Centro de Artes Exhibitions

Upcoming Exhibitions

Information Gallery Closure

Dates: August 18 - October 1, 2025

The gallery will be fully closed as we prepare for the next exhibition.

On Display: October 2, 2025 - February 22, 2026

First Floor: Madre_Land: South Texas Memory & the Art of Making Home

Curated by: Bonnie Cisneros

Tejana curator Bonnie Cisneros shares the beauty of borderland roots and the welcoming tradition of “mi casa es su casa” in Madre_Land—an exhibition about memory, family, and the art of making a home. The show includes work from 26 South Texas artists and scholars, both new and established. Their pieces celebrate home life, creative resourcefulness, ancestral healing, and themes from nature and the environment.

The exhibition is inspired by the work of Dr. Amalia Mesa-Bains and Dr. Tomás Ybarra- Frausto, who also has art in the show. Visitors will see altar installations, folk crafts, portraits of small homes, still-life scenes, collages, fiber art, creative object displays, research, and photography. The gallery is designed to feel like a family home, with areas that reflect a front porch, kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom, children’s room, backyard shrines, and tributes to the historic Sunshine Bakery and La Guadalupanita Café. There are also special spaces like a cosmic night garden, an urban chicken run, and artwork from Siempre Verde: Art Commissions for Feeling & Healing.

Featured Artists:

Second Floor: Cuentos y Arte: Mexican American Folk Tales of the Southwest

Curated by: Rebecca Gomez

In Hispanic culture, families pass down folk tales (cuentos) by telling them out loud, sharing lessons and meaning from the past to the present. Some well-known cuentos include El hombre, el burro, y el perro (The Man, the Donkey, and the Dog); El Santo Niño (The Holy Child); and the legends of El Cucuy (mythical ghost-like creature, La Lechuza (the Owl), and La Llorona (the Weeping Woman).

This exhibition is inspired by these stories and by the book Cuentos: Tales from the Hispanic Southwest. The five artists featured—all women connected to South Texas and the Southwest—created artworks influenced by these cuentos. Curated by Rebecca Gomez, the show includes paintings, prints, drawings, soft sculptures, textiles, and installations.

Featured Artists:

Past Exhibitions

A Thousand Words: The Power of Pictures in Books(PDF, 26MB)
March 27 - August 17, 2025
Borders, Bleeds, Margins and Gutters(PDF, 31MB)
March 27 - August 17, 2025
Dining with Rolando Briseño: A 50-Year Retrospective(PDF, 17MB)
September 5, 2024 - February 9, 2025
Millennial Lotería: The LatinXperience(PDF, 20MB)
February 8 - July 21, 2024
Permanencia Voluntaria(PDF, 25MB)
February 8 - July 21, 2024
From San Antonio to South America: An Exhibition of Pan-American Documentary Photography(PDF, 6MB)
August 10 - December 30, 2023
Soy de Tejas(PDF, 40MB)
February 9 - July 2, 2023
Tendiendo Los Trapitos al Sol: Leila Hernandez
August 9, 2022 - January 1, 2023
The Euphoric Dance of the Unconquered Mind: Elizabeth Jimenez
August 9, 2022 - January 1, 2023
NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Exhibition(PDF, 109MB)
February 22 - July 3, 2022
Los Maestros and XicanX: New Visions(PDF, 8MB)
February 13 - March 14, 2020
The Day of the Dead in Art(PDF, 2MB)
October 24, 2019 - January 19, 2020
NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Exhibition(PDF, 9MB)
June 27 - September 27, 2019
Nuestra LATINIDAD(PDF, 15MB)
February 7 - June 2, 2019
Alberto Mijangos 159: A Retrospective of His Art (and Life)(PDF, 261MB)
July 12, 2018 - January 13, 2019
VOZ - Selections From the UTSA Art Collection(PDF, 26MB)
February 8 - June 10, 2018
Icons and Symbols of the Borderland(PDF, 4MB)
July 13 - December 17, 2017
Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz: A Retrospective(PDF, 3MB)
February 9 - June 11, 2017

Future Exhibitions

A Post-Modernist Says ¿Que?
On View: April 9 - August 30, 2026
Curator: Vikky Jones
Mercado/Material
On View: October 15, 2026 - March 7, 2027
Curator: Mia Lopez
Invisible Landscapes
On view: April - September 2027
Curators: Francisco Javier Ramírez, Majo Martin(ez) and Cristina Béjar
Twenty Years of the Serie Project in Texas: The Legacy of Sam Coronado
On View: November 2027 - March 2028
Curators: Luis Valderas and Pepe Coronado