Event Type : Exhibition

Live performance piece by Luca Berkley, at the South Gym in the Johnson Center. 9:00 am until approx. 9:09 am in the free weights area. Will be repeated every first Wednesday, same time and place.

Spring Reception, Saturday, March 22, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm

Professor Meggan Gould, who teaches photography within the Department of Art at UNM and serves as the Associate Dean of Research, is a contemporary photographer whose work often explores the rhetorical, semiotic, and material ways in which photography and its tools—namely, cameras—have been socially constructed. She places under the lens facets of camera technology that usually reside comfortably outside the resultant image—the varying structures and functions of viewfinders, film frame counters, and camera icons—questioning the particular ways in which these seemingly natural and neutral attributes shape the photographer, and the medium itself.

During the creation of her series “7 Pictures Remaining,” the artist’s images of camera counters took on a surprising new dimension when she discovered that many of the cameras documented contained rolls of undeveloped film. Gould opened nearly all the cameras in the collection and discovered hundreds of never-before-seen images residing within. This yielded fascinating discoveries and intimate moments connecting cameras, and former camera owners, to their images, effectively operating as a “shadow archive” within the California Museum of Photography (CMP) technology collection. A selection of prints made from these anonymous images are presented alongside Gould’s own work, attributing personal histories and biographies to these otherwise mute objects.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 15,2025, 6:00-8:00 pm

In this group exhibition curated by Daniel Ulibarri, “New Tableau: Experiments in Photography” explores how contemporary artists are returning to the photographic medium’s experimental beginnings within the context of modernity. From thermal cameras to alternative darkroom techniques, these artists embrace subtraction, abstraction, amalgamation, unorthodox imaging, and non-traditional practices to explore new frontiers.

“New Tableau” features nine local and international artists, including Roger Ballen, Stefan Jennings Batista, Ryan Dennison, Jesse Draxler, Derrell Lopez, Emily Margarit Mason, Zuyva Sevilla, Nick Tauro Jr., and Ramona Zordini.

Opening Reception: Friday, March 28, 2025, 5:30 pm

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 29, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm
Artist Talk: Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 5:00 pm, Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters Room

MFA Thesis exhibition by Emma Ressel ’25 at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 2nd floor.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5, 2025, 6:00-9:00 pm
Gallery Hours: 12:00-4:00 pm or by appointment
Artist Talk: Monday, April 14, 2025, 4:00 pm
CFA, Room 2018

Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 2025, 5:00-9:00 pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, May 3, 2025, 5:00-7:00 pm
Artist Talk: Monday, April 14, 2025, 2:30 pm
CFA, Room 1020

Artist Talk: Friday, April 24, 2025, 3:30 pm
Opening: Sunday, May 4, 2025, 1:00-4:00 pm

XeO is presenting a collection of seven Risograph-printed perzines explore the shared animalness between XeO and XeO’s cat, Kurdle. Queer joy is showcased through mundane aspects of identity and connection. Philosophical musings and biographical narrative merge in a fascinating study of similarities between us and our non-human kin—and how we activate each other.

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.

Live performance piece by Luca Berkley, at the South Gym in the Johnson Center. 9:00 am until approx. 9:09 am in the free weights area. Will be repeated every first Wednesday, same time and place.

Spring Reception, Saturday, March 22, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm

Professor Meggan Gould, who teaches photography within the Department of Art at UNM and serves as the Associate Dean of Research, is a contemporary photographer whose work often explores the rhetorical, semiotic, and material ways in which photography and its tools—namely, cameras—have been socially constructed. She places under the lens facets of camera technology that usually reside comfortably outside the resultant image—the varying structures and functions of viewfinders, film frame counters, and camera icons—questioning the particular ways in which these seemingly natural and neutral attributes shape the photographer, and the medium itself.

During the creation of her series “7 Pictures Remaining,” the artist’s images of camera counters took on a surprising new dimension when she discovered that many of the cameras documented contained rolls of undeveloped film. Gould opened nearly all the cameras in the collection and discovered hundreds of never-before-seen images residing within. This yielded fascinating discoveries and intimate moments connecting cameras, and former camera owners, to their images, effectively operating as a “shadow archive” within the California Museum of Photography (CMP) technology collection. A selection of prints made from these anonymous images are presented alongside Gould’s own work, attributing personal histories and biographies to these otherwise mute objects.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 15,2025, 6:00-8:00 pm

In this group exhibition curated by Daniel Ulibarri, “New Tableau: Experiments in Photography” explores how contemporary artists are returning to the photographic medium’s experimental beginnings within the context of modernity. From thermal cameras to alternative darkroom techniques, these artists embrace subtraction, abstraction, amalgamation, unorthodox imaging, and non-traditional practices to explore new frontiers.

“New Tableau” features nine local and international artists, including Roger Ballen, Stefan Jennings Batista, Ryan Dennison, Jesse Draxler, Derrell Lopez, Emily Margarit Mason, Zuyva Sevilla, Nick Tauro Jr., and Ramona Zordini.

