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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.
Richard Levy Gallery Presents:
Trio V2
A group exhibition featuring new paintings by Julie Green, Kim Largey, and Carl Smith. This show introduces three painters who investigate landscape, form, and transformation through careful observation of the natural world.
Trio V2 will be on view through Saturday, April 4th at Richard Levy Gallery on Central in Albuquerque. There will be an artist’s reception on Friday, March 6th, 6-8pm. levygallery.com.
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art has:
The Search for Radiance in the Grotesque: Young Curators
An exhibition of work curated by SITE SANTA FE’s Young Curators program.
The Search for Radiance in the Grotesque: Young Curators is on view through Saturday, April 4th at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art.
Balancing Acts
The first solo exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art alumna and renowned art, architecture and design critic Janet Abrams. It comprises over a dozen sculptures that put clay in conversation with diverse materials-including steel, copper, rawhide, rubber, and wood.
Balancing Acts will be on view through Saturday, May 2nd at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, 435 S Guadalupe in Santa Fe.
Formulation: Articulation
This exhibition showcases selected prints from Josef Albers’s landmark portfolio of the same name. Released in 1972, ”Formulation: Articulation” comprises 127 screen prints across sixty-six sheets, reflecting more than four decades of Albers’s sustained investigation into the relationship between color and optical perception.
Formulation: Articulation will be on view through Saturday, May 23rd at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe. zanebennettgallery.com.
Albuquerque Abstract Artists’ Alliance has:
Beyond the Physical World
An exhibition that challenges the artists to transcend logic and language, reaching straight into emotions and imagination. By focusing on form and feeling, it opens a space of freedom that representational art cannot always offer. It invites us inward – not to question what it is, but to wonder how it moves us.
Beyond the Physical World will be on view through Saturday, March 14th at the South Broadway Cultural Center, 1025 Broadway Blvd SE in Albuquerque. Information on instagram at @abqabstractartists.
Smoke the Moon has:
Pulp: A Drawing Show
The artists brought together in this group show demonstrate the infinite possibility of popular material. Sparse and dense, ebullient, raunchy, and mystic—each work in this show is surreal in its own language.
Pulp: A Drawing Show is on view at Smoke the Moon, 616 ½ Canyon Rd in Santa Fe through Sunday, March 15th. smokethemoon.com.
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology has:
Entangled Cultures
How humans and microbes co-create through fermentation.
Entangled Cultures runs through Spring of 2026 at Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on the campus of the University of New Mexico. maxwellmuseum.unm.edu.
Las Damas Women Artists Collective Presents:
New Mexico’s Women in Existentialism
A powerful exhibition exploring the theme of existentialism through the lens of women’s creative voices. Existentialism emphasizes the deeply personal nature of human experience and celebrates the freedom and autonomy of the individual.
New Mexico’s Women in Existentialism is on view through Sunday, March 22nd at Omnihum Gallery, 246 Ledoux St in Taos. omnihum.life.
Five Point Gallery has:
Departure
The world, according to artist Marc Baseman, is a strange, crowded, and mysterious place. In his tiny drawings—usually less than three inches on a side—a cast of odd characters and objects competes for attention.
Departure will be on view at 5. Gallery, 2351 Fox Rd No. 700 in Santa Fe through Saturday, March 28th. 5pointgallery.com.
La Cumbre Brewery has:
Max M. Baptiste
A native of New Mexico, Baptiste has developed video games, produced large-scale art projects, and curated institutional art shows. He has now started to show his own contemporary Western art paintings that are deeply inspired by the natural landscapes and vibrant culture of the Southwest.
Max M. Baptiste’s art is on view through March 2026 at La Cumbre Brewery, 3313 Girard Blvd NE in Albuquerque. lacumbrebrewing.com.
Secret Gallery has:
Malinche
The 16th century Indigenous Nahua woman who acted as an interpreter for Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés — long reviled in Mexico as a traitor who hastened the fall of the Aztec Empire — has been reclaimed, by some, as a proto-feminist. This exhibition features the work of 30+ Chicana, Latina, Indigenous and southwestern artists who carry forward the legacy of Malinche.
