Opening: Jennifer Ling Datchuk: RIPENING

Jennifer Ling Datchuk: RIPENING
On view: September 19, 2205–March 7, 2026
Opening reception: Friday, September 19, 5:30-7:30 pm

Jennifer Ling Datchuk: RIPENING is a multidisciplinary exhibition at the New Mexico State University Art Museum that explores the cost of women’s labor in material culture through five thematic sections: Protest, Rest, Labor, Exploitation, and Ripening. Rooted in Datchuk’s personal history and layered identity—as a woman, a Chinese woman, an “American,” and a third culture kid—the exhibition reflects her practice as a trained ceramicist who works with porcelain, textiles, and hair fibers to examine fragility, beauty, femininity, and intersectionality while challenging the social, cultural, and political systems that continue to hold women back.