Image: Kunmanara Queama and Hilda Moodoo, Destruction I, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas.
Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology documents international Indigenous artists’ responses to the impacts of nuclear testing, nuclear accidents, and uranium mining on Native peoples and the environment. The traveling exhibition and catalog give artists a voice to address the long-term effects of these man-made disasters on Indigenous communities in the United States and around the world. Indigenous artists from Australia, Canada, Greenland, Japan, Pacific Islands, and the United States utilize local and tribal knowledge, as well as Indigenous and contemporary art forms as visual strategies for their thought-provoking artworks.
Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology is co-curated by iBiennale Director Dr. Kóan Jeff Baysa; Nuuk Art Museum Director Nivi Christensen (Inuit); Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art Chief curator and Vice Director Satomi Igarashi; Art Gallery of New South Wales Assistant Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Erin Vink (Ngiyampaa), independent curator Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation), and MoCNA Chief Curator Manuela Well-Off-Man.
Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology is organized by IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
Australian artists:
APY Art Collective Artists
(Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara/Luritja)
Betty Muffler (Pitjantjatjara)
Gunybi Ganambarr (Yolngu)
Hilda Moodoo (Pitjantjatjara)
Kunmanara Queama (Pitjantjatjara)
Karrika Belle Davidson (Pitjantjatjara)
Yhonnie Scarce (Kokatha/Nukunu)
Adrian Stimson (Blackfoot)
Bonnie Devine (Anishinaabe/Ojibwa)
Venues and Dates:
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
20 August 2021 – 10 July 2022
Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
10 September – 10 December, 2022
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California, USA
27 January – 11 June, 2023
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan, USA
Aug – Nov 2023
SOURCE: Institute of American Indian Arts.