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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.
Sandia Heights Artists Presents:
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour
A self-guided tour of 13 studios featuring the artwork of 40 artists, mostly residents of the Sanda Heights neighborhood in Albuquerque. But also guest local artists will feature their work as well. Support local artists and see where they work. The Sandia Heights Artists support La Mesa Arts Academy, an afterschool arts program in Albuquerque’s International District.
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour is on Saturday, September 12th & Sunday, September 13th, 10am to 5pm. A map and list of artists available at sandiaheightsartists.com.
The RAiR Foundation has:
Chuckwagon
A solo exhibition by Roswell Artist-in-Residence Charlie Smith. Smith uses methodical woodworking to query structures of perception, experience, and value.
Chuckwagon is on view at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, 409 E College Blvd in Roswell through Saturday, September 12th. rair.org.
The Harwood Art Center has:
Bones & Soft Bellies: Companions for the 6th Extinction
This exhibition features the work of Li Ming Chu. Li Ming’s practice flows from Taoist teachings, their relationship to the land, and dedication to the communities they’re a part of.
Bones & Soft Bellies is on view at the Harwood Art Center, 1114 7th St NW in Albuquerque through Saturday, September 12th. harwoodartcenter.org.
Big Happy Gallery has:
What Remains: Remembering Paul Steiner
Opening on the anniversary of his passing, this memorial exhibition gathers a selection of landscape paintings in oil on canvas and panel by Paul Steiner.
What Remains: Remembering Paul Steiner will be on view through Saturday, September 12th at Big Happy Gallery in Santa Fe.
Close to Home
Artist and sculptor Jazmin Novak explores the ties that bind humans to land, kinship, and the living world. Her work considers care as a shared responsibility, revealing how our well-being is shaped by the relationships we cultivate and sustain.
Close to Home will be on view through Saturday, September 12th at Big Happy Gallery, 1300 Luisa St. #3A in Santa Fe. bighappygallery.com.
Aurelia Gallery has:
Redacted: Coverup
A series of assembled works by artist Karrie Hovey using the pieces removed from the Redacted works. The Gild compositions are pieced together to reveal an incomplete facade over the gilded panels, showing the cracks and gaps in the government supported cover up. The individual pages were sourced at random from the released and redacted Epstein files.
Redacted: Coverup is on view at Aurelia Gallery, 414 Canyon Rd in Santa Fe through Sunday, September 13th. aureliagallery.com.
Lapis Room has:
Funhouse
A brand new collection of work from Rebecca Elise Cook and Lana Scholtz inspired by a hot day at the state fair; toys, cakes, bootleg characters and technicolor motion sickness.
Funhouse will be on view through Sunday, September 13th at Lapis Room, 303 Romero St NW, Ste. 107 in Albuquerque. lapisroom.com.
Vivo Contemporary has:
Creativity Unleashed
A group exhibition featuring the innovative artwork of nine artists using mixed media, kiln glass, monoprints and more. Experience contemporary figurative, abstract, & non-objective paintings. Witness the boundaries of creative expression.
Creativity Unleashed is on view at Vivo Contemporary, 715 Canyon Rd in Santa Fe through Monday, September 14th. vivocontemporary.com.
The Owings Gallery has:
Yazzie Johnson & Gail Bird: New Work
Of Navajo and Pueblo origin, respectively, Johnson and Bird were childhood friends and have been making jewelry together for some five decades. Their work is a mélange of influences past and present, the product of an internal genius powerfully shaped by innumerable visits to prehistoric Southwestern petroglyph and pictograph sites.
Yazzie Johnson & Gail Bird: New Work is on view through Friday, September 18th at The Owings Gallery, 120 E Marcy St in Santa Fe. owingsgallery.com.
Wildflower Playhouse Gallery has:
Energy Anatomy
Featuring the artwork of Debra Weier who states that more than anything, it is the dualities that aren’t really dualities that interest her: body and mind, the microscopic and the macroscopic, the energy fields that surround us, and reality. What if every artist were the intermediary between what we see and what we imagine?
Energy Anatomy is on view at Wildflower Playhouse Gallery, 1339 Paseo del Pueblo Sur in Taos through Sunday, September 20th. wildflowerplayhouse.org/gallery.
Smoke the Moon has:
Beneath the Loving Sky
A group show of contemporary Native art from emerging artists who play with the conventions of contemporary art’s relationship with Indigenous practice.
