Current Exhibition
Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country
November 7, 2025 - November 1, 2026
Santa Fe, NM
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country honors Tewa people, art, culture, and landscapes, while drawing awareness to the erasure of the Tewa presence from the story of Georgia O鈥橩eeffe in Northern New Mexico. Co-curated by artist Jason Garcia (Santa Clara Pueblo) and Bess Murphy, Luce Curator of Art and Social Practice at the Georgia O鈥橩eeffe Museum, the exhibition features artists, scholars, and culture bearers from the six Tewa Pueblos of Northern New Mexico: Namb茅, Ohkay Owingeh, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, and Tesuque.
While Georgia O鈥橩eeffe frequently claimed ownership of Northern New Mexico, this land has been the continuous home of these six Tewa Pueblos from time immemorial to the present. Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country resituates the O鈥橩eeffe narrative back in Tewa Country.
The exhibition brings O鈥橩eeffe鈥檚 art and personal objects into dialogue with newly created artworks by contemporary Tewa artists to highlight themes of sacred spaces, belonging, identity, and ownership. Through storytelling and cultural exchange, the project will create a platform for learning about the past, present, and future of Tewa land, and the complexities of O鈥橩eeffe鈥檚 own presence in New Mexico.
Participating Artists:
These artists have worked together for more than two years to develop and envision this exhibition:
Dr. Joseph Woody Aguilar (San Ildefonso Pueblo)
Samuel Villarreal Catanach (P’osuw盲egeh鈥搘ingeh / Pueblo of Pojoaque)
Jason Garcia/Okuu P铆n (Kha’p’o Owingeh / Santa Clara Pueblo)鈥�
John Garcia Sr. (Kha’p’o Owingeh / Santa Clara Pueblo)鈥�
Charine Pilar Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo)鈥�
Marita Swazo Hinds (Tesuque Pueblo)
Dr. Matthew Martinez (Ohkay Owingeh)
Arlo Namingha (Ohkay Owingeh, Hopi)
Michael Namingha (Ohkay Owingeh, Hopi)鈥�
Eliza Naranjo Morse (Kha’p’o Owingeh / Santa Clara Pueblo)鈥�
Martha Romero (Namb茅 Pueblo)鈥�
Randolph Silva (Kha’p’o Owingeh / Santa Clara Pueblo)
Note: The spellings of tribal affiliations have been determined by each artist and reflect the wishes of themselves, their families, and their communities. As Tewa is still primarily a spoken language, there is inherent variation in these spellings; we choose here to respect the choices of the individual artists.
Read More:
- 聽by John Burnett for聽NPR
- review for Southwest Contemporary
- “鈥� by Nancy Zastudil for Hyperallergic
- 鈥溾�� by Kimberly Suina Melwani for Southwest Contemporary
- 鈥� by Jacob Entenman for the Henry Luce Foundation
- 鈥� by Logan Royce Beitman for the Albuquerque Journal
- by Ania Hull for Pasatiempo and the Santa Fe New Mexican
- “鈥� by Michael Abatemarco for New Mexico Magazine
- “鈥� by SWC editorial director Jordan Eddy for Southwest Contemporary
- “鈥� by First American Art Magazine
Listen:
- 聽by John Burnett for聽NPR, heard on聽All Things Considered
Admission for the Georgia O鈥橩eeffe Museum is free for members of Indigenous communities, tribes, and nations for the duration of Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country.
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