Jess spent three years focusing her art and research on the Hermit’s Peak / Calf Canyon fires.

She completed her MFA thesis exhibition, Found in the Overflow, a site-specific show at the Dwan Light Sanctuary. She was featured in Southwest Contemporary’s Volume 11 issue, The Hyperlocal, and has exhibited nationally and in Wales, UK. She was a selected artist for Art Chicago and an Artist in Residence at the United World College of the American West.

Jess completed her MFA at the University of New Mexico and currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).

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EDUCATION

2025 | MFA in Studio Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 

2016 | User Experience (UX) Design Certificate, General Assembly, San Francisco, CA

2009 | BFA in Studio Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

GRANTS & RESIDENCIES

2024 | Center for Regional Studies Graduate Fellowship, University of New Mexico, NM

2019 | Artist in Residence, United World College - USA, Montezuma, NM 

TALKS & LECTURES

2026

Panelist, “Found in the overflow.” Shared Terrain - Art, Law & Ecology, University of New Mexico School of Law, NM

Panelist, “Slow Connections.” Shimmer - Vibrant Art/Science of New Mexico, Peterson Gallery, St Johns College, Santa Fe, NM

2025

Artist talk, “Found in the overflow.” ARTSLab, University of New Mexico, NM

Artist talk, “Personal Work.” At First Site, 6th St Studio, Albuquerque, NM

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

2025

Haven Lindsey, “TAAC: Creativity unbound by limitation at the Stables Gallery,”  Taos News,
October 28, 2025, taosnews.com/tempo/arts/taac-creativity-unbound-by-limitation-at -the- stables -gallery/article_1f94dce9-e77b-5a59-899d-23a8b7e53c79.html

Natalie Hegert, “The Hyperlocal: Jess Lanham,”  Southwest Contemporary, Volume: 11,
March 7, 2025, southwestcontemporary.com/jess-lanham  

2015

Bo McGee,  “Aspect Framing's Owner Says Goodbye With Final Gallery Show,” Hoodline,  July 9, 2015, hoodline.com/2015/07/aspect-framing-s-owner-says-goodbye-with-final-gallery-show/

2014

Camas, Winter 2014, camasmagazine.org/archives

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 | Found in the overflow - MFA Thesis, Dwan Light Sanctuary, Montezuma, NM

2019 | Drifting Ruins,  Ramon’s Tailor, San Francisco, CA

2015 | What We May Find,  Aspect Gallery & Framing,  San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

Shimmer - Vibrant Art/Science of New Mexico, Peterson Gallery, St Johns College, Santa Fe, NM

2025

Taos Abstract Artist Collective 4th Annual Fall Exhibition,  Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM

Windows into the Future by Shared.Futures, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM

2024

Howl, Mattox Sculpture Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

something tender from it all, Las Vegas City Arts Council, Las Vegas, NM 

swimming in it, Juried Exhibition, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM

Light Revival, 6th St Studio, Albuquerque

2023

Double Take, John Summers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

Connective Tissue: Juried Exhibition, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM

Ephemerality, Juried Exhibition,  Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2022

Art & Ecology Garden Project, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM

At First Site, 6th St Studio, Albuquerque

2021

Scapes and Scope: ​Visions of the Land, Sea and Urban Space - Juried,
Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA

2015 | Group 140, Gallery 140, Las Vegas, NM

2014 | Spring Board,  30 Guerrero, San Francisco, CA

2012 | Interim Show,  United World College - USA, Montezuma, NM

2009

BFA Final Show,  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Third Arm - Juried, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

Brick by Brick,  Belmont Gallery, Chicago, IL