BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CalDiscovery//caldiscovery//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH DESCRIPTION:Discovered and maintained by CalDiscovery (https://caldiscover y.com). Event details belong to their publishers. Contains information fro m CalDiscovery\, which is made available under the ODbL 1.0. SOURCE:https://caldiscovery.com/houston-tx/src-9790.ics X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-WR-CALDESC:Discovered and maintained by CalDiscovery (https://caldiscove ry.com). Event details belong to their publishers. Contains information fr om CalDiscovery\, which is made available under the ODbL 1.0. X-WR-CALNAME:CalDiscovery - houston-tx BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Memoria/Memory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250402 DTSTAMP:20260729T073058Z UID:10000726-1743465600-1798761599@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Installation view of Memoria/Memory at 5603 Navigation Bouleva rd. Photo by Peter Molick. \n Add to calendar \n\n Google Calendar \n iCa lendar \n Outlook 365 \n Outlook Live \n\nAbout\nMemoria/Memory (2025) is a monumental mural by artist Rubio located in Houston’s East End made in collaboration with artist Vincent Valdez and an extension of the exhibiti on Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream. The mural is dedicated to Theresa Santana Valdez (1947-2020)\, the artist’s mother  and features her  favorite bird and flower. As children\, his mother passed down to Vincent and his s iblings that a cardinal sighting was an ancestor coming back to visit and guide living family members. Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…\, the artist ’s first major museum survey spans over two decades of his work\, from e arly career drawings to current allegorical portraits. The exhibition at C ontemporary Art Museum Houston (CAMH) was on view from November 15\, 2024\ , through March 23\, 2025. As a continuation of the exhibition\, CAMH work ed in partnership with the East End Cultural District on a Spring Break Mu ral Intensive project that engaged Vincent Valdez and his early mentor and artist Rubio to work with Houston-area teens\, based in the East End. Rub io is the San Antonio muralist who first brought Valdez to mural painting at ten years old. They worked together as friends and colleagues for ten y ears until Valdez left Texas for art school. The Spring Break Mural Intens ive continues this legacy of mentorship and passes along the tradition of mural painting to a new generation. A special thanks to the student assis tants on this project: Cherie Azua\, Saj Baldwin Evans McNallan\, Marisol Dayana Pinales\, Karoline Hazel Escamilla\, Camila Patricia Metyko\, Rober t Miranda\, Anjali Morua\, Jenny Nohemi Coreas Vasquez\, Ereni Ramirez\, a nd Michelle Ramirez with extra support from Carlos Mendoza. \nOrganizers\n Memoria/Memory is organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, and pres ented in partnership with the East End Cultural District with support from Kensinger Donnelly and MetaLab. \nSupport\nMemoria\, Memory is made possi ble in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts\, the Nationa l Endowment for the Arts\, and Mid-America Arts Alliance\, and the state a rts agencies of Arkansas\, Kansas\, Missouri\, Nebraska\, Oklahoma\, and T exas. \n \n \nAbout Rubio \nRubio is a Contemporary Chicano Artist\, born and raised in the West Side of San Antonio\, Texas. As an arts organizer\, Rubio has instructed and coordinated local community-based public art pro gramming through non-profit arts organizations. Rubio has mentored area hi gh school youth in studio art techniques\, public art commissions\, and ea rly exhibition experience with Community Cultural Arts Organizations inclu ding the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center\, San Anto Cultural Arts Organizat ion\, Contemporary MOSAIC Student Artist Program\, and the San Antonio Str eet Art Initiative\, Youth Arts Program. \nRubio’s artwork has been exhi bited locally at the San Antonio Museum of Art\, the McNay Art Museum (San Antonio)\, and the Contemporary at Blue Star (San Antonio). Rubio’s wor k is also featured in national touring exhibitions\, including those of th e private collections of Cheech Marin and Joe A. Diaz. \nRubio has receive d national recognition with grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and t he Vermont Studio Center Fellowship. Rubio has been awarded International Artist-in-Residency opportunities and received the Artpace\, London Travel Grant\, and the Contemporary at Blue Star- Berlin Residency. \nIn March 2 011-20\, Rubio founded and curated R Space and Rubio Gallery-South\, which presented the debut exhibitions of undiscovered\, developing\, and emergi ng local artists. \nExtended Media\n \n\n  \n\nUpcoming Programs\n View Calendar \nCAMH PARTY: 2025 Benefit and Art Auction Fundr aising Event\nApril 26 | 7:00PM – 11:59PM CAMH \nSave the date for the a nnual Benefit and Art Auction. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)’s annual Benefit and Art Auction is the signature fundraising event that ra ises support for CAMH’s free admission\, exhibitions\, public programs\, artist residencies\, art education opportunities\, \nMore \nSculptural In tegration Open Studio\nMay 3 | 2:00PM – 4:00PM CAMH \nInspired by Stitch ed Integration (2024) by Chloe Kerlin in the Teen Council’s 14th biennia l exhibition\, OUT OF STOCK\, add 3D objects onto a miniature stuffed anim al to create a small sculpture. \nMore \nThreat of Joy: Teacher Advisory G roup Exhibition Public Opening\nMay 9 | 6:00PM – 8:00PM Eldorado Ballroo m \nJoin us to celebrate the opening of Threat of Joy\, the fourth annual exhibition organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)’s Teache r Advisory Group (TAG). \nMore \nCreative Accumulation Drop-In Experience\ nMay 10 | 1:00PM – 4:00PM \nInspired by the sculpture Amalgamation (2024 )\, by Alonzo Abara\, transform mixed-media materials into three-dimension al spheres. \nMore \nLayering Materials Bonus Open Studio\nMay 17 | 2:00PM – 4:00PM \nUsing hand-cut stencils\, textured paper\, ribbon\, and tull e\, layer materials to assemble a mixed-media collage inspired by artist C itlahli Villegas’s Echoes of Summer (2024)\, in the Teen Council’s 14t h biennial exhibition\, OUT OF STOCK. \nMore \nScavenger Hunt for Shapes a nd Patterns Drop-In Experience\nMay 24 | 1:00PM – 4:00PM CAMH \nExplore CAMH Teen Council’s 14th biennial exhibition\, OUT OF STOCK\, by partici pating in a scavenger hunt for shapes and patterns. \nMore\n\nOngoing thro ugh December 31\, 2026. LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T073058Z LOCATION:5603 Navigation Boulevard\, 5603 Navigation Boulevard\, Housotn\, Texas\, 77011 URL:https://camh.org/event/around-houston-memoria-memory-east-end-mural/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260522 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261102 DTSTAMP:20260729T073058Z UID:10000658-1779408000-1793577599@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Installation view of Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, 2026. Photo: Sean Fleming. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calen dar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n \n \n \n About\n \n Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty an d Influence People is the first exhibition to survey the work of acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Mary Ellen Carroll. The exhibition focuses on a selection of key projects spanning over four decades and includes works ex hibited for the first time. The exhibition charts the import and impact of Carroll’s exploration of some of the most urgent issues of our time\, i ncluding environmentalism\, architectural and technological infrastructure \, immigration\, and urban legislation\, as well as the artist’s engagem ent with questions of sexuality\, identity\, and being. \n \n Organiz ers\n \n Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People is organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and curated by Rebecca Matal on\, Senior Curator\, with Yiran Chi\, 2025-26 Rice Curatorial Fellow. \ n \n Support\n \n Major Support for Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People is provided by Teiger Foundation with sustainab ility efforts guided by Rute Collaborative as part of Teiger Foundation’ s Climate Action for Curators.Additional support is provided by N2 Stone F oundation\, the Stolbun Family\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Frank Liu Jr. Foundation\, Michael and Katie Russell\, The Andy Warhol Fo undation for the Visual Arts\, and Martha Claire Tompkins. \n \n\n\nIn- kind support is provided by Bellows Construction and Layher. \n Contempora ry Arts Museum Houston exhibitions are made possible by the patrons\, bene factors\, and donors to CAMH’s Major Exhibition Fund\, July 1\, 2024-Jun e 30\, 2025: Anonymous\, Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen\, Louise Jamail\, Si ssy and Denny Kempner\, and Beverly and Howard Robinson. \nContemporary Ar ts Museum Houston is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Hou ston Arts Alliance and the Texas Commission on the Arts. \n \n Extended Description\n Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence