Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center
for Contemporary Art
44 E. 6th Street,
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513 345 8400
The CAC is dedicated to showing contemporary art that inspires thought, action, and creativity
On view through
25
May
2025
Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest
This exhibition recovers the depth and variety of the more than three-decade career of Vivian Browne (b. 1929, Laurel, FL; d. 1993, New York, NY). The exhibition features paintings, prints, and works on paper across seven bodies of work, as well as ephemera that highlight Browne’s pioneering activism and influential teaching career.
On view through
01
June
2025
The Anti-Robot Inundation Army
The artist Paul Wright presents The Anti-Robot Inundation Army Project, an ongoing art project exploring media, propaganda, data, information, knowledge, and web programming.
On view through
01
June
2025
Student Art Show: 2025 CAC School Program
Celebrating its 42nd year of continuous operation, the CAC School Outreach Program is the longest-running arts outreach program for K through 12th-grade students in Ohio. The student art show is the culminating event of the program year.
On view through
07
September
2025
Ohio Now: State of Nature
'Ohio Now: State of Nature' brings together artists across Ohio who focus on sustainability, agriculture, food justice, and natural ecologies.
On view through
30
December
2025
Kahlil Robert Irving: Ground Water from screen Falls [(Collaged media) + Midwest] Street
For the lobby carpet installation, Kahlil Robert Irving integrates imagery of asphalt with pop culture references, news headlines, and digital ephemera. The artist asks viewers to reconsider their daily engagement with social media, civic community life, and the urban landscape.
On view through
31
October
2026
SOFTlab: Gravity's Rainbow
This installation, suspended from the ceiling of the CAC’s Dr. Stanley & Mickey Kaplan Hall Lobby, takes something invisible