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

Centro de Artes Events

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

Curated by: Bonnie Cisneros

Tejana curator Bonnie Ilza Cisneros explores the beauty of borderland culture and the Mexican-American tradition of “mi casa es su casa” in Madre Land, a portal into South Texas memory and the art of making home. Featuring work by 27 artists and scholars, from the emerging to the established, artworks honor domestic aesthetics, rasquache sensibility, ancestral healing, and natural world/environmental motifs. Inspired and informed by the groundwork of Dr. Amalia Mesa-Bains, Dr. Amelia Malagamba-Ansótegui, and Dr. Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, who is also a participating artist, the exhibition features altar installations, folk art, rasquache craft, casita portraits, domestic still life, mixed media collage, fiber arts, cosita arrangements, scholarly research, and photography. Exhibition design mirrors that of a family home with a layout referencing the front porch, kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom, kids’ patio, backyard shrines, a cosmic night garden, an urban chicken run, as well as homages to historic Sunshine Bakery and La Guadalupanita Café, and selections 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 the Hispanic community, family members orally transmit and share folk tales (cuentos) to bring meaning to our past and present lives. These folk tales include el hombre, el burro, y el perro (man, burro, dog); El Santo Nino (The Holy Child); and the legends of El Cucuy, La Lechuza, and La Llorona (mythical ghost-like creature, the owl, the Weeping Woman). The exhibition draws inspiration from these stories and from the book Cuentos: Tales from the Hispanic Southwest. The five participating artists—women with a shared heritage of working in South Texas and the Southwest United States—have created works of art influenced by these cuentos. Curated by Rebecca Gomez, the exhibition features paintings, lithographs, 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