CURRICULUM VITAE
Exhibitions
2024
“Inyan Wakan”
Solo Exhibition
Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD
2024
“Red Cloud Art Show”
Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, SD
2023
“Dominion”
Solo Exhibition
Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
2023
“Stage Presence”
Milton Avery Graduate School of The Arts, Bard College, Red Hook, NY
2023
“Oglala Lakota College Art Show”
Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City, SD
2022
“Still Standing: Social Commentary in Contemporary Native American Art”
Windgate Museum of Art at Hendrix College, Conway, AK
2022
“Consumption Americana”
Solo Exhibition
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
2023
MFA Fine Arts, Sculpture
Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
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
2024
Sanford Underground Research Facility Artist in Residence
Lead, SD
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
2024 – Present
Rapid City Arts Council
Board Member
Chair of the Exhibitions Committee
Rapid City, SD
2023 – Present
Remember the Children Memorial
Artist Advisory Committee
Rapid City, SD
2021 – 2023
EmpowerEd
Board Member
Rapid City, SD
2021 – 2023
OAYE Lakota Arts Continuum Artist Residency
Core Team Member
Pine Ridge, SD
2017 – 2025
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
2024
Oglala Lakota College Faculty of the Year
2023
Oglala Sioux Tribe Artist Laureate
2023
NDN Collective Changemaker Fellow
2023
Forge Project Scholarship
2023
First Peoples Fund Seeding Cultural Treasures Grant Recipient
2023
Oglala Lakota College Community Service Award
2022
United States Artist Fellow
2021-2023
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