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Researched by DC and SP from the CAC files in Las Vegas, NV, 2002. Edit 2024 by dc, edit 8/8/2025 by dc.

editor’s note: Simon Kim was in a motorcycle accident so the show was never built. dc

The following text was retrieved via the Wayback Machine of the CAC’s website (after it was renamed the Contemporary Art Center. It was edited by CAC volunteers:

2012

• 23rd Annual Juried Show – Juror Mat Gleason is a Los Angeles based art critic and curator. He is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post’s Arts Section and publishes Coagula Art Journal, a pioneer hybrid of tabloid journalism and anti-academic art writing which he founded in 1992.  Selected artists: Richard Adams, Robyn Alatorre, Jennifer Beaty, Mike Busch, Leigh Craven, Will Cruz, Jessica Daniel, Sue Danielson, Clark Derbes, Arthur Fields, Dona Geib, Sarah Hanson, Chad Haskell, Carolyn Holden, Dan Hooker, Russel Jacobs, Donald Johnson, Brent Kallenbach, Joanna Lord, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Naoko Morisawa, Robert Nelson, John Norris, Mark Oatis, Jody Paulson, Ila Prouty, Michelle Ramin, Jeffrey Rhodes, Nohelia Rivas, Keri Schroeder, Adam Schwieder, Marlene Siu, Greg Stahl, Cathryn Sugg, Alessandra Suply, William Swaney, Haikuhie Tataryan, Daniel Victor, Jevijoe Vitug, Eric Vozzola, Jayson Warnock, Margi Weir, Vicky Wetherill, and Betsy Williamson. March 23, 2012
   
• Defeat the Future by Yo Fukui, Antonio Serna, Chad Stayrook, Naoko Wowsugi, Richard A. Wager. Curated and presented by UNLV MFA graduate Yo Fukui in partnership with the CAC, “Defeat the Future” brings together the work of five New York artists working across the genres of video installation, painting, sculptural installation, photography, and performance art. The distinctive impressions from these individual artists are unified through the theme of an impractical story – the artist in the role of the warrior trying to defeat an imaginary monster that we all have a tendency to create at times in our mind, the “Future”.  February 1 – March 10, 2012

2011

• Garden of Eden by Andrzej Maciejewski – still-life photography in the style of the old masters, emphasizing the contrast between what the gifts of nature used to be and what they have now become through the manipulation of man. Everything looks perfect and flawless but many things, like the taste, the exceptionality, and often even the humanity, have been lost during the process. December 1, 2011 – January 21, 2012
   
• Affect/Effect by Scott Carter deconstructed the CAC gallery to display a relationship narrative of comfort and re-addressing basic construction design in contemporary architecture. Oct 6th – Nov 19th, 2011
   
• In And Out of Whack by Deborah Karpman & Kimberly Hennessy;  Two artists carefully walking lines separating extremes: protection and invasion, strength and weakness, chaos and order. Shown together, work from each artist pushes and pulls at the other in a precariously balanced drama. June 30 – August 13, 2011
   
• Geolocations by Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman followed random tweets and traveled to the GPS Geotag location to take a photograph of the site of the update. The project created a real life situation and location for these usually anonymous posts. January 6 – March 4, 2011
   
• 22nd Annual Juried Show sponsored by Cirque Du Soleil Cultural Action Department, showcasing exceptional work of national and international emerging artists in all media. May 5 – June 18, 2011
   
• It’s All A Blur by Tony Labat, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Dayle Hoyt; curated by Justin Hoover, in partnership with SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco.  Incorporating video installations, drawings, sculpture, photography, and performance/video artworks about the migrant body in the West, economics of labor, and cross-cultural identity distinct to the Western states. March 15 – April 23, 2011

2010

• I Hope You Are Feeling Better: Nov 3, 2010 – Jan 7, 2011
  Curated by Andreana Donahue and Kathryn Kruse
   
• Off The Strip 2010 – October 14^th – 17^th, 2010
  Off-site locations: The Onyx Theater, The Aruba Theater, the Sci-Fi Center and Insurgo Theater. In spring of 2009, The Contemporary Arts Center of Las Vegas introduced Off the Strip: Two Weeks of Video and Performance Art.  The event featured the work of twenty emerging and mid-career artists and artist groups, seven evenings of live performance and video screenings and multiple, alternating installations at the gallery.  The first annual Off The Strip featured artists from Berlin to Boston, from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, and the open-ended call drew video and performance works that navigated gender and identity politics, institutional critique, relational aesthetics and explorations into technology, social networking and the body-psyche. The 2010 OTS Call for Proposals encourages submissions that will be particularly meaningful within the context of Las Vegas or Nevada.  This year’s Off the Strip will be condensed into a four-day festival and will include an afternoon panel of artists and three scholars speaking on the relevance of performance art to community, especially within the unique social, economic and pop-cultural environment of Las Vegas. Chaired by Art Critic and Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art, Kirsten Swenson.
   
• Let’s Build A Nation (CAC the Nation): Sep 28, 2010 – Oct 30, 2010 – Building a Nation collective declares Contemporary Arts Center a sovereign nation from September 30th-Octobter 28th, 2010, establishing its national identity, national symbols and history.  Let’s Build A Nation explores the concept of a nation as a temporal imagined community corresponding to its immediate locale.  It also addresses issues specific to Las Vegas particularly its’ themed hotel environments simulating cultures of other nations.
   
• “New Cities”: Jul 24-Sep 2, 2010. Curator: Kirsten Swenson. Contemporary Arts Center presents a group exhibition, titled ‘New Cities’ that departs from Dan Graham’s famous 1966 essay, ‘Homes for America’. This exhibit brings together mid-career and emerging artists whose work seeks to visualize and conceptualize the new American home.
   
• America’s # 1 Most Foreclosed City: Aug 3rd-Sep 18^th, 2010 – Emily Kennerk’s installation casts a bright, critical light on the real estate collapse that has transformed our city
   
• CAC Members’ Night at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Jul 28, 2010 – Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form
   
• BEER FEST: CAC FUNDRAISER: Jul 10, 2010 – Enjoy a wide selection of specialty beers from beverage sponsors Joseph James Brewing Company, Aces And Ales, Southern Wine and Spirits, Wirtz Beverage Nevada and Tenaya Creek Brewery and more.  Live music by Close to Modern, art, food, fun and plenty of ice cold beer!
   
