About
My practice asks how Indigenous knowledge systems, material traditions, and emerging digital
forms can be held together and interlock. Through this convergence, I seek to create spaces
that honor continuity while challenging narratives of disappearance, silence, or fragmentation.
My work engages both historical and virtual space to examine how reality is shaped through
ancestry, memory, and perception. Through painting and sculpture I explore how the physical
and the immaterial coexist as intertwined forms of physical, spiritual and virtual presence.
Stones, pigments, textiles, and digital interfaces become collaborators that carry knowledge,
memory, and contradiction. I also employ the use of the sticker, rendered image, and gestural
mark-making to create propositions in my work, allowing multiple visual languages to challenge
the stability of representation. By working across these spaces, I acknowledge the histories that
have shaped me while resisting the forms of erasure imposed on Mestizo and North American
Indigenous people and their cultural lineages.
Drawing from Indigenous abstraction, Northern Plains and Northern Mexican cosmologies, the
material intelligence held in survival-based practices, and Western representational image
making. I treat each material and image as holding ancestral and speculative potential. Soil,
stone, and fabric contain memory of their use, while digital fields of light echo spiritual forms of
apparition and transmission. These processes align with Gerald Vizenor’s philosophy of
Survivance and Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of Nepantla, each of which describe states of
presence that exist in tension, transition, and transformation.
I am particularly interested in how virtual and ancestral spaces mirror one another. Both operate
as forms of reality that are not always visible yet remain deeply felt. A carved stone can function
like a screen, and a digital image can hold the weight of ceremony. Each work therefore can
become a site where competing understandings of the real converge.
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Education
2026 MFA, Painting/Printmaking – Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2019 BFA, Painting – University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
2017 AFA & AA – Minnesota State Community and Technical College, Fergus Falls, MN
2022 Additional Study: Business Administration & Dakota Teaching Certificate
Sisseton Wahpeton College, Agency Village, SD
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Land Remembers Us – Wisdom House MLT Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2025 Reclaiming the Ledger – Proctor Academy, Andover, NH
2024 What’s In A Name? – Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
2024 Speaking With Spirits – Austin Artworks Center, Austin, MN.
2022 Pseudonyms – Two Rivers Gallery, Sisseton, SD
2022 Maka: Earth – Freeborn County Arts Initiative, Albert Lea, MN
2022 Conversations With Ancestors – Edge Center for the Arts, Bigfork, MN
2022 Wambdi Oyate Kin – National Eagle Center, Wabasha, MN
2018 A Seat At The Table – Coyote Gallery, Vermillion, SD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Yale MFA Show – James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY.
2026 Soft Landing – 63 Audubon, New Haven, CT
2026 Storybook – Yale Schwarzman Center, New Haven, CT.
2026 Somehow Desire – Yale MFA Thesis Show, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT.
2025 Time Again – Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2024 Feedback Loop – Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2023 Sovereign Santa Fe – Santa Fe, NM
2023 Conveyance – NE Sculpture Gallery Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2023 Arts Advocates Exhibition – Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
2021–22 Wakan Tanka Exhibition – Akta Lakota Museum, Chamberlain, SD
2020 Foresight: 20 Years of Mitakuye Owasin – All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Between Wisdom & Knowledge – Montana Museum of Art, Missoula, MT
2018 Contemporary Native Art Exhibition – Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL.
SELECTED PUBLIC ART & COMMISSIONS
2024–Present Whitestone Hill Monument– Public Monument – North Dakota State Historical . Society, ND. $250,000
2024–Present Written In Stone Monument – Public Stone Marble Monument –
Williams College, Williamstown, MA. $100,000
2024–25 Memory Pile (Living Land Acknowledgement Project) Stone sculpture installation
Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT $25,000
2021–23 Daku Ska Ska: Sacred Movement – Public Stone Monument, Sisseton, SD. $40,000
2021–22 Water Works Public Art Project – Public art commission, Minneapolis, MN $450,000
2022 Sisitunwan Makoce: The Land Divides – Land Art, Agency Village, SD. $10,000
2020–21 We The People (Arts Midwest) Lead Visual Artist, regional public art initiative, MN.
2020 Wanahča Community Mural – Vermillion, SD. $25,000
2020 Message of Hope Public Art Project – Wheaton, MN. $5,000
2019 Euƞkiċitupi Community Mural – Vermillion, SD. $23,000
2018 Nokoomis Nibii Equay (Grandmother Water Woman) University of Minnesota, . Morris, MN. Assistant Artist. $100,000
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
Akta Lakota Museum, Chamberlain, SD
Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribal Art Collection, Agency Village, SD
University of Minnesota Collection, Minneapolis, MN
W. H. Over Museum. Vermillion SD.
University of South Dakota, Vermillion SD.
Private Collections, United States, Canada, Mexico, France.
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Artist in Residence – Wisdom House, Litchfield, CT
2024 Explore America Travel Scholarship
2023 Hinge Arts Residency – Fergus Falls, MN
2022 Rural Regenerator Fellowship
2021 Sisseton Arts Council Artist Residency – Sisseton, SD
2019 John Thompson Artist Traveling Research Fellowship
2018–19 Oscar Howe Curatorial Fellowship – University of South Dakota
2018 Health and Sciences Research Fellowship
2017 Minnesota Historical Society Museum Fellowship – St. Paul, MN
2017 Plains Art Museum Mentorship Fellowship – Fargo, ND
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2025–26 Photography Instructor – Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
2025 Teaching Assistant, Printmaking I – Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2023 Adjunct Art Instructor – Sisseton Wahpeton College, Agency Village, SD
2021–24 Art Instructor – Tiospa Zina Tribal School, Agency Village, SD
2021–23 Mural Facilitator & Sculpture Instructor — Northern Plains Summer Art Institute, . Plains Art Museum, Wahpeton, ND
2017–19 Drawing & Painting Instructor – Oscar Howe Summer Art Institute, University of . South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
2026 Thesis Presentation Talk – Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2026 Mixed Media Cyanotype Workshop – New Haven, CT
2026 Paper Marbling – New Haven, CT
2025 Prairie Plants and Handmade Paper Workshop – Nisto Inc, Sisseton, SD.
2024 Plains Tipi Painting Workshop – Native Inc., Bismarck, ND
2023 Earth-Based Paint Workshop – Sisseton Arts Council, Sisseton SD.
2022 Stone Carving Workshop
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
2022 Owamni Yamni Sacred Site Arts Workshop
Minneapolis, MN
2021 Taku Skan Skan Indigenous Monument Conversation
2019 Inclusive Health Sciences and Diversity Symposium Artist Talk
University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE