Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

South Texas–based artist and musician Cande Aguilar brings his distinctive barrioPOP style to the McNay this fall.

Cande Aguilar: barrioPOP

November 15, 2018 to March 17, 2019

For the first time, the Jeanne and Irving Mathews Collection of Art Glass is installed together in a gallery dedicated to the collection.

Jeanne and Irving Mathews Collection of Art Glass

On view beginning November 8, 2018

​Sick of reality? Need a good laugh? Prescribe yourself a dose of humor and get immersed in the comical designs of Léon Bakst, Giorgio de Chirico, Susan Hilferty, Gregg Barnes, and many more!

LOL: The Art of Staged Comedy

November 8, 2018 to February 17, 2019

​For the final chapter of the series of exhibitions celebrating San Antonio’s rich printmaking tradition, Michael Menchaca will transform the McNay’s Lawson Print Gallery into an immersive environment of prints, paper installations, and video.

100 Years of Printmaking in San Antonio: Michael Menchaca

October 18, 2018 to January 6, 2019

​In collaboration with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the McNay presents Pop América, 1965–1975—the first exhibition with a hemispheric vision of Pop art. Featuring Latino/a and Latin American Pop artists working at the same...

Pop América, 1965–1975

October 4, 2018 to January 13, 2019

In celebration of San Antonio’s 300th anniversary the McNay has organized a series of exhibitions of drawings from Captain Seth Eastman’s sketchbook which chronicled his trip to Texas in 1848–49.

Captain Seth Eastman’s Journey with a Sketchbook: The Hill Country

October 4, 2018 to December 30, 2018

​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