December 15, 2023 - June 2, 2024 Peter and Margaret de Wetter Gallery In Beaten with a Hammer, Marfa-based artist Bettina Landgrebe uses over 500…

12.15.24 | 06.02.24

From the El Paso Museum of Art: "The 2024 Border Biennial / Bienal Fronteriza 2024 will focus on the unique identity of the borderland, which…

12.15.23 | 04.14.24

From the El Paso Museum of Art: "Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology documents international Indigenous artists’ responses to the impacts of nuclear testing, nuclear accidents,…

07.28.23 | 11.12.23

From the El Paso Museum of Art: "Inspired by There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art, this exhibition explores the legacy…

07.14.23 | 09.03.23

From the El Paso Museum of Art: "There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art examines the representation of Black women over the…

02.03.23 | 05.14.23

From El Paso Museum of Art: "Artist Denise Brown’s paintings capture the significance behind universally shared stories and the power within a narrative. This exhibition…

01.12.23 | 04.16.23

From El Paso Museum of Art: "Isadora Stowe’s work focuses on the narrative of environment translated and coded into complex psychological landscapes. The site-specific installation…

10.20.22 | 03.12.23

From El Paso Museum of Art: "Gods for Future Religions highlights the prolific career of local El Paso artist, Ho Baron. For more than fifty years,…

09.22.22 | 01.15.23

From El Paso Museum of Art: "This exhibition pairs two paintings by artist Becky Hendrick. Though not created intentionally as a duo, the works answer…

07.21.22 | 12.04.22

From El Paso Museum of Art: "Luces y Sombras: Images of Mexico | Works from the Bank of America Collection features more than 100 photographs dating…

04.07.22 | 08.14.22

From the El Paso Museum of Art: "Michael Namingha’s (Tewa/Hopi) Altered Landscape series are abstract, photography-based works that juxtapose geometric shapes in bright neon colors…

08.12.21 | 01.02.22

An exhibition from the permanent collection of the Museum. From the Museum: "Tom Lea Gallery, Dorrance and Olga Roderick Gallery, Richard and Frances Mithoff Gallery…

09.27.20 | 12.31.20

This exhibition features a video and sound installation by Rachel Rose, one of the best-known artists working with moving images in America today. Lake Valley, 2016,…

01.24.20 | 12.01.20

"Tom Lea Gallery, Dorrance and Olga Roderick Gallery, Richard and Frances Mithoff Gallery For the first time in twenty years, and a year after renovating…

09.27.19 | 09.27.20

"Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Gallery It has been sixty years since the founding of the El Paso Museum of Art, and two decades since…

09.27.19 | 03.08.20

Join EPMA for lively talks revolving around three generations of Latinx artists with artworks on view at the museum. The afternoon begins with a lecture…

03.07.20 | 03.07.20

Celebrate Amor with an Art Getaway to the El Paso Museum of Art. The two-day event features tours, art workshops, interactive installations, exclusive access to the EPMA…

02.14.20 | 02.15.20

"From 1941 to 1946, El Paso-native Tom Lea (1907-2001) served as a World War II eyewitness artist correspondent for Life magazine, becoming the only artist to…

08.23.19 | 01.05.20

A group exhibition featuring work by EPMA Teaching Artists. Featuring: Ivan Calderon, Ronnie + Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, Dina Edens-Perlasca, Cindy Gutierrez-Krapp, and Phillip John Romero.

07.17.19 | 01.05.20

"Ideas Unwrapped presents fourteen artworks from the El Paso Museum of Art’s permanent collection that focus on how ideas transform into art." The show includes…

02.17.19 | 12.31.19

"An exclusive tour of the El Paso Museum of Art's newly renovated and re-imagined permanent collection galleries alongside Senior Curator Kate Green, Ph.D. Learn more…

11.15.19 | 11.15.19

"An evening of border art and literature featuring Guillermo Gómez-Peña with cameos by Balitronica, from the series “WE ARE ALL ALIENS.” In his new spoken-word…

10.31.19 | 10.31.19

"The El Paso Museum of Art's retablos collection—the second-largest in the United States—is being highlighted in a new installation featuring the museum’s key collections gifted by El…

03.08.19 | 09.01.19

"From paintings and sculptures to personal altars and retablos, devotional objects permeated everyday life in New Spain, or present-day Mexico, from the 16th through 19th…

02.08.19 | 05.05.19

"Power and Piety illuminates the overlap and tension between social power and religion in the Americas through nearly sixty extravagant works of religious art commissioned…

02.08.19 | 05.05.19

"Leo Villareal: Early Light elucidates the early practice of one of today’s best-known contemporary artists."

