Past Exhibitions
Mid Illini Art Show

Mid Illini Art Show

Apr 15 - Apr 20, 2023

The Mid Illini Art Show is an annual gathering of great student artwork from all participating Mid Illini high schools. Each school is allowed to submit up to 26 pieces of 2-D, 3-D, and photography combined. The work is then judged by a group of professional artists and art teachers outside of the district. read more

Artists of Manneken Press

Artists of Manneken Press

Feb 24 - Apr 14, 2023

Jonathan Higgins and Sarah Smelser’s Manneken Press in Bloomington invites significant contemporary artists to collaborate with master printmaker Higgins to create original works in intaglio, relief, lithography and monotype.... read more

Hattie Lee: Joy Intwined

Hattie Lee: Joy Intwined

Feb 24 – Apr 7 2023

While a member of the Cherokee Nation diaspora, Hattie Lee also recognizes she is a collage of cultures. Just as families and societies are shaped by each generation, she collages into her work metaphorical and physical materials... read more

Hot CIAO X

Hot CIAO X

Group Art Exhibition

Mar 3 - Apr 15 2023

Contemporary Art Center of Peoria’s Artist Member Group Exhibition at Studios on Sheridan, 929 N. Sheridan Rd., Peoria read more

Harold Boyd & Rhea Edge: Lost Lore

Harold Boyd & Rhea Edge: Lost Lore

Jan 6 - Feb 18, 2023

As fellow artists, educators and administrators, Rhea Edge of Eureka College and Harold Boyd of Illinois State University have shared a long partnership in the downtown Bloomington arts community... read more

Rhea Edge & Harold Boyd: PrintMakers

Rhea Edge & Harold Boyd: PrintMakers

Jan 6 – Feb 18 2023

Boyd’s gestural figures defy gravity, exploring lithography, etching and relief printmaking with fluid lines in a largely black and white world. Edge brings us the power of stealth bombers and predatory birds in these abstracted etchings, lithographs and relief prints... read more

Qingjun Huang: Housed/Unhoused

Qingjun Huang: Housed/Unhoused

Nov 4 - Dec 17, 2022

Chinese artists Qingjun Huang and his wife Liu Yang recently emigrated to USA to live in Peoria. While in China, Qingjun convinced people to display all of their belongings in front of their homes to be photographed... read more

A Small Wonder Gift Shop

A Small Wonder Gift Shop

Oct 28 – Dec 16 2022

A small wonder means small work from local artists and that means work priced for holiday gifts! Gallery 3R is turned into a gift shop for small works of art. read more

Phyllis Bramson: Mostly Folly (and a Few Kerfuffles)

Phyllis Bramson: Mostly Folly (and a Few Kerfuffles)

Aug 26 - Oct 15 2022

Bramson is a voyeur in her own eccentric narrative of romantic folly and loss. Her often steamy, dichotomous scenes are composed of vignettes in a theatrical like space.... read more

Travis Janssen – Helvetica: Uppercase

Travis Janssen – Helvetica: Uppercase

Aug 26 - Oct 22, 2022

A confluence of video, experimental typography and photo processes, Janssen’s work translates letterforms from the Helvetica typeface into meditative geometric images... read more

CAC at DAAC

CAC at DAAC

Group Art Exhibition

Sep 2 - Sep 28 2022

Contemporary Art Center of Peoria’s Artist Member Group Exhibition at Decatur Area Arts Council’s Anne Lloyd Gallery, in Madden Art Center 125 North Water Street, Decatur, IL  62526 read more

Jessica McGhee: You Can Rest Here

Jessica McGhee: You Can Rest Here

Jul 1 - Aug 13 2022

Jessica proves that trash is full of potential by creating colorful jewelry and sculpture using discarded items found during community clean-ups.... read more

Inscapes: Robert Lee Mejer & Jason Dillard Mejer

Inscapes: Robert Lee Mejer & Jason Dillard Mejer

Jun 28 - Aug 13, 2022

A father and son explore psychic space in mixed media painting, monotype assemblegraphs and watercolors revealing an undeniable visual connection.... read more

Hot CIAO IX

Hot CIAO IX

Group Art Exhibition

Jul 1 - Jul 23 2022

Contemporary Art Center of Peoria’s Artist Member Group Exhibition at Studios on Sheridan, 929 N. Sheridan Rd., Peoria read more

Jill King: New Horizons

Jill King: New Horizons

Apr 29 – Jun 17 2022

Like celestial cloud formations, Chicago educator and artist Jill King’s sculptures are energetic three-dimensional gestural ‘drawings’ of twisted metal covered with stretched... read more

Mike Baur and John Boylan

Mike Baur and John Boylan

Apr 29 - Jun 17 2022

The sculpture of Chicago based Mike Baur and the 2-D mixed media work of Peorian John Boylan are guided by traditional design principles and an instinct for frankness... read more

CAC Member Artists Biennial Exhibition

CAC Member Artists Biennial Exhibition

Feb 25 – Apr 16 2022

The artists enrolled in the Contemporary Art Center’s Artist Membership program (CIAO) return to the Contemporary Art Center’s Preston Jackson Gallery on the 2nd floor of the building for a dynamic group exhibition featuring one work of art from each member covering the mediums of drawing, ceramics, glass, painting, printmaking and many more. read more

Ann B. Coddington

Ann B. Coddington

Feb 25 - Apr 9 2022

Drawing upon the ancient craft of basketry, Ann Coddington constructs organic vessels, at once both strong and delicate, that reference the human body and inspire questions about our place in the world. Since 2004, Ann has... read more

Home Sweet Home: Shahrbanoo Hamzeh

Home Sweet Home: Shahrbanoo Hamzeh

Jan 7 – Feb 19 2022

Exploring what occurs behind closed doors in melancholy but colorful paintings, Iranian artist Shahrbanoo Hamzeh suggests that our bodies, domestic spaces and home countries function as three parallel homes on different levels. read more

Roger Bean & Chuck Flagg

Roger Bean & Chuck Flagg

Jan 7 – Feb 19 2022

From an early age, both Roger and Chuck took an interest in alternative photographic processes. Chuck was attracted to analog processes, like pinhole cameras. Roger worked most often with digital processes and print manipulation, like toning and dye transfers. read more

Steph Van Doren & Jaci Willis

Steph Van Doren & Jaci Willis

Oct 29 – Dec 17 2021

Two Central Illinois artists pare down their love of the natural world to the essentials in captured light and planes of color and shadow. read more

A Small Wonder Gift Shop

A Small Wonder Gift Shop

Oct 29 – Dec 17 2021

A small wonder means small work from local artists and that means work priced for holiday gifts! Gallery 3R is turned into a gift shop for small works of art. read more

Hot CIAO VIII

Hot CIAO VIII

Group Art Exhibition

Oct 2 - Nov 13 2021

The artists enrolled in the Contemporary Art Center’s Artist Membership program (CIAO) return to the Studios on Sheridan for a dynamic group exhibition featuring one work of art from each member covering the mediums of drawing, ceramics, fiber, sculpture, painting, printmaking and many more. read more

Faces and Forms: André Petty & Scott Mossman

Faces and Forms: André Petty & Scott Mossman

Aug 27 – Oct 15 2021

The pop art portraits of local artist André Petty are paired with the post-minimalistic sculpture of Chicago artist Scott Mossman celebrating the exploration of gestural shape and extravagant color. read more