Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center recognizes and serves a vital community artistic presence which is global in its outlook, challenging in its ideas, pluralistic in its concerns, and diverse in its expression. Hallwalls’ twofold mission is to serve artists by supporting the creation and presentation of new work in the visual, media, performing, and literary arts, and to serve the public by making these works available to audiences. It is dedicated in particular to work by artists which challenges and extends the traditional boundaries of the various art forms, and which is critically engaged with current issues in the arts and—through the arts—in society. It believes that the right of freedom of expression for artists, and for free access to their works by interested individuals, must be protected as a fundamental and necessary condition of our mission.
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
John Massier, My Bright Future, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 42 inches. Courtesy Hallwalls.
John Massier, Artist’s Model Shoots Artist, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 23.5 x 19.5 inches. Courtesy Hallwalls.
John Massier, A Scholar Contemplates, 1956, ink on paper, 11 x 8 inches. Courtesy Hallwalls.
Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Lost Underground Radio 2, 2022 (detail). Mixed media on mylar. Courtesy of the artist and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center.
Julia Dzwonkoski, Ghost and Camuss, 2021. Acrylic on paper. Courtest of the artist and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center.
Jon Sasaki, from the series Improvised Travel Adapters, 2021. Digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center.
Bonnie Collura, Rebuke (Two Months Until Fifty), 2020. Wood, steel, foam, fiberglass cloth, hydrostone, urethane plastic, fabric, thread, paint, chair legs, furniture dolly. Courtesy of the artist and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center.
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“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”