Graphic for 12th SITE SANTA FE International, Once Within a Time. Design by A Practice for Everyday Life, photos by Bred Trone, 2025
SITE Santa Fe 12th International
Once Within a Time
June 27 2025 – January 12 2026
SITE Santa Fe 12th International
We are thrilled to see the announcement of the participating artists for SITE Santa Fe’s 12th International, Once Within a Time, and we look forward to sharing wonderful moments together with our members in Santa Fe. As this year’s 12th IBA General Assembly (June 30–July 3, 2025), will take place in partnership with SITE Santa Fe, we are excited to have a chance to witness this much anticipated project curated by Cecilia Alemani unfold alongside our gathering of biennial makers. This collaboration underscores SITE Santa Fe’s role as a vital space for the arts in the region and far beyond it while reinforcing IBA’s commitment to fostering dialogue and sharing experiences between biennials globally.
SITE Santa Fe has unveiled its long-awaited 12th International exhibition, Once Within a Time, curated by Cecilia Alemani. Opening on June 27, 2025, and running through January 12, 2026, this edition draws inspiration and borrows its title from the work of acclaimed filmmaker Godfrey Reggio. Reggio’s film Once Within a Time (2022) blends fairytale elements with apocalyptic themes, a conceptual framework that informs the exhibition’s exploration of storytelling, history, and the cultural fabric of New Mexico.
In a first, this iteration of the International will extend beyond SITE SANTA FE to more than a dozen locations across the city. These partner venues comprise cultural institutions such as the New Mexico History Museum including the Palace of the Governors, the Museum of International Folk Art, the New Mexico Military Museum, the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, and the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art, as well as spaces in a local park, a former foundry, empty storefronts, the lounge of a cannabis shop, and more. These locations set the tone for novel dialogues between figures, artists, and places, prompting visitors to explore different corners of Santa Fe.
Conceived as a vast family album, Once Within a Time centers people—specifically, those who have inhabited, traversed, or left their mark upon the Sante Fe region across the centuries. Transcending a singular theme or narrative, the 12th SITE SANTA FE International manifests as a symphony of voices, engaging with the city of Santa Fe and its myriad identities and histories.
Participants list, as of February 18, 2025
Korakrit Arunanondchai (1986, Bangkok, Thailand; lives in New York and Bangkok), Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal) (1898 San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico Territory of the United States (present-day NM)–1955, San Ildefonso Pueblo, NM), Patricia Ayres (1975, New York; lives in New York), Donald Beauregard* (1884, Fillmore, Utah Territory of the United States (present-day UT)–1914, Fillmore, UT), Louise Bonnet (1970, Geneva, Switzerland; lives in Los Angeles), Tejal Boor* (Dates unknown [future], present-day Southeast New Mexico), Willa Cather* (1873, Gore, VA–1947, New York), Autumn Chacon (1987, Corrales, NM; lives in Albuquerque, NM), Ali Cherri (1976, Beirut, Lebanon; lives in Paris), Helen Cordero (1915, Cochiti Pueblo, NM–1994, Santa Fe, NM), Minerva Cuevas (1975, Mexico City, Mexico; lives in Mexico City), Santiago de Paoli (1978, Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives in Stamford, NY), Omari Douglin (1992, New York; lives in New York), Esteban / Estebanico* (c. 1500, sub-Saharan Africa–disappeared 1539, Hawikuh (present-day NM)), The Fire Spirit, archenemy of Zozobra* (Originated by dancer Jacques Cartier and artist Will Shuster, 1933, Santa Fe, NM), Cristina Flores Pescorán (1986, Lima, Peru; lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands), Guillermo Galindo (1960, Mexico City, Mexico; lives in Oakland, CA and Roswell, NM), Ximena Garrido-Lecca (1980, Lima, Peru; lives in Mexico City, Mexico), Maureen Gruben (1963, Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada; lives in Tuktoyaktuk), Raven Halfmoon (1991, Norman, OK; lives in Norman), Frederick Hammersley (1919, Salt Lake City, UT–2009, Albuquerque, NM), Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill (1979, Comox, British Columbia, Canada; lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples), Sky Hopinka (1984, Ferndale, WA; lives in New York), Lilli Hornig* (1921, Aussig, Czechoslovakia (present-day Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic)–2017, Providence, RI), David