Vladem Contemporary

For more than twenty years, Virgil Ortiz (American, Cochiti Pueblo, b. 1969) has been developing Revolt 1680/2180, an expansive project that brings global attention to Po’pay, the Tewa leader who led the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 against Spanish occupation, and to the enduring strength of Pueblo culture. Collaborating with lifelong friend Eric F. Garcia (American, b....

Reclaiming the Future: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration brings together a multigenerational group of Japanese and Japanese American artists whose works confront one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history: the forced incarceration of over 120,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II, including at four camps in New Mexico. From Ruth Asawa’s delicate...

Located on the west face of the Van Mabee Plaza of the Vladem Contemporary at the corner of Guadalupe St. and Montezuma Ave., the Fritz Family Digital Window broadcasts artist videos, animation, and independent short films in the evening hours. Programming repeats every one to two hours, and patrons may stream the audio through their...

Vladem Contemporary Lucy R. Lippard—writer, activist, and curator—has been a revolutionary force in the international art world for over sixty years. As a young college graduate, Lippard began working at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as a page in the library, and eventually as a burgeoning curator, assisting with research and writing for major...

Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line explores the career of Art Nouveau pioneer Alphonse Mucha (1860 – 1939) and his impact on art since the 1960s. Born in Ivančice, Moravia in the Austrian Empire, Mucha rose to acclaim as an illustrator and designer and became one of the most influential and recognizable Czech artists of his...

The New Mexico Museum of Art presents a landmark exhibition, Off-Center: New Mexico Art, 1970-2000, a survey of the last three decades of the twentieth century, a pivotal time in which numerous artists relocated to New Mexico, drawn by its distinctive climate and landscape, its rich diversity of cultures, and its strong reputation as a...

Shadow and Light, the inaugural exhibition at the Vladem Contemporary plays upon the famed New Mexico light which is credited for attracting artists and photographers to the region for decades. More importantly, the theme illustrates one of the original notions behind the founding of the New Mexico Museum of Art—the belief that the impact of...