• CAC Members’ Night at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Jun 30, 2010 – Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form
   
• CAC Invitation to Exhibition and Lecture at the Springs Preserve: Jun 10, 2010 – Join Springs Preserve Curator Mike Spiewak as he leads a tour of the current exhibit “Nevada: The Photography of Cliff Segerblom” in the Big Springs Gallery
   
• Reign of Glass: Jun 3rd-Jul 24th, 2010 – Erin Stellman, plans to address the complex attendant dichotomies of the MGM Mirage City Center which is the most expensive privately funded construction projects in U.S. history.  The goals are to foster a dialogue surrounding the American preoccupation of hope and to consider that hope within the context of the never-ending cycles of architecture in the las Vegas Valley.
   
• CAC Members’ Night at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: May 26, 2010 – Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form
   
• Ultimately – May 15 – Jun 30, 2010 – by Wes Fanelli and Nico Holmes-Gull, east side projects installation, second installation honoring Pride 2010
   
• “Body Rituals”: Apr 25 – May 12, 2010 – CAC window exhibit by Jean-René Leblanc. The “Body Rituals” series is a personal exploration of the concept of new male subjectivity, the fluidity and discontinuity among sex – gender – identity, and the phantasmic processes of constructing the body. The strategic conflation of lace, a “male” body and the absence of any specific genitalia is an attempt to destabilize any visual reading of gender assumptions constructed on a strict historical binary framework supported by the medical gaze. The absence of the head acts to liberate the gaze from the dualistic world of desire. Such mobility of gender offers a possibility to the viewer to transgress prescriptive notions of desire.
   
• “Downtown Contemporary” Art Dinner & CAC fundraiser: Apr 13, 2010 – features work representative of five downtown contemporary art galleries:  Contemporary Arts Center, Trifecta Gallery, Henri & Odette, Brett Wesley Gallery and The Fallout Gallery. The works will be on view in the West Wing Gallery of Rosemary’s Restaurant from April 11-June 19th.
   
• 21st Annual Juried Exhibition: Mar 31st- May 22nd, 2010
   
• CAC Members’ Night at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Mar 24, 2010 – The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art has generously extended a CAC members’* rate of $6 for admission to their current exhibition 12 +7: Artists and Architects of CityCenter.
   
• CAC Members’ Event- Exhibition and Curator’s Talk at the Springs Preserve: Mar 3, 2010 – special members’ event, CAC members will receive complimentary admission to the current exhibition “Desert Chromaticity,” featuring a  Curator’s Talk at 7 p.m. followed by an artists’ panel discussion with David Baird, Chad Brown, Catherine Borg, Shawn Hummel and Stephen Hendee.
   
• Tomorrow People: Feb 4- Mar 19, 2010 – Leah Craig, Justin Favela, Catherine Cruse and Thomas Willis have banned together as four artists that will develop unique supernatural abilities to help mankind.  All incarnations of the exhibit concern the emergence of the next stage of human evolution known colloquially as, “Tomorrows People”.

2009

• BLVDS “GIVING” Cover Art Gallery Reception – Dec 17, 2009 – partnered with BLVDS magazine to help select their December issue cover art. In response to a call for work that addressed the theme “Giving”, numerous high-quality submissions were received from our artist members.  These submissions were reviewed by the exhibition committee who selected ten finalists and their winning submission.  BLVDS then juried those finalists and selected the cover artist to be published in this month’s “Giving” issue.
   
• 20th Anniversary Exhibit YOUR FUTURE STARTS HERE: Dec 3, 2009 – Jan 28, 2010 Curator: Jim Stanford. This exhibition or retrospective will culminate those members that have been most influential throughout the 20-year history of the CAC.  Jim Stanford will represent past and present Board member’s artwork and narratives to offer historical significance.
   
• Imprinting: Pressing the Limits: December 4, 2009 – January 23, 2010. Curator: Michael Costello | Coordinator: Mark Diederichsen. Artists:  Michael Costello, Mitchell Shields Marti, Jennifer Lynch, Willis F. Lee. The emphasis of the theme will be on experimental monotype “imprinting” rather than “printmaking”. “Imprinting” is more expansive, and opens the door to photographic work. Experimental monotype imprints.
   
• Hot Hot Haute 2 – Oct 24, 2009 – Wearable Art Runway Fashion Show and Auction /Gala
   
• Blanket: Oct 17 – Nov 26, 2009. Artists: Danielle Kelly and Noelle Stiles. Danielle Kelly and Noelle Stiles will offer a performance-based exhibition of sculpture and dance that will culminate an experience through the intersection of time space, physical potential and physical limits.
   
• Last Chance: Sep 2009. Artist: Christoph Draeger.
   
• Twenty Twenty: Aug 20 – Sep 24, 2009 – will feature the work of selected current UNLV MFA students. Conceptual practice, emerging artists, literature, reading, visual art.
   
• Metasonic : August 7, 2009 (one night) Curator: Dave Sanchez, Artists: Dave Sanchez Burr, Richard Vosseller, Craig Colorusso. A visual and sound representation within the CAC gallery space as well as at a remote open air location in the desert, releasing the binding of sound to time and thus allowing us to experience the force of sound through the abstract.
   
• Painting: Painting Physical Presence: July 30^th – September 19^th  2009, Curator: Beate Kirmse. The painting of Eric Gecas and Ayako Ono, seen together, will demonstrate very different manifestations of ‘physical presence’, reflecting two very different approaches to physicality through painting.
   
• Installation: Beneath the Neon: June 24^th – July 24^th 2009, Curator:  Brian Alvarez. Installation, based on the book of the same title by Matthew O’Brien, exploring another side of Vegas few have ever seen.
   
