Group Exhibitions

2023
With the Grain
, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM

2022
The Printer’s Proof: Artist and Printer Collaborations, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM

2021
Go West Said A Small Voice: Gustave Baumann and Dreams of New Mexico
, New Mexico Museum of Art,  Santa Fe, NM

2021
Santo Lowride: Norteño Car Culture and the Santo Tradition
, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM

2020
Folk Art Road Trip: Travels with Modernism’s Utility Infielder
, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

2019
Vista
, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL

2019
Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico
, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM

2017
The High Art of Riding Low: Ranflas, Corazón e Inspiración
, Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2017
The World in New Mexico/New Mexico in the World
, Governor’s Gallery, State Capitol, Santa Fe, NM

2016
Con Cariño: Artists Inspired by Lowriders
, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM

2015
La Muerte Niña: Day of the Dead Exhibition
, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL

2014
Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience
, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM

2014
New Art/New Mexico
, Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH

2013
The Arts: Grounded in Region, Second Triennial of International Kogei in Kanazawa
, Twenty-First Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

2013
Art of the West
, Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA

2012
It’s About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico
, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM

2012
Wooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico
, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM

2008
Maverick Art
, Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA

2008
Three New Mexican Innovators: Celso Gallegos, Horacio Valdez and Luis Tapia
, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Santa Fe, NM

2008
Santeros
, De Paul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL

2007
Out West: The Great American Landscape
, Meridian International Center, Washington, DC, and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing

2004
Voces y Visiones
, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

2003
Re-Presenting Representation VI
, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, with the Rockwell Museum of  Western Art, Corning, NY

2002
¡Ahora! New Mexican Hispanic Art
, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM

2002
Conexiones: Connections in Spanish Colonial Art
, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Santa Fe, NM

2001
Voices from Our Communities,
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

2000
Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
, El Paso Museum of Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art, Oakland Museum

2000
La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the US
, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM

2000
Con Sentimiento desde Nuevo México
, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, Museo de América, Madrid, Spain

2000
New Art of the West
7, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN

1999
The Saint Makers: Contemporary y Santeros
, Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Owensboro, KY

1998
Reencuentro de Tres Culturas,
Museo de América, Madrid, Spain

1994
Crafting Devotions: Tradition in Contemporary New Mexico Santos
, Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA

1992
Chispas! Cultural Warriors of New Mexico,
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

1992
Ventanas Visiones Culturales
, Plains Art Museum, Moorhead, MN

1987
Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors
, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Solo Exhibitions

2017 - 2018
Luis Tapia: Sculpture as Sanctuary, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL

2017
Luis Tapia: Cada mente es un mundo, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA