the life and work of Tony Conrad.
April 13 through April 13, 2017
A film profiling British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye. The film features interviews with Adjaye's collaborators, a roster of influential figures in the art and cultural world, as well…
March 22 through March 23, 2017
"Taking her inspiration and material forms from Poland's Communist-era buildings of the 1960s and 1970s, Warsaw-based artist Monika Sosnowska has created an immersive, two-floor installation…
November 22 through February 26, 2017
Elisabeth Millqvist, Co-Director and Artistic Leader of Wanas Konst, Sweden, and Helen Pheby, Senior Curator of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, U.K., talk about "how they…
January 26 through January 26, 2017
Film and Discussion: What the Hell Is the Presidency For?
A screening of the 2016 documentary What the Hell Is the Presidency For?: LBJ’s Battle for Civil Rights. Following the film, Mark K. Updegrove, Director of…
January 11 through January 11, 2017
An exhibition of works, ephemera, and performance work by Mark Mothersbaugh. In addition to creating artwork, Mothersbaugh was a founding member of the band DEVO.
February 13 through April 17, 2016
Rooftop Architecture & Design Film Series
A film series about architecture and design. For tickets, go here.
March 02 through April 14, 2016
An exhibition of works that attempt to define "experiential art." Adding to the experience of the exhibition is its multiple locations: the Jones Center, Laguna…
September 27 through January 24, 2016
Alva Noë and Lawrence Weschler
A lecture and book signing by Alva Noë and Lawrence Weschler.
December 03 through December 03, 2015
Ann Hamilton: Landmarks Commission Public Art Project
Ann Hamilton will photograph Austinites as part of her new commission for UT's Dell Medical School.
November 15 through November 15, 2015
An Evening with Michael Singer
Art in Public Places and The Contemporary bring in artist Michael Singer to speak about his recent commission for Austin-Bergstrom International Airport .
October 27 through October 27, 2015
A screening documenting the renovation of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. Tickets are $10.
October 07 through October 08, 2015
Released Under Police Freedom of Information
Work by Russell Etchen.
September 19 through September 19, 2015
A documentary chronicling a competition between architects who have been invited to propose designs for the future National Museum of Art in Andorra.
September 09 through September 10, 2015
An exhibition of Los Angeles–based artist Robert Therrien’s large-scale, illusory sculptures inspired by daily, domestic life–including both existing and brand new work.
May 08 through August 30, 2015
Fieldwork Artist Performance: Erik Deluca
A performance by Erik Deluca, a sound artist and composer. He adopts an interdisciplinary approach to making sound art that draws from ethnographic techniques as well…
August 12 through August 12, 2015
Fieldwork Artist Talk: Jennifer Burris
A performative lecture by Fieldwork: Marfa curatorial resident Jennifer Burris incorporating sound fragments, archival material, and voice testimonials to explore the cross-pollination between electronic music…
June 03 through June 03, 2015
A new, site-specific installation by Seattle-based artist John Grade carved and assembled from Brazilian Ipe wood and suspended from three trees in the Marcus Sculpture…
February 11 through May 11, 2015
Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective 1999-2015
Assemblages, sculptures, objects, and audio installations by New York-based artist Tom Sachs take over the museum's Jones Center, Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, and…
January 23 through April 19, 2015
Light box objects, a recreated golden fishing net made from tiny human figures, and one of Suh's signature architectural interiors made from translucent scrim material.…
September 20 through January 11, 2015
On both Wednesday and Thursday evenings, The Contemporary Austin will open its roof at 6:30pm to show the documentary Tiny at 7:30pm. Tiny explores one…
October 08 through October 09, 2014
Hear from Sachs in advance of his 2015 show at the Contemporary Austin! Just remember to do your homework: "Sachs invites attendees to watch his…
September 15 through September 15, 2014
A Secret Affair: Selections from The Fuhrman Family Collection
An exhibition featuring work from the collection of Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman, curated by executive director Louis Grachos with Danielle Nieciag. Featuring: Louise Bourgeois, Maurizio…
May 03 through August 24, 2014
Large-scale organic forms made from Lobster rope and latex paint outdoors at Laguna Gloria.
