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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.
Keep Contemporary has:
De la Tierra
Featuring the oil painting of Alex Chavez who strives to add a primal, universal, and multicultural story to every subject he paints.
De la Tierra is on view at Keep Contemporary, 718 S St. Francis Dr in Santa Fe. keepcontemporary.com.
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art presents:
The Raw Immediacy and Chromatic Vibrations of Fritz Scholder’s Prints
A survey of the artist’s printmaking practice that redefined America’s perception of Indigenous peoples.
The Raw Immediacy and Chromatic Vibrations of Fritz Scholder’s Prints opens on Friday, July 31st with a reception from 5-7pm at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art. The exhibition runs through Saturday, September 5th.
Sunrise and Flint: Contemporary Native American Art
An exhibition of works by eleven contemporary Indigenous artists that posit Earth as collaborator and historical archivist.
Sunrise and Flint: Contemporary Native American Art opens on Friday, July 31st with a reception from 5-7pm at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art. The exhibition runs through Saturday, September 5th.
Print Focus
Tamarind Institute inaugurates this exhibition series that celebrates artists, printers, and publishers who have shaped fine art printmaking. Featuring lithographs by numerous artists.
Print Focus opens on Friday, July 31st with a reception from 5-7pm at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, 435 S Guadalupe St in Santa Fe. The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, October 10th. zanebennettgallery.com.
Albuquerque Sunport has:
Works by Jacob Perea
This exhibition features oil paintings on canvas, and drawings of ink on paper. They are inspired by spirituality, nature, and the human figure.
Works by Jacob Perea will be on view through Friday, July 31st in the art tunnel on the lower level between the parking garage and the baggage claim at the Albuquerque Sunport. jacobperea.art.
The Gallery ABQ has:
The Heart of New Mexico
A salon show featuring work by local artists working in various media. The featured artist for July is pastel painter Nancy Schrock who also does work in pencil.
The Heart of New Mexico will be on view through Friday, July 31st at The Gallery ABQ in Hoffmantown Shopping Center at 8120 Menaul Blvd NE. thegalleryabq.com.
Fourteenfifteen Gallery has:
Declarations of Incongruence
Curated by Aaron Wilder, this exhibition features artistic declarations that challenge, draw attention to, refuse, and embody resilience despite the perpetuation of incongruence between America’s founding mythology and historic, contemporary, and future realities.
Declarations of Incongruence closes with a reception on Friday, July 31st, 6-9pm at Fourteenfifteen Gallery, 1415 4th St SW in Albuquerque. fourteenfifteengallery.com.
Secret Gallery has:
(Hum)
A solo exhibition of the artwork of Noé Barnett that explores the quiet forces that shape our lives. Best known for his large-scale murals, Barnett turns inward with a new body of work that showcases his versatility as a painter, moving seamlessly between hyperrealism and atmospheric imagery.
(Hum) is on view at Secret Gallery, 717 Central Ave NW inside Arrive Hotel in downtown Albuquerque through Saturday, August 1st. secretgallery.com.
Wild Hearts Gallery has:
The Art of Turning
The exhibition spotlights David Croxton’s Basket Illusion pieces, one of his favorite techniques, where a solid piece of wood is crafted to look like a woven basket. In addition, the exhibit will include items from his Ancient Dwellings series as well as vessels of natural wood that need no embellishment due to their exceptional grain and color.
The Art of Turning will be on view through Sunday, August 2nd at Wild Hearts Gallery in Placitas. wildheartsgallery.com.
N4 Arts Presents:
In This Space
A mixed-media collection of works by participants in the program for adults with developmental disabilities
In This Space is on view through Sunday, August 2nd in Fusion Gallery, 708 1st St NW in Albuquerque. fusionnm.org.
GF Contemporary has:
Figurines for the Future: Before the Bronze
Artist Martin Spei has a longstanding interest in Classical figurative sculpture for its technique, metaphor, and symbolism. In this exhibition he expands upon the genre by reimagining traditional iconography and turning it on its head.
Figurines for the Future: Before the Bronze is on view through Sunday, August 2nd at GF Gallery, 707 Canyon Rd in Santa Fe. gfcontemporary.com.
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.
Turner Carroll Gallery has:
Cultivate Justice
Shepard Fairey’s work is political and confronts issues of human rights, equality, and authority while maintaining his signature style of layered collage-like color, propaganda-inspired forms, pop art, portraiture, and bright colors. This exhibition will feature prints on paper and multimedia pieces as well as highly collectible original pieces.
Cultivate Justice is on view at Turner Carroll Gallery, 725 Canyon Rd in Santa Fe through Monday, August 10th. turnercarrollgallery.com.
Gallery One has:
Terra Prime: Beauty in Knowledge, Knowledge Made Beautiful
A thought-provoking exhibition that explores New Mexico biodiversity, cultural memory, community resilience, and the evolving relationship with the land. It features a number of artists working in different mediums.
