Gale Memorial Lecture Series

Gale Memorial Lecture Series Spring 2026

Antonius-Tin Bui

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 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); and 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 a 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.

Event Presented by:
• UNM Department of Art
• ARTSLab
• UNM Art Museum
• Tamarind Institute
• UNM Women’s Resource Center

Gale Memorial Lecture Series Fall 2025

sheri crider

Mobile Abolition Library, November 5, 2025, 4:30 pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 5:30 pm
ARTSLab, 131 Pine St. NE

Gizmo Building Tour: Thursday, November 6, 2025, 5:00 pm
410 Central Ave. SW

sheri crider is a social practice artist with a robust visual arts practice centered on solace, respite, magic, and belonging. crider’s journey as an artist has been deeply informed by her personal experiences, which include over a decade of homelessness, addiction, and incarceration. These experiences have shaped her artistic practice and mission. As a multidisciplinary artist, sheri creates spaces that reimagine the best and worst of ourselves. Their work includes interactive sculpture, VR environments, painting and collaborative works that engage wide, nontraditional audiences. sheri received an academic tuition waiver and a fine arts scholarship at the University of Arizona where they received a BFA in Ceramics and Queer Theory. sheri went on to earn a MFA in Sculpture from the University of New Mexico. sheri is the founder/director of Sanitary Tortilla Factory, and Gizmo Arts community art spaces in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more than ten years, sheri’s spaces have supported emerging queer and POC artists in a comprehensive way.

sheri’s work has been exhibited nationally with solo and group exhibitions at the University of New Mexico Art Museum, University of Arizona Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe. crider has been the recipient of multiple grants and fellowships including the inaugural cohort of Open Philanthropy’s Right of Return Fellowship, supporting original artworks to further criminal justice reform, the Andy Warhol Foundation, Youth Civic Infrastructure, and Art For Justice. Her work has been reviewed in critically acclaimed periodicals including PBS Newshour, Hyperallergic and other notable periodicals.

Event Presented by:

• UNM Department of Art
• ARTSLab 
• UNM Women’s Resource Center

Sheida Soleimani

https://edelassanti.com/artists/67-sheida-soleimani/
Artist Talk: Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 5:30 pm
ARTSLab, 131 Pine St. NE

Sheida Soleimani (b. 1990) received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2015. Sheida’s work explores intersections of art and activism, melding sculpture, performance, film and photography to highlight critical perspectives on events across the Middle East, unpicking the complex power dynamics between the region and western nations. Soleimani’s work interrogates the dissemination of information in digital contexts, adapting found images from press and social media leaks to exist within alternative scenarios. Her photographs document constructed sets within her studio, in which repeating images carve out trompe l’oeil perspectives in a visual metaphor for the competing political narratives relayed by her source materials.

Recent solo exhibitions include Panjereh, International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, New York, USA (2025); no breath, no breeze, ICA Maine, Portland, Maine, USA (2024); The Banner Project: Ghostwriter, MFA Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (2023); Ghostwriter, Edel Assanti, London, UK (2023); Negotiators, Kunsthaus Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, CH (2022); Ghostwriter, Providence College Galleries, Providence, USA (2022); ILVA, Castello San Basilio, Basilicata, Italy (2022); Levers of Power, Silver Eye Centre for Photography, Pittsburgh, USA (2021); Hotbed, Denny Dimin Gallery, New York, USA (2020); Medium of Exchange, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Utah; CUE Art Foundation, New York; Cincinnati Contemporary Art, Cincinnati and Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, all USA (2018-2019). Selected group exhibitions include Uncanny, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., US (2025); Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, South London Gallery, London, UK (2024); Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, PAFA, Philadelphia, USA (2023); A Trillion Sunsets, ICP, New York, USA (2022); Immune Project, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (2022); Denunciation!, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany (2021); deCordova Biennial, deCordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, USA (2019); Ecologies of Darkness, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany (2019). Soleimani lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island.

Event Presented by:

• UNM Department of Art
• ARTSLab 
• UNM Women’s Resource Center