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ReviewTexasVol. 14 Alien

In Historia Sintética at Dallas Contemporary, Francisco Moreno blends history and fantasy to shape a surreal new reality.

Emma S. Ahmad • September 04, 2026

ReviewColorado

Daniel and Maruca Salazar’s retrospective at Museo de las Americas celebrates fifty years of Chicano art and activism in Denver.

Raymundo Muñoz • September 04, 2026

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien

As the U.S. hits a major anniversary, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture gathers American imagery with Indigenous origins.

Kathryne Lim • September 04, 2026

ReviewUtahVol. 14 Alien

Kimball Art Center makes space for this group exhibition to zero in on our ears—and it's all-consuming.

Scotti Hill • September 04, 2026

ReviewArizonaVol. 14 Alien

"We turn backward to move forward," explains the collective Hilma’s Ghost. Their work challenges erasure in the art historical canon and foregrounds female, queer, and trans artists.

Lynn Trimble • September 04, 2026

EssayVol. 14 Alien

Leslie Moody Castro reflects on the slippery definition of "alien" through the artists featured in Southwest Contemporary Vol. 14: ALIEN.

Leslie Moody Castro • September 04, 2026

ArtistsArizonaVol. 14 Alien

Photographer Marcus Xavier Chormicle reclaims his medium for his family and ancestral lands through an intimate photo collection.

Sage Vogel • September 04, 2026

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien

Jess Johnson's immersive exhibitions transcend every timeline, resolving visceral alternate realities through drawings and installations.

Rica Maestas • September 04, 2026

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien

Hayley Krichels cuts up the hair, skin, and fingers of her human suit to imagine a new humanity of fragments.

Rica Maestas • September 04, 2026

ArtistsNevadaVol. 14 Alien

Step aside, quirky and drab extraterrestrials. Faye Lenore reimagines alien iconography with atypical panache.

Max Stone • September 04, 2026

ArtistsTexasVol. 14 Alien

Chantal Lesley uses self-portraiture and the Andean concept of pachakuti to explore identity, belonging, and transformation across borders.

Emma S. Ahmad • September 04, 2026

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien

Jess Merritt’s mixed-media photographs and sculptures may stir the subconscious, but they're grounded in the Southwest landscape.

Adele Oliveira • September 04, 2026

ArtistsNevadaVol. 14 Alien

Video artist Lauren(ce) Myers Reese connects transness to the land and the queer collective through concertedly cryptic visual language.

Max Stone • September 04, 2026

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien

Adrian Pijoan explores Bigfoot, UFOs, and paranormal belief, framing the supernatural as a social practice.

Sage Vogel • September 04, 2026

ArtistsTexasVol. 14 Alien

JR Roykovich renders the veil thinner by embedding historically loaded artifacts in spectral installations.

Emma S. Ahmad • September 04, 2026

ArtistsColoradoVol. 14 Alien

Kevin Sloan’s paintings of endangered species set against surreal, Edenic backdrops, remind the viewer how much beauty we have left to lose.

Adele Oliveira • September 04, 2026

SponsoredNew Mexico

Ahead of his exhibition Faces of Time at New Concept Gallery in Santa Fe, Daniel D Stine spoke with Jamie McLaren about his influences and meticulous line work. 

Daniel D. Stine and Jamie McLaren • September 04, 2026

SponsoredNew Mexico

CENTER's Portfolio Walk brings 100 juried photographers to Santa Fe's Farmers' Market Pavilion, October 24, as part of Review Santa Fe's 25th year.

CENTER Santa Fe • September 04, 2026

SponsoredNew Mexico

Deborah Fritz's two Santa Fe galleries open contrasting exhibitions this September—Melinda K. Hall's playful memory-work and Gigi Mills's contemplative landscapes.

GF Contemporary and Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art • September 04, 2026

SponsoredArizona

From Claire Campbell Park’s luminous weavings to Alex Macias’s bold borderlands portraiture, Steinfeld Gallery & Studios’ new exhibition includes work by some of the most inventive artists of Southern Arizona.

Steinfeld Gallery & Studios • September 01, 2026

NewsArizona

Tucson artists are reeling—and reminiscing—amid the displacement of a forty-six-year-old photography gallery with international clout.

Lynn Trimble • August 27, 2026

SWC Artist Marketing Grant

Across research, studio practice, publishing, and curatorial work, Storey approaches queer history as something living rather than fixed: continually gathered, questioned, preserved, and reimagined.

Nathan Storey • August 25, 2026

NewsArizona

With Artist Hopid Unveiled, the Museum of Northern Arizona celebrates the shared cultural voice of the groundbreaking Indigenous artist collective founded in the 1970s.

Camille LeFevre • August 25, 2026

SponsoredArizona

Celebrate the fall season at ASU Art Museum with an evening of art, music, and community on Thursday, September 10.

ASU Art Museum • August 25, 2026

NewsSouthwest

Since a seismic round of NEA grant retractions in 2025, arts organizations have overhauled funding strategies with stability in mind.

Lynn Trimble • August 21, 2026

ReviewCalifornia

Esotericism and activism collide in A Queer Arcana, a wide-ranging exhibition of art and ephemera from the LGBTQ+ underground, part of the Palm Springs Art Museum's Q+ Art Initiative.

Caitlin Chávez • August 20, 2026

NewsTexas

They were fast friends who started a frame shop in El Paso. Five years later, their "extra risky" move has paid off for the local creative community.

Graciela Blandon • August 18, 2026

ReviewUtah

At UMOCA, Eleanor Mahin Thorp turns minerals, mining waste, and paint into wildernesses that are far from unspoiled—rather, they’re charged with agency.

Austin Doty • August 13, 2026

NewsSouthwest

Santa Fe’s last video store, a nonprofit in Albuquerque, and an archive in Texas venerate and preserve analog media in the age of AI. 

Adele Oliveira • August 11, 2026

SponsoredNew Mexico

Santa Fe County blends stunning landscapes, creative culture, and economic support to help entrepreneurs like Broken Arrow Glass Recycling thrive.

Santa Fe County • August 11, 2026