ABUNDANCE: NEW ACQUISITIONS FROM 2016 TO 2026
University of New Mexico Art Museum
August 18 - December 5, 2026
Featured paintings, prints, photographs, and sculpture created between 1810 and 2024 by 44 artists from nine countries, highlighting the breadth of the UNMAM collection while celebrating the people who shaped it.
Featuring work by Neal Ambrose-Smith, Subhankar Banerjee, Thomas Barrow, Virginia Beahan & Laura McPhee, Julie Blackmon, Erika Blumenfeld, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Harry Callahan, Sonya Clark, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Jordan Ann Craig, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jess T. Dugan, Flor Garduño, Jeffrey Gibson, Francisco Goya, Yozo Hamaguchi, Harmony Hammond, Delmas Howe, Basia Irland, Graciela Iturbide, Tim Jag, Michael Kenna, Käthe Kollwitz, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Susan Meiselas, Manuel Mendive, Delilah Montoya, Dorothy Morang, Abelardo Morell, Elena Huerta Múzquiz, Robert Rauschenberg, Herb Ritts, Sebastião Salgado, Rose B. Simpson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Floyd Solomon, Nancy Spero, James Turrell, Cady Wells, Matika Wilbur, and Emi Winter.
PUSH AND PULL: THE PRINTS OF HELEN FRANKENTHALER AND HER CONTEMPORARIES
University of New Mexico Art Museum
Curated with Angel Jiang, Curator of Prints & Drawings
January 31 - May 17, 2025
Drawing on the UNM Art Museum’s permanent collection, Push & Pull: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler and Her Contemporaries celebrates abstraction in all print processes. Featuring Modern and contemporary abstract prints and drawings, the exhibition focuses on the works of Helen Frankenthaler and Elaine de Kooning. Displayed alongside their contemporaries, this exhibition demonstrates important collaborations with American publishers such as Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Tyler Graphics Ltd., and Tamarind Institute.
NOTES ON CARE: NEW PHOTOGRAPHS BY RACHEL COX
University of New Mexico Art Museum
August 23 - December 7, 2024
Notes on Care features photographs by artist Rachel Cox from the series Portrait of a Woman. This highly personal body of work chronicles Cox’s experience accessing fertility treatment to start a family. The title of the exhibition references the care the artist took when making decisions about how and when to create a family, the compassion she and her life partner Matt Iserman showed each other as they navigated the difficult process of in vitro fertilization (IVF), and the self-care Cox administered to her own body, emotions, and sense of self. Representation is important for Cox; these photographs depict a medical procedure that is rarely observed by the public or depicted in the media, yet over 300,000 people in the United States underwent IVF cycles in 2020 alone, according to the Center for Disease and Control. By making her own body and treatment visible, Cox’s photographs serve as sources of information and comfort.
TELL ME A STORY: THE ROLE OF STORYTELLING IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Juror, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
November 30, 2023 - January 6, 2024
Tell Me a Story: The Role of Storytelling in Photography is a juried exhibition featuring work by 32 photographers exploring how photographs tell stories through the depiction of objects, people, and places. In photography books and exhibitions, narratives are often constructed by sequencing multiple images. This exhibition focuses on how single photographs can summarize or represent larger narratives and stand on their own.