Latest press releases and info for the media will be posted here. For interviews or general inquiries, contact the Communications team (communications@okcontemp.org or 405-951-0000). You can also view recent press about the organization.
2024
- Outré West: The American School of Architecture from Oklahoma to California to open at Oklahoma Contemporary
- Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Takes its Place in the National Arts Landscape and Continues Oklahoma City’s Cultural Renaissance with Appointment of New Executive Director Trent Riley
- Trent Riley Named Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center’s Executive Director
- NYC-based 2nd Best Dance Company to perform original production of RED with a free dance workshop at Oklahoma Contemporary
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: Honor Song Receives Major Funding from the Getty Foundation
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: Honor Song Receives Major Funding from the National Endowment for the Arts
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: Honor Song Receives Major Funding from the Henry Luce Foundation
- SHELTER, an exhibition illuminating the stories of refugees resettling in Oklahoma City, to open at Oklahoma Contemporary
- HOME1947: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy recreating historical chapter of the Partition of India and Pakistan to open at Oklahoma Contemporary
- Oklahoma Contemporary receives $10,000 grant from Oklahoma Humanities
2023
- Indigenous filmmaker Sterlin Harjo to receive the ArtNow 2023 Focus Award
- Descendants of the Black 1000, exhibition highlighting the connections of Black Canadians to Oklahoma, to open at Oklahoma Contemporary
- Oklahoma-connected artists reflect on the past to expand ideas of the future in ArtNow 2023
- Oklahoma Contemporary receives $10,000 grant from Oklahoma Humanities
- Artists explore how Indigenous artistic principles translate across disciplines, evolve over time
- European artist creates architectonic sculpture specifically for Oklahoma Contemporary and OKC
- Hope you’re hungry: 100+ works from prominent contemporary artists explore universal subject of food
2022
- Artists convey intergenerational pain and hope in new Oklahoma Contemporary exhibition
- Blockbuster Guadalajara exhibition to consider history, present and future of creative communities
- Destination Oklahoma highlights communities, cultural traditions at the crossroads of the country
- Oklahoma Contemporary to present John Newsom’s mid-career retrospective
- Immersive Off the Wall installations to extend into the air and explore volume of Oklahoma Gallery
- Board names Jeremiah Matthew Davis Oklahoma Contemporary’s new director
- Board begins planning for retirement of Executive Director Eddie Walker amid busy spring
2021
- Oklahoma Contemporary levels up with Open World
- This is the Abstract Remix
- ArtNow 2021 showcases Oklahoma’s deep artistic diversity with 27 artists, 115 works
- Take Flight at Oklahoma Contemporary
- We Believe in the Sun exhibition celebrates ongoing impact of Civil Rights movement in OKC
- Fire in Little Africa, Oklahoma Contemporary, Greenwood Art Project team up for live music and art experience
- Oklahoma Contemporary presents major survey exhibition of Ed Ruscha, exploring the artist’s lifelong connection to Oklahoma
2020
- Oklahoma Contemporary hires Carina Evangelista as Director of Curatorial Affairs
- Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center opens the doors to its new location following extended COVID-19 closure
- Studio School Online brings students, teaching artists together for hands-on learning and collaboration
- Stars and artists team up with Oklahoma Contemporary for Odyssey livestream
- Oklahoma Contemporary welcomes four new Trustees and new president to its board
- Oklahoma Contemporary wins $25,000 NEA grant for Ed Ruscha exhibition
- Studio-in-Place artists to work on projects tied to creativity, community and resilience during COVID-19
- Oklahoma Contemporary temporarily postpones opening events
- New Oklahoma Contemporary to open doors to public
- Oklahoma Contemporary Launch 2020
- Oklahoma Contemporary expands Studio School
- Bright Golden Haze media kit
2019
- Oklahoma Contemporary to re-launch in March 2020
- Explore cinema in new ways at SEEN/UNSEEN festival
- Stop Telling Women to Smile artist returns to Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Contemporary appoints new executive director, Eddie Walker
2018
- Whiteout to illuminate Campbell Art Park, Broadway Ave.
- ArtNow captures contemporary Oklahoma art, supports free exhibitions year-round
- Oklahoma Contemporary to submit plans for The Studios
- Oklahoma Contemporary to celebrate fairgrounds, new campus with time capsule
- Oklahoma Contemporary and Fresh Paint debut Honey
- Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center begins construction
- Chiyoko Myose: Sojourning | June 2-Aug. 11
- Executive director announces retirement
- Oklahoma Contemporary launches Women in Performance series with The Other Mozart
- Collaborative art exhibition examines history of race relations
2017
- ArtNow exhibition, event celebrate Oklahoma’s contemporary artists
- All-day jam celebrates elements of hip hop
- Not For Sale exhibition will transform Oklahoma Contemporary walls with graffiti by local artists
- CODED_COUTURE Exhibition, Programming Combine Emerging Tech With Pioneering Design
- Art of Brunch Combines High-End Food and Drink with Local and Live Art
- Jeffrey Gibson: Speak to Me Tells Stories Influenced by Native American Aesthetics, Pop Culture and More
- ArtNow Showcases State's Creativity, Supports Arts Accessibility
- What Goes Up Must Come Down: Cloud City Begins De-Install
2016
- Melvin Edwards’ In Oklahoma Tells Stories Old and New
- Oklahoma Contemporary to Break Ground, Expand Art and Culture in OKC
- Cloud City to Reflect OKC, Oklahoma Contemporary’s Home-to-Be
- Silent Rave Brings Dance Party Downtown
- Sculptor and Pioneer Melvin Edwards to Exhibit This Fall
- Summer Wheat’s Immersive Exhibit Expands World of Vermeer’s Milkmaid
- Oklahoma Contemporary Builds Leadership Team for Future Arts Campus
- Party With a Purpose at ArtNow
2015
- Kirkpatrick Foundation Presents $1 Million Check to Oklahoma Contemporary at 60th Anniversary Event
- Shared Space Exhibition Features World’s Top Contemporary Photographers from the Bank of America Collection
- Oklahoma Contemporary to Launch Public Campaign
- Nepalese Staffer Uses Oklahoma Standard for Earthquake Relief
- Showroom Opens Doors, Sets Scene for Organization’s Future
- Public invited to preview art installation for 26th annual ArtNow Gala featuring new works by 29 Oklahoma artists
2014
- Oklahoma Contemporary Offers a New Venue for the Arts
- Oklahoma Contemporary Announces New Board Members
- Oklahoma Contemporary Weaves Art Through Downtown OKC
- K. Yoland brings Border Land Other to Oklahoma Contemporary
- Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Opens Enrollment for Fall Classes
- Oklahoma Contemporary Names Architect Rand Elliott for New Building
- Oklahoma Contemporary Names Donna Rinehart-Keever as Executive Director
2013
Image: Installation view of Open World at Akron Art Museum. Photo by Mike Crupi Photography.