Peop le is the first exhibition to survey the work of acclaimed multidisciplina ry artist Mary Ellen Carroll. The exhibition focuses on a selection of key projects spanning over four decades and includes works exhibited for the first time. The exhibition charts the import and impact of Carroll’s exp loration of some of the most urgent issues of our time\, including environ mentalism\, architectural and technological infrastructure\, immigration\, and urban legislation\, as well as the artist’s engagement with questio ns of sexuality\, identity\, and being. \nSince the 1980s\, Carroll has pr oduced a heterogeneous body of work taking the form of performance\, film\ , photography\, writing\, architecture\, public art\, and policy. Yet\, th e artist’s primary medium is the field of social relations that govern a given time and context. An inheritor of conceptual\, project-based\, and institutional-critique-based practices\, Carroll puts pressure on the cond itions within which a work of art gains legibility\, while never forsaking formal and aesthetic considerations. By their own account\, each project is approached by asking\, “what do we consider a material as a work of a rt and what is the problem I am trying to solve?” Carroll’s approach t o art-making is collaborative and research-based\, often involving years o f planning\, coordination\, and community engagement. As the exhibition ti tle’s allusion to famed comedian and rabble-rouser Lenny Bruce suggests\ , Carroll is equally a trickster\, scamp\, and intermediary\, applying a w ryly humorous (though no less critical) approach to addressing society’s most pressing issues. \nMany of Carroll’s works are ongoing and intenti onally durational as is the case with their landmark\, multifaceted projec t\, prototype 180 (1999-ongoing). Sited in the Sharpstown neighborhood of Houston\, prototype 180 remains a legendary intervention into urban policy in a city known for its famous lack of zoning and idiosyncratic land-use policies\, and has taken multiple forms since its inception\, most notably the 180-degree rotation of a mid-century suburban house in 2010 and the s ubsequent “unbuilding” of the structure in 2017. Works such as prototy pe 180 reveal the durational quality of the artist’s larger artistic pro ject\, as well as Carroll’s tendency to avoid market-based criteria in f avor of a rigorous\, continuously unfolding\, and adaptive mode of art mak ing that is often geographically and temporally dispersed. Mary Ellen Carr oll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People continues CAMH’s tradition o f presenting scholarly and in-depth survey exhibitions dedicated to the wo rk of historically significant artists at pivotal moments in their career. The exhibition will include selected works from the 1980s to the present\ , such as My Death is Pending… Because. (1986-2017)\, The Doppelganger T apes\, (1993-ongoing)\, prototype 180 (1999-ongoing)\, Federal (2003)\, in destructible language (2006-ongoing)\, and PUBLIC UTILITY 2.0 (2008-ongoin g)\, among others\, as well as a series of new commissions. \nMary Ellen C arroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People highlights the multifaceted \, aesthetically rigorous work of an artist who has demonstrated deft inst itutional critiques of art and used their artwork to interact with and que stion the politics and policies surrounding social and physical structures \, including the ways in which bodies navigate these spaces. Employing a c onceptually-driven form of exhibition making\, the exhibition both honors and mirrors Carroll’s recursive\, materially diverse\, and ecologically- attuned practice through a display in which works are always seen through\ , between\, and in relation to each other. Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People offers the occasion to reconsider Carroll’s work and the questions it raises about identity and intimacy\, objects/ide as and their afterlives\, and the value that political and social activism informed by humor and play might offer contemporary critical practices. \ n About the Artist\n The work of New York-based conceptual artist Ma ry Ellen Carroll (MEC\, studios) engages the disciplines of architecture\, public policy\, film/media\, and technology. Carroll’s body of work spa ns over four decades in a range of media that transcend genres. Fundamenta lly\, the work investigates a single\, fundamental question: What do we co nsider a work of art? It is dedicated to a social and political critique t hat explores the interactions of subjectivity\, language\, power\, and kno wledge.  \nCarroll is the recipient of numerous awards and honors includi ng from the Guggenheim Foundation\, Pollock-Krasner Foundation\, American Academy in Berlin\, Rockefeller Foundation\, Rauschenberg Foundation\, Gra ham Foundation\, and most recently the American Academy in Rome. Carroll r eceived an MFA from the School of the Art Institute Chicago (1989) where t hey studied time-based arts\, filmmaking\, and architectural history\, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Colorado Boulder. Teaching\, lecturing and public presentations on architecture\, art\, and public policy are an important part of Carroll’s work and have occurred at the DIA Art Foundation\, Columbia University\, American Academy in Berl in\, Rice University\, Yale University\, among others. \nCarroll’s work is in numerous public and private collections in the US and abroad and has been exhibited at institutions including: the Whitney Museum of American Art\; the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Philadelphia\; the Institute of Contemporary Art\, London\; Museum für Völkerkunde\, Munich\; the Renais sance Society\, Chicago\; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\; Johann Jacobs Museum\, Zurich\; Prospect.3\, New Orleans\; Busan Biennial\, South Korea \; Los Angeles County Museum of Art\; MoMA-PS1\; MUMOK\, Vienna\; Arthur R oss Architecture Gallery at Columbia University\; Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\ ; among other venues. This is the first major solo museum exhibition of th e artist’s work. \n Publication\n The exhibition is accompanied b y a catalogue co-published by CAMH and Dancing Foxes Press and designed by Teo Schifferli\, and featuring new scholarship by exhibition curator Reb ecca Matalon\, art historian Pamela M. Lee\, and historian of science\, D. Graham Burnett\; reprinted and/or expanded interviews between Carroll and Hamza Walker and scholar David Joselit\; as well as poetry and prose by I man Mersal and Kathryn Scanlan. \n \n Extended Media\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \ n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \ n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Resources\n \n \n Tours\n \n For more information about tours visit camh.org/tours. \n \n Accessibility\n \n Exhibition labels are available in English.Ex tended Labels (English)Extended Labels (Spanish)Large Print Labels (Englis h) \n \n Press Release\n \n Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People \n \n Educational Materials\n \n Content Revi ewEducation Guide \n \n Exhibition Merchandise\n \n Shop Now \n \n Related Events\n \n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T073058Z LOCATION:Brown Foundation Gallery\, Houston\, TX\, United States URL:https://camh.org/event/mary-ellen-carroll-how-to-talk-dirty-and-influe nce-people/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260904 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270215 DTSTAMP:20260904T180512Z UID:10000774-1788480000-1802649599@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:(L to R): Dionne Lee\, Castings (detail)\, 2022. Gelatin silve r prints\, 5 x 7 inches. Courtesy the artist and Petra Bibeau\, New York\; Beverly Buchanan with Virginia “Gina” Templeton\, Abandoned Sculptur e Off Pea Ridge Road\, Monroe Co.