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Artpace San Antonio has announced its Fall 2026 International Artists-in-Residence: Irene Antonia Diane Reece, an artist and activist from Houston; Roksana Pirouzmand, a multidisciplinary artist from Los Angeles; and Mexico City sculptor and performance artist Chavis Mármol.
Following the model established in 1995 by Linda Pace, a San Antonio art collector, philanthropist, and artist, Artpace invites a guest curator to select three artists for a two-month residency period twice per year. For each round, residents are to include one artist from Texas, one artist from the U.S., and an artist who resides elsewhere in the world.
The curator for fall 2026 is Rigoberto Luna, co-founder of Presa House Gallery and an independent curator of the notable touring group exhibition Soy de Tejas: A Statewide Survey of Latinx Art. Most recently selected as a Curatorial Fellow at NXTHVN in New Haven, Connecticut, Mr. Luna is the first San Antonio native to serve as an Artpace guest curator.
Ms. Reece identifies as a “visual activist,” addressing the injustices, complex histories, health, and cultural imagination of the African diaspora, through archives, video and photography, installations, and public art. Examples of her recent work include That Sunnyside Pride, a 2023 City of Houston commission for the Sunnyside Health and Multi-Service Center presenting a collection of archival photographs in a narrative structure documenting the life of the historically African American neighborhood. Her 2023 video American Dream quotes James Baldwin, Dave Chapelle, and a father’s lesson to his daughter on notions of Black beauty, concluding with a litany of Black victims of police violence.
Ms. Reece has been included in exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans; the Beeldend Gesproken in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Centre les Étoiles de Jamaa El Fna in Marrakech, Morocco; and the Maison de la Culture Douta Seck in Dakar, Sénégal. Her work has been shown at Texas venues, including Women and Their Work in Austin, Project Row Houses and Lawndale in Houston, the Galveston Art Center, and in the 2021 Texas Biennial at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio.
Ms. Pirouzmand creates body-centered performances and sculptures reflective of diasporic consciousness and experience. Born in Yazd, Iran, the artist draws upon her own familial history to address the effects of displacement on intergenerational bonds. She has shown internationally at François Ghebaly gallery in New York City, Spurs Gallery in Beijing, the Vernacular Institute in Mexico City, and the Simon Lee Gallery in London. Her exhibitions record in California includes shows at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, and in Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum, REDCAT, and The Box.
Described in a press release as a “4×4 all-terrain artist,” Mr. Mármol is known for sculpture and performative interventions that employ humor and satire as critique. In 2024, he arranged to crush a Tesla under a nine-ton replica Olmec carved stone head, a project completed in Mexico City over a two-year period. His work has been shown at Casa Wabi in Oaxaca, Mexico; N.A.S.A.L. in Mexico City; the Museo Fundación Juan March in Palma, Spain; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chile in Santiago, Chile; and the Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Center in Bogotá, Colombia.
The artists will be in residence from Monday, July 27, through Sunday, September 20. A public welcome dinner will be held on Thursday, July 30, from 6 to 8 p.m.
The opening reception for their exhibitions is scheduled for Thursday, September 17, from 6 to 9 p.m., and the shows will remain on view through Sunday, January 17, 2027.
Disclaimer: Nicholas Frank was a 2017 Artpace International Artist-in-Residence.
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