April 11 - October 19, 2025
From CAMH:
“Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is thrilled to announce the upcoming exhibition OUT OF STOCK. Organized and curated by CAMH’s Teen Council, the group show features works by 32 Houston-area teen artists responding to questions surrounding consumer culture, accumulative waste, digitization dystopias, and exploitation.
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. Today, as teens mature in a world dominated by sales and social media, the hunger for more material goods and virtual social validation creeps closer to a climax.
With CAMH’s Teen Council program celebrating its 25th anniversary, this year’s cohort of teens aimed to make this year’s biennial stand out from the rest. OUT OF STOCK defines itself through a new lens of contemporary politics, considering identity as a means to inform dynamics between people and power rather than a tool for introspection. These vantage points help construct readings of a broader landscape that are both foreign and familiar. 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. While all demographics are affected by the adverse environmental and psychological effects caused by such dependency, teens are uniquely poised to receive more of consumer culture’s dysfunctional outcomes in our lifetimes than the conveniences it urges. 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.
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.”
Reception: April 9, 2025 | 10–11 am
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - CAMH
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Houston, 77006 TX
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