May 27
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Morgan Barnard is an experimental saxophonist and installation artist using interactive light play to express actualities of the land.
May 27
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Mikayla Patton works with hand-made paper, sinew, beads, and embroidery to create sculptures that continue cultural traditions while reflecting the current moment.
May 27
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
New Mexico-based artist Jen Pack's colorful fiber wall hangings bring the materiality of painting into question.
May 27
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Santa Fe-based Tigre Mashaal-Lively creates large-scale interactive sculptures influenced by Afrofuturism, solarpunk, and mycopunk.
May 27
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Albuquerque artist Caroline Liu paints images that teeter between the real and the imaginary.
May 27
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Artist Terran Last Gun (Piikani) creates ledger drawings, prints, and murals that translate Indigenous culture and cosmology into geometric explorations of color, shape, nature, and sky.
May 27
Feature2022 New Mexico Field Guide
The New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary is set to become the Santa Fe Railyard’s newest and highest profile occupant.
May 27
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Lucy Maki’s intuitive process calls back to New Mexico’s Transcendental Painting Group and yields shaped paintings in a style of her own.
May 24
Artist Douglas Miles (San Carlos Apache, Akimel O’odham) uses visual art and skateboard culture to amplify Indigenous voices.
May 23
Blair Vaughn-Gruler on modernism, postmodernism, and her recent body of paintings.
May 23
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 17
The Albuquerque Museum tells the compelling story of African American homesteading in New Mexico in the exhibition Facing the Rising Sun.
May 10
Kouri + Corrao gallery presents New Mexico-based artist Jen Pack at VOLTA New York.
May 09
Jae Ko’s artworks at Robischon Gallery in Denver address the Southwest’s drought conditions and the rise of water speculation in the futures market.
May 04
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
A debut solo exhibition by Albuquerque artist and muralist Nani Chacon (Diné, Chicana) celebrates Indigeneity through storytelling and design.
Apr 25
Collectivity + CollaborationNew Mexico
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 19
New Mexico sculptor Jeremy Thomas uses inflation to create three-dimensional works of steel and canvas that explore air as a medium.
Apr 18
David Rios Ferreira and Denae Shanidiin collaborate in a multimedia exhibition at UMFA featuring portals to connect us to lost loved ones and heal communal pain.
Apr 13
In The Passage, Tucson artist Nika Kaiser reimagines endings and the possibilities of a post-human future inspired by the reemergence of Glen Canyon.
Apr 12
Fox Hysen, the 2022 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist, will present a talk at the Albuquerque Museum on April 28 and host an open studio on the UNM campus on April 21.
Apr 12
Rochelle Johnson, an artist in residence at Denver’s RedLine Contemporary Art Center, is a figurative oil painter who imbues her work with messages about women’s beauty, the Black community, and the human condition.
Apr 11
Julio César Morales explores cultural differences as senior curator for ASU Art Museum in Arizona, drawing on his binational experiences to address social justice issues through collaboration.
Apr 08
Collectivity + CollaborationColorado
A new hanging of Clyfford Still’s work, co-curated by a cohort of young children, presents "not just boring grown-up things" at Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum.
Apr 07
Salt Lake City artist Mitsu Salmon explores issues of racism, environmentalism, and sexuality. Her performance-based approach to a multi-disciplinary practice crafts an immersive experience between artist and viewer.
Apr 06
Santa Fe artist Sam Scott’s new body of work on view at Pie Projects, Mind/Mirror, is an invitation to peel back visual layers and a journey into the very essence of abstraction.
Mar 31
In So That We May Fear Not at Finch Lane, photographer Jesse Meredith documents an American militia group and illustrates contradictory narratives of maleness and patriotism.
Mar 24
UMOCA’s artist-in-residence program in Salt Lake City provides studio space and exhibition opportunities for Utah artists while enriching the local arts community.
Mar 22
As war, climate change, and COVID-19 dominate the headlines, Phoenix Art Museum presents Breaking Up, an exhibition featuring women artists exploring fragmentation on personal and global scales.
Mar 22
In Celestial Movement, artist Tom Kirby's latest exhibition at Winterowd Fine Art on Santa Fe's historic Canyon Road, the artist's transcendental paintings explore the mysterious and limitless skies as the earth makes its elliptical path through space.
Mar 16
Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) melds Indigenous patterns, materials, and symbolism with modernist archetypes in Speaking To Relatives at MCA Denver.
Mar 14
Houston curator Suzanne Zeller uses their curatorial platform to promote underrepresented queer narratives in contemporary photography.
Mar 11
Southwest Contemporary's handy roundup of choice spring 2022 art exhibitions includes shows in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
Mar 08
Benjamin Timpson hand-cuts delicate pieces of ethically-sourced butterfly wings to create meticulous and moving portraits that explore trauma and healing while raising awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Mar 07
Writer and poet Laura Neal visits Theresa Chong's Dallas exhibition dedicated to the organization of grief, and finds the power in the familiar and heavy emotion.
Feb 25
FeatureColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
M12 Studio’s multi-year collective projects show the complexities of rural places and open conversations about what connects us.
Feb 25
FeatureNevadaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Spirit of the Land is a love letter to the Southern Nevada desert: a series of exhibitions opening in late March across three venues celebrates the East Mojave landscape.
Feb 25
ReviewTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
At The Contemporary Austin’s Crit Group Reunion, a generic and disjointed overview muted the spirit of what’s happening now in the city.
Feb 25
FeatureUtahVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
In the heart of one of the nation’s most conservative states, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, led by Laura Hurtado and Jared Steffensen, brings groundbreaking contemporary art to the state.
Feb 25
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Cara Despain’s exhibition In Memoriam: Carbon Paintings at Utah’s Kimball Art Center confronted the pressing environmental and moral calamities of the American West.
Feb 25
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Collaborative works by Ghislaine Fremaux and Lando Valdez concern the sensuality of grief, the medicalized subject, the experience of surgical intervention, desire, and the concomitance of all of these.
Feb 25
ArtistsColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Cherish Marquez is a Denver-based artist who uses videos, animations, still images, and installations, to animate the subtleties of desert life near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Feb 25
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Raul Rene Gonzalez is a San Antonio, Texas-based artist whose work is largely autobiographical in nature, exploring topics such as fatherhood, gender roles, labor, identity, pop culture, and abstraction.
