With new safety measures in place, we would like to invite you to a very special in-person sale at curated: The Store at SITE. Shop Tuesday, Dec 15 for 20% off storewide.
Reservations will be required ...
SITE Santa Fe is pleased to announce the return of SPREAD, SITE’s long-running special event designed to generate community-driven financial support to fund New Mexico artists.
After a short hiatus, SPREAD returns to SITE Santa ...
Join us for a special, virtual event that celebrates SITE’s past, present, and future!
Twenty-five years ago, SITE Santa Fe entered the world with the first international contemporary art biennial in the United States. From ...
5pm Gates Open 7pm Pre-Show Lecture by Peter Grendle 7:30pm Movie starts!
This October, SITE Santa Fe teams up with the Motorama to present Digest This! in-person at the drive-in. These programs look at the concept of ...
This September, SITE Santa Fe teams up with some of Santa Fe’s most exciting restaurants to present Digest This! in-person on patios and virtually through livestreams. These programs look at the concept of displacement ...
This September, SITE Santa Fe teams up with some of Santa Fe’s most exciting restaurants to present Digest This! in-person on patios and virtually through livestreams. These programs look at the concept of displacement ...
This September, SITE Santa Fe teams up with some of Santa Fe’s most exciting restaurants to present Digest This! in-person on patios and virtually through livestreams. These programs look at the concept of displacement ...
Join us for a special 4-part online course taught by MICA Professor Jennie Hirsh, PhD. This program is FREE for SITE Members and $10 a class for non-members ($30 for all 4). Advanced registration ...
Join MacArthur Fellows, Jason De León and Steven Feld for a conversation about how scholars and artists can bring research findings to the public using a variety of media (film, installations, and publications). The ...
A collaboration with The School of Advanced Research (SAR) and Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA), and SITE Santa Fe presents Beyond Borders, a series of installations and events starting with Hostile Terrain 94, a ...
My Life in Art at SITE Santa Fe is an annual series of lectures that focuses on significant artists, collectors, patrons, dealers, critics, or other art world luminaries.
Learn about ecological artist, Bonnie Ora Sherk, ...
Gen-erate teen Lavina Gray presents a virtual cyanotype workshop and engages artist and educator Sarah Spengler to discuss cyanotypes in history through the present day. Participants receive cyanotype materials in the mail and videos by Spengler ...
SITE Santa Fe’s Digest This! is an interdisciplinary series of public programs pairing “bite-sized” talks with a tasting prepared by a local chef. 2020 Digest This! programs invite local experts and innovative chefs to explore the ...
Jurying for the Billboard Project is complete. Meet our finalists and jury below.
Overview: SITE Santa Fe believes that contemporary art has the power to transform lives, foster empathy, unite communities and inspire social change. During ...
Gen-erate teen Malia Seva asked two artists to address themes of displacement through printmaking techniques for her Gen-erate public program. Artist David Sloan is making cards about displaced ideology of native peoples in ...
Gen-erate is a new program through SITE’s Education Department that offers three Santa Fe teens the chance to curate public programs at SITE and to engage in intergenerational programming that responds to the themes ...
Gen-erate is a new program through SITE’s Education Department that offers three Santa Fe teens the chance to curate public programs at SITE and to engage in intergenerational programming that responds to the themes ...
Gen-erate is a new program through SITE’s Education Department that offers three Santa Fe teens the chance to curate public programs at SITE and to engage in intergenerational programming that responds to the themes ...
Gen-erate is a new SITE’s Education Department program that offers three Santa Fe teens the chance to curate public programs at SITE and to engage in intergenerational programming that responds to the themes of ...
SITE Santa Fe is pleased to partner with NEON to screen Spaceship Earth, a stranger than fiction documentary chronicling the adventure of eight visionaries who spent two years quarantined in a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ...
DIGEST THIS! Q & A with Allegra Love, Executive Director of the Santa Fe Dreamers Project
SITE brings you a series of short interviews with Allegra Love, who is at the epicenter of the dire immigrant detention dilemma ...
DIGEST THIS! A Virtual Screening with Chef Paddy Rawal, Chef at Raago-Go
SITE Santa Fe presents Chef Paddy Rawal’s Digest This! talk which chronicles his remarkable journey that led him from India to Santa Fe.
As a special gift from ...
CANCELLED
IFAM and TOKo Santa Fe with SITE Santa Fe present a discussion of several millennia of blue hues by Senior Consultant at the Pantone Color Institute, author, editor, trend and color forecaster, and Creative ...
This event will be rescheduled for August 2020. Please check back for details.
Join us for Creative Mingle: An Arts & Social Justice Networking Event, an evening of refreshments, activities, and networking among Santa Fe’s ...
CANCELLED – Pending new scheduling
Join us for the first in a new Lifesongs community concert and conversation series. This Is What Living Sounds Like: Lifesongs Communities in Concert and Conversations are intimate gatherings in ...
CANCELLED – Pending new scheduling
How do artists engage difficult subjects to foster understanding, empathy, and action? Presented in partnership with Art21, this workshop centers on the exhibit, Displaced: Contemporary Artists Confront the Global Refugee ...
CANCELLED
This concert will feature a curated program representative of the diversity of styles & approaches to music-making that students study at NMSA, including classical, jazz, & vocals styles, original student compositions, and a wide ...
CANCELLED
Displaced: Contemporary Artists Confront the Global Refugee Crisis is an exhibition focusing on human migrations and displacements of the past, present, and future. Through works created in a range of media, artists from around the ...
CANCELLED
Through works created in a range of media, the artists in Displaced ask us to bear witness to the highest levels of human displacement on record and imagine futures where migration is essential for ...
Please join us for a special evening with Hip-Hop icon, Rakim Allah
Watch the full program here and click here for more clips of this event.
In the history of the Hip-Hop, few artists have had ...
In New Mexico Dance Project’s full-length work UNPAVED: Impressions of a home lost, Artistic Director, Scarlett Wynne, seeks to bring awareness to the topic of displacement by identifying the commonalities we all share in ...
This monthly interdisciplinary public program series engages audiences in timely and important cultural conversations by offering creative and inspiring “bite-sized” talks followed by a tasting prepared by a local chef. The 2020 Digest ...
$15 reg/$9 under-30 and students/$5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by a poet of the morning. Here’s the line-up for February’s Chatter:Paul Wiancko (untitled) L. v. Beethoven Opus 18 ...
This season Serenata of Santa Fe initiates a partnership with SITE Santa Fe, in presenting ‘Riffs & Digressions’, four Friday evenings devoted to timely music that reflect themes of Bel Canto, Displacement, Barriers and ...
SITE Santa Fe’s Young Curators are pleased to present Kaboom!, on view January 18-February 09, 2020 at SITE Santa Fe. The public is invited to join the Young Curators for a free opening event ...
$15 reg/$9 under-30 and students/$5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by a poet of the morning. Here’s the line-up for January’s Chatter: J.S. Bach Sonata in C major ...
This season Serenata of Santa Fe initiates a partnership with SITE Santa Fe, in presenting ‘Riffs & Digressions,’ four Friday evenings devoted to timely music that reflect themes of Bel Canto, Displacement, Barriers and Migration. ...
$15 reg/$9 under-30 and students/$5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by a poet of the morning. Here’s the line-up for December’s Chatter: Krzysztof Penderecki, Duo Concertante Rebecca Clarke, ...
SITE Santa Fe, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum & Museum of New Mexico Foundation Shops proudly invite you to Shop with Us on Museum Store Sunday December 1, 2019. On Museum Store Sunday, more than ...
The Dexter Gordon Project: A Collaboration with the Santa Fe Music Collective
Tickets and Info – Santa Fe Music Collective – 505-946-7934
The Dexter Gordon Legacy Band – Featuring iconic drummer Louis Hayes, who appeared on ...
A warm welcome to the 2019/2020 SITE Scholars!
Top (left to right): Amy Pilling (SFCC), Kimi Kubojiri-Garcia (CNM), Amy Traylor (UNM), Krista Marquez (Highlands), Behshad Yekkeh (Highlands), Marisa Demarco (UNM), Elena Loomis (St. John’s), Juana ...
‘Silenced Music’ – Mompou, Ligeti, Silvestrov, Liszt.
Jenny Lin, piano
Come enjoy the second concert in the Serenata of Santa Fe’s“Riffs & Digressions” series, presented at SITE Santa Fe. This concert features Jenny Lin, who will ...
$15 reg/$9 under-30 and students/$5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by a poet of the morning.
Here’s the lineup for November’s Chatter:
L. v. Beethoven Eyeglass Duo Ellis Ludwig-Leone Dear ...
Join us for a Screening & Discussion with filmmaker Sylvia Johnson in conjunction with SITElab 13: Seeking Refuge, an exhibition on view from October 5 – January 5.
New Mexico-based filmmaker Sylvia Johnson uses visual ...
The Young Voices of Santa Fe Opera present a Pop-up Opera Concert in conjunction with the Bel Canto exhibition at SITE Santa Fe to celebrate World Opera Day.
The Young Voices of Santa Fe Opera, the company’s training ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students
Dorsey examines the demand for rapidly changing career skills and what it implies for reimagining learning–and more urgently–embracing innovation in education. Proposing to accelerate educational innovation, Dorsey takes ecosystemic ...
Join us for a truly unique happening on the occasion of artist Andy DuCett‘s intervention into Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera. Be part of Singing Down the Sun taking place at sunset on ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students
Performance art band Princess, with Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill (JD Samson & MEN), has a new live performance/video project called Out There. Out There is a live performance, ...
$15 reg/$9 under-30 and students/$5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by a poet of the morning.
The line-up for October’s Chatter includes:
James Tenney Critical Band Shirish Korde Tenderness of ...
Gerald Clayton: A Collaboration with the Santa Fe Music Collective
Tickets and Info – Santa Fe Music Collective – 505-946-7934
“The name Gerald Clayton has almost become a household name in jazz today. Following the footsteps ...
$15 reg/$9 under-30 and students/$5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by a poet of the morning.
The line-up for September’s Chatter includes:
Peter Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students
Artist Nina Elder travels to some of the most environmentally impacted, geographically distant, and economically important places on the globe where she researches how the natural environment is changing ...
Where Only the Stars Can Hear Us – songs of Franz Schubert
Karim Sulayman, tenor
Yi-heng Yang, piano
Come enjoy the first concert in the Serenata of Santa Fe’s“Riffs & Digressions” series, presented at SITE Santa Fe. ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students
My Life in Art is an annual series of lectures that focuses on significant artists, collectors, patrons, dealers, critics, or other art world luminaries.
Harmony Hammond was a leading figure ...
Join SITE Santa Fe throughout the summer for ART Adventures
This summer, you’re invited to join in a new series of intimate art adventures that could only happen in Santa Fe. Each event has ...
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.
Presented by Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, this panel celebrates the leadership of extraordinary Native American women in the arts, in connection to current debates around gender rights, and standing ...
Join SITE Santa Fe throughout the summer for ART Adventures
This summer, you’re invited to join in a new series of intimate art adventures that could only happen in Santa Fe. Each event has ...
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning.
This month’s Chatter features:
Gustav Mahler — Das Lied von der Erde (1908-1909) arr. Arnold Schoenberg
1. ...
Jennie Hirsh, Nina Elder, David Dash, and Grace Browning with a tasting by Cheesemongers of Santa Fe
$10 general admission/$5 members, students
Jennie Hirsh presents a 20 minute overview of the course that she ...
$300/$250 members, students
This five-day course in SITE’s Education Lab examines a series of exhibitions as well as specific artworks that can be described as “failures” or “scandals” in that they sparked controversy, debate, protests, ...
