Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology

Alexander Lee (French Polynesia). Photo credit: MoCNA

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 their environments. From Australia, Canada, Greenland, Japan, Pacific Islands, and America, they utilise local and tribal knowledge in Indigenous and contemporary art forms as visual strategies for their provocative artworks.

Native Art and Political Ecology is co-curated by iBiennale Director Dr. Kóan Jeff Baysa (IKT Member); Nuuk Art Museum Director Nivi Christensen (Inuit); Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art Chief Curator 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.

The exhibition was on view at IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico until July 10, 2022. It will travel to the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California where it will be shown from January until June 2023.