From Shadow and Light to the Vladem’s terraces and Window Box Project, these internationally celebrated artists will leave a mark and should be on your artists-to-explore checklist.

Nancy Holt (1938–2014): A Massachusetts native who moved to Galisteo in the mid-1990s after the death of her husband, artist Robert Smithson, Holt was a force within the conceptual- and land-art movements. Her largest pieces require the viewer to put in some legwork while contemplating notions of earth and sky. See this: Mirrors of Light II, 1974, 10 mirrors and a 650-watt quartz light, produced while she was working on her most well-known work, Sun Tunnels, in Utah’s Great Basin Desert

Angela Ellsworth (born in 1964): Raised as a Mormon, Ellsworth identifies as queer and uses sculpture, drawing, installation, and performance to address gender roles, spirituality, and mysticism. In her Pantaloncini series, the art professor at Arizona State University turns traditional Mormon undergarments into sculptures via thickets of pearl-topped pins that cast a sense of sparkling beauty on the outside. Seen from within, they pose more prickly questions about history, identity and religious repression. See this: Pantaloncini Double Untitled (Agnes), 2019, 42,648 pearl corsage pins, colored dress pins, fabric, steel