The Santa Fe Art Institute's facility provides ample gallery space for exhibitions, which run on a year-round basis. Exhibitions are most often internally curated by SFAI, but the Institute also hosts traveling exhibitions and exhibitions organized in conjunction with outside curators or institutions. In 2003, SFAI offered the first in an ongoing series of annual exhibitions, Santa Fe Collects. These exhibitions, which focus on a particular type of art or aspect of collecting, also reveal the diversity and richness of the private collections in Santa Fe, During the Artists Lecture & Workshop Series, exhibitions enrich programming and provide both participants and audiences with another avenue through which to explore the themes presented. SFAI is anticipating its first comprehensive exhibition of works by Visiting Artists and Artists in Residence. Written work by Writers in Residence will also be included. When possible, these exhibitions will be accompanied by catalogues.


Clothesline05

SFAI is presenting three exhibitions as part of Clothesline, the 2005 season of programs:
Special Delivery: Threads from Katmandu (June 3 to 17), 20th Anniversary Fashion Show and Benefit (June23), and Clothesline: Art, Clothing Identity (October 1 - November 15).


Special Delivery: Threads From Katmandu
June 3 – 17
Opening Reception Friday, June 3, 5-7pm, SFAI

An exhibition of SHIFU—cloth woven from paper—
by master Nepalese weaver Deepak Shrestha hosted
in collaboration with the Palace of the Governors.

20th Anniversary Fashion Show and Benefit
June 23, SFAI

This benefit evening will raise funds for SFAI, now in its 20th year of programming. Includes a preview reception, a spectacular runway show featuring one of-a-kind fashions, jewelry by international artisans, and art-to-wear, followed by a rockin’ dance party. MORE>

6-7 pm Preview and Cocktail Party
$250 includes preview and cocktail party,
fashion show and dance party

7-9 pm Fashion Show
$150 includes fashion show and dance party

9-11 pm Dance Party
$25 dance party only

The event will kick off the Southwest Design Conference, highlighting Architecture, Art & Design, sponsored by

Clothesline: Art, Clothing, Identity
October 8 - November 11, SFAI
Opening events, Saturday, October 8
Members Preview 4-5 pm, SFAI
Public Opening 5-7 pm, SFAI

An exhibition by world-renowned artists which explores the powerful and provocative nature of clothing in contemporary art. Artists include: Vanessa Beecroft, Woofy Bubbles, Feral Childe, Colette, Lesley Dill, GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand, Charles LeDray, Nikki Lee, James Luna, Senga Nengudi, Pat Oleszko, Beverly Semmes, Martha Wilson and Two Girls Working. MORE>(pdf) , ARTIST BIOS>(pdf)

Other Exhibitions

Circle of Memory
April2 - May 20
Opening events, Saturday, April 2
Members Preview 3-4pm, SFAI
Artists Lecture 4-5pm, Tipton Hall
Public opening 5-7pm, SFAI

Conceived and designed by Eleanor Coppola, with
Robilee Frederick, Richard Beggs, Elizabeth MacDonald, Jean McMann and Alexander Nichols. This healing-through-art installation recalls the ritual spaces where people in traditional communities gathered to experience death, grief, change and renewal, providing an art space for the contemporary community to experience these rites of passage.


I Have Something to Tell You
June 2 - 17
Adrain Chesser Residency Exhibit
Opening reception and Gallery Talk, June 2, 6-8 pm, SFAI


Motion
July 9 - 29
Opening reception, Saturday, July 9, 4-6 pm, SFAI

Group exhibition in conjunction with Photoarts Santa Fe. Curated by Eileen Olivieri Torpey. Performance based photographic works by emerging artists from New York City, New Mexico and California.


Fantasy Landscapes: Ground Management
December 3, 2005 - January 31, 2006
Opening events, Saturday, December 3
Members Preview 3-4pm, SFAI
Artists Lecture 4-5pm, Tipton Hall
Public opening 5-7pm, SFAI

Exploring the strange and wonderful ways in which landscape is manipulated or represented by artists. From environmental actions to fantastic images, artists’ deep connec-tion to the land as material, site and subject offer the viewer extraordinary ways to think about the “natural world.” Artists include: Blue McRight, Gerry Snyder, Meg Webster, David Maisel, Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, Jeroen Van Westen, Gerco de Ruijter, Zacariah Rieke, Ann Ausloos, Michael Berman, Bill Gilbert, Agnes Dennis and others.

Past Exhibitions 2004, 2003