Opening Reception: Friday, March 28, 2025, 5:30 pm

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 29, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm
Artist Talk: Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 5:00 pm, Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters Room

MFA Thesis exhibition by Emma Ressel ’25 at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 2nd floor.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5, 2025, 6:00-9:00 pm
Gallery Hours: 12:00-4:00 pm or by appointment
Artist Talk: Monday, April 14, 2025, 4:00 pm
CFA, Room 2018

Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 2025, 5:00-9:00 pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, May 3, 2025, 5:00-7:00 pm
Artist Talk: Monday, April 14, 2025, 2:30 pm
CFA, Room 1020

Artist Talk: Friday, April 24, 2025, 3:30 pm
Opening: Sunday, May 4, 2025, 1:00-4:00 pm

XeO is presenting a collection of seven Risograph-printed perzines explore the shared animalness between XeO and XeO’s cat, Kurdle. Queer joy is showcased through mundane aspects of identity and connection. Philosophical musings and biographical narrative merge in a fascinating study of similarities between us and our non-human kin—and how we activate each other.

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.

Special Event: Thursday, May 8, 2025, 4:00-6:00 pm, 6:00-7:30 pm

SPELLS FOR THE NEW WORLD: an evening of live performance
Works by students from Szu-Han Ho’s The Politics of Performance

RAVEL’s Spring 2025 course, Environmental Art and Regenerative Ecologies: Healing Sacred Relations, focused on the ongoing effects of nuclear colonialism in New Mexico and how Peoples, communities, and the environment have continued to be impacted without consent. Working with cultural leaders and elders from the Communities for Clean Water Coalition, Tewa Women United, Honor Our Pueblo Existence, and Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, students learned about Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) colonial legacy in New Mexico. Our course critically engaged with topics ranging from the mismanagement of toxic waste and negligence to prioritize remediation to identifying dominant cultural narratives that normalize and justify these harmful actions. We also partnered with Northern New Mexico College and the Northern Stewards Program to practice counter mapping techniques to introduce anti-colonial perspectives into our ways of seeing and relating to the world. Our partnerships align our intentions and articulate ways in which artistic practice can work together with communities and other disciplines to affect cultural narratives. Students drew on emplaced research and participation with these themes to create posters for the Artists Against the Bomb project, organized by Estudio Pedro Reyes in collaboration with ICAN. Reyes warns, “According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, we are currently at 89 seconds to midnight.” Which means, we have never been closer than we are today to the possibility of nuclear war.”Building from the incredibly rich resources from the past spanning arts, literature, and activism, Artists Against the Bomb is a global collection of historic and contemporary posters calling for the abolishment of nuclear weapons production and deployment. Join us to learn more about these critical and timely issues and to celebrate the resiliency and vibrancy of New Mexico’s communities.

Opening Reception: May 3, 2025, 5:00-7:00 pm

SciArt Santa Fe presents Woven Skies: SciArt from Air to the Cosmos, a group exhibition and series of artists’ talks, with a diverse range of perspectives and media at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Artists in the exhibition selected through a statewide open call illuminate matter, energy, form and other aspects from air to the cosmos through research-based investigation at the intersection of art and science with a high level of aesthetic quality.

Featured Artists: Established and emerging artists from across the state using a variety of traditional and experimental media featured are: Kirsten Angerbauer, Colin Barker, Fiona Bell, Paul Biagi, Natalie Christensen, Shirley Crow, Jim Eyre, Marianne Hornbuckle, Susan Latham, Andrea Polli, Alyce Santoro, Zuyva Sevilla, Joan Stango, Dora Tass and Isabel Winson-Sagan.

Spring Reception, Saturday, March 22, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm

Professor Meggan Gould, who teaches photography within the Department of Art at UNM and serves as the Associate Dean of Research, is a contemporary photographer whose work often explores the rhetorical, semiotic, and material ways in which photography and its tools—namely, cameras—have been socially constructed. She places under the lens facets of camera technology that usually reside comfortably outside the resultant image—the varying structures and functions of viewfinders, film frame counters, and camera icons—questioning the particular ways in which these seemingly natural and neutral attributes shape the photographer, and the medium itself.

During the creation of her series “7 Pictures Remaining,” the artist’s images of camera counters took on a surprising new dimension when she discovered that many of the cameras documented contained rolls of undeveloped film. Gould opened nearly all the cameras in the collection and discovered hundreds of never-before-seen images residing within. This yielded fascinating discoveries and intimate moments connecting cameras, and former camera owners, to their images, effectively operating as a “shadow archive” within the California Museum of Photography (CMP) technology collection. A selection of prints made from these anonymous images are presented alongside Gould’s own work, attributing personal histories and biographies to these otherwise mute objects.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 29, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm
Artist Talk: Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 5:00 pm, Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters Room

MFA Thesis exhibition by Emma Ressel ’25 at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 2nd floor.

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.

Spring Reception, Saturday, March 22, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm

Professor Meggan Gould, who teaches photography within the Department of Art at UNM and serves as the Associate Dean of Research, is a contemporary photographer whose work often explores the rhetorical, semiotic, and material ways in which photography and its tools—namely, cameras—have been socially constructed. She places under the lens facets of camera technology that usually reside comfortably outside the resultant image—the varying structures and functions of viewfinders, film frame counters, and camera icons—questioning the particular ways in which these seemingly natural and neutral attributes shape the photographer, and the medium itself.

During the creation of her series “7 Pictures Remaining,” the artist’s images of camera counters took on a surprising new dimension when she discovered that many of the cameras documented contained rolls of undeveloped film. Gould opened nearly all the cameras in the collection and discovered hundreds of never-before-seen images residing within. This yielded fascinating discoveries and intimate moments connecting cameras, and former camera owners, to their images, effectively operating as a “shadow archive” within the California Museum of Photography (CMP) technology collection. A selection of prints made from these anonymous images are presented alongside Gould’s own work, attributing personal histories and biographies to these otherwise mute objects.

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.

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.