07/16/2026
At the heart of Opera Gallery Houston is a curatorial vision grounded in scholarship, dialogue, and art historical context. The program brings together Modern and Post-War masterworks with leading contemporary artists, creating meaningful connections across generations.
The inaugural presentation reflects this approach, featuring works by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Yayoi Kusama, Kehinde Wiley, Manolo Valdés, and Fernando Botero. Together, these works trace key developments in modern and contemporary art, from Impressionism and Surrealism to postwar abstraction and contemporary figuration.
The installation has recently been refreshed with a rotation of works, such as introducing new presentations by Xiao-Min Feng, Hermann Nitsch, and Kwang-Young Chun just to name a few. These additions extend the gallery’s focus on materiality, gesture, and transformation, bringing renewed emphasis to the evolving dialogue between historical and contemporary practices.
Together, the exhibition underscores a curatorial approach that values continuity and renewal, where each installation is understood as part of an ongoing conversation rather than a fixed presentation. It reflects Houston’s position as an international cultural city, shaped by exchange and defined by a broad, global perspective.
Artists on show at Opera Gallery currently: Anselm Reyle, Carlos Cruz-Diez, DASHA, Fernando Botero, Hermann Nitsch, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miro, John Chamberlain, John Helton, Julien Rubat, Kwang-Young Chun, Manolo Valdés, Marc Chagall, Min-Jun Yue, Pablo Picasso, Pieter Obels, Ron Arad, Sung-Hee Cho, Xiao-Min Feng, Yayoi Kusama, and Yves Klein.
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