Exhibition

Exhibition

Program Info

About

Exhibition Programs at MoHA present a series of exhibitions for artists to connect and share their work with audiences.

MoHA’s annual exhibition opportunities include invitations for artists to participate in low-stakes, high-impact curated opportunities like group exhibitions and performance art events addressing timely thematic topics through humor, play, collaboration, and too-quick-to-second-guess-yourself timelines. Past commissioned exhibitions have included C0MPUTER P$YENT0L0GY, SPORTS, Games Y’all Queer Indie Games (November 2022), and SPAMS - The Internet: The Restaurant. These programs are designed to keep artists visible in the community through paid opportunities that draw a large audience and elevate approachable, responsive artworks over polished, high-production creations.

Programs

Cage Match Project

Cage Match Project (CMP) is an experimental gallery that lives in an industrial caged-trailer. This weathered and rusted container resides in a gravel parking lot in Austin, Texas where it is under constant exposure to the elements and 24-hour public viewership. Its current curator is Aryel René Jackson, an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Cage Match Project was developed in 2015 by Ryan Hawk, a fellow video artist and sculptor.

Drive-In

The MoHA Drive-In is a program for artists or event organizers to host screenings, performances, and community gatherings at the pop-up outdoor theater in MoHA’s parking lot.

EAST at MoHA

EAST at MoHA is an annual hangout that takes place over two weekends in November, where visitors can engage directly with our studio artists, wander inside the walls of MoHA, and buy directly from local artists and makers at our pop-up vendor market. EAST is the perfect time to visit and get to know the MoHA community. Staff are on hand to share information about our artists and programs, and visitors can also take a break for refreshments at the MoHA bar.

Holiday Show

Building on historical East Austin traditions, since 2013, MoHA has hosted a holiday show as an annual act of coming together. This celebration places community leaders on stage in leading roles. Historically we see the largest influx of new interest in the organization based on a fun, campy and approachable environment. This celebration provides a welcome space for joy amongst the community, many of whom the holiday season is a time of stress.

Peanut

Peanut is a retrofitted 90s city transit bus that hosts community-led gatherings and celebrations in neighborhoods and rural areas. This collaborative, mobile art space seeks to: facilitate grassroots relationship-building, celebrate the voices of often-overlooked communities, and reduce barriers to accessing innovative arts programming in Austin and Central Texas.

Station to Stations

Station to Stations is an art gallery housed within the destination sign of a former San Antonio city bus named Peanut. As the bus travels from place to place, or station to stations, the destination sign features a rotating exhibit of text-based artwork from around the globe.

The Mall

The Mall is a small art gallery outside of MoHA that helps artists make a living, with a particular interest in uplifting women artists, queer artists, and artists of color whose voices are more often marginalized, and to create an exciting and beautiful platform and context for their work.