09.27.19 | 04.12.19

"This exhibition will feature nearly fifty works of art from the last five years, many never before exhibited, exploring Julie Speed’s mining of Western and…

11.16.18 | 04.07.19

A show of screenprints by artist Jacob Lawrence. The pieces tell "the story of Haiti’s struggle for independence from France through the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture…

10.31.18 | 02.27.19

"After Posada: Revolution revolves around over one-hundred rarely seen José Guadalupe Posada images as they circulated during his lifetime: in broadsheets, or popular single-page newspapers…

10.12.18 | 01.20.19

A talk by Glasstire founder and publisher, Rainey Knudson. For more on the talk, go here.

12.06.18 | 12.06.18

"Through rarely exhibited paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs, Early West Texas begins with an overarching view of the region’s landscape, continually narrowing its focus to…

07.01.18 | 11.04.18

A Dia de los Muertos celebration put on by the El Paso Museum of Art. The event includes an altar exhibition, food, workshops and more.

11.01.18 | 11.03.18

An exhibition of monumental paintings by artist Paola Rascón. In these works, Rascón uses Baroque techniques and imagery to memorialize the cholo identity.

07.08.18 | 10.21.18

This exhibition is the fifth such collaboration between EPMA and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (MACJ). The show features 32 artists or collectives living…

06.01.18 | 09.16.18

An exhibition of photographs by Texas artist Richard Baron.

03.02.18 | 06.24.18

An exhibition featuring 65 works on paper by 24 artists. The pieces are from the collection of Cheech Marin.

02.16.18 | 06.17.18

Ethics Excess Extinction explores the crucial theme of endangered animal species and humanity’s connections and responsibilities to these animals.

01.26.18 | 03.13.18

An exhibition featuring house plans and photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright's projects.

10.13.17 | 02.11.18

"OKU | READ is a new installation by Beliz Iristay that develops the artist’s focus on exploring cultural assumptions and mixing techniques. Featuring hundreds of…

03.11.17 | 06.25.17

An exhibition of retablos depicting female saints. The show "celebrates the piety, wisdom, and physical suffering of female saints and also highlights their influence on…

05.15.16 | 11.06.16

An exhibition of works gifted to the museum by El Paso community leader and philanthropist Gertrude Amelia “Sugar” Goodman. The show includes works by Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas,…

06.12.16 | 10.16.16

A solo exhibition by artist Ray Parish. The work in the show is mostly abstract, but draws on issues of environmental tension and military power-struggles.

06.25.16 | 09.11.16

Celebrating Picasso is an exhibition of photographs by American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan. Duncan photographed Picasso from 1956 to 1973, creating an "unparalleled visual record of…

06.25.16 | 09.04.16

An exhibition of works by Mexican artist Sebastian. The show features fifty-five works, focusing on the artist's "quest for new knowledge discovered through his synthesis of…

02.24.16 | 06.05.16

An exhibition assembling four totem-like modernist stone sculptures made between 1971 and 1990 by artists Leonardo Nierman, Ben Woitena, Jill Sablosky, and Jesús Moroles.

07.10.15 | 12.06.15

An exhibition featuring Francisco de Zurbarán’s 17th century painting of the Immaculate Conception and various depictions of Virgin Mary in nearly 19th century Mexican retablos.

07.10.15 | 11.08.15

An exhibition exploring the arresting power of abstraction, featuring a variety of works made between the 1960s and 2000s by artists including Sam Francis, Karel…

07.12.15 | 10.11.15

An exhibition of two paintings by French modernists Robert Delaunay and Albert Gleizes–the third installment of the museum's Modern Masters series featuring works from the…

07.10.15 | 09.25.15

A series of large-scale, realistic portraits of migrant farmers in California, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Texas and Florida, created over ten years by Colorado-based artist Don…

02.22.15 | 06.14.15

Mexico City artist Yoshua Okón’s video piece Pulpo (Octopus) offers an alternative presentation of the Guatemalan Civil War–enacted in a Los Angeles Home Depot parking…

02.22.15 | 06.14.15

The second of EPMA’s “Modern Masters" series features paintings by two leaders of German Expressionism–Kandinsky and Marc–from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

02.13.15 | 05.31.15

A selection of retablos from Northwestern Mexico, collected over decades by Sara and Frank McKnight and later gifted to the El Paso Museum of Art.…

11.30.14 | 05.03.15

What impact did French Impressionism have on the direction of art of the American Southwest? Juxtapose French Impressionist and pre-Impressionist loaner works from the Tacoma…

09.21.14 | 02.01.15

This is the first of six installments in a two-year-long collaboration between the EPMA and the Guggenheim. Each “masterpiece-in-focus” installation of the meta-exhibition Modern Masters…

10.03.14 | 02.01.15

Landscape paintings by the El Paso-based, Siberian native artist.

