Self-Determined Explores the State of Contemporary Native and Indigenous Art
In Self-Determined at CCA Santa Fe, thirteen Native artists address the environment, mythology, traditions, technology, and more.
Aug 16
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Aug 12
Meet Zara Kriegstein, the Forgotten Artist Who Spearheaded Santa Fe’s Most Embattled Mural
The recent destruction of Santa Fe’s Multicultural mural caused fierce controversy, but its little-told history reveals tough questions about authorship and cross-cultural collaboration.
Aug 10
In a City Besieged by Rent Hikes, Santa Fe Scores an Affordable Housing Complex for Artists
Siler Yard fills a void in Santa Fe’s affordable housing crunch, especially for artists and long-standing residents. Though celebrated, the development faces challenges.
Jul 28
Multi-Site Albuquerque Exhibition Reinvigorates Southwest Cultural Exchange
Son de Allá y Son de Acá brings together sixty contemporary Chicano/a and Latino/a artists from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas across four Albuquerque art galleries.
Jul 25
Emily Margarit Mason Recontextualizes Photographs Past a Single Moment
Emily Margarit Mason challenges the limits of the still image by placing photos into alternative settings—whether baking one into a cake or rearranging another into an abstract collage.
Jul 20
Happy Birthday, Alex Katz
On the occasion of Alex Katz’s 95th birthday, Richard Levy Gallery presents Happy Birthday, Alex Katz, an exhibition of prints and paintings.
Jul 20
Never Look Away: Reflecting on the Life and Art of Leonard Fresquez
Albuquerque artist Leonard Fresquez offered a unique glimpse at the possibilities of art in understanding our world. His June 2022 death at the age of forty-one marks a profound loss.
Jul 15
Gallery Incomplet, a New Santa Fe Art Space, Only Displays Unfinished Works
Gallery Incomplet in Santa Fe is likely the world’s first art space to exclusively display incomplete works of art, ranging from barely completed paintings to undeveloped rolls of film.
Jul 14
Transgressions and Amplifications: Mixed-Media Photography of the 1960s and 1970s
What defines a photograph? Transgressions and Amplifications showcases the work of mid-twentieth-century American artists exploring that question.
Jul 14
The Exodus Ensemble Will Upend Your Reality
The Exodus Ensemble, an immersive theater group in Santa Fe, combines tactics from television with live performance to create intense, dramatic theater.
Jul 13
Santa Fe Art Institute Celebrates the Art of Change with Alumnus Dread Scott
Art of Change is a night celebrating artists that change the world in support of Santa Fe Art Institute.
Jul 12
Review: Joey Fauerso’s Weighty Metaphors at NMSU Art Museum
Joey Fauerso: Wait For It at NMSU Art Museum embeds poignant metaphors in basic, somber forms to question what happens when stability is off-kilter.
Jul 11
(re)purpose Launches a New Venue for GVG Contemporary
GVG Contemporary debuts new artwork, a new warehouse exhibition, and studio space in Santa Fe.
Jul 11
Field Report: Tour New Deal Artworks Across Southern New Mexico
WPA and New Deal artworks are highlights of a road trip across Southern New Mexico.
Jul 06
Nuestras Acequias Reimagines Museum Practice and Shares Community Wisdom
Gutiérrez Hubbell House spotlights life-sustaining New Mexico acequias and reimagines museum practice with a new guest-curator program.
Jul 06
Distilled Presence: Minimalist Works by Dana Newmann, Signe Stuart, and Judy Tuwaletstiwa
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.
Jul 05
Sanctuary of Light: Paintings by Rick Stevens Bring the Wilderness to Kay Contemporary
Santa Fe-based artist Rick Stevens's latest body of work brings scenes of immersive wilderness and lush, abundant flora to Kay Contemporary Art on historic Canyon Road.
Jun 13
Judy Chicago’s Wo/Manhouse 2022 Explores Gender 50 Years After Womanhouse
In Wo/Manhouse 2022, nineteen New Mexican artists from across the gender spectrum created artworks exploring the meaning of home, gender, and inclusivity on the fiftieth anniversary of Womanhouse.
Jun 07
High-Profile Visionaries Present at SITE Santa Fe
Priya Parker, conflict resolution strategist and author, and Anand Giridhadaras, journalist and writer, present at SITE Santa Fe’s Innovative Thinker Summer Speaker Series.
