Fred Schmidt-Arenales: IT IS A GOOD PROJECT AND SHOULD BE BUILT
From the Visual Art Center: "For over a century, scientists, engineers, and government officials have been working to protect the Texas Gulf Coast from superstorm…
September 20 through December 07, 2024
Violette Bule: Una Luz: Photography in Venezuelan Penitentiaries
From the Visual Arts Center: "Texas/New Mexico-based artist Violette Bule has been selected as the Visual Arts Center’s Fall 2024 Artist-in-Residence. Bule will develop a…
September 20 through December 07, 2024
From the Visual Arts Center: "By offering a platform that emphasizes rediscovery, recollection, and reconciliation, SOMOS helps navigate the intricate web of Latinx identity. Each…
January 26 through March 09, 2024
From UT Visual Arts Center: "Over the past ten years, Afro borikua sibling duo Las Nietas de Nonó has evolved a creative process that evokes ancestral…
January 26 through March 02, 2024
From the UT Visual Arts Center: "A Well-trained Eye features 13 contemporary artists who explore the possibilities, limitations, and responsibilities that come with instructing both…
September 22 through March 02, 2024
The RRK Collection: Wood Type 1828 – 2024
From the Visual Arts Center: "Amidst the rich ecosystem of digital technology and creative media that continues to flourish in our current era, analog processes…
January 26 through February 03, 2024
Artist-in-Residence: Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
From the UT Visual Arts Center: "Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork combines sound and objects to test the boundaries of experiential connection. Gork’s installations facilitate embodied experiences,…
September 22 through December 02, 2023
Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil
From Visual Arts Center: "Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil brings together the work of ten artists who reflect upon the long-standing histories of…
September 23 through March 10, 2023
From the UT Visual Arts Center: "Bill Morrison is one of the most accomplished filmmakers working today whose practice rescues lesser known and forgotten histories…
January 28 through March 12, 2022
Corentin Canesson: Sleep Spaces/ Les espaces du sommeil
From the UT Austin Visual Arts Center: "Exhibition Description: Corentin Canesson confronts the constructs and legacies of painting by reconsidering conventional modes of display, questioning…
January 28 through March 12, 2022
Connective Tissue: printed and published
From UT Austin Visual Arts Center: "Exhibition Description: Publications have long been important sites of discourse integral to the formation of artistic communities and their…
January 28 through March 12, 2022
A Ground to Stand, a Place to Call
From the UT Austin Visual Arts Center: "Exhibition Description: A Ground to Stand, A Place to Call brings works from the first year MFA cohort…
January 28 through March 12, 2022
Michael Queenland: Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders 2012/2022
From the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin: "The Visual Arts Center at The University of Texas at Austin is proud…
January 28 through March 12, 2022
Madison Cooper: (Untitled) Fanon
To register for the upcoming lecture with Dr. Patrick Walter and Madison Cooper on October 14, 2021, go here. From UT Austin: "I sit down…
September 24 through December 03, 2021
From the UT Austin VAC: "The works in this exhibition are the result of a partnership between the Department of Art and Art History and…
September 24 through October 09, 2021
To register for the artist talk on May 7, 2021, go here. From the organizers: "small refusals is a three-woman exhibition featuring work by students from…
May 01 through May 23, 2021
From the UT VAC: "AIR / Survey, an exhibition from Santa Fe-based artist Will Wilson (Diné/Navajo) whose work in photography, installation and performance investigates the…
January 23 through March 27, 2021
From the Visual Arts Center: "The Visual Arts Center (VAC) at The University of Texas at Austin presents Luiz Roque: República, a focused look at São…
February 05 through March 27, 2021
"Between Two Worlds takes its title from a book of selected poems written by Américo Paredes in the 1930s and 1940s. Paredes (1915-1999), a foundational figure…
September 25 through November 20, 2020
_____: Revisited: 2020 Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition
A group exhibition featuring work from the 2020 Studio Art MFA program. From UT VAC: "After a long, unforeseen hiatus, the 2020 Studio Art MFA…
September 25 through November 20, 2020
The Fact of Fiction: Four Works by Kara Walker
A solo exhibition featuring work by Kara Walker. To register for the October 7 presentation, Viewpoint: A Conversation on Kara Walker, go here. From the VAC: "Kara…
September 25 through October 23, 2020
Grasping fragments, or otherwise calculating distance
Grasping fragments, or otherwise calculating distance includes the work of four artists—Nassem Navab, Bahareh Khoshooee, Mahsa Biglow, and Sareh Imani—who employ photography, video, performance, and installation…
