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
Started
18
May
2022
Ended
22
May
2022
School Outreach Program Student Art Show
A student art show from the CAC's School Outreach Program participants
Started
18
March
2022
Ended
01
May
2022
Critical Practice: MFA Exhibition
Started
10
December
2021
Ended
25
April
2022
Isa Gagarin: Risåki (Receding Wave)
Started
10
December
2021
Ended
20
March
2022
The Regional
The first major multi-museum survey dedicated to contemporary artists based in the Midwest.
Started
17
September
2021
Ended
27
February
2022
Sreshta Rit Premnath: Grave/Grove
For his solo exhibition at the CAC, Premnath explores how shared spaces of growth and care, such as community gardens or nurseries, can be embedded within dehumanizing spaces of control or discipline.
Started
17
September
2021
Ended
27
February
2022
Marwa Arsanios: A Letter Inside a Letter
Arsanios’ four-part film series contrasts frameworks of ownership, extraction, and accumulation, with ideas associated with feminism, collectivism, and grassroots revolt.
Started
09
April
2021
Ended
19
September
2021
Hellen Ascoli, Cien Tierras
For her first solo museum exhibition, Ascoli presents several new works including a large-scale textile installation in the CAC’s lobby, a site-responsive kinetic wall sculpture, text-based weavings, videos displayed in custom-built furniture, and more.
Started
09
April
2021
Ended
19
September
2021
Wild Frictions
Attentive to the ways in which artists monitor, contemplate, and intervene in societies as they change, Wild Frictions brings together works that reflect some of the anxieties, disruptions, and tensions which arose or intensified during 2020.
Started
05
March
2021
Ended
08
August
2021
Joan Tanner, FLAW
In this site-specific installation, net-like structures hang from the ceiling, corrugated fiberglass panels disguise corners and wrap around columns, while freestanding elements of cut and painted wood populate the floor.
Started
05
March
2021
Ended
08
August
2021
Steffani Jemison, End over End
This exhibition brings together two videos, alongside a new suite of kinetic sculptural objects and conceptual drawings on glass that unfold as a series of experiments, reflecting Jemison’s interest in performance and the politics of embodiment.