Houston Center for Photography

2022 Print Auction Walk-Through
2022-02-24 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Houston Center for Photography
The Online Print Auction Begins Thursday, February 24 at 2 pm CST, Through
DOWNLOAD AUCTION CATALOG

Attend the Walk-Through!
Join us at the gallery for an Auction walk-through with wine. View all of the available artworks in person and learn more about the pieces you wish to bid on! The event is open to all who are interested. Don’t miss this opportunity to view the amazing and diverse array of photo-based works that can be yours through our 2022 Print Auction.
Admission to HCP is free. Using the button below, you can reserve your space in advance to attend in person.
Attend the Auction Walk-Through!

COVID-19 protocol: Masks required in the gallery. We recommend you only visit if you are fully vaccinated, have had a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours before the event, and are feeling well.

Exhibition Drop-In Tours
2022-04-23 12:00 - 13:00
Please join us for our Exhibition drop-in tours to learn more about the artists and works in our current exhibitions, and hear the multifaceted stories behind the images! Our Executive Director and Curator, Dorota Biczel, will lead a guided tour and answer your questions.

Through Edi Hirose’s work, you will learn about different ecosystems in Peru, both modern and premodern forms of extraction, the hunt for alluvial gold deposits and their impact on the Amazon rainforest, and the luminous volcanic rock called rhyolite, among many other topics.

Through Jake Eshelman’s work, you will be introduced to the Ivanchuk family from Heisykha, Ukraine. The Ivanchuk’s life on their small family farm exemplifies the Ukrainian culture’s deep embeddedness in its lands, and a profound respect, love, and understanding of the Earth.

Neighborhood Community Day
2022-04-30 12:00 - 17:00 | Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross St., Houston, TX, 77006, United States
Please join us in celebrating our vibrant neighborhood at Menil’s Neighborhood Community Day and enjoy an afternoon of art and culture.
Houston Center for Photography is organizing a Neighborhood Photo Capture Walk in partnership with Menil Collection Neighborhood History Talk. Feel free to bring and share with us unique photographs of the neighborhood you might have.
Let’s meet at the iconic HCP Flash Drive before walking on the grounds of the Menil Collection to capture the history of the neighborhood; from old oaks and street signs to the amazing architecture on display. All levels of proficiency and camera types are welcome.

Neighborhood History Talk and Neighborhood Photo Capture Walk Schedule:
12:45–1:30 p.m. Neighborhood History Talk
1:45–3:00 p.m. Neighborhood Photo Capture Walk
2:15–3:00 p.m. Neighborhood History Talk
3:15–4:30 p.m. Neighborhood Photo Capture Walk
For the full schedule of Menil’s Neighborhood Community Day events calendar please visit:
MENIL EVENT CALENDAR

Artist Talk with Jake Eshelman
2022-05-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Houston Center for Photography
Sophia picking berries, 2019, HeisykhaArchival digital pigment print 30” x 45”
Join us to hear from the Houston-based artist and visual researcher Jake Eshelman about his work on the Ivanchuk family in Heisykha, Ukraine, and how this body of work relates to his larger practice. In his global-in-scope work, Eshelman (b. 1989, USA) explores the complex relationships between people and other-than-human beings, most recently between humans and bees. His goal for his documentary practice is to investigate interspecies relationships in industry, agriculture, and conservation, so that we can fully consider our role in ecology.
Eshelman has exhibited work internationally, notably at Vantaa Art Museum Artsi in Helsinki, Finland; The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge University, UK; The Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, OH; The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington D.C.; Hume Gallery in Chicago, IL; and Des Lee Gallery in St. Louis, MO. His work is in the permanent collection of the Chicago Design Museum and has also been included in independently published photo books, collaborative artist books, and even a children’s book by Simon & Schuster encouraging aspiring creatives to pursue artistic careers. He has also been featured in numerous publications including AND2020, Trouvé Magazine, Texas Monthly, The World Sensorium / Conservancy, and Then There Was Us, among others.
Eshelman is currently pursuing his MA in Ecology & Spirituality from The University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. He holds a BA in Classical Literature, with a concentration in mythology, hermeneutics, and reception theory, as well a minor in studio art and art history from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. He is also a member of The Fairy Investigation Society.