January 24 through March 06, 2020
A solo exhibition in Austin featuring work by Carmen Argote. "Hinging on corporeal processing of the spaces she inhabits, Carmen Argote’s multidisciplinary practice draws upon…
January 24 through March 06, 2020
A solo exhibition featuring work by Lisa Lapinski. "Lisa Lapinski’s indelible practice is informed by a wide-ranging cultural milieu that juxtaposes imagery from popular culture…
January 24 through March 06, 2020
Juan Pablo González: Cómo hago para recordar / What I do to remember
A solo exhibition featuring work by Juan Pablo González. "Juan Pablo González’s films are poetic and atmospheric portrayals of everyday life within central Mexico." Image…
January 24 through March 06, 2020
A solo exhibition featuring work by Lauren Moya Ford. "Loosely based on the Spanish barajas playing card deck, Full Bloom is rooted in Lauren Moya…
January 24 through March 06, 2020
A solo exhibition featuring work by Nikita Gale. "Los Angeles-based artist Nikita Gale makes work that visually articulates the mechanics of sound and points to…
September 20 through December 06, 2019
A solo exhibition featuring work by Kenneth Tam. "Through video and sculpture, New York-based artist Kenneth Tam questions conceptions of masculinity, gendered forms of identity…
September 20 through December 06, 2019
Maria Antelman: Mechanisms of Affection
A solo exhibition featuring work by Maria Antelman. "Merging the digital and analog through photomontage, sound installation, sculpture, and animation, New York-based artist Maria Antelman…
September 20 through December 06, 2019
Saakred: Sin Nombre, Sin Cuerpo
A solo exhibition featuring work by Saakred. "Miguel Rodriguez’s work as Saakred is raw, interdisciplinary, and deeply personal. Sin Nombre, Sin Cuerpo moves across genres…
September 20 through December 06, 2019
Learning Tuscany 2019: In Plato’s Cave
A group exhibition featuring photography by UT students. "In Plato’s Cave presents photographs made by UT students during the six-week Learning Tuscany summer study abroad…
September 20 through October 04, 2019
2019 University of Texas Austin Studio Art MFA: Hero Ready
"Hero Ready presents the culminating work of students receiving master of fine arts degrees in Studio Art." Featuring: Nima Bahremand , Stephen-Bernard Derek Callender, Matthew…
May 10 through May 25, 2019
2019 Senior Art Exhibition: If I find the things I want to see
A show of works by the 2019 UT senior art students.
March 08 through March 29, 2019
"HAINT is an immersive, three-channel video installation by Austin-based artist and curator Alyssa Taylor Wendt. Filmed over the course of three years in Croatia, Detroit,…
January 25 through February 22, 2019
"Oozy Rat in a Sanitary Zoo features the work of five artists—Sasha Fishman, Brooke Johnson, Seth Murchison, Tín Rodriguez, and Rachel Wilkins—all who are current…
January 25 through February 22, 2019
Nancy Lupo: The Square at Noon
"Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Lupo combines materials, spaces, and language into intricate networks that resist temporal limitations. Her works sketch out a world that is…
January 25 through February 22, 2019
"Elia Alba’s multifaceted project The Supper Club comprises fifty-eight portraits of contemporary artists of color and a series of salon-style dinners that serve to stimulate…
January 25 through February 22, 2019
"An Exchange is an exhibition of collaborative works between Digital Fabrication students at The University of Texas at Austin and Kinetic Imaging students at Virginia…
January 25 through February 07, 2019
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Like the lonely traveler
"Like the lonely traveler traces the evolution of María Magdalena Campos-Pons’ video production over the last three decades, from her early documentary and autobiographical photographic…
September 21 through December 07, 2018
"Exploring the Arctic Ocean brings together eight diverse projects that rely on the power of visual media to make the unknown waters of the Arctic…
September 21 through December 07, 2018
Lan Tuazon: In the Land of Real Shadows
"In the Land of Real Shadows is the final part of Lan Tuazon’s decade-long trilogy on the order of things: architecture, artifacts and now, the…
September 21 through December 07, 2018
"It Sounds like Cher is a multifaceted exhibition featuring a wide spectrum of perspectives coming from an international group of artists on the ideation of…
November 08 through November 16, 2018
"Another Green World showcases the work of five young and emerging female artists whose art demonstrates the quiet yet meaningful resurgence of landscape as an…
September 21 through October 20, 2018
Sit: Designs by Charles and Ray Eames
"Sit is an exploration of Charles and Ray Eames’ design process and history. Through a mix of historical imagery, production techniques, compelling artifacts, and engaging…
September 21 through October 03, 2018
David Wojnarowicz: A Fire in My Belly (A Work in Progress)
A screening of David Wojnarowicz's 1986-87 video piece A Fire in My Belly (A Work in Progress).
