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August:

Museum of Contemporary Native Art,

Santa Fe, New Mexico


Steven J. Yazzie’s work is about land, as a place of personal reflection, a framework for Indigenous cultural relevance, and a point of reference to changing politics related to urbanization.

For the exhibition “The Mountain”, Yazzie recognizes place as an entity with multidimensional interpretations and has become an essential location for his creative investigations, as a source of history, knowledge and power. The new installation will include: sculpture, painting, digital photographic prints, and a multichannel video to build experiential entry points into the various narratives associated with the ‘mountain’.  One notable component in the exhibition comprises of a three-channel video ^ (Looking For Tsosido), which explores the narrative of process and journey.  Tsosido, a word with unknown meaning, was Yazzie’s father’s nickname when he was a child. This gap or mystery in his family history has become one point of departure in the larger story in the work. Tsosido therefore functions as a point of personal reference, an evolving polymorphous mythology, containing framework for building a new relationship with personal history in the context of a culturally significant place and the subjectivity of transient action.

LAND    ANIMAL    FIGURE    OBJECT    VIDEO    INSTALLATION    TEXT    STUDIO    BUY    CV/CONTACT 

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SUMMER LINE UP 2013

Extreme Cartography

with Steven Yazzie

 

Artist Steve Yazzie examines the historical roots of a painting style that defines the American landscape,’plein air’. See Yazzie and his transportable box easel in a live art performance, “Extreme Cartography”, between 10 -1130am as he observes and documents different architectural elements of the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.


Join him afterwards as he discusses process and his work from 1130-Noon.   

National Gallery of Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada



I’m excited to be apart of the National Gallery of Canada’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions in its history. With installations filling both floors of our special exhibition spaces as well as our contemporary art galleries—not to mention several public spaces inside and outside the Gallery—Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art is Canada’s must-see exhibition this year...read more