Costa Rica Art Exhibitions: What's On Now
w/c 16 March 2026
Costa Rica has a serious contemporary art scene, and it extends well beyond the country's landscapes. Artists here are working across installation, printmaking, textile and socially engaged practice — producing work that holds its own in an international context.
From San José's independent art spaces to Guanacaste's galleries, Costa Rica's contemporary scene is more dispersed — and more active — than most visitors expect.
MÍRAME's select weekly listings are a guide to what's on across the country. Read below or in our current newsletter.
MÍRAME selected Costa Rican art exhibitions:
Exhibitions ordered by closing date
• Carlos Fernández open studio, Santa Ana. 19, 20, 21 March (your invitation below).
• Que No Le Digan, Que No Le Cuenten! Adrián Arguedas print exhibition, José Figueres Ferrer Cultural and Historical Center, San Ramón. On until 28 March.
• From the Shore, Jaime Gurdián, Zarpe, Playas del Coco, Guancaste. OPENING 20 March (your invitation below). On until 13 April.
Currently on view (no published end date)
• faerie Guillermo Tovar, deCERCA, Sendero Hotel, Nosara, Guanacaste.
• Enraizada (Rooted), Alessandra Sequeira, Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia Museum, San José.
• Anamorfosis: Pequeñas Fracturas, Emmanuel Rodríguez Chaves, abra.espacio, San José.
• Pieles (Skins), Ulises Rivera Lopez | Francisco Vazquez May, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo de Costa Rica, San José.
Carlos Fernández open studio, Santa Ana. 19, 20, 21 March (your invitation below).
One of our artists, Carlos Fernández, is opening his studio in Santa Ana this weekend — an opportunity to see his work up close, hear him talk about past, recent and upcoming pieces, and spend time in the space where it all happens.
19, 20 and 21 March, 10am–4pm. Call or WhatsApp 8713 6845 to confirm and get directions.
Que No Le Digan, Que No Le Cuenten! Adrián Arguedas, José Figueres Ferrer Cultural and Historical Center, San Ramón. On until 28 March.
Prints spanning 35 years of one of Costa Rica's most significant careers, drawn from the collection of the Museo de Arte Costarricense and currently touring regional venues. This section of the tour runs in San Ramón until 28 March — a rare opportunity to see Arguedas outside San José.
Free admission. No reservation required.
From the Shore, Jaime Gurdián, Zarpe Playas del Coco, Guancaste. OPENING 20 March (your invitation below). On until 13 April.
This March, MÍRAME presents From the Shore, an exhibition of new works by Costa Rican artist Jaime Gurdián at Zarpe Playas del Coco.
Growing up in San José, Gurdián visited the beaches of Guanacaste with his family from an early age, never losing his fascination with the region's coastline. His practice is deeply gestural — building up layers of textured acrylic, sometimes with his hands, over more than a decade. Sand is mixed directly into every canvas.
From the Shore also marks the debut of new work incorporating crushed natural river stone — from the rivers and terrain that ultimately meet the sea.
On view at Zarpe Playas del Coco from 20 March – 13 April. Opening night: Friday 20 March, with live music. Contact us for more information.
faerie Guillermo Tovar, deCERCA, Sendero Hotel, Nosara, Guanacaste.
Tovar's paintings conjure fantastical worlds drawn from cinema and literature, and faerie is an invitation to take them seriously. The show also marks the end of deCERCA's Nosara exhibition space — a significant moment for the gallery and for the Guanacaste scene more broadly. Worth making the trip.
Contact deCERCA directly for viewing hours and to enquire about works.
Enraizada Donde el miedo se desvanece (Rooted: Where Fear Vanishes), Alessandra Sequeira, Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia Museum, San José.
Sequeira's large-scale textile installation takes psychological territory as its subject — specifically the long process of recovering a self from childhood adversity. The centrepiece, a woven structure of yarn and bamboo spanning eight metres, is overwhelming in scale and surprisingly tender in texture. This is socially engaged practice that earns its ambitions.
Free admission. No reservation required.
Anamorfosis: Pequeñas Fracturas, Emmanuel Rodríguez Chaves, abra.espacio, San José.
Rodríguez Chaves layers archival material, digital sources and painted intervention to examine how images construct — and distort — collective memory. A focused and well-argued show at one of the more interesting of San José's independent art spaces.
Free admission. Contact abra.espacio directly for visiting hours.
Pieles (Skins), Ulises Rivera Lopez | Francisco Vazquez May, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo de Costa Rica, San José.
An outdoor installation on the museum esplanade that works on the boundary between bioconstruction and contemporary art — earthen materials, bamboo framing, and a direct engagement with the urban site around it. Visible from outside the museum without requiring entry.
Please contact the museum directly for more information.
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