May 01 through May 31, 2018
Affordable Dream House: 2018 Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition
Affordable Dream House features ten artists from the 2018 UT Studio Art MFA graduating class. Artists include: Hiba Ali Evelyn Contreras Siera Hyte Marisa Laguardia Marta…
April 20 through May 11, 2018
If This Then That: 2018 Design MFA Exhibition
If This Then That presents seven thesis projects that explore potential solutions to complex problems and use design as a catalyst for social interactions, human…
April 20 through May 11, 2018
Catalyst: 2018 Senior Design Exhibition
"Catalyst is the culmination of deep research, critical thinking and design implementation combined with topics that have personally inspired us. A catalyst is something that…
April 20 through May 11, 2018
In her 2014-2016 video work Table Manners, Brooklyn-based Nigerian artist Zina Saro-Wiwa films people from the Niger Delta eating as the look directly into the camera. "The direct…
April 01 through April 30, 2018
An exhibition featuring works by senior UT print, sculpture, painting, photography, video, installation, and game design students. Featured artists include: Amy Barlow Madi Beavers Nidia Chavarria…
March 09 through April 06, 2018
Héctor Zamora: O Abuso da História (The Abuse of History)
Héctor Zamora's video work O Abuso da História (The Abuse of History) depicts the tossing of potted plants through windows into the courtyard of São Paulo’s colonial…
February 01 through February 28, 2018
Untitled is an exhibition "exploring the relationship between contemporary art and the theory of the past." It is organized by Professor Janice Leoshko and the Undergraduate…
February 09 through February 23, 2018
I Think We Meet Here features works by three artists currently participating in the Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston: Yue Nakayama, Shana…
January 26 through February 23, 2018
An exhibition featuring a hand-painted replica of The Codex Borgia, a pre-Hispanic Aztec painted manuscript. This piece is the result of a decades-long project by artist Richard Lee…
January 26 through February 23, 2018
"Just Press Print is an international, traveling group exhibition that explores the introduction of 21st century technologies within the discipline of printmaking." The show is…
January 26 through February 23, 2018
In Almost Doesn’t Count, artists Emily Lee and Rachael Henson "explore the endless in-between-ness of identifying oneself."
January 26 through February 23, 2018
In this 2008 video work, British artist Sarah Morris documents the city of Beijing during the 2008 olympic games. Aiming to capture a portrait of the…
January 01 through January 31, 2018
A screening of Hermine Freed's video Art Herstory (1974). In the piece, the artist "takes on more than five hundred years of the treatment of women in…
December 01 through December 31, 2017
"For this exhibition, the Studio Art MFA candidates at UT Austin invited six MFA students from Yale University, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of…
November 03 through December 09, 2017
"Body is a Bridge details the lived experiences of illness through an intersectional lens." The show includes works by Texas-based artist Amber Shields, and Portland, Maine…
November 03 through December 09, 2017
Larry Bamburg: BurlsHoovesandShells on a Pedestal of Conglomerates
"Larry Bamburg uses natural materials to create process-based works that vacillate between living and dead, natural and manmade. For BurlsHoovesandShells on a Pedestal of Conglomerates, Bamburg…
September 22 through December 09, 2017
Fools Romance / Books from AEROMOTO
Located in Mexico City’s Colonia Juárez, the non-profit art library and community space Aeromoto provides public access to art books and small press publications from…
September 22 through December 09, 2017
A screening of the 2015 38-minute video work Inverso Mundus by Russian collective AES+F (Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, and Vladimir Fridkes). "Inspired by the medieval…
November 01 through November 30, 2017
"META_“REAL”_WORLD is an exhibition of recent work presented by students from UT's Fall 2017 Advanced Expanded Media class that focuses on the creative use and…
November 03 through November 16, 2017
A screening of Teresa Serrano's 2003 video work La Piñata. Serrano created the piece "to address the repercussions of the lack of rights for working-class Mexican women."
