Artist Resume

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Gallery Representation:

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Great Basin Native Artists Gallery

Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum

Carson City, Nevada​

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EDUCATION:

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2009  Bachelor of Fine Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

 

2000   Bachelor of Science, Psychology/Fine Arts, Portland State University,

           Portland, OR

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Solo Exhibitions:

 

2024 Basket Memory, University of Nevada, Tahoe

2021 Our Place in Space, The Gallery, Reno, Nevada

2020 Travois, digital exhibition, Kansas City, Missouri

2019 Translating Paiute, LXS Series, Carson City, NV

2015 Absolute Paiute, Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno, NV

2015 Numu (Paiute), UNR Artspace, Reno, NV

2014 The Basket Series, Metro Gallery, McKinley Arts, Reno, NV

2012 Willow and Bone, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM

2007 New Work, Underground Gallery of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2006 Dimensions, McKinley Arts and Culture Center, Reno, NV

2006 Paa’a (water),Lloyd Kiva New Gallery, MOCNA, Santa Fe, NM

2003 NDN PERSPECTIVISM,Under One Sky: Contemporary Artists of the Great    

         Basin, Nevada State Museum, Carson City, NV

2001 Then and Now, Installation for Gallery 299, Portland State University,

          Portland, OR

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

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2024    The Land Carries our Ancestors, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT

             Basket Memory,  Great Basin Native Artists Gallery, Carson City, NV

             Momím Wené Medicine Water, Folsom Lake College, CA 

 

2023    Inherent Memory, IAIA MoCNA, Santa Fe, NM

           The Land Carries our Ancestors, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

           Here Now and Always, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM

           Grand Reopening exhibition, Gorman Museum, Davis, California

           Between Earth and Sky, Metro Gallery, City Hall, Reno, Nevada

           It Started with Willows, Western Nevada College, Carson City, Nevada

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2022     Connection II: Indigenous Art of the Great Basin

            Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Cultural Center, Bishop, California

            The First Lady Presents, Governor’s Mansion, Carson City, NV

            Heart to Heart, Nevada Humanities, Las Vegas, NV

            We Remember Your Sacrifices, SISCCM, Reno-Tahoe Airport

 

2021    Connection I: Indigenous Art of the Great Basin,

            Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Cultural Center, Bishop, California

            AW-Wah-Nee, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV

             After the Burn, Center Street Gallery, Placerville, CA

             Inheritance, SISCCM, Great Basin Native Artists Gallery, Carson City, NV

            Tribal Perspectives, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

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2020    Indigenous Voices of the Great Basin, Great Basin Native Artists Gallery

            Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum, Carson City, NV

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            Multiple Horizons, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

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2019    Stories from the Land, Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS

            Modern Traditions, American Indian Center, Chicago, IL

            Great Basin Exhibition, Raven Makes Gallery, Sisters, OR

            INTERTWINED: Basketry and Beyond, Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno, NV

            Indigenous Voices of the Great Basin, Reno-Tahoe International Airport, Reno, NV

            Connected, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA

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2004 – 2018   SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market participant

2004 – 2017   Heard Museum Guild Indian Market participant

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2018   Voice, Maidu Museum & Cultural Center, Roseville, CA

           Great Basin Native Artists, Metro Gallery, City Hall, Reno, NV

            Connected, Lolmen Gallery, Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Placerville, CA

               

2017  Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art,

          Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

          Contemporary Indigenous Women Painters, C.N. Gorman Museum, U.C. Davis, CA

          Great Basin Native Artists, Carson City Visitors Bureau, Carson City, NV

          INTERWOVEN, Maidu Museum and Cultural Site, Roseville, CA

 

2016   Autry Museum, Native Art Market, Los Angeles, CA

           Great Basin Native Artists, Sparks Museum, Sparks, NV

           Group show, Museum of the Plains Indian, Browning, MT

          

 2015   F word show, GBNA group show, Potentialist Gallery, Reno, NV

           Great Basin Native Artists, Maidu Museum, Roseville, CA

           Reflections on Pyramid Lake, UNR Knowledge Center, Reno, NV

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2014   Salutations, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

            Great Basin Native Artists, Pyramid Lake Museum, NV

            Red Cloud Indian Art Show, Pine Ridge, SD

            Abstract Abstract, 1Spot Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

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2013   My Land, Winterowd Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

           Trail of Tears, Cherokee Heritage Center, OK

           Red Cloud Indian Art Show, Pine Ridge, SD

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2012   The Way We Live, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

           IAIA Art show and Sale, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

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1994 - 2011 exhibition list available on request

 

Permanent Collections:

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Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA

LaFonda Hotel, Santa Fe, NM

Lilley Museum, University of Nevada, Reno

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

Nevada State Museum, Carson City, NV

Reno/Sparks Indian Colony, Reno, NV

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Phoenix, AZ

School for Advanced Research (IARC), Santa Fe, NM

Shingle Springs Rancheria, Placerville, Ca

Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C.

Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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• Tactile Abstraction, Double Scoop, Chris Lanier, April 2024

• It Started with Willows, Double Scoop, October 2023

• Artist profile, The Final Word, Nevada Magazine, spring 2022

• Creating Space for Indigenous Art, NV Independent, Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, August, 2021

• Artist talk, Double Scoop, podcast, episode 12, October 2021​

• Making Meaning: Indigenous Communities and the Strength of Storytelling, Federation of State Humanities Councils,  Episode 6, 2019

• Art Effects, video series, LXS Exhibit, KNPB, Reno, NV, 2019

• First American Art Magazine, Great Basin Native Artists, Jean Merz-Edwards, Fall 2018

• SFMOMA Podcast, Raw Material, Landfall Episode 4: Bewilderment, 2018 

• Native Arts, Santa Fean Magazine, Art Profile by Chelsea Herr, August 2017

• Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

• Collective of Native Artists Shows Range of Art, Sparks Tribune article, February 26, 2016 by Gina Lauer

• Making Arts Vital, Reno Gazette Journal, June 2015, written by Jenny Cane

• News from Native California Magazine, Profile on Melissa Melero-Moose, August 2015

• Reno News and Review, Native Aesthetic, by Ashley Hennefer, December11, 2014

• First American Art Magazine, Artist Profile by Jean Merz-Edwards, Fall 2014, Pg.38

• Native Peoples Magazine, All Things Considered: Native Artists Embrace an Eco-Art  Movement with a More Sustainable Footprint by Ellen Watkins, August 2013, pg. 140-141

• Reno Gazette Journal, Rich Stories Color Nevada Museum of Art Exhibit by Geralda Miller, December, 2012

 

GRANTS/AWARDS:

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2020 - Joan Mitchell Foundation, NYC, NY, Painter and Sculptor Grant

2020 - Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM, Research Fellow

2019 - Nevada Museum of Art,  Peter S. Poole Fellowship

2018 - SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, Best of Division B, 1st place

2018 - Nevada Museum of Art, Peter S. Poole Fellowship

2017 – SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, second place, painting

2016 – Nevada Arts Council, Professional Development Grant

2016 – SWAIA Discovery Artist Fellowship

2016 – First Place, painting, SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market

2016 – Autry Museum, First place, painting

2015 – School for Advanced Research, Dubin Native Arts Fellowship

2015 – First Place, painting, SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market

2014 – Nevada Arts Council, Jackpot Art Grant, 

2012 – Wheelwright Museum, Native American Woman Artist Fellowship

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