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May 2013
Stands with a Fist: Contemporary Native Women Artists
Stands with a Fist is a multi-disciplinary art exhibition that is a unique platform for cultivating, celebrating, and declaring a continual presence of visual expression created by contemporary Native women artists. The exhibition demonstrates the ways that women boldly fit into, redefine, or turn upside down the usual categories of art and art-making, while re-interpreting and drawing from their rich cultural heritage. Collectively, their work expresses a unique Indigenous relationship to the land, contemporary worldview, and sense of obligation to their culture.
Find out more »August 2013
Cannupa Hanska Luger Stereotype: Misconceptions of the Native American
“Native American” is an umbrella term for the Indigenous population of North America. This term, being so broad, has allowed for many external interpretations, from anthropologists to Hollywood directors, to define who Native Americans are. The reality of the matter is that the continent of North America is vast, with environmental and cultural complexity that ranges from arctic tundra to semi-tropic wetlands. These lands contain culturally rich and autonomous societies that bare very little resemblance to one another over such…
Find out more »Jacob Meders: Divided Lines
In the exhibition Divided Lines, artist Jacob Meders examines the complex misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples in North American artistic depictions prevalent in 15th and 16th century European society. By incorporating an aesthetic that emulates historic woodcuts, Meders’ panoramic installation toys with the idea of assimilation, reimagining figures with a likeness to Indigenous and western European cultures as one body. Divided Lines challenges the perceived superiority of European identity and society shaped from a Western artistic tradition that has been maintained…
Find out more »Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3/Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast—Selected Works
Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3/Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast, Selected Works concludes a cycle of landmark exhibitions conceived and organized to present a comprehensive and in-depth cross section of innovative and groundbreaking work by contemporary Indigenous artists. These creative individuals express a new vitality and spirit of experimentation in Native art, often embracing tradition while moving forward and looking towards the future. The original exhibition, comprising more than 100 works by 85 Native artists…
Find out more »January 2014
ARTiculations in Print—David Sloan T’ah Aniiłtso Yéé’bii’ Neiikai (Endangered Species)
David Sloan’s installation of monoprints include silkscreened images of endangered species with their Diné names over lithograph reproductions of old 1970’s Navajo Times newspaper ads. Sloan’s conscious intentions compare and contrast eco-philosophies of American consumer culture with traditional Diné world perspective. The disparity of the animal images on top of the propaganda style-like advertisements promoting consumerism to the Diné people back in the 1960’s and 70’s is meant to question the value of assimilation of Indigenous people and their knowledge…
Find out more »ARTiculations in Print—Prints from the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts
A selection of prints from the Crow’s Shadow Press signifies the ever-growing portfolio of prints produced over a 20-year period since the founding of the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts located in Pendleton, Oregon. The exhibition encompasses the work of many outstanding artists of diverse backgrounds and media, and includes Rick Bartow, Wendy Red Star, John Feodorov, Lillian Pitt, Truman Lowe, Corwin Clairmont, Marie Watt, and Whitney Minthorn, among others working in collaboration with Crow’s Shadow Master Printer Frank…
Find out more »ARTiculations in Print—Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013)
Internationally renowned graphic artist Kenojuak Ashevak (b. 1927) passed away in 2013 at the age of 85. While we mourn the loss of one of the most significant Inuit artists of the modern era, she leaves behind an unparalleled artistic legacy in prints and drawings created over 50 years of uninterrupted production. The selection of works from the Edward J. Guarino Collection highlight the diversity of Ashevak’s print practices and the development of her iconic style over a long and…
Find out more »August 2014
Ric Gendron—Rattlebone
MoCNA hosts a traveling exhibition of the paintings and related works of Spokane artist Ric Gendron (pronounced zhan-drea), a dual-enrolled member of the Arrow Lakes Band of Confederated Tribes of the Colville and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla. Gendron is little-known established artist, and the exhibition and monograph Rattlebone feature more that 30 years of his vibrantly expressionistic and lyrical paintings and prints. His paintings and mixed-media works illustrate the rich and diverse visual vocabulary of traditional Upper Columbia…
Find out more »January 2015
Dark Light: The Ceramics of Christine Nofchissey McHorse
Dark Light is the first traveling exhibition of this groundbreaking Navajo (Diné) artist. McHorse, a first-generation potter, is considered among the most innovative artists working today creating vessel-based art that is undecorated and abstract, with formal qualities indebted more to modern sculpture than to Southwestern culture. With the urge to transgress and blur the boundaries between pottery and sculpture, in 1996 McHorse decided to leave utility and tradition behind and pursue shapes that had been haunting her for some time.…
Find out more »August 2018
Meeting the Clouds Halfway: Terrol Dew Johnson and Aranda\Lasch
Meeting the Clouds Halfway is a collaboration between Tohono O’odham basket weaver Terrol Dew Johnson and architects Aranda\Lasch (Ben Aranda and Chris Lasch) from Tucson and New York. The exhibition features contemporary basketry and architecture that blend traditional craft with modern design.