October 01 through October 31, 2017
Marta Lee & Anika Steppe: Kind of About Michigan
A show featuring photographs and paintings by Marta Lee and Anika Steppe. The pieces in the show "examine common tropes of tourism, the functions and perils…
September 22 through October 20, 2017
"This exhibition presents work made by 2017 UT teaching residents, Israeli-artist collective, The New Barbizon group. The New Barbizon members, Natalia Zourabova, Asya Lukin, Anna…
September 22 through October 20, 2017
A show of works created by students studying studying in the university's Learning Tuscany program.
September 22 through October 06, 2017
Yinka Shonibare MBE: Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)
"Known for his use of brightly colored, “African” batik-style cloth in paintings, sculptures, installations, photography, and films, Yinka Shonibare has devoted his practice to the…
September 01 through September 30, 2017
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Re Dis Appearing
A screening of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's 1977 video work Re Dis Appearing. The piece "evokes themes of exile and displacement through overlaps and interjections of multilingual…
August 01 through August 31, 2017
A screening of Animal, a video work that UT Austin commissioned from artist David Ellis.
July 01 through July 31, 2017
Rita Myers' 1973 video Tilt 1 will be on view in the VAC lobby as a part of UT Landmarks' video screening series.
June 01 through June 30, 2017
Trouble: 2017 Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition
An exhibition featuring works by fourteen graduating UT MFA students. Artists include: Zachary Betts Laura Brown Kurt Chung-Liang Cheng Anthony B Creeden Caitlin Halloran Ryan…
April 21 through May 13, 2017
in order to: 2017 Design MFA Thesis Exhibition
in order to is the 2017 thesis exhibition of three MFA students in Design at The University of Texas at Austin: Tirza Hutagalung, Em Karimifar,…
April 21 through May 13, 2017
A show of works by students graduation from the UT Austin art program.
March 10 through April 07, 2017
A show featuring works from seniors graduating from the UT Austin undergraduate design program.
March 10 through April 07, 2017
"Fieldwork is a space for projects initiated by faculty and students in the Department of Art and Art History." Faculty members include Teresa Hubbard, Julie…
January 27 through February 24, 2017
Ann Hamilton: O N E E V E R Y O N E
An exhibition of works made during Ann Hamilton's process of creating her new public art work for UT's Dell Medical School. This show includes smaller panels and…
January 27 through February 24, 2017
A show of photographs by Elizabeth Bick. In this exhibition, Bick argues that "the divisions between the arts are not distinct, and that a true division between…
January 27 through February 24, 2017
An exhibition combining art, science, and engineering. For the past year, artists Daniel Bozhkov, Patrick Killoran, Steven Brower, and James Sham have worked with UT researchers…
January 27 through February 24, 2017
Two Christmases and a Half-Birthday
An exhibition that aims to "challenge notions of stability associated with the image of “The Home,” taking ownership over and embracing liminality within identity, not…
January 27 through February 24, 2017
An exhibition featuring works by James Walker, Michael Mogavero, Jason Urban, Jeff Williams, and Heidi Powell.
September 23 through December 10, 2016
An exhibition "bringing together emerging contemporary artists engaging with politics of anti-assimilation. As gayness enters the mainstream, assimilation to white heteronormativity becomes increasingly privileged over…
November 18 through December 10, 2016
An exhibition where Mexico City-based artist Victor Pérez-Rul and curator Leslie Moody Castro collaborate with UT's student community to create works that explore the "human consciousness…
September 23 through December 10, 2016
An exhibition of new video works by Tania Mouraud. "Commissioned by the Visual Arts Center, Mouraud traveled to Texas in June 2016 to film oil refineries along…
September 23 through December 10, 2016
Moving Mountains: Extractive Landscapes of Peru by Edi Hirose & Nancy La Rosa
An exhibition of works by Lima-based artists Edi Hirose and Nancy La Rosa. The show will feature photography, drawing, printmaking, and video installations that comment on the effect natural resource mining…
September 23 through December 10, 2016
Experimental music group New Factories, consisting of Houston-based artists Gabriel Martinez and Ronnie Yates present an improvisational sound performance featuring field recordings taken from the…
October 25 through October 25, 2016
A collaborative exhibition by artists Cory Fitzgerald and Bucky Miller.
