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Artpace San Antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports regional, national, and international artists in the creation of new art.
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05/28/2026

We are thrilled to celebrate the dedication of 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, a new public artwork by Artpace Residencies and Exhibitions Manager Rhys Munro, alongside the dedication of Diana Kersey's work, a wonderful moment honoring two remarkable artists and their contributions to San Antonio's public art landscape.

Located at the intersection of N Santa Rosa and W Commerce, 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 transforms daylight into waves of shifting color through architectural glass panels that catch and refract the sun throughout the day, and glow softly from within at night. A beacon of warmth and connection in the heart of San Antonio, 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 is described as a piece that reminds us that beauty is not static but revealed in time, carried by memory, and open to all.

We were so proud to celebrate this incredible milestone with our team and the San Antonio community. 🎉

To learn more about the public artworks in San Antonio, including 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, visit https://artcollection.sa.gov/

05/27/2026

DreamLab is this weekend — and we can't wait to create with you!

Join us this Saturday, May 30, at Artpace San Antonio for a free afternoon of art, imagination, and hands-on making. From 12–4 PM, you'll have the chance to collaborate with local artists and makers across activity stations inspired by our current Spring 2026 exhibitions — plus a few special stations created in partnership with Spare Parts. Activities include:

✦Paper mini installations ✦Letters to locals ✦Symbolic self-portraits ✦Paper snake sculptures ✦Leather skull sketches ✦Abstract printmaking zines ✦And more!

👧 Open to all ages
🎟️ Free admission | No registration required
📍 Artpace San Antonio | 445 N Main Ave
🚗 Free parking at 513 N Flores

05/26/2026

From the Archives | Stills from Spring 2003 International Artist-in-Residence Paul Pfeiffer's work

During his 2003 residency, artist Paul Pfeiffer examined popular iconography of sports and pop culture. Through the generous support of the San Antonio Spurs organization, Pfeiffer was granted access to the then-SBC Center, filming not just the players but the peripheral figures who make the spectacle run – the support staff. The result of his footage is a video work that quietly inverts our gaze, pulling the focus from the court to an armed security guard standing just outside it.

Pfeiffer's digital manipulations strip mass media of its context, decontextualizing mass media spectacles and referencing Guy Debord's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘭𝘦, compelling the viewer to confront our own complicity in the media we consume. At Artpace, Pfieffer continued his investigation of the spectacle of the media with three new video works that altered images from a pop music video, a beauty pageant, and a professional basketball game.

By partnering with Pfieffer to make this work possible, the Spurs organization understood that culture extends beyond the court. As the Spurs write a new chapter this playoff season, we look back at a moment when basketball became art, and art became a mirror.

Go Spurs Go! 🏀

05/20/2026

We were happy to welcome the team from the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft to Artpace last week! During their visit, they connected with our staff, learned about our International Artist-in-Residence program, and explored our current exhibitions — including a special walkthrough with artist Violette Bule. Thank you to the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft for making the trip to San Antonio. We always enjoy the opportunity to build connections across the Texas arts community!

05/07/2026

Artpace is pleased to announce its Fall 2026 International Artists-in-Residence! Selected by Guest Curator Rigoberto Luna, we are excited to welcome Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Roksana Pirouzmand, and Chavis Mármol. Working across photography, sculpture, and performance, each artist engages questions of power, identity, and collective memory through material and cultural interventions.

Identifying as a contemporary artist and activist, Irene Antonia Diane Reece's work explores the African diaspora, social injustice, family histories, re-memory, and community health. Her practice continues by decentralizing the white gaze in photography, confronting the violence of the camera through homage to Black Southern pride, centering the fluidity of Black identity, and protecting Black archives.

Roksana Pirouzmand is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. While performance art is at the core of her practice, her ideas have materialized in sculpture, installation, and two-dimensional imagery. In her pieces, personal experiences are incorporated into installation systems that suggest the possibility of transformation, deterioration, and movement through interactions between the artist, her work, and the audience.

A 4x4 all-terrain artist, Chavis Mármol’s work assembles, translates, and transplants diverse iconic figures from popular culture, the art field, and the collective imaginary. Often charged with humor and critique, it allows him to comment on, affect, and provoke within the specific context in which he operates—Mexico City—at personal, social, and political levels. Mármol tackles a wide range of sculptural techniques and materials in his work, frequently combined with performative acts that unfold in the city's public space.

We look forward to welcoming these accomplished artists to Artpace this Fall, where they will develop new work during their residencies. The artists will be in residence from July 27 to September 20, and their exhibitions will be on view from September 17, 2026, to January 17, 2027.

Save the date for our Welcome Dinner on Thursday, July 30, 2026, from 6-8 PM!

Slide 3: Photo by Sylvain Tron

05/03/2026

✨ Mark your calendars — DreamLab returns May 30!

