Southwest Contemporary announces our inaugural Community Editorial Advisory Board, a group of arts leaders from across the region who will provide us with critical feedback about important stories we need to tell.
January 06, 2023
Lauren Tresp, publisher and editor, looks back at 2022, a year of growth, engagement, and relationship-building for Southwest Contemporary.
December 31, 2022
Southwest Contemporary's staff, Natalie Hegert, Steve Jansen, Angie Rizzo, and Lauren Tresp, pick their favorite reads—and one podcast—of 2022.
December 28, 2022
With new work by Emi Ozawa and Jeff Kellar, two winter exhibitions play with perception and illusion at Richard Levy Gallery.
December 07, 2022
The Southern Utah Museum of Art celebrates the legacy of Utah artist Jimmie F. Jones with a new semi-permanent exhibition space and permanent, interactive touchscreen kiosk.
December 06, 2022
Join us at Critical Commons, a lively panel discussion and Q+A exploring the current state of art criticism and art writing in Denver and the greater Southwest at RedLine Contemporary Art Center.
November 23, 2022
Longtime New Mexico artist Gary Niblett receives the retrospective treatment at the Carlsbad Museum November 5, 2022 through February 4, 2023.
November 08, 2022
Pie Projects celebrates the vision of artists Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum, both immersed in the history and practice of lens-based imagery.
November 03, 2022
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Art Steady 3.0 offers a powerhouse line-up of presenters touching on essential topics for all artists at any stage of their careers.
November 02, 2022
Experience the magic of Chaco Culture National Historical Park at the National Parks Arts Foundation's artist residency program, now accepting applications from artists in all disciplines.
October 27, 2022
IAIA will present the IAIA Making History Symposium on October 17, 2022, a day-long illumination of the school's sixty-year evolution from an arts-focused Native American high school to a technologically advanced college.
October 11, 2022
Flowers and Herb Markets in Old Town Albuquerque curates a selection of products ranging from fresh flower arrangements to sexual wellness and local, sustainably grown cannabis, and its business model is committed to the local community.
October 04, 2022
Richard Levy Gallery presents two solo exhibitions this fall: new work by Albuquerque artist Karsten Creightney and Los Angeles artist Sarah Hadley.
September 20, 2022
Santa Fe’s September celebration of art spotlights Kevin and Jennifer Box's Origami in the Garden with a gallery show, a documentary film, and a studio tour in Northern New Mexico.
September 13, 2022
In Air at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, sixteen contemporary artists from around the globe illuminate how air connects us to each other and the planet.
September 07, 2022
This fall, artists celebrate thirty years of creative community in Eldorado by opening their studios to the public during the Eldorado Studio Tour.
September 06, 2022
ArtistsColoradoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Alex Branch is a Colorado-based interdisciplinary artist whose works can be architectural, acoustic, or kinetic, and often require human involvement to be fully realized.
August 26, 2022
FeatureUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
A survey of Utah’s public monuments and architecture reveals devotion to the LDS faith, but various prominent examples of resistance to this narrative abound.
August 26, 2022
WritingsVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
"Concerning the minor vaquero character..." is a semi-fictional vignette imagining a deeper life for a minor Chicano character in a major motion picture.
August 26, 2022
New MexicoReviewVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Wo/Manhouse 2022 reconsiders the relationship between gender and domestic spaces on the fiftieth anniversary of the seminal feminist installation Womanhouse in Belen, New Mexico.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Marie Alarcón's So Sorry is a look at the sublime environment of New Mexico, with a view toward the always already apocalyptic.
August 26, 2022
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Rapheal Begay is a "visual storyteller who uses cultural landscape photography and oral storytelling to activate, reference, and preserve memory and understanding found within the Diné way of life."
August 26, 2022
Eugene Newmann, a pioneering artist of the New Mexico abstract art scene, presents Abstraction and Figuration at Pie Projects in Santa Fe.
August 24, 2022
Brenda Kingery (Chickasaw Nation) is a contemporary artist and champion of women’s empowerment around the world, now showing at Glenn Green Galleries in Santa Fe.
August 19, 2022
Southern Utah Museum of Art and Modern West exhibit concurrent shows in Utah examining the legacy of abstract expressionism in the Southwest, featuring Taos Moderns Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak and contemporary arts Shalee Cooper and Arlo Namingha.
August 09, 2022
K Contemporary presents an internationally acclaimed roster of artists at Intersect Aspen this summer, including Suchitra Mattai, Ken Gun Min, Viktor Frešo, Mychaelyn Michalec, and Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios.
July 26, 2022
On the occasion of Alex Katz’s 95th birthday, Richard Levy Gallery presents Happy Birthday, Alex Katz, an exhibition of prints and paintings.
July 20, 2022
What defines a photograph? Transgressions and Amplifications showcases the work of mid-twentieth-century American artists exploring that question.
July 14, 2022
Art of Change is a night celebrating artists that change the world in support of Santa Fe Art Institute.
July 13, 2022
Minimal and sublime yet deeply visceral, Distilled Presence at Pie Projects is a curated selection of work by Dana Newmann, Signe Stuart, and Judy Tuwaletstiwa.
July 06, 2022
