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Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center
for Contemporary Art
44 E. 6th Street,
Cincinnati, OH 45202

513 345 8400

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Abstraction, figuration, and political expression across four-decades

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.

Program or be programmed

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.

The longest-running arts outreach program for K through 12th-grade students in Ohio.

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.

Ohio artists contemplate our changing environment

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.

The street as a site of becoming and resistance

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.

A floating symphony of color and form

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

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