Betty Hahn Exhibitions from 1996 Onward

This page summarises exhibitions featuring Betty Hahn from 1996 to 2018, as recorded in the archived site. Many were group shows built around photography, the American Southwest or alternative processes. See the portfolios page for the work itself.

1996 to 2001

• 1996: George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York.
• 1997: A History of Women Photographers at the Akron Art Museum, and Eye of the Beholder, drawn from the Avon Collection, at the International Center of Photography Midtown in New York.
• 1998: Passing Shots, a travel series, at the University of New Mexico Art Museum; the City Series, covering Taos, Albuquerque and Santa Fe, at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in Iowa.
• 1999: Photography Or Maybe Not, a travelling retrospective, at the Mikhailovsky Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2000: The same retrospective reached Santa Fe de Granada in Spain, and 20/20, a show of twentieth-century photographic acquisitions by twenty patrons, ran at the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico.
• 2001: In the Eyes of the Beholder, ten photographers’ views of Albuquerque, at the University of New Mexico Hospital.

2002 to 2009

• 2002: Sun Works, a survey of contemporary alternative photography, at the Art Institute of Boston, plus Flowers from the Permanent Collection at the Albuquerque Museum.
• 2004 and 2005: a thirtieth-anniversary collection show and a further exhibition at the New Mexico State University Art Gallery in Las Cruces; Ace in the Hole, honouring the legacy of Peter Walch, at the University of New Mexico’s art museum.
• 2006: The Collectible Moment, photographs from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and The Social Lens at the University of Virginia Art Museum.
• 2007: Seeing Ourselves, a touring survey of American photography organised by the George Eastman House.
• 2008: Flower Power: a Subversive Botanical at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe; a display at the Bernalillo County Arts Board Gallery in Albuquerque; Giving Shelter at 516 Arts; and a three-person show with Joyce Neimanas and Judith Golden at the Harwood Art Center.
• 2009: Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe at the Palace of the Governors, and Altered Land: Photography in the 1970’s at the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska.

2010 to 2015

• 2010: Sole Mates, a cowboy-boot and art show at the New Mexico Museum of Art; Rock Scissors Paper at Anderson Contemporary Arts; Recollection 2010 at the Vida Ellison Gallery in Denver.
• 2012: 60 From the 60’s, a selection of influential photographs, at the George Eastman House, and the Albuquerque Now seasonal shows at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History.
• 2013: It’s About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico.
• 2014: Alternative Lineage, honouring five decades of mentoring in alternative processes, shown at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel and at Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University; Transformational Imagemaking, curated by Robert Hirsch, at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo; a Museum Project display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica; and showings at the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center and the Hubbard Museum of the American West in Ruidoso.
• 2015: One-Of-A-Kind, unique photographic objects from the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson; Unconfined, on women and art, in Albuquerque; Visualizing Albuquerque at the Albuquerque Museum; Healing…For the Time Being at the UNM Hospital gallery; and the AIPAD Photography Show in New York.

2016 to 2018

• 2016: Transformational Imagemaking toured to Muhlenberg College and the Rochester Institute of Technology; 60 from the 60’s reached the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls; Transcendent Photography paired Hahn with Patrick Nagatani in Albuquerque. Other 2016 shows were Look Inside at the University of Texas Ransom Center, Light Works at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, After Modernism, Beyond the Medium in Santa Fe, and A History of Photography at the George Eastman Museum.
• 2017: The Carved Line: Block Printing in New Mexico at the Albuquerque Museum, and Beyond Georgia & Agnes, which featured ten lesser-known women artists, at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
• 2018: Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs: The Extended Moment at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and Women with Vision at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia.

For the museums that own her prints, see the museum collections page.