Art League Houston

Here's a short list of publications that stood out to our staff in 2021. 

Art League Houston is currently seeking exhibition proposals for its 2023-2024 season.

In a career that spans five decades, including 22 years at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and nearly 50 years at Texas Southern University, Wardlaw has presented exhibitions rewriting the canon of American art with major, overdue chapters for African American artists.

Meek’s exhibition at Art League Houston, "The Journey to Me," thematically visualizes her development as an artist through a curated series of three site-specific installations extending throughout the ALH galleries.

“As an artist, I believe in social change; I believe that art is useful for communities.”

ALH is hiring!

ALH has announced Texas art supporters Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen as its 2021 Texas Patrons of the Year.

Jurors Rabéa Ballin, Lauren Kelley Oliver, and Vicki Meek have selected Swift and Rucker as the inaugural winners of the 2021 Art As Activism Grant.

"'Insta11ations' is made up of artists who are experimenting with the ways people interact with public art, who reimagine public spaces, and who express stories of social justice and equity in their work."

Brandon Zech and Christina Rees on the solo debut of a Texas transplant, a show about sanctuary cities, and a show of disappearing Austin.

Lowe is named 2020 Texas Artist of the Year, while Muñoz receives the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts, and Mary & Bernardino Arocha are the 2020 Texas Patrons of the Year.  

The Crit Night will take place via the video conference platform Zoom at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21.

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees stop in at Art League Houston during its three-show installation process, and fill you in on the top five art events to catch in Texas this week, one of which prompts this from Blay: "We live in 2020 and we should make art that reflects 2020."

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a Dallas show you may need to see for yourself, a discovery in Waxahachie, and a long-overdue solo show for a San Antonio favorite.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on his love for fake-food art, Christina’s thing for animal art, and some shows that wade into darker territory.

This broken landscape of self-involved cluster-narratives reflects our contemporary culture scarily well.

Houston artist Emily Peacock organized a comedy show featuring artists and non-artists alike. Here are a few photos from that event.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a gem of a film festival in Marfa, a tequila bar as Zen garden, and a show that gets artists and writers in the same room.

Ms. Moody's eponymous Moody Gallery has been in continuous operation since she founded it in 1975.

One of the benefits of exhibiting at Art League Houston is that the organization is W.A.G.E. Certified, meaning that the organization equitably compensates artists.