Nanibah Chacon: Erase the Horse...

May 1, 2025 – April 5, 2026

Nanibah "Nani" Chacon is a Diné (Navajo) and Chicana artist. She is most recognized as a painter and muralist, but expands across multiple disciplines including illustration, installation, and sculpture. Her most notable works have been within the public arts sector, in which she has a cumulative experience of over 20 years. The focus of her work includes the integration of sociopolitical issues affecting women and Indigenous Peoples. Chacon’s most recognized work includes large-scale painting, murals, and public installation, facilitating the content of her work as well as her personal philosophy that art should be accessible and a meaningful catalyst for social change.

About the Albuquerque Museum Visiting Artist Program
Since 2011, the Visiting Artist Program at Albuquerque Museum has featured contemporary artists with a connection to New Mexico. The annual program provides an invited artist the opportunity to reimagine and activate the museum’s lobby. The program includes the display of the artist’s work for one year, opportunities for public engagement, and artists’ talks. The program aims to provide a bridge between the artistic practice of the Visiting Artist and the experience of contemporary art by the public.

Albuquerque Museum’s Visiting Artist program is generously funded by the Frederick Hammersley Fund for the Arts at the Albuquerque Community Foundation.

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Nanibah “Nani” Chacon, Erase the Horse..., 2025, string and polyacrylic paint, lobby installation at Albuquerque Museum