\, Georgia (detail)\, 1982. Reproduction of one hand-written page and eight photographs mounted to photobook\, Bev erly Buchanan papers\, Archives of American Art\, Smithsonian Institution. Courtesy the Archives of American Art\, Smithsonian Institution. \n Add t o calendar \n\n Google Calendar \n iCalendar \n Outlook 365 \n Outlook Li ve \n\nAbout\nDivination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee foregrounds Beverl y Buchanan and Dionne Lee’s explorations of the myths\, majesty\, and di spossessions embedded in the American landscape. The exhibition is the sec ond in a series organized by Senior Curator Rebecca Matalon to bring toget her artists across generations as a way to open up new interpretations of their work. The show follows the 2021 exhibition Wild Life: Elizabeth Murr ay & Jessi Reaves\, which similarly presented an exchange between intergen erational artists. Divination pairs original photographs as well as mater ials from the late Buchanan’s archives\, including photographs\, journal s\, writing\, and ephemera\, with a selection of videos\, photographs\, an d sculptures by the Columbus-based Lee. While Buchanan (1940-2015) and Lee (b. 1988\, New York City) are from different generations\, both artists e xplore relationships between Blackness and land\, mining racialized histor ies of the American landscape and its dualities as a site of sanctuary and displacement\, sustenance and deprivation. The two artists share an inter est in survivalist practices\, and each thinks of land as not only a physi cal place or substance to be encountered\, but an accumulation of ever-shi fting material and psychic entanglements. Over the last decade\, new scho larship has brought renewed and much deserved critical attention to Buchan an’s profound but underrecognized contributions to the history of land a rt and environmental sculpture\, works that range from cast concrete slabs (“frustulas”) to her later small-scale “shack sculptures” that me morialize the architectural styles of Southern homes and their owners. Thi s exhibition aims to delve into lesser-known aspects of the artist’s pra ctice\, for example\, her placing of small cast concrete works in graveyar ds of enslaved peoples across rural Georgia\, and her “auto-archival” use of photography to document these covert actions\, major public works\, and herself. Divination places Buchanan’s work in dialogue with Lee’s photographic and filmic examinations of what it means to tend to\, seek o ut\, and honor the land on which we live\, including its hidden and darker histories. The exhibition positions their practices as forms of divinatio n-making visible what all too often remains unseen. \nOrganizers\nDivinati on: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee is organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, and curated by Rebecca Matalon\, Senior Curator. \nSupport\nSup port for Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Special thanks to Teiger Foundati on for research support. \nContemporary Arts Museum Houston exhibitions ar e made possible by the generous donors to CAMH’s Major Exhibition Fund: Scott R. Sparvero\, Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen\, The Andy Warhol Foundat ion for the Visual Arts\, Beverly and Howard Robinson\, Ruth Dreessen and Tom Van Laan\, Cindy and David Fitch\, Louise Jamail\, Sissy and Denny Kem pner\, Elisa and Cris Pye\, and Poppi Massey. \nAbout Beverly Buchanan \nB orn in Fuquay\, North Carolina\, Beverly Buchanan (1940-2015) grew up in S outh Carolina. By the late 1960s\, Buchanan had earned several university degrees in the sciences\, and was working as a public health worker and ed ucator in New York City and East Orange\, New Jersey. \nIn 1971\, Buchanan enrolled at the Art Students’ League\, where she studied with Harlem Re naissance painter Norman Lewis. From that time on\, Buchanan devoted her t ime to making art. In the 1970s\, she considered herself an abstract expre ssionist painter and completed a series of “Wall” paintings which were exhibited at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey in 1976.  \nIn 1977\ , Buchanan moved back to the South. From 1979 to 1986\, Buchanan made a se ries of public stone sculptures across the American Southeast\, which she allowed to decay over time and become part of the surroundings. Most notab ly\, in 1979 she completed Ruins and Rituals (also the title of the Brookl yn Museum retrospective from 2016-2017)\, and in 1980 Marsh Ruins\, with f unding from a Guggenheim Fellowship. Some of these works can still be foun d\, while others have withered away. They contemplate the idea of “ruina tion” and commemorate the history of Southern Black communities. \nBy th e mid 1980s\, Buchanan was exploring Southern vernacular architecture thro ugh her practice. She created a series of makeshift sculptures known as “shacks” in which she paid tribute to the improvised and self-built ho mes of Black communities in rural Georgia. Often attached to her sculpture s were hand-written or typed narratives\, which she referred to as “lege nds\,” that gave voice to a cast of characters\, some remembered and oth ers imagined. \nBuchanan’s later work is intimately linked to her natura l surroundings and folk art. As a native Southerner\, she drew on memories from her childhood as well as the lush Georgian landscape and yard art of local self-taught artists. A passionate gardener\, Buchanan produced vivi d oil pastel flower drawings and small assemblage works. \nThe winner of n umerous honors during her long career\, including the John Simon Guggenhei m Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts F ellowship\, Buchanan’s work is in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art\, Atlanta\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Studio Muse um in Harlem and the Whitney Museum\, among others. A posthumous solo retr ospective\, Ruins and Rituals\, curated by Jennifer Burris and Park McArth ur\, was held at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2016-17. \nAbout Dionne Lee \nDionne Lee (b. 1988\, New York\, NY) works in photography\, collage\, a nd video to explore power\, survival\, and personal history in relation to the American landscape. Lee lives and works in Columbus\, Ohio and receiv ed an MFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2017. \nLe e’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, The Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, New Orleans Museum of Art\, M useum of Fine Arts Houston\, The Princeton University Art Museum\, Contemp orary Art Gallery of Vancouver\, CA\, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Ar t\, San Francisco\, CA\, Aperture Foundation\, New York\, International Ce nter of Photography\, New York\, and Light Work\, New York. \nRecent exhib itions include Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing\, Th e Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, Spora\, Swiss Institute\, Ne w York\, NY\, Widening the Lens: Photography\, Ecology\, and the Contempor ary Landscape\, Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, Prologue\, Colu mbus Museum of Art\, Columbus\, OH\, All This Soft Wild Buzzing\, Wattis I nstitute for Contemporary Art\, San Francisco\, CA\, Re/Sisters\, Barbican Art Gallery\, London\, UK\, Penumbra Foundation\, New York City\, Site Un folding\, Bibeau Krueger\, New York City\, Tara Downs\, New York City\, Cu shion Works\, San Francisco\, CA\, The Locker Plant / Chinati Foundation\, Marfa\, TX\, Et al. San Francisco\, CA\, /(Slash)\, San Francisco\, CA\, FotoFest Biennial 2022: If I Had a Hammer\, Houston\, TX\, and Center For Fine Art Photography at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art\, Fort Collins\, CO. \nLee is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Chinati Foundation\, Unseen California\, and Land Arts of the American West between 2022-2023. In 2019 Lee was an artist in residence at the Cen ter for Photography at Woodstock. \n  \nPublication \nThe exhibition is a ccompanied by a risograph-printed catalogue co-published by CAMH and F fea turing new writing on the artists’ works by exhibition curator Matalon a nd scholar Dr. Elleza Kelley\, as well as an assortment of photographs\, h istorical documents\, and archival materials. \nResources\nTours\ntours@ca mh.org713.284.8276Additional Information \nAccessibility\nExhibition label s will be available in English and Spanish. \nPress Release\nDivination: B everly Buchanan & Dionne Lee Press Release \nEducational Materials\nPlease come back soon to see educational materials. \nRelated Events\nView Calen dar LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T180512Z LOCATION:Nina and Michael Zilkha Gallery URL:https://camh.org/event/divination-beverly-buchanan-dionne-lee/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dionne Lee and Rebecca Matalon DTSTART:20260905T190000Z DTEND:20260905T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T073058Z UID:10000843-1788616800-1788620400@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:(L to R): Dionne Lee photographed at Beverly Buchanan’s Mars h Ruins\, 2025. Photo: Rebecca Matalon. / Rebecca Matalon photographed at an In Conversation with Mary Ellen Carroll\, 2026. Photo: Tasha Gorel. \ n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \ n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \ n \n About\n \n Join artist Dionne Lee and CAMH Senior Curator Rebec ca Matalon for a discussion related to themes explored in the exhibition D ivination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee.Exhibition catalogues will be ava ilable for purchase at the program. This program will be seated in the Ni na and Michael Zilkha Gallery and is free to attend. RSVP is recommended. Seating is limited and available on a first-come basis. We recommend arriv ing early. \n \n RSVP\n \n About Dionne Lee\n Dionne L ee (b. 1988\, New York\, NY) works in photography\, collage\, and video to explore power\, survival\, and personal history in relation to the Americ an landscape. Lee lives and works in Columbus\, Ohio and received an MFA a t California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2017. \nLee’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, The Whitney Mu seum of American Art\, New York\, New Orleans Museum of Art\, Museum of Fi ne Arts Houston\, The Princeton University Art Museum\, Contemporary Art G allery of Vancouver\, CA\, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art\, San Fra ncisco\, CA\, Aperture Foundation\, New York\, International Center of Pho tography\, New York\, and Light Work\, New York. \nRecent exhibitions incl ude Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing\, The