Exhibition History
The New Mexico Museum of Art has been presenting exhibitions for over a century! Explore the links on the left to search past exhibitions by decade or use the search icon on the top right of this page to keyword search for your favorite artists.
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Exhibition Title |
Opening Date |
Closing Date |
| The Birth, Death and Resurrection of Christ: from Michelangelo to Tiepolo | January 25, 2020 | September 27, 2020 |
| Word Play | February 8, 2020 | March 28, 2021 |
| Alcoves 2020 #3 | February 15, 2020 | December 6, 2020 |
| For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design | October 24, 2020 | January 17, 2021 |
| A Fiery Light: Will Shuster’s New Mexico | February 20, 2021 | July 25, 2021 |
| Alcoves 20/20 #4 | February 20, 2021 | June 27, 2021 |
| Breath Taking | March 13, 2021 | September 5, 2021 |
| Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch | April 17, 2021 | January 2, 2022 |
| Storytellers: Narrative Art and the West | July 17, 2021 | February 13, 2022 |
| Go West Said a Small Voice: Gustave Baumann and Dreams of New Mexico | August 14, 2021 | February 13, 2022 |
Exhibition Title |
Opening Date |
Closing Date |
| Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings | January 29, 2010 | April 18, 2010 |
| New Arrivals: Works from the Collection | February 12, 2010 | April 4, 2010 |
| Shirley Klinghoffer | March 30, 2010 | May 7, 2010 |
| Art on the Edge (2010): FOCA Biennial Juried Exhibition | April 16, 2010 | August 1, 2010 |
| Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots in Art | May 15, 2010 | October 24, 2010 |
| Play It Louder: Alexander Girard and the Girard Foundation Collection | June 18, 2010 | September 10, 2010 |
| Traces: Johnnie Winona Ross | August 13, 2010 | January 9, 2011 |
| Drip Tease: John Tinker’s Narrative Sculptures | August 13, 2010 | January 9, 2011 |
| The Governor’s Award For Excellence in the Arts, 2010 | September 24, 2010 | December 10, 2010 |
| Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art | November 19, 2010 | March 20, 2010 |
| Cloudscapes: Photographs from the Collection | January 14, 2011 | May 15, 2011 |
| Conserving Public Art: The WPA Artwork of Gene Kloss and B.J.O. Nordfeldt | January 14, 2011 | March 20, 2011 |
| Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment | April 8, 2011 | October 9, 2011 |
| Kamlio (Twisted Waters) A Video Installation by Robert Gaylor | April 8, 2011 | July 17, 2011 |
| Gustave Baumann: Painter, Printmaker and Puppeteer | April 29, 2011 | September 2, 2011 |
| The Curve: Center Award Winners, 2011 | May 20, 2011 | August 7, 2011 |
| Kimono: Karen LaMonte and Prints of the Floating World | June 24, 2011 | November 6, 2011 |
| The Prints of Gustave Baumann | June 24, 2011 | December 1, 2011 |
| Governor’s Awards For Excellence in the Arts 2011 | June 24, 2011 | December 9, 2011 |
| SOFA West | July 8, 2011 | July 11, 2011 |
| New Native Photography, 2011 | August 12, 2011 | October 2, 2011 |
| Past, Present, Future: Michael P. Berman, David Taylor, Connie Samaras | October 27, 2011 | April 22, 2012 |
| James Drake: Salon of a Thousand Souls | October 27, 2011 | April 22, 2012 |
| Beau Regards from Paris! Post-Impressionist Views by Donald Beauregard | October 27, 2011 | March 18, 2012 |
| Between the Lines: Culture and Cartography on the Road to Statehood | October 28, 2011 | May 4, 2012 |
| Repeat After Me | January 13, 2012 | May 20, 2012 |
| Treasures Seldom Seen | March 2, 2012 | February 3, 2013 |
| Waterscapes: Photographs from the Collection | March 23, 2012 | August 26, 2012 |
| Alcove 12.0 | March 23, 2012 | April 5, 2013 |
| New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History | March 23, 2012 | September 9, 2012 |
| It’s About Time; 14,000 Years of New Mexico Art | May 11, 2012 | November 20, 2013 |
| Governor’s Awards For Excellence in the Arts 2012 | May 18, 2012 | December 7, 2012 |
| Art Santa Fe 2012 | July 12, 2012 | July 15, 2012 |
| Emerge 2012: A Showcase of Rising Talents in Kiln-glass | July 12, 2012 | January 6, 2013 |
| New World: Timeless Visions, Membership Show of the International Academy of Ceramics | September 7, 2012 | September 23, 2012 |
| Chromatic Fusion: The Art of Fused Glass | October 5, 2012 | January 6, 2013 |
| Art on the Edge 2013, Friends of Contemporary Art and Photography Juried Show | January 18, 2013 | April 14, 2013 |
| F.S.A Photographers in New Mexico | January 18, 2013 | January 19, 2014 |
| Back In the Saddle: The Horse as Icon | February 8, 2013 | January 19, 2014 |
| Georgia O’Keeffe: Selected Works | February 18, 2013 | January 19, 2014 |
| Mont St. Michel and Shiprock: Photographs by William Clift | April 19, 2013 | September 6, 2013 |
| Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1994-2011 | May 3, 2013 | August 18, 2013 |
| Art Santa Fe 2013 | July 11, 2013 | July 14, 2013 |
| A Life in Pictures: Four Photography Collections | September 20, 2013 | February 2, 2014 |
| Collecting is Curiosity/Inquiry | September 20, 2013 | February 2, 2014 |
| 50 Works for 50 States: New Mexico | September 20, 2013 | April 13, 2014 |
| Renaissance to Goya: prints and drawings from Spain | December 13, 2013 | March 9, 2014 |
| Spotlight on Gustave Baumann | December 14, 2013 | unknown |
| New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History | February 1, 2014 | February 22, 2015 |
| Grounded | March 7, 2014 | August 17, 2014 |
| Beneath our Feet: Photographs by Joan Myers | March 7, 2014 | August 17, 2014 |
| Photo Lab | March 7, 2014 | September 7, 2014 |
| Southwestern Allure: The Art of the Santa Fe Art Colony | April 25, 2014 | July 27, 2014 |
| Local Color: Judy Chicago in New Mexico 1984-2014 | April 25, 2014 | October 12, 2014 |
| The Prints of Gustave Baumann 2014 | April 25, 2014 | August 31, 2014 |
| Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World | June 6, 2014 | March 29, 2015 |
| Art Santa Fe | July 10, 2014 | July 13, 2014 |
| Alcove Shows 1917 to 1927 | August 8, 2014 | February 22, 2015 |
| Cameraless | August 20, 2014 | January 4, 2015 |
| Delilah Montoya: Syncretism | August 28, 2014 | December 7, 2014 |
| Georgia O’Keeffe: Place and Influence | August 28, 2014 | December 31, 2014 |
| The Taos Society of Artists | August 28, 2014 | January 1, 2015 |
| Gustave Baumann and Friends: Artist Cards from Holidays Past | September 27, 2014 | March 29, 2015 |
| Hunting + Gathering: New Additions to the Museum’s Collection | November 7, 2014 | March 29, 2015 |
| North to South: Photograps by Edward Ranney | December 19, 2014 | April 19, 2015 |
| Masterworks of the Exposition Era | December 19, 2014 | July 15, 2015 |
