Events

Elbert (Ed) Howze (1951 – 2015) was born in Detroit, Michigan on Valentine’s Day in 1951. When he was eighteen, he joined the United States Army and served in Vietnam, sustaining permanent serious injuries that impacted his health for the rest of his life. He came to Houston in 1973 and continued his education at the University of Houston, receiving a BFA in Fine Art, a BS in Technology and Business Technology, and an MFA in Photography, studying under George…

Carol Crow Fellowship Award Recipient: Cristina Velasquez El Nuevo Mundo / The New World © Cristina Velasquez “The New World,” as a designation for the Americas, originated in sixteenth-century Europe  during the so-called age of discovery. Four centuries later, the term still evokes a combination of idealistic optimism and strategic exploitation. Cristina Velasquez questions this legacy from the perspective of her native Colombia. Deploying the concept of mestizaje, or the mixing of different ethnicities and cultures, Velasquez combines photography (a new…

Houston Center for Photography is pleased to present a lecture by Williams College Museum of Art curator, Horace Ballard, on the Museum's exhibition possible selves: queer foto vernaculars. Ballard will speak about the curation of the exhibition and the global impact of queer identities on the evolution of portrait photography. The works exhibited in possible selves span over 60 years of photographic history and include artists such as Nan Goldin, Andy Warhol, and Lorna Simpson, along with over 200 images…

Join Houston Center for Photography for this year's Center Annual Exhibition, juried by Shane Lavalette, Director of Lightwork. The Center Annual is Houston Center for Photography’s yearly group exhibition that seeks to highlight and provide insight into current themes, technologies, and practices in photography. The show features a diverse array of works from members of our global photography community and is selected by a leading curator, editor, or artist. This annual exhibition opens our galleries to photographers from anywhere in…

Please join Houston Center for Photography for the opening reception of Hue and Saturate, an exhibition of works by Daniel Gordon, on Friday, September 13, 2019 from 5:30-8pm. Curator remarks begin at 6pm.   Hue and Saturate brings together 11 works from New York-based artist, Daniel Gordon, for his first solo exhibition in Houston. Often described in the style of Matisse’s cut-outs or Cezanne’s still lifes, Gordon’s work uses shape, color, and size to playfully disrupt our ideas about medium-specificity, artifice, and…