The Contemporary Austin is a non-collecting institution that presents ambitious exhibitions across two distinct locations: the historic Jones Center on Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, and Laguna Gloria, a unique, fourteen-acre art-in-nature site that includes the landmark Driscoll Villa. As the only contemporary art museum in Austin, The Contemporary Austin is a hub for groundbreaking art that connects the capital city to the global art world. It invites viewers to discover contemporary art in settings that provoke thought and joy. Its programs join art with place in pursuit of a deeper experience, a bigger conversation, and a closer community.
The Contemporary Austin
Installation view, IN A DREAM YOU
SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU
WERE FULL OF JOY, The Contemporary
Austin – Jones Center on Congress Avenue,
Austin, Texas, 2022. Text from Survival ©
2022. Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights
Society (ARS), NY. Image courtesy The
Contemporary Austin. Photograph by Alex
Boeschenstein.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Get Home
Safe, 2022. UPBGE interactive video game.
Dimensions variable. Installation view, IN
A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO
SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF
JOY, The Contemporary Austin – Jones
Center on Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas,
2022. Artwork © Danielle Brathwaite Shirley. Courtesy the artist and David
Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles / New
York. Image courtesy The Contemporary
Austin. Photograph by Alex Boeschenstein.
Jenny Holzer, IN A DREAM…, 2022.
Acrylic latex paint on stucco. Text:
Survival, 1983–1985. © 2022 Jenny Holzer,
ARS. Image courtesy The Contemporary
Austin. Photograph by Alex Boeschenstein.
Aryel René Jackson
in collaboration with Michael J. Love, The
future is a constant
wake (still), 2019. Single-channel video, color, and sound.
Artwork © Aryel
René Jackson. Image
courtesy the artist.
Installation view,
Eamon Ore-Giron:
Competing with Lightning /
Rivalizando con el relámpago, The
Contemporary Austin– Jones Center
on Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas,
2023. Artwork © Eamon Ore-Giron.
Courtesy the artist and James Cohan,
New York. Image courtesy The
Contemporary Austin. Photograph by Alex Boeschenstein.
Installation view, Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lightning /
Rivalizando con el relámpago, The
Contemporary Austin –
Jones Center on Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas,
2023. Artwork © Eamon Ore-Giron. Image courtesy The Contemporary Austin. Photograph by Alex
Boeschenstein.
Celeste, Hacer olas, 2023. Pigments and
acrylic base on dyed cotton canvas. 108 x 10 x 492 inches. Installation view,
HOST: Celeste, The
Contemporary Austin
– Jones Center on Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas, 2023.
Artwork © Celeste.
Courtesy the artists.
Image courtesy The Contemporary Austin.
Photograph by Alex Boeschenstein.
Lubaina Himid, Blue Grid Test, 2020. Acrylic on various supports,
six-channel sound installation. Dimensions variable. Installation
view, Risquons-Tout, WEILS, Brussels, 2020.
Artwork © Lubaina
Himid & Magda Stawarska-Beaven.
Image courtesy the artists; WIELS, Brussels;
and Hollybush Gardens,
London. Photograph by
Philippe De Gobert.
“The Warhol Foundation aims to support the full range of artistic activity in America—from exhibitions at major museums to neighborhood projects by artist collectives. Arts writers, through the range and specialization of their individual interests, touch upon all of this activity—illuminating and interrogating it and bringing it into conversation with the public. Support for artists is not complete without support for the circulation and serious consideration of their ideas. The Arts Writers Grant program keeps artists at the center of cultural dialogue and debate—in our opinion, right where they belong.”
Joel Wachs, President