| On Kawara – Silence | January 1, 2015 | March 3, 2015 |
| Tales From a Dark Room | January 9, 2015 | April 19, 2015 |
| Indian Country: The Art of David Bradley | January 9, 2015 | Aug 2018 |
| Colors of the Southwest | March 6, 2015 | September 13, 2015 |
| Material Matters : Selections from the Joann and Gifford Phillips Gift | April 17, 2015 | August 16, 2015 |
| Art on the Edge: Friends of Contemporary Art and Photography Juried Show | April 17, 2015 | August 30, 2015 |
| To Feel Less Alone: Gay Block, A Portrait | May 1, 2015 | July 26, 2015 |
| Fire Season | May 1, 2015 | July 26, 2015 |
| TRADICIÓN, DEVOCIÓN Y VIDA: 80 years of Black and White Photography in New Mexico and Mexico | May 1, 2015 | October 24, 2015 |
| Art Santa Fe | July 9, 2015 | July 12, 2015 |
| That Multitudes May Share: Building the Museum of Art | August 14, 2015 | March 20, 2016 |
| Gustave Baumann and New Mexico | August 15, 2015 | December 27, 2016 |
| Georgia O’Keeffe In Process | September 11, 2015 | January 17, 2016 |
| Looking Forward/Looking Back | September 11, 2015 | January 17, 2016 |
| An American Modernism | October 2, 2015 | February 21, 2016 |
| Southwestern Sampler: Highlights of the Permanent Colllection | October 2, 2015 | February 21, 2016 |
| Gustave Bauman, German Craftsman – American Artist | October 2, 2015 | February 14, 2016 |
| Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar | February 5, 2016 | May 1, 2016 |
| First Folio!: The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare | February 5, 2016 | February 28, 2016 |
| Stage, Setting, Mood: Theatricality in the Visual Arts | February 5, 2016 | May 1, 2016 |
| Chimayó: A Pilgrimage Through Two Centuries | February 6, 2016 | October 16, 2016 |
| Alcoves 16/17 | March 5, 2016 | March 26, 2017 |
| Cady Wells: Ruminations | April 1, 2016 | October 1, 2017 |
| Self-Regard: Artist Self-Portraits from the Collection | April 2, 2016 | March 12, 2016 |
| Assumed Identities: Photographs by Anne Noggle | April 2, 2016 | September 11, 2016 |
| Georgia O’Keeffe: Texas Watercolors (1919–1918) | April 2, 2016 | October 30, 2016 |
| Route 66: Radiance, Rust, and Revival on the Mother Road | April 2, 2016 | October 2, 2016 |
| Finding a Contemporary Voice: the Legacy of Lloyd Kiva New and IAIA | May 20, 2016 | October 10, 2016 |
| Con Cariño: Artists Inspired by Lowriders | May 21, 2016 | October 10, 2016 |
| Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company | May 21, 2016 | January 22, 2017 |
| Georgia O’Keeffe | May 21, 2016 | January 30, 2017 |
| 2016 Governor’s Awards For Excellence in the Arts | July 6, 2016 | December 9, 2016 |
| Agnes Martin and Me | August 5, 2016 | February 27, 2017 |
| The New Westward: Trains, Planes, and Automobiles that Move the Modern West | September 23, 2016 | February 12, 2017 |
| Small Wonders | October 8, 2016 | March 12, 2017 |
| Be With Me, a Small Exhibition of Large Painting | October 28, 2016 | May 7, 2017 |
| Conversations in Painting, Early 20th Century to Post-War American Art | October 28, 2016 | April 30, 2017 |
| Rural Modernism: Painting the American Scene | October 29, 2016 | May 7, 2017 |
| Becoming O’Keeffe | October 29, 2016 | December 3, 2017 |
| The Artists of Taos | October 29, 2016 | April 30, 2017 |
| The Carved Line: Block Prints and New Mexico | November 5, 2016 | April 16, 2017 |
| Gustave Baumann in California | January 10, 2017 | August 6, 2017 |
| Light Tight: New Work by Meggan Gould and Andy Mattern | March 24, 2017 | September 17, 2017 |
| Imagining New Mexico | March 25, 2017 | September 17, 2017 |
| Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking | May 25, 2017 | September 9, 2018 |
| Lines of Thought:Drawing from Michaelangelo to Now | May 26, 2017 | September 17, 2017 |
| J.H. Sharp Studio: The Life and Work of An American Legend | May 26, 2017 | unknown |
| Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art | June 9, 2017 | October 1, 2017 |
| Art Santa Fe 2017 | July 13, 2017 | July 16, 2017 |
| Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West | July 13, 2017 | December 31, 2018 |
| Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 | July 17, 2017 | July 22, 2018 |
| Of God and Mortal Men: Masterworks by T.C. Cannon from the Nancy and Richard Bloch Collection | August 27, 2017 | April 15, 2018 |
| Contact: Local to Global | November 25, 2017 | April 29, 2018 |
| Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives | November 25, 2017 | October 7, 2018 |
| Horizons: People & Place in New Mexican Art | November 25, 2017 | November 25, 2018 |
| A Place Like No Other: Two Views of the New Mexico Landscape | November 25, 2017 | April 13, 2018 |
| The Harwood Collection: Work by Women | November 25, 2017 | May 13, 2018 |
| Travelogue: Northwest Artists Paint the World | February 9, 2018 | January 6, 2019 |
| T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America | March 25, 2018 | Jan 2019 |
| Excavations: Patrick Nagatani | April 4, 2018 | September 23, 2018 |
| Patrick Nagatani: Invented Realities | May 25, 2018 | September 9, 2018 |
| John Connell Works | June 23, 2018 | January 27, 2019 |
| Good Company: Five Artist Communities in New Mexico | October 5, 2018 | March 10, 2019 |
| Wait Until Dark | November 16, 2018 | May 12, 2019 |
| Night Life: Imagination Station | November 17, 2018 | April 21, 2019 |
| Shots in the Dark | December 15, 2018 | March 31, 2019 |
| Russell Lee’s FSA photography in New Mexico | December 15, 2018 | September 8, 2019 |
| Birth/Death/Resurrection of Christ | January 4, 2019 | April 12, 2020 |
| Carved & Cast: 20th Century New Mexican Sculpture | January 8, 2019 | March 31, 2019 |
| The Great Unknown: Artists at Glen Canyon and Lake Powell | March 30, 2019 | September 15, 2019 |
| Bringing Together: Recent Acquisitions | March 30, 2019 | January 26, 2020 |
| Social & Sublime: Land, Place, and Art | April 13, 2019 | November 17, 2019 |
| Joseph Henry Sharp’s Montana | April 13, 2019 | December 4, 2021 |
| Susan Folwell: Through the Looking Glass | May 25, 2019 | January 15, 2020 |
| Bringing Together: Recent Acquisitions | May 25, 2019 | January 26, 2020 |
| 46th Annual Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts | September 20, 2019 | February 28, 2020 |
| Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist | October 3, 2019 | January 5, 2020 |
| Picturing Passion: Artists Interpret the Penitente Brotherhood | November 27, 2019 | November 1, 2020 |
Exhibition Title |
Opening Date |
Closing Date |
| 20/20 Twentieth Century Photographic Acquisitions | February 4, 2000 | August 13, 2000 |
| Fair and Square: An Exhibition of Works of Art By Artists Working With the Square Format | March 10, 2000 | May 12, 2000 |
