Houston Art Gallery Association

Houston Art Gallery Association Our vision is to promote Houston as a destination for the arts.

The Houston Art Gallery Association (HAGA) consists of member fine art galleries, mutually supportive, with recognized integrity, expertise, specialized knowledge, and reputation supporting a culturally and ethnically diverse blend of local, national, and international artists at all levels of experience and art medium. Our vision is to promote Houston as a destination for the arts.
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HAGA is a 501(c)(6) organization.

McClain Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring gallery artists Bradley Kerl and Shane Tolbert i...
05/28/2026

McClain Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring gallery artists Bradley Kerl and Shane Tolbert in partnership with the 2026 edition of the PrintHouston Biennial. Lithographs by Tolbert stem from his February 2026 residency at the Tamarind Institute, an experience that proved deeply influential to the artist and his practice. Kerl’s relationship with printmaking began during his time at the 100W Corsicana Residency in 2017, where a collaborative exchange with residency founder and director Kyle Horbratschk introduced him to the medium; Kerl etched the plates and Horbratschk inked and printed them with Kerl's guidance.

Both Kerl and Tolbert’s practices primarily focus on painting, though not solely. Each of their printmaking endeavors emphasizes process and experimentation as well as the development of ideas. Transposing a conceptual thread through different media leads breakthroughs in other areas of their practices. The small edition of etchings and lithographs on view give us a glimpse of a medium that holds endless possibilities.

For more information, please visit www.mcclaingallery.com.

This summer, Monterroso Gallery presents "Loco Planetarium: Coincidencia(s)" by Erik Ordaz Lozano and "Full Circle," fea...
05/28/2026

This summer, Monterroso Gallery presents "Loco Planetarium: Coincidencia(s)" by Erik Ordaz Lozano and "Full Circle," featuring 18 Houston Artists.

In "Loco Planetarium: Coincidencia(s)," Erik Ordaz Lozano presents ceramic spheres that all begin from the same form and size, but slowly become completely different through layers, markings, and repeated firings. The exhibition explores coincidences - moments where people, experiences, and different worlds briefly intersect.

Inspired by Erik’s solo exhibition in the Front Gallery, "Full Circle" brings together Houston artists, including artists from the residency program, to create works based on the sphere. The invitation was simple: allow the form to enter your practice, or bring your practice into the form.

Planned alongside Houston’s preparation for the World Cup, both exhibitions reflect on moments where different people, perspectives, and experiences gather around a shared form and shared experience.

"Full Circle" Participating Artists:
Gabriela Bello - Nora Benalcazar - Lindsey Creel Cherry - Jeff Forster - Abigail Gomez - Claude Habayeb - Martine Joseph - Michael Kirby - Tiffany Nappier - John O'Brien - Ruby Fear Pinedo - Cecilia Prandi - Maria Rusinek - Meghan Rutzebeck - Cora Salvino - Suzette Schutze - Matias Vega - Zulma Vega

For more information, please visit www.monterrosogallery.com.

Koelsch gallery is pleased to announce an artist talk and live musical performance by Darden Smith on Saturday, May 30th...
05/27/2026

Koelsch gallery is pleased to announce an artist talk and live musical performance by Darden Smith on Saturday, May 30th, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. In honor of the closing of his latest exhibition, "The Sky is Bluer Than You Think," Smith will perform songs from his multi-media project "Western Skies" and discuss his experience as both a self-taught artist and musician. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions and participate at their choosing. As always, admission is free.

"The Sky is Bluer Than You Think" features a collection of drawings, paintings, lithographs, and etchings from four different bodies of work: "Western Skies," "A Common Prayer," "Riot," and "The Habit of Noticing." His multi-media practice encompasses songwriting, essays, performance, printmaking, illustration, drawing, photography, and painting. Widely recognized for his decades-long career as a songwriter and musician, he first began sharing his visual art in 2018. "The Sky is Bluer Than You Think" explores his evolution as an artist and his lifelong commitment to storytelling.

For more information, please visit www.koelschgallery.com.

