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SponsoredUtah

Experience Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño's solo exhibition in Ogden, Utah. On view through April 21, 2024.

Ogden Contemporary Arts • March 06, 2024

ExhibitionsSouthwest

From airborne sculptures unveiling alternate dimensions to place-based meditations on healing, these spring 2024 exhibitions reveal truths about the past and present to inspire meaningful engagement with an unfolding future.

Erin Averill • March 06, 2024

ReviewArizona

Duwawisioma’s (Victor Masayesva Jr.) retrospective exhibition Màatakuyma at Andrew Smith Gallery in Tucson solidifies the Hopi artist’s importance in contemporary photographic and Indigenous artistic discourse.

Isabella Beroutsos • March 05, 2024

NewsSouthwest

Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.

Erin Averill • March 04, 2024

ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories

In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 9: Living Histories, guest juror Kalyn Fay Barnoski reflects on the ten featured artists and how they engage with cultural, community, or familial histories.  

Kalyn Fay Barnoski • March 01, 2024

Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Delilah Montoya, a Chicana artist based in Albuquerque, turns a mestizaje lens on documentary photography and the representation of women.

Nancy Zastudil • March 01, 2024

Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Navajo weaver Venancio Aragon's journey to revive and preserve Diné weaving amidst modern challenges and cultural appropriation.

Olivia Amaya Ortiz • March 01, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Jeannie Ortiz's fiber art practice in her ancestral desert homeland around Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, helps her fill in the gaps in her family's history. 

Lauren Tresp • March 01, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Tamara Burgh's (Swede, Iñupiaq-Kawerak) art practice is undergirded by questions about what Indigeneity means to the artist and how to move into the future carrying the freight of a weighty past. 

Maggie Grimason • March 01, 2024

ReviewNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories

The Emotional Show's consideration of sentiment and inner sensation has become pronounced in relevance following the terrifying December 6 shooting on the UNLV campus.

Brent Holmes • March 01, 2024

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

An art world debate over the modernist credentials of iconic Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo surfaces tense questions about art, craft, Indigeneity, and the meaning of modernity.

Jordan Eddy • March 01, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Assyrian Irish artist Esther Elia constructs contemporary diasporic visions of ancient legacies through an ever-evolving array of media.

Maggie Grimason • March 01, 2024

ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories

The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures.

Joshua Ware • March 01, 2024

ReviewArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Amalia Mesa-Bains, renowned for altar-style installations that helped bring Chicana art into the mainstream, recently had a retrospective exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum.

Lynn Trimble • March 01, 2024

FeatureColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories

Amid rapid urban development, Colorado struggles with the preservation of murals as living testaments to cultural identity.

Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Marlowe Katoney (Diné) draws on personal experience and Navajo, street, and popular culture to create weavings and paintings that defy conventional notions of beauty and Indigenous art.

Lynn Trimble • March 01, 2024

EssayUtahVol. 9 Living Histories

In this essay, nicholas b jacobsen braids together ongoing histories of Mormon and U.S. settler colonialism and genocide against Nuwu and Diné peoples at Pipe Spring National Monument and Lake Powell.

nicholas b jacobsen • March 01, 2024

ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories

Santa Fe-based artist Chaz John's (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Mississippi Band Choctaw, European) latest works explore the characters, stories, and archetypes that crisscross generations and cultures.

Lauren Tresp • March 01, 2024

FeatureNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories

Brent Holmes finds kinship in the Barton Brothers, two early, unsung homesteaders to Nevada, through the shared experience of being Black in the American West.

Brent Holmes • March 01, 2024

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest 1900–1969 at the New Mexico Museum of Art collects work by and about queer artists working in New Mexico.

Robin Babb • March 01, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 9 Living Histories

Andrew Ina's multi-media artwork delves into diasporic memory and displacement, using his family's photographs documenting their lives in Lebanon and the United States.

Natalie Hegert • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Medical doctor, photographer, and public artist Chip Thomas has taken a historical turn in his work, building on deep, place-based research and activating architecture with archival discoveries.

Natalie Hegert • March 01, 2024

FeatureArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Sedona was once a Surrealism outpost in the desert, where resident artists Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning made work at their home, Capricorn Hill. 

Camille LeFevre • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Jisun Myung blurs the lines between survival and growth through food-based art, cultivating community and connection.

Joshua Ware • March 01, 2024

ReviewTexasVol. 9 Living Histories

The 2024 Border Biennial at El Paso Museum of Art explores how regional artists experience and interact with the Borderlands, and also acts as a barometer for area contemporary art.

Steve Jansen • March 01, 2024

InterviewUtahVol. 9 Living Histories

Salt Lake City-based writer Paisley Rekdal discusses poetry as an archive and cultural connecter in the history of the transcontinental railroad.

Kathryne Lim • March 01, 2024

FeatureUtahVol. 9 Living Histories

After living at an abandoned commune in rural Utah for eight years, author Emma Kemp blends history with memoir in her forthcoming book.

Emily Arntsen • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Jacey Coca uses photography and beadwork to explore her own Mexican and Korean heritage as part of an evolving creative practice that examines identity, memory, and nostalgia.

Lynn Trimble • March 01, 2024

EssayVol. 9 Living Histories

Aleina Grace Edwards considers the ways science, religion, and climate change run together in the Dinosaur Capital of Texas.

Aleina Grace Edwards • March 01, 2024

ReviewUtahVol. 9 Living Histories

Shaping Landscapes illuminates the state's history, using photography as a platform for exploring technology, identity, and activism.

Scotti Hill • March 01, 2024