39th Center Annual Opening Reception
2022-07-07 17:00 - 20:00 | Houston Center for Photography
Join us for the closing of 39th Center Annual: Living Creatures, a show featuring fifteen photographers selected by juror Kristen Gaylord from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. The exhibition opens to the public on Wednesday, July 13th, and will conclude with a closing reception on August 25th, at which Kristen (and many of the artists) will be in attendance for. Hours for the general public are from 6 to 8 pm, but if you are an HCP member, you may arrive from 5 to 6 pm for a member’s preview. The exhibition will conclude on September 4, 2022.
Curator’s remarks and brief exhibition walkthrough will start at 6pm.

Curator's Talk: Kristen Gaylord, Amon Carter Museum of American Art
2022-08-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Houston Center for Photography
Join the juror of 39th Center Annual, Kristen Gaylord, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX, to hear about her current and upcoming curatorial projects. Gaylord has been instrumental in critically examining and reshaping the notion of “American art” explicit in the Carter’s name and mission.

Kristen Gaylord is Associate Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, where her work furthers scholarship, preservation, and presentation of the Museum’s extensive photographic holdings. Gaylord spearheaded the acquisition of the museum’s first photographs by Black and Latina women and has organized exhibitions including Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision and Black Every Day: Photographs from the Carter Collection, both on view now, as well as Thomas Moran’s Mount Superior (2021), Looking In: Photography from the Outside (2019), and Set in Motion: Camille Utterback and Art that Moves (2019). She also served as the curator for the Carter’s presentation of the nationally touring exhibition An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain (2021).
Before joining the Carter in 2018, Gaylord served as the Beaumont & Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, for three years, having previously worked there as a research assistant and a curatorial intern. Concurrently, she was also the inaugural curator of the Duke House Exhibition Series at New York University (NYU). In addition to positions at the Museum of the City of New York and the Willem de Kooning Foundation, Gaylord has taught at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Kingsborough Community College, and NYU. She has written and lectured widely, and holds PhD, MPhil, and MA degrees in art history and archeology from the Institute of Fine Arts (IFA), NYU and a BA from Westmont College.

Artist Talk and Exhibition Walkthrough: Muriel Hasbun, Beyond the Record
2022-09-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Houston Center for Photography
Join us at the HCP on September 28th at 6:30 PM as artist Muriel Hasbun talks about her practice and guides us through an exhibition walkthrough emphasizing her work in the exhibition Beyond the Record.

Born in El Salvador to a Salvadoran-Palestinian-Christian father and a French-Polish-Jewish mother, Muriel Hasbun addresses migration, displacement, and issues of personal and cultural memory in her work. An artist and professor, she is the recipient of numerous distinctions, including the 2021-22 Estelle Lebowitz Endowed Visiting Artist at Rutgers University, a FY21 AHCMC Artist & Scholar Grant, Trawick and Sondheim Finalist; CENTER Santa Fe’s Producer’s and Curator’s Choice, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Howard Chapnick Grant; Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards in Photography and Media; U.S. Department of State/AAM Museums Connect grant; Artist in Residences at Chataqua/CU Boulder, Centro Cultural de España, El Salvador, and Escuela de Bellas Artes, Mexico; the Corcoran’s Outstanding Creative Research Faculty Award, and a Fulbright Scholar fellowship.
Hasbun’s work has been internationally exhibited and is in private and public collections: American University Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Centro de la Imagen, Civilian Art Projects, Corcoran Gallery of Art, FotoFest, Lehigh University, Light Work, Maier Museum of Art, Mexican Cultural Institute, Museo del Barrio, Museum of Photographic Art, Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, Smithsonian American Art Museum, University of Texas-Austin, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the 50th Venice Biennale.
Building upon her career as a socially engaged artist and a photography professor, Hasbun is the founder and director of laberinto projects, a transnational, cultural memory initiative fostering contemporary art practices, social inclusion and dialogue in El Salvador and its U.S. diaspora. Her work is represented by RoFa Projects.
