Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue aims to amplify the collective strength of contemporary artists. The show at Albuquerque Museum includes large-scale installation, sculpture, video, performance, and programming in celebration of 10 years of the Broken Boxes podcast.
Artists include Tanya Aguiñiga, Natalie Ball, CASSILS, Autumn Chacon, Raven Chacon, India Sky Davis, Jeremy Dennis, Kate DeCiccio, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Sterlin Harjo, Elisa Harkins, Christine Howard Sandoval, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Tsedaye Makonnen, Guadalupe Maravilla, Laura Ortman, Katherine Paul (aka Black Belt Eagle Scout), Joseph M. Pierce, SWOON, Chip Thomas, Marie Watt, Saya Woolfalk, and Mario Ybarra Jr.
Each of the artists engages their own cultural experience and elevates activism within diverse communities. Among them are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur Award, Guggenheim Fellowships, and Creative Capital Awards, as well as many participants in multiple international biennials.
Curated by Ginger Dunnill and Josie Lopez, the exhibition is accompanied by a dynamic art book published by UNM Press. Broken Boxes — the podcast, the exhibition, and the book — centers around bringing artists together in dialogue. By opening up the conversations across communities, groups, art practices, materials, and shared spaces, Broken Boxes aims to demonstrate how artists are forging new forms of action.
Dunnill says, “Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue delves deeply into the realm of intentionality, amplifying how artists create and why.”
Co-curator Lopez reflects, “Broken Boxes boldly transcends disciplinary boundaries, adopting a more complex approach to subjects ranging from decolonization to environmental justice, from queer and feminist theory to Indigenous sovereignty. For Dunnill, embracing complexity is the very key to change — to imagining and dreaming a different future with resilience.”
Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue is on view at Albuquerque Museum from September 7, 2024, through March 2, 2025.
For more information, see the Program Guide or visit albuquerquemuseum.org.
This exhibition is supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, WESTAF, the City of Albuquerque, Albuquerque Museum Foundation, and the Frederick Hammersley Fund for the Arts at Albuquerque Community Foundation.
