Image: Ruby City, San Antonio
Ruby City opens 'Generative Disruption: Feminist Art from the Collection' on Saturday 26 September 2026, and the centre's own listing gives the run through Sunday 29 August 2027 — a year on view rather than the few weeks the earlier draft implied. The exhibition is drawn from the Linda Pace Foundation Collection, at 150 Camp Street in San Antonio, and, like everything at Ruby City, is free.
Ruby City's fall announcement describes an exhibition built around identity, gender and the lived experiences of women, considering agency, embodiment, power and representation, and giving weight to materials long dismissed as domestic or unconventional — staples and menstrual blood among them. Artists named include Tracey Emin, Koo Jeong A, Tracey Moffatt, Wangechi Mutu, Anya Gallaccio, Mona Hatoum, Shahzia Sikander and Tala Madani.
Opening day carries its own programme: a walkthrough led by Ruby City director Elyse A. Gonzales from 2 to 3pm, followed by a reception from 3 to 5pm with music from DJ Heavyflow and food from Norichmen. The centre lists free parking at its own lot on S Flores, along Camp Street and at the City of San Antonio One Stop lot on S Alamo.
A second project opens the same day: a site-specific mural by San Antonio artist Matt Kleberg, made in response to the building Sir David Adjaye and Adjaye Associates designed for the site. Kleberg's work draws on architectural forms, ceremonial spaces and theatrical settings, and it inaugurates a new programme of long-term, site-responsive commissions in which artists will work directly with Ruby City's architecture and campus.
The season's third strand arrives on Thursday 29 October, when Chuck Ramirez's 'Christmas Trees' returns in Studio, the space inside Chris Park at 111 Camp Street. Commissioned by Linda Pace in 2005 and made under her directive that 'More is More!', the sculptures build holiday ornaments, boas, beads and artificial flowers into works that sit between decoration and sculpture; the writer and curator Anjali Gupta, a friend of the artist, is quoted in the announcement on his gift for monumentalizing the disposable. Ruby City is open Thursday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm, and its other current exhibitions are Tracey Rose (6 June 2026 – 9 May 2027), 'Daniel Rios Rodriguez: Open This Wall' (25 October 2025 – 4 October 2026) and 'Sensing Meaning, Abstract Painting' (27 September 2025 – 30 August 2026).
