Indigenous Artist

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Education

2020 - MFA in Studio Art | San Francisco Art Institute

2016 - BA in Art Practice with Education Minor | Stanford University

Solo Shows

2019 - Vitality and Vivacity | Schafer Gallery, San Francisco CA 

Within | Spanish Springs Library, Sparks NV

2016 - Annual Native Community Recognition Night | Stanford University

Group Art Shows

2023 - Inherent Memory | IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2021 - Tarsal Metatarsal: Graduate Fellows Exhibition | Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Monsters & Heroes: Political Graphics from the SFPoster Syndicate | San Francisco, CA

Reclamation: Artists’ Books on the Environment | San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA

MFA Revisited (juried) | Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2020 - Bold Expressions International Exhibition 2020 | Northern California Arts Inc., Carmichael, CA

The DeYoung Open (juried) | Deyoung Museum, San Francisco, CA

I-D and Arts Thread Global Design Graduate Show 2020 | ARTS THREAD, Online Due to COVID-19

Tunnels of the Mind | ZAZ Corner, Times Square, New York City, NY

Quarantine Art Gallery Spotlight | Stanford University, Stanford CA

Vernissage MFA Thesis Show | San Francisco Art Institute, Online Due to COVID-19

37th Annual Artists' Book Show | Anne Bremer Memorial Library, San Francisco, CA

Spring Nature Show | SFAI Print Gallery, San Francisco CA

What Lies Between | Schafer Gallery, San Francisco CA

Coalescence | Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco CA

2019 - Assembly | Fort Mason, San Francisco CA 

Murphy and Cadogan Exhibition | SOMArts Center, San Francisco CA

West Wall Opening Exhibition | West Wall Gallery, San Francisco CA

Individual | Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco CA

Arttown | Spanish Springs, NV

36th Annual Artists' Book Show | Anne Bremer Memorial Library, San Francisco, CA

2018 - Open Studios | Fort Mason SFAI, San Francisco CA

With Water We Thrive | Hollander Project, Reno NV

2017 - Tools and Implements When Function Becomes Form | DeYoung Museum, San Francisco CA

Pyramid Lake Alumni Show | Spanish Springs NV

2016 - “Present/Absent” | Stanford University CA

Honors in the Arts Symposium

Senior Arts Gala

“LEAD: What really hurts”

Open Studio Student Shows

Pyramid Lake Alumni Show | Spanish Springs NV

2015 - “LEAD Continued Voices” | Stanford University CA

Open Studio Student Shows

Arttown | Spanish Springs NV

Collections

2022 - Muwekma-Tah-Ruk Collections, Stanford, CA

San Francisco State University Labor Archive, San Francisco, CA

SF Public Library Special Collections, San Francisco, CA

Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA

UC Berkeley Bancroft library, Berkeley, CA

2021 - Ute & Bill Bowes Art & Architecture Library, Stanford, CA

Awards

2021 - Native Knowledge Lecture Grant | University of Washington

2020 - Headlands Graduate Fellowship | Headlands Center for the Arts

Harpo Foundation Fellowship | Vermont Center Studios

2019 - Edwin Anthony and Adalaine Boudreaux Cadogan Award | SOMArts Center

Elizabeth Furber Fellowship | American Indian Graduate Center

2016 - Raina Giese Portrait Award | Stanford University

Honors in the Arts | Stanford Arts Institute   

Work Experience

2021 - Visiting Lecturer | University of Washington

2020 - Painting II Teaching Assistant | San Francisco Art Institute

2016 - Assistant Curator | Stanford University

2015-2014 - Design Intern | Stanford Arts Institute

2014 - Photo Lab Worker | Stanford University

Invited Talks

San Francisco State University. San Francisco, CA. 2022 “Senior Seminar: Visiting Artist” taught by Kevin B. Chen

Stanford University. Stanford, CA. 2020 “Senior Seminar: Visiting Artist” taught by Kevin B. Chen

Community Built Association Conference. San Gregorio, CA. 2020 “The Unnaming Project: Promoting Indigenous Self-Determination in Diego Rivera’s America

San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, CA. 2019 “New Student Orientation: How to Critic”

University of Nevada, Reno. Reno, NV. 2019 ”PODCAST: Community Painting Sesh”

Reviews/Publications

Starbuck, Lucia: “From Strangers To Painters: Artown’s Community Mural.” 2019

State of Native American Youth, Cover, Fall issue 2017

Ritter-Whittle, Mia: “Our Regalia is Our Strength." MINT Magazine Fall 2016, pp 19-25

Institutional Service

Current - 2020 - SF Poster Syndicate

2022 - Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Panelist

Vermont Studio Center Juror

2020-2019 - San Francisco Art Institute Indigenous Cohort

2020-2018 - San Francisco Art Institute Student Alliance Secretary/Treasurer

2016 2015 2014 - Stanford Mother’s Day Powwow Contesting Co-Chair

                            Stanford American Indian Organization