HOUSTON, SIE HABEN EIN PROBLEM!
Nina and Michael Zilkha Gallery
On View: April 1–August 28, 2022
Austrian artists Paul Renner and Richard Hoeck’s new exhibition, HOUSTON, SIE HABEN EIN PROBLEM!, presents art objects, nose-to-tail cooking, and a temporary social club. Together, they exclaim “Houston, You Have a Problem!”—both needling and raising a glass to our belovedly sprawling and unexpected city. Encompassing unconventional ideas about food, humor, performance art, and the social potential inherent in coming together for a meal, their work offers intimate and joyous experiences of art, eating, and community. This will be the first major solo presentation of the artists’ work in an American institution. In this strangely post-pandemic, yet perhaps mid-endemic moment, CAMH welcomes you to join us physically and metaphysically to directly engage the myriad ways artists can awaken the public, reinvigorate our social relations, and craft new futures for cultural institutions.
Learn MoreAmoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks
Brown Foundation Gallery
On View: May 27–October 2, 2022
Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks is the first museum solo exhibition for Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo (b. 1984), one of the most influential artistic voices of his generation. Featuring over thirty works created between 2016–2022, the exhibition is a timely exploration into the varying strategies that Boafo employs within his practice to capture the essence of the Black figure. Boafo creates paintings that actively center Black subjectivity, Black joy, and the Black gaze. The brushstrokes of his vibrant portraits are thick and gestural, the finger technique emphasizing the contours and luminous skin tone of the body. His subjects’ accentuated and elevated figures are often isolated on single color backgrounds, their gaze the focal point to disrupt observation from canonical viewership.
Learn MorePrograms & Events
May
28
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Pop-Up Exhibition | You Are He...
Celebrate the first year of Contemporary Art Museum Houston (CAMH)’s Teacher Advisory Group with a special pop-up exhibition that features work from both students and teachers.
May
28
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Scavenger Hunt for Shapes and ...
Explore the vivid portraits in the exhibition, Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks, through a scavenger hunt for shapes and patterns.
Jun
1
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
CAMHLAB | Dana Caldera | From ...
CAMHLAB artist-in-residence Dana Caldera presents From Paper to Fabric, an expansion on her layered, collage-based artwork that explore ideas of sentimentality and materiality. Caldera approaches her found paper collages as if they were textiles, considering the paper as fiber and incorporating found textiles in her work. In this process, she removes the constraints of a traditional stretched canvas, wooden board, or paper backing to explore the intersection of quilt and collage. Caldera will use the studio space at Montrose Collective to construct large fabric works that explore this intersection in addition to hosting community sewing circle events, an important component of the work. In the work that is produced and its related public programs, From Paper to Fabric embraces the artist/caretaker role in order to model a family friendly environment that welcomes children and ensures they are safely included in all events.
Jun
9
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Member’s Preview | Mariah Garnett: Dreamed This Gateway
All CAMH Members are invited to an exclusive preview of Mariah Garnett: Dreamed This Gateway. Join CAMH Members and friends, exhibition curator Rebecca Matalon and Executive Director Hesse McGraw for a private first look at the exhibition before the public opening reception at 7PM.
Jun
9
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Public Opening | Mariah Garnett: Dreamed This Gateway
Join us to celebrate Mariah Garnett: Dreamed This Gateway, the first U.S. solo museum presentation of Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Mariah Garnett. The exhibition features new and recent operatic videos, including a site-specific, multi-channel installation commissioned by CAMH. Working in collaboration with experimental vocalist Holland Andrews, Cairo-based documentary playwright Raphaël Khouri, and professional opera singers Christopher Paul Craig and Breanna Sinclairé, Garnett has created a new body of work inspired by an archive of materials related to the enigmatic and remarkable life and artistic output of her great-great-aunt, Ruth Lynda Deyo (b. 1884, Poughkeepsie, New York; d. 1960, Cairo, Egypt).