| Arthur Wesley Dow & American Arts and Crafts | March 10, 2000 | June 18, 2000 |
| Bathysphere | March 24, 2000 | June 24, 2000 |
| Term Limits: Crafting a Discussion about New Mexico Art | May 12, 2000 | October 29, 2000 |
| On Borrowed Time: Translations of Life with Breast Cancer | May 19, 2000 | July 14, 2000 |
| Crossing Borders/Transcending Categories: Contemporary Art from Mata Ortiz, Mexico | June 23, 2000 | September 17, 2000 |
| Universal Gum & Tradecake: Thomas Ashcroft | July 14, 2000 | October 15, 2000 |
| Tejidos y Lana: Weavings and Wool, Dibujos de Nuestros Antepasados | July 21, 2000 | September 15, 2000 |
| In His Native Land: The Early Modern Photography of John Candelario | September 15, 2000 | April 22, 2001 |
| 27th Annual Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts | September 22, 2000 | September 22, 2000 |
| Oliphant in Santa Fe | October 13, 2000 | April 8, 2001 |
| Stories Untold: Pioneer Jewish Women | October 15, 2000 | December 10, 2000 |
| Art Quilts: Quilts by Artists with New Mexico Roots and Connections | November 3, 2000 | December 8, 2000 |
| Clyfford Still Picking Mangos in his Patio: Flavio Garciandia Was There | November 10, 2000 | January 21, 2001 |
| A Glimpse: Selection from the Collection | November 17, 2000 | February 25, 2001 |
| Rhythm and Hues, Expressions in Blue: New Meico African American Artists Guild | December 15, 2000 | January 12, 2001 |
| Images of the Spirit: Photographs of Graciela Iturbide | February 9, 2001 | April 22, 2001 |
| Plato’s Studio: Fragments and Restorations | March 16, 2001 | July 30, 2001 |
| Lincoln County Art: The New Millennium | March 16, 2001 | May 11, 2001 |
| Passages: Tour New Mexico Art with a Detour Along Route 66 | May 18, 2001 | September 23, 2001 |
| Harmony of Reflected Light: The Photographs of Arthur Wesley Dow | May 18, 2001 | September 9, 2001 |
| Vibrant Elders: A Community of New Mexico Artists | May 18, 2001 | July 13, 2001 |
| Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process | June 8, 2001 | September 9, 2001 |
| 14th Annual Willard Van Dyke Memorial Grant: Photographs of Camille Ross | July 6, 2001 | August 19, 2001 |
| The Avant-Garde Document: Photographs by Aleksandras Macijauskas | July 16, 2001 | May 19, 2002 |
| Northern New Mexico Artists Studio Tour Exhibition | July 20, 2001 | September 14, 2001 |
| Eliseo Rodriguez: El Sexto Pintor | August 24, 2001 | February 17, 2002 |
| 28th Annual Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts | September 21, 2001 | September 21, 2001 |
| Sabastiao Salgado, Migrations: Humanity in Transition and the Children | September 22, 2001 | December 1, 2001 |
| Carr, O’Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own | October 5, 2001 | January 6, 2002 |
| Organizing the World: Sculptural Interventions | December 14, 2001 | April 21, 2002 |
| Looking Back: Interactions Celebrating the 85th Anniversary of the Museum of Fine Arts | January 25, 2002 | May 2, 2002 |
| From Realism to Abstraction: Art in New Mexico | May 10, 2002 | October 23, 2003 |
| New Histories of Photography From the Collections: Brett Weston | May 10, 2002 | April 7, 2003 |
| Patricia Schaefer: Willard Van Dyke Memorial Grant Exhibition | May 10, 2002 | June 1, 2002 |
| Arte Latino: Treasures From the Smithsonian American Art Museum | June 28, 2002 | September 22, 2002 |
| Mind Over Matter: Reworking Women’s Work | October 11, 2002 | May 4, 2003 |
| Idea Photographic: After Modernism | October 11, 2002 | January 19, 2003 |
| Reality From the Barrio: Boys and Girls Club Photo Exhibit | January 31, 2003 | January 31, 2003 |
| Downstairs/Upstairs: Tending the Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts | February 7, 2003 | May 9, 2003 |
| Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation | May 16, 2003 | August 24, 2003 |
| THE SHOW: Southwest Juried Exhibition | June 3, 2003 | August 24, 2003 |
| Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico | September 19, 2003 | February 15, 2004 |
| Modernity and Change: Georgi Zelma, Documentary Photographs of Eastern Europe, 1924-1944 | September 19, 2003 | January 25, 2004 |
| Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ArtNews Photographs | September 19, 2003 | January 4, 2004 |
| SoQ: Contemporary Art in Southern New Mexico | January 23, 2004 | April 25, 2004 |
| Tony Price: Atomic Art | March 5, 2004 | May 16, 2004 |
| Soul of the Crew: 9th Annual Juried Black & White Photography Exhibition by New Mexico High School and College Students | March 5, 2004 | March 28, 2004 |
| Who’s Who & What’s What: New Mexico Connections | March 26, 2004 | January 9, 2006 |
| Sight of Music: Collection of Reba and Dave Williams | May 25, 2004 | October 10, 2004 |
| Nicholas and Alexandra: at Home with the Last Tsar and His Family | May 29, 2004 | September 5, 2004 |
| Call and Response: From the Political to the Personal; The Work of Komar and Melamid | July 9, 2004 | October 3, 2004 |
| In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of Agnes Martin, Maria Martinez, and Florence Pierce | October 8, 2004 | January 23, 2005 |
| Contemporary Works on Paper from the Collection | October 22, 2004 | January 9, 2005 |
| Beyond Words: Artists and the Book | October 22, 2004 | February 20, 2005 |
| Unborn Revolutions: 10th Annual Juried Youth Art Exhibition | 2005 | 2005 |
| About the Face: Featuring Artists Patrick Harris, Dean Howell, and Diane Marsh | January 21, 2005 | March 27, 2005 |
| Embodied: Seven Studies in Video | February 19, 2005 | May 15, 2005 |
| Explorations in Bronze: Degas and New Mexico | June 10, 2005 | October 2, 2005 |
| The West Through My Eyes: Highlights from the Private Collection of Bill Schenk | June 24, 2005 | September 4, 2005 |
| Originals 2005 | September 23, 2005 | February 5, 2006 |
| Strokes of Genius: Masterworks from the New Britain Museum of Art | October 14, 2005 | January 8, 2006 |
| Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters & Native Pop | February 3, 2006 | April 23, 2006 |
| Georgia O’Keeffe’s Legacy in New Mexico | February 17, 2006 | |
| Gustave Baumann: A Santa Fe Legend | February 17, 2006 | |
| Semantics: The Words of Art, Site Santa Fe’s Young Curators Exhibition | February 24, 2006 | April 16, 2006 |
| Santa Fe Collects Elias Rivera | May 5, 2006 | June 11, 2006 |
| Mexican Modern: Masters of the 20th Century | May 28, 2006 | September 4, 2006 |
| Marsden Hartley: American Modern | June 9, 2006 | September 3, 2006 |
| Frederico Vigil’s Dichos: Visual Images of Words of Wisdom from New Mexico and Spain | June 23, 2006 | September 17, 2006 |
