Costa Rica Art Exhibitions: What's On Now
w/c 27 July 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 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:
New this week
• The Last Linotypist, San Jose Printing Practices, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San José. On until 15 September.
Exhibitions ordered by closing date
•Doblar El Viento (Bend The Wind), Isaac Loría, Costa Rica Country Club, Escazu. On until 30 July.
•Pigmenta, Ana Elena Fernández, Ana Griselda Hine, Ana Beatriz Sánchez, Magda Córdoba, Maricel Alvarado, Silvia Monge, Xinia Matamoros, Galerá Talentum, San José. On until 31 July.
•Enraíza dos, Alessandra Sequeira, Juan Santamaría Historical and Cultural Museum, Alajuela. On until late September 2026.
•Memoria topográfica. Revisión 1999–2026, Federico Herrero, Museum of Costa Rican Art, San José . On until 15 November 2026.
Currently on view (no published end date)
• Cuerpo y Permanencia, Francisco Zúñiga, Museum of Costa Rican Art, San José.
• Pieles (Skins), Ulises Rivera Lopez | Francisco Vazquez May, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San José.
More information
• The Last Linotypist, San Jose Printing Practices, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San José. On until 15 September.
Don Eduardo Martínez is one of San José's last working linotypists, a craftsman whose disappearing trade this exhibition sets out to preserve.
Linotype once set the type for newspapers and books, cast in lines of molten lead. Don Eduardo's machine still earns its keep today, producing typefaces for graduation certificates, wedding invitations, and first communion favours.
At MADC, Daniela Watson Morúa and Esteban Astorga-Monestel of Taller 20/20 build a living archive around Don Eduardo and his San José printing practice, his workshop, and the craft — stories, documents, objects — asking us to notice and preserve a practice that is disappearing.
Please contact the museum directly for more information.
•Doblar El Viento (Bend The Wind), Isaac Loría, Costa Rica Country Club, Escazu. On until 30 July.
We are excited for Isaac Loría's solo exhibition at the Costa Rica country club Escazu. New paintings will be on show offering a great opportunity to experience the latest work from one of the country's top emerging talents.
Please get in touch for more information or to see available artwork.
Please contact the Costa Rica country club Escazu if you plan on attending.
•Pigmenta, Ana Elena Fernández, Ana Griselda Hine, Ana Beatriz Sánchez, Magda Córdoba, Maricel Alvarado, Silvia Monge, Xinia Matamoros, Galería Talentum, San José. On until 31 July.
Pigmenta is an exhibition that celebrates the great Costa Rican watercolour tradition, with a collective of women untied through the medium, including MÍRAME artist Ana Elena Fernández.
Contact Galería Talentum for more information on Pigmenta and the Costa Rican watercolour artists on display.
•Enraíza dos, Alessandra Sequeira, Juan Santamaría Historical and Cultural Museum, Alajuela. On until late September 2026.
MÍRAME artist Alessandra Sequeira textile exhibition Enraíza dos has moved to the Juan Santamaría Historical and Cultural Museum in Alajuela, where it opened on 20 June and runs until late September. The show presents her most recent textile work — large-scale pieces worked on the floor in circular motion, giving each work the capacity to be read from multiple orientations.
In a curatorial decision specific to this venue, works previously shown vertically now hang horizontally, and others have been completely inverted. The reorientation gives the exhibition a different energy from its previous incarnation. Worth the trip to Alajuela.
Please contact us for more information.
•Memoria topográfica. Revisión 1999–2026, Federico Herrero, Museum of Costa Rican Art, San José. On until 15 November 2026.
One of Costa Rica's most internationally recognised painters, Federico Herrero won the Golden Lion at the 2001 Venice Biennale and has works in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim in New York.
A major retrospective spanning 27 years of work, this show occupies the MAC's Nave Central with more than 30 paintings on canvas alongside archival materials, an in-situ projection room, and an intervention on the museum's terrace. Works range from small to large format and were drawn largely from private Costa Rican collections, many appearing together in a museum context for the first time.
The conceptual thread is San José as creative laboratory as the urban, luminous, fragmentary environment that has shaped Federico Herrero's visual language.
Sponsored by BAC. Admission free through November.
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.
Pieles (Skins), Ulises Rivera Lopez | Francisco Vazquez May, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, 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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