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