| Mergers and Acquisitions: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection | September 15, 2006 | February 25, 2007 |
| Collecting Modernism: European Master Works | September 20, 2006 | January 7, 2007 |
| Constellation | December 15, 2006 | February 11, 2007 |
| Driven to Distraction | January 26, 2007 | March 18, 2007 |
| The Art and Artifice of Science | February 9, 2007 | May 20, 2007 |
| Santa Fe’s Young Curators: Vices and Virtues | February 23, 2007 | April 29, 2007 |
| How The West is One: The Art of New Mexico | April 20, 2007 | February 20, 2012 |
| Flight of Fancy | May 18, 2007 | September 9, 2007 |
| NaturaMorta: Still Life Paintings and the Medici Collections | June 8, 2007 | August 5, 2007 |
| Excavating Egypt | August 31, 2007 | January 6, 2008 |
| Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands | September 28, 2007 | January 6, 2008 |
| Art on the Edge 2008: Friends of Contemporary Art Juried Show | January 25, 2008 | April 13, 2008 |
| Flower Power: A Subversive Botanical | February 1, 2008 | May 11, 2008 |
| Gustave Baumann Printmaker | April 17, 2008 | March 19, 2012 |
| Album Amicorum | June 6, 2008 | August 31, 2008 |
| Flux: Reflections on Contemporary Glass | June 6, 2008 | September 21, 2008 |
| Tuff Stuff | June 20, 2008 | September 7, 2008 |
| Memory and Memorium: Art Santa Fe 2008 | July 11, 2008 | July 13, 2008 |
| Paper Trail: How the West is One, Too | September 19, 2008 | February 8, 2009 |
| Fashion in Film: Period Costumes for the Screen | October 17, 2008 | January 4, 2009 |
| Pulling Strings: The Marionettes and Art of Gustave Baumann | January 30, 2009 | May 10, 2009 |
| Alternative Spaces: Contemporary Installation Art in Dialogue with Historic Architecture | February 20, 2009 | May 3, 2009 |
| Canvassing the Neighborhood: New Mexico Artists’ Views of Neighborhood Life | April 3, 2009 | June 14, 2009 |
| Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection | April 24, 2009 | September 6, 2009 |
| American Impressionism: Paintings From the Phillips Collection | June 5, 2009 | September 13, 2009 |
| The Surreal Life: Gerry Snyder and Marco Rosichelli | September 18, 2009 | January 31, 2010 |
| Manmade: Notions of Landscape: From the Lannan Foundation | October 9, 2009 | January 3, 2010 |
Exhibition Title |
Opening Date |
Closing Date |
| Sources and Inspirations: Paintings by Paul Pletka | January 26, 1990 | June 17, 1990 |
| Alcove Show: Cook, Cox, Lieber and Olds | March 3, 1990 | July 22, 1990 |
| Masterpieces of the American West: Selections from the Anschutz Collection | May 19, 1990 | September 16, 1990 |
| Alcove Show: Chicago, Fernandez, Kriegstein, Linnell | July 4, 1990 | December 2, 1990 |
| A Tribute to Eliot Porter | August 4, 1990 | December 8, 1990 |
| The Humanitarian Vision in Contemporary Art | August 4, 1990 | December 2, 1990 |
| Will Schuster: A Santa Fe Legend | September 2, 1990 | February 18, 1991 |
| A New Mexico Tradition: Southwestern Realism | September 29, 1990 | October 28, 1990 |
| Southwest ’90 | November 17, 1990 | March 30, 1991 |
| The Alcove Show: Life Stories. [No. 10] | December 15, 1990 | March 10, 1991 |
| Artists and Patrons: Views of the Collection | February 2, 1991 | July 21, 1991 |
| Singular Visions | April 27, 1991 | October 6, 1991 |
| Allan Houser: A Life in Art | June 29, 1991 | November 27, 1991 |
| Creating Images of the Southwest: The Santa Fe Railway Collection | August 3, 1991 | December 8, 1991 |
| Paradox; The Artist’s Mind: New Work and Selections from the Phillips Gift | November 1, 1991 | February 9, 1992 |
| Leo Tanguma: The Torch of Quetzacoatl | November 2, 1991 | February 9, 1992 |
| Some of the Newest: Recent Acquisitions | November 26, 1991 | June 14, 1992 |
| Rebecca Salisbury James: A Modern Artist and Her Legacy | November 26, 1991 | April 26, 1992 |
| To Collect the Art of Women: The Jane Reese Williams Photography Collection | December 21, 1991 | May 24, 1992 |
| Artists of the Hondo Valley | January 14, 1992 | February 21, 1993 |
| Skies over New Mexico | January 15, 1992 | February 8, 1993 |
| Art for the People:The New Deal in New Mexico, 1933-1943 | March 1, 1992 | June 5, 1992 |
| Elmer Schooley : Wilderness Series | March 7, 1992 | June 14, 1992 |
| Photojournalism in New Mexico | May 1, 1992 | June 28, 1993 |
| The Alcove Show: Bradley, Fonseca, Lamarr, & Luna | May 16, 1992 | August 30, 1992 |
| Recuerdos de Santa Fe | June 5, 1992 | September 27, 1992 |
| New Mexico Impressions: Printmaking 1880-1990 | June 5, 1992 | September 27, 1992 |
| Works by John Connell and Eugene Newmann | July 11, 1992 | October 11, 1992 |
| Proto Modern Photography | July 11, 1992 | October 11, 1992 |
| A view from Here: 75 years at the Museum of Fine Arts | September 19, 1992 | February 7, 1993 |
| The Alcove Show: Gandert, Gonzales, Montoya, & Vigil | September 19, 1992 | January 10, 1993 |
| Three women working in New Mexico: Margaret Lefranc, Ila McAfee, Myrtle Stedman | October 9, 1992 | November 9, 1992 |
| The Alcove Show: Lia Cook, Anne Cooper, Robert Willson, Rebecca Bluestone. | January 23, 1993 | July 11, 1993 |
| Then/Now: 1492/1992 | February 19, 1993 | March 22, 1993 |
| Working Cowboys of New Mexico | February 19, 1993 | April 19, 1993 |
| New Mexico ’93 | March 6, 1993 | May 23, 1993 |
| Desert Dreams: The Art of Maynard Dixon | April 17, 1993 | September 12, 1993 |
| Beaumont Newhall: Colleagues and Friends | April 24, 1993 | August 31, 1993 |
| Very Special Arts New Mexico & the Santa Fe Children’s Museum | April 30, 1993 | May 17, 1993 |
| Photojournalism in New Mexico | May 28, 1993 | June 28, 1993 |
| Selections from the Spanish Colonial Arts Society and Traditional Spanish Market | May 28, 1993 | August 1, 1993 |
| Threads of Culture: Photography in New Mexico 1940-1943 | June 19, 1993 | October 10, 1993 |
| Doris Cross: Reworks 1968-1993 | August 7, 1993 | November 11, 1993 |
| Crossing Territories | September 4, 1993 | January 9, 1994 |
| Diversity of Expression: New Mexico Folk Art | September 9, 1993 | October 3, 1994 |
| Douglas Johnson: A 35 Year Retrospective | September 17, 1993 | October 29, 1993 |
| Gustave Baumann: Hands of A Craftsman, Heart of An Artist | October 2, 1993 | April 17, 1994 |
| Critical Mass: A Collaborative Installation by Meriden Rubenstein and Ellen Zweig with the Vasulkas | November 1, 1993 | February 13, 1994 |
| New Mexico Treasures | November 6, 1993 | December 10, 1993 |
| 20th Anniversary Govenor’s Awards For Excellence in the Arts | November 6, 1993 | December 3, 1993 |
| In Camera | November 6, 1993 | February 13, 1994 |
| Beyond Tradition: Ceramic Art in New Mexico | December 11, 1993 | April 3, 1994 |
| The Mesilla Valley: A Curator’s Selection | February 25, 1994 | March 25, 1994 |
| ARTsmart | March 6, 1994 | June 6, 1994 |
| Agnes Martin | March 25, 1994 | May 15, 1994 |
| Twelve Sculptors: Selected from the College of Santa Fe Sculpture Project | April 8, 1994 | April 29, 1994 |
| Modernism: Tracing a Tradition in New Mexico | April 8, 1994 | September 15, 1994 |
| 4+4 Late Modern Photography Between the Mediums | May 7, 1994 | September 4, 1994 |
| Romantic Modernism: 100 years | June 4, 1994 | July 31, 1994 |
| Reflexion Contemporanea/Mirror Images: A Cultural Exchange Between New Mexico and Chihuahua | June 10, 1994 | July 1, 1994 |
| La Familia Ganados | July 8, 1994 | August 8, 1994 |
| Reality from the Barrio | August 5, 1994 | August 28, 1994 |
| From the San Juan Basin to the Great Plains: Selections from the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, UNM | August 11, 1994 | September 5, 1994 |
| Forecast: Shifts in Direction | August 27, 1994 | October 23, 1994 |
| The Alcove Show: Still Creating | September 17, 1994 | January 8, 1995 |
| The Third Eye: Bela Kalman: A Lifetime in Photography | October 14, 1994 | January 15, 1995 |
| Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings From the Collection | October 14, 1994 | September 9, 1996 |
| Henriette Wyeth: Painter of Beauty | November 19, 1994 | February 5, 1995 |
| Recent Aqcuisitions | November 19, 1994 | February 5, 1995 |
| Alcove Show: Dehn, Diaz, Hosmer, Mills, Skinner, Wing | January 21, 1995 | July 2, 1995 |
| Richard Tuttle: Two Exhibitions | March 11, 1995 | June 11, 1995 |
| Betty Hahn: Photography or Maybe Not | July 15, 1995 | February 11, 1996 |
| Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby | July 15, 1995 | October 8, 1995 |
| Maestro Antonio Mendoza: Painter, Musician, Composer | July 28, 1995 | August 21, 1995 |
| Sara D’Emilio: A Curator’s Vision | November 18, 1995 | March 15, 1996 |
| Southwest ’96: A Juried Exhibition | March 8, 1996 | May 20, 1996 |
| Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women (Governor’s Gallery) | March 22, 1996 | May 10, 1996 |
| Aesthetic Rescue: New Mexico Artist’s Working with Recycled Materials (Governor’s Gallery) | May 17, 1996 | |
| Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945 | June 15, 1996 | September 23, 1996 |
| Rick Dillingham 1952-1994: A Retrospective Exhibition | June 15, 1996 | September 9, 1996 |
| Beyond the Curtain: The Robert L. Tobin Collection and 40 years of the Santa Fe Opera | June 20, 1996 | August 4, 1996 |
| Where There Is No Name For Art: The Art of Tewa Pueblo Children (Governor’s Gallery) | July 19, 1996 | September 6, 1996 |
| Masters of the Indian Market | August 10, 1996 | August 24, 1996 |
| Metaphors of Culture and Place: The Paintings and Sculpture of Dan Namingha | August 15, 1996 | December 2, 1997 |
| Spirit Ascendant: The Art and Life of Patrocino Barela | September 27, 1996 | December 8, 1996 |
| Machine Media: Steina and Woody Vasulka | October 18, 1996 | February 3, 1997 |
| Willard Van Dyke: The Early Years and the Willard Van Dyke Memorial Award | October 25, 1996 | March 17, 1997 |
| Georgia O’Keeffe: From 291 to New Mexico | October 25, 1996 | June 23, 1997 |
| Special Collectors/Special Collections: Photography in the Museum of Fine Arts | December 13, 1996 | June 2, 1997 |
| A Look At Winter: Season’s Greetings from the Permanent Collection | December 20, 1996 | March 9, 1997 |
| State of the Question | February 28, 1997 | June 23, 1997 |
| Very Special Art, Very Special Artists (Governor’s Gallery) | March 14, 1997 | April 11, 1997 |
| Reflections: Recent Works by Florence Miller Pierce | March 21, 1997 | September 15, 1997 |
| New Histories in Photography: From the Early 19th to the 20th Century | April 11, 1997 | August 25, 1997 |
| Cover to Cover: Celebrating the Anniversary of New Mexico Magazine (Governor’s Gallery) | April 18, 1997 | July 3, 1997 |
| Passing It On: The Traditional Art of the 1996-1997 Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program (Governor’s Gallery) | May 23, 1997 | June 13, 1997 |
| Quinter’s Thought Trap: An Installation by Tasha Ostrander | May 30, 1997 | September 8, 1997 |
| Adentro Afuera | June 20, 1997 | November 20, 1997 |
| Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico: 80th Anniversary Exhibition | July 17, 1997 | November 2, 1997 |
| Selection ’96, State Fair Public School Exhibit (Governor’s Gallery) | August 29, 1997 | September 25, 1997 |
| After Modernism in Photography | September 12, 1997 | February 2, 1998 |
| Georgia O’Keeffe: | September 26, 1997 | June 23, 1997 |
| The World of Blue Flower: Retrospective Works of Pop Chalee | September 26, 1997 | April 14, 1998 |
| Flashing on the Sixties: The Photographs of Lisa Law | October 3, 1997 | October 31, 1997 |
| Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts | October 3, 1997 | |
| Sam Scott: An American Voice, Paintings 1967-1997 | November 21, 1997 | March 1, 1998 |
| Snipers Nest: Art that has Lived with Lucy Lippard | April 24, 1998 | September 28, 1998 |
| Agnes Martin: Works on Paper | May 15, 1998 | August 24, 1998 |
| Ghost Ranch: Land of Light | May 15, 1998 | August 3, 1998 |
| Joel Peter Witkin: Unpublished and Unseen Work | May 15, 1998 | January 3, 1999 |
| Defining Eye; Women Photographers of the 20th Century | June 19, 1998 | September 7, 1998 |
| The Book Room: Georgia O’keeffe’s Library in Abiquiu | June 26, 1998 | October 26, 1998 |
| Stony Silence: Frederick O’Hara’s Experimental Prints | September 4, 1998 | January 3, 1999 |
| I Saw Whole Paintings Right Before My Eyes: The 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Taos Art Colony | September 4, 1998 | March 15, 1999 |
| Juan y Burro | September 25, 1998 | December 19, 1998 |
| Pueblo Architecture and Modern Adobes | September 25, 1998 | March 23, 1999 |
| Land, Sky, and All That is Within; Visionary Photographers in the Southwest | October 16, 1998 | January 25, 1999 |
| Contemporary Representations | December 18, 1998 | March 7, 1999 |
| Low ‘n Slow: Lowriding in New Mexico | January 15, 1999 | March 19, 1999 |
| Wit & Wine: A New Look at Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation | February 19, 1999 | September 6, 1999 |
| Laura Gilpin: Sandia School, 1936-1941 An Untold Chapter | February 19, 1999 | July 5, 1999 |
| Visual Puns and Hard-edge Poems: Works by Frederick Hammersley | February 19, 1999 | June 14, 1999 |
| Mimbres Region Arts Council Exhibition | March 26, 1999 | May 7, 1999 |
| Susan Rothenberg Drawings and Prints | March 26, 1999 | May 31, 1999 |
| Milton Avery: Paintings from the Collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art | April 9, 1999 | June 27, 1999 |