• Stop and Glow:  April 23^rd – May 23, 2009. Curator: Beate Kirmse Artists: Catherine Borg, Evan Dent, Stephen Hendee, Danielle Kelly, Eric Pawloski, Brian Porray, Sean Russell, Todd VonBastiaans. Partnering with the City and County of Las Vegas, this exhibition celebrates the launch of 8 new ACE transit train stations and the artwork used for the shelters.
   
• Off the Strip: Two Weeks of Performance and Video Art in various locations: April 2^nd – April 16th 2009.

2008

• Untitled: October 1^st – November 27^th 2008. Curator and Artist: Catherine Borg. Video Installation.
   
• Lorca at CAC: October 30, 2008 – Poetry Reading & Performance. Join Pablo Medina and Mark Statman as they read and discuss their translations. Listen to Flamenco music by RJ Fox and enjoy a media show featuring photographs of and drawings by the great poet.
   
• Painting Physical Presence: July 31 through September 20. Artists: Erik Gecas | Ayako Ono, Curated by Beate Kirmse
   
• Metasonic : June 4th – July 30^th, 2008. Curator: Dave Sanchez, Artists: Dave Sanchez Burr, Richard Vosseller, Craig Colorusso. A visual and sound representation within the CAC gallery space as well as at a remote open air location in the desert, releasing the binding of sound to time and thus allowing us to experience the force of sound through the abstract.
   
• Midway: May 1st – June 7^th, 2008. Performance, installation and paintings based on Coney island iconography. Artist: Aaron Sheppard
   
• Stop and Glow: April 23 – May 23, 2008. Curator: Beate Kirmse, Artists: Catherine Borg, Evan Dent, Stephen Hendee, Danielle Kelly, Eric Pawloski, Brian Porray, Sean Russell, Todd VonBastiaans. Partnering with the City and County of Las Vegas, this exhibition celebrates the launch of 8 new ACE transit train stations and the artwork used for the shelters.
   
• Punchline: March 6-7, 2008.
   
• 19th Annual Juried Show: March 14th 2008 – April 26th 2008. Juror: Marjorie Vecchio
   
• Whipped UP: January 3^rd through January 26^th, 2008 – Artists: Martin Parr & Diane Bush
   
• Extra.ordinary: January 3^rd through January 26^th, 2008. Artists: Zak Ostrowski, Grayson Ronk, Barret Thomson

2007

• 3Dementia: Dec 6^th – Dec 29^th, 2007. A group exhibition exploring the breadth and variety of thirteen young Las Vegas artists representing an intriguing outlook into the future of Las Vegas sculpture. Artists: Christopher Bauder, Justin Crabtree, Brandon Davey, Richard Hesketh, Scot Kolkman, Raj Medhekar, David Sanchez, Aaron Sheppard, Brent Sommerhauser, Erin Stellmon, Steve Vogel, RC Wonderly, Rocky Mountain, Yo (Fukui)
   
• Words and Pictures: November 2007
   
• Vintage Point: October 5, 2007. With the photo exhibit called “Vintage Point” four local artists — Darius Kuzmickas, James Stanford, Fred Sigman and Erin Stellmon — and three current News Bureau photographers — Darrin Bush, Brian Jones and Glenn Pinkerton — will put a contemporary spin on the Bureau’s classic images. A compilation of vintage and contemporary video footage will also be on view.
   
• 2007 Art Quotient Scholastic Show: May 29 – Jun 23, 2007
   
• West Coast Textures/ Evolving Possibilities: Apr 6 – May 12, 2007 – Contemporary Encaustic Show
   
• 18^th Annual Juried Show: Feb 27 – Mar 24, 2007
   
• The Directors Cut – CAC Members Show of Small Works: Jan 23-Feb 10, 2007
   
• The Beauty Within: Jan 5 – Jan 23, 2007 – Artists Henry Vargas and Dray document their trips to Sri Lanka
   
• Infrastructure & Other Capital Constellations: Nov 21, 2006 – Jan 5, 2007. A Mixed Media Installation by Cooper Holoweski & Benjamin Lipkin

2006

• CAC Annual Art Auction Show & Fundraiser: Oct 28-Nov 4, 2006
   
• Unrealizable Dreams: Sep 19-Oct 14, 2006 – Photography Exhibition by Ivana Damien George & Deborah Bright
   
• CAC Members Juried Show (Theme TBD): Aug 3-Sep 2, 2006
   
• Jackpot!! “Cup-a-licious”: June 8^th – July 15^th 2006 – A national show of alternative and fine art ceramics juried by Mark Burns. This year’s theme is the cup.
   
• Miguel Rodriguez Ceramic Show: May 5 – June 2, 2006
   
• Secret of the Giant Colossal: May 4th-June 3^rd 2006 – Artists Stephen Hendee and Catherine Borg each create a site-specific installation for the CAC gallery.
   
• CAC 17^th Annual Juried Show and 3^rd Salon de Refuse: March 21^st – April 15^th 2006
   
• A nationally recognized juror will award $1,000 best of show, and other cash prizes.
   
• “Weird and Wondrous”: February 9^th – March 4^th 2006 – A national, juried show of experimental and new media art

2005

• Observable Inhumanity: a result of Human Anesthesia: Dec 21^st 2005 – Feb 4^th  2006. Mixed media installation by Artists Iñaqui Muñoz ( Stgo-Chile), Micharl Tino (San Francisco), and Jorge Catoni (Las Vegas)
   
• The CAC Annual Art Auction Exhibition: Nov 15^th – Dec 3^rd 2005 – An annual fund-raiser and soiree for the Contemporary Arts Collective’s following exhibition season
   
• “DARK”: Sep 27^th – Nov 5^th 2005 – An interactive sound installation curated by David Curtis
   
• CAC Annual Members’ Juried Show: Aug 4^th – Sep 3^rd 2005 – A themed juried show for members, with cash prizes
   
• Las Vegas History: An Interactive Art Experience: June 30^th – July 28^th 2005 – A Centennial co-sponsored exhibition from Left of Center Gallery
   
• Pause Show: June 1 – June 25, 2005 – Sharyn O’Mara & Chandler Dayton
   
• Snap! Vegas: May 4th – 25^th, 2005 – The Contemporary Arts Collective will feature several local photographers. Come down to see how their lens captures a unique perspective of Las Vegas.
   
