By 1950, the success of these efforts allowed the Museum to build of a small, professionally equipped facility where ambitious exhibitions of the work of Vincent van Gogh, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, and John T. Biggers and his students from the then-fledgling Texas Negro College (now Texas Southern University).
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Single-artist shows have focused on a variety of media and have included "When One is Two: The Art of Alighiero e Boetti," William Kentridge, Uta Barth, and Juan Muñoz.
Recognized as a significant proponent of abstract figuration in the renewed interest in figuration of the late 1950s and 1960s in such exhibitions as “Recent Drawings, USA”, 1956 and “Recent Paintings USA, the Figure,” 1962 at MOMA, “The Emerging Figure”, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas, 1960 and “The Figure International” American Federation of Arts, 1963.
Houston | Bachelor of Arts | British Museum | Museum of Modern Art | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Whitney Houston | American Museum of Natural History | Master of Arts | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Victoria and Albert Museum | Natural History Museum | Electronic Arts | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Honolulu Museum of Art | museum | Contemporary R&B | Whitney Museum of American Art | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | University of Houston | National Air and Space Museum | Brooklyn Museum | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum | Houston Astros | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts |
During the opening of Exhibition 10, curated by Sebastian J. Adler at the Contemporary Arts Museum, artist and experimental filmmaker Michael Snow created an elaborate piece on the advertising light grid of the Goodyear Blimp, which flew over the museum.
In 2007 she dedicated the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach (CA), a comprehensive exhibition, which followed the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in Houston, Texas, at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus (OH), and 2008 at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York was to be seen.
"The Art Guys: Think Twice," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1995
She has participated in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, Mass MOCA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; among other institutions.