Top Austin Art Shows to See This Fall
Explore some of the city’s best upcoming art exhibitions, shows and events
Austin’s fall art season brings a strong lineup of shows worth seeing. Whether collecting, browsing, or just looking to spend time around beautiful works, the months ahead offer plenty of reasons to get out and explore.
Latino Art MNTH Art Party
The Cathedral
September 26 | 7–10 p.m.
Tickets: $30
The Cathedral hosts a night of music, performance, and visual art in conjunction with the Latino Art MNTH exhibit. The event includes live sets by Midnight Navy, DJ Vanessa Burden, and tango and guitar performances, with complimentary drinks and the chance to meet featured artists.
Opening Reception – “The Light That Grows Here”
Austin Central Library
September 26 | 7-9 p.m.
Admission is free
The solo exhibition by artist and weaver Robin Kang features new Jacquard-loom textiles that merge native Texas plant imagery with circuit-like patterns. Using plant-dyed fibers, iridescent synthetics, and digitally generated designs, the work explores connections between ecology, technology, and ritual. Influenced by studies with master weavers and ceremonial plant practices, Kang’s approach blends ancestral craft with contemporary processes. The exhibition runs through Jan. 4.
WaterWork
Seaholm Intake Facility
September 26–27 | 8:30 p.m.
Admission is free
Fifteen Austin artists will transform the Seaholm Intake into a projection-mapped light show, featuring site-specific video work designed around the building’s architecture. The visuals run both nights and can be seen from multiple spots along the trail, including Auditorium Shores and the Pfluger Bridge.
LUX ÆTERNA: Gary James McQueen x Simon Berger
West Chelsea Contemporary
September 27 | 2–4 p.m.
Admission is free
Digital artist Gary James McQueen and glass artist Simon Berger debut their first collaboration with more than 40 new works and two joint pieces. The show contrasts digital mythologies with sculpted glass portraiture. Saturday’s public opening includes a talk with McQueen.
Opening Reception – “Attunement”
Verdant Gallery
September 27 | 6–9 p.m.
Admission is free
The debut show at Austin’s newest gallery features five local artists exploring our relationship with the natural world through sculpture, collage and painting.
Opening Reception: “if you stare at a cowboy’s face for long enough, it turns into a sunset”
Women & Their Work
September 27 | 7–9 p.m.
Admission is free
Hannah Spector presents new work developed over five years of returning to West Texas. The exhibition combines video, sound, photography, ceramics and copper-plate etchings to reframe the desert as an active, expressive landscape.
Ivester Contemporary’s 5th Anniversary Party
Ivester Contemporary
September 27 | 7–9 p.m.
Admission is free
Ivester Contemporary marks its fifth year with a party at the gallery, featuring music by Chulita Vinyl Club. Since opening in 2020, the space has hosted 17 exhibitions in the past year alone and recently co-founded Friends Fair, a new local art fair.
Opening Reception – “Más allá de la Realidad” by Juan Luís Jardí
Wally Workman Gallery
October 4 | 6–8 p.m.
Admission is free
Juan Luís Jardí, a Barcelona-based painter, is known for his carefully composed scenes set in mid-century interiors. His work mixes Magical Realism, Pop Art, and surrealism, often evoking memory, introspection, and a sense of disconnection. This solo show marks his latest exhibition in Austin and will remain on view through October 26.
Blanton Museum of Art
October 11 | 10 AM–8 p.m.
Tickets: $20; Members free
Blanton All Day: Extra Ordinary Artforms
A full day of programming highlights Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero’s solo exhibition, “The Other Side of the Track,” where ritual, racecars, and Mesoamerican symbolism collide. Expect live music, talks, art activities and more.
Opening Reception – “No Turning Back” by Monique Rollins
Dimmitt Contemporary Art
October 4 | 6–8 p.m.
Admission is free
Artist Monique Rollins works in layered abstraction using painting, drawing, collage, and reclaimed textiles. This new series reflects on caregiving, motherhood, and identity through saturated color, gestural mark-making, and repurposed materials historically tied to domestic labor. The exhibition will be on view through October 24.
The Very ‘Rary
Laguna Gloria
October 26 | 1–5 p.m.
Tickets: $40 general, $35 for members, free for kids under 5
This annual event at Laguna Gloria turns the sculpture park into a surrealist playground, with live music, theremin performances, mask-making, costumed creatures, and interactive installations woven through the grounds. Visitors can join collaborative art projects, explore hidden corners of the site, and take part in a range of all-ages activities. Proceeds support The Contemporary Austin’s K–12 education programs.
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