Co-Lab's 18th Birthday Bash and Benefit Concert 
Generously supported by Hotel Vegas and Tito’s Handmade Vodka

Featuring BRUCE, Dream Days, J’cuuzi, Mugger, Vanna Black, and Water Damage
Thursday, July 2nd, 6pm-2am
at Hotel Vegas, 1502 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78702

Advanced sliding-scale tickets start at $20
Door tickets $30
Ticket sales are generously matched 1:1 with pledges from Sheehy Fine Art Services, Kingsbury Museum Crating, Carolina and Sergio Alcocer, and Jenn Wilson

~ PATIO STAGE ~
Water Damage 7pm
Mugger 8pm
J'cuuzi 9pm

~ VEGAS STAGE ~
Vanna Black 10pm
BRUCE 11pm
Dream Days 12-2am

Co-Lab Projects is all grown up! On July 2nd, we’re returning to Hotel Vegas to celebrate 18 years of art, community, and friendship! Join us for this annual, rowdy summer concert featuring acts across multiple stages, supporting our programs and artists.

Since 2008, Co-Lab has produced over 450 programs showcasing hundreds of local, national, and international artists, performers, and curators. Co-Lab serves as a long-standing gathering space for community building through its events, collaborations, and partnerships that center artists and the development of their work.

Support Co-Lab’s programs and artists by attending the benefit on July 2nd! To get involved, volunteer, donate, or contribute to this event, please write us at hello@co-labprojects.org

Day for Night
Fabiola Torres-Alzaga
Curated by Leslie Moody Castro

May 23rd - July 4th, 2026
On view Saturdays, 12-6pm
5419 Glissman Road, Austin, TX 78702

The work of Fabiola Torres-Alzaga investigates visual geographies and their thresholds, with a special emphasis on the manifestations of the invisible. Through an interdisciplinary practice, Torres-Alzaga revisits the scenic systems and their spatio-temporal languages ​​of film, theater, and magic, articulating them within an expanded field. Incorporating a queer perspective, Torres-Alzaga is interested in the construction of the illusory image, its censorship and concealment, as well as the lingering ghosts, composing scenes in which not everything present is available to the gaze. Thus, she has created her work in the interstices of what an image explicitly shows and, above all, what surrounds and exceeds it — an imaginary that, through suggestion, recomposes forms and their absences. Torres-Alzaga is interested in creating illusory worlds that can function as parentheses of reality and counter-spaces that reclaim more corners within the patriarchal sphere in order to generate other possible relationships.

Her work has been exhibited at the Museo Cabañas (Guadalajara,2025), MUAC (Mexico, 2024), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2024), Museo MACRO (Rome, 2023), Villa Medici (Rome, 2022), MUAC's Sala 10 (Mexico, 2021), the FEMSA Biennial (Zacatecas, 2018), Anthology Film Archives (New York, 2018), Lille 3000 (France, 2019), Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires, 2018), Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York, 2018), Maison des Arts de Malakoff (France, 2016), Moscow Polytechnic Museum (Russia, 2015), MARCO (Monterrey, 2015), Museo del Chopo (Mexico City, 2014), Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City, 2014), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City, 2011), Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv, 2006), and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (Mexico, 2004), among others. She has published El encuadre indiscreto (Ed.Impronta/Cabañas, 2025), Historias de la noche (ESPAC, 2019), a book/project in dialogue with Mara Fortes; Fabiola Torres-Alzaga: entre actos (Museo Universitario del Chopo, 2015), with texts by Itala Schmelz and Daniel Garza Usabiaga; and Las Desinvitadas (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, 2025), with texts by Virginia Roy and Laura Orozco. She has twice received the Jóvenes Creadores grant and is a member of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA) from 2025 to 2028.

This exhibition is supported in part by H-E-B, Texas Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Donors, and Members like You!

