Visiting Artists and Installations
Current Visiting Artist:
Nani Chacon: Erase the Horse
On view May 1, 2025 – April 5, 2026
About 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, which is the first space visitors encounter upon entering the museum. The program includes the display of the artist’s work for one year, public engagement, and artist 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.
The Visiting Artist program considers artists with compelling conceptual creativity. The large-scale space of the museum lobby has inspired several artists to create site-specific installations. Artists, however, are given the freedom to determine how they want to interact with the space.
Past Visiting Artists:
- Artist in Residence: Chip Thomas
- Artist in Residence: Gronk
- Artist in Residence: Larry Bob Phillips
- Artist in Residence: Ernest Doty
- Artist in Residence: Lea Anderson
- Artist-in-Residence: Virgil Ortiz
- Artist-in-Residence: Paul Sarkisian
- Karl Hofmann: Shapeshifters
- Nicola Lopez: Haunted
- Cannupa Hanska Luger
- Artist-in-Residence: Ronald Rael