SITE SANTA FE International

Extending beyond SITE SANTA FE’s galleries to partner institutions and unconventional venues across the city, Once Within a Time draws inspiration from a cast of characters with ties to Santa Fe and New Mexico. Curated by Cecilia Alemani.

The Dissolve traced the development and reinterpretation of moving image techniques in exhibition space designed by architect David Adjaye.

Endeavoring to articulate a paradigm shift in contemporary art at its inception, the exhibition mingled up-to-the-minute technology and traditional visual arts with dance, music, and film, and included two newly commissioned works.

Process, experimentation, and collaboration were the hallmarks of Lucky Number Seven, which proposed an alternative to the biennial as an international mega-exhibition studded with big-name artists.

All of the works for Lucky Number Seven were site-inspired commissions not intended to exist as works of art beyond the exhibition close.

Intensity, experimentation, and visceral presence were the hallmarks of 13 significant one-person installations – some of them newly commissioned, all of them never-before seen in the U.S. – that constituted Still Points of the Turning World.

Each artist had separate rooms, designed to encourage as well as seduce their audiences with unmediated experience. The exhibition comprised photography, installation, painting, performance art, soundscapes, sculpture, and video.

Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque brought together a diverse group of contemporary artworks that give new substance to the sense of emotional and logical uncertainty inherent in the grotesque.

The exhibition featured internationally renowned artists of different generations, coming from various cultural contexts, and working with different processes and ideas. The exhibition featured approximately 60 artists and two newly commissioned installations and media projects.

Instead of trying to make an ideological point, Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism organized 27 international artists around the fundamental criterion: “Does the space look better and more interesting with or without it?”

Extended earlier biennials’ meditations on place, the 29 artists from 23 countries in Looking for a Place punctured SITE SANTA FE’s walls and reached into public, commercial, and sacred spaces in and around the region.

TRUCE: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions engaged 27 artists from 20 countries in dialogues with local voices, featured work connecting isolated individuals to communal forces, and contested our culture’s language of violence as “the only transmitter of meaning.”

Longing and Belonging included 31 international artists who explore identities in global culture, addressing culturally-based ideas of permanency, displacement, exile, and heritage through objects and images from all over the world.