An independent survey of contemporary art in Texas.

Opening Fall 2024

Overview

2005: The Texas Biennial is founded by a group of artists in Austin—Rachel Koper, Jon Lawrence, Shea Little, Arturo Palacios, Joseph Phillips, and Jana Swec—who want to provide an exhibition opportunity open to all artists living and working in the state.

2005-2009: The first three Biennials take place in Austin in multiple venues around the city

2011: The Biennial officially merges with Big Medium and expands a portion of its programming outside of Austin into Houston and San Antonio. The Participating Organizations Program is launched recognizing non-profit arts organizations across the state that supported the 2011 project with their own independently curated exhibitions and other programming.

2013: The Texas Biennial sprawls across the state with exhibitions and programming in Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio, CentralTrak–The Artist Residency of the University of Texas at Dallas, Lawndale Art Center in Houston, and Ballroom Marfa. In celebration of the fifth anniversary of the project, the Texas Biennial also featured a special exhibition of work by selected past Biennial artists.

2017: The Biennial returns to Austin with a single focused exhibition.

2021: The Texas Biennial returns to San Antonio with partner institutions artpace, Ruby City, San Antonio Museum of Art, and the McNay, plus FOTOFEST in Houston.

Texas Biennial 2021

Curated by Ryan N. Dennis and Evan Garza

San Antonio exhibition partners:

artpace, Ruby City, San Antonio Museum of Art, and the McNay

Houston exhibition partner:

FOTOFEST

Regina Agu(Chicago)

Rick Lowe (Houston)

Travis Boyer (Brooklyn)

Xavier McFarlin (Marfa)

Gregory Michael Carter (Houston)

Sondra Perry (Newark)

Jamal Cyrus (Houston)

Ronald Rael&Virginia San Fratello (Oakland)

Filipinx Artists of Houston (Houston)

Adam Marnie & Aura Rosenberg (Houston & New York)

Mich Stevenson (Houston)

Cassils & Rafa Esparza (Los Angeles)

Kaneen Smith (Houston)

Paul Soileau CHRISTEENE (Brooklyn)

Kara Springer (Houston/Toronoto)

Tenton Doyle Hancock (Houston)

Jose Villalobos (San Antonio)

Anette Lawrence (Denton/Bennington)

Jarod Beck (Terlingua/Los Angeles)

Lynne McCabe (Houston)

Donald Moffett (Staten Island/Barksdale)

Steve Parker (Austin)

Adrian Corral (Houston)

Stephanie Concepcion Ramirez (Pearland)

Melvin Edwards (Baltimore)

Graham Reynolds (Austin)

Abhidnya Ghuge (Tyler)

Xavier Schipani (Austin)

Tomashi Jackson (Cambridge)

Virginia Jaramillo (New York)

Ann Johnson (Houston)

Vincent Valdez (Los Angeles)

Baseera Khan (Brooklyn)

Jasmine Zelaya (Houston)

Autumn Knight (New York)

Irene Antonia Diane Reece (Houston)

Adrian Armstrong (Austin)

Matt Manalo (Houston)

Ari Brielle (Dallas)

Tay Butler (Houston)

JooYoung Choi (Houston)

Phillip Pyle II (Houston)

Colby Deal (Houston)

Ja’Tovia Gary (Dallas)

John Gerrard (Dublin)

PJ Raval (Austin)

Ariel Renee Jackson (Austin)

Lanecia Rouse Tinsley (Houston)

House of Kenzo (San Antonio)

Alisha Wormsley (Pittsburg)

Texas Biennial 2017

Curated by Leslie Moody Castro

Austin exhibition partner:
KC Grey Home

Cande Aguilar (Brownsville)

Haydee Alonso (El Paso)

Angel Cabrales (El Paso)

Hannah Dean (Lubbock)

Jarred Elrod (Lubbock)

Ana Fernandez (San Antonio)

Gary Goldberg (Wichita Falls)

Zach Morriss (Lubbock)

Philana Oliphant (Tyler)

Joe Pena (Corpus Christi)

