b. b. Cherokee Nation, OK
Education
BFA, General Fine Arts, Pacific Northwest College of Art
BA, Linguistics & English, University of California, Los Angeles
Collections
Arizona State University Museum
Arlene Schnitzer
Collins Foundation, Oregon
Eiteljorg Museum, Indiana
Multnomah County Courthouse, Portland, Oregon
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of the Cherokee, Cherokee, NC
Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, Oregon
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Jordan Schnitzer Print Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Microsoft
Oregon Health Science University
Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Rockefeller Headquarters, New York
United States Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Whitman College, Washington
Awards/Grants
2024
Yucca Valley Material Lab Residency, Yucca Valley, CA
2022
Hallie Ford Fellowship in Visual Arts
Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission & Ford Family Foundation
Potlatch Fund Resiliency Fund Grant
2021
Artist Residency, Township10, Marshall, NC
2020
Nominee - Joan Mitchel Foundation 2020 Painters & Sculpture Grant
Mentor Artist Fellowship, Native Arts and Culture Foundation, Vancouver, WA
Development Residency, (with CKM&A Dance Co), Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer, Troy, NY
2019
Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission & Ford Family Foundation
Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR
Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2018
Ucross Foundation Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists, Clearmont, WY
Signal Fire Outpost Residency, Portland, OR
Bullseye Glass Residency, Portland, OR
Research Residency, Design Collaborator with CKM&A, National Center for Choreography, Akron, Ohio
2017
c3:initiative Pulp & Deckle PaperMaking Residency, Portland, OR
Map(ing) Fellowship Residency, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2016
Visual Arts Fellowship, Native Arts and Culture Foundation, Vancouver, WA
Golden Spot Residency, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR
Diamond Alumni Award, Portland Community College
Individual Artist Project Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2015
Contemporary Native Artist Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indiana
Artist Residency, Glean/Recology, Portland, OR
2013
Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission & Ford Family Foundation
Residency in Sculpture, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Colorado
2008
Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission
2007
Professional Development Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council
Emergency Funds Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art, NY
2005
Individual Artist Project Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
Residency in Sculpture, PNCA, Portland, OR
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
The North Star Changes, Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, OR (forthcoming)
Fragments, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK (forthcoming)
2024
In the Absence of Instruction, Gorman Museum of Native Art, UC Davis, Davis, CA
2023
The North Star Changes, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Making Time, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, OR
2022
Follies of Dominion, Duhesa Gallery, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
What Once Was, with Donna Mintz, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2021
ᎩᎦᎨ x PŌ (Red x Black), with Lehuauakea, NACF Mentor Fellowship Exhibit, Virtual - Upfor Gallery
Working Through, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, OR
2020
Found and Formed, Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Intricate Forms, (with Sydney Pursel), University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Ucross Native American Fellowship Exhibition, Ucross, WY
2018
Recurring Chapters in the Book of Inevitable Outcomes, Armory Theatre, Portland, OR
The Texture of Black, (with Jenene Nagy), Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
2017
Connecting Lines, (with Luzene Hill) Center for Contemporary Native Art, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2016
A Further Gleaning, North View Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2015
Glorious Underbelly, 209 Gallery, Portland OR
Recurring Chapters in the Book of Inevitable Outcomes, Grants Pass Art Museum, Grants Pass, OR
2014
Broken Threads, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
Lines and Forms, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2013
Reiterations and Rifts, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2011
Mechanics of Hither and Yon, Portland International Airport
New Work, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
Drift (with Marlana Hayes), Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, OR
2010
Constrain to Vertical, Doppler PDX, Portland, OR
2007
Slipping into Order: A Glitch in the Phylum, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
Protean Forms: A Performance in 24 Acts, PDX Contemporary Art, Window Project, Portland, OR
2006
Emergent Properties, Portland Modern Window Project, Portland, OR
Offcuts, Tilt Gallery and Project Space, Portland, OR
2005
Biophilia, Manuel Izquierdo Gallery, Portland, OR
Porous Borders, (with Fei Disbrow), Portland Building Installation Space
2004
Recent Work, Yum Gallery, Hood River, OR
2003
Clusters and Strands, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
Strands, Ogle Gallery, Portland, OR
2002
Stirrings of a Mutation, Tualatin Library, Tualatin, OR
Selected group exhibitions
2024
Citizen Fellow: Art as Archive and Memory, Center for Contemporary Native Art, Portland, OR
The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT
2023
Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections, Jordan Schnitzer Museum at Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Marking Resilience: Indigenous North American Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2022
Cherokee Artists in Diaspora, Atlanta Contemporary (Ashley Holland, curator), Atlanta, GA
Where the Waters Come Together, Center for Contemporary Native Art (NACF), Portland, OR
Visualizing Spaces, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, Univ of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN
Glean Retrospective, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Walk in Beauty, Clayton Gallery, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw University, Marrieta, GA
2021
Meeting Points, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Remote Residue, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, OH
2020
Not Your Monolith, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Contrasts, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2019
Gathering, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
yehaw´, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
Crossing Mnisose, Portland Center Stage at the Armory Theatre, Portland, OR
Poiesis, Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Alfred Lambourne Prize Exhibition, Sorenson Community Campus Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2018
cMorphologies, c3:initiative, Portland, OR
Crow’s Shadow-25 Years, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham,WA
Crow’s Shadow-25 Years, WSU Schnitzer Museum, Pullman, WA
2017
Symmetry Breaking, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR
Crow’s Shadow-25 Years, Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, OR
Map(ing) Tenth Anniversary, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Map(ing) Collaborators Exhibition, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Contemporary Prints from Crow’s Shadow, Hoffman Gallery, OCAC, Portland, OR
Bauble, Curtis R. Harley Gallery, USC Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
2016
Presence/Absence, Northwind Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
Printed, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Bloom Variation, Featured Objects Program, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2015
Conversations, Eiteljorg Fellows Exhibition, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Glean Exhibition, Disjecta, Portland, OR
Adaptation, Patricia Rovzar, Seattle, WA
Observations and Collections, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, CO
The Spaces Between, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2013
Waxing Poetic: Five Oregon Encaustic Painters, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2012
This is Now, Dengerink Gallery, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA
Metamorphosis, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Julie Nester Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
2011
Cumulus, Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010
Luminous Layers: Exploring Contemporary Encaustic, Festival of the Arts, Lake Oswego
2009
Sitka Art Invitational, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Portland, OR
SQFT, Blackfish Window Project, Portland, OR
2008
Small Works, J Crist Gallery, Boise, ID
Endoskeletal and Exoskeletal: Sculptures with Armature, Tower Fine Arts, SUNY Brockport, NY
2007
Sameness Difference Stillness Motion, Ogle Gallery, Portland, OR
Renovation Celebration, Manuel Izquierdo Gallery, Portland, OR
2006
In Clover, Mt. Scott Park, Portland, OR
Bestiary, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
Encaustic Media, Center Space Gallery, Portland, OR
2005
Inviting, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
Past Present, Archer Gallery, Vancouver, WA
Birds of all Feather, Beppu Gallery, Pacific City, OR
2004
Wearable Art, FIX Gallery, Portland, OR
artObjects:PDX, Portland International Airport, Portland, OR
Disposable, Reed Art Week, Reed College, Portland, OR
2003
10th Anniversary Show, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2002
Little Things, Disjecta Gallery, Portland, OR