Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

This exhibition focuses on contemporary still life prints from the McNay’s collection.

Close at Hand: Contemporary Still Life

June 20, 2019 to September 15, 2019

Andy Warhol: Portraits features over 120 paintings, prints, photographs, and films that depict the artist’s favorite genre: the portrait.

Andy Warhol: Portraits

June 20, 2019 to September 15, 2019

Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today is the country’s first broad survey of artwork from across North America to explore gender identity as manifest in outward appearance.

Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today

June 20, 2019 to September 15, 2019

This year, 1,549 students from 31 San Antonio area schools embraced Diego Rivera’s portrait of Delfina Flores, creating their own artworks in various media.

Spotlight: San Antonio’s K–12 Artists Embrace Diego Rivera

May 16, 2019 to September 15, 2019

One of the rarely seen highlights of the McNay’s collection is a group of more than 70 drawings by members of the Kiowa tribe.

We’re Still Here: Native American Artists, Then and Now

May 16, 2019 to August 11, 2019

Drawn from the renowned Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts, America on Stage celebrates the uniquely diverse work of 20th- and 21st-century American designers on stages at home and abroad.

America on Stage

March 21, 2019 to June 30, 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

Ongoing

Orbit 8 is on view as part of A Sense of Place, an installation in the collection galleries that explores concepts of nature and beauty.

Jennifer Steinkamp: Orbit 8

Ongoing

​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