Jonathan Revett (Amarillo)

Keer Tanchak (Dallas)

Montoya Williams (Dallas)

Catherine Allen (Midland)

Christopher Blay (Fort Worth)

Jennifer Ling Datchuk (San Antonio)

Frances Dezzany (McKinney)

Samantha Isabel Garcia (Brownsville)

Max Manning (Huntsville)

Noëlle Mulder (Houston)

Cruz Ortiz (San Antonio)

Gilberto Rocha-Rochelli (Laredo)

Felipe Steinberg (Houston)

Fabiola Valenzuela (Grand Prairie)

Rabea Ballin (Houston)

Nick Barbee (Galveston)

Ted Carey (Austin)

Luisa Duarte (Houston)

Robert Hodge (Houston)

Vladimir Mejia (Austin)

Teruko Nimura (Austin)

Erin Stafford (Dallas)

Paul Valadez (Edinburg)

*TX★13 Group Survey Exhibition, Blue Star Contemporary*

Texas Biennial 2013

Curator at large, Virginia Rutledge

Group Survey Exhibition
Curated by Bill Arning, René Paul Barilleaux, Christian Gerstheimer, K8 Hardy, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Annette Lawrence, David Pagel, Bárbara Perea, Christina Rees, Dario Robleto, Noah Simblist, Jeremy Strick, and Clint Willour

San Antonino exhibition partner:
Blue Star Contemporary

Dallas exhibition partner:
CentralTrak–The Artist Residency of the University of Texas at Dallas

Marfa exhibition partner:
Ballroom Marfa

5th Anniversary Exhibition
Curated by Michael Duncan and Virginia Rutledge

Houston exhibition partner:
Lawndale Art Center

Austin exhibition partner:
Big Medium

David Aylsworth (Houston)

Debra Barrera (Houston)

Matthew Bourbon (Denton)

Bernardo Cantu (Denton)

Kristen Cochran (Dallas)

Rachel Crist and Daedalus Hoffman (Austin)

Claudio Dicochea (San Antonio)

Cassandra Emswiler (McKinney)

Danielle Georgiou (Dallas)

Hillerbrand + Magsamen (Houston)

Letitia Huckaby (Fort Worth)

Hiroko Kubo (Fort Worth)

Julia Barbosa Landois (San Antonio)

Jonathan Leach (Houston)

Ysabel LeMay (Austin)

Robert Melton and Robert Boland (Austin)

Madsen Minax (Houston)

Kelly O'Connor (San Antonio)

Jessica Pizaña-Roberts (El Paso)

Mark Ponder (Houston)

Gregory Ruppe (Fort Worth)

Carrie Schneider (Houston)

Gary Sweeney (San Antonio)

Kevin Todora (Richardson)

Skye Ashbrook (Austin)

Michael Bise (Houston)

Margarita Cabrera (El Paso)

Teresa Cervantes (Austin)

Shannon Crider (San Antonio)

Matthew Cusick (Dallas)

Kent Dorn (Houston)

Miriam Ellen Ewers (Denton)

Jeff Gibbons (Arlington)

Will Henry (Houston)

HOMECOMING! Committee (Fort Worth)

Tatiana Istomina (Houston)

Angela Kallus (Fort Worth)

Lakes Were Rivers (Austin)

Natali Leduc (Houston)

Daniel McFarlane (Spring)

Marcelyn McNeil (Houston)

Rahul Mitra (Houston)

Seth Mittag (Houston)

Nancy Newberry (Dallas)

Everest Pipkin (Austin)

Anne J. Regan (Houston)

Chris Sauter (San Antonio)

The Bridge Club (Huntsville)

Prince Thomas (Houston)

Melissa Tran (Houston)

Sara Vanderbeek (Austin)

Adela Andea (Conroe)

Michael Blair (Denton)

Rebecca Carter (Dallas)

Joseph Cohen (Houston)

Gabriel Dawe (Dallas)

Trey Egan (Lewisville)

Vincent Falsetta (Denton)

Sally Glass (Dallas)

Geoff Hippenstiel (Houston)