Beneath the Loving Sky is on view at Smoke the Moon, 616 ½ Canyon Rd in Santa Fe through Sunday, September 20th. smokethemoon.com.
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 through Sunday, September 20th at the Palace of the Governors, 105 W Palace Ave in Santa Fe. nmhistorymuseum.org.
5. Gallery has:
gratia
A group show featuring 10 artists in celebration of 10 years of exhibitions and in gratitude to the artists and community that have shaped the space.
gratia will be on view through Friday, September 25th at 5. Gallery, 2351 Fox Rd, No. 700 in Santa Fe. 5pointgallery.com.
The New Mexico Art League presents:
Engaging with the Natural and Human Community
A group exhibition featuring the artwork of faculty of the City of Albuquerque.
Engaging with the Natural and Human Community will be on view through Saturday, September 26th at the City of Albuquerque Open Space Visitor’s Center, 6500 Coors Blvd NW. newmexicoartleague.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.
Wild Hearts Gallery has:
1949-2026 Reflecting on a Lifetime of Art, a Retrospective
Featuring the artwork of Painter, Marcia Rackstraw.
1949-2026 Reflecting on a Lifetime of Art, a Retrospective runs through Sunday, September 27th at Wild Hearts Gallery , 221 B Homestead Village Highway 165 in Placitas. wildheartsgallery.com.
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art has:
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 will be on view through Saturday, October 10th at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, 435 S Guadalupe St in Santa Fe. zanebennettgallery.com.
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.
Gerald Peters Contemporary has:
A Series of Exhibitions: As We Have Always Been, Exotic Invaders, Interlaced, The Art of Connection, Relics, On the Turn, & Macro/Micro/Inside/Outside
A group presentation anchored by the artwork of Indigenous artists complemented by solo exhibitions by newly represented artists as well as long standing members of the gallery’s program.
The artwork is on view through Saturday, October 10th at Gerald Peters Contemporary, 1005 Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe. gpgallery.com.
New Mexico Watercolor Society has:
Alternate Spaces
A group exhibition that features over 90 paintings by over 40 artists.
Alternate Spaces is on view through Tuesday, October 13th in La Fonda del Bosque Restaurant at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St SW in Albuquerque. nmwatercolorsociety.org.
Richard Levy Gallery has:
Particle and the Wave: Oracles and Symbols for Living and Dying
A solo exhibition by Alex Ponca Stock that features eight abstract artworks made from beaded broadcloth. Ponca Stock explores the conjunction of modern technological and scientific knowledge with the ancient knowledge handed down from our ancestors.
Particle and the Wave: Oracles and Symbols for Living and Dying will be on view through Saturday, October 17th at Richard Levy Gallery, 514 Central Ave SW in Albuquerque. There will be an artist’s reception on Friday, October 2nd, 6-8pm. levygallery.com.
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.
Monroe Gallery of Photography Presents:
Eugene Tapahe: Art Heals; The Jingle Dress Project and Standing Rock Movement
The Ojibwe jingle dress dance originated from a dream to heal. The sound of the cones on the dress connect us to the water and the land, embodying the ancestors’ prayers. Over the past ten years, photographer Eugene Tapahe has documented this dance, beginning at the Standing Rock camps in North Dakota and throughout the world for Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project.
Eugene Tapahe: Art Heals; The Jingle Dress Project and Standing Rock Movement opened yesterday and will be on view 5-7pm through Sunday, November 1st at Monroe Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe. monroegallery.com.
Gallery with a Cause has:
The Architecture of Beauty – Works by Prominent NM Artists
Featuring 300 works from painting to photography and realism to abstraction by 14 well-known New Mexico artists.
The Architecture of Beauty – Works by Prominent NM Artists is on view through Friday, November 20th at Gallery with a Cause inside the New Mexico Cancer Center, 4901 Lang Ave NE in Albuquerque. gallerywithacause.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.
UNM Art Museum has:
Tamarind Goes Global (1985-2020) & Abundance: New Acquisitions from 2016 to 2026
The Tamarind exhibition highlights how Tamarind Institute expanded collaborative printmaking beyond national borders, transforming the workshop into a site of international artistic exchange. The Abundance exhibition celebrates a decade of generosity and vision at the University of New Mexico Art Museum.
Tamarind Goes Global (1985-2020) is on view through Friday, March 12th, 2027 and Abundance: New Acquisitions from 2016 to 2026 is on view through Sunday, December 6th at UNM Art Museum on the campus of the University of New Mexico. artmuseum.unm.edu.
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.
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.