Costa Rica Art Exhibitions: What's On Now
w/c 13 April 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
• VOCES: Patria e identidad (Homeland and Identity), Galería Talentum, San José. On until 20 May.
Currently on view (no published end date)
• Cuerpo y Permanencia, Francisco Zúñiga, Museum of Costa Rican Art, San José.
• faerie Guillermo Tovar, deCERCA, Sendero Hotel, Nosara, Guanacaste.
• 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.
VOCES: Patria e identidad (Homeland and Identity), Galería Talentum, San José. On until 20 May
VOCES: Patria e Identidad presents 87 artists across disciplines to ask a timely question: what does it mean to be Costa Rican today?
On show in the context of the country's recent elections, the exhibition frames art as a space for reflection rather than political commentary — exploring themes of peaceful coexistence, historical memory, solidarity and democratic identity.
Artists include Miguel Hernández Bastos, Lillianne Ruiz and Loida Pretiz.
The result is a portrait of a nation in conversation with itself, plural and unresolved. On view at Galería Talentum in San José until 20 May, it is one of the most ambitious collective exhibitions the Costa Rican art scene has produced in recent years.
Cuerpo y Permanencia, Francisco Zúñiga, Museum of Costa Rican Art, San José.
Room XIV of the Museum of Costa Rican Art in San José hosts a solo exhibition of Francisco Zúñiga, one of Costa Rica's most important artistic figures. The work on show investigates the monumentality and beauty of the human body.
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.
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. Anamorfosis Pequeñas Fracturas is 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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