Ann Johnson (Houston)

Dion Laurent (Houston)

Abinadi Meza (Austin)

Michael Morris (Irving)

Arthur Peña (Dallas)

Liz Rodda (Austin)

Kasey Short (Austin)

Brad Tucker (Austin)

Giovanni Valderas (Dallas)

Texas Biennial 2011

Curated by Virginia Rutledge

Austin exhibition partners:
1319 Rosewood Avenue, Big Medium, Women and Their Work, Pump Project Art Complex, and The Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas Austin

San Antonio exhibition partner:
Blue Star Contemporary

Houston exhibition partner:
BOX 13 ArtSpace

Joshua Bienko (College Station)

Matthew Bourbon (Denton)

Shannon Cannings (Lubbock)

Kristen Cochran (Dallas)

Esteban Delgado (Bishop)

Jonathan Faber (Austin)

Anthony Garza (Austin)

Trenton Doyle Hancock (Houston)

Lori Giesler (Highland Village)

Hillerbrand + Magsamen (Houston)

Annette Lawrence (Denton)

Richard Martinez (San Antonio)

Kia Neill (Houston)

Ricardo Paniagua (Dallas)

Carin Rodenborn (Austin)

Anthony Sonnenberg (Graham)

Brad Tucker (Austin)

H. David Waddell (Houston)

Christie Blizard (San Antonio)

Margarita Cabrera (El Paso)

Mary Ellen Carroll (Houston)

Catherine Colangelo (Houston)

Cassandra Emswiler (Dallas)

Michael Anthony García (Austin)

Rigoberto A. Gonzalez (San Juan)

Nathan Green (Austin)

Timothy Harding (Fort Worth)

Hana Hillerova (Houston)

James Magee (El Paso)

Marcelyn McNeil (Houston)

Rahul Mitra (Houston)

Brent Ozaeta (Frisco)

Jason Reed (New Braunfels)

Sam Sanford (Austin)

Shane Tolbert (Houston)

Jade Walker (Austin)

Cathie Tyler (Paris)

Susi Brister (Austin)

Bernardo Cantu (Denton)

Elizabeth Chiles (Austin)

Clarke Curtis (Austin)

Gabriel Dawe (Dallas)

Laurie Frick (Austin)

Katy Horan (Austin)

TJ Hunt (Austin)

Jessica Mallios (Austin)

Brandon Miller (Austin)

Olivia Moore (Austin)

Tom Orr (Dallas)

Abby Ronaldes (Austin)

Barry Stone (Austin)

Texas Biennial 2009

Curated by Michael Duncan and Risa Puleo
Directed by Xochi Solis

Austin exhibition partners:
Women and Their Work, Mexican American Cultural Center, MASS Gallery, Big Medium, Pump Project Art Complex, and Okay Mountain

Kelly Fearing, 1918-2011
Tribute Artist

Leigh Brodie (Austin)

William Cannings (Lubbock)

Catherine Colangelo (Houston)

Adrienne Cullins (Volente)

Lee Baxter Davis (Greenville)

Heyd Fontenot (Austin)

Buster Graybill (Huntsville)

Jeannette Hernandez (San Antonio)

Jules Buck Jones (Austin)

Natalie Kleinecke (San Marcos)

Jayne Lawrence (San Antonio)

Anne Longo (Lubbock)

Carolyn Zacharias McAdams (Valley View)

Colin McIntyre (Austin)

Mary Morse (Austin)

John Mulvany (Austin)

Olga Nicolaevna Porter (Houston)

Anila Quayyum Agha (Houston)

William Rosshirt (Austin)

Winter Rusiloski (Fort Worth)

Cody Scrogum (Austin)

Kelli Vance (Houston)

Marilyn Waligore (Richardson)

Jade Walker (Austin)

Vivian Wolfe (Austin)

Christie Blizard (Lubbock)

Susan Budge (San Antonio)

Jeanne Cassanova (Houston)

Ryah Christensen (Austin)

Beau Commeaux (Dallas)

Bill Davenport (Houston)

