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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.
Lapis Room has:
Incantations in Crisis
Artist, Brandon Maldonado was born in Denver but raised in Albuquerque. The culturally rich environment of New Mexico made a lasting impact on Maldonado’s work, which often explores themes associated with Mexican culture.
Incantations in Crisis hosts an artist’s reception on Thursday, December 11th from 5-8pm at Lapis Room, 303 Romero St NW in Old Town Albuquerque. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, January 25th. lapisroom.com.
Revolt Gallery has:
Ear to the Ground: Eyes Trained Up
The name of this group exhibition describes a tactical stance: crouched to the earth, awaiting a signal, all senses prepared for action. This posture is increasingly required of emerging artists navigating histories that refuse to stay buried and futures already pressing in.
Ear to the Ground: Eyes Trained Up is on view at Revolt Gallery, 222 Paseo del Pueblo Norte in Taos through Friday, December 12th. revoltgallerytaos.com.
Kay Contemporary Art has:
Beauty in Nature
Local artist Sienna Van Slooten will be exhibiting her detailed graphite drawings depicting the inner world of native animals and their relationship to local flora and fauna.
Beauty in Nature will be on view through Monday, December 15th at Kay Contemporary, 600 Canyon Rd in Santa Fe. kaycontemporaryart.com.
The Los Alamos Arts Council Presents:
Holiday Card Making
This is presented as part of the Community Art Program. It is an event that is appropriate for the whole family. Pop up cards, stamped cards, painted paper cards and more. There will be a variety of supplies to use to design a one-of-a-kind card creation.
Holiday Card Making is on Tuesday, December 16th, 3-6pm at the Fuller Lodge Art Center, South Wing Studio, 2132 Central Ave in Los Alamos. Child participants must be accompanied by an adult. Information at losalamosartscouncil.org.
Annual New Mexico Photographic Arts has:
Shades of Gray 2025
Featuring over 200 photographs by 120 New Mexico photographers.
Shades of Gray 2025 is on view through Sunday, December 28th at the Expo New Mexico Fine Arts Gallery, 300 San Pedro NE in Albuquerque. anmpasandsog.com.
Wild Hearts Gallery has:
Enchanted Forest: an Invitational Show
Featuring the artwork of Sandra & Michael Kadisak, Alfons Schuster and Katie Thomas.
Enchanted Forest: an Invitational Show will be on view through Sunday, December 28th at Wild Hearts Gallery, 221-B Homestead Village in Placitas. wildheartsgallery.com.
The Taos Art Museum has:
The Native Fashion Renaissance: Art, Identity, and Heritage
This exhibition features a vibrant fusion of art, fashion, and storytelling by Dante Biss-Grayson of Sky-Eagle Collection. Blending bold oil paintings, digital collage, and cutting-edge holographic displays with high fashion rooted in Indigenous tradition, this immersive show redefines Native identity through creativity and cultural reclamation.
The Native Fashion Renaissance: Art, Identity, and Heritage is on view through Sunday, December 28th at Taos Art Museum Fechin Studio. taosartmuseum.org.
Palette Contemporary Art & Craft has:
Looks Can be Deceiving
Featuring the industrial ceramic sculpture of artist Ken Baskin. Also featuring unrelated Mid-Century Modern pieces by 1950s Scandinavian stoneware artists.
Looks Can be Deceiving is on view at Palette Contemporary Art & Craft, 7400 Montgomery Blvd NE, Ste. 22 in Albuquerque through Monday, December 22nd. palettecontemporary.com.
New Mexico Arts Presents:
Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts Exhibition
Featuring works by the 2025 recipients of the Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts.
The exhibition will be on display until Friday, December 26th in the Governor’s Gallery on the fourth floor at the New Mexico State Capitol Roundhouse in Santa Fe. nmarts.org.
The Lab at Star Dust has:
Phase Shift
Featuring an immersive art installation mixing traditional painting with digital animations, AI, music, and augmented reality. This is a collaboration between Southwestern landscape artist, Jess Merritt, and digital media artist, John-Mark Collins who goes by the name of Ghost Orchestra.
Phase Shift is on view through Wednesday, December 31st at the Lab at Star Dust, 403 Mountain Rd NW in Albuquerque. For more information visit @thelab_stardust on Instagram.
Edition One Gallery has:
Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll 2025
Celebrating the photographers who captured the defining moments of music history: onstage, backstage, the album cover shoots, and in intimate creative spaces of the artists who shaped generations. Featuring work by a legendary ensemble of photographers—Pamela Springsteen, Donald Graham, Dennis Keeley, David Michael Kennedy, Lisa Law, and more….
Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll 2025 will be on view through Wednesday, December 31st at Edition One Gallery, 729 Canyon Rd in Santa Fe. editiononegallery.com.
