Zane Bennett Contemporary Art

Zane Bennett Contemporary Art Zane Bennett Contemporary Art exhibits modern & contemporary masterworks on paper. We are located in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District.

Founded in 2005, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art exhibits editioned artworks by modern and contemporary artists. In our curatorial program, we explore the collaborative, craft-based and egalitarian qualities of printmaking, showcasing artists who use this remarkably accessible medium to tell groundbreaking stories. Our sister collection, form & concept, shows contemporary craft, design and art.

Up close with the work 🔍👁️Declan Galleher carefully reveals the pages of China Marks’s sewn books, where thread, image, ...
05/30/2026

Up close with the work 🔍👁️

Declan Galleher carefully reveals the pages of China Marks’s sewn books, where thread, image, and story unfold together. Experience them in person in “Lucid Perturbations,” on view now.

05/28/2026

Step into "Lucid Perturbations,” on view through 11 July 2026.

China Marks’s sewn works unfold as a richly layered world, where storytelling happens through thread, texture, and time. Both intimate and expansive, these pieces invite you into a universe of humor, mystery, and quiet revelation. Come experience it for yourself.

Do you know what you're doing for market season 👀 Our friends at just released their definitive guide on everything to ...
05/26/2026

Do you know what you're doing for market season 👀 Our friends at just released their definitive guide on everything to see and do this high season. Grab a free copy at the gallery and plan your Southwest summer vacation 🖌 🌅 Plus read about our forthcoming programming and 20 year anniversary in the mag.

"Field Guide" 2026–27, on shelves everywhere.
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Pictured, slide one: "Field Guide" 2026–27 cover. Art by JAKE TRUJILLO | "Ghost Ranch No. 6," 2024. Oil over acrylic on panel, 20 x 16 in. Courtesy of Southwest Contemporary

A full house for our May 16 curator talk on Lucid Perturbations with gallery director Carina Evangelista and artist Pame...
05/26/2026

A full house for our May 16 curator talk on Lucid Perturbations with gallery director Carina Evangelista and artist Pamela Matsuda-Dunn, longtime friend of China Marks. Together, they guided visitors through Marks’s sewn multiverse of allegory, dark humor, and wit—sharing stories of the artist’s life, practice, and the singular vision behind more than 600 sewn tableaux created over two decades.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this special conversation and for spending the afternoon immersed in the extraordinary world of China Marks.

In "Bear’s Dream," China Marks weaves together fragments of story, image, and language to create a richly patterned univ...
05/25/2026

In "Bear’s Dream," China Marks weaves together fragments of story, image, and language to create a richly patterned universe that is at once playful and unsettling.

See this work and many more in "Lucid Perturbations," on view through 11 July 2026.
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Pictured: CHINA MARKS | “Bear’s Dream,” 2011. Fabric, thread, screen-printing ink, fusible adhesive, 35 x 43 1/2 in (88.9 x 110.5 cm). Photo by Dan Dragan, courtesy the artist

Zane Bennett Contemporary Art is pleased to present "Hav-a-Tampa 12” by Sam Gilliam (1933–2022), a pioneering figure in ...
05/23/2026

Zane Bennett Contemporary Art is pleased to present "Hav-a-Tampa 12” by Sam Gilliam (1933–2022), a pioneering figure in postwar American abstraction.

Featuring individually printed and stitched together panels, this print represents Gilliam's boundary-pushing creative practice that moves fluidly between mediums, embracing color, texture, and form in dynamic ways. Swipe to the end for photos taken during the publishing of “Hav-a-Tampa 12."

For more information, please email [email protected].
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Pictured, slides 1–3: SAM GILLIAM | "Hav-a-Tampa 12,” 1995. Color screen print and monoprint with collage on stitched paper, 34 × 28 3/4 in (86.4 × 73 cm). Photo by Marylene Mey, courtesy of Zane Bennett Contemporary Art

Pictured, slides 4–5: Sam Gilliam at Berghoff-Cowden Editions. Photos courtesy Linda Berghoff

“My heart is an impossible machine.”In her sewn books, Marks stitches fragments of language into quietly powerful storie...
05/22/2026

“My heart is an impossible machine.”

In her sewn books, Marks stitches fragments of language into quietly powerful stories. On each page, medium and process merge into something both poetic and tactile.

Experience Marks’s sewn books in "Lucid Perturbations," on view through 11 July 2026.
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Pictured: CHINA MARKS | (Pages 1–7) “First Black Book," 2009. Fabric, thread, sequins, industrial felt, screen-printing ink, Jade glue, polyester batting, fusible adhesive, Beva-Tex, 14 5/8 x 10 1/8 x 1 5/8 in (37.1 x 25.7 x 4 cm) (closed) 14 5/8 x 19 3/4 in (37.1 x 50.2 cm) (opened). Photo by Jeffrey Scott French, courtesy the artist

05/21/2026

Director Carina Evangelista on China Marks’s "Generations" ✨

In this work, two figures face one another: an older woman, poised and adorned with a flamboyant headpiece, and a younger woman in quiet resistance.

“Someday all of this will be yours,” the elder offers.
“What if I don’t want it?” the younger replies.

Above them, Marks writes: “The generations are like sovereign nations, each speaking a private language and worshiping a different god, complicating relations.”

Through wit and poignancy, Marks captures a deeply contemporary tension, questions of inheritance, responsibility, and the future of the planet. And yet, as Carina reminds us, they are still in conversation. That, in itself, is hope.

On view through July 11, 2026. Stop in to experience Lucid Perturbations.

Grateful for our community 💛Thank you to everyone who came out for the grand opening of “Lucid Perturbations,” especiall...
05/20/2026

Grateful for our community 💛

Thank you to everyone who came out for the grand opening of “Lucid Perturbations,” especially our friends at the Santa Fe Art Institute.

If you missed the opening, see it firsthand Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. until 11 July 2026.

Address

435 S Guadalupe Street, Floor 2
Santa Fe, NM
87501

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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+15059828111

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