Abundance: New Acquisitions from 2016 to 2026 features 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 have helped shape it.
Exhibitions
WHAT’S ON VIEW
Current Exhibitions
Tamarind Goes Global (1985–2020)
Tamarind Goes Global (1985-2020) highlights Tamarind Institute’s commitment to collaborative printmaking through international projects and series. The exhibition features prints from UNMAM's Tamarind Archive Collection and celebrates printmaking’s ability to create understanding, solidarity and exchange.
LOOKING BACK
Past Exhibitions
High Five Hall of Fame
April 18 - May 17, 2025
Featuring highlights from UNMAM's permanent collection, High Five Hall of Fame centers on narratives of connection. By extending an invitation to artists, alumni, and arts professionals to share earnest, personal stories of inspiration, this exhibition considers the academic impact of the collection across multiple spheres of influence—stories that might inspire the gesture of a congratulatory, communal “high five.”
Push & Pull
January 31 - May 17, 2025
Push & Pull: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler and Her Contemporaries celebrates abstraction in all print processes with a focus on the works of Helen Frankenthaler and Elaine de Kooning. Displayed alongside their contemporaries, this exhibition demonstrates important collaborations with American publishers.
Graphic Art and Revolution
November 8, 2024 - May 17, 2025
Graphic Art and Revolution: Latin American Political Posters 1968–2000 brings together Latin American political posters from two major repositories at the university: the University of New Mexico Art Museum and the Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian Posters at the Center for Southwest Research.
Hindsight Insight 5.0
August 23 - December 7, 2024
Created and curated by museum staff and collaborators, the exhibition features new artwork by five contemporary artists affiliated with the University of New Mexico and a nineteenth century album of microscopic photographs of the natural world from the museum's collection.
Notes on Care
August 23 - December 7, 2024
As a section of Hindsight Insight 5.0, Notes on Care features photographs by artist Rachel Cox from the series Portrait of a Woman. This highly personal body of work chronicles the artist's experience accessing fertility treatment to start a family.
Print in Action: Lithography and the Modern World
May 3 - May 11, 2024
August 20 - October 5, 2024
This exhibition presents lithography as an agent of social, cultural, political, and artistic change. Developed by Angel Jiang, Curator of Collections & Study Initiatives, in collaboration with Dr. Susanne Anderson-Riedel, Associate Professor of Art History at UNM, and her Spring 2024 History of Print II class.