5. Gallery has:
Allan Graham \ Johnny Ortiz-Concha
Said of artist Allan Graham, “[A] conceptual artist who has never developed a style or signature mode of presentation, which makes what he does nearly as rare as a unicorn.”
Allan Graham \ Johnny Ortiz-Concha will be on view through Saturday, January 3rd at 5. Gallery, 2351 Fox Rd #700 in Santa Fe. 5pointgallery.com.
Albuquerque Museum has:
Modern Art and Politics in Germany, 1910–1945
The question at the heart of this exhibition is “How did German artists respond to the rise of fascism?” This is a traveling show and the next stop is the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Modern Art and Politics in Germany, 1910–1945 is on view at the Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Rd NW in Albuquerque through Sunday, January 4th.
Cara & Diego Romero: Tales of Future Past
Featuring the work of photographer Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) and potter Diego Romero (Cochiti). Focusing on the artistic dialogue between these two leading artists, the exhibition explores themes concerning the complexities and the evolutionary nature of Indigenous identity.
Cara & Diego Romero: Tales of Future Past is on view at Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Rd NW through February 8th. albuquerquemuseum.org.
12th SITE Santa Fe International has:
Once Within a Time
Extending beyond SITE Santa Fe’s galleries to partner institutions and unconventional venues across the city, this exhibition draws inspiration from a cast of characters with ties to Santa Fe and New Mexico.
Once Within a Time is on view through Monday, January 12, 2026. Information at sitesantafe.org.
Obscura Gallery has:
One-of-a-Kind Exhibition
This is the third annual Winter Holiday exhibition, a group show of unique photo-based artworks found exclusively at Obscura Gallery. Featuring Michael Berman, Susan Burnstine, Gordon Coons, Lou Peralta, Sara Silks, Aline Smithson, Eddie Soloway, Lynn Stern, Robert Stivers, and Bryan Whitney; and debuting local Santa Fe jewelry artist, Karin Worden.
One-of-a-Kind Exhibition is on view through Saturday, January 17th at Obscura Gallery, 225 Delgado St in Santa Fe. obscuragallery.net.
form & concept has:
Tales from the Edge of Americana
An exhibition of mixed media paintings and monoprints by artist Kim Eubank.
Tales from the Edge of Americana is on view at form & concept, 435 S Guadalupe St in Santa Fe through Saturday, January 17th.
Underground World Experience: Future Retrieval
A feast of color and texture built of small units that represent the most recent iteration of Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker’s research-based generative process as Future Retrieval. Davis and Parker debut new systems of pattern and surface developed during their residency at Taliesin West.
Underground World Experience: Future Retrieval at form & concept, 435 S Guadalupe St in Santa Fe. The exhibition is on view through Saturday, January 24th.
Invisible
A journey across cultural borders that features mixed media paintings, watercolor on paper, and ceramics adorned with found objects by New Mexico-based artist Bunny Tobias.
Invisible is on view at form & concept in Santa Fe through Saturday, February 7th. formandconcept.center.
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 January 2026 at La Cumbre Brewery, 3313 Girard Blvd NE in Albuquerque. lacumbrebrewing.com.
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art has:
For Piet’s Sake—Old and New Paintings
An exhibition of renowned curator, writer, & artist Robert Storr’s oil paintings from the late 1970s to the 1980s, more recent and new panels, and the inaugural print portfolio of Zane Bennett Editions, which features eight prints based on drawings by Storr and produced by James Bourland.
For Piet’s Sake—Old and New Paintings is on view at Zane Bennett Contemporary, 435 S Guadalupe St in Santa Fe through Saturday, January 31st. zanebennettgallery.com.
516 Arts has:
The Armor we Wear
Curated by Olivia Amaya Ortiz, this exhibition weaves together artworks that interlace shared and divergent narratives, cultural memory and expression, defiance and resistance. In an era of state-endorsed censorship and conformity, dress endures as metaphor: a woven act of protest, a celebration of pride, and a resilient form of becoming. This is a group exhibition featuring 11 local and regional artists.
The Armor we Wear is on view at 516 Arts, 516 Central Ave NW in Albuquerque through Saturday, January 31st. 516arts.org.
Gallery with a Cause has:
The Art of Healing
This is a group exhibition where 40% of each art sale is tax-deductible and helps patients pay for non-medical expenses while experiencing life-threatening illness. The reception is a fundraiser with holiday music by the trio OK Boomer, door prizes, baked goods and warm drinks.
The Art of Healing is on view through Friday, February 20th at Gallery with a Cause inside the New Mexico Cancer Center, 4901 Lang Ave NE in Albuquerque. gallerywithacause.org.
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.
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.
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.