The Santa Fe gallery’s 2026 lineup celebrates art at the intersection of imagination, innovation and tradition.
Stepping into Hecho a Mano’s historic building just off the Santa Fe Plaza feels like entering a well-tended home; walls lined with works reflecting the vital cultures, languages and landscapes of the region. The new year brings a gathering of returning artists and newcomers to the gallery, each of whom offers a unique sense of the fluidity of home, identity, and belonging.
The year opens with Albuquerque-based duo Oskar Petersen and Sam Hawley, whose playful, colorful work defamiliarizes the stuff of day-to-day life in a dreamlike celebration of the mundane. February brings New Mexican Chicana artist Moira Garcia, known for reconceptualizing iconographies rooted in pre-Hispanic Mexican legacies, whose upcoming show explores the Nahuatl concept of xochiyotl—the essence or being of flowers—probing the transformative power of floral imageries rooted in Mesoamerican culture.
Since its inception in 2019, Hecho a Mano has celebrated the vibrant reciprocity between Mexican and New Mexican art that transcends borders. Spring shows include Mexican-born artist Juana Estrada Hernández, who will exhibit printmaking informed by her experiences growing up in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant and addressing socio-political problems surrounding Hispanic migrant communities; and New Mexican artist Kat Kinnick’s reverent expression of the relationship between New Mexico and Oaxaca through animal symbolism including the jaguar, a creature historically known to travel throughout both regions.
2026 also brings the return of many of the gallery’s core artists, like Muscogee Creek/Potawatomi artist Daniel McCoy, who blends pop art, cartoons, sign painting and murals in a created world that parallels Northern New Mexico; b. brown, who works in large-scale ceramics that map cosmologies and lineages; and Zahra Marwan, a Kuwaiti-born, Albuquerque-based artist whose upcoming show, Paper House, negotiates the concept of home through dreamy watercolors: “Delicate, mobile, fragile; I look for it in people I meet… and who it is that truly makes me feel like I belong,” the artist says.
August’s group show, Geometry of Culture, spotlights the literal geometry in each artists’ work and reflects the greater cultural geometry that inspires them. For instance, Santa Fe-based Piikani artist Terran Last Gun’s work integrates forms from Blackfoot-painted lodges, hides, and war shirts to explore relationships between color, shape, land, cosmos and identity. The show also features returning artists Skye Tafoya, Lehuaukea and Ian Kualii, and newcomer Nancy Ariza, a printmaker whose work explores themes of multigenerational relationships, storytelling, and memory.
“There’s so much chaos in the world right now, we sometimes have to look closer to home to find those moments of joy and peace,” says gallerist Frank Rose. “All of these artists really tap into their personal culture to have that anchor and that root.” Each 2026 exhibition offers audiences a new way to envision the structures, visible and invisible, that shape our lives.
View the full exhibition schedule here.
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