Co-Lab Projects @ Friends Fair

May 7th - 9th, 2026
The Loren at Lady Bird Lake
1211 W Riverside Dr, Austin, TX 78704

Wednesday, May 6th, 6-9pm: Launch Party with Future Front at The Jones Center
Thursday, May 7th: Preview by invitation only
Friday, May 8th, 12-7pm & Saturday, May 9th, 12-6pm: Open and free to the public with required RSVP

For Friends Fair 2026, Co-Lab Projects will present paintings by Elizabeth Schwaiger and Jeremy DePrez, performance, styling, and services by Sean Ripple, ceramics by Rebeca Proctor, and floral arrangements by Antonio Bond

Email hello@co-labprojects.org for inventory and pricing

Elizabeth Schwaiger received her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2011 and currently lives and works in Paris, France. In her decade-long exploration of power dynamics and the climate crises, Schwaiger uses a variegated symbolism of water, fracturing, dimensional overlay, gesture, and dialed levels of representational clarity to construct images suggestive of the interplay among unseen forces that govern our world. She has exhibited in venues in the UK and the USA, including The Walker Gallery National Museum in Liverpool, The Macintosh Museum in Glasgow, The National Portrait Gallery in London, Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, Glasgow International, Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, and Co-Lab Projects and GrayDUCK Gallery in Austin. Recent projects include NYC solo exhibition Now & Now & Now at Nicola Vassell and solo exhibition Pressing Shadows at Gana Art in Seoul in 2023, as well as a solo presentation at the Independent art fair presented by Nicola Vassell.

Jeremy DePrez is a Brooklyn, New York, and Houston, Texas based visual artist whose paintings examine the shifting connections between personal identity, material culture, and the often-overlooked objects of daily life. Through painting, he renders ephemeral, discarded materials with an uncanny sense of permanence, transforming them into static artifacts that suspend the instability of value, memory, and consumer culture. Working at the intersection of personal history and broader cultural forces, DePrez’s work challenges how we assign meaning to the objects we possess, discard, or inherit. Selected solo exhibitions include Night Worker: Works on Paper 2018–2025, Front, Houston; Reality’s Coffin, Post/Times, New York; GLYPHS, Best Western, Santa Fe; Tent Posts, SUNNY, New York, Furnished Head, Marinaro, New York; Boy Meets World, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; Mind Fold, Texas Gallery, Houston; and Tenant, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York.  Selected group exhibitions include A Selection of Great Art By People Who Know What They Like (curated by Bob Nickas), The Drawing Center, New York; Hypervision, Magenta Plains, New York; Outside the Lines, Texas Gallery, Houston; Beyond the Frame, Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels; Shapeshifters, Luhring Augustine, New York; Das Bild hängt schief, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; and The Shaped Canvas Revisited, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York. DePrez was an artist-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation in 2015.

Sean Ripple is an artist, writer, and curator based in Austin, TX. His projects are often improvisational and interventionist in nature and rely heavily on social media and the Internet to frame the outcomes of a feverish dedication to an idea. Taking inspiration from portrait painting and divination practices like tarot and tea leaf reading, Ripple will host Friends Fair visitors in the booth and style them in fashions drawn from a variety of sources, including his personal collection. Visitors will engage in conversation to develop a look they feel works well for them, and then be given privacy to change into their ensemble. Their fit will be documented, and if the look is purchased, the visitor will be encouraged to walk it around the fair, which can be thought of as a runway for living sculpture. Ripple has been exhibiting with Co-Lab Projects since its founding in 2008. He has mounted exhibitions, projects, and interventions at Neue Welt, Time Being Books, The Contemporary Austin, Pump Project, The Museum of Human Achievement, Wurhaus, The Gatehouse Gallery at Laguna Gloria, inside private homes, numerous big box and department stores, and on internet platforms such as Tumblr, Flickr, Vine, Facebook, and Instagram. Sean Ripple is also currently Co-Lab's digital artist in residency at the colabprojectsbitres instagram account.

