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<\/a><\/p>\nThe invitational exhibition Print Austin<\/a> will run from January 9 to February 8, 2026. According to the center\u2019s website, like the Salon des Refuse\u00e9s exhibition of 1863 Paris is, Print Austin celebrates artworks that did not make it into the previous year\u2019s juried print exhibition: \u201cFar from being secondary, these prints demonstrate the diversity, experimentation, and technical skill that define today\u2019s printmaking community.\u201d<\/p>\n The dual exhibition Neo Geo: Geometry and Color by Larry Akers and Janet Brooks<\/a> will run from February 13 to March 15, 2026, featuring the work of two artists \u201cdynamic color interactions; interactive, geometrically based kinetic sculpture; and visually active, pattern-based design,\u201d as described on the center\u2019s website.<\/p>\n From March 20 to April 19, Fort Worth artist Chris Ireland will present Dead Letter Office: Images of Memories Fading<\/a>. In a statement, Mr. Ireland describes his photo-based work: \u201cThe images I use in my recent work come from databases of images, real estate sites, social media, and my own archives,\u201d combined and shaped \u201cto convey emotional charged moments that are suggested through the staging of scenes inside domestic spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n Seeing Double \u2013 Two Views of Texas<\/a>, running April 24 to May 24, 2026, will bring together work by Debbie Carroll and Denise Elliott Jones. The exhibition will feature works inspired by the diverse regions of Texas, showcasing the two artists\u2019 individual styles by presenting pieces based in the same geographic areas.<\/p>\n The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas (UT) has announced three exhibitions set to open in spring.<\/p>\n Contemporary Project 16: Tammy Nguyen<\/a>, running January 17 to September 20, 2026, will feature paintings, prints, and a handmade artist book by this Connecticut-based multidisciplinary artist. Ms. Nguyen will also select objects from the Blanton collection to resonate with her artwork. According to the Blanton website, Ms. Nguyen\u2019s work draws on \u201con literary references, Cold War\u2013era science, and intricate ecological imagery, [and] her richly layered compositions interweave figures, flora, fauna, and symbolic forms to explore how ambition, belief, and invention intersect.\u201d<\/p>\n First exhibited at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection: From Edward Hopper to Alma Thomas<\/a> will be on view at the Blanton from March 8 to August 2, 2026. Eighty artworks from Mr. Butt\u2019s rarely-seen collection will be on display, including works by notable American artists Ellsworth Kelly, Jacob Lawrence, Joan Mitchell, and Georgia O\u2019Keeffe. In a press release, the Blanton notes that Mr. Butt\u2019s collection \u201creflects his vision of American creativity and his long-standing commitment to civic life and education.\u201d<\/p>\n Also running March 8 to August 2, 2026 will be Run the Code: Data-Driven Art Decoded by Thoma Foundation X Blanton Museum of Art<\/a>, highlighting the Thoma Foundation\u2019s Digital and Media Art Collection. Contemporary artists using algorithms and generative AI models included in the show are Jenny Holzer, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, teamLab, Siebren Versteeg, and Leo Villareal, among others.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Visual Arts Center (VAC) at UT has announced three new exhibitions for the spring season.<\/p>\n The Edwards Aquifer of Central Texas features in Abby Flanagan: To Move Through Stone<\/a>, both as theme and as a materials source. Ms. Flanagan uses drawings, sculptures, and installations to visualize the natural resource that supplies water to two million people. To Move Through Stone will be on view from January 23 to March 21, 2026.<\/p>\n Also running from January 23 to March 21, 2026, Francesca Lally: Half Time<\/a> is the culmination of the artist\u2019s St. Elmo Arts Residency Fellowship at VAC. In prints, photography, site-specific installation, and performance, the artist examines spectatorship through the ages by juxtaposing Austin\u2019s Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium and ancient Roman coliseums.<\/p>\n UT contemporary art club Center Space Project will present Towards D\u00e9tournement<\/a>, a group exhibition curated by UT undergraduate students. French author Guy Debord\u2019s influential Society of the Spectacle serves as background for the show, which brings together 15 artists, \u201cwhose work encourages critical engagement and skepticism toward mass media, consumerism, hegemonic institutions, and narrow-sighted historical narratives,\u201d according to a press release.<\/p>\n Also at UT, the Harry Ransom Center will present Lives and Literacy in Ancient Egypt<\/a>, an immersive exhibition running April 11 to August 3, 2026. According to the center\u2019s website, Lives and Literacy intends to \u201c[bring] to life the voices of a multilingual, multicultural society from Greco-Roman Egypt\u201d featuring rare papyrus manuscripts, \u201crevealing the lives of ordinary people and their vibrant cultures along the Nile.\u201d<\/p>\n The Mexic-Arte Museum will present Mix \u2018n\u2019 Mash \u2013 On Repeat: The Musicians Who Shaped Us, from January 30 to March 8, 2026. As an art sale in support of the museum, more than 200 artists are invited through an open call<\/a> to explore musicians and performers \u201cwhose voices, instruments, styles, & stories have shaped culture, inspired & influenced communities,\u201d according to the Mexic-Arte website.