Join SITE Santa Fe throughout the summer for ART Adventures
This summer, you’re invited to join in a new series of intimate art adventures that could only happen in Santa Fe. Each event has ...
$10 general admission/$5 members, students
Artist and opera director R. B. Schlather discusses his approach to conceptualizing and presenting opera for the stage and the contemporary artists whose work influenced his new production of Mozart’s ...
This summer, you’re invited to join in a new series of intimate art adventures that could only happen in Santa Fe. Each event has been created with you in mind and to bring together ...
Free admission
Bel Canto participating artist Vasco Araújo will screen his work La Schiava (The Slave), with an introduction folllowed by a Q & A.
In La Schiava (The Slave), Vasco Araújo takes his inspiration from Verdi’s famous ...
Art Talk
Directed by Lee Sunday Evans
$10 general admission/$5 members, students
Part artist talk, part memoir, part gleefully rambling cultural essay, Suzanne Bocanegra’s performance work mines her Texan upbringing, aesthetic influences, and far-reaching imagination to make ...
FREE
Composer David Lang collaborates with Suzanne Bocanegra to bring her meditative installation Dialogue of the Carmelites to life. Music created by David Lang and sung by Caroline Shaw, with sound design by Jody Elff, ...
Plan to join the party of Santa Fe’s Summer Season by buying a Table or Friends Ticket to our Bel Canto Gala. Your support through your Table or Ticket purchase will be acknowledged in ...
My Life in Art
Lucy Lippard with Carmella Padilla
$10 general admission/$5 members, students
My Life in Art is an annual series of lectures that focuses on significant artists, collectors, patrons, dealers, critics, or other art ...
$15 reg/$9 under-30 and students/$5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning.
The lineup for July’s Chatter includes:
Benjamin Britten Suite No. 1 ...
Digest This!
Tosca’s Kiss: Opera and Resistance with Jennifer Rhodes and Grace Browning: An Opera Harpist with a Tasting by Cheesemongers
This program is sponsored in part by business council member Lannan Foundation
Though opera features ...
FEATURING WORKS BY:
Erika Blumenfeld | Nick Cave | Sarah Charlesworth | Amy Cutler | Tara Donovan | James Drake | Nina Elder | Jacob Hashimoto | Jim Hodges | Tom Joyce | Guillermo Kuitca ...
Join SITE Santa Fe throughout the summer for a series of ART Adventures!
You’re invited to join in a new series of intimate art adventures that could only happen in Santa Fe. Each event has ...
SUMMER IS COMING AND WE HAVE YOUR ART CALENDAR COVERED! Join SITE Santa Fe throughout the summer for OFF-SITE ART Adventures. This summer, you’re invited to join in a new series of intimate art adventures that ...
SITE Santa Fe welcomes you to the inauguration of SITE Style: A Contemporary Trunk Show
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 6PM-8PM “First Dibs” Members-only Preview Shopping Event! Not a member? Join now! This kick-off to SITE Style, featuring refreshments, ...
Making the Twain Meet: A Panel moderated by Santa Fe Opera’s Dramaturg, Cori Ellison
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students
This program is sponsored in part by business council member
In its 2019 season, Santa Fe Opera ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students
The artists showcased in SITE Santa Fe’s Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera were inspired by classic music dramas composed between 1791 and 1953 and based on medieval legend, ...
SITElab 12 Nina Elder What Endures
Join us for the SITElab 12 Exhibition Opening of “What Endures” by Nina Elder. We welcome SITE Members & the public to explore ...
Digest This!
Jeanne Michèle Charbonnet and Katharine Goeldner Sing Music from Tristan and Isolde with Carol Anderson on piano with a Tasting by Cheesemongers
$10 general admission/$5 all members, students
A collaboration with the Wagner Society of ...
$10 general admission/$5 members, students
My Life in Art is an annual series of lectures that focuses on significant artists, collectors, patrons, dealers, critics, or other art world luminaries.
Carl and his wife, Marilynn, are philanthropists ...
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning.
$15 reg/$9 under-30 and students/$5 under-13
Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Breathing for Wind Octet Francois Couperin/Thomas Ades, Les Baricades ...
SITE Santa Fe invites you to celebrate Patrick McFarlin with a pop-up exhibition and revival of Pat’s Downtown Club!
Over twenty years ago, SITE presented a portrait exhibition by Patrick McFarlin. Over the course of ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students
A collaboration with the Wagner Society of Santa Fe.
In just 60 minutes, multi-talented Joe Illick will introduce you to the entire saga of The Ring Cycle, playing the piano ...
$15 general admission/$10 members, students
Dovetail Orchestra returns to SITE Santa Fe this spring to present The Marriage of Ivory, a fun riffing on themes of the Bel Canto show. This time, composer Ross Hamlin ...
Jazz at SITE: Sheila Jordan, A Collaboration with the Santa Fe Music Collective
Sheila Jordan hails from the roots of modern jazz, when she was a regular on the bandstand with Charlie Parker. She has ...
$15 reg/$9 under-30 and students/$5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning.
This month’s Chatter features:
Elizabeth Young, Carla Kountoupes, David Felberg violins ...
Digest This!
Dialogue of the Carmelites with Desiree Mays and Psychology of Opera with Don Fineberg and a Tasting by Cheesemongers
This program is sponsored in part by Business Council member Avalon Trust.
Francis Poulenc’s opera, ...
Presented by the Santa Fe Music Collective, please join Arlen Asher to celebrate his 90th Birthday with a fantastic jazz concert featuring music from Christine Fawson, vocals and trumpet, Jim Ahrend, piano, Colin Deuble, bass, and John Trentacosta, ...
2018/19 SITE Scholars Exhibition Opening
This exhibition will be a group show highlighting the work of the 2018/19 SITE Scholars, on view in the SITElab gallery from May 4-28, 2019.
The SITE Scholar Program is an ...
Sound and Spectacle!
Presented in the SITE galleries Free admission for all! Presented by The Santa Fe Opera
Commissioned for the Shakespeare 400
Duration: One act, 45 minutes in length
Composer: Joseph Illick; Librettist: Andrea Fellows Walters; Dramaturg and Stage Director: Kathleen ...
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning. This program is presented in partnership with America Opera Projects.
Music of Hannah Lash
The Stoned Prince A ...
Jazz at SITE!
“Virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone” (New York Times), identical twins and Juilliard graduates Peter and Will Anderson are known for their unique renditions of classic jazz songs and innovative original music. The Anderson Brothers have ...
Opera in film by Peter Grendle and an opera tailgating tasting from Cheesemongers of Santa Fe with Matthew Zehnder
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students
This program is sponsored in part by Business Council member Violet ...
Come enjoy the grand opening of the SITE Santa Fe Young Curators‘ exhibition entitled “Secrets,” on view in the SITElab gallery from April 6-23, 2019. Young Curators: Elijah Estrada, Sophia Gundrey, Mila Mancuso, Delfin Peterson, Maeve ...
Come see Robyn Hitchcock, one of England’s most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters and live performers, perform at SITE Santa Fe at this concert hosted by AMP Concerts. A surrealist poet, talented guitarist, cult artist and ...
The Music Department at the New Mexico School for the Arts presents its first Juried Concert at SITE Santa Fe. The concert will feature a curated program representative of the diversity of styles & ...
Join us for the first-ever film screening in Santa Fe of a shortened, one-act version of Richard Wagner’s magnificent magnum opus Ring of the Nibelungs. The creative team of Japanese composer Hirofumi Misawa and German librettist ...
Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera
In the spring of 2019, SITE Santa Fe presents, Bel Canto, an exhibition that brings together artists and works that explore the music, design, history, and architecture of the ...
Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera
In the spring of 2019, SITE Santa Fe presents, Bel Canto, an exhibition that brings together artists and works that explore the music, design, history, and architecture of the ...
$15 reg/ $9 under-30 and students/ $5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning.
Here’s the line-up for this month’s Chatter:
Caroline Shaw ...
Tickets $30 for General Admission and $25 for SFMC Members
This jazz ensemble is presented by the Santa Fe Music Collective at SITE Santa Fe.
Jazz vocal sensation CHRISTINE FAWSON will give Northern New Mexico jazz ...
Sound and Spectacle Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy’s Presidio Installations
$15 general admission/ $10 members, students
This concert is presented by the Music Montage Society in collaboration with SITE Santa Fe.
“Transforming Forest” is a new work by composer ...
SITE Santa Fe presents a town hall meeting on homelessness in the Railyard Park and in Santa Fe, held in the Marlene Nathan Meyerson Auditorium. Attendees will learn about the general landscape of homelessness; ...
CURATED the store at SITE Santa Fe presents the POP-UP LOVE SHOP featuring Cynthia Jones Jewelry, Renegade Floral by Melissa Paquin and Art of Chocolate Cacao Santa Fe. Surprise your sweetheart or indulge yourself with the ...
$15 reg/ $9 under-30 and students/ $5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning.
Eric Wubbels, Gretchen am Spinnrade Joan Tower, Tre Lent Leo ...
A special, Valentine’s-themed night organized by SITE’s Young Curators. Students of all ages are invited to join us for dancing, mini sandwiches & cookies, pink lemonade & tea, crafting valentines, a clothing swap, and ...
$15 general admission/ $10 members, students
Tatsuya Nakatani (b. 1970 Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese avant-garde percussionist and acoustic sound artist. Based in the United States, he has released over 80 recordings in the last ...
Patti Smith reads from a selection of her recent books, M Train, Devotion, and the National Award Winning memoir, Just Kids. An evening of stories (and an a cappella song or two) about love, ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students Energetic, Abstract and Contemplative music for piano in SITE
Yi-heng Yang will play Energetic, Abstract & Contemplative piano music at SITE Santa Fe. Yi-heng Yang, pianist, is noted for “astonishing ...
$15 reg/ $9 under-30 and students/ $5 under-13
Kevin Ernste Birches Balijinder Sekhon Compass Luciano Berio Naturale
John Graham viola Alan Zimmerman percussion
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker ...
Violet Crown Santa Fe presents acclaimed film “Patti Smith: Dream of Life” in partnership with SITE Santa Fe.
Shot over 11 years by renowned fashion photographer Steven Sebring, “Patti Smith: Dream of Life” is an ...
SOLD OUT
Deborah Fleig and Linda Tetrault
$35 general admission / $30 Members, students
The Floating World is committed to sourcing great tasting, well-crafted sakes from small family-owned breweries all around Japan. The Floating World sake sommeliers ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students/Free for members at the $125 level and above
SITElines.2018 artist Eric-Paul Riege is a weaver and fiber artist from Na’nízhoozhí [Gallup, NM] working in performance, installation, soft sculpture, collage, ...
An Evening at Studio 54 in Santa Fe’s most sophisticated contemporary art space. Come Celebrate the world’s most fabled nightclub with glamorous sophistication and primal hedonism this New Year’s Eve. Tickets include Dancing with DJ’s Eldon ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students/ Free for members at the $125 level and above
SITElines.2018 artist Curtis Talwst Santiago (b. 1979 Toronto, Canada; lives in Lisbon) Over the last several years, Santiago has been ...
Mollie Parsons and Dr. Kristina Jacobsen, PhD
$10 general admission/ $5 all members, students
Mollie Parsons, Director of Education at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, will talk about seed ecology. Seed banks have been around as ...
The AV Club: Films at SITE
Screening of Wild Relatives (2018)
FREE
SITElines.2018 artist Jumana Manna’s (b.1987 Princeton, NJ; lives in Berlin and Beirut) new film, Wild Relatives (2018), follows the complexity of a withdrawal of seeds ...