Jun 07
Curator Profile: SITE Santa Fe’s Brandee Caoba’s Powerful Practice of Saying Yes
SITE Santa Fe curator Brandee Caoba’s generous yet discerning way of being in the world, the studio, and the exhibition space supports artists and audiences alike.
May 31
Work in Progress with Reyes Padilla
Albuquerque artist Reyes Padilla, born with synesthesia, paints visual representations of music in works that have appeared throughout New Mexico and on Better Call Saul.
May 30
See the Wheelwright’s Latest Jewelry Acquisitions
Contemporary Native American jewelry is showcased at the Wheelwright Museum’s Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry and Case Trading Post gift shop in Santa Fe.
May 27
Eric J. Garcia: 12 New Mexico Artists To Know Now 2022
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A native of Albuquerque’s South Valley, Eric J. Garcia imbues political art with personal experience.
May 27
Welly Fletcher: 12 New Mexico Artists To Know Now 2022
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Albuquerque-based artist Welly Fletcher’s sculptural practice activates lines that question normative gender roles, sexual orientation, and identity.
May 27
Jen Pack: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
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New Mexico-based artist Jen Pack's colorful fiber wall hangings bring the materiality of painting into question.
May 27
Patina Gallery’s Cerulean Celebration
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Patina Gallery in downtown Santa Fe honors connections and creativity with A Season of Blue.
May 27
Summer at Gaia Contemporary
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Gaia Contemporary presents a unique blend of sculpture, painting, jewelry, kimono, photography, and Japanese antiquities in Santa Fe's historic Canyon Road district.
May 27
Art Santa Fe Returns in 2022
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Art Santa Fe is an intimate contemporary art fair that welcomes world-class art and design presented by a diverse range of exhibitors.
May 23
Blair Vaughn-Gruler: The Witch and the Scholar
Blair Vaughn-Gruler on modernism, postmodernism, and her recent body of paintings.
May 23
Jivan Lee’s Long-Form Painting Meditation: From “Total, Dead Boredom” to Miracles in the Mundane
Jivan Lee’s series 10,000 Mountains represented a fundamental shift for the painter from chasing the light to deep meditations on place that revealed the miraculous through the mundane.
May 18
CURRENTS Festival 2022: Circuits
More than seventy new media artworks will be presented as part of the multi-venue CURRENTS festival across Santa Fe this June.
May 17
A Brief History of African American Homesteading in New Mexico
The Albuquerque Museum tells the compelling story of African American homesteading in New Mexico in the exhibition Facing the Rising Sun.
May 13
New Mexico Jewelry-Making Program Axed by School Officials
Starting fall 2023, Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque will no longer offer a bench jewelry certificate program for its students.
May 10
Kouri + Corrao presents Jen Pack at VOLTA
Kouri + Corrao gallery presents New Mexico-based artist Jen Pack at VOLTA New York.
May 04
Artist Spotlight: Khang Pham-New
Khang Pham-New's monumental sculptures in granite are feats of stoneworking and artistry on view at Tesuque's Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden.
May 04
Review: Nani Chacon: SPECTRUM at SITE Santa Fe
A debut solo exhibition by Albuquerque artist and muralist Nani Chacon (Diné, Chicana) celebrates Indigeneity through storytelling and design.
May 02
Hecho Gallery Comes to Downtown Santa Fe
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.
Apr 29
Veterans Off-Grid Teaches the Art and Healing of Green Building
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.
Apr 27
The Fuzzy Knowledge of Mythic Space at Agnes Martin Gallery
The Agnes Martin Gallery at the Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico embodies Yi-Fu Tuan’s concept of mythic space.
Apr 25
Judy Chicago Reprises 50-Year-Old Piece at a Donated, Small-Town House
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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.
Apr 20
Mitsuru Ando: 自然のアルゴリズム | Nature’s Algorithms
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.
Apr 19
Work in Progress with Jeremy Thomas
New Mexico sculptor Jeremy Thomas uses inflation to create three-dimensional works of steel and canvas that explore air as a medium.
Apr 15
In a State Rich in Jewelry Traditions, a New Mexico College Considers Choking a Key Pipeline
A jewelry-making program helps train artisans for steady career opportunities in Albuquerque. That may not be enough for the cash-strapped school.
