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Explore the Diverse Art Scene of New Mexico! Dive into a variety of upcoming exhibitions across the state. From large-scale works to explorations of light and photography, there’s something for every artistic taste. Witness impressive, large-scale artworks or delve into the unique light of New Mexico through diverse artistic mediums. Expand your art adventure! Explore for exhibitions happening around New Mexico.
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art Presents:
The Tyranny of Small Things
Featuring found image collages, mixed media paintings, and sculptures by Steven Campbell. Campbell has an eye for social commentary that he has developed over his nearly 40 year career as a fine art print publisher.
The Tyranny of Small Things opens with a reception on Friday, October 25th, 5-7pm, as well as an artist talk on Saturday, October 26th, 1-2pm at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, 435 S Guadalupe St in Santa Fe. The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, January 18th.
Boyhood
An exhibition of figurative paintings, lithographs, and etchings by artist and esteemed printmaker Joshua Orsburn. Orsburn highlights the divide between artists and art professionals, explores personal history & queer identity, and posits the making of art as a method of healing trauma.
Boyhood opens opens with a reception on Friday, October 25th, 5-7pm, as well as an artist talk on Saturday, October 26th, 1-2pm at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, 435 S Guadalupe St in Santa Fe. The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, January 18th. zanebennettgallery.com.
New Mexico Art League has:
Beauty
A subjective and alluring topic: beauty. Created from the eye of the beholder; this exhibition will shine with over sixty New Mexico artists’ interpretations of what is beautiful.
Beauty runs through Tuesday, November 26th with a reception on Saturday, October 26th, 4-6pm at New Mexico Art League, 3409 Juan Tabo Blvd NE in Albuquerque. newmexicoartleague.org.
Wild Hearts Gallery has:
Colors of Home
An exhibition of artists Bunny & Leland Bowen’s mixed media and batik fiber wall art.
Colors of Home runs through Sunday, October 27th at Wild Hearts Gallery, Homestead Village Highway 165 in Placitas. wildheartsgallery.com.
The New Mexico Arts Imaginative Collective Presents:
Doorway to Imagination: A Multisensory Approach to Art
Featuring sculpture, film, textiles, and photography. The show is designed to immerse the senses.
Doorway to Imagination: A Multisensory Approach to Art is on view by appointment at Orpheum Community Hub, 500 2nd St SW in Albuquerque. The number to schedule an appointment is 505-243-6566 through Friday, November 1st.
Form & Concept has:
The Poetics of Growth
Featuring the work of New Mexico based artist, writer, and teacher Jacks McNamara. Showcasing his signature ink-wash paintings on wood, this exhibition unveils a new iterative process of creation that uses abstract mark making and pattern language to explore the human relationship to seasons and natural cycles of growth.
The Poetics of Growth runs through Saturday, November 30th.
Heroes | Villains
An exhibition of papel picado works by Valerie Rangel. Papercuts of contentious characters hang suspended like windows into another realm. Each artwork unveils a truth about a controversial character or showcases the intricacies of paper as a medium.
Heroes | Villains opens with a reception on Friday, October 25th, 5-7pm at Form and Concept, 435 S Guadalupe in Santa Fe. Valerie Rangel will hold an artist demonstration on Saturday, November 2nd, 1-2pm. The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, November 30th. formandconcept.center.
Obscura Gallery has:
Descendents
A photographic exhibition of rare and vintage, black and white gelatin silver prints that were made by the photographer, Norman Mauskopf, published by Twin Palms in 2010. The book focuses on the Hispanic peoples and cultures of Northern New Mexico.
Descendents is on view through Sunday, November 3rd at Obscura Gallery, 225 Delgado St in Santa Fe. obscuragallery.net.
Gerald Peters Contemporary has:
Among Monsters
A group exhibition of artists whose works address and reinterpret mythological references. The thematic presentation will include paintings, sculptures, textiles, and works on paper from Nanibah Chacon, Esther Elia, Angelica Racquel, Gil Rocha, Peter Rogers, and Hank Saxe.
Among Monsters will run through Saturday, November 30th at Gerald Peters Contemporary, 1011 Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe. gpgallery.com.
Gallery with a Cause has:
The Architecture of Beauty
Featuring 350 works by 17 well-known NM artists. 40 % of each Art sale is tax deductible supporting patients of New Mexico Cancer Center in need while they are receiving treatment. Live music by Celtic duo Colleens and Lassies, food trucks, refreshments, and door prizes and a chance to vote for your favorite artist for the “People’s Choice Award.
The Architecture of Beauty runs through Friday, November 22nd at Gallery with a Cause inside the New Mexico Cancer Center, 4901 Lang Ave NE in Albuquerque. The exhibition is open by appointment. gallerywithacause.org.
Martinart Studios has:
Protest 2024!
Part of the Two Moons Exhibit series featuring Artivism, which is Artist Activism. Using critical thinking, Artists in this exhibit strive to make a difference and change the world. 54 artists and over 90 pieces of artwork.
Protest 2024! runs through December at Fusion, 708 1st St in Albuquerque. There will be an open house each Friday from 1-4pm and on view by appointment as well. fusionnm.org.
Albuquerque Museum has:
Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, & Dialogue
Spanning almost the entire museum the exhibition features installations, sculpture, & video. A celebration of artists’ personal stories from over 20 contemporary artists.
Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, & Dialogue runs through Sunday, March 2nd at Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Rd NW in Albuquerque. albuquerquemuseum.org.