September 23 through October 14, 2016
Thesis Exhibitions: Design BFA, Design MFA, Studio MFA
UT's annual thesis show featuring works from Design BFA, Design MFA, and Studio MFA students.
April 15 through May 21, 2016
Now's the Time: 2016 Senior Art Exhibition
An exhibition of works by 2016 graduates from the UT Department of Art and Art History.
March 04 through March 26, 2016
Art in Practice: Pablo Helguera, Artist, Author and Educator
Interdisciplinary artist Pablo Helguera discusses his career as an artist, author and educator.
March 03 through March 03, 2016
Family Day at the Visual Arts Center
A day of family programs and activities organized around the Strange Pilgrims exhibition currently on view.
November 21 through November 21, 2015
Symposium: Experience In and Beyond the White Cube
"The Visual Arts Center hosts a symposium that brings together scholars and critics, as well as The University of Texas at Austin faculty and students,…
November 14 through November 14, 2015
A lecture by NYC-based artist Tom Burckhardt. The lecture will be held in the Art Building, Room 1.120.
October 15 through October 15, 2015
A lecture by Brooklyn-based artist Jules de Balincourt. A seminar with the artist for current department students will follow the lecture in the Art Building, Room 3.206.…
October 05 through October 05, 2015
Opening Reception for Strange Pilgrims
This is an opening reception for Strange Pilgrims, an exhibition of works that attempt to define “experiential art.” Adding to the experience of the exhibition is its…
September 27 through September 27, 2015
University of Texas 2015 Thesis Exhibitions
Three art and design thesis exhibitions: Studio Art MFA show Agree To Disagree (Peter Abrami, Georgia Carter, Leah Dyjak, Nick Francel, Aaron Meyers, Laurel Shear,…
April 17 through May 16, 2015
Themes of intergenerational dynamics, arcs of boom and bust, environmental racism, and the personal as political permeate the Frazier’s photographs.
November 07 through December 06, 2014
David Brooks: Repositioned Core
Current artist-in-residence David Brooks bisects the VAC's big gallery with a 70-foot long geologic core sample. Like the kind you'd find in an oil field.
September 19 through December 06, 2014
Andrew Lampert: Don’t Lose the Manual
Photographs and videos by the NYC-based artist that address the preponderance of technology in contemporary life.
September 19 through December 06, 2014
Photographs from Lily Brooks, Christine Collins and Kate Greene that examine the often futile human desire to connect with the natural world.
September 19 through December 06, 2014
Works by UT MFA candidates Bryan Martello, Annie Miller, and Anne Rogers, on the theme (as far as we can tell) of playful orifices, dark…
September 19 through October 25, 2014
Michael Sieben: It Will All Happen Again
Known for his work as a designer-illustrator for publications such as Vice and Thrasher, artist-in-residence Sieben embraces a nostalgia for adolescence. In this exhibition, his…
January 31 through May 10, 2014
Art History: Selections from the Green–Christian Collection
The exhibition features a range of artists important within the development of American and African-American Art. Selected works by Romare Bearden, Radcliffe Bailey, Boscoe Holder,…
January 31 through March 08, 2014
What We Want, What We Believe - Towards A Higher Fidelity: Juan Capistran
Capistran considers his art practice to be a form of visual “bootlegging.” He takes canonical artworks and transforms them through literary and music references while…
January 31 through March 08, 2014
Grids and Geography: Dean Fleming’s Travels in North Africa and Greece,1964
An exhibition of Fleming’s 4x4-inch gouache studies from his 1964 journey from Morocco to the Greek island of Lesbos. These gouaches, inspired by the colors,…
January 31 through March 08, 2014
Informed by the romanticized notion of a westward journey, this show chronicles a road trip by five young artists; Ally Acheson-Snow, Karina Eckmeier, Maia Schall,…
January 31 through January 31, 2014
The kaleidoscopic exhibition Landfall showcases the artwork of performance artist and contemporary music pioneer Laurie Anderson. Presented in conjunction with her performance Landfall with the…
September 27 through December 07, 2013
Redefining the typical notion of collage as cut-up-paper-on-paper, the exhibition Step Right In brings together the diverse work of contemporary artists who refigure the relationships…
September 27 through October 26, 2013
V: 2013 MFA Studio Art Exhibition
The thesis exhibition for the Studio Art MFA class 2013, representing the culmination of three years of development and work for Janaye Brown, Adriana Corral,…
