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

Crystal Springs Museum
Eiteljorg Museum, Indiana

Forge Project, New York

Gorman Museum of Native Art, University of California Davis
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

Hyatt Centric Hotel, Portland, OR
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

Walker Youngbird Foundation
Whitman College, Washington

Awards/Grants

2026

Individual Artist Fellowship and Joan Shipley Award, Oregon Art Commission
Mullowney Printmaking Ford Family Residency, Portland, OR

2025

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, New York, NY
Bonnie Bronson Fellowship Visual Artist Fellowship, Portland, OR
Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR

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

To Walk in an Intertwined World, daphe, Quebec, CAN
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

2019
Gather Back, Upfor Gallery, Portland, OR

Fragments and Further Functions, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA

Intricate Forms, (with Sydney Pursel), Ucross Native American Fellowship Exhibition, Ucross, Wyoming
2018
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
2014
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
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

Selected group exhibitions

2026

Mapping Familiar Territories, Charting New Paths, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, Portland, OR

Paper Trails: Unfolding Indigenous Narratives, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

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
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
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
Returns: 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
2021
Meeting Points, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
2020
Not Your Monolith, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Contrasts, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2019
yehaw´, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
Poiesis, Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2018
Morphologies, c3:initiative, Portland, OR
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
2016
Bloom Variation, Featured Objects Program, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2015
Conversations, Eiteljorg Fellows Exhibition, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Glean Exhibition, Disjecta, Portland, OR
Observations and Collections, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, CO
2011
Cumulus, Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008
Endoskeletal and Exoskeletal: Sculptures with Armature, Tower Fine Arts, SUNY Brockport, NY
2005
artObjects:PDX, Portland International Airport, Portland, OR