Come spend the afternoon with us at Artpace from 12–4 PM, getting hands-on and creative with artists and makers. More exciting details are coming soon; you won’t want to miss it!

👧 Open to all ages
🎟️ Free admission | No registration required
📍 Artpace San Antonio | 445 N Main Ave
🚗 Free parking at 513 N Flores

05/01/2026

Join us as Artpace, Sala Diaz, and Contemporary at Blue Star come together to bring Being for Others, a project by Violette Bule. Being for Others is a participatory workshop where memory becomes image, language, and sound.

Guided by Spring 2026 Artpace International Artist-in-Residence Violette Bule, the project unfolds as a three-phase experience: participants rewrite a shared poem through their own memories and language, then reinterpret it through image, text, sound, and objects—expanding individual narratives into a collective mapping of experience.

The work created will culminate in a river projection at Echo Bridge along the San Antonio River, co-created with local artists and community members, and will be documented as part of an upcoming process-based exhibition at Presa House Gallery.

📅 Artist Workshop Dates
May 16, from 1-4 PM at Artpace San Antonio
May 23, from 1-4 PM at Contemporary at Blue Star (registration details TBA)

This workshop is free and open to all; no experience necessary. Space is limited - sign up for the 5/16 workshop through the link! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/being-for-others-artist-workshop-with-violette-bule-tickets-1988357671320

04/30/2026

On View Now | Việt Lê, 𝘵𝘳𝘢̆𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘢̆́𝘯𝘨 | 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘬 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯

Việt Lê’s exhibition 𝘵𝘳𝘢̆𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘢̆́𝘯𝘨 | 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘬 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 explores divination as a way of perceiving meaning through signs, pop culture symbols, and embodied experience. Drawing from Vietnamese Đạo Mẫu Mother Goddess religion and the artist’s practice as a “V-Pop shaman,” the installation proposes that spiritual insight emerges through daily life and “slow looking.” For Lê, research, ritual, and art practice are coeval.

Visitors are encouraged to embrace their intuition through attention and reflection, and are invited to read meaningful messages in everyday life. The artist urges us to find the divine within the everyday, and within themselves—divination and a “diva nation.” Lê suggests that beyond ritual, prophecy and poesy are also a way of perceiving the world and self—mundane and magical.

𝘵𝘳𝘢̆𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘢̆́𝘯𝘨 | 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘬 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 is on view at Artpace through July 19, 2026.

Photos: Michael Cirlos

04/28/2026

Great cities invest in great art, and it starts with your voice.

The City of San Antonio is collecting feedback from residents like you to help guide the FY2027 budget. Your voice determines where funding goes and what gets prioritized in our community.

As you take the survey, consider advocating for arts funding. Organizations like Artpace San Antonio bring world-class artists to our city, connect local communities to global art experiences, and use creativity to leave a lasting impact on San Antonio and beyond.

Take the survey today and tell City leaders that the arts matter. Visit the link to complete the survey by May 1! https://www.saspeakup.com/j77600

04/27/2026

Artpace is pleased to announce the artists selected for this year’s Oolite Arts Home + Away residency: Marie Franco, Isabella Marie Garcia, and Richie Moreno.

These Florida-based artists will be in residence at Artpace from now until May 29, 2026, with time and space to expand their individual practices. The Oolite Arts Home + Away program is a partnership initiative that offers paid residencies of four to five weeks at leading institutions across the country. Artists are selected by , with the support of guest curators.

We're excited to be a part of these artists’ journeys as they continue to expand and develop their practices at Artpace and to welcome them to San Antonio.

Slide 2: Photo by Chantal Lawrie
Photos courtesy of the artists.

04/25/2026

On View Now | Mel Chin, 𝘏𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳

Mel Chin’s installation transforms the seats of office chairs into a contemplative field of portraits. Removed from their bases, each seat, mounted tombstone-like, bears the image of a skull. The arrangement traces the arc of a workday, beginning at nine in the morning and progressing hour by hour toward five in the evening as light moves across the installation. The passage of time becomes both structure and subject, echoing the rhythm of labor that once filled these chairs. Chin, drawing on the tradition of the memento mori, reminds viewers of mortality while also honoring lives that came before us. The skulls evoke the many anonymous workers who once occupied chairs like these.

The work’s title, 𝘏𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳, references philosopher Jacques Derrida’s concept of hauntology: the idea that the past continues to inhabit the present through traces, absences, and unresolved histories. In Chin’s installation, the ghostly presence of workers lingers in the objects they once occupied. Though their names and stories remain unknown, their labor continues to shape the systems that structure contemporary life. At a moment when automation and artificial intelligence are rapidly transforming the nature of work, Chin’s installation asks viewers to reflect on the human histories embedded within everyday systems. The installation becomes both memorial and meditation, honoring the dignity of labor while acknowledging the countless lives whose contributions quietly sustain the world we inherit and depend upon.

𝘏𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳 is on view at Artpace through July 19, 2026.

Photos: Michael Cirlos

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