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The New Mexico Museum of Art is pleased to announce In Good Company: Eli Levin and the New Mexico Realists, an exhibition celebrating the work and enduring influence of Dixon-based artist and 2026 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts honoree Eli Levin. With a practice spanning more than 70 years, Levin’s work as a...

Architect or artist? Early in his career, Antoine Predock (American, 1936-2024) confessed that he found himself “at a Robert Frost-like fork in the road. I could have chosen artist or architect.” He chose architecture and became known around the world as the architect from New Mexico who brought together earth and sky, rivers and mountains,...

As one of Northern New Mexico’s most significant muralists and painter-historians to emerge during the late twentieth century, Zara Kriegstein (1952–2009) worked across painting, print, and large-scale public murals to create powerful explorations of personal and collective histories. Drawing from the New Mexico Museum of Art’s collection of Kriegstein’s prints, paintings, and etchings, Zara Kriegstein:...

This exhibition reintroduces Paul Burlin (1886–1969) as a foundational yet long-overlooked figure in American Modernism, centering his deep and formative relationship with New Mexico. Burlin’s career took a decisive turn in 1912, when married collectors George A. Harris (1889–1960) and Lillian D. Harris (1892–1922) acquired his painting Figure of a Woman. That initial encounter sparked decades...

This exhibition explores the innumerable histories of New Mexico’s lands and peoples. Honoring the multitude of communities, voices, cultures, and experiences that have shaped the state, and subsequently its place within the American narrative, the works presented here examine everything from intimate daily encounters to the grand, festive, and historical. Including work by renowned New...

Jody Folwell (b. 1942), a contemporary potter from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, has revolutionized Pueblo pottery, and Native art more broadly, by pushing the boundaries of traditional form, content, and design. She is the first Pueblo artist to use pottery for advocacy of social justice and political commentary, and over the past 5 decades,...

Buckle up for an evocative journey down America’s most storied highways. Roadside Attractions celebrates the centennial of Route 66 and the enduring romance of the American road trip through the lenses of photographers who have wandered far beyond the primary routes. Established in 1926, Route 66 stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, carving a sinuous...

One of the twentieth-century’s premiere American photographers, Eliot Porter (1901-1990) grew up near Lake Michigan in Illinois and on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine, where he was fascinated by birds. In his quest to find them, he spent a lot of time looking at trees and throughout his life made many striking images of...

Fears about national security peaked after the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order to remove approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent from their homes on the West Coast to “relocation centers” further inland. In the 1980s and 1990s, two American photographers...

12th SITE SANTA FE International: Once Within a Time Featuring artist Maja Ruznic St. Francis Auditorium June 27, 2025 – January 12, 2026 In a first, the 12th SITE SANTA FE International will extend its presentation beyond SITE SANTA FE to many locations across the city. The expansion into different sites will prompt visitors to...