April 26 through May 11, 2013
Lead Pencil Studio: Diffuse Reflection Lab
A collaboration of Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, Diffuse Reflection Lab blurs the line between art and architecture with environments and structures exploring the affects…
February 01 through May 11, 2013
Fade In: three years by Skye Ashbrook
A newly commissioned work three years (2012, NR) by Skye Ashbrook, a recent alumnus of the Department of Art and Art History at UT. Composed…
February 01 through May 11, 2013
Making Moves: 2013 Senior Art Exhibition
Making Moves includes selected work by students graduating with bachelor degrees from the Studio Art, Visual Art Studies, and Art History divisions of the Department…
March 29 through April 13, 2013
Coco Fusco in conversation with Dr. George Flaherty
Renowned artist and writer Coco Fusco in conversation with Dr. George Flaherty, Associate Director of the Center for Latin America Visual Studies (CLAVIS), In the…
April 11 through April 11, 2013
Focus Group Film Series: Screening Room featuring Suzan Pitt
For March’s edition of Focus Group, the VAC presents the July 1975 episode of Screening Room with Suzan Pitt, an animator and painter whose surreal…
March 28 through March 28, 2013
Diego Bianchi: Into The Wild Meaning
Everyday objects become actors on a stage in new roles. Viewers explore a space composed of found objects in various states of disrepair, reuse, and…
February 01 through March 09, 2013
Berg crafts an absurd yet deeply sincere Norwegian-American identity through historical research, family heirlooms, and pathetic aesthetic.
February 01 through March 09, 2013
International Print Center New York: New Prints 2012
36 works from 2,600 submissions.
February 01 through March 09, 2013
Overlapping Impressions: A Study in Contrasting Cognition
Typographic prints made with the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection, which is housed at UT, Austin. Organized by austin graphic designer and Ut…
February 01 through March 09, 2013
Art in Practice: George Scheer, Executive Director of Elsewhere
This edition of Art in Practice invites George Scheer, co-founder and executive director of Elsewhere, a living museum, international residency program, and educational laboratory housed…
February 26 through February 26, 2013
Focus Group: Screening Room featuring Ed Emshwiller
The VAC presents an episode of Screening Room, a 1970s television series that aired in Boston, invited independent filmmakers to screen and discuss their work,…
February 13 through February 13, 2013
Part Two: Department of Art and Art History Faculty Exhibition
The second installment in a three-part exhibition series featuring a selection of work by faculty artists from the Department.
November 09 through December 08, 2012
Emily Roysdon: Pause, Pose, Discompose
The lineaments of love, politics, sexuality, and gender, explored by fall artist in residence Emily Roysdon. Curated by Andy Campbell.
September 21 through December 08, 2012
Ortiz transforms the VAC gallery into a working “farm,” fleshed out with utilitarian sculptures, drawings, collages, posters, and a pirate radio station as a stage…
September 21 through December 08, 2012
Sandy Carson and Emma Whelan: Yet, By No Means
Two American immigrants photograph their multinational experiences.
November 16 through December 08, 2012
A group exhibition confronting issues surrounding the current climate of violence in Mexico, with work by Miguel A. Aragon, Adriana Corral, and Raymundo Delgadillo.
October 19 through November 10, 2012
Intimate works study the myriad of faiths that make up the fabric of contemporary British society by carefully observing the diversity of people on one…
September 21 through October 27, 2012
Shane Tolbert and Raymond Uhlir: Future Regions
Curator by Katie Geha pairs the paintings of Houston artist Shane Tolbert and Austin artist Raymond Uhlir.
September 21 through October 27, 2012
Artists Nick Griffin, Philip Harrell, and Anne Riley investigate the language of abstraction through the employment of additive and subtractive painting techniques.
September 21 through October 13, 2012
Mixed Feelings: 2012 MFA Studio Art Exhibition
Features the works of Miguel Aragon, Erica Botkin, Ben Brandt, Christina Coleman, Kacy Maddux, Ezra Masch, Mi-Hee Nahm, Marc Payzant, Daniel Rudin, and Yun Shin.
April 27 through May 12, 2012
Fade In: John Baldessari, Teaching a Plant the Alphabet
The VAC presents John Baldessari’s early seventies video, Teaching a Plant the Alphabet, screened nightly at 8pm on the Southeast Lawn of the Art Building.
