Rex Hausmann

He has shown his artwork at the 53rd Venice Biennale, The Smithsonian in Washington DC, The McNay Museum, The Spencer Museum of Art, The Sheen Center NYC, The Institute of Texan Cultures, Neiman Marcus, The Lawrence Art Center, among others. Rex has also lectured nationally and internationally, appearing in many speaking functions including the renowned TED Talks with the TEDx San Antonio at Trinity University, McNay Museum of Art, The San Antonio Museum of Art, and The University of Texas at San Antonio as well as The Spencer Museum of Art. He has spoken on National Public Radio many times across the United States discussing his unique approach to art, his community, and his own genre of Meta-Modernism.

Hausmann’s art is colorful, accessible, and autobiographical, as he tries to speak not only the language of the art world, but to everyday people as well. Highly influential in Hausmann’s artwork is the underlying trauma of two near death experiences from being shot in the leg at point blank range during a senseless gang initiation in Savannah. Georgia. The artist suffers from PTSD from this horrific experience, however his use of neon colors and heightened sense of hues for his signature palettes are directly derived from this life-altering experience.

Select Exhibitions include: “Rex Hausmann: The Prayer,” Sheen Center NYC, New York, New York ; 2019 “Stations,” Sheen Center NYC, New York, New York; “New Works,” Perkins & Will New York: New York, New York; “Play,” The San Antonio Children's Museum, San Antonio, Texas; “Conversation on the Constitution,” The San Antonio Library Foundation, San Antonio, Texas; “Dannon Art Project,” The Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, Kansas; “Universal Language,” Cara & Cabezas Contemporary, Kansas City, Kansas; “6 Artists Celebrate The McNay's 60th,” McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; “Rex Hausmann’s Ithica,” The Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, Texas; “Blood and Fire,” All Things Project, New York, New York; “Introducing Introduction," Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; “Revisitation,” Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; “A Seat for Social Justice,” The Smithsonian, Washington DC; “Selected Works,” The Waterfall Mansion and Gallery, New York New York; “Light House,” The Waterfall Mansion and Gallery, New York, New York; “Spin It Your Way: Art on Vinal,” McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; “Art in National Parks,” The United States Department of The Interior Atlanta, Hatsfield-Jackson , Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia; “A Response: The Hispanic Society of America NYC,” Hausmann Millworks, San Antonio, Texas; “Texas Contemporary Artist Series,” The Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, Texas; “The Print Project: Robert Indiana,” The McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas; “ “Détournement Venice 2009 (14),” The Venice Biennial, New York, New York / Venice, Italy 2009.