$15 reg/ $9 under-30 and students/ $5 under-13
Tickets at https://www.chatterabq.org
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning, Hakim Bellamy.
Luciano Berio Agnus for 2 ...
FREE
The SITE Scholars Program is a SITE initiative to honor college and graduate level creative students in our community. Founded with the goal to increase student participation in the museum and contemporary art world, this ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students/ Free for members at the $125 level and above
Museums and Indigenous communities have long had contentious interactions and relationships. Roessel will share an examination of the tensions present ...
FREE
In Defense of Memory is a performing-political education practicum for Black, mestizo, and Native musicians locating common ground through examining the history and organizing strategies of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
Featured musicians are Laura ...
Juan De Oñate: Conquistador or Criminal?, Trauma and Resiliency, and the Food Depot
Jon Ghahate, Lee Swanson and Jill Dixon $10 general admission/ $5 members
Please consider bringing a donation of canned goods and non-perishable items for ...
$15 reg/ $9 under-30 and students/ $5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning, Tanaya Winder.
Frederic Rzewski The People United Will Never ...
Join SITE in A Day of Civic Engagement Participate in Democracy!
What you can do:
1. VOTE – Find out where to vote and Learn about the candidates and the issues
2. SITE Staff will be volunteering in the effort Follow us on ...
Sound and Spectacle Saturday, October 27, 6:30 PM
Dovetail Orchestra, based out of Santa Fe, is the brainchild of local composer/multi-instrumentalist Ross Hamlin. Debuting at SITE Santa Fe in February 2018, Underscore was a sold-out hit. ...
Sound and Spectacle Friday, October 26, 6:30 PM with a Halloween Party (co-sponsored by Violet Crown) until 11:00 PM!
$20 general admission/ $15 all members, students
Halloween Party only (entrance at 8:30 PM) $10 general admission/$5 all ...
$15 general admission/ $10 members, students
Estamos Trio is an exploratory music ensemble formed through the cross-border Estamos Project founded by Thollem McDonas in 2010. The trio’s first album, People’s Historia, was released on Relative ...
$15 reg/ $9 under-30 and students/ $5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning, Don McIver.
Jennifer Perez soprano Luke Gullickson keyboards David Felberg violin/viola ...
SITE Santa Fe and New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence team up to present For Freedoms town hall meeting on gun violence prevention. Across the country, For Freedoms is helping to organize a 50 ...
FREE
Season 9 of Art in the Twenty-First Century charts art-making in three urban centers across three continents: Berlin, Johannesburg, and the San Francisco Bay Area. From the post-Cold War cultural and economic rebirth in ...
Mark Nelson and Deborah Parrish Snyder
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students
Biosphere 2 is the world’s first man-made mini-world and is one of world’s most unique facilities dedicated to the research and understanding of global ...
A CONVERSATION WITH MARK KLETT, REBECCA SOLNIT, AND DAVID CHICKEY
Presented by Radius Books
Free
Please join us as we welcome photographer Mark Klett and writer Rebecca Solnit, who spent the past five years visiting Glen Canyon ...
This solo exhibition features a range of Jacob Hashimoto’s new and recent works as well as a site-specific installation that integrates SITElab’s unique architecture. The exhibition explores the balance of the natural world, and Hashimoto’s longtime fascination with ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students/ Free for members at the $125 level and above
Karleen Gardner is Director of Learning Innovation at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), serves on the leadership team, and ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students
The artworks of Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds include multi-disciplinary forms of public art messages, large scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students Sponsored by Ohori’s Coffee A tasting and tour of coffee from the Americas with Tai Ayers from Ohori’s Coffee Roasters and NuMu (Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo), Contemporary Art in ...
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning, Lauren Camp.
$15 reg/ $9 under-30 and students/ $5 under-13
Music: Frederic Chopin Piano Sonata No. 1 in ...
Exhibition runs through Tuesday, September 25.
The SITE Scholar Program is an initiative to honor college and graduate level creative students in the community. Founded with the goal to increase student participation in the museum and contemporary ...
SITE Santa Fe Auction 2018
A Silent Auction of Contemporary Art to Benefit SITE Santa Fe Sat, Aug 25, 2018 5:30 – 8 PM FEATURING WORKS BY: Marina Abramović Richard Artschwager Lina Bertucci Huma Bhabha R. Luke DuBois Nancy Dwyer Tim Eitel Shepard Fairey Lawrence Fodor Miguel Gandert Jim ...
FREE
Curator and artist Tony Abeyta will moderate a panel of artists, gallery owners, and museum directors, who will discuss how these groups contribute to the Indigenous art world today. Panelists include Melissa Cody, SITElines ...
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning, Hakim Bellamy.
Music: Erkki-Sven Tüür Conversio Jean-Philippe Rameau Les Tendre Plaints, Le Rappel des Oiseaux Lee Hyla Third Party John Zorn Passagen W.A. Mozart Sonata for Violin ...
$15 general admission/ $10 all members, students
Rahim AlHaj, virtuoso oud musician and composer, was born in Baghdad, Iraq and began playing the oud (the grandfather of all stringed instruments) at age nine. Early on, ...
Hear SITElines artist, Andrea Fraser, speak about her new book, 2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics, co-published by Westreich / Wagner Publications, CCA Wattis Institute, and MIT Press (2018).
2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics ...
Wednesday, August 1 5:30 – 7:30 pm First Look Cocktail Party and Exhibition Preview 7:30 pm Celebration Gala Dinner Join us for the party of the season! Attire: Dress Well
Thursday, August 2 6 pm – midnight Opening Night ...
Please enter through Auditorium Porch on the East (Railyard Park) side of the building.
Presented in partnership with Opera Southwest & New Mexico Jazz Festival
A staged concert created by mezzo soprano Alicia Hall ...
Please enter through Auditorium Porch on the East (Railyard Park) side of the building
Presented in partnership with the Santa Fe Music Collective & New Mexico Jazz Festival
For more than 50 years, saxophonist Charles McPherson ...
My Life in Art is an annual series of lectures that focuses on significant artists, collectors, patrons, dealers, critics, or other art world luminaries.
Terry Allen is a visual artist and songwriter who was raised ...
SITE Santa Fe presents a new 5-day immersion contemporary art course: Biennials, Triennials, and more! Tuesday, July 17 – Saturday, July 21, 2018 Since the mid-1990s, SITE Santa Fe has been at the forefront of the global ...
Learn how to make intricate cut paper flowers with artist Dario Robleto!
Cut flowers date back to 100 BC with the creation of paper in China. The Victorians popularized the tradition to floriography, the language ...
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poets/speakers of the morning, Tina Carlson, Stella Reed, and Katherine DiBella Seluja.
Steve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint, Violin Phase, Marimba Phase, Clapping Music The ...
SITE’s Education Department worked with artist Dario Robleto and a group of New Mexico School for the Arts students throughout their junior and senior years on the construction of a time capsule, which was ...
curated, the store at SITE Santa Fe, invites you to our first Trunk Show! For two days only, shop (and meet) local and national jewelry and accessory designers, ceramic artists, and more.
Meet these remarkable ...
How can we learn a language that’s so different from English, it’s even written in the opposite direction (from right to left instead of left to right)? Are our ideologies really so different? Come ...
The daughter of an Iraqi-Jewish oud player from Baghdad, Basha grew up amidst the musically rich scene of all-night Iraqi-Jewish arabic parties, witnessing what academic and music critic Josh Kun calls an “Audiotopia”, where ...
SITElab artist Michael Rakowitz presents an unconventional artist talk using his topic wheel. Audience members are invited to spin the wheel and the artist talk is shaped by the topics that are randomly selected.
Michael ...
AV Club: Enjoy a FREE double-feature weekend of COSMOS with free popcorn provided by Violet Crown
Friday June 22, 10 am – 9 pm COSMOS: A Personal Voyage Episodes 5-11 & 13, and COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey Episodes ...
Presented as part of Currents New Media Festival Free
Curator Kelani Nichole gives a free public talk at SITE Santa Fe as part of the opening weekend of the Currents New Media Festival. Titled “The Networked ...
Displaced Horizons is a collaborative multimedia performance focusing on water infrastructures’ socio-cultural and historical complexities to encourage a re-visioning of current water systems to imagine, explore, and implement alternatives. The project attends to water ...
$15 reg/ $9 under-30 and students/ $5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poet of the morning, Kevin Higgins.
Kevin Higgins is co-organizer of Over The Edge literary events ...
AV Club: FREE with free popcorn from Violet Crown
Astronomer Carl Sagan leads us on an engaging guided tour of the various elements and cosmological theories of the universe. Enjoy five one-hour episodes.
SITE Santa Fe ...
$5 general admission/ free members, students
Through a mix of stories and anecdotes, archival installation footage, and interviews with artists and razor-sharp co-directors Barbara Luderowski and Michael Olijnyk, Site-Specific: A History of the Mattress Factory ...
Join us for the FREE Public Opening on May 24, from 5-7 pm with a Members-only lounge. SITE Santa Fe presents a solo exhibition of Chicago-based, Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz. In his work, Iraqi-American Michael ...
FREE
EVENT UPDATE, May 15: SITE Santa Fe’s Auditorium has a seating capacity of 200 with approximately 50 additional spaces for standing room. Due to popular demand and in order to make this event accessible to ...
$15 reg/ $9 under-30 and students/ $5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in programs that include a reading by our poets/speakers of the morning, Mary and Aja Oishi.
Pieces to be ...
Alexis Rockman is best known for monumentally scaled futuristic painted landscapes that address global existential threats such as climate change, mass extinction, and ecological imbalances. Disciplining his vibrant creative imagination with the rigor of ...
Chef Tharon Weighill, Executive Sous Chef at Colt & Gray joins us from Denver to present culinary creations related to the themes of Future Shock. Vanessa Ferdinand, Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe ...
$15 general admission/ $10 all members, students
Goldberg Experienced.03/77K is an installation composed of eight record-players producing an elementary and repetitive melody through the irregular movement of the needles. The spectator can overhear some brief ...
Free with museum admission
A collaboration between Patrick Bernatchez and Patrice Coulombe, Goldberg Experienced.04/GE0433RPM is a composition for 8 pianos presented on 8 speakers in the Marlene Nathan Meyerson Auditorium from April 19-21, 2018. The ...
$5 general admission/Free for members Includes a discussion with the artist Full run time including the discussion with the artist is 120 minutes SITE Marlene Nathan Meyerson Auditorium
Patrick Bernatchez’s films draw from different traditions and aesthetics such ...
$15 reg | $9 under-30 & students | $5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in often surprising programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning Anne Valley-Fox and ...
This family-friendly afternoon event will feature dozens of artist teams collaborating live on Exquisite Corpse drawings. Featuring music, food, and drink, this event will give attendees an opportunity to watch their favorite artist teams at ...
This spring SITE Santa Fe introduces a new fundraiser that harnesses the spirit and unrestrained creativity of Surrealism. At the heart of this event is the Exquisite Corpse, a chance-based Surrealist parlor game by ...
SITE Santa Fe’s Young Curators present Guises from April 13 – May 16, 2018 at SITE Santa Fe. The public is invited to join the Young Curators for a free opening event on Thursday, April ...
$10 general admission/ $5 all members, students
Enjoy 3D printed pancakes and get the scoop on 3D printing from Zane Fischer, CEO of Extraordinary Structures and coordinator at MAKE Santa Fe, a community makerspace which offers ...
FREE for all students
Join us for SITE’s fourth annual studentNITE! There will be free pizza and ice cream, music, dancing, activities, and, of course, ART! Special guests include dancers from Capital High School’s dance department ...