09.05.14 | 12.07.14

Lake Flato Architects specializes in designs that evolve from an appreciation for the pragmatic solutions of vernacular architecture, the honesty of modernism, and the context…

11.06.14 | 11.06.14

The latest in the series of themed exhibitions from the Museum’s growing collection of retablos is Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Francis of Paola. 

05.11.14 | 11.02.14

In honor of Tom Lea Month, Senior Curator Dr. Patrick Shaw Cable will speak on the ways in which El Paso artist Tom Lea was…

10.16.14 | 10.16.14

Members of the reenactment group Historic Interpretations Inc. of North Carolina will bring to life four artworks from the EPMA. The Reverend Shannon Collis will…

09.27.14 | 09.27.14

With works in a variety of media by artists including Ansel Adams, Gustave Doré, Alexis Rockman and Spencer Tunick, Vanishing Ice considers diverse and stunning…

06.01.14 | 08.24.14

06.01.14 | 08.24.14

An panel discussion on the intersections of art and science. Featuring artists Rachelle Theiwes and Suzi Davidoff along with Nicole Ferrini, founder of the architecture…

07.31.14 | 07.31.14

El Paso Water Utilities presents a discussion about permaculture, or "permanent agriculture" and "permanent culture." Robert Leal, President and Co-Founder of El Paso Permaculture group…

07.19.14 | 07.19.14

Chavarria's acrylic abstractions combine color-field painting and sand mandalas with contemporary LED color and industrial surfaces.

02.23.14 | 06.29.14

In conjunction with the museum’s Gaspar Enríquez retrospective, a smaller exhibition features work by Jiménez, who served as an important role model to Enriquez, from the permanent collection.

02.09.14 | 05.25.14

01.25.14 | 05.11.14

02.27.14 | 02.27.14

Local art collector Juan A. Sandoval II has called El Paso home for more than thirty years; during this time he has developed a diverse…

09.22.13 | 02.17.14

Gathered gradually over twenty-some years Shelton has focused on late Modernist works and the responses to Modernism often referred to as Post-modernism.  

09.20.13 | 02.02.14

Discovering the American Modern 1907-1936: The King Collection is the premiere public presentation of a private collection featuring American Modernist masterworks from the early twentieth…

09.08.13 | 01.05.14

Artists on Art provides local artists an opportunity to exhibit one work of art in any media accompanied by a 30 minute discussion on their…

12.12.13 | 12.12.13

The latest in the series of themed exhibitions from the Museum’s growing collection of retablos is Nuestra Senora Dolorosa/ Our Lady of Sorrows. Established in…

04.28.13 | 11.30.13

Seating is limited to the first 200 people, and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendees receive free admission to Discovering the American Modern 1907-1936:…

10.24.13 | 10.24.13

Contemporary printmaking in Texas from the collection of the  El Paso Museum of Art.

03.31.13 | 09.15.13

Artists on Art, presented by the El Paso Museum of Art provides local artists an opportunity to exhibit one work of art in any media…

09.12.13 | 09.12.13

The El Paso Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez CONACULTA-INBA announce the III Bienal Ciudad Juárez – El Paso Biennial…

06.02.13 | 08.18.13

The El Paso Museum of Art announces the exhibition Impressions East-South-West: Mabel May Woodward. Mabel May Woodward (1877–1945) was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where she began…

06.02.13 | 07.21.13

Desert Weeds Basic Print Making Workshop: Collagraphy is a printmaking process incorporating drawing, painting, and relief techniques. The design is painted, pressed, and transferred onto paper,…

07.13.13 | 07.13.13

The El Paso Museum of Art presents Artists on Art with Christine Foerster. This event is free to the public.

06.20.13 | 06.20.13

Whimsical and surreal visualizations of traditional Chicano proverbs or sayings by the El Paso native printmaker.

01.06.13 | 05.26.13

A new collaboration between the El Paso Museum of Art and the Consulate General of Mexico in El Paso, brings 59 works by Mexican artists…

01.31.13 | 04.28.13

31 works in Texas collections by the most beloved and famous family of American artists—N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and Jamie Wyeth, first displayed at…

01.31.13 | 04.28.13

Saint Joseph occupies the Dorrance and Olga Roderick Gallery: Retablo Niche, part of EPMA's focused, thematic exhibitions from its retablo collection.

