Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

​Mel Casas: Human presents six large paintings by the late San Antonio–based artist Mel Casas, co-founder of the Chicano art group Con Safo.

Mel Casas: Human

September 20, 2018 to January 6, 2019

Shot in the Guatemalan Highlands, Meta Mayan II is a keenly observed, poetic video essay on the indigenous culture of the Maya, and is one of the first video pieces to use slow motion as a formal element.

Picturing Latin America

September 11, 2018 to January 6, 2019

​Best known for her experiential sculptures and public installations, 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and Brooklyn-based artist Teresita Fernández presents Fire (United States of the Americas) 2 as the eighth wall installation in the McNay’s...

AT&T Lobby: Teresita Fernández

August 30, 2018 to August 18, 2019

Spotlight: San Antonio’s K–12 Artists Embrace Georgia O’Keeffe highlights student artworks created in response to Georgia O’Keeffe’s Leaf Motif, No. 2.

Spotlight: San Antonio’s K–12 Artists Embrace Georgia O’Keeffe

July 12, 2018 to November 4, 2018

100 Years of Printmaking: Kent Rush is a follow-up to the artist's 1998 McNay retrospective. The exhibition reveals new directions in Rush's work.

100 Years of Printmaking in San Antonio: Kent Rush

July 12, 2018 to September 30, 2018

​This exhibition, the third in a series of four chronicling the journey of a West Point–trained draftsman from St. Louis to San Antonio in the late 1840s, includes some of the most famous drawings of San Antonio’s historic missions, including...

Captain Seth Eastman’s Journeys with a Sketchbook: The Trip to San Antonio

July 5, 2018 to September 30, 2018

Dario Robleto: Ancient Beacons Long for Notice is the McNay’s first major presentation of artworks by Dario Robleto, a San Antonio native best known for his installations of carefully collected and crafted objects.

Dario Robleto: Ancient Beacons Long for Notice

June 28, 2018 to October 7, 2018