At Smoke the Moon, two exhibitions of contemporary Indigenous artists consider histories of specific geographies and foster a dialogue countering today’s apocalyptic cynicism.
September 10, 2024
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Drawing from his community’s roots in social commentary, Virgil Ortiz crafts a future without limitations, and his epic series Revolt 1680/2180 reaches a climax this fall.
September 06, 2024
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Mallery Quetawki paints cross-cultural translations that help bridge futures between Indigenous communities and science and medical professionals.
September 06, 2024
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
In bold pop culture style, Santa Clara Pueblo artist Jason Garcia envisions Native futures by challenging narratives that have always kept us in the past.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Wills Brewer’s practice is rooted in research and documentation, emphasizing history at its most expansive, geologic scale.
September 06, 2024
While you're in Santa Fe for Indian Market, don't miss these Native arts experiences at Container, Hecho a Mano, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, and beyond.
August 13, 2024
In the first exhibition to explore Harry Fonseca’s expressions of “queerness” through his beloved character Coyote, queer-Indigenous performativity takes center stage.
July 16, 2024
Meet the team behind the Santa Fe-based mural project that brought Jeffrey Gibson's Indigenous, queer dreamland to the Venice Biennale.
July 09, 2024
The Town of Vail and artist Danielle SeeWalker saw very different messages in her painting G is for Genocide, sparking the cancellation of her long-planned residency.
May 17, 2024
This Museum of Northern Arizona exhibition unpacks how the marketing efforts of the Santa Fe Railroad and Fred Harvey Company romanticized and exploited the artistry and culture of Indigenous people.
May 02, 2024
Diné artist, writer, and educator Brendan Basham approaches writing as he does life: as a process of transformation.
April 16, 2024
The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts debuts exhibitions by Greenlandic and Amazonian Indigenous artists whose work narrates threatened worlds deeply rooted in nature.
March 25, 2024
Belonging: Contemporary Native Ceramics from the Southern Plains brings together works by seven artists that range from ceramic vessels to monumental sculptures to installations that radiate outward in space.
March 19, 2024
Experience Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño's solo exhibition in Ogden, Utah. On view through April 21, 2024.
March 06, 2024
Duwawisioma’s (Victor Masayesva Jr.) retrospective exhibition Màatakuyma at Andrew Smith Gallery in Tucson solidifies the Hopi artist’s importance in contemporary photographic and Indigenous artistic discourse.
March 05, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Marlowe Katoney (Diné) draws on personal experience and Navajo, street, and popular culture to create weavings and paintings that defy conventional notions of beauty and Indigenous art.
March 01, 2024
Raven Chacon (Diné) honors matriarchal Indigenous resistance at the Harwood Museum in a unique grouping of visual, video, and sound works that will be shown in New Mexico for the first time.
February 20, 2024
In Interference Patterns at SITE Santa Fe, Nicholas Galanin (Lingít/Unangax̂) stokes rage and reckoning with the dark history and continuing legacies of settler-colonialism.
December 21, 2023
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith provokes conversations about Indigenous peoples and transforms the contemporary art canon with her long-overdue career retrospective.
November 03, 2023
Santa Fe-based George Alexander (Muscogee-Creek) explores contemporary Indigenous culture with imagery that challenges the boundaries of what is considered “Native art.”
October 27, 2023
InterviewOklahomaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Oklahoma-based artist Raven Halfmoon (Caddo) discusses the material and conceptual underpinnings of her large-scale ceramic works.
September 01, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Margarita Paz-Pedro works with adobe, natural clay, and porcelain, interrogating the history of the materials and our understanding of them to create space for new connections and meanings.
September 01, 2023
2023 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
Karma Henry is a Paiute, Italian, and Portuguese artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, whose acrylic paintings consider the landscape as site for both the literal and personal embodiment of place.
May 26, 2023
ReviewArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Substance of Stars at the Heard Museum in Phoenix elevates the sky knowledge and origin stories of four Indigenous peoples.
March 03, 2023
Cannupa Hanska Luger melds past and future in an Amarillo Museum of Art exhibition that pays tribute to millions of massacred Plains bison.
November 28, 2022
Self-Determined: A Contemporary Survey of Native and Indigenous Artists at CCA Santa Fe highlights the work of thirteen artists exploring the present and future of Native and Indigenous art.
November 09, 2022
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Hills Snyder entered the multiple spaces of Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric in daylight, but left in a twilight state.
August 26, 2022
Brenda Kingery (Chickasaw Nation) is a contemporary artist and champion of women’s empowerment around the world, now showing at Glenn Green Galleries in Santa Fe.
August 19, 2022
In Self-Determined at CCA Santa Fe, thirteen Native artists address the environment, mythology, traditions, technology, and more.
August 16, 2022