HOLDING LIGHT: Ken Mazzu, Eve Leonard, Margaret O’Brien Nelson, Jonas Criscoe, Ellen Doss, Maria RusinekJoin Monterroso ...
05/15/2026

HOLDING LIGHT: Ken Mazzu, Eve Leonard, Margaret O’Brien Nelson, Jonas Criscoe, Ellen Doss, Maria Rusinek

Join Monterroso Gallery today, Friday May 15, at 6:30 pm for an artist talk featuring artists from "Holding Light," presented alongside Alfredo García’s "Patina of the Highlands."

The conversation will center around observation, place, light, surface, and the different ways artists approach these ideas through painting and ceramics.

"Patina of the Highlands" by Alfredo García and "Holding Light" remain on view through May 23. For more information, please visit www.monterrosogallery.com.

Foltz Fine Art is proud to present "Controlled Collision," a high-impact exhibition featuring three of Houston’s most di...
05/15/2026

Foltz Fine Art is proud to present "Controlled Collision," a high-impact exhibition featuring three of Houston’s most distinct visual voices: DUAL, Jonathan Paul Jackson, and John Forse.

On view from May 16th - July 1st, this exhibition explores the friction and fusion that occurs when disparate artistic languages occupy the same physical space. While each artist operates within a unique style, "Controlled Collision" identifies the hidden connections between them, a shared obsession for mark-making.

For more information, please visit https://foltzgallery.com

Heidi Vaughan Fine Art is proud to present GROWING UP WISE, an exhibition of paintings, photographic image transfers, a...
05/15/2026

Heidi Vaughan Fine Art is proud to present GROWING UP WISE, an exhibition of paintings, photographic image transfers, assemblage sculptures, poetry, and original music by artist, poet, and song writer Vivian Wise. The show opens on Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 11am. A reception with the artist will take place that evening from 5pm to 8pm. A story time event with the artist is scheduled for May 29, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. An event with songwriter/singer/producer John Evans takes place June 5, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. An event featuring spoken word with WAN poetry takes place June 19, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. An artist talk with ekphrastic responses will round out the special events on June 20, from 1pm to 3pm. It is also the final day of the show.

This exhibition marks a turning point in the life of the artist. According to Wise, "This moment in my timeline is the definitive closing of a book and a door. It’s a funeral pyre for the 'me' who died when I decided to put down the bottle, to get well, to be honest with myself and others, and to look forward and never look back. It is part ritual, part ceremony, part confession, part pilgrimage, part wake, part celebration, and part funeral procession all culminating in the soul awakening and the beginning of the next volume of my life's timeline. With the gratitude and love, humility and grace, courage and strength, purpose and passion learned and gained from the experiences represented by the show, 'Growing Up Wise,' I am more Wise now than ever before. I look forward to learning more every day from those I already know and those I will meet along the journey of my life."

For more information, please visit www.heidivaughanfineart.com.

Catherine Couturier Gallery is delighted to present our upcoming exhibition "Interpolation" with gallery artist Sander V...
05/14/2026

Catherine Couturier Gallery is delighted to present our upcoming exhibition "Interpolation" with gallery artist Sander Vos. This will mark the Dutch-born, London-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Houston. Drawing inspiration from Cubism, Vos deconstructs portraits and everyday objects, reconfiguring them through layering and spatial manipulation. Shadows, fragments, and negative space guide the eye, showing that the photographic frame is shaped as much by perception as by the camera. In these works, the ordinary becomes strange yet recognizable, evoking reflection on how perception shapes our experience of reality.

Working across digital and analog processes, Vos creates compositions that resist immediate clarity. His work has been recognized internationally, and recent accomplishments include selection as juror pick at the Lensculture Portrait Awards 2025, the Graciela Iturbide Award, and the Museum of Avant Garde (MA-G) and Px3 Paris Photo Prize Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2023. He has exhibited internationally at venues including Photo London, The London Art Fair, and the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts.

For more information, please visit www.catherinecouturier.com.

Sicardi Ayers Bacino is pleased to host an artist talk with Gustavo Díaz, whose exhibition "Botany of Thought" is curren...
05/13/2026

Sicardi Ayers Bacino is pleased to host an artist talk with Gustavo Díaz, whose exhibition "Botany of Thought" is currently on view at the gallery. Join the gallery Saturday, May 16, at 5pm. RSVP at [email protected].

