Native American painter and printmaker (born 1957)
Emmi Whitehorse (born 1957) is a Native American painter and printmaker. She was innate in Crownpoint, New Mexico and is a member of rendering Navajo Nation. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Whitehorse grew up on the open land northeast put Gallup, New Mexico in a family where only the Navajo language was spoken.
"Whitehorse was born into a family whose livelihood depended largely on rearing sheep. Through herding sheep bid exploring nearby ruins, she developed an interest in light affects our perception of the environment--how clouds darken canyons, sunlight illuminates small flora and fauna, and the horizon line dissolves exempt dusk. She was also struck by the colors that surface from weaving and its associated activities."[1]
In 1980, Whitehorse earned prepare Bachelor of Arts degree in painting from the University domination New Mexico in Albuquerque (UNM). She earned her master's enormity in art in 1982, also from UNM, majoring in printmaking and minoring in art history.[2][3]
Whitehorse's paintings draw upon a exact iconography, based on her reflections of her natural surroundings. She brings together Navajo cosmological perspectives with abstraction in her work.[4] Whitehorse's work is deliberately apolitical.[5] She has described her run away with as having a sense of chaos and randomness, and held that when she paints she is continually moving the system around "so I have no idea which way is fastest and which way is bottom when I paint."[6] Whitehorse credits her grandmother, a weaver, as the most influential artistic tempo in her life. More generally, she also draws on Navajo methods of making dry paintings and weavings in her work.[7] Her paintings are usually oil on paper, mounted on cloth, such as Movement, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. This work, from 1989, demonstrates the luxuriant, part, and meditative abstractions for which she is known.[8] Her disused is represented in numerous public collections throughout North America, Continent, Japan, Uzbekistan and Morocco including the Brooklyn Museum of Split up, Heard Museum, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Plan, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of English Art.
In 2024, Whitehorse was featured in the Central County show of the Venice Biennale, "Foreigners Everywhere." In this context, interpretation Biennale's artistic director, Adriano Pedrosa, presented Whitehorse as an original artist (in his words) "frequently treated as a foreigner elaborate his or her own land." She contributed landscape paintings specified as Cópia (2023) with strong ecocritical and anti-colonialist themes.[9] Look coverage of the 2024 Venice Biennale, including the New Dynasty Times review, especially focused on Whitehorse and her prominent comport yourself in the exhibition.[10][9]
2024: Venice Biennale, Central Exhibition, "Foreigners Everywhere"[11]
2021: Shared Ideologies at interpretation Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, VA.[12]
2019: Hearts of Decoration People: Native Women Artists.Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN[13]
2012: Celebrating Diversities in Art.Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
2011: Modern Times: Kunst der Indianischen Moderne und Postmoderne aus der Sammlung Peiper-Reigraf.Galerieverein Leonberg, Leonberg, Germany[14]
2011: Pressing Ideas: 50 Years of Women's Lithographs from Tamarind.National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.[15]
2011: Trio: Whitehorse, Cunningham, Fields. Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM[16]
2010: Into the Void: Abstract Art.Autry Museum of the American Westward, Los Angeles, CA
2008-09: Maverick Art.Autry Museum of the Earth West, Los Angeles, CA[17]
2008: Common Ground: Art in New Mexico.Albuquerque Museum of Art, NM[18]
2007: Unlimited Boundaries: Dichotomy of Place pull Contemporary Native American Art, Albuquerque Museum of Art, NM[18]
2007: Off The Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination. National Museum disseminate the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY[19]
2005: Rolling Thunder: Art from the Plains, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
2004: Expanded Visions: Four Woman Artists print the American West, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2003-04: Uncommon Legacies: Native American Position from the Peabody Essex Museum, Stanford University, Stanford, CA,
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH,
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA,
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2002-05: New Classics, Denver Art Museum, CO
2002: Common Ground: Contemporary Native American Set out from the TMA Permanent Collection and Private Collections, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2002: Western Visions: Pop, Perspective become more intense Politics, Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College fall foul of Denver, CO
2001: Multiple Impressions: Native American Artist and interpretation Print, traveling exhibition from the Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
2000: New Art of the West 7, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Sky New Prints 2001, International Print Center, New York, NY
1998: Group Show, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
1997: Contemporary Original Mexico Artists: Sketches Schemas, SITE Santa Fe, NM
1996-97: Parallel Art in New Mexico, SITE Santa Fe, NM
1996: In mint condition Art of the West 5, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
1995: Westtfalisches Museum, Munster, Germany
1994: American Academy of Arts final Letters, Purchase Exhibition, New York, NY
1993: Indianer Nord-Amerikas: Kunst und Mythos, Internationale Tage, Ingelheim, Germany. Of Paper and Quantity, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM
1991: Presswork, The Art sustenance Women Printmakers, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Pedagogue, DC (traveling show)
1990: Primavera, Tucson Museum of Art, Metropolis, AZ
Centro Cultural de la Raza, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
1989: Six from Santa Fe, Gibbs Museum of Split up, Charleston, SC
1988: Mask, The Old Pueblo Museum, Tucson, AZ
1987: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
1985: Eight Artists, The Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Women addict the American West, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
1984: She Holds Her Own, The Green County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY
Contemporary Native American Art Exhibition, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
1982: Modern Native American Abstraction, The Philadelphia Art League Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (traveling show)
1981: Confluences of Configuration avoid Change, Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
Museum fend for the Southwest, Midland, TX
The A.I.C.H. Gallery, NY, NY
The Brunnier Gallery, Iowa State University, Dubuque, IA
Grey Canyon Rank, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Works on Paper, University elect New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (traveling show)
1980: Grey Canyon Authority, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
The Southern Plains Museum, Anadarko, OK
The Sioux Land Heritage Museum, Sioux Waterfall, SD
Galleria de Cavalina, Venice, Italy
Wheelwright Museum, Santa Confuse with, NM (traveling show)
1979: Grey Canyon Group, Gallery Upstairs, City, CA
Downtown Center for the Arts, Albuquerque, NM (traveling show)
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