Find out more »January 2019
Art for a New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now
Art for a New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now seeks to expand and reposition art in the U.S. and Canada since 1950. It is the first exhibition to chart the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada.
Find out more »Art for a New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now—Opening Reception
Art for a New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now seeks to expand and reposition art in the U.S. and Canada since 1950. It is the first exhibition to chart the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada.
Find out more »August 2019
Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art
Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art presents thought provoking, experimental, and critical works by fifteen established and emerging artists whose art confirms a strong continuation of Chickasaw art practices.
Find out more »Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art—Opening Reception
Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art presents thought provoking, experimental, and critical works by fifteen established and emerging artists whose art confirms a strong continuation of Chickasaw art practices.
Find out more »Gallery Session: Tour with Visual Voices Contemporary Chickasaw Artists
Join us for a gallery tour of Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art artists Kristen Dorsey, Brenda Kingery, and Dustin Mater.
Find out more »February 2020
Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/Present/Future
Indigenous Futurisms highlights artworks that present the future from a Native perspective, and illustrates the use of cosmology and science as part of tribal oral history and ways of life.
Find out more »Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/Present/Future—Reception
Indigenous Futurisms highlights artworks that present the future from a Native perspective, and illustrates the use of cosmology and science as part of tribal oral history and ways of life.
Find out more »January 2021
The Moving Land: 60+ Years of Art by Linda Lomahaftewa
This exhibition gathers together more than sixty years of Linda Lomahaftewa’s (Hopi/Choctaw) ’65 artistic production.
Find out more »August 2021
Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology
Exposure documents international Indigenous artists’ responses to the impacts of nuclear testing, nuclear accidents, and uranium mining on Native peoples and the environment.
Find out more »August 2022
Art of Indigenous Fashion
The Art of Indigenous Fashion offers insights into the approaches and perspectives of Indigenous designers beyond the visual and material qualities of their work.
Find out more »February 2023
Rick Rivet: Journeys, Mounds and the Metaphysical
Rick Rivet: Journeys, Mounds and the Metaphysical includes more than twenty of Rick Rivet’s (Sahtu-Métis) most iconic artworks from the past 30 years.
Find out more »Rick Rivet: Journeys, Mounds and the Metaphysical—Opening Reception
Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, February 10, 5–7 pm, to celebrate our newest exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA).
Find out more »August 2023
The Art of Jean LaMarr
The Art of Jean LaMarr features Jean LaMarr’s colorful and seductive yet hard-hitting satirical artworks challenging long-held cultural stereotypes and preconceptions about Native American people and cultures.
Find out more »The Art of Jean LaMarr—Opening Reception
The Art of Jean LaMarr features Jean LaMarr’s colorful and seductive yet hard-hitting satirical artworks challenging long-held cultural stereotypes and preconceptions about Native American people and cultures.
Find out more »February 2024
MoCNA Artist Talk: Inuk Silis Høegh
Please join us for a conversation with MoCNA’s Chief Curator Manuela Well-Off-Man and Inuk Silis Høegh (Danish-Kalaallit).
Find out more »Inuk Silis Høegh: Arctic Vertigo
Inuk Silis Høegh: Arctic Vertigo analyzes the Inuit artist’s experimental and interdisciplinary art practices, while challenging stereotypes and addressing environmental issues.
Find out more »2024 Winter Exhibitions—Opening Reception
The public opening will take place February 2 from 5–7 pm, with a special member-only preview with light hors d’oeuvres and spirits from 4–5 pm.
Find out more »March 2024
The Art of Jean LaMarr—Virtual Exhibition
The Art of Jean LaMarr features Jean LaMarr’s colorful and seductive yet hard-hitting satirical artworks challenging long-held cultural stereotypes and preconceptions about Native American people and cultures.
Find out more »Rick Rivet: Journeys, Mounds and the Metaphysical, 2022–2023 IAIA BFA Exhibition: Beyond Reflections, and Inherent Memory—Virtual Exhibition
Rick Rivet: Journeys, Mounds and the Metaphysical includes more than twenty of Rick Rivet’s (Sahtu-Métis) most iconic artworks from the past 30 years.
Find out more »Art of Indigenous Fashion, Matrilineal: Legacies of Our Mothers, and Athena LaTocha: Mesabi Redux—Virtual Exhibition
The Art of Indigenous Fashion offers insights into the approaches and perspectives of Indigenous designers beyond the visual and material qualities of their work.
Find out more »August 2024
Arctic Highways: Unbounded Indigenous People
The traveling exhibition Arctic Highways features 12 Indigenous artists from Sápmi (cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people) and North America, sharing stories of Indigenous people who live on different continents yet regard themselves as kindred spirits.
Find out more »2024 Summer Exhibitions—Opening Reception
The public opening will take place August 16 from 5–7 pm, with a special member-only preview with light hors d’oeuvres and spirits from 4–5 pm.
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