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The UAM is proud to present Necessary Futures. This exhibition features three New Mexico-based artists—sheri crider, Haley Greenfeather English, and Szu-Han Ho—whose work shares the strategic use of color, irony, joy, and hope as proposals for confronting and subverting the ongoing impacts of mass incarceration, racial capitalism, and colonialism. This exhibition presents a broad spectrum of art-making approaches, public projects, and community-driven collaborations, spotlighting coalitions committed to social change. Collectively, the artists in this exhibition propose art as both a space of reflection and a call to action. Beyond their studio practices, each artist actively engages with community partners, spotlighting organizations working on the frontlines of social justice in the Southwest.

This exhibition, which also presents work by hazel batrezchavez, daniela del mar, Juan Ortiz, and the fronteristxs collective, is part of a series of statewide exhibitions amplifying the voices and narratives of marginalized communities within the movement for criminal justice reform. The project is anchored in Albuquerque and Las Cruces, New Mexico—with additional activations in rural towns that are sites directly impacted by mass incarceration.

Please join us for the opening reception on September 19, 2025 from 5:30-7:30 pm. Visit our website for more information on upcoming programming. Necessary Futures will be on display from September 19, 2025, to March 7, 2026.

Reception: Friday, March 6, 2026, 6:00-8:00 pm

Closing Reception: Friday, February 20, 2026, 4:00-6:00 pm

Artist Talk: Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 5:30 pm
ARTSLab, 131 Pine St. NE

UNM Art Museum Workshop: Thursday, February 19, 2026, 10:00-12:30 pm

Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work traverses the realms of hand-cut paper,
community engagement, performance, and soft sculpture to visualize hybrid identities or histories that
confront the unsettling present. Bui’s hybridized identity as a queer, genderfluid, and Vietnamese
American informs the way they employ beauty as a refuge for fellow marginalized communities. Their
intensive paper-cutting process is exceptionally meditative; each sheet of paper represents an archive of
memories and oral histories, mirroring the intergenerational trauma that so many refugee communities are HeadshotHeadshot
faced with. Through their rigorous and reductive process, they deconstruct the white canvas,
metaphorically carving out space for the narratives that are so often omitted from recognized histories.

Bui (b.1992, Bronx, NY) received their BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (2016). Bui
has had recent solo exhibitions at Various Small Fires, Dallas, TX (2024); moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL
(2023); Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA (2020); Laband Art Gallery, LMU, Los Angeles, CA
(2019); Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2018). Recent group exhibitions include Flinn Gallery,
Greenwich, CT (2025); Picker Art Gallery, Hamilton, NY (2025); Portland State University, OR (2024); The
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (2024);
the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC (2023); Artspace, New Haven, CT (2022); Orange
County Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA (2022); the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
(2022); Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (2022); USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
(2021); Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX (2020); Blaffer Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston, TX (2019); and National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. (2019). In early 2026, Bui will present a
solo exhibition at moniquemeloche.

Public collections include the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann
Arbor, MI; New York Historical Society, New York, NY; BMO Harris Bank Corporate Art Collection, Chicago,
IL; Bank of America Art Program, Newark, DE; JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York, NY; Jordan
Schnitzer Family Foundation, Portland, OR; Eaton Workshop, Washington D.C.; Arkansas Museum of Fine
Arts, Little Rock, AR; Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington D.C.; and the Pennsylvania College of Art &
Design, Lancaster, PA. They are a recipient of The Outwin Boochever Prize (2021) and MICA Alumni Grant
(2018). Bui is a fellow of the 2022 Queer|Art|Mentorship program, and has received additional fellowships
from MASS MoCA (forthcoming); Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY (2024); James Castle House, Boise, ID
(2022); Kimmel Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (2022); Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown,
MA (2019); Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2024, 2019); The Growlery, San Francisco, CA (2019); and
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX (2018). Bui lives and works in Chicago, IL.

The Gale Memorial Lecture Series was established in memory of Dr. David Gale and his wife Sylvia whose generosity made the series possible. Since the establishment of the David and Sylvia Gale Endowment in 1993, the Visiting Artist Lecture Series has thrived, and many students have benefitted from the scholarship. Lectures are free and open to the public.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 20, 2026, 6:00-9:00 pm

New works from dylan lilla.