Experience Layla Love's solo exhibition in Bisbee, Arizona, January 10-March 1, 2026, with stunning photography and mixed-media works exploring nature, instinct, and feminine energy by an internationally acclaimed artist.
January 12, 2026
The Southwest art world doesn't hibernate. SWC editorial director Jordan Eddy selects thirty-five exhibitions—and three hot trends—for the cold season.
December 16, 2025
Fifteen contemporary artists reimagine traditional art forms to address social justice, colonialism, and climate change at Museum of International Folk Art.
December 09, 2025
In Colorado Springs, an art center's landmark reinstallation of its collection reconsiders the Southwest—breaking the old shape of regionalism in art history.
December 04, 2025
Discover works by Basquiat, Warhol, Mapplethorpe, and Hockney that defined California's anti-conformist creative spirit, on view at the Tucson Museum of Art December 13, 2025–May 10, 2026.
December 02, 2025
In Shifting Topographies, three artists’ varied approaches find common ground in exposing the deadly threat of extractive industries.
November 26, 2025
Cecilia Alemani rolled out an exhibition like no other in Santa Fe—its visionary weirdness will hit everyone a bit different.
November 20, 2025
Safwat Saleem uses satire to share his experiences as an immigrant father living with cultural assimilation and loss in the 2024 Arizona Artist Awards exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum.
November 06, 2025
With works by twelve artists, scholars, and culture bearers from the six Tewa Pueblos in New Mexico, Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country opens a critical dialogue around sacred landscapes, Indigenous belonging, and cultural ownership at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
October 28, 2025
A series of still life photographs by late San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez capture the essence of a Texas community and subculture.
October 23, 2025
Just in time for cooler temps, SWC publisher and editor Lauren Tresp picks twenty-two must-see exhibitions across the Southwest.
October 14, 2025
Experience Sandy Skoglund's Natural Havoc at Rule Gallery's Marfa location, October 10–November 29. Rare outtakes, sculptures, and drawings reveal her iconic creative process.
October 08, 2025
In his first museum exhibition, Burying Painting, James Perkins shows evanescent process- and land-based artworks "harvested" from the Atlantic Ocean and the Sonoran Desert.
October 07, 2025
Gathering Place marks the first major reinstallation of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College in nearly a decade.
September 24, 2025
In Step After Step at Kimball Art Center, artists leave their studios behind to claim the moving body as a revolutionary artistic method.
September 05, 2025
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Catch Beau Carey's innovative landscape paintings at Visions West Contemporary in Denver, October 3-November 15, 2025, with an opening reception on October 3, 6-8 pm.
September 05, 2025
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Kent Monkman’s exhibition at the Denver Art Museum is a provocative and stunning survey that champions the marginalized while subverting history.
September 05, 2025
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Artists working along the U.S.-Mexico border bring the rasquachismo aesthetic to Ya Hecho: Readymade in the Borderlands as the U.S. government escalates its anti-immigrant stance.
September 05, 2025
Curator Fabiola Iza brings together eleven artists for an exhibition that investigates the shadowy corners of perception.
September 05, 2025
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Natural entropy is a tool—and a sustainable ethos—for ten artists in Abstracting Nature at the Albuquerque Museum.
September 05, 2025
Join ASU Art Museum's opening celebration on September 13 for Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration and Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life.
September 02, 2025
Experience ¡Cuidado! at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, June 7–September 27, 2025, a video installation by X Arriaga Cuellar and Adán Vallecillo that explores Honduran care workers' labor.
August 26, 2025
High Walls: Artists Navigate Structures of Confinement at RedLine Denver, August 15–October 12, 2025, presents art by incarcerated and contemporary artists exploring U.S. carceral systems.
August 06, 2025
In a David Bowie–inspired show in Scottsdale, Steven J. Yazzie and Erika Lynne Hanson confront earthly disillusionment through landscape-based abstraction.
July 17, 2025
Delmas Howe: The Lithographs at RioBravoFineArt in Truth or Consequences features rare works from the artist's Rodeo Pantheon series. On view through August 31.
July 14, 2025
Lynn Hershman Leeson has long prepared for the AI revolution. In Nevada, she channels warnings and hope through digital personas.
July 08, 2025
The 12th SITE SANTA FE International Once Within a Time features seventy-one artists across more than twelve city venues, from June 27, 2025, to January 12, 2026.
July 01, 2025
In two successive solo exhibitions, Taiwanese artist Lu Wei traces a wild pilgrimage through the shadows of motherhood into the searing heat of the Utah desert landscape.
June 26, 2025
SITE’s citywide exhibition Once Within a Time is about surreal flow—not completionism. Here’s your primer, with tips from insiders Cecilia Alemani and Brandee Caoba.
June 24, 2025
Don’t sit it out. These sixteen explosive exhibitions across the Southwest will keep the fire lit for your summer of resistance.
June 18, 2025