• 16^th Annual Juried Show: Mar 19 – Apr 9, 2005
   
• Human Inhumanity: February 11, 2005. Artists: KD Matheson, Jorge Catoni, Kate Jackson
   
• Weird and Wondrous: Feb 9th – March 4^th, 2005. A national, juried show of experimental and new media art.
   
• Cult of Potato: Feb 4 – Mar 5, 2005. Andrea Avery, Michiel Brink, Nina Ganci, Jeffry Allen Price, Rebecca Stees, Topp & Dubio
   
• Figure – Pattern – Space:  Dec 29, 2004 – Jan 29, 2005. Chad Brown, Danielle Kelly, Julie Madden

2004

• Day Without Art:  December 6-December 23, 2004. This is a day (traditionally December 1st) when art organizations all over the world pay their respect to the many artists of all disciplines, that have succumbed to AIDS, or are living with HIV. Even though our schedule could not use that particular date to pay our respects, we are partnering with AFAN, and a local group called “Project Up Front”, to bring an art exhibit that is created by local artists living with aids.
   
• 2004 Art Auction: December 4, 2004. The Contemporary Arts Collective partners with Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts and the Las Vegas Jazz Society for Annual Fine Art Auction to benefit non-profit art collective and gallery programming and exhibition season. The invitational exhibition of approximately 50 (small) works generously donated by well-known and emerging artists, will be on display at the CAC gallery from Nov. 12th through First Friday: December 3, 2004, with a live auction on the following night at Cordon Bleu Cafe.
   
• Our Daily Bread: Oct 1 – Nov 6, 2004. Jack Endewelt, Marty Walsh, Plasmo, Victoria Reynolds
   
• CAC Fortune Fundraiser: Sep 20, 2004. Artists interpretations of cards from the Tarot deck hosted by Jazzed Restaurant & Vinoteca in NW Las Vegas & co-sponsored by the Las Vegas Weekly. The event featured dozens of artist who auctioned off their art in a CAC fundraising effort. In addition Tarot readers donated their services doing readings to garner additional funds for the CAC. This fund raising event was a tremendous success!
   
• Connections Show: Aug 21-Sep 25, 2004. Daryl DePry, Susanne Forestieri, Sarah Pearson-Ochoa, Jerry Ross
   
• Wild Wild West Show: Jul 17- Aug 14, 2004. Scheduled every summer, the Contemporary Arts Collective supports its membership by showing members work in a themed, juried show.
   
• Lost Vegas by Gregg Segal & FOUND by Ana Maria Rodriguez: June 4 – July 4, 2004. Color documentary photography depicting the landscape and habitants of East Fremont Street by L.A. photographer, Gregg Segal. Color documentary landscape photography taken in Las Vegas by Ana Maria Rodriguez.
   
• Las Vegas Sign Design Exhibition: Apr 29 – May 29, 2004. This exhibit is being organized as an International Design Competition by Joshua Abbey, to be exhibited at the CAC, as a fundraiser. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is our sponsor. Winning designs will be displayed. $1,000 goes to the Best of Show
   
• Body Of Work 04: March 26 – April 24, 2004. Figurative paintings and drawings by Wendy Kveck, Julie Madden, and Jennifer McKeon
   
• 15^th Annual Juried Show: Feb 25 – Mar 20, 2004.
   
• Glow: Jan 16 – Feb 14, 2004.  Curated by Eric Murphy, this exhibit brings together five artists from Japan, Canada, and the United States, who use luminosity in diverse visual practices. The artists are Kazuko Kizawa, Robbin Deyo, Eric Murphy, Mike Pelletier, and Ingrid Mary Percy
   
• Manifesto of the Mundane: Dec 11, 2003 – Jan 11, 2004. Work by Keith Conley and Bill Morrison

2003

• CAC’s 5th Annual Art Auction: Paddle This!: Nov 18 – Dec 5, 2003 – Invitational art auction exhibition, silent auction and live auction to benefit the CAC. The best fine art that Southern Nevada has to offer in an exciting and classy auction to benefit the CAC. Nate Tannenbaum hosts this must-be-there event!
   
• Here & There: Exploring Regionalism: Oct 3 – Nov 9, 2003. 11 artists who have worked independently and professionally from Louisville, KY exhibit paintings, prints and 3-D. Exhibit aims to explore the idea of Regionalism today thru discussion with the Louisville artists and their Las Vegas counterparts. CAC shares this exhibit with 2 other Galleries in the Arts Factory.
   
• Bushwick Farms Present: Sept. 5 – Sept.28, 2003 – A suite of black and white silver prints from an on-going project based on a traveling Vaudeville Show, which this husband and wife team has created, using themselves as fictitious characters. All this is created from a 1968 travel trailer, which is towed across America. Popcorn and lemonade will be served.
   
• Yum: Jul 18 – Aug22, 2003 – Members juried exhibition dealing with the theme of food
   
• Vegetable Eye by Tom Umholtz and Zen Mechanics by Mark Hutchings and Daniel Gron: June 6 – August 15, 2003
   
• Jackpot Show! A Juried Teapot Exhibition: May 2 – May 30, 2003
   
• 2003 Annual Juried Show: March 7 – April 19, 2003. Juror: Steven High
   
• The Great Escape: Jan 3rd – Feb 15, 2003- Thomas Bleigh, Andrea Buckvold, Jason Lee, Jennifer Mahlman, and Chris Wildrick

2001

• Cream 2001: Nov 16 to Dec 14, 2001 – A show featuring Bob Wysocki, Miguel Rodriguez, and Neil Linssen
   
• Whimsical Nightmare: Oct 12 – Nov 9, 2001 – A show featuring Rebeckah J. Bogard, Magda S. Kearns, and Andy Wallace
   
• Nascar Revival: Oct 12 through Nov 9. A show featuring Denise A. King
   
• Tuscarora: June 6 – July 27, 2001 – An exhibition of four artists that live in Tuscarora, Nevada, population 18. Artists: Ben Parks, Elaine Parks, Gail Rappa, Ron Arthaud.
   