New Mexico Museum of Art has:
Saints & Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain
An exhibition which speaks to the importance of saints in New Spain, a viceroyalty that was part of the Spanish Empire from 1521-1821 and included modern-day Mexico, Central America, and the US Southwest.
Saints & Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain runs through Sunday, January 12th, 2025 at New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W Palace Ave in Santa Fe. museumfoundation.org.
Addison Rowe Gallery has:
Transcendental & Beyond: The Essence of Art
An exhibition featuring works from a diverse array of talented visionary women artists. This captivating show captures creative interpretations of spiritual and cosmic themes within each of the artists’ unique artistic language and expression.
Transcendental & Beyond: The Essence of Art runs through Thursday, October 31st at Addison Rowe Gallery, 229 E Marcy St in Santa Fe. addisonrowe.art.
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture has:
Driving the Market: Award Winning Native Contemporary Art
Featuring the artwork of well known indigenous artists like Kathleen Wall from Jemez Pueblo, Dine artist Tony Abeyta, Diego Romero & Virgil Ortiz from Cochiti Pueblo amongst others. The show highlights artists from prestigious Native art markets.
Driving the Market: Award Winning Native Contemporary Art is on view through Saturday, January 18th at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 710 Camino Lejo in Santa Fe. indianartsandculture.org.
National Hispanic Cultural Center Visual Arts Museum has:
Convergence x Crossroads: Street Art from the Southwest
Showcasing the vibrancy and ingenuity of the street art scenes in New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, California, and Northern Mexico presenting artworks by artists who identify as Chicano/a/x, Latino/a/x, Indigenous, and Native American. The artists whose work is featured in the exhibition use the street as their medium to create graffiti and/or murals.
Convergence x Crossroads: Street Art from the Southwest runs through Sunday, February 23rd, 2025 at the Visual Arts Museum at the NHCC, 1701 4th St SW in Albuquerque. nhccnm.org.
Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Museum of Contemporary Art has:
Arctic Highways: Unbounded Indigenous People
Featuring works by 12 indigenous artists from Scandinavia and North America. The artists tell the stories of native people who live in different countries but feel like kindred spirits. The work includes photography, handcrafts, sculpture, fine art, and videos.
Arctic Highways: Unbounded Indigenous People runs through Sunday, March 2nd. iaia.edu.
Vladem Contemporary at the New Mexico Museum of Art has:
Off Center: New Mexico Art 1970-2000
Featuring more than 125 works by New Mexico artists in recent decades. It is the first major showcase of artwork specifically from New Mexico as a whole. The exhibition will go through five partial rotations to capture as much of the theme and as many of the influential artists as possible.
Off Center: New Mexico Art 1970-2000 runs through Sunday, May 4th, 2025 at Vladem Contemporary at the New Mexico Museum of Art, 404 Montezuma Ave in Santa Fe. nmartmuseum.org.
Box Studio & Sculpture Garden has:
Origami in the Garden
This traveling exhibit celebrates its 10th anniversary with the largest display here in New Mexico! Walking the garden usually takes about 40 mins, then visitors can experience an interior “Inside Out” paper folding and unfolding exhibit in the Gallery Gift Shop. Consider wearing comfy shoes and clothes, a hat, SPF and have a water bottle.
Origami in the Garden opened this week and runs through Friday, November 1st, at Box Studio & Sculpture Garden, 3453 NM 14 in Cerrillos. outsidetheboxstudio.com.
The Georgia O’Keefe Museum has:
Artful Living: Georgia O’Keefe & Modern Design
Dive deep into the interior design of O’Keefe’s home and studio. It was transformed by the artist into an artist’s sanctuary by circumventing regional norms.
Artful Living: Georgia O’Keefe & Modern Design runs through Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 at The Georgia O’Keefe Museum Welcome Center, 21120 U.S. 84 in Abiquiu. okeeffemuseum.org.
The Museum of International Folk Art has:
Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine
An exploration of life in war-torn Ukraine through art featuring more than 60 works including a newly commissioned photographic series, “Wrapping Art-Art of Salvation” by photographer Marta Syrko. The exhibition presents a reflection on the enduring strength of the Ukrainian people.
Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine runs through Sunday, April 20th, 2025 at the Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo in Santa Fe. international folk art.org.
Harwood Museum of Art has:
Nicholas Herrera: El Rito Santero
Master Santero, Nicholas Herrera started carving wood at the age of 12. His family settled northern New Mexico 6 generations ago. He mixes car parts, paint, and wood to create art in Northern New Mexico.
Nicholas Herrera: El Rito Santero runs through Sunday, June 1st at Harwood Museum of Art, 238 Ledoux St in Taos. harwoodmuseum.org.
National Hispanic Cultural Center has:
Rendered Presence: Artistas de Nuevo Mexico
The exhibition explores artworks by 13 artists, living and working throughout New Mexico including painters, photographers, artists working with textiles and other soft sculpture forms. Each artists explores identify and the self, art history, and the expanse of Hispanic, Chicano, & Latino contemporary art.
Rendered Presence: Artistas de Nuevo Mexico is on display through Friday, July 25th at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St SW in Albuquerque. nhccnm.org.
Museum of International Folk Art has:
Between the Lines
An exhibition that aims to humanize the incarcerated by showcasing 200 pieces of artwork, multimedia pieces, and community events. The show consists of works from the museum’s collection as well as from the Penitentiary of New Mexico Inmate Craftsmanship & Trades Fair, a local prisoner’s rights organization.
Between the Lines is on view through Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 at Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo in Santa Fe. internationalfolkart.org.