Terra Prime: Beauty in Knowledge, Knowledge Made Beautiful is on view through Friday, August 14th at Gallery One, 1 Civic Plaza, first floor in Albuquerque. cabq.gov/artsculture/public-art/gallery-one.
5 Point Gallery has:
The Whole of it Came not at Once
An exhibition of new artwork by Helen C. Beck.
The Whole of it Came not at Once is on view through Saturday, August 15th at 5 Point Gallery, 2351 Fox Rd, No. 700 in Santa Fe. 5pointgallery.com.
Gallery with a Cause has:
On the Rise
Works by artists in early and mid-career featuring 300 works from painting to photography and realism to abstraction by 14 New Mexico artists.
On the Rise is on view through Friday, August 21st at Gallery with a Cause inside the New Mexico Cancer Center, 4901 Lang Ave NE in Albuquerque. 40% of each art sale is tax-deductible and goes to the New Mexico Cancer Center Foundation supporting patients’ non-medical needs. gallerywithacause.org.
Gallery 215 Presents:
Robbi Firestone: the Long Horizon
An exhibition of paintings, pastels and watercolors inspired by the intertwining of Firestone’s life in Northern New Mexico with her ancestral connection to the land.
Robbi Firestone: the Long Horizon is on view through Saturday, August 22nd at Gallery 215, 1335 Gusdorf Rd, Ste. I in Taos. 203fineart.com/exhibitions.
Electra Gallery has:
Emanations of Inner Light
Celestial investigations by Michael W. Barnard. Michael’s visual artwork uses mixed media and assemblage to communicate transcendent states of being. Thread, glass, acrylic paint, and gold leaf come together to describe abstract forms and environments that are both elusive and mysteriously familiar.
Emanations of Inner Light will be on view through Saturday, August 22nd at Electra Gallery, 825 Early St, Ste. C in Santa Fe. electragallery.com.
Site Santa Fe has:
Indian Theater
Inspired by both the occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes in 1969 as well as a treatise written at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) that same year and first published in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this presentation of Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 marks a kind of ‘homecoming’ for the conceptual basis of the groundbreaking exhibition.
Indian Theater is on view through Monday, September 7th at Site Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta. sitesantafe.org.
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 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 at the Palace of the Governors, 105 W Palace Ave in Santa Fe. nmhistorymuseum.org.
Gutierrez-Hubbell House Museum has:
Cultivating Life: Agriculture in the South Valley
An exhibition focusing on Pueblo farming traditions and the arrival of Spanish colonial agriculture. How agriculture changed during the 20th century amid urban growth and water challenges. Also modern South Valley farming, including local farms, farmers markets, and BernCo programs that support new growers.
Cultivating Life: Agriculture in the South Valley is on view at Gutierrez-Hubbell House, 6029 Isleta Blvd SW in Albuquerque through Saturday, September 26th. gutierrez-hubbellhouse.org.
516 Arts has:
The Rest is Drag
The exhibition explores the intersection of identity, performance, and community along the “Mother Road,” an enduring symbol of the American Dream and the nation’s penchant for westward expansion.
The Rest is Drag is on view through Saturday, October 10th at 516 Arts, 516 Central Ave SW in Albuquerque. 516arts.org.
Albuquerque Museum has:
The Woods Before Sunrise: Environment and Place in New Mexico’s Black Contemporary
This exhibition showcases the work of nine contemporary artists whose interpretations of the local environment appeal to universal themes of sustainability, cultural history, and a personal connection to nature.
The Woods Before Sunrise: Environment and Place in New Mexico’s Black Contemporary is on view at Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Rd NW through Sunday, October 18th. albuquerquemuseum.org.
The Museum of International Folk Art has:
I Am Clay: Acoma Life in Figures
This exhibition is a community-curated project that focuses on figurative pottery from Acoma Pueblo. The show examines ancestral Puebloan precursors to figuration in clay, as well as how the rise of tourism and the market for Pueblo pottery at the turn of the 20th century shaped the development of this practice.
I Am Clay: Acoma Life in Figures is on view through Monday, November 30th at the Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill in Santa Fe. moifa.org.
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center has:
Grounded in Clay: the Spirit of Pueblo Pottery
A traveling exhibition that features over 100 historic as well as contemporary works in clay curated by the Pueblo Pottery Collective. It kicks off the celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
Grounded in Clay: the Spirit of Pueblo Pottery will be on view through February 21st, 2027 at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St NW in Albuquerque. indianpueblo.org.indianpueblo.org.
Harwood Museum of Art has:
Unearthing Futures/Desenterrando Futuros
This exhibition explores contemporary earthen artworks, establishing a profound dialogue between regional roots and global perspectives. It is a journey through time, examining the intricate relationship between humanity and the elemental material of unfired earth.
Unearthing Futures/Desenterrando Futuros is on view through Sunday, February 28th, 2027 at Harwood Museum of Art, 238 Ledoux St in Taos. harwoodmuseum.org.