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5216 Montrose Boulevard
Houston, TX 77006
United States

December 6, 2019

CAMH Director Hesse McGraw. Photo: Mike Sinclair.

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Hesse McGraw named Director

October 30, 2019

Will Boone, Sweet Perfume (video still), 2019. VHS video transferred to digital: color, sound, 54:41 minutes. Image and work courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California, and Karma, New York, New York.

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Will Boone
The Highway Hex

August 21, 2019

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Nari Ward
We the People

January 8, 2019

Cheryl Donegan, untitled_track_resist_double_different_reds, 2017. Hand-dyed, digitally printed cotton fabric. 74 x 40 inches. Image and work courtesy the artist and David Shelton Gallery, Houston, Texas.

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Cheryl Donegan
GRLZ + VEILS

October 30, 2018

Nicolas Moufarrege, First Step into the Pyramid, 1979. Thread and pigment on needlepoint canvas, 57 1/2 x 45 inches. Courtesy Nabil Moufarrej and Gulnar "Nouna" Mufarrij. Photo: Neil Johnson for Visual AIDS, New York.

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Nicolas Moufarrege
Recognize My Sign

August 15, 2018

Martin Wong, 47-04, 1992. Acrylic on canvas. 28 x 70 inches. Image and work courtesy the estate of Martin Wong and PPOW, New York, New York.

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Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System

December 5, 2017

Christopher Knowles, The Sundance Kid is Beautiful with Christopher Knowles, 2015, performance installation view, Christopher Knowles: In a Word, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo: Constance Mensh.

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Christopher Knowles
In a Word

July 31, 2017

Annabeth Rosen, Bul, 2015. Fired ceramic and steel baling wire, 20 x 20 x 20 inches. Courtesy the artist; Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco; and P.P.O.W, New York. Photo: Lee Fatherree.

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Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped

April 24, 2017

Paul Ramírez Jonas, The Commons, 2011. Cork, wood, steel, adhesive, hardware, and pushpins. Work and image courtesy the artist and Galeria Nara Roesler. © Paul Ramírez Jonas.

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Paul Ramírez Jonas
Atlas, Plural, Monumental

April 17, 2016

Mark Flood, ANOTHER PAINTING (CAMH SUITE) (detail), 2016. Florescent and spray paint on canvas (7 parts), 40 x 40 inches each. Courtesy the artist, Peres Projects, Berlin, and Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London.

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Mark Flood: Gratest Hits

February 16, 2016

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MPA
THE INTERVIEW: Red, Red Future

December 17, 2015

Jennie C. Jones, Blues in C Sharp Minor (for Teddy Wilson), 2015. Acoustic absorber panel and acrylic paint on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.

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Jennie C. Jones: Compilation

December 5, 2014

Wu Tsang with Fred Moten, Miss Communication and Mr:Re, 2014. Two-channel video: color, sound, 15:00 minutes. Courtesy the artists; Clifton Benevento, New York; Michael Benevento, Los Angeles; and Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.

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Double Life

June 20, 2013

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LaToya Ruby Frazier

March 28, 2013

Gina Pane, Azione Sentimentale, 1973. Seven color photographs on wood panel, 48 1/4 x 40 1/8 inches. Courtesy Anne Marchand and kamel mennour, Paris.
Photo: Françoise Masson. © ADAGP Gina Pane.

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Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane

October 26, 2012

William Pope.L, Eating the Wall Street Journal, Performance at The Sculpture Center, New York, 2000. Photo: Lydia Grey. Courtesy the artist.

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Radical Presence: Black Performance

July 10, 2012

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Alvin Baltrop

April 24, 2012

Fayçal Baghriche, “Envelopments,” 2010.
Flags from 28 countries, flagpoles, and hardware.*

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It is what it is. Or is it?

April 13, 2010

(left) Lauren Kalman, Hard Wear (Tongue Gilding), 2006. Digital print, laminated on acrylic. 23 x 35 inches. Courtesy the artist. (right) Cruz Ortiz, Mamacitas I Miss You Already, 2009. Watercolor and gouache on paper. 52 x 42 inches. Courtesy the artist and David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio. Photo: Justin Parr.

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Perspectives 170: Cruz Ortiz and Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft

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