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Reception: Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:00-7:30 pm

Join the free public reception celebrating the opening of the exhibition, Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico, curated by Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D. and Irene Vásquez, Ph.D.

This is an exhibition 7 years in the making that features a group of New Mexican artists who were among the earliest generation of Chicana and Chicano activists in the state. All 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, were students at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in Las Vegas in the early 1970s when Chicano scholar Pedro Rodríguez was hired as the inaugural Director of Chicano Studies at NMHU. It was at NMHU that these young men and women became politically active and proceeded to paint murals, produce art, and organize in New Mexico as part of the nascent Chicano civil rights movement that was unfolding nationally. The artworks on display capture a distinctly New Mexican Chicana and Chicano experience that has received little attention in Chicano art history.

Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico, curated by Art History Professor Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D., and Irene Vásquez, Ph.D.

This is an exhibition 7 years in the making that features a group of New Mexican artists who were among the earliest generation of Chicana and Chicano activists in the state. All 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, were students at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in Las Vegas in the early 1970s when Chicano scholar Pedro Rodríguez was hired as the inaugural Director of Chicano Studies at NMHU. It was at NMHU that these young men and women became politically active and proceeded to paint murals, produce art, and organize in New Mexico as part of the nascent Chicano civil rights movement that was unfolding nationally. The artworks on display capture a distinctly New Mexican Chicana and Chicano experience that has received little attention in Chicano art history.

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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.

How do clothing and adornment transcend utility —becoming symbols of power, identity, and intent? Curated by Olivia Amaya Ortiz, The Armor We Wear 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.

The exhibition features eleven local and regional artists, including Alejandro Macias, Angela Ellsworth, Anthony Hurd, Camryn Growingthunder (Fort Peck Assiniboine Sioux), Carrie Wood (Diné), Elizabeth Denneau, Eric J.Garcia – In collaboration with Loose Threads, Papay Solomon, ruben ulisses rodriguez montoya, Shaunté Glover, and Vicente Telles.

Opening for the new exhibition “Stitches” at Inhabit Galerie in Corrales, NM, co-curated by UNM grad student Luca Berkley. An investigation into embroidery, handkerchiefs, and bandanas, featuring Berkley’s work under their alias Piper Pelligrini.

Announcement and Winners: Thursday, February 5, 2026, 5:00-7:00 pm

Undergrad Event 2026 with guest juror, Matthew Chase-Daniel.

Annual Undergrad Event Spring 2026 honoring our undergraduate students.

UNM Graduate Students in the Department of Art host open studies for the public, inviting local gallerists, artists, faculty, and more to see what the art studio graduate students are making and thinking. Everyone in the UNM Albuquerque communities are welcome and encouraged to come!

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.

The Weather
AN MFA THESIS EXHIBITION
by Fen Root

March 9-28, 2025

Opening Reception: Monday, March 9, 2026, 6:00-8:00 pm
Public Lecture: Wednesday. March 25, 2026, 3:00 @ ARTSLab
Closing Reception: Saturday, March 28, 2026, 6:00-8:00 pm

ABQ INT’L
1206 Broadway Blvd. SE
Albuquerque, NM
(not wheelchair accessible)

on view by appointment
contact: froot@unm.edu
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