Event Type : Exhibition

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

Opening Reception: Friday, February 27, 2026, 4:00-7:00 pm

A {reaction, report, recommendation, response}
to Zimmerman’s Three Peoples

AJ Calabaza | Elias Chavira-Garcia | Valeria Hines
Bre Kappel | Prescott Moore | Briana Mowery
Adriana Salas | Isaiah Sisneros | Lauri Tsosie

Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 2026, 5:00-8:00 pm

A BFA thesis exhibition by Kat B.

The Weight of Grey
MFA Thesis Exhibition
by Kwakye Oppong-Asamoah

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5, 2026, 6:00-9:00 pm
Artist Talk: Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 5:30 pm
Closing Reception: Friday, March 20, 2026, 6:00-9:00 pm

NO PROMISES
MFA Thesis Exhibition
by Hannah Taylor

Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 2026, 6:00-9:00 pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, March 26, 2026, 5:30 pm @UNM CTR-ARTS 1020
Closing Reception: Friday, March 27, 2026, 6:00-9:00 pm

Fourteenfifteen Gallery
1415 4th St SW Albuquerque, NM 87102

Gallery open by appointment, contact hannahtaylor@unm.edu

Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 2026, 5:00-10:00 pm
First Friday, part of ABQ Artwalk

The UNM Graduate Art Association and Kukani Gallery Announce the Annual GAA Juried Show:

“The Act of Arriving examines liminal spaces as sites where temporal and spatial boundaries are undisturbed and actively navigated. Rather than positioning acts as a moment between fixed states, the exhibition positions arrival as a continuous process shaped by movement, duration, and perception. Collectively, the exhibition considers liminality as a generative framework for understanding how meaning, identity, time and place emerge through ongoing processes of becoming and arriving in the land of New Mexico.” – Jesse Littlebird

The Graduate Art Association is thrilled to partner with Kukani Gallery for this year’s exhibition. We see this collaboration as the beginning of an ongoing relationship that strengthens connections between UNM graduate students and the local community of artists, galleries, and art spaces across Albuquerque and New Mexico.

Featured Artists: Zac Brenner, daniela del mar, Yoma Wilson, Justine Kablack, dylan lilla, Madison Emond, Saskia Becker, Lila Steffan, Saul Ramirez, Rachel Jump, Sara Miovic, Rachel McLaughlin, Janessa Lewis

The Weather
AN MFA THESIS EXHIBITION
by Fen Root

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
more information: altrbody.rip

Reception: Friday, March 27, 2026, 5:00-7:00 pm
Workshop: Saturday, March 28, 2:00-4:00 pm

Strata Gallery announces an Emerging Member solo exhibition Shimmering Gloom by New Mexico-based Brianna Tadeo.

Join us for a free unique workshop on March 28, 2026, from 2:00-4:00 pm for an immersive experience exploring the captivating world of silver gelatin paper and the impermanence of photographic art by Brianna Tadeo. Reservation required on Eventbrite.

Brianna Tadeo (they/them) is a visual artist whose work explores impermanence and transformation through experimental photography. Utilizing analog and digital techniques, Tadeo embraces fragility, inviting images to crack, fade, and disintegrate in pursuit of unexpected beauty. Their practice is rooted in curiosity and the quiet magic of light and material change.

Shimmering Gloom invites viewers into a world where photography is not just about capturing a moment, but about transformation and the shimmer that appears amid change. Tadeo offers a poetic meditation on light, loss, and the beauty found in impermanence.

Tadeo holds a BFA from California College of the Arts and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. Their work has been exhibited nationally and recognized by SF Camerawork’s FORECAST 2025 and Lenscratch as one of the “Top 25 Students to Watch.”

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

Reception: Friday, March 27, 2026, 5:00-7:00 pm
Workshop: Saturday, March 28, 2:00-4:00 pm

Strata Gallery announces an Emerging Member solo exhibition Shimmering Gloom by New Mexico-based Brianna Tadeo.

Join us for a free unique workshop on March 28, 2026, from 2:00-4:00 pm for an immersive experience exploring the captivating world of silver gelatin paper and the impermanence of photographic art by Brianna Tadeo. Reservation required on Eventbrite.

Brianna Tadeo (they/them) is a visual artist whose work explores impermanence and transformation through experimental photography. Utilizing analog and digital techniques, Tadeo embraces fragility, inviting images to crack, fade, and disintegrate in pursuit of unexpected beauty. Their practice is rooted in curiosity and the quiet magic of light and material change.

Shimmering Gloom invites viewers into a world where photography is not just about capturing a moment, but about transformation and the shimmer that appears amid change. Tadeo offers a poetic meditation on light, loss, and the beauty found in impermanence.

Tadeo holds a BFA from California College of the Arts and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. Their work has been exhibited nationally and recognized by SF Camerawork’s FORECAST 2025 and Lenscratch as one of the “Top 25 Students to Watch.”