A limited number of seats are available to join Ms. Druyan and Dario Robleto for dinner after their presentation. Please join us!
Each year, at our Innovative Thinker lecture, SITE honors the achievements of a visionary educator who has innovated significantly in the field of museum and arts education. This Spring, SITE honors Ann Druyan, an ...
In honor of SITE’s Innovative Thinker lecture, Violet Crown Cinema will present a special screening of Contact on Friday, March 30, at 6 pm. Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Jodie ...
CO-CURATORS
* José Luis Blondet, Curator of Special Projects, LACMA, Los Angeles
* Candice Hopkins, Independent Curator, Albuquerque
* Ruba Katrib, Curator, MoMA PS1, New York
Meet our SITElines.2018 curatorial team and be the first to hear ...
$10 general admission $5 members, students Free for members at the Supporter level and above
R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ...
$15 reg | $9 under-30 & students | $5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in often surprising programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning and a two-minute ...
Elizabeth Hobson and Roxanne Swentzell
$10 general admission / $5 all members, students
Santa Fe Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Elizabeth Hobson, will provide a survey lecture on her research of the recent, rapid invasion of ...
$10 general admission $5 members, students Free for members at the $125 level and above
As a child of the 1960s, Tom Sachs was captivated by the romance and excitement of the Apollo program. Throughout his ...
$15 general admission/ $10 all members, students
Friedrich Heinrich Kern, glass harmonicist for the 2017 Santa Fe Opera Lucia di Lammermoor, presents his solo work at SITE Santa Fe as part of The Evolution of ...
Come listen to a playlist compiled by upcoming Sound and Spectacle musician Friedrich Heinrich Kern. This playlist reflects some of the artists working in a similar realm to his solo work which combines peaceful ...
$15 general admission/ $10 all members, students
Dovetail Orchestra provides eclectic live accompaniment to classic and obscure silent films and animations. The Orchestra is led by Santa Fe composer/multi-instrumentalist Ross Hamlin, provides live musical accompaniment ...
$15 reg | $9 under-30 & students | $5 under-13
Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music in often surprising programs that include a reading by our poet/speaker of the morning and a two-minute ...
Chris Kempes and Matt Yohalem
$10 general admission / $5 all members, students
Santa Fe Institute Omidyar Fellow Chris Kempes will talk about future possibilities for discovering life in the Universe beyond our own planet, ranging ...
In A Space Program, internationally acclaimed artist Tom Sachs takes us on an intricately handmade journey to the red planet, providing audiences with an intimate, first person look into his studio and methods. The ...
A video confessional that records Hershman’s struggle, transformation, and transcendence as her personal story unfolds before the camera and sees the mirroring effects when personal becomes political, becomes cultural. This consists of four segments: ...
New media artist, programmer, and composer R. Luke DuBois is SITE’s SITElab9 artist. In this explorative performance, DuBois will pair with composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Bora Yoon. Yoon’s found sounds, invented instruments, and voice ...
$10 general admission/ $5 members, students
Yi-heng Yang, pianist, is noted for “astonishing skill and vividness (New York Times)” and “absolute mastery (Boston Musical Intelligencer).” She has appeared with Apollo’s Fire, The Boston Early Music ...
SITE is proud to partner with Chatter! Chatter / Ensemble Music New Mexico presents a full spectrum of chamber music in the classical idiom – from Baroque through the 21st century, with attention to American composers. ...
This Sci-Fi adventure is a time travel film about Lady Ada Lovelace (daughter of Lord Byron), a mathematics genius a century ahead of her time.(1997, 83 min, digital)
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Featuring Lectures by
Bernard Ewell, Richard Freedman, and Frank Murphy
Art detective, veteran appraiser, and international art expert Bernard Ewell will share fascinating stories of art fraud and heists, having served as the expert ...
In this sci-fi-drama, Tilda Swinton plays four parts, including Rosetta Stone—a scientist specializing in biogenetics who has created three self-replicating automatons who rely on sperm to survive. (2003, 82 min, digital)
SITE Members are invited to come for a Listening Party to hear a preview of Yoon’s mesmerizing music and sample sounds from Sunken Cathedral, her two-person opera. Yoon creates immersive audiovisual soundscapes using digital devices, voice ...
Strange Culture, a fusion of documentary and docudrama, examines a surreal miscarriage of justice amplified by post-9/11 hysteria. (2009, 83 minutes, digital).
Peter Grendle, John Formby, and chef Fernando Olea
oaxaquenos provided by Sazon
$10 general admission/ $5 all members, students
Peter Grendle’s film studies focus on micro-budget production, the visual language, and cinema history. He expressed interest in ...
The SITE Scholars Program is an initiative to honor college and graduate level creative students in the community. Founded with the goal to increase student participation in the museum and contemporary art world, this ...
Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the culture ...
A documentary about renowned Cuban artist and political activist Tania Bruguera, Tania Libre features a filmed session of Bruguera and her psychiatrist, Dr. Frank Ochberg. The two explore the emotional ramifications of Bruguera’s political ...
SITE presents a new work from The Ricochet Project. The Ricochet Project (Cohdi Harrell and Laura Stokes) in collaboration with Finnish composer Walter Sallinen, present the first installment of a new performance series, Said and ...
SITE presents a new work from The Ricochet Project. The Ricochet Project (Cohdi Harrell and Laura Stokes) in collaboration with Finnish composer Walter Sallinen, present the first installment of a new performance series, Said ...
As part of the Santa Fe Institute’s Interplanetary Project, SFI Distinguished Professor, Geoffrey West will deliver a talk on his recently published book, Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace ...
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a media artist who develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. His main interest is in creating platforms for public participation, by perverting technologies such as ...
Kota Ezawa translates found film, video, and photographic images into drawings and animations that reduce complex imagery to its most essential, two-dimensional elements. Ezawa’s latest body of work re-examines crimes including the infamous art ...
One of the most influential media artists, Lynn Hershman Leeson is widely recognized for her innovative work investigating issues that are now recognized as key to the workings of society: the relationship between humans and technology, identity, ...
Opening Fête & Late Night Party
Come see our amazing new space and the opening show, Future Shock, and celebrate the new SITE!
On October 6, the long-awaited day arrives! SITE Re-Opens to the public with an ...
“Supaman” Is Christian Takes Gun Parrish, a Native American dancer and innovative hip hop artist who has dedicated his life to empowering and spreading a message of hope and faith through hip hop music. His presentation combines ...
Opening Gala Dinner Thursday, Oct 5
Building Inauguration, Exhibition Preview and Gala Dinner and much more!
THE REVEAL! Friday, Oct 6 Opening Fete and party featuring DJs, a special appearance and performance by Supaman, interactive experiences throughout ...
SITE Santa Fe and Axle Contemporary Present
Run Home Derby Store
a part of Retour des Cendres Vol. IV
A SITE Center Project featuring
Jamison Chas Banks and students from
Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and the
Native American Community Academy ...
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Hosted by Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Tickets are $25 per person; purchase on line or by calling 505.989.1199.
Auction Preview Dates & Event Schedule
FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1 PM Online ...
Pick is an informative and creative discussion of consumerism. The artwork, by young adult and teen artists, is a commentary on the consequences of the lifestyle of first-world consumers. The exhibition explores the adverse ...
Featuring Student Artists:
Rowyn Alarid – Highlands University David Beams – Institute of American Indian Arts Justus Benally – Institute of American Indian Arts Sarah Canelas – Santa Fe University of Art and Design Conor Flynn – Santa Fe ...
SMALL GRANTS FOR BIG IDEAS SPREAD is a community dinner that funds artists and creative initiatives. SPREAD seeks to provide micro-grants for innovative New Mexico-based artists. At each SPREAD, diners pay a sliding-scale entrance fee for which ...
Innovative Thinker Lecture Series SITE Santa Fe welcomes Rika Burnham, a leading theorist and practitioner of art museum gallery teaching. Burnham serves as Head of Education at the Frick Collection in New York and project director for Teaching ...
Sponsored by Thornburg Investment Management
The SITE Scholar Program is an initiative to honor college and graduate level creative students in the community. Founded with the goal to increase student participation in the museum and ...
Sponsored by the Lannan Foundation
ONLY THE ROAD / SOLO EL CAMINO: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry
Duke University Press – October 2016 release
Selection, translations, introduction and notes by Margaret Randall
Covering eight decades and featuring the ...
Sponsored by Pranzo and Verve Gallery of Photography
Join us for the third annual studentNITE, a special night of live performances by WiseFool and NMSA, free food & drinks, hands-on activities, and fabulous artwork. Visit ...
Sponsored by Century Bank Radiah Harper is a senior level creative content strategist and leading museum educator with extensive experience building staff and developing successful community, school, public, art and art history, and diversity programs. Most ...
As we prepare for our remodel at SITE, we invite the public to our YARD SALE! We are beginning to comb through nearly 20 years of art and office supplies, shop materials and building ...
Co-Sponsored by GF Contemporary and Ohori’s Coffee
For his SITE Center project for much wider than a line, Raven Chacon teaches musical composition for string quartet to regional Native teenagers exposing them to this art ...
Sponsored by Caitlin Elizabeth Photography and Cowgirl Barbecue
Francisca Benitez engages directly with the public, creating programming and presentations based on interaction. For her SITE Center project for much wider than a line, Benitez connects ...
Discussion at SITE Santa Fe $30, includes book Limited to 15 people
Haydee Santamaria, Cuban Revolutionary, tells the story of Haydee Santamaria, the only woman to participate in every phase of the Cuban Revolution. Although unknown outside ...
Sponsored by Todos Santos and Joseph’s Culinary Pub
Margaret Randall (New York, 1936) is a poet, essayist, oral historian, translator, photographer and social activist. She lived in Latin America for 23 years (in Mexico, Cuba, ...
Doors 7 pm, Concert starts at 7:30 pm at the Lensic Performing Arts Center
Sponsored by David Rosen & Christopher Rocca Sotheby’s International Realty and and AMP Concerts
Tanya Tagaq’s music isn’t like ...
SITE breaks ground on its expansion and renovation. Join us to learn more about the building and hear from SITE staff about the major changes. Please wear pants and closed-toed shoes, as we will ...
Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramović has pioneered performance as a visual art form. The body has been both her subject and medium. Exploring her ...
Sponsored by Kate Russell & Redwood Media Group
Xenobia Bailey studied ethnomusicology at the University of Washington. It was there that her interest in the beauty and craftsmanship of the musical instruments and headdresses and ...
The subject of Charles Ross’ art is light itself. Using sunlight and starlight as its source, the work manifests experiences of primal solar color, and star geometry in sculptural form. Charles Ross’ fascination with ...
For tickets call CCA at 982.1338. Tickets: General Admission $10; Seniors & students $8.50; SITE & CCA Members $8.00; SITE Members at the Supporter level and above free with advance reservation.
Regarded as a pioneer ...
SITE Santa Fe presents Opening Events for SITElines.2016: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas
Opening in July, this exhibition, entitled much wider than a line, is part of SITE’s ongoing biennial series with a focus on Contemporary Art ...
LAST CALL for SITE 20 Years/20 Shows, Spring 2016 and workSHoP!
SITE’s current exhibitions come down on May 22 to make way for our Biennial this summer, and we’re having a party to celebrate them. ...
An evening of readings and music performed by Terry and Jo Harvey Allen with Bukka Allen on accordion. Songs and stories from MemWars, Allen’s new video installation currently at SITE Santa Fe. MemWars is an exploration of memory, personal ...