| Timber: Woodcarvers of New Mexico | May 14, 1999 | July 9, 1999 |
| A Journey Through Bui-Bui: Lifting the Purdah of Mal-Illumination: A Laboratory Exhibition by Ann MacArthur | May 21, 1999 | December 31, 1999 |
| New Mexico Collects | June 25, 1999 | October 11, 1999 |
| Selections from the Permanent Collection | June 25, 1999 | September 6, 1999 |
| Los Tres Vigils: The Art of Eloy Vigil and Sons Dan and Michael | July 16, 1999 | August 20, 1999 |
| Found Objects in an Open World | July 16, 1999 | January 23, 2000 |
| Theatre of Memory: Photographic Installation Works by Laurent Millet | July 16, 1999 | January 9, 2000 |
| Gail and Zachariah Rieke: Found Objects in an Open World | July 16, 1999 | January 23, 2000 |
| Animals of the Heart: An Exhibition of Art & Performance | August 27, 1999 | September 24, 1999 |
| New Mexico 2000: A Juried Exhibition | October 8, 1999 | April 22, 2000 |
| A Glimpse: Landscape | October 29, 1999 | February 27, 2000 |
| From Baca to Burlin: An Insider’s View of the Permanent Collection | October 29, 1999 | May 28, 2000 |
| 4 for 2000: New Mexico Magazine Art Publications | November 5, 1999 | December 3, 1999 |
| Fair and Square | December 10, 1999 | May 12, 2000 |
| Farolitos for Abuelo: Illustrations by Edward Gonzales for a New Children’s Book by Rudolfo Anaya | December 10, 1999 | January 7, 2000 |
Exhibition Title |
Opening Date |
Closing Date |
| T.C. Cannon Memorial | January 27, 1980 | March 1, 1980 |
| Barbara Valenta: Perspective | January 27, 1980 | February 29, 1980 |
| Harry Callahan: Photographs in Color | January 27, 1980 | March 1, 1980 |
| Kenneth Adams: Selected Works | January 27, 1980 | March 1, 1980 |
| The 1980 Armory/Museum/Festival Show at the Armory for the Arts. (New Mexico All Media Art Competition) | October 9, 1980 | October 19, 1980 |
| Lowriders: An Exhibition of Cars and Photographs by Meridel Rubenstein | October 19, 1980 | November 21, 1981 |
| Andrew Dasburg 1887-1979: A Retrospective | February 27, 1981 | March 30, 1981 |
| Gustave Baumann Centennial. A retrospective exhibition by the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts | June 28, 1981 | July 19, 1981 |
| Light & Color: Images from New Mexico | July 1, 1981 | August 9, 1982 |
| Chuzo Tamotzu – Ageless Wanderer: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1888-1975 | July 26, 1981 | August 1, 1981 |
| Masterworks from the Permanent Collection | 1982 | 1982 |
| The New Museum is a Wonder–A Brief History of the Museum of Fine Arts | July 1, 1982 | October 7, 1982 |
| Selections from the Collection of Dorothy Dunn | July 1, 1982 | unknown |
| Ansel Adams | July 1, 1982 | September 1, 1982 |
| Rauschenberg in the Rockies | August 13, 1982 | October 2, 1982 |
| Larry Bell: The Sixties | September 17, 1982 | December 5, 1982 |
| John Sloan in Santa Fe | October 15, 1982 | December 5, 1982 |
| Ocotillo Flat: Terry Husebye | October 15, 1982 | December 5, 1982 |
| Unraveling Sound: A Slow-Scan Exchange Between the U.S. and the Paris Biennale | October 15, 1982 | October 19, 1982 |
| Images of Ranchos Church | December 17, 1982 | April 24, 1983 |
| Recent Acquisitions | December 17, 1982 | May 4, 1983 |
| Ranchos de Taos: An Exploration in Photographic Style | December 17, 1982 | February 27, 1983 |
| Doel Reed, N.A: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Caseins, Drawings and Aquatints | April 29, 1983 | October 30, 1983 |
| Video As Attitude | May 13, 1983 | June 26, 1983 |
| Juan Hamilton: Clay and Bronze Sculpture | July 8, 1983 | October 2, 1983 |
| Eliot Porter: Color as Essence | July 8, 1983 | October 2, 1983 |
| The California Connection: Sixteen Paintings from the Gifford and Joann Phillips Collection | October 21, 1983 | February 19, 1984 |
| Art and Artifacts | October 21, 1983 | February 19, 1984 |
| Contemporary Native American Art | February 5, 1984 | July 15, 1984 |
| A Spirit Shared: Twentieth Century Art in Mexico and New Mexico | March 4, 1984 | June 17, 1984 |
| Beaumont Newhall: A Retrospective | April 21, 1984 | May 27, 1984 |
| Southwest/Midwest Exchange: Contemporary Ceramics | May 6, 1984 | June 10, 1984 |
| Landscapes Seen: Selections from the Permanent Collection | June 17, 1984 | August 12, 1984 |
| The Big Picture: Ultra Large Polaroid Photographic Works from the Polaroid Collection | July 5, 1984 | August 26, 1984 |
| Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest | July 6, 1984 | August 26, 1984 |
| The Old Masters of Taos: Selections from the Collections of Harrison Eiteljorg | July 29, 1984 | September 23, 1984 |
| Cover to Cover: Experiemental Bookworks | August 26, 1984 | September 30, 1984 |
| O’Keeffe and Her Contemporaries | September 14, 1984 | unknown |
| R. Lee White: Messianic Memories | September 30, 1984 | December 30, 1984 |
| Selections from the Permanent Collection: Beauregard Gallery | October 1, 1984 | October 31, 1984 |
| Victor Higgins in New Mexico | October 14, 1984 | December 2, 1984 |
| Face Value: Portraits of New Mexicans | December 16, 1984 | January 27, 1985 |
| Randall Davey: Artist/Bon Vivant | December 16, 1984 | January 20, 1985 |
| Southwest ’85: A Fine Arts Competition | March 1, 1985 | May 12, 1985 |
| Richard Kern’s Watercolors | May 16, 1985 | June 30, 1985 |
| Joseph A. Fleck, 1892-1977: An Early Taos Painter | June 2, 1985 | September 22, 1985 |
| New Mexico Photographic Survey | June 16, 1985 | August 18, 1985 |
| Georgia O’Keeffe: Works on Paper | September 12, 1985 | November 17, 1985 |
| Artist as Subject: The Photographic Portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe | September 12, 1985 | November 17, 1985 |
| The Tent of Meeting | December 7, 1985 | January 19, 1986 |
| B.J.O. Nordfeldt: An American Expressionist | January 19, 1986 | March 23, 1986 |
| Selections: Works from the Permanent Collection | February 1, 1986 | February 28, 1986 |
| Personal Environments | February 22, 1986 | June 29, 1986 |
| The Extended Line | April 6, 1986 | June 15, 1986 |
| The Alcove Show: Steve Catron, Betty Hahn, Rick Dillingham and Elliot Norquist. | April 6, 1986 | June 15, 1986 |
| Inspirations: The Churches of New Mexico in Art | June 1, 1986 | January 4, 1987 |
| Empowered Painting | July 26, 1986 | November 16, 1986 |
| The Operatic Muse: An Exhibition of Works from te Robert L.B. Tobin Collection Honoring the 30th Anniversary Season of the Santa Fe Opera | July 28, 1986 | August 31, 1986 |
| The Alcove Show: Bill Gilbert; Roger Sweet; Joel-Peter Witkin; Mark Spencer | September 13, 1986 | November 9, 1986 |
| E. Martin Hennings: The Influence of New Mexico | September 20, 1986 | January 4, 1987 |