With the works of "Botany of Thought," Diaz purports to provide visual representations of thought—a seemingly impossible task for anyone but an artist accustomed to engaging abstract concepts such as chaos, complexity, and fuzzy logic. Admittedly, Diaz often remarks how, for him, drawing is thinking. He describes the works in the exhibition thus: "Botany of Thought begins from an intuition: thought can be understood as a temporal fold. Ideas do not appear in isolation nor do they organize themselves into stable structures; they emerge, deviate, overlap, and leave traces within one another. The visual configurations presented in this exhibition explore precisely this behavior through forms that expand, densify, and progressively reorganize."

Born and raised in Argentina, at an early age, Gustavo Díaz was awarded a scholarship to work at the National Industrial Technology Institute. In the 1990s, he studied painting and sculpture at the Escuela de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón and piano performance at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel de Falla. For 12 years, Díaz devoted himself to teaching art. He subsequently spent ten years in almost complete isolation in the remote town of Cariló, Argentina, where he continued to investigate contemporary scientific and philosophical thought through artistic research. In 2017, Díaz relocated to Houston, Texas, where he currently lives and works.

For more information, please visit www.sicardi.com.

In his newest body of work, "The Geometry of Empathy," Ender Martos’ 3D wall reliefs reexamine the foundational shapes—c...
05/08/2026

In his newest body of work, "The Geometry of Empathy," Ender Martos’ 3D wall reliefs reexamine the foundational shapes—circles, triangles, and squares—that mark our earliest understanding of the world, using vibrant color and natural light to spark a dialogue around beauty, belonging, and the formation of individual and collective identity. Through purposeful layering of contrasting materials, each work emits an ethereal glow that both reveals and challenges the biases of perception, particularly in an age shaped by digital manipulation. The result is a disarming atmosphere of play and wonder, inviting viewers to look beyond the surface and consider how difference can deepen connection.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Born in the Venezuelan Andes and based in Austin, Texas, Ender Martos is a leading artist of the Venezuelan Op Art movement and a CODAworx Top 25 Creative Revolutionary. His work has been commissioned by international corporations including Meta, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, Charles Schwab, and SpaceX. Martos holds a BFA from the University of Texas Austin.

For more information, please click on the link in our bio and then click on ELLIO Fine Art.

Heidi Vaughan Fine Art is proud to present an artist talk for "GOLD," an exhibition of peaceful lightwork paintings and...
05/08/2026

Heidi Vaughan Fine Art is proud to present an artist talk for "GOLD," an exhibition of peaceful lightwork paintings and sculptures by McKay Otto. The talk will take place at 1 pm on Saturday, May 9, 2026. It is also the final day of the show. Until then, the artist is presenting his work every evening after dark, starting at 8:30 pm, when the phosphorescent pigments contained within the work glow at their brightest.

With the paintings in "GOLD," Otto builds a meditative field of soft atmospheres with layers that hover between opacity and translucence, revealing subtle shifts of light, color, and depth that touch human emotions. The compositions evoke a meditative quietness where elements converge into moments of stillness. Otto's practice draws from American minimalism and reductive abstraction while creating a contemporary language of balance, geometry, and luminous calm.

Otto's works are influenced by his mentor, the artist Agnes Martin, who challenged him to find materials that would allow him to go beyond the picture plane and define him as an artist. Among those materials are a proprietary fabric that is stretched across the stretcher bars. Below the surface lie the pigments, including a phosphorescent paint that glows faintly in the dark, giving the works a special presence that has been described as portal-like.

For "GOLD," Otto also is making use of gold paint in ways that frame colors. Gold amplifies ambient light and creates a warm halo effect around the work while making the colors richer. The gold creates a visual threshold that acts as a transition from the real world into the pictorial space. The symbolic use of gold in art has been carried across cultures for centuries to represent divine presence and eternal light. Its value is material, spiritual, and signals something beyond the ordinary world. Gold reflects light rather than absorbing it, creating a shimmering, immaterial effect that suggests unseen realms. It marks the threshold between the human and the divine.

For more information, please visit www.heidivaughanfineart.com.

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