Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance

This major retrospective examines Montoya's decades-long art practice, encompassing photography, printmaking, installation art, and activism. With roots deeply tied to New Mexico, Montoya has long collaborated with Chicanx and Latinx communities to explore historical and contemporary narratives, fostering a deeper understanding of identity, history, and community.  Montoya's work represents a range of collaborations and features her communities as well as incarcerated individuals, women boxers, the lands and people of the borderlands, and Chicanx history. This larger body of artwork spanning decades demonstrates not only a sustained vision of New Mexican cultural diversity and landscape but also an interaction with broader social and contemporary discourses impacting the United States today. Guest curated by Dr. Josie Lopez.

The exhibition, catalog, and programming are generously supported by a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art and is also made possible in part by the City of Albuquerque and the Albuquerque Museum Foundation.

Image: Delilah Montoya, Diego y La Virgen #3 (from the series: Guadalupe Tattoo), 1998, printed 2014, archival ink jet on eSatin paper, 32 x 24 in., collection of the artist

Media Coverage

La Malinche Reimagined, Albuquerque Journal, 2/15/26

Retrospective exhibit on Delilah Montoya highlights Chicana resistance, KUNM.org, 2/6/26

A Picture of Resistance, Pasatiempo/Santa Fe New Mexican, 2/6/26