SITE Santa Fe’s Young Curators are pleased to present Asylum, on view at SITE Santa Fe from May 6 through May 22, 2016 at SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta. The public is invited ...
SITE Santa Fe and the Academy for the Love of Learning have collaborated to connect the students, teachers, and artists who participate in the El Otro Lado (EOL) program with experiential learning opportunities at ...
Event is free, but seating is limited. Please RSVP to Susan Young at the front desk at 505-989-1199 or young@sitesantafe.org.
Dave Hickey and Julia Friedman present Dave Hickey’s new books Wasted Words: The Essential Dave ...
A BENEFIT FOR SITE SANTA FE Tickets: $100 for Preview Ticket Artworks: $300 each EXHIBITION CONTINUES APRIL 9-10
One of the most anticipated events in Santa Fe is the presentation of SITE Unseen. This fun and exciting fundraiser supports SITE Santa Fe’s ...
Members opening Friday, March 18, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Join us for the 2015-16 SITE Scholars exhibition including work by Alok Adhikari (St. Johns), George Alexander (IAIA), Brendan Barrett (SFCC), Amanda Beardsley (IAIA), Kaitlin Bryson ...
Dancing with 20/20 Vision
As part of NMSA Dance Department’s Inside/Out series, students will interpret the work of four artists and create a performance response on location at SITE Santa Fe. This installation of works ...
SITE opens two new exhibitions, WorkSHoP, showcasing the work of SHoP Architects, and 20 Years / 20 Shows Spring 2016, with the work of Wangechi Mutu with Edgar Arceneaux, Terry Allen and Luis Camnitzer.
Public ...
The exhibition will run through December 27.
It will feature work from these 2014/2015 scholars: Franco Andres Brian Clinton Dre’ Gallegos Jesse Garcia Erik Gellert Lara Goldmann Abbey Hepner Ian Kerstetter Betsy Leonard Monty Little Jasper Mockingbird Siera Reisler Elizabeth Starks William Thoms Mira Woodson
We will be inaugurating the new ...
Join Dr. Geoffrey West, Distinguished Professor and Past President of the Santa Fe Institute, and Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales as they engage in a conversation exploring the growth of cities worldwide and what ...
SITE Santa Fe presents Susan Silton and her all-female whistling group, The Crowing Hens, in a breathtaking performance that will accompany her solo exhibition at SITE.
As a part of Silton’s performance, also listen to New ...
Join us for the Public Opening all day on Saturday, October 24 as we present the Fall installment of SITE 20 Years/20 Shows debuting exhibitions by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Jim Hodges, ...
Join us to celebrate SITE 20 Years/20 Shows: FALL as we toast the artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Jim Hodges, Susan Silton, Janine Antoni with choreographer/artist Stephen Petronio and Ann Hamilton. As a ...
This special screening of Troublemakers.
Using Original footage produced with helicopters and rare re-mastered vintage footage from the period, Crump’s cinematic journey takes viewers on a thrill ride through the most significant land art sites ...
Roll Call for Santa Fe and New Mexico Students! Join us at SITE Santa Fe on the evening of September 25 for music, food, and ART!
The Night will include:
Pop-up Happenings in the galleries Photo Booth ...
Part storytelling, original research and rare sound archive, artist Dario Robleto’s The Pulse Armed With a Pen: An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat will weave together topics as diverse as the earliest attempts ...
Luis Camnitzer is a Uruguayan artist born in Germany in 1937, who moved to Uruguay at age one and has lived in the US since 1964. He represented Uruguay in the Venice Biennial in ...
Marilyn Minter lives and works in New York. She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005, the Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH in ...
My Life in Art: Ann Hamilton with Sylvia Wolf
Co-sponsored by Patina Gallery
Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for her large scale, multimedia installations. Among her many honors, Hamilton has been the recipient ...
Join us for the Opening of Unsuspected Possibilities, a collaboration between Leonardo Drew, Sarah Oppenheimer, and Marie Watt, curated by Janet Dees.
Also opening is the second installment of SITE 20 Years / 20 Shows, a yearlong series ...
See images of the opening of Unsuspected Possibilities, a collaboration between Leonardo Drew, Sarah Oppenheimer, and Marie Watt, curated by Janet Dees and the second installment of SITE 20 Years / 20 Shows, featuring the works of Janine Antoni ...
We welcomed 14 exhibiting artists to SITE to preview SITE 20 Years/20 Shows: SUMMER and Unsuspected Possibilities, and held a wonderful Gala Diner en Blanc at the Santa Fe Farmers Market on July 15/16. With the ...
Between the Lines: Borders as Alternate Histories
Among the off-site projects featured in Unsettled Landscapes, DELIMITATIONS, by Marcos Ramírez ERRE and David Taylor, is a 2400 mile long site-specific installation that reframes the history of ...
Join us for SITE’s six hour Birthday Spectacular featuring art, music, food, and surprise performances all free and open to the public. Highlights of our Birthday Spectacular include:
*Sewing Circle, a hands-on workshop by Unsuspected Possibilities ...
On the occasion of the institution’s 20th Anniversary, SITE’s Young Curators will—for the first time—present their exhibition in SITE’s building. The 2014-15 students in SITE’s Young Curators program will organize an exhibition around the theme ...
A BENEFIT EXHIBITION FOR SITE SANTA FE IN CONJUNCTION WITH SITE’S 20th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CURATED BY CYNDI CONN & LAWRENCE FODOR SPECIAL THANKS TO JAMES KELLY CONTEMPORARY
THOMAS ASHCRAFT ERIC GARDUNO GLORIA GRAHAM JOANNE LEFRAK MICHAEL NAMINGHA PAUL SARKISIAN PETER SARKISIAN ROSE B. SIMPSON TOADHOUSE ERIKA ...
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Join us for a conversation between Ellen Berkovitch of Adobeairstream.com and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (Nadya) and Maria Alyokhina (Masha), two founding members of the Moscow-based activist collective Pussy Riot.
Pussy Riot’s appearance in Santa Fe is a collaboration between SITE Santa Fe and the Santa Fe ...
SITE presents the documentary, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
At Center for Contemporary Arts/Cinematheque | 1050 Old Pecos Trail 6:30PM $5 Limited seating, advanced ticket reservations recommended
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SITE SCHOLARS ALUMNI
Seiya Bowen Brandee Caoba Nina Dubois David Estrada Hannah Hoel Kailani Mayer Shelbie Loomis Lucy Madeline Conor Peterson Elizabeth Shores Crystal Worl Trang Vu
Pablo Helguera will present a talk that explores the genre of social practice art and how it informs the adult education programming at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he is ...
Last year’s group of SITE Scholars will have an exhibition of artwork. The participating alumni Scholars are: Seiya Bowen, David Estrada, Shelbie Loomis, Diana Padilla, Elizabeth Shores, and Laura Walkingstick.
Seiya Bowen
Bowen will display four photographs from a ...
At Santa Fe Performing Arts Armory for the Arts Theater | 1050 Old Pecos Trail | 6pm
Special thanks to Santa Fe Performing Arts for co-producing this program
The SITE Scholar Program is an initiative to ...
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2015, 6 PM
At SITE Santa Fe; Tickets are no longer available online. Reservations are at capacity. Any released tickets will be made available at the door, first come/first serve.
Co-sponsored by Anagram
Gregory Crewdson, whose ...
At Center for Contemporary Arts/Cinematheque | 1050 Old Pecos Trail
Limited seating, advanced ticket reservations recommended
Co-sponsored by Lumenscapes Illuminations Media
An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, Gregory Crewdson has created some of the ...
Join us for the Opening of SITE 20 Years / 20 Shows, a yearlong series of 20 projects including exhibitions and special events. This three-part series celebrates SITE’s dynamic exhibition history by reconnecting with 20 ...
Join us for the opening of Kukuu in Santa Fe on Friday, January 23, 5:30-7pm.
Marcel Pinas (b. 1971, Pelgrimkondre, Suriname) is an internationally recognized visual artist who uses art as a medium to call attention ...
Meem Auditorium in the Laboratory of Anthropology Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill
Futurefarmers will reflect on their newly commissioned work for Unsettled Landscapes. Through the lens of a ...
At The Armory for the Arts Theater, 1050 Old Pecos Trail
Patrick Nagatani is a Japanese-American who grew up in a Polish neighborhood and was raised a Catholic. He now follows Buddhism. His father’s family lived ...
At the Armory for the Arts Theater, 1050 Old Pecos Trail
Join us on Election night for a truly topical panel discussion featuring artist Adriana Bustos, Emily Kaltenbach of the Drug Policy Alliance, Bette Fleishman of the NM Women’s Justice ...
Spread 5.0 is happening at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Oct. 24 at 7pm. Meet the finalists here!
Because all the ticket proceeds will become the grant for the winning artist’s presentation, tickets are sold ...
At The Armory for the Arts Theater, 1050 Old Pecos Trail
SHARED AUTHORITY IN THE ART MUSEUM: PRECEDENTS, PROCESS AND PROPOSITIONS
In recent years, the concept of “shared authority” has gained new currency as contemporary art institutions seek ...
Join us at SITE Santa Fe for the first-ever college night! Free admission for students plus free tours of SITElines: Unsettled Landscapes starting every half-hour. Fabulous food trucks will be selling delicious cuisine that can be ...
Armory for the Arts Theater, 1050 Old Pecos Trail
In this talk, Hamilton will explore what the concept of Unsettled Landscapes means from an archaeological, anthropological, and ecological perspective. He will focus on the dynamic ...
Armory for the Arts Theater, 1050 Old Pecos Trail
Suzanne Lacy is a visual artist whose prolific career includes performances, video and photographic installation, critical writing and public practices in communities. She is best known as one ...
At the Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail
Argentine artist, writer, and filmmaker, known for his films and his photography installations, Leandro Katz’s works include long-term projects that deal with Latin American subjects, and ...
Co-hosted by and held at The Center for Contemporary Arts Cinematheque
1050 Old Pecos Trail
Tickets: $5 at CCA Cinematheque
Join us for a screening of three key films by this important Argentinian visual artist, writer, and filmmaker, ...
Armory for the Arts Theater, 1050 Old Pecos Trail.
As the first director and curator of SITE Santa Fe, Bruce Ferguson helped launch SITE’s international contemporary art biennial nearly 20 years ago. Since his tenure at SITE, Ferguson has been ...
Join your friends and neighbors at SITE Santa Fe for the unveiling of Unsettled Landscapes – a major international exhibition four years in the making. Examining the themes of landscape, territory and trade, the ...
Additional Performance for Pablo Helguera This event is sold out
Pablo Helguera presents the first part of Nuevo Romancero Nuevomexicano, a multi-disciplinary project commissioned by SITE Santa Fe. Using the literary and musical format ...
Performances by Unsettled Landscapes artist Pablo Helguera
Pablo Helguera presents the first part of Nuevo Romancero Nuevomexicano, a multi-disciplinary project commissioned by SITE Santa Fe. Using the literary and musical format ...
Curators’ Introduction Moderated by Ellen Berkovitch, Founder/Editor of adobeairstream.com at the Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion
Please join us to meet the curators, and hear about the genesis of Unsettled Landscapes, including how the ...
SITE Santa Fe members are invited to preview Unsettled Landscapes and meet the artists.
Current members only. Click here to update your membership or contact carlson@sitesantafe.org for information on renewing.
Please join us for the VIP preview of SITElines 2014: Unsettled Landscapes featuring 45 artists from 15 countries and 3 generations. Your donation provides access to the following events: “First Look” Cocktail Party Unsettled Landscapes Welcome Package (includes limited edition tote bag design ...