• Special Gallery Show: 2001. A show featuring Atsushi Machida, Alisa Ochoa & Jason Tomme.

Researched by DC and SP from the CAC files in Las Vegas, NV, 2002

The following text was retrieved via the Wayback Machine of the CAC’s website (after it was renamed the Contemporary Art Center. It was edited by CAC volunteers:

2012

• 23rd Annual Juried Show – Juror Mat Gleason is a Los Angeles based art critic and curator. He is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post’s Arts Section and publishes Coagula Art Journal, a pioneer hybrid of tabloid journalism and anti-academic art writing which he founded in 1992.  Selected artists: Richard Adams, Robyn Alatorre, Jennifer Beaty, Mike Busch, Leigh Craven, Will Cruz, Jessica Daniel, Sue Danielson, Clark Derbes, Arthur Fields, Dona Geib, Sarah Hanson, Chad Haskell, Carolyn Holden, Dan Hooker, Russel Jacobs, Donald Johnson, Brent Kallenbach, Joanna Lord, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Naoko Morisawa, Robert Nelson, John Norris, Mark Oatis, Jody Paulson, Ila Prouty, Michelle Ramin, Jeffrey Rhodes, Nohelia Rivas, Keri Schroeder, Adam Schwieder, Marlene Siu, Greg Stahl, Cathryn Sugg, Alessandra Suply, William Swaney, Haikuhie Tataryan, Daniel Victor, Jevijoe Vitug, Eric Vozzola, Jayson Warnock, Margi Weir, Vicky Wetherill, and Betsy Williamson. March 23, 2012
   
• Defeat the Future by Yo Fukui, Antonio Serna, Chad Stayrook, Naoko Wowsugi, Richard A. Wager. Curated and presented by UNLV MFA graduate Yo Fukui in partnership with the CAC, “Defeat the Future” brings together the work of five New York artists working across the genres of video installation, painting, sculptural installation, photography, and performance art. The distinctive impressions from these individual artists are unified through the theme of an impractical story – the artist in the role of the warrior trying to defeat an imaginary monster that we all have a tendency to create at times in our mind, the “Future”.  February 1 – March 10, 2012

2011

• Garden of Eden by Andrzej Maciejewski – still-life photography in the style of the old masters, emphasizing the contrast between what the gifts of nature used to be and what they have now become through the manipulation of man. Everything looks perfect and flawless but many things, like the taste, the exceptionality, and often even the humanity, have been lost during the process. December 1, 2011 – January 21, 2012
   
• Affect/Effect by Scott Carter deconstructed the CAC gallery to display a relationship narrative of comfort and re-addressing basic construction design in contemporary architecture. Oct 6th – Nov 19th, 2011
   
• In And Out of Whack by Deborah Karpman & Kimberly Hennessy;  Two artists carefully walking lines separating extremes: protection and invasion, strength and weakness, chaos and order. Shown together, work from each artist pushes and pulls at the other in a precariously balanced drama. June 30 – August 13, 2011
   
• Geolocations by Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman followed random tweets and traveled to the GPS Geotag location to take a photograph of the site of the update. The project created a real life situation and location for these usually anonymous posts. January 6 – March 4, 2011
   
• 22nd Annual Juried Show sponsored by Cirque Du Soleil Cultural Action Department, showcasing exceptional work of national and international emerging artists in all media. May 5 – June 18, 2011
   
• It’s All A Blur by Tony Labat, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Dayle Hoyt; curated by Justin Hoover, in partnership with SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco.  Incorporating video installations, drawings, sculpture, photography, and performance/video artworks about the migrant body in the West, economics of labor, and cross-cultural identity distinct to the Western states. March 15 – April 23, 2011

2010

• I Hope You Are Feeling Better: Nov 3, 2010 – Jan 7, 2011
  Curated by Andreana Donahue and Kathryn Kruse
   
• Off The Strip 2010 – October 14^th – 17^th, 2010
  Off-site locations: The Onyx Theater, The Aruba Theater, the Sci-Fi Center and Insurgo Theater. In spring of 2009, The Contemporary Arts Center of Las Vegas introduced Off the Strip: Two Weeks of Video and Performance Art.  The event featured the work of twenty emerging and mid-career artists and artist groups, seven evenings of live performance and video screenings and multiple, alternating installations at the gallery.  The first annual Off The Strip featured artists from Berlin to Boston, from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, and the open-ended call drew video and performance works that navigated gender and identity politics, institutional critique, relational aesthetics and explorations into technology, social networking and the body-psyche. The 2010 OTS Call for Proposals encourages submissions that will be particularly meaningful within the context of Las Vegas or Nevada.  This year’s Off the Strip will be condensed into a four-day festival and will include an afternoon panel of artists and three scholars speaking on the relevance of performance art to community, especially within the unique social, economic and pop-cultural environment of Las Vegas. Chaired by Art Critic and Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art, Kirsten Swenson.
   
• Let’s Build A Nation (CAC the Nation): Sep 28, 2010 – Oct 30, 2010 – Building a Nation collective declares Contemporary Arts Center a sovereign nation from September 30th-Octobter 28th, 2010, establishing its national identity, national symbols and history.  Let’s Build A Nation explores the concept of a nation as a temporal imagined community corresponding to its immediate locale.  It also addresses issues specific to Las Vegas particularly its’ themed hotel environments simulating cultures of other nations.
   
• “New Cities”: Jul 24-Sep 2, 2010. Curator: Kirsten Swenson. Contemporary Arts Center presents a group exhibition, titled ‘New Cities’ that departs from Dan Graham’s famous 1966 essay, ‘Homes for America’. This exhibit brings together mid-career and emerging artists whose work seeks to visualize and conceptualize the new American home.
   
• America’s # 1 Most Foreclosed City: Aug 3rd-Sep 18^th, 2010 – Emily Kennerk’s installation casts a bright, critical light on the real estate collapse that has transformed our city
   
• CAC Members’ Night at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Jul 28, 2010 – Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form
   
• BEER FEST: CAC FUNDRAISER: Jul 10, 2010 – Enjoy a wide selection of specialty beers from beverage sponsors Joseph James Brewing Company, Aces And Ales, Southern Wine and Spirits, Wirtz Beverage Nevada and Tenaya Creek Brewery and more.  Live music by Close to Modern, art, food, fun and plenty of ice cold beer!
   