Whitney M useum of American Art\, New York\, Spora\, Swiss Institute\, New York\, NY \, Widening the Lens: Photography\, Ecology\, and the Contemporary Landsca pe\, Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, Prologue\, Columbus Museum of Art\, Columbus\, OH\, All This Soft Wild Buzzing\, Wattis Institute fo r Contemporary Art\, San Francisco\, CA\, Re/Sisters\, Barbican Art Galler y\, London\, UK\, Penumbra Foundation\, New York City\, Site Unfolding\, B ibeau Krueger\, New York City\, Tara Downs\, New York City\, Cushion Works \, San Francisco\, CA\, The Locker Plant / Chinati Foundation\, Marfa\, TX \, Et al. San Francisco\, CA\, /(Slash)\, San Francisco\, CA\, FotoFest Bi ennial 2022: If I Had a Hammer\, Houston\, TX\, and Center For Fine Art Ph otography at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art\, Fort Collins\, CO. \nLee is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Chinati Foundation\, Unseen California\, and Land Arts of the American West betwe en 2022-2023. In 2019 Lee was an artist in residence at the Center for Pho tography at Woodstock. \n About Rebecca Matalon\n Rebecca Matalon i s Senior Curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)\, where she ha s organized exhibitions for artists Garrett Bradley\, Mariah Garnett\, Dia ne Severin Nguyen\, Cauleen Smith\, and Jordan Strafer\, as well as the tw o-person exhibition\, Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves (2021). Matalon is currently working on Mary Ellen Carroll: How to Talk Dirty an d Influence People (2025)\, the first major survey exhibition of the work of Mary Ellen Carroll\, among other projects. \nPreviously\, Matalon was Assistant Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles (MOCA)\, where she organized exhibitions including Tongues Untied (2015)\, Mick alene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady? (2016)\, Welcome to the Dollhouse ( 2018)\, and Décor: Barbara Bloom\, Andrea Fraser\, Louise Lawler (2018) . In 2018\, she co-organized Zoe Leonard: Survey\, a major mid-career ret rospective of the work of Zoe Leonard\, which debuted at The Whitney Museu m of American Art in New York before traveling to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Matalon was a Co-Founder\, and from 2015-2018\, Curator at JOAN\, a not-for-profit exhibition space in Los Angeles that is dedicated to pre senting the work of emerging and under-represented artists. She has contri buted writing to multiple publications and regularly lectures on contempor ary art and curating. Matalon serves on the board of Electronic Arts Inter mix (EAI) and was on the Organizing Committee of Texas Talks Art\, a multi -institutional initiative that launched in January 2021. \n \n Related Events\n \n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T073058Z LOCATION:Nina and Michael Zilkha Gallery URL:https://camh.org/event/dionne-lee-and-rebecca-matalon/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin DTSTART:20260911T170000Z DTEND:20260911T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260827T000451Z UID:10000867-1789128000-1789131600@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts,literary DESCRIPTION:Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin. Photo: Janice Rubin. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCale ndar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Join artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin\, for a discussi on related to Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People.T hrough the lens of their own socially engaged practice\, Vaughan and Margo lin will speak about ‘heat-seeking’ as artistic practice in Carroll’ s work and the integration of process (correspondence\, preparation\, rese arch\, methodology) into a “finished” work. . . as much as a work is e ver “finished” . . .Light lunch will be provided on a first-come\, fir st-served basis after the gallery talk in the Cullen Education Resource Ro om on the lower level of the Museum. \nRSVP\n Location and Accessibility \nThis event will consist of a walkthrough of the exhibition in the Brown Foundation Gallery\, located on the upper level of the Museum. No seating is provided for this program. For questions or concerns regarding safety o r accessibility\, please contact YE Torres\, Learning and Public Programs Manager\, at ytorres@camh.org. \n About Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin\ n Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin are Houston-based collaborative interd isciplinary artists (and husbands).  Their work involves extensive origin al archival research and deep collaborations with local LGBTQIA+ communiti es.  They have have had solo exhibitions at McClain Gallery (Houston)\, T he Blaffer Art Museum (Houston) DiverseWorks (Houston)\, the Oklahoma Stat e University Museum of Art\, the Invisible Dog Art Center (NYC)\, Art Leag ue Houston\, Aurora Picture Show (Houston)\, Devin Borden Gallery (Houston ) and non-traditional community-facing venues including Pride Festivals in Tahlequah\, Oklahoma and Houston\, Houston Community College Campuses\, H ouston Public Library\, University of Houston MD Anderson Library\, and nu merous LGBTQ+ bars. \n  \nIn 2025 they co-founded Rendezvous Center for A rt\, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering public understanding of the contributions of the LGBTQIA+ community by supporting the creation \, public presentation and social engagement programming of interdisciplin ary artwork that examines the rich diversity of queer experiences. \n About Art at Noon\n Art at Noon is a short gallery talk by a local cura tor\, artist\, musician\, or other creative who is invited to CAMH to shar e a new perspective on a specific exhibition. The gallery talk is followed by a light lunch.  \n Upcoming Programs\n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T000451Z LOCATION:CAMH URL:https://camh.org/event/nick-vaughan-and-jake-margolin/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mixed Media Architectural Shapes DTSTART:20260912T190000Z DTEND:20260912T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260820T180501Z UID:10000870-1789221600-1789228800@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Summer Community Celebration Attendees\, 2025. Photo: Tasha Go rel. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Construct a miniature structure inspired by artist Beverly Buchanan’s sculptures memorializing the architectural sty les of Southern homes and their owners in the exhibition\, Divination: Bev erly Buchanan & Dionne Lee. \n About Open Studios\n CAMH’s Open Studio sessions feature drop-in\, hands-on activities that draw inspiratio n from the exhibitions on view. During these sessions participants will ha ve an opportunity to explore imaginative concepts inspired by world-renown ed artists who show at the Museum by making your own artworks in response to theirs. Experiment with new materials\, explore fresh ideas\, and make new friends. Whether you stay for five minutes or two hours\, you’re inv ited to interact with art in new and profound ways at Open Studio. Regular ly scheduled Open Studios occur the first Saturday of every month. All age s are welcome\; admission is always free. \n Upcoming Programs\n View Cale ndar LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T180501Z LOCATION:CAMH URL:https://camh.org/event/mixed-media-architectural-shapes/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Satirical Sign Designs DTSTART:20260919T180000Z DTEND:20260919T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260820T180501Z UID:10000871-1789822800-1789833600@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Drawing Outpost Workshop Attendees\, 2026. Photo: Tasha Gorel. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n \n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Craft a protest or picket sign featuring humorou s\, noteworthy\, or personally meaningful phrases inspired by the theme of SOVEREIGNTY in the exhibition\, Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People to display in public spaces.  \n About Drop-In Exp eriences\n CAMH’s Drop-In Experiences feature instructions for hands- on activities and provide creative opportunities to experience current exh ibitions in a unique and meaningful way. Drop-In Experiences are available between 1-4PM on select Saturdays at the Museum. For all ages\, and alway s free. \n Support\n Drop-In Experiences are funded in part by Texas Commission for the Arts. \n \n Upcoming Programs\n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T180501Z LOCATION:CAMH URL:https://camh.org/event/satirical-sign-designs/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:POWER: MATERIALITY and INFRASTRUCTURE DTSTART:20260926T190000Z DTEND:20260926T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260902T000502Z UID:10000876-1790431200-1790438400@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Wind Turbines on Kenedy Ranch on the Stella Wind Farm: A 201- megawatt site featuring 67 turbines near Armstrong\, Texas. Photograph by Mary Ellen Carroll / MEC\, studios © 2021. \n \n \n Add to cale ndar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Out look 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n While fossil fuels still dominate the American narrative about energy\, Texas a nd its electrical grid are increasingly powered by renewables. POWER is a public forum that makes visible the material\, economic\, political\, and infrastructural systems shaping the transformation of energy in Texas. Si tuated within the context of a cultural institution\, POWER brings this tr ansformation into public discussion\, convening key individuals across the public sector\, government\, and industry who are actively shaping the fi eld. From the unique vantage point of Houston-the “energy capital” of the world\, the forum considers the present and offers a forward-looking p erspective on POWER – co-convened by renewable energy developer Joey Rom ano and conceptual artist Mary Ellen Carroll.Participating Speakers: Jays hree Desai\, CFO\, Quanta Energy\, Photovoltaic\, Wind Energy\, and Storag eJesse Dickerman\, Interim Executive Director\, Harris County Pollution Co ntrol Services | Solar For All |Margo Weisz\, Executive Director\, Texas E nergy Poverty Research Institute (TEPRI)Moderator:Dr. Gökçe Günel\, Ass ociate Professor of Anthropology\, Rice University (Infrastructure\, Energ y\, Climate)This program will be seated in the Brown Foundation Gallery an d is FREE to attend. RSVP is recommended. Seating is limited and available on a first-come basis. \n RSVP\n \n Organizers\n \n This program is organized by Joey Romano and Mary Ellen Carroll. \n About Dr. Gök çe Günel\n Dr. Gökçe Günel is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University\, where her research examines infrastructure\, energy\, and climate change. She is the author of Spaceship in the Desert and Floa ting Power: Energy\, Infrastructure\, and South-South Relations. \n Abo ut Jayshree Desai\n Jayshree Desai\, CFO\, Quanta Services\,one of Nort h America’s largest builders of energy infrastructure\, including electr ic transmission and distribution systems\, substations\, and utility-scale wind\, solar\, and battery-storage facilities. Her career in renewable en ergy includes leadership roles at EDP Renewables North America\, Clean Lin e Energy Partners\, and ConnectGen. \n About Jesse Dickerman\n Jesse Dickerman is Interim Executive Director of Harris County Pollution Contro l Services and has held senior leadership roles in Harris County focused o n administration\, energy transition\, and sustainability. His work has in cluded establishing the County’s Office of Sustainability and helping im plement its $250 million Solar for All initiative. \n About Margo Weisz \, ED\, TEPRI\n Margo Weisz is Executive Director of the Texas Energy P overty Research Institute (TEPRI)\, an independent nonprofit advancing ene rgy solutions for low-income communities across Texas. She helped conceptu alize and launch TEPRI and has more than two decades of experience develop ing initiatives for underserved communities. \n About Joey Romano\n Joey Romano is a Houston-based renewable-energy developer. He developed Ho uston’s first merchant solar-power project and Texas’s first community -solar program in a competitive retail electricity market. \n About Mar y Ellen Carroll\n Mary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist whose work over more than four decades has engaged architecture\, public policy\, fil m and media\, technology\, and language as materials. Their career survey\ , How To Talk Dirty and Influence People\, is on view at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, where POWER emerges from Carroll’s new work SHALL. \n \n Related Events\n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T000502Z LOCATION:Brown Foundation Gallery\, Houston\, TX\, United States URL:https://camh.org/event/power-materiality-and-infrastructure/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Call for Arts Advocacy DTSTART:20261003T190000Z DTEND:20261003T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260826T000446Z UID:10000869-1791036000-1791043200@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts,community DESCRIPTION:Teens participating in a hands-on activity at the Teen Council Alumni Brunch\, 2025. Photo: Tasha Gorel. \n \n \n Add to calen dar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outl ook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Join u s in an exploration of arts advocacy as we observe the six thematic sectio ns within the exhibition Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influen ce People\, then reflect on the power of community voice through the act o f letter writing. Led by Ana Castro\, CAMH Teen Council member\, participa nts will be given prompts modeled after exhibition themes and guided throu gh the process of writing and mailing a letter to current policymakers.Thi s event is FREE to attend and open to all. \n About Ana Castro\n A na Castro is a second-year Teen Council member and a senior at St Agnes Ac ademy. She enjoys attending local concerts\, visiting community art spaces \, and is passionate about advocacy. \n About Teen Council Programs\n CAMH’s Teen Council curates a slate of programs related to exhibitions they curate\, current exhibitions at CAMH\, and current issues impacting Houston teens. The programs are designed by teens for teens. Past programs have included art markets\, exhibitions\, fashion shows\, film screenings \, listening parties\, music fests\, and poetry slams. \nCheck out our cal endar for upcoming programs and open call opportunities for Teen Council ’s biennial exhibitions and programs. \n Upcoming Programs\n View Calend ar LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T000446Z LOCATION:CAMH URL:https://camh.org/event/call-for-arts-advocacy/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fall Community Celebration DTSTART:20261010T180000Z DTEND:20261010T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T073058Z UID:10000851-1791637200-1791648000@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts,community DESCRIPTION:Attendees at the opening of Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Di rty and Influence People at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, 2026. Photo : Tasha Gorel \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Li ve \n\n \n \n About\n \n Join us at our Fall Community Celeb ration for an afternoon of art-making activities inspired by CAMH’s curr ent exhibitions. This is a free\, all-ages event. Stay tuned for addition al details. \n Location and Accessibility\nThis event will take place th roughout Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Activities will occur in CAMH ’s main-level Brown Foundation Gallery\, lower-level Nina and Michael Zi lkha Gallery\, and Cullen Education Resource Room. \nFor questions or conc erns regarding safety or accessibility\, please contact YE Torres\, Learni ng and Public Programs Manager\, at ytorres@camh.org. \n \n Upcoming Pr ograms\n \n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T073058Z LOCATION:CAMH URL:https://camh.org/event/fall-community-celebration/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Design a Button DTSTART:20261017T180000Z DTEND:20261017T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260820T180501Z UID:10000872-1792242000-1792252800@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Drawing Outpost Attendees\, 2026. Photo: Tasha Gorel. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iC alendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Inspired by our current exhibition\, Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee\, design and create a black-and-white a button to ho nor a family member or friend. \n About Drop-In Experiences\n CAMH ’s Drop-In Experiences feature instructions for hands-on activities and provide creative opportunities to experience current exhibitions in a uniq ue and meaningful way. Drop-In Experiences are available between 1-4PM on select Saturdays at the Museum. For all ages\, and always free. \n Supp ort\n Drop-In Experiences are funded in part by Texas Commission for th e Arts. \n \n Upcoming Programs\n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T180501Z LOCATION:CAMH URL:https://camh.org/event/design-a-button-3/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Close Looking Exhibition Tour DTSTART:20261024T180000Z DTEND:20261024T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260820T180501Z UID:10000873-1792846800-1792857600@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Visitors within the exhibition Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People\, 2026. Photo: Tasha Gorel. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n \n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Join us for a guided\, hands-on tour led by one of CAMH’s FAQ (Fr equently Asked Questions) Team of Museum Educators to learn more about the exhibition\, Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People. \n About Drop-In Experiences\n CAMH’s Drop-In Experiences featur e instructions for hands-on activities and provide creative opportunities to experience current exhibitions in a unique and meaningful way. Drop-In Experiences are available between 1-4PM on select Saturdays at the Museum. For all ages\, and always free. \n Support\n Drop-In Experiences ar e funded in part by Texas Commission for the Arts. \n \n Upcoming Progr ams\n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T180501Z LOCATION:CAMH URL:https://camh.org/event/close-looking-exhibition-tour-3/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Music at the Museum | Halloween Edition DTSTART:20261029T230000Z DTEND:20261030T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T073058Z UID:10000850-1793296800-1793304000@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts,holiday,music DESCRIPTION:Cumbias y Contemporary attendees at Contemporary Arts Museum H ouston\, 2026. Photo: Tasha Gorel. \n \n \n Add to calendar \ n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Explore CAMH ’s current exhibitions and join our hands-on art-making experiences whil e listening to a curated soundscape of live music in the Museum. This eve nt is free and open to all. Stay tuned for additional details. \n Locati on and Accessibility\nThis event will take place throughout Contemporary A rts Museum Houston. Activities will take place in CAMH’s main-level Brow n Foundation Gallery and lower-level Nina and Michael Zilkha Gallery. \nFo r questions or concerns regarding safety or accessibility\, please contact YE Torres\, Learning and Public Programs Manager\, at ytorres@camh.org. \ n \n Upcoming Programs\n \n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T073058Z LOCATION:CAMH URL:https://camh.org/event/music-at-the-museum-halloween-edition/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mirror Image Masks DTSTART:20261031T180000Z DTEND:20261031T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260820T180501Z UID:10000874-1793451600-1793462400@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Installation photo of OUT OF STOCK at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, 2025. Photo: Alex Barber. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 36 5 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Inspired by the theme DOUBLING in the exhibition\, Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dir ty and Influence People\, create a symmetrical mask design using a curated selection of mixed media materials. \n About Drop-In Experiences\n CAMH’s Drop-In Experiences feature instructions for hands-on activitie s and provide creative opportunities to experience current exhibitions in a unique and meaningful way. Drop-In Experiences are available between 1-4 PM on select Saturdays at the Museum. For all ages\, and always free. \n Support\n Drop-In Experiences are funded in part by Texas Commission for the Arts. \n \n Upcoming Programs\n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T180501Z LOCATION:CAMH URL:https://camh.org/event/mirror-image-masks/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Galveston\, Texas DTSTART:20261114T200000Z DTEND:20261114T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260810T180357Z UID:10000866-1794664800-1794672000@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Image courtesy the artists. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Join us f or Galveston Texas\, a performance by Houston-based artists Eli Greene and Devin T. Mays in coordination with Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee. RSVP is recommended and will open leading up to the program. \n About Eli Greene\n Eli Greene (b. New York\, NY) makes work often fil tered through photography\, saturated with the medium and everything it st icks to-history\, memory\, loss. Her recent work has been exhibited and pe rformed at F\, Houston\, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts\, the South Side Community Art Center and Regards\, Chicago. Gr eene holds a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from The University of Chicago. She currently lives and works between Galveston and Houston\, Tex as. \n About Devin T. Mays\n Devin T. Mays (b. Detroit\, MI) uses sc ulpture\, installation\, performance\, and pictures for everything and not hing. He often refers to his practice as a place for things to become Thin gs. Mays has exhibited and performed at the Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles\; Galerie Martin Janda\, Vienna\; The Power Station\, Dallas\; The Renaissan ce Society\, Chicago\; gta exhibitions\, Zürich\; Sweetwater\, Berlin\; F Gallery\, Houston\; SculptureCenter\, New York\; Museum of Contemporary A rt\, Chicago\; Regards\, Chicago\, among others. Mays holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Howard University and a Master of Fine Arts f rom The University of Chicago. He currently lives and works between Galves ton and Houston\, Texas. \n Upcoming Programs\n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260810T180357Z LOCATION:CAMH URL:https://camh.org/event/galveston-texas/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Robert Pruitt: Infinite DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270405 DTSTAMP:20260901T180545Z UID:10000835-1796947200-1806883199@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Robert Pruitt\, Couple in a Vacant Lot\, 2022. Conté\, charco al\, pastel\, and coffee wash on paper. 60 x 80 in. (sheet)\, 63 3/4 x 87 3/4 in. (framed). Rennie Collection\, Vancouver. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Robert Pruitt: Infinite is the first survey exhibition to closely examine the artist’s practice across twenty-five years\, bringing together the i nfluences\, research\, and ideas that shape his vision of contemporary cul ture. The exhibition marks Pruitt’s return to Houston and offers an expa nsive view of a practice rooted in portraiture\, storytelling\, and imagin ation.Pruitt is known for his large-scale figurative portraits\, which he imbues with a dynamic constellation of symbols and material references tha t evoke a diverse and radical Black past\, present\, and future. Working a cross drawing\, sculpture\, and mixed media\, Pruitt renders figures drawn from the community around him-individuals who inhabit both his physical e nvironment and his expansive imagination. Through this process\, the works evolve into fictional yet inspirational profiles grounded in ethnography and portraiture.Drawing from a lineage that includes artists such as Charl es White and John Biggers\, Pruitt bridges a wide range of cultural refere nces\, including science and science fiction\, rap music\, comic books\, B lack political movements\, and African traditional cultures. These layered visual languages transform his figures into complex archetypes that eleva te and universalize identities often pushed to the margins.Robert Pruitt: Infinite features more than 120 works\, including drawings\, sculptures\, mixed-media pieces\, works on paper\, and personal ephemera. Together\, th ey offer an immersive exploration of Pruitt’s creative universe and his ongoing effort to imagine new narratives of Black life and possibility. \n \n Organizers\n \n Robert Pruitt: Infinite is organized by Contem porary Arts Museum Houston and curated by Ryan N. Dennis\, Co-Director and Chief Curator. \n \n Support\n \n Support for Robert Pruitt: Infi nite is provided by Terri and Troy Hamm\, and The Andy Warhol Foundation f or the Visual Arts. \n Contemporary Arts Museum Houston exhibitions are made possible by the patrons\, benefactors\, and donors to CAMH’s Major Exhibition Fund\, July 1\, 2024-June 30\, 2025: Anonymous\, Chinhui Juhn a nd Eddie Allen\, Louise Jamail\, Sissy and Denny Kempner\, and Beverly and Howard Robinson. \nContemporary Arts Museum Houston is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance and the Texas Commis sion on the Arts. \n \n About the Artist\n Robert Pruitt was born in 1975 in Houston\, Texas. He received his BA from Texas Southern Universit y (2000) and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2003). Pruitt works in a variety of materials\, with the focus of his practice centered on rendering large scale figurative portraits. He projects onto his images a juxtaposing series of experiences and material references\, denoting a diverse and radical Black past\, present and future. Pruitt often utilizes religion\, spirituality\, signs and symbolic objects throughout his work as a means of exploring a Black American conception of transcendence and m ythology. \nPruitt’s work is in numerous public collections\, including Dallas Museum of Art\, Texas\; Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston\, Ma ssachusetts\; Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\; Museum of Fine Arts\ , Houston\, Texas\; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University\, Durham\, Nor th Carolina\; Portland Museum of Art\, Maine\; Studio Museum in Harlem\, N ew York\; Blanton Museum of Art\, Austin\, Texas\; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts\, Richmond\, among others. \n Publication\n Robert Pruitt: Infinite will be accompanied by a scholarly exhibition catalogue co-publi shed by CAMH and Pacific Books\, featuring new writing by exhibition curat or Dennis\, Valerie Cassell Oliver\, Dr. Alvia Wardlawand other scholars. \n \n Related Events\n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T180545Z LOCATION:Brown Foundation Gallery\, Houston\, TX\, United States URL:https://camh.org/event/robert-pruitt-infinite/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Member Preview | Robert Pruitt: Infinite DTSTART:20261211T000000Z DTEND:20261211T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260806T182159Z