Malinche is on view at Secret Gallery located inside Arrive Hotel, 717 Central Ave NW in Albuquerque through Friday, April 3rd. secretgalleryart.com.
The Sagrada Gallery by Clay + Coda has:
Italia: Postwar Ceramics
This exhibition explores Italian ceramics produced between 1955 and 1975, a period when postwar rebuilding and global trade reshaped the language of clay. Created largely for export to the American market, these works balance regional craft traditions with modernist experimentation, revealing how color, glaze, and form carried Italy’s cultural identity into modern interiors.
Italia: Postwar Ceramics is on view through Saturday, April 11th at The Sagrada Gallery by Clay + Coda, 404 San Felipe St in Old Town Albuquerque. claycoda.com.
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture has:
Màatakuyma: Now it is Becoming Clearer to Me
Photographer and filmmaker Duwawisioma (Victor Masayesva Jr.) has been on a lifelong quest to understand the ideas of “existence” and “being” in terms of Hopi ancestral traditions in the modern world.
Màatakuyma: Now it is Becoming Clearer to Me is on view at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 710 Camino Lejo in Santa Fe through Sunday, April 19, 2026.
Obscura Gallery has:
Virtuosos: Ansel Adams & Paul Caponigro
A two-person exhibition by 20th-century masters Paul Caponigro and Ansel Adams who were both pianists. These photographers are renowned for their exquisite black and white artworks in which they blended poetic vision with unmatched darkroom skills.
Virtuosos: Ansel Adams & Paul Caponigro is on view through Sunday, April 26th at Obscura Gallery, 225 Delgado St in Santa Fe. obscuragallery.net.
Albuquerque Museum has:
Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance
This major retrospective examines Montoya’s decades-long art practice, encompassing photography, printmaking, installation art, and activism. With roots deeply tied to New Mexico, Montoya has long collaborated with Chicanx and Latinx communities to explore historical and contemporary narratives, fostering a deeper understanding of identity, history, and community.
Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance is on view at Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Rd NW through Sunday, May 3rd. albuquerquemuseum.org.
Art Vault has:
Ephemeral Acts
This exhibition explores the transient nature of time-based art where time serves as both medium and composer. Each artwork unfolds a unique interpretation of a fleeting “real-time” inviting viewers to consider the ephemerality not only in art but in life.
Ephemeral Acts is on view at Art Vault, 540 S Guadalupe St in Santa Fe through May of 2026. artvault.thomafoundation.org.
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center has:
Sentient Structures: The Art of Skye Tafoya + SABA
This exhibition showcases the work of two artists creating architecturally-inspired expressions in materials that respond to the senses.
Sentient Structures: The Art of Skye Tafoya + SABA is on view through Sunday, June 28th, at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St in Albuquerque. indianpueblo.org.
Vladem Contemporary has:
Notes from the Radical Whirlwind
Featuring the artwork of Lucy R. Lippard, writer, activist, and curator, who has been a revolutionary force in the international art world for over sixty years. A resident of New Mexico since 1993, Lippard’s focus on the local has prompted exhibitions, panels, letters to the editor, and books exploring the histories and archeological landscapes of the state.
Notes from the Radical Whirlwind is on view at Vladem Contemporary at the New Mexico Museum of Art, 404 Montezuma in Santa Fe through Sunday, August 9th. nmartmuseum.org/vladem-contemporary.
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has:
Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country
This group exhibition is meant to draw awareness to the erasure of Tewa presence in Georgia O’Keeffe’s artworks and her understanding of Northern New Mexico. The exhibition also signals the museum’s increased engagement with contemporary art.
Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country is on view through Monday, September 7th, 2026 at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson St in Santa Fe. okeeffemuseum.org.
Palace of the Governors has:
Forks in the Road: A Diner’s Guide to New Mexico
Featuring iconic eateries and the stories that go with them. The curators of the exhibition received more than 100 online nominations for which restaurants to showcase.
Forks in the Road: A Diner’s Guide to New Mexico is on view for the next two years through Sunday, September 20th, 2026 at the Palace of the Governors, 105 W Palace Ave in Santa Fe. nmhistorymuseum.org.