Longing and Belonging
From the Faraway Nearby
Longing and Belonging was the inaugural exhibition at SITE SANTA FE. It included 31 international artists who all explore identities in global culture. This exhibition mirrored SITE SANTA FE’s then-mission of bringing the “faraway nearby” by bringing objects and images from the international community to Santa Fe. It also addressed culturally-based ideas of permanency, displacement, exile, and heritage, among others.
Exhibited Artists:
Marina Abramović
Chema Alvargonzález
Francis Alÿs
Robert Ashley
Rebecca Belmore
Barbara Bloom
Imre Bukta
Carlos Capelán
Thomas Joshua Cooper
Braco Dimitrijević
Felix González-Torres
Ann Hamilton
Gary Hill
Jenny Holzer
Rebecca Horn
Anish Kapoor
Catherine Lord
Chie Matsui
Jakob Mattner
Gerald McMaster
Bruce Nauman
Marta María Pérez Bravo
Alison Rossiter
Meridel Rubinstein
Andres Serrano
Lorna Simpson
Valeska Soares
Pierrick Sorin
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Tseng Kwong Chi
Millie Wilson
Curator:
Bruce Ferguson
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic is without question one of the seminal artists of our time. Since the beginning of her career in Yugoslavia during the early 1970s wh...LEARN MOREChema Alvargonzález
Chema Alvargonzález was born in Spain and now lives in Berlin. He studied multimedia, painting, and contemporary imaging processes in Barcelona, and c...LEARN MOREFrancis Alÿs
Francis Alÿs was born in Antwerp and studied architecture in Tournai (Belgium) and at the Istitúto di Architettúra di Venèzia; he currently lives in M...LEARN MORERobert Ashley
A distinguished figure in American contemporary music, Robert Ashley holds an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera and multi-di...LEARN MORERebecca Belmore
A member of the Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe), Rebecca Belmore is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist.LEARN MOREBarbara Bloom
Born in Los Angeles, Barbara Bloom lives in New York and Berlin. Since 1974, she has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Europe and North Ame...LEARN MOREImre Bukta
Imre Bukta Munkály Munkácsy Prize-winning Hungarian artist. Between 1993 and 2012 he was a member of the Fine Arts Department of the Hungarian Academy...LEARN MORECarlos Quinto Capelán
Carlos Quinto Capelán has exhibited widely in Europe and the Americas; his work was included in the important 1993 exhibition LEARN MOREThomas Joshua Cooper
Thomas Joshua Cooper is one of the most celebrated and distinctive landscape photographers working anywhere in the world today. He was born in Califor...LEARN MOREBraco Dimitrijevic
Braco Dimitrijevic, one of the pioneers of conceptual art, had his first one-man exhibition at the age of 10. In 1963 he made his first conceptual wor...LEARN MOREFelix González-Torres
Felix Gonzalez-Torres was born in Guáimaro, Cuba, in 1957. He earned a BFA in photography from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in 1983. Printed...LEARN MOREAnn Hamilton
Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally acclaimed for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaboration...LEARN MOREGary Hill
Gary Hill has worked with a broad range of media – including sculpture, sound, video, installation and performance – since the early 1970s. His longti...LEARN MOREJenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale,...LEARN MORERebecca Horn
Rebecca Horn lives in Paris and teaches in Berlin. Born in Germany, she studied in Hamburg and in London, and has taught at the University of Californ...LEARN MOREAnish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Perhaps most famous for public sculptures that are both adventures in form an...LEARN MORECatherine Lord
Born on the island of Dominica in the British West Indies, Catherine Lord lives in Los Angeles and writes and lectures on cultural (especially queer) ...LEARN MOREChie Matsui
Chie Matsui was born and lives in Osaka. She completed postgraduate work at the Kyoto City University of Fine Arts in 1984. One of the relatively few ...LEARN MOREJakob Mattner
Jakob Matter was born in Lübeck, Germany in 1946, and lives and works in Berlin. His work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europ...LEARN MOREGerald McMaster
Gerald McMaster was born in Saskatchewan and grew up near North Battleford on the Red Pheasant Reserve; currently lives in Ottowa. A member of the Pla...LEARN MORE
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman received his BS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1964) and his MFA from the University of California, Davis (1966). Nauman is w...LEARN MOREMarta María Perez Bravo
Born and educated in Havana, Pérez Bravo began as a painter but has become an artist who performs for the camera, mixing personal recollections with c...LEARN MOREAlison Rossiter
Alison Rossiter creates camera-less photographs on expired, vintage photo paper that harness the untapped material potential of relics from centuries ...LEARN MOREMeridel Rubenstein
Meridel Rubenstein began her professional career in the early 1970s, evolving from photographer of single photographic images to artist of extended ph...LEARN MOREAndres Serrano
Andres Serrano was born and lives in New York. He studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, and works exclusively in photography. His work has appear...LEARN MORELorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. When...LEARN MOREValeska Soares
Born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Valeska Soares studied in her home country and at Pratt Insitutute in New York, where she now lives and works. She was...LEARN MOREPierrick Sorin
Pierrick Sorin is a French multimedia artist, video director, and scenographer. He is best known for his optical theaters, works in which Sorin himsel...LEARN MORET. Minh-ha Trinh
T. Minh-ha Trinh was born in Vietnam and lives in Berkeley, California. A filmmaker, teacher, writer, composer, and critic, she has received many awar...LEARN MORETseng Kwong Chi
Tseng Kwong Chi was a photographer and performer internationally known for his photographic series LEARN MOREMillie Wilson
Millie Wilson is an artist whose work has been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, Lon...LEARN MOREBruce W. Ferguson
Bruce Willis Ferguson was recognized internationally as an innovative curator, writer, and academic leader and was widely influential in the field of ...LEARN MORE