In collaboration with Jorge Ceja Valencia, we’ve put together this selection of the best art exhibitions currently on view in Guadalajara.
We recommend taking advantage of your visit to these galleries and museums to explore their other exhibitions, as well as the surrounding areas.
Check out the selection, which includes everything from small venues to larger art spaces. Add this to your September to-do list!
Vital Phenomenon
This exhibition offers a glimpse into one of the most significant periods of Guadalajara’s art scene in the late 20th century: five great masters— Alejandro Colunga, Jorge Alzaga, Pepín Hernández Laos, Ramiro Torreblanca, and Luis Valsoto—gathered at MUSA, showcasing the works that led our city and the world to begin calling them “vitalists.”
They earned this name after rethinking painting and placing what they called the “vital phenomenon” at its center—a process that focused on the human condition, emotions, and everyday experiences, and which redefined the human figure at a time when abstract art dominated the art world in the 1970s.
📅 On view through November 15, 2026
🕒 Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
🎟️ Free admission
Mythology of Excess
Something interesting happens in your brain when you look at a piece like the ones Carlos Torres is exhibiting here. Using geometry, he creates patterns that you don’t see at first glance: your eyes register a complete image—an industrial setting, a wasteland, a city—but as you get closer, you discover that each work is made up of thousands of tiny diagrams.
Everything revolves around a single theme: addressing excessive consumption, the industrial environment in which we live, and how we have stripped the environment of its humanity.
📅 Open all month
🕒 Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
🎟️ Free admission
Graphic Arts Group Exhibition
It’s always a treasure to come across the work of a new talent and discover what it evokes in you, and in this exhibition, that feeling is multiplied tenfold.
On display here are several works by graphic artists from Jalisco and Mexico who previously participated in the “La Tirada” art fair: dozens of themes, styles, techniques, and perspectives that reflect the artistic diversity of the country’s new generation of graphic artists.
📅 On view through September 28
🕒 Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
🎟️ Free admission
The Watermark
“Art is a reflection of the human condition” is a phrase that has been repeated throughout our history, and this exhibition is no exception. It comes as no surprise to anyone in our state capital that, for weeks, the water crisis has affected tens of thousands of people, has been a topic of debate in various political discourses, and has dominated newspaper headlines and news broadcasts.
But when, in every context, water is viewed solely as a resource and its vitality and social importance are overlooked, we fail to see the most striking face of this crisis: that of the desolate rural landscape, that of the collapsed urban environment, and that of a city whose inhabitants cannot access the very substance that gave rise to life.
📅 Open all month
🕒 Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
🎟️ Free admission
Transmutations of Ceramics and Metal
In this exhibition, the protagonists are the materials themselves—metal and ceramics—their transformations, their interactions, and the ways they are shaped. Antonio Quintero brings together three decades of research on these materials to demonstrate how they can be transformed and used to create visual narratives.
📅 Open all month
🕒 Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
🎟️ Free admission
