1980s Exhibitions
1980
Extensions: Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Robert Longo, Judy Pfaff
January 20–March 2, 1980
Cindy Sherman: Photographs
February 2–March 23, 1980
Richard Artschwager’s Theme(s)
March 22–May 4, 1980
Elmer Bischoff: New Paintings
April 5–May 18, 1980
Ree Morton: Retrospective 1971–1977
May 20–June 29, 1980
Ken Price: Selections from “Happy’s Curios”
May 31–July 20, 1980
Jack Mims: Petty Disasters and Petit Grotesqueries
July 19–August 17, 1980
A Sound Selection: Audio Works by Artists
August 2–August 24, 1980
Nancy Graves: A Survey 1969/1980
September 20–October 26, 1980
Earl Staley: Mythologies
October 3–November 10, 1980
Buildings for Best Products
November 11–30, 1980
Vernon Fisher: Story Paintings and Drawings
November 22–January 4, 1981
Roger Brown
December 13, 1980–January 18, 1981
1981
The New Photography
January 17–February 22, 1981
Ansel Adams and the West
February 3–March 15, 1981
Jonathan Borofsky: An Installation
March 7–April 5, 1981
The Americans: The Landscape
April 4–May 31, 1981
Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Nocturnal Paintings
April 25–June 14, 1981
Neil Jenney: Paintings and Sculpture 1967–1980
June 13–July 19, 1981
Charles Schorre: Pages from Books Unpublished
June 20–August 2, 1981
Other Realities: Installations for Performance
August 1–September 27, 1981
Brian Eno: Video and Music
August 8–30, 1981
Jun Kaneko: Parallel Sounds
September 4–October 18, 1981
Four Painters: Jones, Smith, Stack, Utterback
October 10–November 29, 1981
Derek Boshier: Paintings from 1980–1981
October 31–December 13, 1981
Robert Morris: Selected Works 1970–1980
December 12, 1981–February 14, 1982
Melissa Miller: Recent Paintings
December 19, 1981–January 24, 1982
Events: Artists in Collaboration
December 19, 1981–February 28, 1982
1982
Texas on Paper
February 6–March 14, 1982
Hans Namuth: Pollock Painting
February 22–April 4, 1982
John Baldessari: Work 1966–1980
March 6–April 18, 1982
Tony Berlant: Recent Work
March 27–May 2, 1982
Lunar Landscapes
April 7–May 16, 1982
Robert Gordy: Paintings and Drawings 1960–1980
May 1–June 27, 1982
Gay Block: Portraits
May 7–June 13, 1982
Some Contemporary Portraits
May 14–June 20, 1982
Charles Simonds: Circles and Towers Growing
June 23–August 15, 1982
The Americans: The Collage
July 11–October 3, 1982
Ed Paschke: Selected Works 1967–1981
August 21–September 26, 1982
Photo-Collage
August 23–October 3, 1982
In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum 1948–1982
October 23–January 2, 1983
Eva Hesse: A Retrospective of the Drawings
November 20–January 2, 1983
1983
Andy Feehan: Contemporary Allegories
January 8–March 13, 1983
The Works of Ed Ruscha
January 15–February 27, 1983
Louise Bourgeois
March 12–May 8, 1983
Michael Tetherow: Paintings
March 19–May 29, 1983
Arbitrary Order: Paintings by Pat Steir
May 27–June 17, 1983
Form Illusion Myth: Prints and Drawings of Pat Steir
May 27–July 17, 1983
Laura Russell: Surfaces in Space
June 11–August 7, 1983
Southern Fictions
August 2–September 4, 1983
Frank Freed: People and Places
August 13–September 18, 1983
American Still Life: 1945–1983
September 20–November 20, 1983
Michael Tracy: Requiem Para Los Olvidados
September 24–November 6, 1983
Scott Burton Chairs
November 12, 1983–January 15, 1984
Earl Staley: 1973–1983
December 3, 1983–February 5, 1984
1984
Robert Helm: Recent Work
January 28–March 11, 1984