May 04 through August 24, 2014
Design Is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli
This film by filmmakers Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra, explores the Vignellis’ world of design. Tickets: FREE for Members / $10 General
May 15 through May 15, 2014
Design Is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli
This film by filmmakers Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra, explores the Vignellis' world of design. Tickets: FREE for Members / $10 General
May 14 through May 14, 2014
CATALIN and Pet Sounds: Charles Long
This will mark the debut of Long's installation, CATALIN. These two projects use sound, film, sculpture, and other elements to create a multi sensory experience.
January 18 through April 20, 2014
Rooftop Architecture Film Festival Presents: The Vision of Paolo Soleri: Prophet in the Desert
Paolo Soleri left Italy to be mentored by Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West, Arizona. After eighteen months, Soleri embarked on a course of his…
April 10 through April 10, 2014
Rooftop Architecture Film Festival Presents: The Vision of Paolo Soleri: Prophet in the Desert
Paolo Soleri left Italy to be mentored by Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West, Arizona. After eighteen months, Soleri embarked on a course of his…
April 09 through April 09, 2014
2013 Fall Rooftop Architecture Film Series: Reconversion/Reconversão
Thom Andersen opens another chapter in his ongoing investigation of architectural landscapes, their filmic representation, and their relation to history.
November 13 through November 13, 2013
Book Signing The Big Book: Volumes One And Two
Leslie Squyres, Archivist, and Denise Gose, Head of Publications, of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona celebrate the publication of W.…
October 25 through October 25, 2013
Sign Painters is the first anecdotal history of the hand-lettering and -painting of billboards, storefronts, and promotional signs. The documentary tells the narrative of a…
October 16 through October 16, 2013
Screen Projects transform the face of the Jones Center building at night into a video projection, invigorating the core of downtown Austin with public art.…
June 10 through September 19, 2013
AMOA-Arthouse presents three projects at the Jones Center. In the First Floor Gallery features Please, new work by conceptual artist Devon Dikeou. In the Film…
July 14 through September 01, 2013
Seher Shah: Constructed Landscapes
Pakistani-born, Brooklyn-based artist Seher Shah layers historical references, utopian monuments, ultramodern landscapes, and reductive forms influenced by her background in architecture, at times calling to…
April 06 through June 30, 2013
Pinaree Sanpitak: Temporary Insanity
Prolific Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak will arrange one hundred pillowy sculptures to create a bright, shimmering field of reds, oranges, and yellows in the Second…
April 20 through June 30, 2013
Cinthia Marcelle and Tiago Mata Machado: O Século
Inspired by the chaos of everyday life, objects ranging from hard hats and fluorescent light tubes to oil barrels and bicycle wheels are tossed across…
April 06 through June 30, 2013
June Story Series for Families at the Jones Center
This summer at the Jones Center, AMOA-Arthouse rolls out a special June Story Series, designed to engage children each Sunday afternoon with the exhibitions in…
June 02 through June 30, 2013
AMOA-Arthouse joins Austin-based small press A Strange Object to co-present Tesseract. Featuring four programming blocks, Tesseract combines literary, musical, cinematic, and interactive segments for a…
June 20 through June 20, 2013
Life Architecturally follows husband and wife team, architect Robert McBride and interior designer Debbie Ryan, to discover what inspires their architectural concepts and designs. This…
May 22 through May 22, 2013
Rooftop Architecture Film Series: Life Architecturally
The film follows architect Robert McBride and interior designer Debbie Ryan to discover what inspires their groundbreaking architectural concepts and designs. Tickets $10, FREE for…
May 22 through May 22, 2013
Küçük Sinemalar! Experimental Cinema from Turkey
Küçük Sinemalar formed as an informal group of film and video artists in İstanbul in 2008 to share and encourage non-traditional moving image works. The…
May 18 through May 18, 2013
Rooftop Architecture Film Series: My Playground
Danish filmmaker Kaspar Astrup Schröder examines the way that the subculture of parkour interacts with architecture, honing in on urban mobility and the people that…
April 24 through April 24, 2013
Rooftop Architecture Film Series: Making the Modern
Kicking off the spring film series, this documentary looks at visionary Japanese architect Tadao Ando on the tenth anniversary of his ambitious design for The…
March 21 through March 21, 2013
Two street cleaners with brooms sweeping lines of debris in order to simulate moving clock hands.
