Mark Menjívar: Murmurations – Opening Night

Join the Contemporary for the opening of Mark Menjívar’s solo exhibition. Murmurations is an expansive, mid-career survey exhibition highlighting more than  10 multifaceted projects from Menjívar’s body of work from the past 20 years. Broadly, Menjívar works through social practice and participatory education models to focus on community building. In his projects Menjívar creates frameworks for students, community groups, and leaders to come together and have critical dialogues about the issues impacting their lives.

About the Artist

Mark Menjívar has engaged in projects at venues including the El Museo del Barrio, Rothko Chapel, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, FOTOFEST, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Haverford College, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Puerto Rican Museum of Art and Culture, Sala Diaz, Contemporary at Blue Star, and the Krannert Art Museum. Menjívar is currently an Associate Professor in the Interdisciplinary School for Engagement at the University of Texas at…