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Exhibitions  

May 1st – June 13th, 2026        Word To Image, Mad Hatter Gallery, Las Cruces, NM

April 10 – May 2, 2026            The Breath Guides the Mark, Casa Otro, Mesilla, NM

Feb 6 – 28, 2026                    ArtForms Member Show, The Hood, Mesilla, NM

Feb. 6 – Feb 15, 2026            Desde el Corazón 2 Border Artists, Casa Otro, NM

Jan 31 – March 22, 2026        Women In Existentialism, Las Damas X Omnihum, Taos, NM

Sept. 13 – Oct. 6, 2025           Border Artists Show, RioBravoFineArt,  Truth or Consequences, NM

May 18, 2025 – May 18, 2026 The Art of Water, Red Bluff Gallery, Red Bluff, California

Feb. 7 – Feb. 16th, 2025          Desde el Corazón, Border Artists, Casa Otro, Mesilla, NM

Sept. 16 – Dec. 13, 2024        Articulations of Land, EPCC Gallery of Fine Art, El Paso, TX

June 27 – July 20, 2024          Breath, Body, Water, La Mecha Contemporary, El Paso, TX      

July 20, 2024  Breath Performance at La Mecha Contemporary

June 22 - July 27, 2024  SURFACE, Emerging Artists of New Mexico  The Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM

Jan 24 - March 25, 2024             Connection: Conjunto: Border Artists, Brannigan Cultural Center,                                                            Las Cruces, NM

Jan. 20 - March 11, 2023 Together Through As Within, curated by Leslie Moody-Castro,                  Department of Art, NMSU, Las Cruces, NM

April 27 - May 20, 2023  Create Something Beautiful, La Mecha Contemporary, El Paso, TX

Sept. 15 - Oct. 20, 2023             NOOBAA 23 | Non-Objective Abstract Art 5th Annual Exhibition,                                          juror, David Reif  

May 13th – June 5, 2022 Gazing Out From Within, Solo Show at AA Studios

March 11th – April 7, 2022 Border Artists, Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico  

Dec. 11th – Dec. 30, 2021 Blue Skies, Border Artists Group show, Dona Ana Arts Council

June 12th – Aug. 15, 2021 Tondo Rotundo, Group show, RioBravoFineArt Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM

Dec. 2nd – Jan. 2, 2020 The Border Artists Winter Exhibition, Group show at the Dona Ana Arts Council, Las Cruces, NM

Nov. 1st – Dec. 22, 2019 The Gift of Art, Group show at Jean Wilkey Gallery, 221 S. Main St., Las Cruces, NM

Aug. 10 – Sept. 22, 2019 The Border Artists Exhibition: 20 Artists From Southern NM, Group show at RioBravoFineArt Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM  

Oct. 13 – Nov. 3rd, 2018  What we Love, Border Artists group show at Glen Cutter Gallery  

Sept. 7 – 29th, 2018  Water in the Pool, Water in the Valley, Solo Show, Unsettled Gallery     Las Cruces, NM  

Oct. 1 – Nov. 26th, 2017  Las Cruces 9, Rio Brava Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM  

July 7 – Sept. 19, 2017  Water, Border Artists group show at the Branigan Cultural Center,

July 2017 through September 2017.      

January 20 – Feb. 10, 2017  Impermanent Topography, NMSU Dept. of Art Faculty Exhibit,      Las Cruces, NM            

September 2016  Tauna Cole     Raul Dorn at Unsettled Gallery    

Nov. 2015-Jan., 2016    Casting Indra’s Net, Moses Lake Museum and Art Center,       Moses Lake, Washington            

May – July 2015   Hear and Now, juried exhibition, Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art          

May – June 2015                NMSU Graduate Students and Faculty Exhibition, Red Dot           Gallery, Santa Fe, NM  

January,  2013   In This Corner, curator, Linda Weintraub, NMSU            Department of Art University Gallery, Las Cruces, NM  88005          

September,  2012            Electrogila, Francis McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art,      Western  New Mexico State University, Silver City, NM.    

