Press Room

If you are a member of the media and are seeking more information or images, please contact us as indicated below:

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Connie McAllister
Director of Community Engagement
Direct 713 284 8255

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Current Press Releases

 

2014

• Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty
• Mel Chin: Rematch
• Double Life
• Robert Hodge: Destroy and Rebuild
• Right Here, Right Now: Houston
• Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing
• Evolution of Neglect: Scenes of Ruin and Ruins from The Menil Collection
• Melanie Smith
• Auction at Christie's New York celebrates CAMH's 65th Anniversary

2012

• Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art 
• Perspectives 180 - Unfinished Country: New Video from China
• Rob Pruitt's The Andy Monument
• Hyden Yoo, exclusive sweaters for CAMH
• Jonathan Horowitz's "Your Land/My Land: Election '12"
• Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope)
• Perspectives 179: Alvin Baltrop
• Steel Lounge Underground
• It is what it is. Or is it?
• CAMH, MIT receive AICA Best Show Award
• Perspectives 178: CINEPLEX
• CAMH, Spelman exhibition in Havana Biennial
• Slide Jam Spring 2012 schedule at CAMH

 

2011

• CAMH receives AAM reaccreditation
• The Deconstructive Impulse
• Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion
• CAMH awarded NEA grant
• Perspectives 176: Glen Fogel: With Me... You
• Donald Moffett: The Extravagant Vein
• The Spectacular of Vernacular
• Perspectives 175: Marc Swanson: The Second Story
• Steel Lounge Underground, June 24, 2011, 8PM-Midnight
• CAMH announces new Curator
• Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom
• CAMH announces launch of redeveloped website
• Perspectives 174: Re: Generation
• Perspectives 173: Clifford Owens
• Answers to Questions: John Wood and Paul Harrison
• CAMH announces 2011 exhibition schedule
• Film screening and discussion of Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly

2010

• Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us
• Perspectives 172: Kirsten Pieroth
• CAMH announces new Senior Curator
• Steel Lounge Underground, August 27, 2010
• Dance with Camera
• Perspectives 171: Jennifer West
• Steel Lounge Underground, July 2010
• Steel Lounge Underground, May 28, 2010
• Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft
• Perspectives 170: Cruz Ortiz
• Perspectives 169: Odili Donald Odita

2009

• Barkley Hendricks: Birth of the Cool
• CAMH Invites you to a lecture by MIT professor David A. Mindell
• Perspectives 168: Anna Krachey, Jessica Mallios, and Adam Schreiber
• Steel Lounge Underground, September 2009
• Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance
• Museum District Day 2009
• Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas
• Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas (Spanish)
• NOZONE: Houston’s Mayoral Forum on Land Use
• The Art Guys Marry a Plant
• Steel Lounge Underground, May 2009
• Champagne & Ribs
• Perspectives 166: Torsten Slama
• Steel Lounge Underground, April 2009
• No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston
• Steel Lounge Underground, March 2009
• Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure
• Steel Lounge Underground is back
• CAMH names Bill Arning as new Director
• CAMH curators recognized for excellence
• The Puppet Show
• Perspectives 164: Stephanie Syjuco: Total Fabrications

2008

• Steel Lounge Underground, October 2008
• Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970
• Perspectives 163: Every Sound You Can Imagine
• CAMH announces 2008-09 exhibition schedule
• Sam Taylor-Wood
• Perspectives 162: Snow
• Perspectives 161: Tim Lee
• The Old Weird America
• 2008 Annual Gala: Diamonds in the Rough
• Perspectives 160: Dawoud Bey
• Programming Information for Design Life Now: National Design Triennial
• Design Life Now: National Design Triennial
• Perspectives 159: Superconscious, Automatisms Now