Rebeca Proctor is an artist based in Central Texas whose current practice responds to the tensions embedded within the domestic roles of maternal life. Working primarily in clay, she creates quiet monuments to the careful work of mothering, to the repetition of domestic labor, and to the abundance that can exist even in monotony. Her work teeters between at once utilitarian objects and symbolic sculptures - containing, protecting, and bearing the weight of it all while seeking moments of personal transformation amidst the overwhelm. Rebeca’s practice continues to evolve alongside her experience of raising two young children in the countryside outside of Austin, TX. She received her BFA in Studio Art in 2018 from the University of Texas at Austin where she focused on bronze casting and mixed media sculpture. She has held internships and residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado and Penland School of Craft in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Her recent exhibitions include Soft Opening at DORF Gallery and Ain’t Hold Much; Ain’t Too Much to Hold at Co-Lab Projects. Proctor is co-owner of East Side Pot Shop, a community ceramics studio in East Austin, and co-founder of Nom Ceramics.

Buddy Can You Spare a Meme
Mark Flood
Curated by JD DiFabbio

March 21st - April 25th, 2026
On view Saturdays, 12-6pm
5419 Glissman Road, Austin, TX 78702

Opening Events: Saturday, March 21st
Members Preview, 6-7pm, Become a Member
Public Reception, 7-11pm, RSVP
Sponsored by Austin Beerworks, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and LALO Tequila

Mark Flood returns to Co-Lab Projects after 13 years with an exhibition opening Saturday, March 21, 2026. In this latest work, Flood dives headfirst into the shallow end of memes. He again turns his caustic, mocking eye to his favorite subject matter–the contemporary art world. Flood takes one of the most prevalent forms of humor in the digital era and perverts it into culture warfare body horror aimed squarely at the art world itself. Memes, typically viewed on a screen where no one can judge you for your private amusement, will now be blazoned onto large canvases and displayed graffiti-style on the gallery walls. This body of work, designed to offend, dares you to laugh in public.

Under his many monikers, Flood has always been many things at once: painter, writer, musician, punk, satirist, champion and critic of the art world he inhabits. His work strips away pretension and mocks self-importance, using dark humor to defang the systems that try to mold us. He refuses easy political positions or earnest messaging. Instead, he invites us to laugh at ourselves—art-worlders and civilians alike—exposing the absurdities of contemporary culture through distortion and subversion. If you can laugh about the darkest aspects of life, this work suggests, you can neuter them.

On Saturday, April 18, 2026, in collaboration with Fusebox Festival, Co-Lab will present a performance inside the Flood installation by San Francisco-based sound artist Victoria Shen (a.k.a. Evicshen). Shen makes noise—the chaotic, physical, body-rattling kind that you feel in your stomach. Working with analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics, she defies conventional harmony and rhythm for extreme textures and corporeal tones. Her sounds oscillate between moments of restraint and swells of frenetic and confrontational movement. 

Together, Flood and Shen operate on the same adversarial frequency. Both artists weaponize humor and chaos against established systems—he through visual mockery, she through sonic assault. Where Flood asks you to laugh at the art world's absurdities, Shen makes you feel the discomfort of sound pushed past its breaking point. Neither artist offers you comfort or easy answers. They offer you a mirror, amplified and distorted, reflecting back the ridiculous machinery of contemporary culture at volumes impossible to ignore.

Mark Flood is an interdisciplinary artist known for his irreverent, punk-inspired critiques of the art world, mass media, and consumer culture based in Houston, TX.

Mark Flood’s work has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States and internationally. His solo exhibitions include Lace Paintings at Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas (2006), American Fine Art in New York (2004), and Peres Projects in Berlin (2015). He has also shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2016) and Karma in New York (2020). Group exhibitions have included Pretty Ugly, co-hosted by Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Maccarone in New York, as well as numerous other shows throughout his career.

Flood’s work is held in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions, including the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and The Menil Collection. His work is also part of the Rubell Family Collection in Miami and international collections such as the Taguchi Art Collection in Tokyo.