UID:10000863-1796925600-1796929200@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Members at the opening of Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirt y and Influence People\, 2026. Photo: Tasha Gorel. \n Add to calendar \n\ n Google Calendar \n iCalendar \n Outlook 365 \n Outlook Live \n\nAbout\nA s a Member of CAMH\, we are pleased to invite you to the opening of Robert Pruitt: Infinite.Robert Pruitt: Infinite is the first survey exhibition t o closely examine the artist’s practice across twenty-five years\, bring ing together the influences\, research\, and ideas that shape his vision o f contemporary culture. The exhibition features more than 120 works\, incl uding drawings\, sculptures\, mixed-media pieces\, works on paper\, and pe rsonal ephemera. Together\, they offer an immersive exploration of Pruitt ’s creative universe and his ongoing effort to imagine new narratives of Black life and possibility.To receive the Members Only Code\, or if there are any other questions regarding CAMH Membership\, please contact Faye H osein\, Assistant Director of Development\, at fhosein@camh.org or 713.284 .8260. \nUpcoming Programs\n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260806T182159Z LOCATION:Brown Foundation Gallery\, Houston\, TX\, United States URL:https://camh.org/event/member-preview-robert-pruitt-infinite/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Robert Pruitt: Infinite DTSTART:20261211T010000Z DTEND:20261211T030000Z DTSTAMP:20260808T002046Z UID:10000864-1796929200-1796936400@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:(L to R):  Be of our spaceworld\, 2009. Conté\, charcoal on kraft paper. 48″ x 34″. Overseas Building Operations\, Art in Embassie s\, Arlington\, VA\; Superbad Garveyite\, 2009. Conté\, charcoal\, pastel \, tea. 50″ x 38″. Collection of Dr. Greg Shannon\, Houston\, TX. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Join us for the opening of the exhibition Robert Prui tt: Infinite.Robert Pruitt: Infinite is the first survey exhibition to clo sely examine the artist’s practice across twenty-five years\, bringing t ogether the influences\, research\, and ideas that shape his vision of con temporary culture. The exhibition features more than 120 works\, including drawings\, sculptures\, mixed-media pieces\, works on paper\, and persona l ephemera. Together\, they offer an immersive exploration of Pruitt’s c reative universe and his ongoing effort to imagine new narratives of Black life and possibility.The public opening reception is free to attend\, but RSVPs are encouraged. \n \n RSVP\n \n CAMH Members will get a private first look at the exhibition during the Member Preview from 6-7 PM. For the Members Only Code to RSVP and other questions regarding Member ship please contact Faye Hosein\, Assistant Director of Development\, at f hosein@camh.org or 713.284.8260. \n  \nIn Conversation | Robert Pruitt an d Ryan N. Dennis\nSaturday\, December 12\, 2026 | 2-3PM \nJoin artist Robe rt Pruitt and CAMH Co-Director and Chief Curator Ryan N. Dennis for a live ly discussion related to themes explored in the exhibition Robert Pruitt: Infinite and the development of his practice over the last 10 years since leaving Houston in 2016. \n About Robert Pruitt\n Robert Pruitt was born in 1975 in Houston\, Texas. He received his BA from Texas Southern Un iversity (2000) and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2003). Pruitt works in a variety of materials\, with the focus of his practice ce ntered on rendering large scale figurative portraits. He projects onto his images a juxtaposing series of experiences and material references\, deno ting a diverse and radical Black past\, present and future. Pruitt often u tilizes religion\, spirituality\, signs and symbolic objects throughout hi s work as a means of exploring a Black American conception of transcendenc e and mythology. \nPruitt’s work is in numerous public collections\, inc luding Dallas Museum of Art\, Texas\; Institute of Contemporary Art\, Bost on\, Massachusetts\; Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\; Museum of Fin e Arts\, Houston\, Texas\; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University\, Durha m\, North Carolina\; Portland Museum of Art\, Maine\; Studio Museum in Har lem\, New York\; Blanton Museum of Art\, Austin\, Texas\; and Virginia Mus eum of Fine Arts\, Richmond\, among others. \n \n Upcoming Programs\n \n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260808T002046Z LOCATION:Brown Foundation Gallery\, Houston\, TX\, United States URL:https://camh.org/event/opening-robert-pruitt-infinite/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Robert Pruitt and Ryan N. Dennis DTSTART:20261212T200000Z DTEND:20261212T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260808T002046Z UID:10000865-1797084000-1797087600@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts,literary DESCRIPTION:(L to R): Robert Pruitt. Photo: Brandon Luckain. / Ryan N. Den nis. Photo: Charles A. Smith. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\ n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Join artist Robert Pruitt and CAMH Co-Director and Chief Curator Ryan N. Dennis for a lively discussion related to themes explored in the exhibition Robert Pruitt: Inf inite and the development of his practice over the last 10 years since lea ving Houston in 2016.This program will be held in the Brown Foundation Gal lery and is free to attend.  Seating is limited and available on a first- come basis. RSVP is recommended and will open leading up to the program. W e recommend arriving early. Members’ First Access on Monday\, November 2 \, 2026.RSVPs will open to the public on Tuesday\, November 10\, 2026. \ n \n RSVP\n \n About Robert Pruitt\n Robert Pruitt was b orn in 1975 in Houston\, Texas. He received his BA from Texas Southern Uni versity (2000) and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2003). P ruitt works in a variety of materials\, with the focus of his practice cen tered on rendering large scale figurative portraits. He projects onto his images a juxtaposing series of experiences and material references\, denot ing a diverse and radical Black past\, present and future. Pruitt often ut ilizes religion\, spirituality\, signs and symbolic objects throughout his work as a means of exploring a Black American conception of transcendence and mythology. \nPruitt’s work is in numerous public collections\, incl uding Dallas Museum of Art\, Texas\; Institute of Contemporary Art\, Bosto n\, Massachusetts\; Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, Texas\; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University\, Durham \, North Carolina\; Portland Museum of Art\, Maine\; Studio Museum in Harl em\, New York\; Blanton Museum of Art\, Austin\, Texas\; and Virginia Muse um of Fine Arts\, Richmond\, among others. \n Upcoming Programs\n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260808T002046Z LOCATION:Brown Foundation Gallery\, Houston\, TX\, United States URL:https://camh.org/event/robert-pruitt-and-ryan-n-dennis/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Teen Council Alumni Brunch DTSTART:20261226T170000Z DTEND:20261226T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260806T002442Z UID:10000862-1798282800-1798288200@camh.org CATEGORIES:community,food,holiday DESCRIPTION:Teen Council Alumni Brunch\, 2025. Photo: Tasha Gorel. \n \ n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n i Calendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \ n About\n \n Past Teen Council (TC) members\, participating artists a nd performers\, and former/current Teen Council coordinators and collabora tors are invited to attend this annual holiday reunion. Catch up with form er cohort-mates\, connect with preceding and succeeding cohorts\, and meet this year’s iteration of Teen Council. Complimentary snacks and sips pr ovided. Following this year’s brunch\, CAMH will be hosting a Bonus Ope n Studio featuring a drop-in\, hands-on activity that draws inspiration fr om our current exhibitions. Whether you stay for five minutes or two hours \, you’re invited to make a small work of art and continue the reunion. \n \n RSVP\n \n About Teen Council\n Composed of young arts enthusiasts\, Teen Council serves as the Museum’s vehicle for attr acting the city’s teen population to CAMH and exposing them to the vibra nt field of contemporary art. For council members\, the group serves as a highly collaborative creative incubator that opens up opportunities for le adership\, visual literacy\, and life skill development. During weekly mee tings\, the council is introduced to the inner workings of museums and to the dynamic Houston arts community. Activities are decided upon by its mem bers and can change from year to year\, but past programs developed by the group include art markets\, exhibitions\, fashion shows\, film screenings \, listening parties\, music festivals\, and poetry slams. \n \n Upcomi ng Programs\n \n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260806T002442Z LOCATION:CAMH URL:https://camh.org/event/teen-council-alumni-brunch-2/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Poetics of Release with Fred Moten DTSTART:20270109T200000Z DTEND:20270109T213000Z DTSTAMP:20260822T000458Z UID:10000868-1799503200-1799508600@camh.