March 30 through May 12, 2012
It Depends (see context): 2012 Senior Design Exhibition
The students want to show their friends, families, and the community what they have learned and why they cannot simply summarize what design is in…
March 30 through April 20, 2012
Make_Matter: 2012 MFA Design Exhibition
March 30 through April 20, 2012
Two Ships Passing with Professor David Heymann
A new "conversation series" sponsored by the VAC in collaboration with the art publication Pastelegram brings UT architecture prof David Heymann to converse in room…
April 17 through April 17, 2012
An installation created by Arturo Agero, Sarah Holman, and Marcella Mendez using pieces of furniture from each of the artists’ homes exploring topics such as…
March 30 through April 14, 2012
Finale: 2012 Senior Art Exhibition
Selected work by students graduating with bachelor degrees in art.
March 30 through April 14, 2012
Art In Practice: Mark Allen, Executive Director of Machine Project
LA-based artist, educator, curator, great guy, and the Founder and Executive Director of Machine Project. In the UT Art Building, Rm. 1.110
April 03 through April 03, 2012
San Antonio-based artist Justin Boyd's multidisciplinary response to the Arcade gallery's most striking element: a pair of floor-to-ceiling bay windows. Two separate site-derived, sculptural augmentations,…
January 27 through March 10, 2012
NY Sculptor Al-Hadid constructs forms that are a baroque complex of architectural structures and figurative allusions, which appear to be in a state between construction…
January 27 through March 10, 2012
25 contemporary Chinese artists who are currently working in academia across the United States, organized by the Crossman Gallery at The University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and…
January 27 through March 10, 2012
Using probability theory, linguistics, mathematics, radar imaging, robotics, fortunetelling, and even a yo-yo, four New york artists and a Berliner question the limits of knowledge.…
January 27 through March 10, 2012
Sixty-seven prints by fifty-one artists, New Prints 2011 is the fortieth presentation of the International Print Center New York’s (IPCNY) New Prints Program. Sponsored by…
January 27 through March 10, 2012
16mm: Experimental films in response to Dubforms
A special screening of four 16 mm films selected in response to San Antonio-based artist Justin Boyd’s exhibition, Dubforms at the VAC. Featuring: Viking Eggeling,…
February 29 through February 29, 2012
An intimate journey into the lives of four American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott, and Ike Morgan. Isolated and struggling with…
November 18 through December 17, 2011
The Mobile Archive: Video Selections from the Israeli Center for Digital Art
The Mobile Archive, a traveling sister project of the video archive at the Israeli Center for Digital in Holon, Israel makes a stop at UT…
November 04 through December 17, 2011
Art and Art History Faculty Exhibition: Part One
The first of a three-year, three-part exhibition featuring a mini-retrospectives of work by faculty artists in the Studio Art, Art History, Art Education, and Design…
November 18 through December 17, 2011
Lucy Parker, Isabella Rodriguez, and Layne Bell: Looking for a Fight
Provocative ultra feminine works camouflage more aggressive and traditionally non-feminine ideas, "reflective of the artists’ struggles to assert control over the perceived threat of being…
November 04 through December 17, 2011
Centerpiece Theater: Vera Chytilová’s Daisies
In conjunction with the exhibition Looking for a Fight, Centerpiece Theater presents Vera Chytilová’s Daisies, 1966, a touchstone of the Czech New Wave film that…
December 14 through December 14, 2011
A screening of documentary film MAKE, an intimate journey into the lives of four American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott, and…
November 29 through November 29, 2011
Slacker, Richard Linklater’s now nostalgic portrait of a vanished Austin, introduced by Aimee Chang, Manager of Public Programs at the Blanton Museum of Art. Drinks…
November 15 through November 15, 2011
Curated by Noah Simblist and David Willburn, Queer State(s) showcases gay, and even straight (!), Texas artists that in some way engage queer sexuality in…
September 09 through November 15, 2011
Art in Practice: Aaron Baker, Curator of the Playboy Collection
This edition of Art in Practice invites artist Aaron Baker, Curator of the Playboy Collection, to delve into his role as an archivist and advocate…
November 01 through November 01, 2011