12.02.12 | 04.21.13

Tesla explores issues of race, gender, slavery and previous societies by juxtaposing found objects, organic materials with historic or self-authored texts. Continuously challenging the viewer…

02.14.13 | 02.14.13

Easy Companions highlights a poignant and recurring theme in the art of Manuel Carrillo, one of the most important photographers of Mexican life in the…

09.15.12 | 01.07.13

Abstract works which reveal Sagástegui’s singular vision while also suggesting influences as diverse as Cubism, Surrealism, Photorealism, and his own work in caricature.

10.13.12 | 12.30.12

Las Cruces, NM artist Gabriel Luis Perez has a background in electronic music and vaudeville performance.  In 2011 Perez earned his BFA in painting from…

12.13.12 | 12.13.12

Experience the act of sketching in the Tom Lea Gallery with a professional artist as your guide.  From the time he was a boy, Tom…

10.06.12 | 10.31.12

A lecture by Jon Seydl, The Paul J. and Edith Ingalls Vignos, Jr. Curator of European Paintings and Sculpture (1500-1800) at The Cleveland Museum of…

10.11.12 | 10.11.12

Local artists an opportunity to exhibit one work of art in any media accompanied by a 30 minute discussion on their work and its relation…

10.11.12 | 10.11.12

Retablos depicting The Veil of Veronica, a popular subject, related to the story of Saint Veronica as recorded in the Apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus.

04.15.12 | 10.07.12

The El Paso born artist Jake Erlich was and is more widely known for being the tallest man in the world than for being one…

06.10.12 | 09.30.12

Costume designer Edith Head ran Paramount’s Costume Department for over 4 decades and designed many of the iconic costumes worn by Paramount’s biggest stars like…

07.14.12 | 09.11.12

Within the Paramount Pictures Costume Department, the Jewelry Department contained a stock of commercially-made contemporary jewelry exclusively available for film production rentals.

07.14.12 | 09.11.12

Continues the narrative of El Paso art begun in the exhibition Into the Desert Light: Early El Paso Artists 1850-1960.

06.17.12 | 08.26.12

The Swiss Picasso!

03.25.12 | 07.08.12

Presented by new arts advocacy group CommUNITY en Acción, the blockbuster three-in-one show of masterworks from Mexico City contains:  Magnitud Mexicana: Visions of Art; Dibujos…

01.28.12 | 05.27.12

A free lecture by Dr. Karen Cordero Reiman, professor of Art History at the Universidad Iberoamericana and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in conjunction…

05.24.12 | 05.24.12

The inaugural 2011-2012 Architectural Design Lecture Series. Michael Meredith is an Associate Professor at Princeton University’s School of Architecture, and is a principle at MOS…

05.03.12 | 05.03.12

El Paso Photographer Rigoberto De La Mora 's Todo en un dia de trabajo/All in a day's work, 1971 depicts an artist at work in…

04.12.12 | 04.12.12

Taylor’s photographs depict the borderland between El Paso/Juarez and Tijuana/San Diego as a region where guns, governments, dogs, border patrol agents, drug smugglers, and illegal…

10.02.11 | 03.18.12

The 2011-2012 Architectural Design Lecture Series brings emerging Mexican Architect Derek Dellekamp who has gained international attention for his  MXDF Urban Research Center, a think…

02.24.12 | 02.24.12

The inaugural event of the 2011-2012 Architectural Design Lecture Series. Andrea Leers and Jane Weinzapfel formed their architectural partnership in 1982 and have designed things…

02.03.12 | 02.03.12

Screenprints from the Jonathan Rogers, Jr. collection which include images of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, John Wayne, General Custer and others. Tickets are…

09.11.11 | 01.08.12

Original paintings from the collection of Pfizer Inc. by legendary American illustrator Norman Rockwell, created for use in advertising campaigns between 1929 and 1961.

10.01.11 | 12.31.11

Norman Rockwell worked from staged photographs to create his magazine covers (gasp!) These photographs are on view alongside his paintings, drawings, and related tear sheets.…

10.01.11 | 12.31.11

EPMA's Artists on Art series provides local artists an opportunity to exhibit one work of art in any media accompanied by a 30 minute discussion…

12.15.11 | 12.15.11

The City of El Paso Department of Planning and Economic Development in partnership with Texas Tech College of Architecture and the El Paso Museum of…

12.01.11 | 12.01.11

Richard Halpern will explore the darker impulses in Rockwell’s illustrations, which were presented under the guise of innocence. Halpern’s book, Norman Rockwell: The Underside of…

11.10.11 | 11.10.11

Tom Lea lectures, 5:30-7:30 p.m. on October 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2011 in the El Paso Energy Auditorium.

