Artpace, Contemporary art gallery in downtown San Antonio, United States.

Artpace is an art center in a converted industrial building downtown San Antonio with multiple exhibition areas and working studios. The rooms make it possible to experience contemporary art forms and how artists work directly.

Artpace was founded by artist, collector and philanthropist Linda Pace and opened in 1995 in a former 1920s Hudson automobile dealership. Its 18,000 square feet of industrial space were converted into five exhibition galleries, three apartments for visiting artists and curators, an archives and research library, and a workshop. The International Artist-in-Residence program began with the institution, and more than 250 artists have taken part since 1995.

Each residency cycle opens with a potluck dinner that introduces the three artists to local residents, and closes with a curator-artist dialogue held alongside the exhibition opening. The education department runs Chalk It Up, which each year turns Houston Street into temporary chalk murals made by artists of all ages.

Artpace occupies 18,000 square feet of a former 1920s Hudson automobile dealership in downtown San Antonio, with five exhibition spaces, three furnished artist apartments, an archives and research library, and a workshop. Admission is free and the building is open to the public. Look for the stacked orange-red and yellow-ochre volumes with the "artpace" sign, near the green bicycle-route marker 5.

The center provides housing and personal studios directly in the building for artists, which lets visitors watch creators at work during their daily routines. This close link between exhibition space and working space sets the place apart from regular galleries.