• CAC Members’ Night at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Jun 30, 2010 – Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form
   
• CAC Invitation to Exhibition and Lecture at the Springs Preserve: Jun 10, 2010 – Join Springs Preserve Curator Mike Spiewak as he leads a tour of the current exhibit “Nevada: The Photography of Cliff Segerblom” in the Big Springs Gallery
   
• Reign of Glass: Jun 3rd-Jul 24th, 2010 – Erin Stellman, plans to address the complex attendant dichotomies of the MGM Mirage City Center which is the most expensive privately funded construction projects in U.S. history.  The goals are to foster a dialogue surrounding the American preoccupation of hope and to consider that hope within the context of the never-ending cycles of architecture in the las Vegas Valley.
   
• CAC Members’ Night at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: May 26, 2010 – Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form
   
• Ultimately – May 15 – Jun 30, 2010 – by Wes Fanelli and Nico Holmes-Gull, east side projects installation, second installation honoring Pride 2010
   
• “Body Rituals”: Apr 25 – May 12, 2010 – CAC window exhibit by Jean-René Leblanc. The “Body Rituals” series is a personal exploration of the concept of new male subjectivity, the fluidity and discontinuity among sex – gender – identity, and the phantasmic processes of constructing the body. The strategic conflation of lace, a “male” body and the absence of any specific genitalia is an attempt to destabilize any visual reading of gender assumptions constructed on a strict historical binary framework supported by the medical gaze. The absence of the head acts to liberate the gaze from the dualistic world of desire. Such mobility of gender offers a possibility to the viewer to transgress prescriptive notions of desire.
   
• “Downtown Contemporary” Art Dinner & CAC fundraiser: Apr 13, 2010 – features work representative of five downtown contemporary art galleries:  Contemporary Arts Center, Trifecta Gallery, Henri & Odette, Brett Wesley Gallery and The Fallout Gallery. The works will be on view in the West Wing Gallery of Rosemary’s Restaurant from April 11-June 19th.
   
• 21st Annual Juried Exhibition: Mar 31st- May 22nd, 2010
   
• CAC Members’ Night at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Mar 24, 2010 – The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art has generously extended a CAC members’* rate of $6 for admission to their current exhibition 12 +7: Artists and Architects of CityCenter.
   
• CAC Members’ Event- Exhibition and Curator’s Talk at the Springs Preserve: Mar 3, 2010 – special members’ event, CAC members will receive complimentary admission to the current exhibition “Desert Chromaticity,” featuring a  Curator’s Talk at 7 p.m. followed by an artists’ panel discussion with David Baird, Chad Brown, Catherine Borg, Shawn Hummel and Stephen Hendee.
   
• Tomorrow People: Feb 4- Mar 19, 2010 – Leah Craig, Justin Favela, Catherine Cruse and Thomas Willis have banned together as four artists that will develop unique supernatural abilities to help mankind.  All incarnations of the exhibit concern the emergence of the next stage of human evolution known colloquially as, “Tomorrows People”.

2009

• BLVDS “GIVING” Cover Art Gallery Reception – Dec 17, 2009 – partnered with BLVDS magazine to help select their December issue cover art. In response to a call for work that addressed the theme “Giving”, numerous high-quality submissions were received from our artist members.  These submissions were reviewed by the exhibition committee who selected ten finalists and their winning submission.  BLVDS then juried those finalists and selected the cover artist to be published in this month’s “Giving” issue.
   
• 20th Anniversary Exhibit YOUR FUTURE STARTS HERE: Dec 3, 2009 – Jan 28, 2010 Curator: Jim Stanford. This exhibition or retrospective will culminate those members that have been most influential throughout the 20-year history of the CAC.  Jim Stanford will represent past and present Board member’s artwork and narratives to offer historical significance.
   
• Imprinting: Pressing the Limits: December 4, 2009 – January 23, 2010. Curator: Michael Costello | Coordinator: Mark Diederichsen. Artists:  Michael Costello, Mitchell Shields Marti, Jennifer Lynch, Willis F. Lee. The emphasis of the theme will be on experimental monotype “imprinting” rather than “printmaking”. “Imprinting” is more expansive, and opens the door to photographic work. Experimental monotype imprints.
   
• Hot Hot Haute 2 – Oct 24, 2009 – Wearable Art Runway Fashion Show and Auction /Gala
   
• Blanket: Oct 17 – Nov 26, 2009. Artists: Danielle Kelly and Noelle Stiles. Danielle Kelly and Noelle Stiles will offer a performance-based exhibition of sculpture and dance that will culminate an experience through the intersection of time space, physical potential and physical limits.
   
• Last Chance: Sep 2009. Artist: Christoph Draeger.
   
• Twenty Twenty: Aug 20 – Sep 24, 2009 – will feature the work of selected current UNLV MFA students. Conceptual practice, emerging artists, literature, reading, visual art.
   
• Metasonic : August 7, 2009 (one night) Curator: Dave Sanchez, Artists: Dave Sanchez Burr, Richard Vosseller, Craig Colorusso. A visual and sound representation within the CAC gallery space as well as at a remote open air location in the desert, releasing the binding of sound to time and thus allowing us to experience the force of sound through the abstract.
   
• Painting: Painting Physical Presence: July 30^th – September 19^th  2009, Curator: Beate Kirmse. The painting of Eric Gecas and Ayako Ono, seen together, will demonstrate very different manifestations of ‘physical presence’, reflecting two very different approaches to physicality through painting.
   
• Installation: Beneath the Neon: June 24^th – July 24^th 2009, Curator:  Brian Alvarez. Installation, based on the book of the same title by Matthew O’Brien, exploring another side of Vegas few have ever seen.
   
• Stop and Glow:  April 23^rd – May 23, 2009. Curator: Beate Kirmse Artists: Catherine Borg, Evan Dent, Stephen Hendee, Danielle Kelly, Eric Pawloski, Brian Porray, Sean Russell, Todd VonBastiaans. Partnering with the City and County of Las Vegas, this exhibition celebrates the launch of 8 new ACE transit train stations and the artwork used for the shelters.
   
