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Title: Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II (Michael Jackson) Artist: Kehinde Wiley Location: The Guardian Year: 2010 Introduction: Traditional art in western culture has always shown a specific…
Introduction Michele Tuffery’s art, Povi Christkeke (Christchurch Bull) focus on colonialism, global consumption and pacific cultural traditions. Tuffery is a samoan born artist from New Zealand. He is…
Contemporary Indigenous artist John Feodorov works on issues such as colonialism, identity, and the commercialization of Native culture. His mixed-media piece Totem Teddy offers a unique and sometimes…
The Cost of Removal made in 2017, is a modified portrait which critiques American history. Titus Kaphar is a 50 yar old painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and installation artist…
Introduction Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe) is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on Indigenous voice, land sovereignty, and decolonization. Her 1991 sculpture Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother…
Wendy Red Star’s 1880 Crow Peace Delegation is a series of photographs originally taken by a non-Indigenous photographer. Red Star then annotates these photographs in bright red ink;…
Ruins (2020) Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo is a Salvadoran-Canadian artist whose work uses elements from the ancient visual language of the Americas to depict scenes that embody the heavy…
Introduction Fred Wilson was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1954. Although he earned his BFA from SUNY purchase in 1976, he was the only Black student…
Introduction Margaret Nazon is a contemporary Indigenous bead artist from the Gwich’in First Nation in northern Canada. Her work was featured in the exhibition Radical Stitch, one of…
Wangechi Mutu explores themes of feminism in her statue collection “The NewOnes, will free Us.” In this collection she references both Greek architecture as well as African statues…
This is a Cherokee-style single-woven basket called ‘This River Runs Red’, created by Shan Goshorn in 2018, that blends traditional Indigenous craft with contemporary social issues. Goshorn, an…
Introduction Titus Kaphar, born in 1976 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a contemporary American sculptor, painter, and installation artist whose entire practice is grounded in a single compelling tension:…