October, 2012     Border Tapestry, Chamizal National Memorial Museum, El Paso, TX    

August, 2012    Indra’s Net, Praxis Collective, Las Cruces Art Museum,        Las Cruces, NM           May 2011    The Border Artists Come of Age, Glenn Cutter Gallery,  Las Cruces, NM        

April 2011   Bijou, MVS Studios, Praxis Collective group show.        Las Cruces, NM    

August 2010  Unsettled Gallery, Border Artist Show entitled “Intense Dialogues”,       Las Cruces, NM  February 2009  NMSU Faculty Exhibition, University Gallery, D.C. Williams Art Bldg.,      Las Cruces, NM  88005          

June 2008                        The Border Artists: Painting Across Borders, The Mexican General                                                        Consulate, El Paso, TX 79901        

March 2007  Time for Two Women, Tauna Cole and Connie Mississippi, White Raven Studios, Las Cruces, NM  

February 2007  NMSU Faculty Exhibition, University Gallery, D.C. Williams Art Bldg.,     Las Cruces, NM  88005                

February 2005   NMSU Faculty Exhibition, University Gallery, D.C. Williams Art Bldg.,      Las Cruces, NM  88005                          

Fall 2003  Heaven on Earth, Two-person exhibit with Rachel Stevens and Tauna Cole.  JME Studios, Las Cruces, NM  

January 2003   In the Spaces, Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art and Culture, Las Cruces, NM 88001 January 2003   NMSU Faculty Exhibition 2003, NMSU Art Department, University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, NM        

April 2002  Of Object and Spirit, JME Studios, Las Cruces, NM          

Fall 2000  NMSU Faculty Art show, University Gallery, Las Cruces, NM        

May 1999  COLEGRAYPOORTER, MFA Thesis Exhibition, William’s Hall    University Gallery, Las Cruces, NM          

Fall 1998  Talking Objects, Corbett Center Gallery, Las Cruces, NM    

Spring 1998  The Many Lives of Women, Kent Museum, Las Cruces, NM  Summer 1995  National Small Works, Boise State University Art Gallery, Boise, ID,        

Spring 1992  Contemporary Artists of the Northwest, Boise State University Art Gallery, Boise, ID 

Awards and Accomplishments 

Feb., 2026               1st Place for 2-D, Fluid Stillness, For the Love of Art                                          Artforms Members Group Show          

2025-2026  1st Place for Waterworld, Art of Water, Red Bluff Gallery          

Sept. 2023  Silver Award for Yellow Line, NOOBAA 23 | Non-Objective Abstract      Art 5th Annual Exhibition 3          

Fall, 2016  Awarded a Travel Grant for $1,000 by the College of Arts & Sciences        

June, 2011  Received promotion to Assistant College Professor, Art Department,      New Mexico State University        

May, 2008  Recipient of the NMSU College of Arts and Sciences Mini-Grants for studio research 

2006 - 2008  Served as design advisor for NEH grant written and proposed by Artist, Diana Molina for her project entitled Seven String - Barb Wire Fence     

Recipient of $500 Presidential Enrichment Grant  

2000 – 2003             Served on the board of directors for the Dona Ana Arts Council    

1998 – 1999  Recipient of the Marguerite Loya Pearson Scholarship, $1,000  

1998  Guest Curator, “Many Lives of Women” show, Kent Museum,  New Mexico State University 

Professional Artist  Organizations

 2026  Member of the New Mexico State Committee, National Museum of Women in the Arts     https://newmexicowomeninthearts.org/artist/tauna-cole/      

2016-2017  President of the Border Artists group in Las Cruces for      

Website:  www.borderartists.org 

Public and Private Collections  And Commissions

Hewlett Packard, Boise, ID    

Albertson’s Headquarters, Boise, ID    

Key Bank of Idaho, Boise, ID    

Watercolor commission, St. Alphonsus Hospital    

Portrait commission,

Judge Steven Trott, 9th District Court of Appeals    

Peter and Suzanne Kane, Las Cruces, NM    

Isha Babel, El Paso, TX    

Woody and Susan Woodrow, Austin, TX    

Judy Groves, Las Cruces, NM    

Sherry Doil-Carter, Las Cruces, NM    

Delano and Gayle Lewis, Las Cruces, NM    

Colleen Boyd and Jay Chapman    

Jim and Jane Langell    

Cassandra Lockwood    

David Sorenson    

Alex and Charlie Romero