Victoria Shen (A.K.A. Evicshen) is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in San Francisco, CA. 

Shen has performed solo across North America, Japan, China, Mexico, Australia/NZ, the UK, and Europe, as a member of the turntable trio with Mariam Rezaei and Maria Chavez, as a member of hip hop group 1 Above Minus Underground. Shen has also collaborated with Mix Master Mike of the Beastie Boys and groups such as the Kronos Quartet, Matmos, clipping, Acid Mothers Temple, and Mike Watt and the Missing Men. Some notable venues in which she has performed include Boston City Hall, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ISSUE Project Room NY, DOMMUNE Tokyo, Petreon Sculpture Park Cyprus, MUNCH Museum Oslo, Art Gallery of NSW Sydney, and Museo d'Arte Orientale Turin. Shen has also been an artist in residence at Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm SE, WORM Rotterdam NL, Kurimanzutto New York US, The Royal Danish Academy Copenhagen DK, and AUDIUM San Francisco US, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Omaha US, and Headlands Center for the Arts US, and Audio Foundation Auckland NZ.

Shen currently works at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics Stanford and School of Visual Arts NY. Shen is also a serving member of the Board of Directors for The Lab in San Francisco.

Co-Lab Projects presents:
Ultrasound
A performance by Justo Cisneros in collaboration with Anna Bauer, Jairus Carr, and Shea McGilvray

Performances: February 20th & 21st, 2026, 8pm sharp
5419 Glissman Rd, Austin, Texas 78702

Ultrasound, a new performance by Justo Cisneros with dancers Anna Bauer and Jairus Carr and multi-instrumentalist Shea McGilvray, exploring psychic freedom as an act of reclaiming the imprisoned spirit. Within Co-Lab’s culvert, the site transforms into a passage of intimacy, distortion, and gestation, as bodies respond to internal and structural tensions of resistance by collapsing time into a single undivided state. Within the realm of the unseen, movement and sound give form to the invisible by exploring what emerges when one body crosses the threshold as another remains held inside it. Ultrasound operates within a world of dream logic, where time hangs in suspension, carrying traces of what has yet to appear and what may never be.

Justo Cisneros is an artist based in San Antonio Texas, working in sculpture, performance and music. His practice centers on myth-making and the creation of alternate realities, with a focus on site-responsive and experimental work. His projects include exhibitions and collaborations with Artpace, Contemporary at Blue Star, Co-Lab Projects, MASS Gallery, guadalajara90210, and Wild Ruins, Wild Orientations.

Anna Bauer is a choreographer and dancer based in Austin, Texas. She holds a BFA in Dance from Sam Houston State University and currently performs with KDH Dance Company and Allysen Hooks Projects. Her work has been presented at festivals and events across Texas and nationally, including Austin Dance Festival, Barnstorm Dance Fest, White Wave SoloDuo Dance Festival, Midwest RADFest and St. Louis Contemporary Dance Festival. Bauer has participated in residencies with Keshet Makers Space Experience, WhirlWind Dance Company, Homeport Art House, Bellingham Repertory Dance, and Agora Artists. In 2025, she and Jairus Carr produced their first full production, Everything We’ve Done So Far, and co-created the evening-length, site-specific work Love you, moon, produced by BLiPSWiTCH.

Jairus Carr is a dancer, choreographer, and artist based in Austin, Texas since 2007. He has worked with Austin area artists and companies including Early Era Collective, Jennifer Sherburn, and KDH Dance Company. In collaboration with his partner, Anna Bauer, Carr has presented work at festivals and residencies nationwide, including Austin Dance Festival, Barnstorm Dance Festival, RAD Fest, Keshet Makers Space and Homeport Art House.

Shea McGilvray (Space Available) is a San Antonio–based multi-instrumentalist. Active as a live project since 2021, Space Available blends sacred music with dystopian atmospheres through improvisational soundscapes incorporating saxophone, guitar, synthesizers, vocals and electronic processing.