Installation view of Teen Council 14th Biennial Exhibition OUT OF STOCK at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2025. Photo by Alex Barber.
OUT OF STOCK
About
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 over 30 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, 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.
Organizers
OUT OF STOCK is organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). The exhibition is curated by CAMH’s Teen Council’s 25th cohort comprising Mylinh Bui, Chloe Cheuk, Andrew Hernandez, Hemani Koppolu, Bela Kumar, Isabella Landin, Anjali Martinez, Topher McCord, Peace Okoh, Mia Ramos, Kerah Roque, Zarah Saffar, Ray Tian, and Sophia Zhao, in collaboration with Jack Morillo, Teen Council and Tour Program Coordinator and Julia Rossel, Teen Council Associate.
Support
CAMH Teen Council is made possible by the generous support of the H-E-B Tournament of Champions and additional support from Anonymous.
Learning and Engagement at CAMH is made possible by the generous support of the H-E-B Tournament of Champions, Elisa and Cris Pye, Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter, Cabrina and Steven Owsley, Vivian L. Smith Foundation, and Anonymous.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston exhibitions are made possible by the patrons, benefactors, and donors to CAMH’s Major Exhibition Fund: Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen, Jereann Chaney, Louise Jamail, Sissy and Denny Kempner, Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter, Cabrina and Steven Owsley, Elisa and Cris Pye, Beverly and Howard Robinson, Anonymous, and Mary Ann and F. Carrington Weems Foundation.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
