20 Years: Ruiz-Healy Art

Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to present 20 Years: Ruiz-Healy Art, a group exhibition featuring 20 artists represented in the gallery’s program, celebrating the gallery’s two-decade anniversary. 20 Years: Ruiz-Healy Art will be on view at our San Antonio gallery from November 21, 2026, to February 6, 2027. The exhibition will feature works by Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera, Jesse Amado, Richard ‘Ricky’ Armendariz, Cecilia Biagini, Mel Casas, Nate Cassie, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Alejandro Diaz, Graciela Iturbide, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Leigh Anne Lester, Nicolás Leiva, Constance Lowe, César A. Martínez, Celia Álvarez Muñoz, Cecilia Paredes, Eva Marengo Sanchez, Ethel Shipton, Chuck Ramirez, and Frank Romero. 

Ruiz-Healy Art was founded in 2006 by Dr. Patricia Ruiz-Healy in San Antonio, Texas. That fall, the gallery presented its inaugural exhibition, Art in Dialogue, a group show featuring works by Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera, Graciela Iturbide, Pedro Friedeberg, Angel Rodriguez-Diaz, Roger Von Gunten, and Ray Smith. Thirteen years later, in the spring of 2019, Ruiz-Healy Art debuted its New York City gallery space with Photographing Identity, a dual exhibition featuring works by Chuck Ramirez and Cecilia Paredes. Ruiz-Healy Art represents an international roster of artists, emphasizing Latino/a, Latin American, and prominent Texas-based artists. Biculturalism and discussions of identity are pillars of our gallery program, and our spaces aim to foster dialogues that span generations and geographies.

Over the last 20 years, Ruiz-Healy Art has hosted more than 130 exhibitions across its San Antonio and New York spaces, produced over 45 publications, and exhibited at 37 fairs across the United States and Latin America. Publishing exhibition catalogues, commissioning essays, and encouraging scholarship on its artists are key parts of the gallery program. Rooted in the rigor of the art historical discipline, Ruiz-Healy’s approach accentuates the importance of contextualizing each artist’s practice in its depth and significance. The gallery is proud to have built a strong presence at art fairs across the United States and Latin America, including Frieze, The Association of International Photography Art Dealers, the Armory Show, and Zona Maco. Ruiz-Healy’s participation in these fairs marks an important milestone and advances our mission by placing its artists alongside some of the art world’s biggest names.

As a result of this consistent work, Ruiz-Healy Art has placed works in major public and private collections across the United States, Latin America, and Europe. These collections include the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the McNay Museum, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the Dom Museum Wien, El Museo del Barrio, and many more. These placements highlight the lasting impact of the gallery’s artists and reflect our ongoing commitment to creating and sustaining space for artists from historically underrepresented groups. We’re honored to collaborate with the estates of Chuck Ramirez and Mel Casas and help steward their legacies. 

Ruiz-Healy Art thanks everyone who has helped us reach 20 years. To our artists, collectors, curators, collaborators, and employees, the gallery expresses its endless gratitude for supporting Ruiz-Healy Art’s mission and helping us reach this milestone anniversary. “I am deeply grateful to San Antonio for embracing us as our adopted city and for supporting our evolution from an appointment-only gallery into two vibrant brick-and-mortar spaces. Opening our New York gallery in 2019 was made possible by my daughter, Patti, my partner. Together with our exceptional staff, we collaborate closely to bring our vision to life across both locations,” says Dr. Patricia Ruiz-Healy, founder and director.