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Fred Moten. Photo: Pat Cray. \n \n \n Add to calenda r \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outloo k 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Beverly Buchanan and Dionne Lee have much to say\, in much more than a philosophic al way\, about the economic and epistemological implications of prediction \, predication\, and the practice of beauty. In A Poetics of Release\, wri ter Fred Moten discusses a little bit of what Buchanan and Lee teach us ab out knowing and not knowing\, owning and not owning\, and the aesthetics o f translucency.This event is FREE to attend. RSVP is recommended. Member First Access begins November 9\, 2026RSVP is open to the public November 1 6\, 2026 \nRSVP\n Location and Accessibility\nThis program will take pla ce in the Nina and Michael Zilkha Gallery\, located on the lower level of the Museum. For questions or concerns regarding safety or accessibility\, please contact YE Torres\, Learning and Public Programs Manager\, at ytorr es@camh.org. \n About Fred Moten\n Fred Moten teaches in the Departm ent of Performance Studies at New York University. His latest book is pré fume\, a collaboration with Nan Collymore. He is also co-author with Stefa no Harney of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study and All I ncomplete and with Wu Tsang of Who Touched Me? In addition\, Moten frequen tly accompanies musicians Gerald Cleaver and Brandon López. Their latest recordings are the blacksmiths\, the flowers and revision. \n Upcoming Pro grams\n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T000458Z LOCATION:CAMH URL:https://camh.org/event/a-poetics-of-release-with-fred-moten/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud DTSTART:20270122T180000Z DTEND:20270122T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T073058Z UID:10000860-1800619200-1800622800@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts,literary DESCRIPTION:Headshot of Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud. Photo courtesy Ayanna. \ n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \ n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \ n \n About\n \n Join Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud\, artist and Bayou City Waterkeeper Co-Executive Director\, for a discussion related to Divination : Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee.Light lunch will be provided on a first-co me\, first-served basis after the gallery talk in the Cullen Education Res ource Room on the lower level of the Museum. \n \n RSVP\n \n Location and Accessibility\nThis event will consist of a walkthrough of t he exhibition in the Nina and Michael Zilkha Gallery\, located on the lowe r level of the Museum. No seating is provided for this program. For questi ons or concerns regarding safety or accessibility\, please contact YE Torr es\, Learning and Public Programs Manager\, at ytorres@camh.org. \n Abo ut Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud\n Born and raised in Houston\, Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud studied Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Inst itute of Chicago and Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts. Throughout her nearly twenty-year career\, Mccloud has created art across discipline s about geography\, mapping\, the environment\, and the African diaspora. Her work brings attention to the sensory\, the unseen\, and interrogates t he environment\, and mapping as neutral spaces. She has participated in ex hibitions and residencies throughout the Caribbean\, Latin America\, and t he U.S. Mccloud also leads environmental advocacy\, education\, and cultur al strategy\, and currently serves as co-executive director of Bayou City Waterkeeper\, where she works on collaborative efforts on water quality\, wetland protection\, and flood resiliency. Recent awards include the Texas Women in Conservation – Terry Hershey 2025 award through the Texas Audu bon\; Rachel’s Network 2024 Catalyst awardee for mid-career environmenta l leaders of color\; the BIPOC Arts Network and Fund in 2023-24\; and an A rtadia finalist award. \n About Art at Noon\n Art at Noon is a short gallery talk by a local curator\, artist\, musician\, or other creative w ho is invited to CAMH to share a new perspective on a specific exhibition. The gallery talk is followed by a light lunch. \n Upcoming Programs\n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T073058Z LOCATION:Nina and Michael Zilkha Gallery URL:https://camh.org/event/ayanna-jolivet-mccloud/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Alia Farid: Desert Terminal DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270521 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271025 DTSTAMP:20260901T180545Z UID:10000875-1810857600-1824422399@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Hajj Terminal Rest Stop\, 2023. Polyester resin and fiberglass . Dimensions variable. Installation view in Islamic Arts Biennale Awwal Ba it\, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut / Hamburg. Photo: Marco Cappelletti. Add to calendar \n\n Google Calendar \n iCalen dar \n Outlook 365 \n Outlook Live \n\nAbout\nContemporary Art Museum Hous ton (CAMH) and Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought (Rivers) pr oudly partner to present Alia Farid: Desert Terminal\, an exhibition of an d about the infrastructures of movement tied to pilgrimage and migration.D uring a residency at Rivers in 2023\, Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Far id traced the intertwined histories of industrial infrastructures and the mobility of people and materials across the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Mexic o. For this exhibition\, Farid recasts modular resin furniture originally designed for Jeddah’s 1981 Hajj Terminal\, an open-air airport terminal afforded by a nascent oil economy and built as a modern point of convergen ce for pilgrims to Mecca. The furniture’s resin\, a byproduct of petrole um extraction\, is testament in both its matter and function to the way tr adition is embedded and reconfigured in modernity. Farid arranges this fur niture in CAMH into a sinuous seating installation stretching more than 40 0 feet. This architecture of pause and collective encounter is accompanied by an installation of Chibayish\, the artist’s durational film project recorded in the Iraqi wetlands. Together\, these works articulate meanderi ng Gulf-to-Gulf relationships\, rooted in landscapes marked by extractive industries and wars.Through these gestures of reconfiguring and recontextu alizing\, Farid traces the movements of pilgrimage\, past and present\, an d its forms of and for gathering\, waiting\, and arriving. The installatio n invites reflection on both historical and contemporary experiences of mi gration forced by environmental crises\, economic pressures\, and war\, wi th attention to U.S. interventions in the Global South\, particularly the Middle East and Latin America. In this exhibition\, resin gives shape to t he conditions of modern mobility\, even within sacred contexts. At once su pport and cartography\, Desert Terminal charts the trajectories of people\ , of materials\, and of power. \nOrganizers\nThis exhibition is co-organiz ed by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Rivers Institute for Contempora ry Art & Thought\, and curated by Patricia Restrepo\, CAMH Curator\, and A ndrea Andersson\, Rivers Founding Director and Chief Curator\, with Jade F lint\, Rivers Assistant Curator. \nSupport\nContemporary Arts Museum Houst on exhibitions are made possible by the generous donors to CAMH’s Major Exhibition Fund: Scott R. Sparvero\, Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen\, The An dy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, Beverly and Howard Robinson\, R uth Dreessen and Tom Van Laan\, Cindy and David Fitch\, Louise Jamail\, Si ssy and Denny Kempner\, Elisa and Cris Pye\, and Poppi Massey. \nAbout the Artist \nAlia Farid (born 1985\, Kuwait\; lives and works in Kuwait and P uerto Rico) has had solo exhibitions in Henie Onstad Kunstsenter\, Oslo\; Chisenhale Gallery\, London\; Kunsthalle Basel\, Basel\; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis\, Missouri\; Kunstinstituut Melly\, Rotterdam\; and Porti kus\, Frankfurt am Main. Recent and upcoming group shows include participa tion in the Geneva Biennale Sculpture Garden\, Whitney Biennial\, Diriyah Biennale\, Bienal de São Paulo\, Gwangju Biennale\, Sharjah Biennial\, Th eater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011 in MoMA PS1\, Yokohama Trienn ale\, and Asia Pacific Triennial. Alia Farid has a BFA from la Escuela de Artes Plásticas (San Juan)\, an MS in Visual Studies from the Visual Arts Program at MIT (Cambridge) and an MA in Museum Studies and Critical Theor y from the Programa d’Estudis Independents MACBA (Barcelona). In 2023 sh e received the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award\, and in 2023-24 she was the Davi d and Roberta Logie Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. \nRelated Event s\nView Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T180545Z LOCATION:Brown Foundation Gallery\, Houston\, TX\, United States URL:https://camh.org/event/alia-farid-desert-terminal/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR