Stephen Robeck’s Abstract Photography Captures Exquisite Natural Textures
Santa Fe-based photographer Stephen Robeck captures abstract forms, colors, and textures from wilderness landscapes and waterscapes across the U.S.
May 23, 2025
Announcing Southwest Contemporary‘s Art Party Fundraiser and Benefit Auction
Southwest Contemporary announces the Art Party, our first fundraiser event and benefit art auction in support of arts journalism in the Southwest on Friday, June 6, in Santa Fe.
April 28, 2025
Discover Rising National Talents at Future Fair in Chelsea
Future Fair celebrates five years with diverse galleries showcasing emerging artists, inclusive representation, the Pay-It-Forward Fund, and nearly seventy exhibitors in Chelsea during New York's spring fairs.
April 22, 2025
Missing Waters Reimagines Santa Fe’s Forgotten Waterways
Environmental artist Stacy Levy brings Santa Fe’s lost acequias back to life with Missing Waters, a temporary chalk water map installation at the Santa Fe Railyard April 25-29, 2025.
April 08, 2025
Group Exhibition Brings Light and Space Greats to Albuquerque
Explore the transformative Light and Space art movement at Albuquerque Museum April 5–July 20, 2025, featuring groundbreaking works that redefine perception through light, color, and spatial experience.
April 01, 2025
Goodman Fellowship Showcases Native Artists’ Excellence
Discover nineteen contemporary Native artists' works at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture's exhibition Engaging the Future, showcasing Goodman Fellowship recipients' creative excellence across multiple disciplines.
March 25, 2025
Grace Kennison: Reimagining the American West Through a Female Lens
Grace Kennison, represented by Visions West Contemporary, explores the American West through a female lens, challenging narratives with dreamlike paintings examining land and identity.
March 18, 2025
Gerald Peters Contemporary Announces 2025 Exhibitions
Gerald Peters Contemporary kicks off a season of compelling shows including explorations of American narratives through diverse perspectives, trends in female pop art, a special guest-curated exhibition by Erin Joyce and Ninabah Winton, and more.
March 11, 2025
From the EditorVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
From the Editors: Southwest Contemporary Vol. 11 — The Hyperlocal
Discover how Southwest Contemporary: The Hyperlocal explores art that connects immediate environments to global concerns—from borderland communities to regional myths and climate concerns.
March 07, 2025
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
For Futuros Ancestral, Cultural Preservation is Synonymous with Innovation
New Mexico's fiber artists at Futuros Ancestral are weaving technology with tradition to preserve heritage textile practices for future generations.
March 07, 2025
Studio VisitMexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Israel Gómez Mares: Transformando Sedimentos
Ceramic artist Israel Gómez Mares transforms his Ciudad Juárez studio into a community hub while creating art that connects desert clay to regional identity.
March 07, 2025
Guest Juror Jaime Herrell Introduces The Hyperlocal
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 11: The Hyperlocal, curator and guest juror Jaime Herrell explores how the artworks in this issue transform personal experiences into universal connections.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Joshua Graham
Salt Lake City–based artist Joshua Graham explores site-specificity through walking and collecting, gathering objects in the foothills above the city and reconfiguring them in the gallery.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Gil Rocha
Laredo-based artist Gil Rocha uses found objects from his Texas neighborhood and items purchased across the U.S.-Mexico border to capture the duality of the region.
March 07, 2025
ReviewUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Arleene Correa Valencia Stitches Together Identity Through the Trauma of Immigration
Arleene Correa Valencia’s exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts reveals the indelible imprint of growing up as an undocumented migrant through personal writings, photographs, and textiles.
March 07, 2025
EssayNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Center of the Universe: Agency and Ecology in a 77-Degree October
Bruce Nauman’s Center of the Universe on the campus of the University of New Mexico inspires a personal ritual and creative essay that asks us to reconnect to the environment and ourselves.
March 07, 2025
The Intimate Infinite Brings Tomiko Jones’s Investigations of Place to MSU’s Center for Visual Art
Tomiko Jones's solo exhibition at the Center for Visual Art at MSU Denver features lens-based investigations of place and examines the notion of national belonging as it intersects with the American landscape.
February 25, 2025
A Work in Progress… or in Decline?: James Gould’s Sprickle
The Santa Fe Railyard Art Project's latest installation is a playful structure by artist James Gould that evokes agricultural heritage and places of shelter.
February 18, 2025
UNM College of Fine Arts Announces Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist: Larry Madrigal
Larry Madrigal, the UNM College of Fine Arts Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist, presents an artist talk and open studio in Albuquerque this spring.
February 13, 2025
Time Travel is the Easy Part: Erika Wanenmacher’s Solo Show at SITE Santa Fe
In what Time Travel feels like, sometimes, New Mexico–based artist Erika Wanenmacher's major solo exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, the artist collapses the distance between the mystical and the everyday.
January 21, 2025
Permanence of Earth: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture
The Shaw Gallery at Weber State University hosts ten ceramic artists during the 59th annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.
January 08, 2025
Seascapes in the Desert: RioBravoFineArt Opens 27th Year with Paintings by Leo Neufeld
RioBravoFineArt's twenty-seventh year opens with an exhibition of plein-air seascapes of the Pacific Coast by painter Leo Neufeld.
January 07, 2025
Inside Southwest ContemporarySouthwest
The Top 10 Southwest Contemporary Stories of 2024
Southwest Contemporary's most widely read stories of 2024 reflect some of the most urgent issues within the arts.
January 02, 2025
Help us Raise $7,500 During our Year-End Fundraiser
Become a member or make a donation during the month of December and double your impact for arts journalism. Plus, two new resources for SWC Members!
December 01, 2024
Arizona State University’s Top-Ranked MFA Includes a Three-Year Teaching Assistantship
The School of Art at ASU advances generative art practices driven by research, ideas, and effective public engagement. Attend an info session on December 6, 2024, and apply by January 15, 2025.
November 22, 2024
Reexamine the West with an Interactive Reading by Poet Paisley Rekdal
Paisley Rekdal will read selections from West: A Translation with live guidance from the audience in a powerful, informative, and cathartic experience at 516 Words on Thursday, December 5, in Albuquerque.
November 20, 2024
Salt Lines Converge at Southern Utah Museum of Art
Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx examines the past, present, and future of salt in the global landscape through the work of duo Hylozoic/Desires, photographer David Maisel, and poet and photographer Alexandra Fuller.
November 19, 2024
Through Movement, Keshet Dance Company Explores How to Ask A More Beautiful Question
Keshet Dance Company's latest work features eight choreographers delving into the nature and of questioning, free will and destiny, and our potential to create change.
November 06, 2024
Akin Blends Passion for Design with Love of Genealogy
Akin helps families commemorate their ancestry in the form of custom-designed books using memorabilia, genealogical discoveries, and all-inclusive design know-how.
October 24, 2024
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Virgil Ortiz: Historical Memory, Indigenous Futurisms, and the Art of Storytelling in 2180
Drawing from his community’s roots in social commentary, Virgil Ortiz crafts a future without limitations, and his epic series Revolt 1680/2180 reaches a climax this fall.
September 06, 2024