| Birds of America | October 1, 1986 | November 2, 1986 |
| Black and White in Living Color: An Exhibit of Photographs by Beaumont Newhall and Eliot Porter | November 15, 1986 | November 30, 1986 |
| Poetics of Space: Contemporary Photographic Works | December 19, 1986 | March 22, 1987 |
| Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings | December 19, 1986 | April 12, 1987 |
| Art of New Mexico: The Early Years, Selections from the Permanent Collection | February 14, 1987 | January 14, 1990 |
| New Acquisitions | April 1, 1987 | June 14, 1987 |
| Megaliths: An Exhibition of Photography by Paul Caponigro | April 11, 1987 | June 28, 1987 |
| The Alcove Show: Ed Cavalli, Patrick Mehaffy, Ed Ranney, Bob Wade | May 1, 1987 | August 2, 1987 |
| Impressions of a New Civilization: The Lincoln Kirstein Collection of Japanese Prints, 1860-1912 | July 3, 1987 | August 2, 1987 |
| An Enduring Grace: The Photographs of Laura Gilpin | July 25, 1987 | September 20, 1987 |
| Rural and Urban Naturalism: Masterpieces of Late 19th Century French and British Art from the Marchman Collection | August 14, 1987 | November 8, 1987 |
| Agnes Sims; Remembered Magic | August 15, 1987 | November 1, 1987 |
| New Mexico ’87: A Fine Arts Competition | November 7, 1987 | February 21, 1988 |
| Tom S. Macaione: 80th Birthday Celebration | November 7, 1987 | November 15, 1987 |
| Thomas Hart Benton: An Intimate View | November 22, 1987 | January 17, 1988 |
| Mexico Nueve | January 29, 1988 | March 27, 1988 |
| The Alcove Show: Gustave Baumann, Ernest L. Blumenschein, William Penhallow Henderson, Gene Kloss, Ernest Knee and John Sloan. | February 6, 1988 | April 10, 1988 |
| Inventories and Transformations: the Photographs of Thomas Barrow | March 19, 1988 | June 19, 1988 |
| Jozef Bakos: An Early Modernist (1891-1977) | April 23, 1988 | July 10, 1988 |
| The Alcove Show: David Anderson, Eddie Dominguez, Harmony Hammond and Dana Newmann. | April 9, 1988 | June 12, 1988 |
| Costume: Thespis Adorned | June 25, 1988 | September 4, 1988 |
| Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors | July 30, 1988 | November 27, 1988 |
| The Alcove Show: Gloria Graham, Harry Nadler, Robert Rauschenberg, Rod Rhodes. | September 17, 1988 | January 8, 1989 |
| Eliot Porter: A Special Gift to New Mexico | December 16, 1988 | April 16, 1989 |
| Modern Masterworks from the Permanent Collection | January 21, 1989 | June 18, 1989 |
| Goya: The Disasters of War | January 21, 1989 | April 23, 1989 |
| Edward Weston in New Mexico | May 13, 1989 | August 27, 1989 |
| Will Shuster: A Santa Fe Legend | September 1, 1989 | February 18, 1990 |
| Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston | July 15, 1989 | September 3, 1989 |
| The Alcove Show: Frederick Hammersly, Tom Joyce, Jim Magee, Ramona Sakiestewa and Paul Sarkisan | September 16, 1989 | January 14, 1990 |
| The Transition Years: Paul Strand in New Mexico | September 16, 1989 | December 3, 1989 |
| Sources and Inspiration: Paintings by Paul Pletka | September 16, 1989 | June 17, 1990 |
| The Collector’s Eye: The David Bakalar Collection & New Mexico Collects | December 16, 1989 | April 22, 1990 |
| The Alcove Show: Michael Cook, Kris Cox, Tom Lieber, Robert Olds | December 16, 1989 | July 22, 1990 |
Exhibition Title |
Opening Date |
Closing Date |
| Photo-Image-Arts: Photographs from the Permanent Collection | March 1, 1970 | April 15, 1970 |
| “A Gift of Time” Roswell Museum and Art Center Artist-in-Residence Program | April 5, 1970 | May 5, 1970 |
| 1970 Southwest Fine Arts Biennial. | May 17, 1970 | September 20, 1970 |
| Casady Show: An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Cassady of Santa fe | October 11, 1970 | November 8, 1970 |
| Lyle True Silverpoints Exhibition | November 22, 1970 | January 17, 1971 |
| Eight from Santa Fe: An Exhibtion of Paintings, Graphics, Constructions and Sculptures by Eight Young Artists | December 6, 1970 | January 10, 1971 |
| Non-New Mexican Painting and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection. | 1971 | unknown |
| A Way of Beauty: Traditional American Indian Painters | 1971 | unknown |
| “Very Pleased to Meet You.” Contemporary Self-Portrait of Local Painters | 1971 | unknown |
| Hal West, Western Gallery: Retrospective Exhibtion | January 17, 1971 | February 28, 1971 |
| Prints from Wood | February 7, 1971 | June 21, 1971 |
| Joint Exhibition by Two Arizona Indian Artists: Calvin Chavez (San Felipe/Laguna); Otis Polelonema (Hopi). | February 7, 1971 | July 1, 1971 |
| Recent Acquisitions Exhibition | February 14, 1971 | April 5, 1971 |
| Pastels by William Penhallow Henderson | April 16, 1971 | July 1, 1971 |
| 1971 New Mexico Fine Arts Biennial | May 23, 1971 | September 13, 1971 |
| Wynn Bullock Photographs | June 27, 1971 | unknown |
| Images of the Southwest: Lithographs by Theodore Van Soelen | September 13, 1971 | November 22, 1971 |
| John Sloan in Santa Fe 1919-1950 | September 19, 1971 | January 9, 1972 |
| Fine Arts Permenent Collection of the Museum of New Mexico | September 19, 1971 | unknown |
| Two American Artists View the West | September 19, 1971 | November 14, 1971 |
| Todd Webb Photographs | September 19, 1971 | unknown |
| A Selection of Drawings from the Permanent Collections and New Acquisitions to the Collection | September 19, 1971 | unknown |
| Victor Higgins, 1884-1949 | November 21, 1971 | January 12, 1972 |
| New York/New Mexico Photographers I and II | January 16, 1972 | February 21, 1972 |
| John B.L. Goodwin Collection | March 19, 1972 | May 15, 1972 |
| 1972 Southwest Fine Arts Biennial of the Museum of New Mexico | May 28, 1972 | September 11, 1972 |
| Look Back: An Exhibition of Cubist Paintings and Sculptures from the Menil Family Collection | December 17, 1972 | February 17, 1973 |
| Enduring Themes: Permanent Collection Show | 1973 | unknown |
| Art in New Mexico: The Depression Years | February 18, 1973 | April 30, 1973 |
| Photographs from the Coke Collection | March 4, 1973 | April 30, 1973 |
| Gertrude Blom Photography Exhibit | April 29, 1973 | May 27, 1973 |
| 1973 New Mexico Fine Arts Biennial of the Museum of New Mexico | May 20, 1973 | September 9, 1973 |
| Found Moments Transformed: Alice Wells Photography Exhibit | August 19, 1973 | September 23, 1973 |
| R.C. Gorman and Fritz Scholder, Two-Man Show: Paintings-Lithographs-Drawings | September 16, 1973 | October 28, 1973 |
| Ten Year Retrospective: Institute of American Indian Arts | September 16, 1973 | October 21, 1973 |
| Indian Children’s Paintings | September 31, 1973 | November 15, 1973 |
| Tom Benrimo: 1887-1958 Retrospective Exhibition | November 4, 1973 | December 9, 1973 |