<\/p>\n San Antonio<\/p>\n Ferias, Parques y Plazas: A <\/a>Celebration of<\/a> Public Space<\/a>, running January 8 to April 12, 2026, at the McNay Art Museum, features paintings and prints by Elizabeth Catlett and Diego Rivera, along with artworks by San Antonio artist Adriana M. Garcia.<\/p>\n Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads<\/a> will run from January 29 to July 5, 2026, at the McNay. The solo exhibition by this San Antonio artist will present fiber-based work focused on the folklore of family and regional history. Animal forms and whimsical landscapes combine in what the museum calls Ms. Raquel\u2019s \u201cspellbinding universe\u201d woven from myth and lore.<\/p>\n The exhibition untitled: 20 Years of Collecting Contemporary Art plays on the oft-used method of titling artworks without specific titles. Running March 27 to September 6, 2026, the show will survey 20 years of collecting by the museum in more than 100 works of art. According to the McNay, untitled will also honor the tenure of Ren\u00e9 Paul Barilleaux, retiring Head of Curatorial Affairs<\/a>, who has \u201csignificantly shaped the museum\u2019s collection\u201d over two decades.<\/p>\n The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) will present New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations<\/a> from February 28 to July 5, 2026. According to the museum, the show features 13 masquerade ensembles by four contemporary West African artists: Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa from Nigeria, Sheku \u201cGoldenfinger\u201d Fofanah from Sierra Leone, David Sanou from Burkina Faso, and Herv\u00e9 Youmbi from Cameroon. To \u201cchallenge historical [museum] collecting practices\u201d and to \u201cupend the idea of the \u2018anonymous African artist,\u2019\u201d the SAMA exhibition will include \u201cin-depth stories about the lives, motivations, and ideas\u201d of each artist.<\/p>\n The Contemporary at Blue Star will celebrate its 40th anniversary year with three exhibitions opening in spring 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n Mark Menj\u00edvar, running February 6 to May 3, 2026, will present a midcareer survey exhibition by this San Antonio multidisciplinary artist. According to the non-collecting museum space, Mr. Menj\u00edvar uses \u201csocial practice and participatory education models\u201d to focus on community building, creating \u201cframeworks for students, community groups, and leaders to come together and have critical dialogs about the issues that impact their lives.\u201d The exhibition will present two decades of projects that employ such methods as oral history, archives, publications, and installations.<\/p>\n Mini Art Museum will honor the late Mary Cant\u00fa, a San Antonio artist and arts advocate who died in February 2025<\/a>. Ms. Cant\u00fa co-founded Mini Art Museum in 2013 with Gabriela Santiago, a portable art exhibition venue made of standard office binders that presented miniature artworks. According to The Contemporary, the Mini Art Museum collection will be presented \u201cin its entirety, featuring over 100 works, a small reflection of the large impact Cant\u00fa has had.\u201d The exhibition will run from March 6 to June 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Tammy Nguyen, \u201cMadness Helps,\u201d 2025, watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, silkscreen printing, rubber stamping, hot stamping, glitter and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood and gator board panel, 35 x 30 inches. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London. Photo: Studio Kukla<\/p>\n<\/a>Charles Sheeler, \u201cOn a Shaker Theme,\u201d 1956, oil on canvas<\/p>\n<\/a>teamLab, The World of Irreversible Change (detail), 2022, six-channel interactive digital work, endless duration, Collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation \u00a9 teamLab<\/p>\n<\/a>Abby Flanagan, \u201cmap and key,\u201d 2025, sand, plaster, soil, rhodamine, wool. Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<\/a>Francesca Lally, \u201cFormerly War Memorial Stadium,\u201d from the series \u201cBigger,\u201d 2025, archival inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<\/a>John DesSousa, \u201cexcel,\u201d 2024, wool, polyester, cotton, and dye. Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<\/a>Panel painting (Classmark 2266). Encaustic portrait of a Roman woman painted on a thin wooden panel, originally attached to her mummified body, from Fayyum, Egypt. 425 x 212 millimeters. Manchester Museum, University of Manchester<\/p>\n<\/a>An artwork from \u201cMix \u2018n\u2019 Mash \u2013 On Repeat: The Musicians Who Shaped Us\u201d at the Mexic-Arte Museum in spring 2026<\/p>\n<\/a>Elizabeth Catlett, \u201cMis Hijos,\u201d 1956, linocut. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Museum purchase, 2000.40. \u00a9 CatlettMoraFamilyTrust\/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY<\/p>\n<\/a>Angelica Raquel, \u201cEst\u00fapida\u2019s Wisdom,\u201d 2025, yarn, felt, ribbon, secondhand charms, thread, and buttons on monks cloth, 33 x 24 inches. Photo: Chris Stolze, courtesy of McNay Art Museum<\/p>\n<\/a>Letitia Huckaby, \u201cKoinonia,\u201d 2021, pigment prints on fabric, with wooden embroidery hoops and wallpaper. Museum purchase with funds gifted anonymously in memory of Madeline O\u2019Connor, 2021.4. \u00a9 Letitia Huckaby<\/p>\n<\/a>Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa, \u201cAfia Awan Masquerade Ensemble,\u201d 2022, polyester fabric, raffia, leather. Collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, museum purchase, Fran\u00e7oise Billion Richardson Fund, 2022.85.a-.h.<\/p>\n<\/a>An image from Mark Menjivar\u2019s \u201cThe Luck Archive\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>Mini Art Museum at the Contemporary\u2019s Family Day 2024. Photo: Bria Woods<\/p>\n