Featuring works by Ester Hernandez, Judy Miranda, Eileen Roscina, Louis Trujillo, Ana Mendieta, Jolene Yazzie, Rose B. Simpson, Sierra Montoya Barela, Yreina Cervantez, Jude Sanchez, Alma Trevizo, & Grace Gutierrez. 

This exhibition emphasizes the altar as both a physical & non-physical space for personalized ritual exchange between humans & the divine. By pairing contemporary artists alongside religious ofrendas, retablos, & other iconography from the museum’s collections, the exhibition illustrates the altar’s inherent transcendence of time & space. These new altars reject any singular context, operating as platforms of resistance through which altar-makers reinterpret traditional practices & reclaim power from mainstream institutions.