• Off the Strip: Two Weeks of Performance and Video Art in various locations: April 2^nd – April 16th 2009.

2008

• Untitled: October 1^st – November 27^th 2008. Curator and Artist: Catherine Borg. Video Installation.
   
• Lorca at CAC: October 30, 2008 – Poetry Reading & Performance. Join Pablo Medina and Mark Statman as they read and discuss their translations. Listen to Flamenco music by RJ Fox and enjoy a media show featuring photographs of and drawings by the great poet.
   
• Painting Physical Presence: July 31 through September 20. Artists: Erik Gecas | Ayako Ono, Curated by Beate Kirmse
   
• Metasonic : June 4th – July 30^th, 2008. Curator: Dave Sanchez, Artists: Dave Sanchez Burr, Richard Vosseller, Craig Colorusso. A visual and sound representation within the CAC gallery space as well as at a remote open air location in the desert, releasing the binding of sound to time and thus allowing us to experience the force of sound through the abstract.
   
• Midway: May 1st – June 7^th, 2008. Performance, installation and paintings based on Coney island iconography. Artist: Aaron Sheppard
   
• Stop and Glow: April 23 – May 23, 2008. Curator: Beate Kirmse, Artists: Catherine Borg, Evan Dent, Stephen Hendee, Danielle Kelly, Eric Pawloski, Brian Porray, Sean Russell, Todd VonBastiaans. Partnering with the City and County of Las Vegas, this exhibition celebrates the launch of 8 new ACE transit train stations and the artwork used for the shelters.
   
• Punchline: March 6-7, 2008.
   
• 19th Annual Juried Show: March 14th 2008 – April 26th 2008. Juror: Marjorie Vecchio
   
• Whipped UP: January 3^rd through January 26^th, 2008 – Artists: Martin Parr & Diane Bush
   
• Extra.ordinary: January 3^rd through January 26^th, 2008. Artists: Zak Ostrowski, Grayson Ronk, Barret Thomson

2007

• 3Dementia: Dec 6^th – Dec 29^th, 2007. A group exhibition exploring the breadth and variety of thirteen young Las Vegas artists representing an intriguing outlook into the future of Las Vegas sculpture. Artists: Christopher Bauder, Justin Crabtree, Brandon Davey, Richard Hesketh, Scot Kolkman, Raj Medhekar, David Sanchez, Aaron Sheppard, Brent Sommerhauser, Erin Stellmon, Steve Vogel, RC Wonderly, Rocky Mountain, Yo (Fukui)
   
• Words and Pictures: November 2007
   
• Vintage Point: October 5, 2007. With the photo exhibit called “Vintage Point” four local artists — Darius Kuzmickas, James Stanford, Fred Sigman and Erin Stellmon — and three current News Bureau photographers — Darrin Bush, Brian Jones and Glenn Pinkerton — will put a contemporary spin on the Bureau’s classic images. A compilation of vintage and contemporary video footage will also be on view.
   
• 2007 Art Quotient Scholastic Show: May 29 – Jun 23, 2007
   
• West Coast Textures/ Evolving Possibilities: Apr 6 – May 12, 2007 – Contemporary Encaustic Show
   
• 18^th Annual Juried Show: Feb 27 – Mar 24, 2007
   
• The Directors Cut – CAC Members Show of Small Works: Jan 23-Feb 10, 2007
   
• The Beauty Within: Jan 5 – Jan 23, 2007 – Artists Henry Vargas and Dray document their trips to Sri Lanka
   
• Infrastructure & Other Capital Constellations: Nov 21, 2006 – Jan 5, 2007. A Mixed Media Installation by Cooper Holoweski & Benjamin Lipkin

2006

• CAC Annual Art Auction Show & Fundraiser: Oct 28-Nov 4, 2006
   
• Unrealizable Dreams: Sep 19-Oct 14, 2006 – Photography Exhibition by Ivana Damien George & Deborah Bright
   
• CAC Members Juried Show (Theme TBD): Aug 3-Sep 2, 2006
   
• Jackpot!! “Cup-a-licious”: June 8^th – July 15^th 2006 – A national show of alternative and fine art ceramics juried by Mark Burns. This year’s theme is the cup.
   
• Miguel Rodriguez Ceramic Show: May 5 – June 2, 2006
   
• Secret of the Giant Colossal: May 4th-June 3^rd 2006 – Artists Stephen Hendee and Catherine Borg each create a site-specific installation for the CAC gallery.
   
• CAC 17^th Annual Juried Show and 3^rd Salon de Refuse: March 21^st – April 15^th 2006
   
• A nationally recognized juror will award $1,000 best of show, and other cash prizes.
   
• “Weird and Wondrous”: February 9^th – March 4^th 2006 – A national, juried show of experimental and new media art

2005

• Observable Inhumanity: a result of Human Anesthesia: Dec 21^st 2005 – Feb 4^th  2006. Mixed media installation by Artists Iñaqui Muñoz ( Stgo-Chile), Micharl Tino (San Francisco), and Jorge Catoni (Las Vegas)
   
• The CAC Annual Art Auction Exhibition: Nov 15^th – Dec 3^rd 2005 – An annual fund-raiser and soiree for the Contemporary Arts Collective’s following exhibition season
   
• “DARK”: Sep 27^th – Nov 5^th 2005 – An interactive sound installation curated by David Curtis
   
• CAC Annual Members’ Juried Show: Aug 4^th – Sep 3^rd 2005 – A themed juried show for members, with cash prizes
   
• Las Vegas History: An Interactive Art Experience: June 30^th – July 28^th 2005 – A Centennial co-sponsored exhibition from Left of Center Gallery
   
• Pause Show: June 1 – June 25, 2005 – Sharyn O’Mara & Chandler Dayton
   
• Snap! Vegas: May 4th – 25^th, 2005 – The Contemporary Arts Collective will feature several local photographers. Come down to see how their lens captures a unique perspective of Las Vegas.
   
