George Longfish This traveling exhibition and accompanying catalog highlights the work of internationally acclaimed contemporary Native American artist, George Longfish (Seneca, Tuscarora). George Longfish was the director of The University of Montana's Graduate Program in American Indian Art from 1972-1973, and was Professor of Historical and Contemporary Native arts at the University of California at Davis from 1973-2003. Longfish was also the director of UC Davis's N. C. Gorman Museum from 1974-1996. Through his roles as educator, curator, and artist, Longfish has contributed immensely to the identity and visibility of the contemporary Native American art movement. Longfish is well known for his mixed media paintings that stress the importance of owning one's cultural information and passing it on to future generations. His works often use humor and irony to address issues of decolonization and Native identity. He is best known for his large, vivid paintings incorporating stenciled text. |
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His work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions including a 2004 exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Longfish has also participated in the exhibitions INDIGENA, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, 1992; Our Land/Our Selves: American Indian Contemporary Artists, State University of New York, Albany (traveling); and Shared Visions, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. This exhibition spans Longfish's career of the past 35 years. A 56 page catalog accompanies the exhibition and will be available for purchase. The catalog will include full color images of all of the exhibition artworks as well as interpretive text by Kate Morris,Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Non-Western and Contemporary Art at Santa Clara University, California. Ms. Morris has published numerous articles on contemporary Native American art and on the incorporation of written text in post-modern painting and installation. MMAC Curator Manuela Well-Off-Man, Ph.D. contributes a foreword discussing Longfish's influence as director of the UM Graduate Program in American Indian Art.
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