American Folk Art: The Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. Collection
February 18–April 1, 1984
Felipe Archuleta: Modern Folk Master
March 17–April 29, 1984
Laurie Anderson: Works from 1969–1983
April 20–June 3, 1984
Rauschenberg/Performance
May 12–June 24, 1984
Gilbert & George
June 23–August 19, 1984
Fluxus, etc.: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection
July 7–September 16, 1984
The Heroic Figure
September 15–November 4, 1984
Video: Heroes/Anti-Heroes
September 29–December 2, 1984
Philip Glass: The Manuscript for Akhnaten
September 29–October 21, 1984
Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz: The Art Show
November 17–January 13, 1985
1985
Owen Morrel: Works 1976–1984
February 2–March 24, 1985
Chuck Close: Works on Paper
February 9–April 21, 1985
Robert Mangold: Paintings
April 12–June 2, 1985
Barbara Kruger: Striking Poses
April 27–June 23, 1985
Milton Resnick: Paintings 1945–1985
June 21–August 11, 1985
The Robot Exhibit: History, Fantasy and Reality
July 6–September 8, 1985
James Rosenquist: Paintings 1961–1985
August 27–October 20, 1985
Nancy O’Connor: Milam’s Journey
September 21, 1985–January 5, 1986
1986
Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs 1949–1984
February 28–April 20, 1986
Joseph Glasco 1948–1986: A Sesquicentennial Exhibition
April 19–June 29, 1986
Robert Longo: Sequences/Men in the Cities
May 31–June 29, 1986
Roy Lichtenstein as Sculptor: Recent Works 1977–1984
September 13–October 26, 1986
Melissa Miller: A Survey 1978–1986
September 13–November 2, 1986
Anne Turyn: Work from Five Series
November 1–30, 1986
Jane Freilicher: Paintings
November 22–December 28, 1986
Lee N. Smith III: Recent Paintings
December 6, 1986–February 1, 1987
1987
The Architecture of Frank Gehry
January 21–March 29, 1987
Jon Kessler
February 14–March 15, 1987
Mel Kendrick: Recent Sculpture
March 28–April 26, 1987
The Window in Twentieth-Century Art
April 25–June 28, 1987
Susan Whyne: Recent Paintings
May 2–May 31, 1987
Heroic Stance: The Sculpture of John McCracken 1965–1986
June 6–June 28, 1987
Warhol/Beuys/Polke
September 12–November 15, 1987
The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion
September 12–October 6, 1987
Sue Coe: Police State
October 31–December 6, 1987
Bruce Nauman: Drawings 1965–1986
December 5, 1987–January 17, 1988
1988
Gretchen Bender: Total Recall
February 12–February 14, 1988
Bill Viola: Survey of a Decade
February 13–April 17, 1988
Sally Gall: Tropical Landscapes
February 27–April 3, 1988
Joan Nelson: Paintings
April 16–June 12, 1988
Billy Al Bengston: Paintings of Three Decades
May 14–June 26, 1988
Rodney Alan Greenblat: Reality and Imagination–Two Taste Treats in One!
July 23–September 4, 1988
Al Souza: Paintings
September 10–October 30, 1988
The First Texas Triennial Exhibition
September 24–November 13, 1988
James Drake: The Border/La Frontera
November 12–December 31, 1988
Robert Colescott: A Retrospective 1975–1986
December 3, 1988–January 15, 1989
1989
Patricia Gonzalez: Paintings
January 14–March 12, 1989
Frank Stella: 1970–1987
February 11–April 23, 1989
Mark Innerst: Landscape and Beyond
March 18–May 28, 1989
Fred Sandback: Sculpture
May 20–August 13, 1989
The Arts for Television
June 10–July 16, 1989
Ross Bleckner
July 29–September 24, 1989
Vernon Fisher
September 9–November 5, 1989
The Mindful Page
October 7–December 31, 1989
German Art of the Late 80’s
November 18, 1989–February 4, 1990