CURRICULUM VITAE 

Exhibitions

2022
“Still Standing: Social Commentary in Contemporary Native American Art”
Windgate Museum of Art at Hendrix College, Conway, AK

2022
“Consumption Americana”
Hudgens Center for Art & Learning, Duluth, GA

2022
“Red Cloud Art Show”
Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, SD

2021
“Red Cloud Art Show”
Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, SD

2020
“High Visibility”
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND

2020
“In Plain Sight”
National sky writing art activation addressing U.S. Immigration policies and detention.

2019
“Articles of a Treaty”
Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies & Akta Lakota Museum, Chamberlain, SD

2019
“Native POP: People of the Plains”
Arts Festival, Rapid City, Sd

2019
Red Cloud Art Show”
Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, SD

2019
“Dementia Americana”
LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE

2018
“Tatanka Numpa Owe Okela”
The Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City, SD

2018
“Humble”
Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY

2018
Red Cloud Art Show”
Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, SD

2017 - 2019
Monarchs: Migrations, Inheritance, Transformation, Sovereignty and Resilience in
Brown and Native Contemporary Art”
Traveling Exhibition:

  • Bemis Arts Center, Omaha, NE

  • Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, North Miami FL

  • Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX

  • The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS

2017
Red Cloud Art Show”
Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, SD 

2016
“AHA Festival of Progressive Arts”
Outdoor Festival in the Rail Yard, Santa Fe, NM

2016
“Hands Off My Heritage”
Colorado State University, Duhesa Gallery, Fort Collins, CO 

2016
Red Cloud Art Show”
Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, SD 

2016
Heartburn”
Caldera Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2015
“Selections from The Heritage Center on the Pine Ridge Reservation”
Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE

2015
“Octopus Dreams”
Tobinodai Historic Site Park Museum, Funabashi City, Japan

2014
“Open Studio”
Lucas Reiner Studio, Los Angeles, CA

2014
“Rasmuson Foundatoin Residency Exhibition”
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK

2013
“Octopus Dreams”
516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM.

2013
“Rare Earth”
Red Dot Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.

2012
“Public Poles Installation”
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2012
“50/50: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years”
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM 

2012
Red Cloud Art Show”
Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, SD

2012
“Frank Buffalo Hyde: Ladies and Gentlemen, This is the Buffalo Show”
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2011
“Octopus Dreams”
Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts and the State Museum of Novosirsk, Russia 

2011 – 2012
“Doll: An Intimate Figure”
Tower Gallery, Pojoaque, NM

2011
Red Cloud Art Show”
Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, SD

2011 – 2013
“Making New Traditions”
 A traveling group exhibition:

  • Pine Ridge, SD/ Rapid City, SD

  • Brookings, SD/ Minneapolis, MN 

2010
Red Cloud Art Show”
Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, SD

2010
SWAIA/Humble Collective News Dialogue”
Warehouse 21, Santa Fe, NM

2009
Student/Alumni Art Market”
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2009
Humble Art Collective Musical Circus”
Humble Collective, Santa Fe, NM

2009
Humble Art Collective 8 ½” x 11”
Humble Collective, Santa Fe, NM

2008
Student/Alumni Art Market”
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 

2008
“Erotic Art”
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2006
Red Cloud Art Show”
Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, SD


Education 

2020-Present
MFA Fine Arts
Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
2023 expected graduation

2011
Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, Studio Arts
The Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2007
FOX American Indian Summer Institute
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

2005
ABC/Disney Summer Film Program
The Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2004 – 2007
Journalism
Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD


Residencies 

2019
Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation Artist Residency
Crazy Horse, SD                              

2013
Rasmuson Foundation Artist Residency
Fairbanks, AK

2008
Loyd New Art Mentorship Residency 
Cody, WY


Experience

2017 – Present
Full-time Art Faculty
Oglala Lakota College
Pine Ridge, SD

2016 – 2017
Gallery Manager
Santa Fe Clay
Santa Fe, NM

2009 – 2015
Director of Operations
333 Montezuma Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico

2008 - 2010
Member and Organizer
Humble Collective
Santa Fe, New Mexico


Awards & Grants

2022
United States Artist Fellow

2021-2022
Bard College MFA Scholarship and Fellowship

2019
First Peoples Fund, Artist in Business Leadership Fellow

2018
South Dakota Arts Council, Artist Career Development Grant Recipient.

2016
Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation Continuing Education Grant Recipient.

2007 - 2011
National Endowment For the Arts Scholarship Recipient 

2007 - 2011               Dean’s List