January 07 through March 06, 2013
andy coolquitt: attainable excellence
For his first solo museum exhibition, Coolquitt will recombine 60 discrete sculptures and tableaux made between 2006 and 2011 into a site-specific installation. A illustrated…
September 29 through February 24, 2013
The video, made from thousands of photographs, acts as a time-lapse of the formation of the sheet of icicles on an opening in an abandoned…
January 08 through February 24, 2013
Nick Cave: Hiding in Plain Sight
Seven "Soundsuits," (wearable assemblages of found materials); two video pieces; and one wall sculpture by Chicago's celebrated visual and performance artist.
September 29 through February 24, 2013
Young Artists Annual Exhibition
This annual exhibition is a selection of work submitted by participants in Young Artists 2012, a studio-based outreach program organized by AMOA-Arthouse education staff for…
January 11 through January 27, 2013
Les Blank's glorious, intense insider's portrait of New Orleans' street celebrations and unique cultural gumbo: Second-line parades, Mardi Gras Indians, Jazz Fest. Features live music…
December 06 through December 06, 2012
In the animated composition of almost 3,000 photographs Chishty took over a period of three-to-four weeks, the artist merges technology with craft, her personal identities…
September 13 through November 14, 2012
Jefferson Pinder: Elevator Music
A comical examination of the common experience of riding an elevator with a stranger in silence, using the music to fill in any anxieties experienced…
August 15 through October 07, 2012
2012 Advanced Young Artists Exhibition
Highlights the visual art projects of ten talented high school students paired alongside artwork by their artist-mentors, professional artists and MFA candidates who worked one-on-one…
August 04 through September 16, 2012
Cross-disciplinary work from a time of feverish technological evolution by Jim Campbell, Susie J. Lee, Jonathan Marshall, Kurt Mueller, Nam June Paik, Paul Pfeiffer, Jason…
August 04 through September 16, 2012
Will Henry, Jamal Cyrus, and Jeff Williams duke it out for the $30,000 AMOA-Arthouse Texas Prize.
May 05 through July 22, 2012
A present-day, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction film featuring a band of armed female revolutionaries.
May 05 through July 22, 2012
Julia Oschatz's video Odds and Ends: Venus explores the odyssey undertaken by a lone figure in the process of an infinite, Sisyphean journey.
May 05 through June 17, 2012
Visting Lecture Series: Irene Hofmann
AMOA-Arthouse's visiting lecture series brings in Irene Hofmann, the Phillips Director and Chief Curator of Site Santa Fe.
May 24 through May 24, 2012
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
Directed by Murray Grigor, Infinite Space traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create "architecture that has no beginning and no end."…
May 23 through May 23, 2012
Rooftop Architecture Film Series: Unfinished Spaces
Directed by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray, Unfinished Spaces follows three young, visionary architects commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National…
April 18 through April 18, 2012
Arthouse's free Saturday morning art program for high school students celebrates its 2011 participants.
December 10 through January 29, 2012
Jesse McLean: Lose Yourself (Remix)
A driving disco beat demands that the viewer nod his or her head while an ever-shifting sunset doles out out of context quotes culled from…
November 30 through January 08, 2012
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