The Santa Fe Gallery Association includes the finest art galleries and dealers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, known for high standards of ethics, eyes for excellence, and love for the arts. Our members offer a breadth of traditional and contemporary art by established and emerging artists working in New Mexico, across the country, and around the world.
THE CITY DIFFERENT
With a population of 85,000, Santa Fe is home to more than 200 galleries, museums, and private art dealers. Here, you’ll find an amazing breadth of art and antiquities.
Seeking a suit of Samurai armor? Or perhaps Native American Pop Art? Contemporary Pueblo pottery? Or classic New Mexico landscape paintings? Drypoint etchings by Edvard Munch and Pablo Picasso? Or maybe hand-blown glass? On any given day, it’s all in Santa Fe.
Visitors say they come here for the same things locals live for: warm golden sunlight, inspiring broad blue skies, and adobe architecture give the City Different a one-of-a-kind sense of place. Lonely Planet called Santa Fe “a place that makes its own rules without ever forgetting its long and storied past. . . Santa Fe is also synonymous with contemporary chic, thanks to its thriving art market, gourmet restaurants, great museums, upscale spas, and world-class opera.” People also come here for the people. Native Americans from 23 tribes and pueblos, New Age transplants, Spanish families, second-lifers (read: retirees reinventing themselves) from both coasts, visiting and relocated filmmakers—all add up to a creative class fueling a New Mexico arts-and-cultural sector that’s larger than the construction and manufacturing industries here combined. And it makes Santa Fe a great place to be.