10.06.11 | 10.27.11

El Paso artist Jesus Arturo Gardea gives a 30-minute discussion of his work and its relation to the Museum’s permanent collection.

10.20.11 | 10.20.11

The El Paso Museum of Art participates in The Texas Biennial with its exhibition, Common Language - Punctuating the Landscape. Suzi Davidoff and Rachelle Thiewes…

03.30.11 | 09.25.11

Featuring works by recent Venice Biennale participant, James Drake, the exhibition showcases pieces from the museum's permanent collection. A must-see before it closes in 2011.

08.23.10 | 08.23.11

The exhibition Transforming the Figure: Post WWII Prints investigates the diverse styles that American, Mexican and European artists of the second half of the 20th…

09.26.10 | 03.20.11

Border Art Biennial – Bienal Fronteriza de Arte 2010 is the second juried exhibition at the El Paso Museum of Art that highlights artists from…

11.20.10 | 02.13.11

Hyper-real sculptor, Carole Feuerman has created figurative sculpture, predominantly of women since the 1980’s. Her work is now featured in the exhibition, Earth Water Air…

08.15.10 | 11.07.10

The City of El Paso’s Museums and Cultural Affairs Department in partnership with the El Paso Community Foundation hosts the third annual Chalk-the-Block Public Art…

10.08.10 | 10.10.10

The Holy Family/La Sagrada Familia explores images of the Holy Family from the19th century. This exhibition is a part of EPMA's commitment to present an…

04.18.10 | 10.10.10

This exhibition at The El Paso Museum of Art showcases works on paper by Native American artists by the likes of Gilbert Atencio, Kay B.,…

05.05.10 | 09.19.10

Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry highlights 150 pieces from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Some of the Walters Museum’s greatest masterpieces and hidden…

03.27.10 | 07.25.10

The El Paso Museum of Art presents Lubbock artist Alice Leora Briggs in Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez. Twenty works are exhibited by Briggs…

06.19.10 | 07.19.10

In conjunction with the Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry exhibition, El Paso Museum of Art presents Exhibition in Motion: Contemporary Jewelry Event. Meet current and…

04.22.10 | 04.22.10

The El Paso Museum of Art presents works by artists such as Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Jean-Louis Forain, and Felix-Hilaire Buhot. This exhibition…

01.05.10 | 03.28.10

The El Paso Museum of Art turns 50 this year! In honor of their anniversary the museum presents an exhibition of landscape paintings depicting the…

01.24.10 | 03.14.10

14 retablos are featured from the permanent collection and explores the popularity of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a major religious and cultural icon in…

09.13.09 | 03.07.10

EPMA presents 22 of Said's abstractions created in different media, including painting, photography, blueprints, and charts.

11.08.09 | 01.10.10

This exhibition is comprised of a "print portfolio containing works from 20 artists from various countries including Spain, France, Mexico, Canada and the U.S.A addressing…

03.15.09 | 09.20.09

Manuel G. Acosta: A Retrospective Of His Work - Una Retrospectiva De Su Trabajo, is the largest and most comprehensive retrospective of art by late…

04.05.09 | 06.21.09

The El Paso Museum of Art presents work by one of the 19th century's greatest artists, in the exhibit James Abbott McNeil Whistler; Realism in…

04.05.09 | 06.07.09

The exhibition Blake to Kahlo to Warhol: Masterworks from the Harry Ransom Center brings together American, Mexican, and European masterworks from the Ransom Center’s collection…

11.16.08 | 03.29.09

Pulling from the museum's own collection, Contemporary Prints features late 20th-century American and Mexican prints, including examples by James Drake, Nunik Sauret, Roger Shimomura, Robert…

08.03.08 | 03.12.09

What a great idea! The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) and the Museo de Arte Ciudad Juarez (INBA) are co-hosting the first binational juried…

06.12.08 | 08.24.08

Who knew Dale Chihuly had such an extensive collection of Navajo blankets? Exhibited are 80 blankets and 15 of his own hand-blown glass vessels.

03.09.08 | 05.18.08

Works on paper from the museum's collection given by Phyllis Bounds in 1986.

08.09.07 | 02.03.08

Curated by Katherine Smith, this exhibition showcases a recent gift of oil on copper, tin or canvas retablos given to the Museum by Steven and…

10.07.07 | 01.27.08

Featuring Renaissance and Baroque prints of women from the museum's permanent collection.

08.26.07 | 12.09.07

Love him or hate him, we all live in a Peter Max world.

09.09.07 | 11.19.07

Curated by Christian Gerstheimer.

05.27.07 | 09.30.07

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01.01.70 | 04.29.07