The Full Access ticket package includes:
“FIRST LOOK” Cocktail Party, learn more
Opening Night Gala Dinner
Unsettled Landscapes Welcome Package (includes limited edition tote bag design by Jamison Chas Banks)
Tickets for Pablo Helguera’s Performance, learn more
Curators’ ...
11:30am – 2pm
The Royal Breadshow book contains writings by 57 local writers: Poems, essays, and aphorisms. Many of these writers will be present to share their works with you. We also invite you to ...
Artist Mella Jaarsma invites you to partner up, and don her sculpture for the performance of I Eat You Eat Me, Each person will select food for the other and then feed each other. ...
Ice Cream Social in conjunction with Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art. Robbins’ Ice Cream Social has taken place all over the globe, from New York to Tokyo, and now it is coming to ...
This project highlights the continuum of public and private in food. The video offers a window into our private lives as each of us, unobserved except by the camera, makes a meal. In the ...
In keeping with the participatory spirit of Feast, the Smart Museum has invited each institution that hosts the exhibition to add new work to its presentation. This anchors Feast within each local context, and ...
SITE’s Education Department is holding a silent auction event to coincide with Feast‘s final Friday beer salon, Tom Marioni’s The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art, on Friday, April 25 from 5-7pm. We are excited for ...
n conjunction with RAD Last Fridays Art Walk
Gather your friends and join us at SITE for a series of beer salons as part of Tom Marioni’s The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is ...
Born in Taiwan and currently living in New York City, Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations where visitors can explore issues of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness. Lee’s projects are often open-ended scenarios for everyday interactions ...
One of the most anticipated events in Santa Fe is the presentation of SITE Unseen. This fun and exciting fund raiser supports SITE Santa Fe’s vibrant exhibition program. SITE Unseen is scheduled for Friday, ...
In conjunction with RAD Last Fridays Art Walk
Gather your friends and join us at SITE for a series of beer salons as part of Tom Marioni’s The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the ...
10,000 Waves will treat us to a crash course on Japanese food and drink! Deborah Fleig and Linda Tetrault are top-level sake sommeliers from Floating World Sake Imports who will start us off with ...
Lynn Walters is the Founder and Executive Director of Cooking with Kids, a nationally recognized Santa Fe non-profit. Every year, over 5,000 public school children cook healthy foods together in their classrooms, learning about ...
Learn about the differences between coffees from various growing regions and experience the varied tastes and aromas through coffee tastings by Tai Ayers from Ohori’s Coffee Roasters.
Then, make sure your dining etiquette is up ...
Colin Keegan lives on an apple orchard in Tesuque, which produces an abundant crop of heirloom apples and an overwhelming supply of apple cider. So in 2009, Keegan created a distillery where he could ...
“A comic masterpiece … perhaps the most perfectly achieved and executed of all of Buñuel’s late French films.”–Chicago Reader Celebrate SITE Santa Fe’s exhibit “Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art” with the winner of the Oscar ...
Please join us for the public opening of FEAST: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art which will run from February 1 – May 18, 2014
Sculptor and conceptual artist Tom Marioni was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, studied art at the Cincinnati Art Academy, moved to San Francisco in 1959, and has lived there ever since. In 1970 Marioni founded ...
SITElab4: Will Wilson and students from the New Mexico School for the Arts Public Opening Friday, January 17, 5:30-7 pm The Public is Invited for Portrait Sittings using historical photographic process by Noted ...
SITEstore is pleased to present a Storesalon with local artists SCUBA. Come finish up your Holiday shopping on Saturday, December 21, 2013 from 10a – 5p with a variety of handmade art objects. SCUBA will present ...
The SITE Scholar Program is a new initiative to honor outstanding college and graduate level creative students in our community. Founded with the goal to increase student participation in the museum and contemporary art ...
In 1915, researcher and folklorist Aurelio M. Espinosa published a study titled Romancero Nuevomejicano, a comprehensive collection of poetry and music from New Mexico that he had compiled over many decades from direct recording of various ...
Please join us Thursday, November 7 through Thursday November 14, 2013 for a special fundraising event to benefit SITE Santa Fe presented by Molecule.
Store hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10am – 5pm
Molecule is pleased to invite you to Shop for ...
SITEstore is pleased to present a Storesalon with book artist and paper engineer Sally Blakemore. Sally’s holiday pop-up cards will be for sale in the SITEstore, and she will host a pop-up making workshop as well. Join ...
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NEW! THEMATIC FOCUS FOR SPREAD 4.0 For this upcoming SPREAD cycle, SITE invited artists working in ALL disciplines to submit proposals for projects that relate to food. This can include works by painters ...
The artist will speak about his project at SITE and how it relates to his larger body of work from the last twenty-five years. Any unused tickets will be released 5 minutes before the lecture ...
ARCOS Dance will present a new work created in response to SITE Santa Fe’s current installation by Enrique Martínez Celaya, The Pearl. This immersive performance allows the audience to explore the exhibit anew while ...
Please join us on Friday, August 23 and Saturday August 24 for a special fundraising event to benefit SITE Santa Fe presented by Patina Gallery
Patina will be featuring Peter Schmid & Atelier Zobel, renowned German jewelry design studio. Established in ...
Honorary Artist: Richard Tuttle Honoring: Lorlee & Arnold Tenenbaum Auctioneer: Eliza Osborne
Richard Tuttle Richard Tuttle is widely considered one of the most influential and enduring artists of his generation. Working in sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, artist’s books and ...
Sidney B. Felsen is the co-founder of the legendary artist’s workshop Gemini G.E.L., established with Stanley Grinstein in 1966. Since then, he has nurtured the collaborations that take place in the printmaking studio. He ...
Virginia Dwan is an American art collector, art patron and philanthropist. She is the visionary and founder of the Dwan Light Sanctuary in Montezuma, New Mexico and the former owner and executive director of the ...
Conceived and produced by Virginia Dwan and directed by Barry Harris, Cage on Cage: An Interview was filmed in 1982 immediately following a reading by John Cage of his radio play James Joyce, Marcel ...
Lowery Stokes Sims is a distinguished curator, art historian and educator, known for her expertise on the work of African, Latino, Native, and Asian American modern and contemporary artists. She is currently curator at ...
Please join us for the public opening of Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Pearl.
Private opening for SITE Santa Fe members. To become a SITE member click here.
Philip Yenawine is co-founder of Visual Understanding in Education (VUE), a nonprofit educational research organization that develops and studies ways of teaching visual literacy and of using art to teach thinking and communication skills. ...
Montano has created a new two-part performance work, entitled Singing My Heart Out…Singing my Heart In, which she performed at the opening of the exhibition and performs again at closing of the exhibition. For ...
All are Welcome | Todos son Bienvenidos
BIG news about our signature Biennial exhibition coming in 2014!
Presentation at 6:15 by Irene Hofmann, Phillips Director and Chief Curator.
Music by DJ Yon
Chips & Salsa bar by Cowgirl BBQ
Refreshments ...
The Young Curators have also added some public programs to further explore the themes of Phantasmagoria throughout the month of April. On April 28th at 3:30, come and enjoy the 2001 film about a man ...
The Young Curators have added some public programs to further explore the themes of “Phantasmagoria” throughout the month of April. On April 26th, come and enjoy a gallery talk at the Visual Arts Gallery ...
SITEstore is please to present a two-day STOREsalon, featuring unique, hand-bound, letterpress sketchbooks by Suzanne Vilmain of counting coup press.
Join us at SITE Santa Fe for a chance to meet Suzanne Vilmain, hear her ...
The Young Curators have also added some public programs to further explore the themes of “Phantasmagoria” throughout the month of April. On April 20th, come and enjoy the popular 2004 movie starring the estranged couple, ...
Montano will conduct Art/Life Counseling in one-on-one session via Skype. Please contact Janet Dees, dees@sitesantafe.org, to schedule an appointment. Space is limited
The Young Curators are presenting some public programs to further explore the themes of “Phantasmagoria” throughout the month of April. On the 16th, come to SITE Santa Fe to hear a lecture from dream ...
Phantasmagoria: noun (,)fan-,taz-mə-’gȯr-ē-ə 1: an exhibition of optical effects and illusions 2: a) a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined b) a scene that constantly changes 3: a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection, or assemblage
Phantasmagoria ...
Mungo Thomson discusses Time, People, Money, Crickets on view at SITE from February 23 through May 19, 2013.
Mungo Thomson is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work explores mass culture, cosmology, and reception with economy ...
Montano has created a new two-part performance work, entitled Singing My Heart Out…Singing my Heart In, which she will perform at the opening and closing of the exhibition. For this endurance performance, Montano will ...
SITE Santa Fe is proud to present three exceptional exhibitions with strong performative and conceptual interplay.
Iris Häussler’s narrative installations, which range from the sweeping to the succinct, revolve around fictitious histories, including her work featured in More Real? Each project begins with a detailed biography of an invented character which Häussler ...
Internationally renowned multimedia artist John Gerrard’s recent work reveals fascinating links between video game technology, landscapes, and basic training. His painstakingly detailed process explores the slippage between the “reality” found in immersive video game ...
Pablo Helguera works in unusual formats, ranging from experimental symposiums, phonograph recordings, exhibition audio-guides, publications, or nomadic museums. Helguera often investigates the very nature of art production, its perception, and the role that art ...
Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio are life and business partners celebrating 33 years together and are considered the leading experts on modern ceramics today. They founded the Garth Clark Gallery in Los Angeles ...
The Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei was named by ArtReview as the most influential artist in the world, yet there’s nary a paintbrush to be seen in Alison Klayman’s smart, funny, deeply committed film. Ai’s ...
Irving Blum forged the path for Pop on the West Coast in 1962 when he introduced Warhol’s Soup Cans and debuted the work of Ed Ruscha the next year. Together with Walter Hopps and ...
SMALL GRANTS FOR BIG IDEAS
SITE Santa Fe’s SPREAD is a micro-granting initiative that provides small grants for innovative projects conceived by New Mexico-based artists. SPREAD is a recurring public dinner designed to generate community-driven ...
Angela Westwater is co-founder of the renowned New York gallery Sperone Westwater. Raised in Columbus, OH, Westwater received her BA in art history and political science at Smith College and her MA at New ...
Join us at the James A. Little Theatre to hear More Real? Curator Elizabeth Armstrong and participating artists including Jonn Herschend, Eva and Franco Mattes, Zoe Beloff, Mark Dion and more.
Sponsored by Zane Bennett Gallery.
Friday, July 6, 5-7 pm More Real? “FIRST LOOK” Cocktail Party and Exhibition Preview Be the first to see More Real? meet the artists and curator, enjoy cocktails, and indulge in More Real? hors d’oeuvres! Tickets: ...
Special thanks to Santa Fe Performing Arts for co-producing SITE’s My Life in Art series, as these events will take place in the Armory for the Arts Theater, 1050 Old Pecos Trail.
Tuesday, July 31, ...
Join us for the Railyard Arts District’s Final Friday, and bring the kids for a dark family film by Terry Gilliam that’s grimly comic and clever enough for adults, with popcorn and treats!
Co-sponsored by ...
Preview: Friday, April 20, 2012, 5–6pm A limited number of $100 Preview Tickets are available. Purchase Tickets Online
Opening: Friday, April 20, 2012, 6–7:30pm Exhibition continues through Sunday, April 22.
An Art Exhibition and Sale at SITE Santa Fe ...
Friday, 6PM
(d. Terry Gilliam, 1981, USA, 116 m)
Join us for the Railyard Arts District’s Final Friday, and bring the kids for a dark family film by Terry Gilliam that’s grimly comic and clever enough ...