Horvitz (1980, Los Angeles; lives in Los Angeles), Maryam Hoseini (1988, Tehran, Iran; lives in New York), Archbishop Nitten Ishida* (1901, Hiroshima, Japan–1996, San Francisco), Saodat Ismailova (1981, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; lives in Paris and Tashkent), Claude James* (1919, Nice–1985, Santa Fe, New Mexico United States), Joanna Keane Lopez (1991, Albuquerque, NM; lives in Galisteo, NM), Heechan Kim (1982, Seoul, South Korea; lives in New York), Karla Knight (1958, New York; lives in Redding, CT), Dominique Knowles (1996, Nassau, the Bahamas; lives in Paris), Terran Last Gun (1989, Browning, MT; lives in Santa Fe, NM), Louise Lawler (1947, Bronxville, NY; lives in New York), D. H. Lawrence (1885, Eastwood, England–1930, Vence), Dionne Lee (1988, New York; lives in Columbus, OH), Mire Lee (1988, Seoul, South Korea; lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Seoul), Simone Leigh (1967, Chicago, IL; lives in New York), Candice Lin (1979, Concord, MA; lives in Altadena, CA), Looking Glasses* (Conceived by writer Ted Chiang, 1998), Greg Mac Gregor (1941, La Crosse, WI; lives in Santa Fe, NM), Doña Mala* (Created by artist Gustave Baumann, c. 1940, Santa Fe, NM), La Malinche* (c. 1500, Anahuac (present-day Mexico)–1529, Mexico City, New Spain (present-day Mexico)), Diego Marcon (1985, Busto Arsizio, Italy; lives in Italy), John McCracken (1934, Berkeley, CA–2011, New York), Diego Medina (1993, Las Cruces, NM; lives in Taos, NM), Sidsel Meineche Hansen 1981, Ry, Denmark; lives in Copenhagen, Denmark), Na Mira 1982, Lawrence, KS; lives in Los Angeles), N. Scott Momaday* (1934, Lawton, OK–2024, Santa Fe, NM), Hira Nabi (1987, Lahore, Pakistan; lives in Berlin, Germany), Vladimir Nabokov* (1899, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (present-day Russia)–1977, Montreux, Switzerland), Nora Naranjo-Morse (1953, Kha’P’o Owenge, NM; lives in Kha’P’o Owenge), Chester Nez, and the so-called “Original 29” Navajo Code Talkers* Nez (1921, Chi Chil Tah, NM–2014, Albuquerque, NM), Ni-hual* (2492, present-day Valley of Fires in Carrizozo, NM–death date unknown), Amol K. Patil (1987, Mumbai, India; lives in Mumbai), Agnes Pelton (1881, Stuttgart, Germany–1961, Cathedral City, CA), Florence Miller Pierce (1918, Washington, DC–2007, Albuquerque, NM), Pop Chalee (Merina Lujan) (1906, Castle Gate, UT–1993, Santa Fe, NM), Eliot Porter (1901, Winnetka, IL–1990, Santa Fe, NM), Daisy Quezada Ureña (1990, Anaheim, CA; lives in Santa Fe, NM), Will Rawls (1978, Boston, MA; lives in Los Angeles, CA and New York), Godfrey Reggio (1940, New Orleans, LA; lives in Santa Fe, NM), Maja Ruznic (1983, Brčko, Yugoslavia (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina); lives in Placitas, NM), Rebecca Salsbury James (1891, London, England–1968, Taos, NM), Agnes Scherer (1985, Lohr am Main, Germany; lives in Salzburg, Austria), Francis Schlatter* (1856, Ebersheim, France–1896, Casas Grandes, Mexico), Max Hooper Schneider (1982, Los Angeles, CA; lives in Los Angeles), Marilou Schultz (1954, Leupp, AZ; lives in Mesa, AZ), Katja Seib (1989, Düsseldorf, Germany; lives in Los Angeles, CA), Wael Shawky (1971, Alexandria, Egypt; lives in Alexandria), Penny Siopis (1953, Vryburg, South Africa; lives in Cape Town, South Africa), Luis Tapia 1950, Agua Fría, NM; lives in La Ciénega, NM), Doña Tules (Maria Gertrudis Barceló)* (c. 1800, Sonora, New Spain (present-day Mexico)–1852, Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory of the United States (present-day NM)), Nora Turato (1991, Zagreb, Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia); lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Ultima* (Conceived by writer Rudolfo Anaya, 1972, Albuquerque, NM), Uman (1980, Mogadishu, Somalia; lives in upstate New York), Ana Vaz (1986, Brasília, Brazil; lives in Paris and Brasília), Pablita Velarde (Tse Tsan) (1918, Santa Clara Pueblo, NM–2006, Albuquerque, NM), Gisèle Vienne (1976, Charleville-Mézières, France; lives in Paris), WangShui (1986, Dallas, TX; lives in New York), Charisse Pearlina Weston (1988, Houston, TX; lives in New York), Emmi Whitehorse (1957, Crown Point, NM; lives in Santa Fe, NM), Will Wilson (1969, San Francisco, CA; lives in Santa Fe, NM and Austin, TX), Joseph E. Yoakum (1891, Ash Grove, MO–1972, Rock Island, IL), Norman Zammitt (1931, Toronto, Ontario, Canada–2007, Pasadena, CA), ZHANG Ruyi (1985, Shanghai; lives in Shanghai), ZHANG Yunyao (1985, Shanghai; lives in Paris), ZHANG XU Zhan (1988, Xinzhuang, Taiwan; lives in Xinzhuang),
* = “figure of interest”
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