For the first Fall 2011 edition of Fade In, the VAC presents G.W Pabst's controversial melodrama, Pandora's Box. This iconic 1929 silent film will run…
September 09 through October 29, 2011
Selected Films by Jack Smith, with introduction by Dr. Ann Reynolds, Associate Professor in Art History, Center for Women's and Gender Studies. Dr. Ann Reynolds…
October 27 through October 27, 2011
Scholars and critics discuss the exhibition Queer State(s) . UT Participants include: English Prof. Lisa Moore; Ixchel Rosal, Director of the Gender and Sexuality Center;…
October 22 through October 22, 2011
An honest portrayal of a family in turmoil, Red Without Blue follows a pair of identical twins as one transitions from male to female. Watch…
October 20 through October 20, 2011
Joshua Lantzy, Kirsten Volness and Jacob Richman, winners in the UT School of Architecture and the Butler School of Music Music in Architecture-Architecture in Music…
October 19 through October 19, 2011
Sound + Vision: Disco Desert by Austin Video Bee
Video art collective Austin Video Bee (AVB) went out to Presidio to capture the surreality of the West Texas landscape and construct a temporary shelter…
October 07 through October 07, 2011
Fade In Film Series: Pandora’s Box
A rare treat: a small ensemble of UT jazz students, under the direction of faculty composer Dr. John Mills, will provide improvisational musical accompaniment to…
October 04 through October 04, 2011
Landmarks Video: Pipilotti Rist
UT's Landmarks Video program's second season kicks off with Pipilotti Rist, I'm a Victim of This Song, (1995) screened on a 65" high-definition media station…
September 01 through September 30, 2011
Dr. Nancy Kwallek: Herman Miller and Knoll's color palettes from the 1950s
Dr. Nancy Kwallek, Director of the Interior Design Program at UT Austin, uses Herman Miller and Knoll as examples to discuss the impact of color…
September 27 through September 27, 2011
The Generic Ensemble Company: Before This Was Texas
An in-progress showing of dramatic movement based on the poetry of Austin-based poet Kimberly Alidio hich explores bodies crossing borders and our relationship to Central…
September 23 through September 23, 2011
Lunch Break: 13 Most Beautiful Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
The first ever authorized DVD of Andy Warhol's films, complete with newly commissioned soundtracks from The Andy Warhol Museum screened at noon in response to…
September 22 through September 22, 2011
Center Space Project: Bake Sale
As a twist on the traditional fundraiser, the student organization will be distributing bite-sized art about food for only $10! Proceeds from Bake Sale will…
September 16 through September 16, 2011
2011 Texas Biennial: Works by Hana Hillerova
Check out new works by Hana Hillerova at the Visual Arts Center's Arbor Gallery. Participating in the 2011 Texas Biennial.
April 15 through May 14, 2011
MFA Studio Art Exhibition / MFA Design Exhibition / Senior Art Exhibition / Senior Design Exhibition
The Visual Arts Center (VAC) in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin concludes its inaugural year in April with…
April 01 through May 14, 2011
Amanda Ross-Ho, Natasha Bowdoin, Rock Hard / Soft Rock...
The inaugural year at the Visual Arts Center continues this spring with new site-specific exhibitions by Amanda Ross-Ho and Natasha Bowdoin. A group exhibition, Womanscape:…
January 28 through March 12, 2011
Daniel Rudin: The Working Homeless
Daniel Rudin’s exhibition The Working Homeless consists of video and sculpture documenting conversations with homeless panhandlers who stand alongside the freeway asking for help. The…
February 25 through March 12, 2011
The Visual Arts Center Grand Opening / Ry Rocklen: ZZZ's
The Visual Arts Center (VAC) opens its doors for its grand opening weekend from September 24 through September 26!!! This weekend of events marks the…
September 24 through December 18, 2010
The Center Space Gallery of the Visual Arts Center features the work of Landon O’Brien and TJ Hunt who investigate artistic identity through recontextualization in…
December 03 through December 18, 2010
Combined: Department of Art and Art History Faculty Exhibit
The VAC presents Combined: Department of Art + Art History Faculty Exhibition, featuring recent work by faculty artists in Studio Art, Art Education, and Design…
November 06 through December 18, 2010
Anthropogenesis: Recent Work from Six Artists
Curated by Ariel Evans and Lauren Hamer, Ph.D. students in Art History at The University of Texas at Austin, Anthropogenesis showcases the work of six…
November 19 through December 18, 2010
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