SITE Santa Fe’s Young Curators presented the nineteenth juried youth art exhibition, entitled MONOMYTH, which was shown at Eggman & Walrus located at 130 W. Palace 2nd Fl., from April 6-17, 2012.
MONOMYTH: a cyclical ...
Imagine the moment before cinema began. How did our concept of the universe change when the first audiences saw the first films? And how did Georges Méliès, the magician of early cinema, take us ...
In the Time Capsule Lounge
In 1973, Lucy Lippard included Seth Siegelaub’s groundbreaking exhibition, March 1969 a.k.a. One Month, in her annotated bibliographic work Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object. Join us for an historic ...
MEOW WOLF
Performance Schedule:
Thursday, Feb.16, 6-7pm, Members Opening
Friday, Feb. 17, 5-7 pm, Public Opening
Friday, March 9, 5-7pm
Friday, April 6, 5-7pm
Friday, May 18, 5-7pm
Santa Fe-based collective Meow Wolf will present a series of flowing performances, discussions, ...
Director, Brett Morgen, 2007, 110 min This high-adrenaline, entertaining documentary uses animation to reenact the trial of Abbie Hoffman after the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 1968. This presentation includes an introduction by director Brett ...
Director, Göran Hugo Olsson, 2011, 100 min
Compiled from archival footage shot in the heart of the Black Power movement, Göran Hugo Olsson’s Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is surely one of the most powerful and fascinating documentary ...
Many of the artists in Agitated Histories examine the contents of historic archives and re-present the material in new and unexpected ways to re-contextualize the subject matter. This reimagining of the facts of history serves to ...
Charlene Teters will discuss her career as an activist and artist. Her activist career began with a vigorous dispute with the University of Illinois over their use of a stereotypical image of an American ...
Many of the artists in Agitated Histories engage with events of the recent past that are a part of the lived experience of others and continue to have an effect on the present. Viewers ...
SMALL GRANTS FOR BIG IDEAS SITE has launched SPREAD, a new micro-granting initiative that that provides small grants for innovative projects conceived by New Mexico-based artists. SPREAD is a recurring public dinner designed to generate ...
In the auditorium at the New Mexico History Museum Free, sponsored by lannan Foundation Agitated Histories curator Irene Hofmann will moderate a conversation with exhibiting artists Mark Tribe and Geof Oppenheimer about their use of reenactments as an artistic strategy to explore, ...
Los Angeles Goes Live explores histories and legacies of performance art in Southern California in the 1970s emphasizing the evolution of performance within a broader drive toward artistic experimentation that cuts across many spheres ...
SITE’s audience gets a sneak preview of Constance Lewallen and Karen Moss’ upcoming exhibition State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970. Co-organized by Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) and UC Berkeley Art ...
Glenn Phillips will give an overview of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980, an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California who are coming together between October 2011 and ...
Don’t miss this opportunity to bid on a wonderful selection of artworks by leading contemporary artists and galleries from all over the country and abroad. You do not have to be present at our ...
“I see myself as using the vernacular of design, as a raw material. However, I am always making art. I don’t really see myself as a designer or a “trans-disciplinary” artist but more as ...
I Write the Songs is an event that engages visitors to the Santa Fe Plaza in the creation of a spontaneous musical performance. Anyone who passes through the plaza that day will be invited to ...
Screening and panel discussion at CCA Cinematheque featuring Harmony Hammond, Lucy Lippard, Sabra Moore with Elissa Auther, Moderator
The Heretics is a feature-length experimental documentary film about the Women’s Art Movement of the 1970s, specifically the Heresies ...
Friday, April 29 5-7 PM Saturday, April 30 10AM-noon
This free 2-day workshop encourages participants to explore and reflect upon the enigmatic works on view as part of the current three-woman show at SITE Santa Fe. ...
Santa Fe, NM, March 1, 2011—SITE Santa Fe is delighted to announce that Eleanor Whitney, Program Officer from Artspire, a project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) will make a presentation on Artspire, ...
SITE Santa Fe will host AXLE Contemporary and Adobeairstream.com at a joint new media event being held at 1606 Paseo de Peralta. AXLE Contemporary, a mobile step-van, will be exhibiting new video by Steina, ...
Irene Hofmann is SITE’s new Phillips Director and Chief Curator. She joined SITE in October 2010 after serving as Executive Director and Curator of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore for nearly five years. In ...
SITE Santa Fe’s Young Curators are pleased to present their eighteenth juried exhibition, opening on March 25th from 6:30 – 8:30 pm at The Fine Arts Gallery at the Santa Fe University of Art ...
In this exhibition, each emotion was displayed in a separate space, triggering a response in the emotional state or mood of the visitor. Specifically, the emotions of happiness/joy, anger/hatred, horror/disgust, and love/compassion were investigated. ...
During the past decade, Amy Cutler (b. 1974 in Poughkeepsie, New York) has become internationally known for exquisitely detailed narrative works of art. Inspired by stories and images encountered in current events, art history, ...
Saturday, September 11, 1 – 4 pm Sunday September 12, 2 – 4 pm From the Familiar to the Unexpected: A Two-Day Writing Workshop based on The Dissolve with Miriam Sagan
Expect the extraordinary: Martha Colburn, Biennial artist and collagist extraordinaire, and Jad Fair, co-founder of alternative ‘70s rock group Half-Japanese, take the stage with pianist/comprovisor Thollem Macdonas on keyboards, for an evening that will ...
For more than 30 years, Susan Sollins has enriched the field of contemporary art with her innovations in public programming, museum education, and curatorial practices. Nowhere is this more evident than in the groundbreaking ...
Marlene Meyerson served as the Chair of the American Foundation for AIDS Research benefit in Dallas in 1994 and 1996, and each year successfully raised $1 million. She is a long serving member of ...
An Art Critic looks at where we are now, how we got here, and speculates about where we may be going; names will be named; there will be blood…and love.
Jerry Saltz’s new book is ...
Kimberly Jannarone studies avant-garde art and thought across genres, grounded in performance. A central focus of her work is the relationship between the audience and the performer. As a director and dramaturge herself, studying ...
A music theater piece by Terry Allen. Starring Jo Harvey Allen
Mike Glier says of his new book, along a long line, from Hard Press Editions, it “is the story of this yearlong trip along the line of Longitude which begins in the Arctic Circle, ...
What do you doodle? Whether you are sitting at home late at night or day dreaming in history class, we all doodle. What is a doodle? Perhaps a doodle is a representation of our ...
The Things That Are Heard
Imagine a dash of jazz, a smidgen of rock, a teaspoon of klezmer, a dusting of ska, a pinch of latin along with a dollop of fusion and a heaping ...
Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry raise questions of race and social justice in the context of both history and contemporary society. They have been collaborating since 1998 on a wide variety of work that ...
Contemporary Art in Context is a program intended to ground the art of today in art history. In the case of the sixth course, comprised of three lectures, the program is presented in conjunction ...
As part of the LAND/ART series, SITE is pleased to present a talk by Nancy Holt, a pioneer in site-specific public sculpture and a leading figure in the land arts movement. Holt will show MONO ...
SITE’s Eighth International Biennial will examine the recent emergence of film and video as an animated platform through which to integrate other media – painting, drawing and sculpture – a development they see as ...
Jeanne and Michael Klein’s passionate interest in the visual arts is a consuming endeavor, both from the standpoint of private collecting and museum activities.
The Kleins’ stellar collection includes minimal and conceptual art, innovative and ...
In September, SITE will host Willliam L. Fox, a writer, independent scholar, and poet whose work is a sustained inquiry into how human cognition transforms land into landscape. Fox is currently the director of ...
Peter Plagens is a true Renaissance man: a painter whose work has been shown at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York since 1974; the staff art critic for Newsweek from 1989 to 2003, where he is ...
Ann Temkin is the The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In addition to the forthcoming exhibition, Gabriel Orozco, which will travel ...
SITE Santa Fe is pleased to present its third contemporary art auction, AUCTION SITE 2009. This is SITE’s most highly anticipated fundraiser of the year and will support its exhibitions, public programs, and educational ...
Judith Schaechter will discuss her work starting from age four—when she drew Winston Churchill in His Coffin and Vomit Picture —to the present day when she has just completed a major permanent installation for ...
TXTual Healing was created by Paul Notzold in 2006 and has since become an ongoing series of interactive performances that encourage the creation of dialogue through text messaging from mobile phones. The project harnesses ...
Michael Frank will be disclosing his trade secrets of identifying bad art, locating bad art, and discussing the finer details of bad art interpretation. Bring a piece of art to this low-rent antique road ...
SITE is pleased to present a panel discussion with Pretty Is As Pretty Does artists Kathy Butterly, Rina Banerjee, and David Leigh. Moderated by Phillips Director, Laura Steward Heon, topics to be addressed include ...
Join us for a surprise appearance by Biennial artist Piero Golia who will speak about his work, and guests may participate in his exhilarating action installation at SITE Santa Fe, Manifest Destiny.
Join us for a collaborative musical event celebrating the 2008 Biennial, built as a disarticulation and recirculation of the images, words, and spaces of the exhibition. John Kennedy, Molly Sturges and Chris Jonas will ...
The lecture is co-sponsored by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, Historic Preservation Division; The Palace of the Governors, Museum of New Mexico; Office of the State Historian/NM Commission of Public Records; Historic ...
Join us for Clash Class: Salvation Sound a collaborative performance event hosted by Biennial artist Nadine Robinson (a.k.a. NayRob), featuring deejay and vocalist Treasure Don and his crew, as they experiment with electronic sound ...
“We see architecture as an act of profound optimism. Its foundation lies in believing that it is possible to make places on the earth that can give a sense of grace to life – ...
Much has been made of the community component of Lucky Number Seven— both physically and metaphorically—and these artists could be said to personify the nature of the community of this exhibition. Through their ideological ...
Biennial artists will share their experiences in creating their commissioned works for the exhibition. Curatorial partners Alexie Glass, Colin Chinnery, and Ferran Barenblit will lead the discussion.
Join us for this lively and engaging free-for-all ...
Hiroshi Fuji creates installations, performances, and events that focus on community. He uses materials deemed useless or valueless by society – empty plastic water bottles, discarded food packaging, and old toys – to create ...
Catalyst presented provocative new works by high school students from Santa Fe and beyond. The
Young Curators received an impressive outpouring of submissions, from which approximately 25
artists were selected. Catalyst asked artists to choose a ...
Catalyst presents provocative work from high school students from Santa Fe and beyond. The Young Curators asked artists to choose a piece of writing and then respond to it with a visual work of ...
The Disappeared Collaborative Project presents Chief Curator and Founding Director of the North Dakota Museum of Art Laurel Reuter in dialogue with Lawrence Weschler, essayist in The Disappeared catalogue and long-time writer for The ...
AA native of Kenya, Wangechi Mutu mixes her cultural heritage with Western sources that range from high fashion and pornography to the past and present history of violence on the African continent. Her intricate ...
Contemporary Art in Context is a program intended to ground the art of today in art history. The fifth course, comprised of three lectures, will compare and contrast the history and roles of the ...
In Nicolás Guagnini’s work included in Los Desaparecidos/The Disappeared exhibition, which is titled 30,000 (the number of the disappeared in Argentina), he uses the picture of his father that his grandmother carried in the ...
Contemporary Art in Context is a program intended to ground the art of today in art history. The fifth course, comprised of three lectures, will compare and contrast the history and roles of the ...
In his appointment as the curator for SITE’s 2008 Biennial, Fung wants more than just another big group exhibition. He states, “I want to redefine the paradigm of a biennial through collaboration, to offer ...