Sasha Dela (Houston)

Angela Fox (San Antonio)

Juan Hernandez (Dallas)

Simeen Ishaque (Dallas)

Kathryn Kelley (Houston)

Helen Kwiatkowski (Belton)

Peter Leighton (Austin)

Katy O'Connor (Austin)

Dawn Okoro (Austin)

Kim Cadmus Owens (Dallas)

Harmony Padgett (Arlington)

Jill Pangallo (Austin)

Charlotte Smith (Dallas)

Morgan Sorne (Austin)

Keith Allyn Spencer (El Paso)

John Spriggins (Dallas)

Mary Stengel (Austin)

Raychael Stine (Dallas)

Barry Stone (Austin)

John Swanger (Austin)

James Talbot (Austin)

Paul Valadez (Edinburg)

Raymond Uhlir (Austin)

Justin Boyd (San Antonio)

Marc Burckhardt (Austin)

Susan Cheal (Denton)

Andy Coolquitt (Austin)

Paula Cox (San Antonio)

Celia Eberle (Ennis)

Kana Harada (Dallas)

Ryan Lauderdale (Austin)

Ken Little (San Antonio)

Ivan Lozano (Austin)

Christa Mares (Austin)

Mona Marshall (Austin)

Tom Matthews (Edinburg)

Jamie Panzer (Austin)

Justin Parr (San Antonio)

Katie Pell (San Antonio)

Gladys Poorte (Austin)

Terri Thomas (Austin)

Texas Biennial 2007

Curated by Ursula Davila, Fairfax Dorn, Kate Green, Valerie Cassel Oliver, and John Pomara

Austin exhibition partners:
Okay Mountain, Bolm Studios, Dougherty Arts Center, and Site 1808

Andrew Anderson (Austin)

Frances Bagley (Dallas)

Jarrod Beck (Austin)

Robert Bellini (Austin)

William Betts (Houston)

Candace Briceño (Austin)

Tiffany Carbonneau (Georgetown)

David Chien (Houston)

Mark Collop (Dallas)

Erin Curtis (Austin)

Noah Simblist (Dallas)

Gary Sweeney (San Antonio)

Brad Tucker (Dripping Springs)

Michelle Gonzales Valdez (San Antonio)

Jeffrey Dell (Austin)

Peat Duggins (Austin)

Emilie Duval (Beaumont)

Corey Escoto (Amarillo)

Virginia Fleck (Austin)

Heyd Fontenot (Austin)

Buster Graybill (Hunstville)

Devon Grey (Dallas)

Michele Grinstead & Nancy O'Connor (Houston)

Lily Hanson (Dallas)

Michael Velliquette (San Antonio)

Rebecca Ward (Austin)

David Ubias (Pasadena)

Soody Sharifi (Houston)

William Hundley (Austin)

Mimi Kato (San Antonio)

Baseera Khan (Austin)

Tom Matthews (Lubbock)

Charlie Morris (San Antonio)

Kurt Mueller (Austin)

Kelly O'Connor (San Antonio)

Tom Orr (Dallas)

Linda Pace (San Antonio)

Matthew Roberts (Austin)

Texas Biennial 2005

Curated by Bill Davenport, Ben Fyffe, Benito Huerta, Sara Kellner, Rachel Koper, Jon Lawrence, Shea Little, Arturo Palacios, Jimmy Peña, Joseph Phillips, Allison Sands, Michael Sieben, Hills Snyder, Jana Swec, and Jeff Wheeler

Austin exhibition partners:
Dougherty Arts Center, Eastside Artists Co-op, Bolm Studios, Camp Fig, and Gallery Lombardi

William Betts (Houston)

Rosalyn Bodycomb (Dallas)

Elaine Bradford (Alice)

Candace Briceño (Cedar Creek)

Richard Budd (San Antonio)

Serena Lin Bush (Houston)

Jerry Chamkis (Austin)

Susan Cheal (Denton)

Matthew Rodriguez (Austin)

Annie Simpson (San Marcos)

Charlotte Smith (Dallas)