Events

Artist Talk: Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 5:30 pm
ARTSLab, 131 Pine St. NE

UNM Art Museum Workshop: Thursday, February 19, 2026, 10:00-12:30 pm

Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work traverses the realms of hand-cut paper,
community engagement, performance, and soft sculpture to visualize hybrid identities or histories that
confront the unsettling present. Bui’s hybridized identity as a queer, genderfluid, and Vietnamese
American informs the way they employ beauty as a refuge for fellow marginalized communities. Their
intensive paper-cutting process is exceptionally meditative; each sheet of paper represents an archive of
memories and oral histories, mirroring the intergenerational trauma that so many refugee communities are
faced with. Through their rigorous and reductive process, they deconstruct the white canvas,
metaphorically carving out space for the narratives that are so often omitted from recognized histories.

Bui (b.1992, Bronx, NY) received their BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (2016). Bui
has had recent solo exhibitions at Various Small Fires, Dallas, TX (2024); moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL
(2023); Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA (2020); Laband Art Gallery, LMU, Los Angeles, CA
(2019); Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2018). Recent group exhibitions include Flinn Gallery,
Greenwich, CT (2025); Picker Art Gallery, Hamilton, NY (2025); Portland State University, OR (2024); The
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (2024);
the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC (2023); Artspace, New Haven, CT (2022); Orange
County Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA (2022); the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
(2022); Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (2022); USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
(2021); Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX (2020); Blaffer Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston, TX (2019); and National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. (2019). In early 2026, Bui will present a
solo exhibition at moniquemeloche.

Public collections include the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann
Arbor, MI; New York Historical Society, New York, NY; BMO Harris Bank Corporate Art Collection, Chicago,
IL; Bank of America Art Program, Newark, DE; JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York, NY; Jordan
Schnitzer Family Foundation, Portland, OR; Eaton Workshop, Washington D.C.; Arkansas Museum of Fine
Arts, Little Rock, AR; Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington D.C.; and the Pennsylvania College of Art &
Design, Lancaster, PA. They are a recipient of The Outwin Boochever Prize (2021) and MICA Alumni Grant
(2018). Bui is a fellow of the 2022 Queer|Art|Mentorship program, and has received additional fellowships
from MASS MoCA (forthcoming); Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY (2024); James Castle House, Boise, ID
(2022); Kimmel Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (2022); Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown,
MA (2019); Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2024, 2019); The Growlery, San Francisco, CA (2019); and
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX (2018). Bui lives and works in Chicago, IL.

The Gale Memorial Lecture Series was established in memory of Dr. David Gale and his wife Sylvia whose generosity made the series possible. Since the establishment of the David and Sylvia Gale Endowment in 1993, the Visiting Artist Lecture Series has thrived, and many students have benefitted from the scholarship. Lectures are free and open to the public.

ARTSLab is excited to welcome Stuart Allen to the lab as a special guest speaker on Wednesday March April 4 at 5pm.

Stuart Allen is a visual artist based in Corrales, New Mexico and San Antonio, Texas. He works in a variety of media, from photography to large-scale steel. At the center of his practice are questions about light, time and human perception. Allen’s work has been included in more than 150 exhibitions throughout the U.S. and abroad and is found in dozens of public collections including: four U.S. Embassies, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, and significant museum collections throughout the United States. Allen has completed more than 20 permanent public art projects in California, Texas, Missouri and Ontario, Canada. His work has been covered in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Glasstire and many other journals. Allen studied architecture at Kansas University and graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1993.

This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Doors open at 4:30 PM — seating is first come, first served, so come early to grab a good spot.

ARTSLab is thrilled to welcome Erika Blumenfeld to the lab as a special guest speaker on Thursday April 16 at 5pm.

Erika Blumenfeld (b. 1971, USA) is an artist, researcher, and writer whose transdisciplinary practice explores our material and poetic kinship with the natural world and cosmos. Working as an “ecological archivist,” she collaborates with scientists and institutions—including NASA, Scripps, McDonald Observatory, and SANAP—to create works across digital media, photography, installation, and printmaking. Signature projects include Light Recordings, Tracing Luminaries, The Polar Project, Sky Scrolls, Astromaterials 3D, Encyclopedia of Trajectories, and her bioluminescence and wildfire series. An Emerson Collective, Guggenheim, and Smithsonian Fellow, she has exhibited widely and been featured in outlets such as National Geographic and The New York Times. Blumenfeld holds a BFA from Parsons and an MSc (Distinction) from UCL, has been an artist-in-residence at NASA Johnson Space Center since 2016, lives in Houston, and is represented by Inman Gallery.

This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Doors open at 4:30 PM — seating is first come, first served, so come early to grab a good spot.