Bill Hearne’s Roadhouse Revue delivers retro country/honky-tonk classics!
Hearne has been performing for 36 years from Nashville to LA keeping boots scootin’ everywhere in between. Along with his wife Bonnie for most of those years, ...
The last of three conversations with well-known collectors features Adam Lindemann.
Born in New York City, Adam Lindemann grew up in an art collecting family. He began his own collection with African and Oceanic art ...
Contemporary Art in Context is a program intended to ground the art of today in art history. The fifth course, comprised of three lectures, will compare and contrast the history and roles of the ...
Klaus Ottmann, curator of SITE Santa Fe’s Sixth International Biennial, will reflect on exhibitions, biennials, critics, and the art public. The current edition of SITE’s Biennial, Still Points of the Turning World, has stirred ...
What do you think of when you see the color yellow? How do you feel when you see the color red? Refined Palette: A Show of Color was designed to explore the monochromatic use ...
Alva Noto is the stage name of the Berlinbased audio/visual artist Carsten Nicolai, whose work comprises images, installations, and music. A leading artist among current electronic sound and visual designers using art and music ...
Creative Time, a New York-based non-profit organization, presents the most innovative art in the public realm. During Anne Pasternak’s 12-year tenure as President and Artistic Director of Creative Time, the organization has increased its ...
Harrison focuses on what Cai Guo-Qiang’s installation Inopportune reveals about the phantom-like nature of contemporary terrorism. He argues that it is because we live in an age of terror that terrorism has the power ...
October 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany—and this is precisely what happens to Alex’s mother, an activist for social progress and the improvement of ...
Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch are painters born 28 years apart in the German state of Saxony, which from 1949 until 1990 lay in the communist German Democratic Republic. After creating his earliest paintings ...
Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection features works by a group of seven artists who chose to study at the Leipzig Art Academy in former East Germany, in the ...
Semantics: The Words of Art explores the long dialogue between language and visual art as a form of personal expression. Semantics is not only the study of meaning in language, but also the relationship ...
In collaboration with the Santa Fe Gallery Association’s annual fundraising event ARTfeast, benefiting art programs in the public schools. Wine and hors d’oeuvres generously provided by Mu Du Noodles.
Underwritten by Collector’s Guide
Join us for ...
Linking art and technology, gender and identity, fantasy and desire, Kiki Seror’s work brings online chat rooms into the light of day—transforming the explicit language of cybersex into dazzling and disturbing digital images and ...
Mayor Larry Delgado officially opens Santa Fe Design Week at SITE Santa Fe with welcome remarks and an overview of Green Design. He will introduce special guests and the keynote speaker, architect Ed Mazria.
ED ...
Carroll Dunham draws from the traditions of early American Modernism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, and has added the varied influences of Philip Guston, Mayan art, and pup culture to his work. Often rendered in ...
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, authors of the recent best-seller de Kooning: An American Master published by Alfred A. Knopf, will appear at SITE Santa Fe and speak about their collaboration, the first major ...
Creativity plays a critical role in the arts and sciences, and it is this intersection that interests both K.C. Cole and Murray Gell-Mann. Given their mutual interests in physics, and their passionate desire to ...
This event will feature an eclectic mix of collectors who are devoted to a wide range of artists, movements, and genres. The evening is designed to explore the depth and diversity of the art ...
This exhibition focused on the dialogue between art and fashion and its power to communicate personal expression. Art and fashion are tied to body image and convey identity and cultural values. Torn Together encompassed ...
On July 12, 2003, SITE Santa Fe will hold AUCTION SITE: The 2003 Summer Benefit Auction, its first-ever art auction. Thirty-five internationally recognized, contemporary artists are participating in the event, which will have both ...
Monika Bravo: Playing with Time is organized by SITE Santa Fe. Monika Bravo was an artist-in-residence at The Santa Fe Art Institute as part of that organization’s Emergency Relief Residency for artists from Lower ...
Mr. Storr will announce his latest plans for the exhibition, whose working title is Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque.
Robert Storr was appointed, in September 2002, the first Rosalee Solow Professor of Modern Art at ...
Panel discussion with artists participating in Uneasy Space, moderated by Gregory Volk, art critic and curator and Visiting Professor at SUNY Albany and New York University
Nancy Spector is curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where she has curated numerous exhibitions, including those on conceptual photography, Robert Rauschenberg, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. At the ...
Yvonne Rainer is a highly respected and influential film/videomaker and choreographer. In the early 1960s, she was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater, a revolutionary company that joined nondancers and everyday ...
Karin Davie’s work explores the intersection of representation and abstraction through flamboyant fusions of color and curved lines. Davie is interested in the performative nature of painting–the use of the body in creating a ...
Roxy Paine/Second Nature is a mid-career survey exhibition which focuses on two distinct yet interrelated bodies of Paine’s work: monumental artmaking machines and naturalistic, botanical environments. These two types of work illustrate a reversal ...
Susan Silton’s exhibition will include pieces from two bodies of work — six prints from her Aviate series and the video projection hemidemisemiquaver. For Aviate, Silton scanned images from an early 20th century bird ...
Take It Back was about teens’ personal experience with the power of creative expression. What is the nature of power, its source, and the effect it has on the world? What happens when you ...
Rick Moody is the author of three novels–Garden State, The Ice Storm, and Purple America–and two collections of stories–The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven and Demonology. He is the co-editor of an anthology ...
By combining miniature sets with multigenerational actors and life-size objects, Nicosia creates disorienting, fanciful imagery. Over the course of his career Nicosia has explored his world through situations staged for the camera. Mixing reality ...
One of the most important Latin American artists of the last decade, Hernández-Diez creates candid, poetic, and, at times, disturbing and irreverent multimedia installations inspired by the vernacular culture and traditions of his home ...
SITE Santa Fe announced today the appointment of Charles A. Stainback as its new executive director. Stainback is the Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery and Professor of ...
Varnedoe’s lecture will be held in conjunction with SITE Santa Fe’s survey exhibition of acclaimed conceptual artist Janine Antoni. The exhibition, which brings together a range of objects and video projects from every phase ...
The city of Albuquerque, where officials view graffiti more often as vandalism than as art, was purposely chosen to take a fresh look at the talent possessed by graffiti artists and the beauty of ...
Santa Fe, NM – SITE Santa Fe will present a lecture by Michael Govan, Director of Dia Center for the Arts in New York, on Saturday, October 5, at 5 pm. The lecture, titled ...
Organized by SITE Santa Fe, Janine Antoni brings together a substantial range of the artist’s work from 1993 onward, and will include at least 17 objects and three short video projects. Among the works exhibited ...
Lawrence Rinder’s lecture at SITE Santa Fe, “Beings, Spaces, and Tribes: Making Sense of Contemporary American Art,” will focus on his curatorial concept for the 2002 Whitney biennial. In a statement released by the ...
John F. Simon, Jr., whose exhibition of digital art is on view at SITE Santa Fe through September 8, 2002, uses cutting-edge computer technology to forge new ways of making, seeing, and thinking about ...
James Catterall’s lecture at SITE Santa Fe, “The Arts and Human Development: Research, Practice, and Policy,” will focus on the effects of broad-based arts learning on human neurological and social development. Dr. Catterall’s lecture ...
Tickets for Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival concerts are $27 for both evenings, $15 for one evening, and $10 for students. Tickets are available in advance only through the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival ...
Tickets for Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival concerts are $27 for both evenings, $15 for one evening, and $10 for students. Tickets are available in advance only through the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival ...
The lecture title, “An Emerging Generation of African American Artists,” refers to a group of artists Thelma Golden describes as “post-black.” Golden began to aggressively investigate post-black artists in 2000 when she curated Freestyle, ...
This exhibition featured the work of six young artists from Santa Fe, Arizona, and Massachusetts, whose artwork was, or drew inspiration from, comic art. *!$#* (A Show of Comix) aimed to bring awareness to ...
Peter Galassi assumed his current position at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1991, but has worked there steadily since 1974. He has organized more than 30 exhibitions for The Museum ...
Artists on SITE offers audiences unique opportunities to engage with featured artists as they give informal discussions on their work.
Artists on SITE offers audiences unique opportunities to engage with featured artists as they give informal discussions on their work.
Libby Lumpkin is Assistant Professor of Modern Art at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas (UNLV), and Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art for the Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery at UNLV. She was the founding ...
Since the early 1980s, Nic Nicosia has exhibited elaborately staged photographs, utilizing studio sets and a cast of performer/models. By manipulating the human figure, action, and setting, Nicosia creates a feeling of unreality that ...
Alexis Smith creates collage-like art that incorporates found objects such as book jackets and advertisements and addresses societal ills — including consumerism and the objectification of women — with irony and wit. Smith is ...
Graft Design, an international design firm based in Los Angeles, seeks to redefine not only how things look, but also how they are conceived. Their commissions range from Brad Pitt’s Hollywood house to the ...
Jennifer Steinkamp manipulates light to “dematerialize architecture.” Using a computer to project images onto existing forms, Steinkamp not only transforms architecture but also creates an entirely new structure. Often, these pieces work in conjunction ...
Darryl Montana, son and successor of Big Chief Allison Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas “Hunters” Mardi Gras Indian Tribe, is heir to a rich and visually stunning tradition that originated in New Orleans in ...
OUTSIDE CURATORIAL STATEMENT
DOMAIN OF REALITIES was the first exhibition that SITE Santa Fe’s Young Curators organized in collaboration with another group. The two groups never met face to face nor spoke on the phone, ...
Jim Isermann’s art combines retro influences with modern details in furniture reminiscent of the 1950s and painted works that suggest OP Art from the 1960s and ’70s. Isermann received his MFA from the California ...
Kenneth Anger literally burst onto the American art landscape in 1947 with his first film. Fireworks was a 15-minute tour de force, in which America’s post-war subconscious was made luminous and projected on a ...
This exhibition featured the work of Santa Fe artists ages 13-21. Effusion showcased work done in both traditional media and installation art.
Spencer Tunick is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, who creates temorary site-related installations in public spaces with large groups of volunteers who are nude. The dynamic tension between the participants’ bodies and ...
This exhibition featured the works of two upcoming artists chosen for their “distinct artistic talent, depth of work, and the art’s level of maturity,” according to the Young Curators.
entelechy
[en-‘te-le-ke: a hypothetical agency not demonstrable by scientific methods that in some vitalist doctrines is considered an inherent regulating and directing force in the development and functioning of an organism]
This exhibition included computer graphics, ...
Organized by the College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
February – March 1996
Panel discussion with Jan Adlmann, Bob Gaylor, Joseph Traugott, and David Turner, moderated by Bernie Lopez, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Panel discussion moderated by Sharon Udall, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A discussion with Mark Cramer, Lucy Lippard, Janice Monks, Ray Oldenburg, Alfonso Ortiz, Alberto Perez-Gomez, Meridel Rubenstein, and Sharon Zukin.
A discussion with Ana Castillo, Bruce W. Ferguson, Cuillermo Gomez-Pena, Linda Hussa, Gerald McMaster, Rebecca Solnit, and Rina Swentzell.
A discussion with Nicole Brossard, Carlos Capelan, John Dorst, Libby Lumpkin, Joshua Meyerowitz, Monty Reid, David Spurr, and Marianna Torgovnick.
Lectures in conjunction with the exhibition.
Rasheed Araeen, Artist and Curator
Dan Cameron, Senior Curator, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City
Catherine David, Independent Curator
Catherine de Zegher, Independent Curator
Dave Hickey, Art Critic and Writer
Lars ...
To benefit Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby