Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)’s Teen Council is proud to present OUT OF STOCK, the 14th biennial exhibition featuring work from Houston-area teen artists. OUT OF STOCK developed out of an open call for submissions and includes artwork by 33 teen artists responding to questions surrounding consumer culture: What is the line between product and person? What are you consuming? Is it consuming you? When does consumption cross the line between want and need?

OUT OF STOCK reflects on the compulsion to fulfill endless desires. From material greed to tech-enabled obsession, the artworks in the exhibition represent a generation born into the contradiction between surplus and increasingly exhausted resources. Selected works encompass a wide range of 2D and 3D media, including experimental video, photography, large-scale painting, soft sculpture, found-objects-assemblage, prescription medicine, and more. Through these works, teen artists grapple with the symptoms of consumption society, including doom-scrolling, burnout, the pharmaceutical industrial complex, and the human exploitations of war and labor. This exhibition invites viewers to negotiate their contributions to systems both rewarded and suffocated by participation, and it warns against hidden costs, including extinctions at the scale of life, identity, and culture.