| Fine Art for Young Children | December 2, 1973 | January 15, 1974 |
| The Spanish Heritage in American Architecture | January 27, 1974 | March 24, 1974 |
| African Art Exhibition | February 17, 1974 | May 5, 1974 |
| Randall Davey Retrospective: 1887-1964 | April 7, 1974 | May 19, 1974 |
| Recent Paintings: Sam Scott | April 28, 1974 | May 26, 1974 |
| 1974 Southwest Fine Arts Biennial | May 26, 1974 | August 27, 1974 |
| Fifteen of Mexico’s Artists | August 30, 1974 | November 17, 1974 |
| Agnes Martin: On a Clear Day | September 8, 1974 | December 8, 1974 |
| Roderick Mead, 1900-1972: A Retrospective Exhbition | September 22, 1974 | November 24, 1974 |
| Ancient Images of Mexico and the Andes: Tapestries by Nancy Hemenway | October 20, 1974 | December 1, 1974 |
| American Masters in the West: Selections from the Anschutz Collection | December 9, 1974 | February 2, 1975 |
| Watercolor New Mexico | December 15, 1974 | February 2, 1975 |
| Laura Gilpin Retrospective | December 15, 1974 | February 23, 1975 |
| Recent Acquisitions | February 9, 1975 | May 18, 1975 |
| Louis Ribak Retrospective | February 16, 1975 | May 11, 1975 |
| Los Cinco Pintores | March 9, 1975 | May 11, 1975 |
| NEA Photography Exhibit: William Clift and Arthur Lazar | March 23, 1975 | May 4, 1975 |
| 1975 New Mexico Fine Arts Biennial of the Museum of New Mexico | May 25, 1975 | September 7, 1975 |
| Permanent Collection Exhibition | Aug. 1975 | unknown |
| Women of Photography: An Historical Survey | September 14, 1975 | October 19, 1975 |
| War Poster Show | September 14, 1975 | October 19, 1975 |
| Kagoshima, Memories of Home: Drawings by Chuzo Tamotzu | November 2, 1975 | November 30, 1975 |
| Fields and Patterns | November 2, 1975 | November 30, 1975 |
| European Paintings from the Permanent Collection | November 2, 1975 | November 30, 1975 |
| Dancers of the Four Seasons | December 14, 1975 | unknown |
| Visions and Other Realities: An Invitational Exhibition | December 14, 1975 | February 15, 1976 |
| A Gallery of New Mexican Portraits | December, 14 1975 | February 15, 1976 |
| A Survey of Contemporary New Mexican Sculpture | March 7, 1976 | May 9, 1976 |
| Masterworks from the Permanent Collection: Biennial Exhibition 1976 | May 23, 1976 | August 13, 1976 |
| The Mother Of Us All: Set and Costume Designs by Robert Indiana | August 1, 1976 | October 10, 1976 |
| 1976 Southwest Fine Arts Biennial | August 15, 1976 | October 10, 1976 |
| Wilfred Stedman: Painter and Illustrator | October 17, 1976 | December 5, 1976 |
| Paul Caponigro Photographs | October 24, 1976 | November 28, 1976 |
| Looking at an Ancient Land: A Contemporary Landscape Exhibition | December 12, 1976 | January 30, 1977 |
| Santa Fe Sketchbook by Andy Burns | December 12, 1976 | January 30, 1977 |
| Modern American Master Prints | February 6, 1977 | March 13, 1977 |
| Photographs of the Southwest by Ansel Adams 1929-1968 | February 6, 1977 | March 13, 1977 |
| Watercolor in New Mexico: A Juried Exhibition of Watercolor Painting in New Mexico | February 6, 1977 | March 13, 1977 |
| Gerald Cassidy Retrospective Exhibition | March 20, 1977 | May 15, 1977 |
| Made in New Mexico: An Exhibition of Contemporary Printmaking in New Mexico | March 20, 1977 | May 15, 1977 |
| New Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection | March 20, 1977 | May 15, 1977 |
| La Gente de la Luz: Portraits from New Mexico by Meridel Rubenstein | May 22, 1977 | June 26, 1977 |
| Selections from the Permanent Collection | May 22, 1977 | September 15, 1977 |
| Otto Kuhler Paintings | July 3, 1977 | October 1, 1977 |
| Santa Fe Collects | October 7, 1977 | December 5, 1977 |
| Collected: In the Public Interest | December 18, 1977 | February 26, 1978 |
| Video Art | December 18, 1977 | January 15, 1978 |
| Early Western Art | 1978 | 30-Sep-1978 |
| [Permanent Collection Show] | January 1, 1978 | July 1, 1978 |
| John Sloan: Etchings | February, 1978 | unknown |
| Fred Kabotie: Hopi Indian Artist | March 5, 1978 | June 4, 1978 |
| The Roswell Compound: An Exhibition of the Roswell Museum and Art Center’s Artist-in-Residence Program | March 5, 1978 | April 30, 1978 |
| 1978 Southwest Fine Arts Biennial | May 7, 1978 | August 13, 1978 |
| The John A. and Margaret Hill Gift | August 20, 1978 | September 30, 1978 |
| The American Indian Frontier: Hand-colored Prints from the Early Nineteenth Century. The Donald and Lucile Graham Collection. | August 20, 1978 | September 28, 1978 |
| Uelsmann: Photographs 1975-1978 | August 20, 1978 | September 29, 1978 |
| Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio | October 6, 1978 | November 11, 1978 |
| In Honor Of: A Selection of Works Commemorating Some of New Mexico’s Well-Known, Recently Deceased Artists | October 6, 1978 | December 1, 1978 |
| The Lithographs and Etchings of E. Martin Hennings | December 10, 1978 | February 25, 1979 |
| Two Recent Gifts: The Vivian Sloan Fiske and Eugenie F. Shonnard Bequests | December 10, 1978 | February 25, 1979 |
| Art in Public Places | December 10, 1978 | February 25, 1979 |
| Dancing, Dancing, Dancing…San Francisco Cabaret | March 4, 1979 | June 7, 1979 |
| Lippincott Lithographs | March 4, 1979 | June 7, 1979 |
| Works on Paper: Watercolors, Photographs and Prints- Highlights from the Permanent Collection | March 4, 1979 | June 7, 1979 |
| Bells, Feathers, & Drums: Paintings, Prints and Sculpture of Indian Ceremonies from the Permanent Collection | March 4, 1979 | June 7, 1979 |
| Howard Cook Exhibition | April 29, 1979 | May 30, 1979 |
| Hyde Solomon Paintings | June 3, 1979 | June 26, 1979 |
| Agnes Martin: The Islands | July 1, 1979 | July 29, 1979 |
| Prints by Garo Z. Antreasian, 1954-1978 | August 5, 1979 | August 28, 1979 |
| Expanded Horizons: Lithographs and Paintings by Earl Stroh | August 12, 1979 | September 4, 1979 |
| Allan Graham: Recent Works | September 2, 1979 | September 26, 1979 |
| Jeweled Sculpture by John Hernandez and Paintings by Douglas Johnson | September 9, 1979 | October 2, 1979 |
| The Stream: Paintings by Forrest Moses, Photographs by Barbara Gluck | September 28, 1979 | October 28, 1979 |
| Recent Photographs of New Mexico by William Clift | October 5, 1979 | November 5, 1979 |
| Luis Jimenez: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints | November 11, 1979 | December 31, 1979 |
| La Cofradia de Artes Y Artesanos Hispanicos | November 11, 1979 | December 31, 1979 |
| Santa Fe Scenes: Works from the Permanent Collection | November 28, 1979 | March 1, 1980 |
| Laura Gilpin: Retrospective of Permanent Collection | November 30, 1979 | January 14, 1980 |
| Barbara Valenta: Perspective | November 30, 1979 | February 29, 1980 |