The Legacy of Phoenix Graffiti Pioneer Pablo Luna
El Mac reflects on the influential creative output of Arizona-based graffiti innovator Pablo Luna (AKA KAPER), who spent four decades making art before his death last month.
El Mac reflects on the influential creative output of Arizona-based graffiti innovator Pablo Luna (AKA KAPER), who spent four decades making art before his death last month. By Lynn Trimble
Khang Pham-New's monumental sculptures in granite are feats of stoneworking and artistry on view at Tesuque's Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden. By Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden
A debut solo exhibition by Albuquerque artist and muralist Nani Chacon (Diné, Chicana) celebrates Indigeneity through storytelling and design. By Kathryne Lim
Collectivity + CollaborationColorado
The absence of water and its ecological effects are the subjects of an emerging speculative earthwork by the French artist Marguerite Humeau and nomadic art museum Black Cube. By Emilie Trice
Hecho Gallery, a new sibling of Hecho a Mano, opened in Downtown Santa Fe on April 1, 2022 with offerings of new and contemporary art from New Mexico and Oaxaca. By Hecho Gallery
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Veterans Off Grid in rural Northern New Mexico helps vulnerable veterans get back on their feet in a setting that’s a model for sustainable architecture, community building, and affordable housing. By Dawn Penso
The Agnes Martin Gallery at the Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico embodies Yi-Fu Tuan’s concept of mythic space. By Joshua Ware
During Utah’s 2022 legislative session, poet and community leader Nan Seymour crafted a site vigil and collective poem, an act of community activism that highlighted the in-flux Great Salt Lake. By Scotti Hill
Collectivity + CollaborationNew Mexico
Through the Flower in Belen, New Mexico is organizing a new installation with a collective of New Mexico artists to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Judy Chicago’s Womanhouse. By Caitlin Chávez
A believed first-time gathering of Utah contemporary art curators at the 2022 Spring Summit in Green River yields big dreams and ideas for improvement. By Steve Jansen
Mitsuru Ando, a Tokyo-based painter inspired by biology and Eastern medicine, opens his first solo exhibition in the United States at Kouri + Corrao Gallery in Santa Fe on April 22. By Kouri + Corrao Gallery
A book series diving into historical and current alternative art establishments in major stateside cities visits Texas in Impractical Spaces: Houston. Here are five current H-Town favorites from the book. By Caitlin Chávez
New Mexico sculptor Jeremy Thomas uses inflation to create three-dimensional works of steel and canvas that explore air as a medium. By Joshua Ware
David Rios Ferreira and Denae Shanidiin collaborate in a multimedia exhibition at UMFA featuring portals to connect us to lost loved ones and heal communal pain. By Hannah McBeth
A jewelry-making program helps train artisans for steady career opportunities in Albuquerque. That may not be enough for the cash-strapped school. By Steve Jansen
In The Passage, Tucson artist Nika Kaiser reimagines endings and the possibilities of a post-human future inspired by the reemergence of Glen Canyon. By Eva-Marie Hube
Fox Hysen, the 2022 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist, will present a talk at the Albuquerque Museum on April 28 and host an open studio on the UNM campus on April 21. By UNM Art Department and Frederick Hammersley Foundation
Rochelle Johnson, an artist in residence at Denver’s RedLine Contemporary Art Center, is a figurative oil painter who imbues her work with messages about women’s beauty, the Black community, and the human condition. By Deborah Ross
Artist Sarah Alice Moran's debut solo exhibition at Smoke The Moon gallery in Santa Fe features imagery of mythological creatures, symbolic figures, and explosive compositions. By Smoke The Moon
Julio César Morales explores cultural differences as senior curator for ASU Art Museum in Arizona, drawing on his binational experiences to address social justice issues through collaboration. By Lynn Trimble
Collectivity + CollaborationColorado
A new hanging of Clyfford Still’s work, co-curated by a cohort of young children, presents "not just boring grown-up things" at Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum. By Natalie Hegert
Salt Lake City artist Mitsu Salmon explores issues of racism, environmentalism, and sexuality. Her performance-based approach to a multi-disciplinary practice crafts an immersive experience between artist and viewer. By Scotti Hill
Santa Fe artist Sam Scott’s new body of work on view at Pie Projects, Mind/Mirror, is an invitation to peel back visual layers and a journey into the very essence of abstraction. By Pie Projects
Indigenous artist Brad Kahlhamer explores nomadic existence and hybrid identity in Swap Meet exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. By Lynn Trimble
Galveston, Texas artist Nick Barbee uses the process of abstraction in recounting American history and personal experiences in his paintings, sculpture, and installation. By Caitlin Chávez
SITE Santa Fe opens Nani Chacon: SPECTRUM, an exhibition featuring eight newly commissioned paintings and a survey of public artworks by the New Mexico-based artist. By SITE Santa Fe
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Southwest Contemporary
In So That We May Fear Not at Finch Lane, photographer Jesse Meredith documents an American militia group and illustrates contradictory narratives of maleness and patriotism. By Hannah McBeth
Denver-based poet Nicky Beer’s Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes is a clever, probing look into the collective desires and fears underlying our love of illusion. By Willow Naomi Curry
A new book, Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance, spotlights the voices, experiences, and art of dancers with disabilities. By Tamara Johnson
If you decide to Gogh, be prepared for decent visuals, a hefty debit charge, and a pun or two at the Beyond Van Gogh projection room at Albuquerque’s Sawmill District. By Steve Jansen
UMOCA’s artist-in-residence program in Salt Lake City provides studio space and exhibition opportunities for Utah artists while enriching the local arts community. By Natalie Hegert
Gerald Peters Contemporary presents On the Threshold of Dusk, featuring new and recent works by Elizabeth Hohimer on view at the gallery’s New York location. By Gerald Peters Contemporary
As war, climate change, and COVID-19 dominate the headlines, Phoenix Art Museum presents Breaking Up, an exhibition featuring women artists exploring fragmentation on personal and global scales. By Lynn Trimble
In Celestial Movement, artist Tom Kirby's latest exhibition at Winterowd Fine Art on Santa Fe's historic Canyon Road, the artist's transcendental paintings explore the mysterious and limitless skies as the earth makes its elliptical path through space. By Winterowd Fine Art
Collectivity + CollaborationUtah
The For Freedoms collective, dubbed the country’s largest network of artists, cultural workers, and organizations, engages in tough and important conversations about social change through artistic civic activism. By Steve Jansen
Collectivity + CollaborationTexas
El Paso, Texas-based Juntos Art Association tackles the power of place and the “who is heard” component of storytelling in its multi-faceted project, Icons and Symbols of the Borderland. By Hannah Dean
Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) melds Indigenous patterns, materials, and symbolism with modernist archetypes in Speaking To Relatives at MCA Denver. By Emilie Trice
Sara Hubbs’s exhibition Soft shoulder at Everybody gallery in Tucson pays homage to the inseparability of art and life. By Thao Votang
Houston curator Suzanne Zeller uses their curatorial platform to promote underrepresented queer narratives in contemporary photography. By Caitlin Chávez
Southwest Contemporary's handy roundup of choice spring 2022 art exhibitions includes shows in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. By Steve Jansen
Bishop's Lodge is a Santa Fe landmark steeped in history, and is a distinctive venue to explore arts, dining, the outdoors, and wellness in the Southwest—whether you leave the grounds or not. By Auberge Resorts Collection
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