Fall 2024 Exhibitions at the UNM Art Museum

As the University of New Mexico Art Museum (UNMAM) reopens its doors for the new academic year, we warmly welcome the campus community to reconnect with us through exhibitions, events, and student engagement opportunities. All three floors of the museum will be open for the duration of the Fall semester.

In the Main and Van Deren Coke Galleries, UNMAM is presenting the final iteration of the “Hindsight Insight” series. Created and curated by museum staff and collaborators, “Hindsight Insight 5.0” features 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. While previous iterations of the exhibition series have displayed dozens of artworks from the collection, the final installment demonstrates that a single historical object can inspire individual artists as well as an entire exhibition.

“Hindsight Insight 5.0” concludes the multiyear exhibition series by imagining the galleries as a laboratory, demonstrating how research and experimentation are put into action through projects at the intersection of art and science. The exhibition is organized into two sections.

The Main Gallery features a group exhibition by artists Fiona Bell, Kaitlin Bryson, Amy Pilling, and Andrea Polli, all of whom engage with biomaterials and sustainable practices. These artists are also members of the UNM community, bringing their expertise from UNM’s Art & Ecology Program, Center for Advanced Research Computing, and the Hand & Machine Lab in the Department of Computer Science. Throughout the semester, students in Kaitlin Bryson’s class Art & Ecology/Material Practice will contribute their own artwork to the exhibition.

In the adjacent Van Deren Coke Gallery, “Notes on Care: Photographs by Rachel Cox” features photographs by artist and UNM alum 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. We are pleased to share that Rachel Cox will present an artist talk on October 24 at the UNM Art Museum.

“Pelton & Jonson: The Transcendent 1930s” continues in the Raymond Jonson Gallery. It is a privilege to honor the legacies of painters Agnes Pelton and Raymond Jonson for the run of this exhibition.

“Print in Action: Lithography and the Modern World” will remain on view through October 5 in the Clinton Adams Gallery. The Adams Gallery will temporarily close for the installation of “Graphic Art and Revolution: Latin American Political Posters 1968–2000,” which will open on November 8, 2024. “Graphic Art and Revolution” is a collaborative exhibition developed by UNMAM with the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) and the Center for Southwest Research. It unites works from two major collections at the University—the UNM Art Museum and Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian Posters at the Center for Southwest Research—and includes contributions by past and present Latin American Studies faculty and students.

Necessary Links:
https://artmuseum.unm.edu/welcome-back-fall-2024/
https://artmuseum.unm.edu/discover/exhibitions/
https://artmuseum.unm.edu/events/list/