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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
March 22 - April 20, 2024
The UNM Art Museum presents The University of New Mexico Department of Art’s 31st Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition, featuring the work of fifteen artists currently enrolled in the MFA Program.
February 16 - May 11, 2024
Created and curated by museum staff and collaborators, the exhibition features portraits, landscapes, and abstract artworks from the museum’s permanent collection that complement curricula at the University of New Mexico during the Spring 2024 semester.
October 14, 2023 - March 9, 2024
Behind every finished woodcut print there are countless preliminary studies, cancelled blocks, and trial proofs. This exhibition presents the working materials involved in creating an editioned impression of Gustave Baumann’s Cottonwood Tassels.
September 8 - December 9, 2023
Created and curated by museum staff and collaborators, the exhibition features portraits, landscapes, and abstract artworks from the permanent collection that complement the curricula of the UNM’s Department of Art and Art History during the Fall 2023 semester.
