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EDUCATION
2005 Bachelors in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics, Minneapolis, MN
1999 – 2000 Institute of American Indian Arts – Studio Arts Program, Santa Fe, NM
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Maamawi, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan
Inaabaandem: He Dreams in a Certain Way, Watermark Art Center, Bemidji, MN
2021
My Grandma and Your Grandma; 6 panel mural installation, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
Manifest’o, Minneapolis / St. Paul International Airport courtesy of MSP Airport Foundation, Location: B Concourse Tunnel Sept. 2021 – Sept. 2023
2019
Suspension of Disbelief, (painting exhibit and film retrospective) Finlandia University Gallery, Hancock, MI
2018
Manifest’o, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
New Heroes from the Old World, MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN
Suspension of Disbelief, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
2017
Peripheral Vignettes, (painting exhibit and film retrospective) Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
2016
The Politics of Dreams: Defying Dilettantism, (painting exhibit and film retrospective) Edge Center for the Arts, Bigfork, MN
Underwater Dreaming Bunnies, Zeitgeist Center for the Arts, Duluth, MN
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2022
McKnight Foundation Fellowship Award for Visual Arts
Jim Denomie Memorial Scholarship
2021
1st Place Prize, Juried exhibit, 63d Arrowhead Regional Biennial at Duluth Art Institute
2020
The Pollock-Krasner-Foundation Grant 2020 – 2021
2019
Tiwahe Foundation Leadership Grant, Minneapolis, MN
2018
Tweed Museum of Art Commission for installation work Manifest’o
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2017
Community and Cultural Partnership Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, Duluth, MN
Best of Class (Music Video Category), Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Class X Moving Images, Santa Fe, NM
2016
Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, Continuing Education Grant, Crazy Horse, SD
Best of Class (Animation), Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Class X Moving Images, Santa Fe, NM
2015
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council Quickstart Grant, Duluth, MN
Best of Class (Animation), Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Class X Moving Images, Santa Fe, NM
Best of Class (Experimental film), Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM Class X Moving Images, Santa Fe, NM
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2021 Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth Campus, Duluth, MN
2020 – 2021 Hennepin Theatre Trust “We Are Still Here”
2018 College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN
2017 All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Master Artist Studio and Residency, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Wakaja Gallery Artist in Residence, Santa Fe, NM
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2014 Sacred Serenity Gallery Artist in Residence, Santa Fe, NM
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
63rd Arrowhead Regional Biennial Exhibit, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
2020
Art of the People, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2019
Hearts of our People, Native Women Artists, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (collaborator)
Transference, Printmakers in Mni Sota Makoce, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
Beyond Borders | Indigenous Invitational, MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN
Long Night of the Floating Shell, 2 artist exhibit, Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center, Duluth, MN
Manifest’o at Northern Spark 2019, Multi-artist public art installation, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2017
Savage Thunder, (2 artist exhibit), All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Now is the Time: Investigating Native Histories and Visions of the Future, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, MoCNA North Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2016
Earth Rise, Washington Gallery, Duluth, MN
Singing Our History, Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2015
Abstractscapes, Washington Gallery, Duluth, MN
Into the Peripheral, Trepanier Hall in Duluth, MN
Wakaja Gallery Opening Exhibit, Wakaja Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2014
Sacred Serenity Group Exhibit 2014, Sacred Serenity Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Washington Gallery Annual Holidays Show, Washington Gallery, Duluth, MN
2013
Artifact Traffic, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2010
This is Displacement: Group traveling show, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2008
Mndn150 Beyond Statehood, Ancient Traders Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
9th Annual American Indian Art Scholarship Exhibit University of Wisconsin-Superior, Kruk Gallery, Superior, Wisconsin
Art-A-Whirl, Northup King Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2007
Time of Five Moons (Summer), Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
8th Annual American Indian Art Scholarship Exhibit, University of Wisconsin-Superior, Kruk Gallery, Superior, Wisconsin
2006
Invisible Spirit, (2 artist exhibit), Augsburg College, Gage Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Land Speaks, Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
7h Annual American Indian Art Scholarship Exhibit, Kruk Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Superior, Wisconsin
Bald Eagle Days, Art fair, QCCA Expo Center, Rock Island, Illinois
2005
Winter Count, Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
No Limits, The Art Institutes International Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2004
Waasa Inaabidaa (We Look In All Directions), The Minneapolis Foundation, IDS Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Legends of Stone and Form, Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2003
Elders Wisdom, Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
No Limits, Art Institute International Minnesota, Minneapolis Minnesota
2002
Art History Exhibit, Art Institute International Minnesota, Minneapolis Minnesota
Digital Warriors Exhibit, Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Juried Student Exhibition, Art Institute International Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Healing Through Art Exhibit, Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
In The Circle Exhibit, Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Art-A-Whirl Art Festival, Northrup King, Northeast Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2000
Student Exhibition, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999
Juried Student Winter Exhibit, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Student Summer Exhibit, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
- American Masters: In The Making “Good Mythology”
- Brenda Child, Gordan Jourdain, Minnesota Historical Society “Bow Wow Pow Wow” Illustrator
- Erica Rivera, City Pages, August 24th 2017
- Mason Riddle, Peripheral Vignettes, Catalog from Duluth Art Institute Solo Exhibit 2017
- Ann Markusen, Herald Review, Grand Rapids, MN 2017
- Michael LeGarde, Native Report, March 30th, 2017
- Lisa Kaczke, Duluth News Tribune article: Dark Humor On Canvas, May 2016
- Brian Barber, Perfect Duluth Day, Selective Focus, May 13th 2016
- Michael LeGarde, Native Report, April 8th 2016
- Ed Newman, Ennyman’s Territory, April 8th, 2016
- Jason Morgan Edwards, Indian Country Today, August 2015
- Moving Poems, June 4, 2015
- Naadamaading, Illustrator for 5 short stories
- Mary Abbe, Star Tribune, December 26th 2008
WORKSHOPS / LECTURES
Mural designer and lead artist in collaboration with College of St. Scholastica community mural projects 2018
Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), The New Museum for Archaic Media: An Evening of Poem Films, with fellow artists Heid Erdrich, Andrea Carlson and Elizabeth Day, 2017
Mural designer for Denfeld High School and Duluth American Indian Education Program, Duluth, MN, 2017
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2016
Painting workshop with youth at Lincoln Park Family and Children’s Collaborative, 2015 through 2016
Workshop at South Ridge High School April 2016: Focus on design of animation
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Mural project for Lincoln Park Family and Children’s Collaborative in Duluth, MN, Fall 2015
Painting project with 24th Street Urban Farm Coalition for the Mashkiikii Gitigan Medicine Garden. 2012
Returning guest artist lectures at Augsburg College, 2003, 2004, 2005
Workshop at Golden Eagles Mentorship Program in Minneapolis 2003
Mural workshop/classes at American Indian Magnet School in St. Paul, 2003