• 16^th Annual Juried Show: Mar 19 – Apr 9, 2005
   
• Human Inhumanity: February 11, 2005. Artists: KD Matheson, Jorge Catoni, Kate Jackson
   
• Weird and Wondrous: Feb 9th – March 4^th, 2005. A national, juried show of experimental and new media art.
   
• Cult of Potato: Feb 4 – Mar 5, 2005. Andrea Avery, Michiel Brink, Nina Ganci, Jeffry Allen Price, Rebecca Stees, Topp & Dubio
   
• Figure – Pattern – Space:  Dec 29, 2004 – Jan 29, 2005. Chad Brown, Danielle Kelly, Julie Madden

2004

• Day Without Art:  December 6-December 23, 2004. This is a day (traditionally December 1st) when art organizations all over the world pay their respect to the many artists of all disciplines, that have succumbed to AIDS, or are living with HIV. Even though our schedule could not use that particular date to pay our respects, we are partnering with AFAN, and a local group called “Project Up Front”, to bring an art exhibit that is created by local artists living with aids.
   
• 2004 Art Auction: December 4, 2004. The Contemporary Arts Collective partners with Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts and the Las Vegas Jazz Society for Annual Fine Art Auction to benefit non-profit art collective and gallery programming and exhibition season. The invitational exhibition of approximately 50 (small) works generously donated by well-known and emerging artists, will be on display at the CAC gallery from Nov. 12th through First Friday: December 3, 2004, with a live auction on the following night at Cordon Bleu Cafe.
   
• Our Daily Bread: Oct 1 – Nov 6, 2004. Jack Endewelt, Marty Walsh, Plasmo, Victoria Reynolds
   
• CAC Fortune Fundraiser: Sep 20, 2004. Artists interpretations of cards from the Tarot deck hosted by Jazzed Restaurant & Vinoteca in NW Las Vegas & co-sponsored by the Las Vegas Weekly. The event featured dozens of artist who auctioned off their art in a CAC fundraising effort. In addition Tarot readers donated their services doing readings to garner additional funds for the CAC. This fund raising event was a tremendous success!
   
• Connections Show: Aug 21-Sep 25, 2004. Daryl DePry, Susanne Forestieri, Sarah Pearson-Ochoa, Jerry Ross
   
• Wild Wild West Show: Jul 17- Aug 14, 2004. Scheduled every summer, the Contemporary Arts Collective supports its membership by showing members work in a themed, juried show.
   
• Lost Vegas by Gregg Segal & FOUND by Ana Maria Rodriguez: June 4 – July 4, 2004. Color documentary photography depicting the landscape and habitants of East Fremont Street by L.A. photographer, Gregg Segal. Color documentary landscape photography taken in Las Vegas by Ana Maria Rodriguez.
   
• Las Vegas Sign Design Exhibition: Apr 29 – May 29, 2004. This exhibit is being organized as an International Design Competition by Joshua Abbey, to be exhibited at the CAC, as a fundraiser. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is our sponsor. Winning designs will be displayed. $1,000 goes to the Best of Show
   
• Body Of Work 04: March 26 – April 24, 2004. Figurative paintings and drawings by Wendy Kveck, Julie Madden, and Jennifer McKeon
   
• 15^th Annual Juried Show: Feb 25 – Mar 20, 2004.
   
• Glow: Jan 16 – Feb 14, 2004.  Curated by Eric Murphy, this exhibit brings together five artists from Japan, Canada, and the United States, who use luminosity in diverse visual practices. The artists are Kazuko Kizawa, Robbin Deyo, Eric Murphy, Mike Pelletier, and Ingrid Mary Percy
   
• Manifesto of the Mundane: Dec 11, 2003 – Jan 11, 2004. Work by Keith Conley and Bill Morrison

2003

• CAC’s 5th Annual Art Auction: Paddle This!: Nov 18 – Dec 5, 2003 – Invitational art auction exhibition, silent auction and live auction to benefit the CAC. The best fine art that Southern Nevada has to offer in an exciting and classy auction to benefit the CAC. Nate Tannenbaum hosts this must-be-there event!
   
• Here & There: Exploring Regionalism: Oct 3 – Nov 9, 2003. 11 artists who have worked independently and professionally from Louisville, KY exhibit paintings, prints and 3-D. Exhibit aims to explore the idea of Regionalism today thru discussion with the Louisville artists and their Las Vegas counterparts. CAC shares this exhibit with 2 other Galleries in the Arts Factory.
   
• Bushwick Farms Present: Sept. 5 – Sept.28, 2003 – A suite of black and white silver prints from an on-going project based on a traveling Vaudeville Show, which this husband and wife team has created, using themselves as fictitious characters. All this is created from a 1968 travel trailer, which is towed across America. Popcorn and lemonade will be served.
   
• Yum: Jul 18 – Aug22, 2003 – Members juried exhibition dealing with the theme of food
   
• Vegetable Eye by Tom Umholtz and Zen Mechanics by Mark Hutchings and Daniel Gron: June 6 – August 15, 2003
   
• Jackpot Show! A Juried Teapot Exhibition: May 2 – May 30, 2003
   
• 2003 Annual Juried Show: March 7 – April 19, 2003. Juror: Steven High
   
• The Great Escape: Jan 3rd – Feb 15, 2003- Thomas Bleigh, Andrea Buckvold, Jason Lee, Jennifer Mahlman, and Chris Wildrick

2001

• Cream 2001: Nov 16 to Dec 14, 2001 – A show featuring Bob Wysocki, Miguel Rodriguez, and Neil Linssen
   
• Whimsical Nightmare: Oct 12 – Nov 9, 2001 – A show featuring Rebeckah J. Bogard, Magda S. Kearns, and Andy Wallace
   
• Nascar Revival: Oct 12 through Nov 9. A show featuring Denise A. King
   
• Tuscarora: June 6 – July 27, 2001 – An exhibition of four artists that live in Tuscarora, Nevada, population 18. Artists: Ben Parks, Elaine Parks, Gail Rappa, Ron Arthaud.
   
• Special Gallery Show: 2001. A show featuring Atsushi Machida, Alisa Ochoa & Jason Tomme.