Plan Your Visit
Welcome to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston! Located at 5216 Montrose Boulevard and spanning two galleries, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), is a non-collecting known for presenting early career solo shows, major group exhibitions, career-defining surveys by artists working today. Admission is always free.
Museum Hours
| Mon | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tues | Closed |
| Wed | 11AM – 6PM |
| Thu | 11AM – 9PM |
| Fri | 11AM – 6PM |
| Sat | 11AM – 6PM |
| Sun | 11AM – 6PM |
Admission
Admission is always free.
Holiday Hours
| Juneteenth | Closed |
|---|---|
| Fourth of July | Closed |
| Thanksgiving Eve | Closed |
| Thanksgiving | Closed |
| Christmas Eve | Closed |
| Christmas | Closed |
| New Year’s Eve | Closed |
| New Year’s Day | Closed |
Directions Located in Houston’s Museum District
Exhibitions
Mario Ayala: Seven Vans
Current Exhibition
Mario Ayala: Seven Vans is the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. Expanding on his signature shaped canvases—often depicting the back of cars with technical precision—Seven Vans debuts seven life-size van paintings created specifically for Houston. Derived from the word caravan, the van bridges histories of commerce and counterculture.
Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People
Current Exhibition
Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People charts the import and impact of the artist’s engagement with some of the most urgent issues of our time, including environmental sustainability, social justice, immigration, and urban legislation.
Robert Pruitt: Infinite
Upcoming Exhibition
Robert Pruitt: Infinite is the first survey exhibition to closely examine the artist’s practice across twenty-five years, bringing together the influences, research, and ideas that shape his vision of contemporary culture. The exhibition marks Pruitt’s return to Houston and offers an expansive view of a practice rooted in portraiture, storytelling, and imagination.
Programs
Visitor Information
CAMH is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition labels are available in English, Spanish, and large print at the front desk. Guided tours in Spanish are available upon request for groups of eight to twelve people. Please complete our tour request form at least two weeks before your potential tour. Request must include two possible tour dates and times.
Photos and/or videos taken at CAMH and associated events may be published in print or posted online for download, in online photo albums, on photo/video sharing sites such as YouTube, and on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc. Photos and videos may also be made available digitally, in print, or in email.
By visiting CAMH and/or attending an event, photos and videos of you at the event may be published in any or all of the above mentioned media and devices at the sole discretion of CAMH. By your attendance at the Museum, you are consenting to photographs being taken and shared through the above-listed platforms unless you expressly revoke your consent by contacting the front desk to receive a sticker that will alert CAMH staff to not take your photograph.
Please note that the CAMH staff members are instructed to ask permission from parents or guardians before taking photos of individual children. If a parent or guardian declines to have their child photographed, the Museum staff member has been instructed to refrain from photographing the family. If a staff member refuses to comply with your request, please email fcleveland@camh.org.
Photographers may use CAMH grounds as settings for their photography shoots so long as they are respectful of other CAMH visitors and so long as they do not disturb CAMH grounds. Photographers and the subjects of the photographs are not allowed to touch any sculptures or to be in any water features or fountains. Photographers are responsible for following applicable copyright law. For all commercial and professional photography requests, including bridal portraiture, please contact CAMH Communications and Marketing Department during business hours by phone at 713.284.8255 or by email.
Still photography for personal use is permitted, unless otherwise specified, provided no flash or tripod is used. Videotaping is not permitted. No photographs or videotapes may be reproduced, distributed, or sold without permission from CAMH. CAMH Visitor Engagement Team Member can help visitors identify the areas where photography is permitted.
CAMH reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to withhold and/or withdraw permission to photograph on its premises. Museum personnel are authorized to enforce all policies and procedures included herein.
If you feel you hold the copyright to an image found on CAMH's website, please contact CAMH Communications and Marketing Department during business hours by phone at 713.284.8255 or by email.
CAMH is firearms-free. Firearms, including without limitation handguns, shotguns, and rifles (whether concealed or openly carried) are prohibited on CAMH premises. See Sections 30.06 and 30.07 for more information. For more information about the Texas “open carry” law, please visit houstontx.gov/police/open_carry.
CAMH does not accept unsolicited submissions for exhibition consideration.
CAMH is a non-collecting institution and does not buy or accept works of art for the Museum.
For those with artwork appraisal inquiries, it is considered unethical for art museums to give appraisals or valuations for works of art. If you are wanting an appraisal of an artwork in your possession, we suggest contacting an accredited arts appraiser or auction house.