Exhibitions

Upcoming Exhibitions

In fall 2017 the McNay presents Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too, the first significant survey of work by San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez (1962-2010). Ramirez’s large-scale photographs of everyday objects offer a humorous yet poignant...

Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too

September 14, 2017 to January 14, 2018

As days grow shorter, Stage Frights explores what happens when the house goes dark.

Stage Frights: Madness, Monsters, Mayhem

September 28, 2017 to December 31, 2017

​“Everybody scream!” Jack Skellington, Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, and other character puppets and set pieces from The Nightmare Before Christmas, return to the McNay in an immersive new installation of works from the Tobin Collection of...

Behind the Screen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

September 28, 2017 to December 31, 2017

​​Organized by the McNay’s Head of Curatorial Affairs, René Paul Barilleaux, in consultation with curatorial advisor Lowery Stokes Sims, Something to Say is the first exhibition of modern, postwar, and contemporary African American art to be...

Something to Say: The McNay Presents 100 Years of African American Art

February 8, 2018 to May 6, 2018

The work is humorous, surreal, provocative, and complex in its contemplation of the distribution of power among genders.

Benny Andrews: Sexism

February 8, 2018 to May 6, 2018

30 Americans presents selections from the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida.The exhibition showcases works by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades. This provocative exhibition focuses on issues of...

30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection

February 8, 2018 to May 6, 2018

​Organized in conjunction with the San Antonio Tricentennial celebrations and the 50th anniversary of HemisFair ’68, this exhibition brings focus to San Antonio as a place of deep history, local values, and global thinking.

Immersed: Local to Global Art Sensations

June 28, 2018 to September 2, 2018