Past Student Thesis Exhibitions
Stone, Glass, Light, Silk: 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening: April 25, 2025
Exhibition Dates: April 25, 2025-May 10, 2025
Las Cruces, NM– The University Art Museum (UAM) is proud to present Stone, Glass, Light, Silk: 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition featuring work by MFA candidates: Alfred Gyasi, Elham Sabri, Johanna Typaldos, and William Morée.
This exhibition opens Friday, April 25 and will run through May 10, 2025.
Showcasing the culmination of their research and artistic development at New Mexico State University (NMSU), this exhibition highlights a diverse range of materials and media, from ceramic and fabric to photography and jewelry. Through their work, these four artists explore intersecting themes of psychology, identity, and perception offering both personal and global perspectives to their experiences. Celebrate the creativity and dedication of these emerging artists as they present their final thesis projects, a last step in completing their Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees in the Department of Art at NMSU.
“ROOTED - BFA Thesis Exhibition”
OPENS AT THE MULLENNIX BRIDGE GALLERY AND THROUGHOUT DEVASTHALI HALL AT NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY (DEPARTMENT OF ART)
Las Cruces, NM--The NMSU Department of Art and University Art Museum is pleased to announce the 2025 BFA exhibition, ROOTED.
The exhibition will run from April 25, 2025 through May 9, 2025 in the Mullennix Bridge Art Gallery and around Devasthali Hall, the Department of Art at NMSU. Please join us for the artist walk through on Friday, April 25, 2025 at 4:30 pm: Meet us at the Bleacher area in Devasthali Hall or Instagram live @nmsuart and opening as following at 5:30 pm.
Making as Knowing · When I was Here, Thinking of There: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening: May 9th, 2024, 5:30pm
Dates: May 9th- July 20th, 2024
Las Cruces, NM – The University Art Museum is delighted to present the 2024 Master’s of Fine Art thesis exhibition “Making as Knowing · When I was Here, Thinking of There” featuring an installation by MFA candidates: Karly Jean Kainz and Blanca Martinez. This exhibition is set to open on May 9th and will run through July 20th, 2024. In this two-person show, both artists explore ideas of home and personal ritual through repetitive actions tied together through layered connections to place. Viewers will be immersed in a full sensory experience as each artist transforms the space into their perceptions of domesticity.
“Truly, Lovingly, Viciously - BFA Thesis Exhibition”
Las Cruces, NM--The NMSU Department of Art is pleased to announce the 2024 BFA exhibition, Truly, Lovingly, Viciously, featuring the work of Reyes Chavez, Ace Gabrentina, Pamela Herrera-De Los Santos, Eleazar Maslian, Thaddeus McRae, and Trisha Quintero. Truly, Lovingly, Viciously will exhibit works studying the influence of culture, and relationships.
The exhibition will run from April 25th through May 11th, 2024 in the Mullennix Bridge Art Gallery and Serafino Art Gallery, located in Devasthali Hall at NMSU. Please join us for the artist panel talk on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 5:30pm at the Bleacher area in Devasthali Hall and closing reception on Thursday, May 9 at 5:30pm.
Event includes: Panel Talk Thursday, April 25 at 5:30pm, and Closing Reception: Thursday May 9 at 5:30pm
Echoes of an Empty Space: 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 28 – May 20, 2023
Las Cruces, NM-- The University Art Museum (UAM) is proud to present the 2023 Master’s of Fine Art thesis exhibition Echoes of an Empty Space featuring work by MFA candidates: Ashley Diane Saldana, Yashoda Latkar, and Gus.
In Echoes of an Empty Space, Saldana, Latkar, and Gus pull thoughts, ideas, and experiments surrounding connectivity and identity made during their time at NMSU into a singular exhibition. Viewers will have a full sensory experience in the gallery with each artist providing takeaways like the lasting aroma of Latkar’s spice-laden mixed media works to the shiny informational postcards from Gus. Saldana uses her field-based practice to orient herself in spaces of solitude as means of exploring human connection, materiality, and time. Latkar’s multimedia creations are focused on the experience of living in an in-between space, belonging to ‘nowhere,’ and the tension between ‘here’ and ‘there’. Gus challenges the binaries within gender, cultural identity, religion, and queerness through an interdisciplinary practice.
“Epic Coalescence BFA Thesis Exhibition”
OPENS AT THE UNIVERSITY ART DEPARTMENT AT NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY
Las Cruces, NM--The NMSU Department of Art is pleased to announce the 2023 BFA exhibition, Epic Coalescence, featuring the work of Zoe Barnes, Jeffrey P. Colin, Emily Fernandez, Stefanie Gutierrez, Victoria Hubbard, Olivia Juedeman, Amber Martinez, Joseph Reser, and Madelyn Stine. Epic Coalescence will exhibit the relations between identity and environmental narratives.
The 2023 BFA class is utilizing a variety of materials and processes to communicate social themes in environment, identity, family, and mental health. The work presented by the graduating artists challenges viewers to have conversations about their own experiences in these topics and consider their own narratives. Though some topics may be sensitive, these emerging artists discuss such topics in aims to normalize our hardships and differences.
The exhibition will run from April 28th through May 12th, 2023 in the Mullennix Bridge Art Gallery and around the art building, located in the Devasthali Hall at the NMSU. Please join us for the opening reception for Epic Coalescence BFA Thesis Exhibition in conjunction with Echos of an Empty Space: 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition on Friday, April 28th, 2023 from 5:30p.m - 7:30p.m.