CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, M.F.A., 2007
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, B.F.A., 1992
The Art Students League of New York, New York
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Athena LaTocha: Made in Exile, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Athena LaTocha: Mesabi Redux, Human Rights Institute Gallery, Galleries at Kean University, Union, New Jersey
2023-2024
Athena LaTocha: The Past Never Sleeps, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
2023
Athena LaTocha: Small Works, JDJ Tribeca, New York, New York
2022-2023
Athena LaTocha: The Remains of Winter, The Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Athena LaTocha: Mesabi Redux, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2022
Athena LaTocha: Southwest, Gallery 222, Hurleyville, New York
Athena LaTocha, JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, New York
2021-2022
Athena LaTocha: After the Falls, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey
Athena LaTocha: In the Wake of . . ., BRIC House, Brooklyn, New York
2021
Athena LaTocha: Land Disturbed, Olin Art Gallery, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania
2019-2020
Athena LaTocha: Buffalo Prairie (Slow Burn), Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
2019
Athena LaTocha: Mesabi, MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Athena LaTocha, JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, New York
2017
Athena LaTocha: Inside the Forces of Nature, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2015
Athena LaTocha, CUE Art Foundation, New York, New York
2014
In the Beginning, St Ann and the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, New York
New Works, Gallery SENSEI, New York, New York
2006
Sturm und Drang, Lawrence Alloway Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Works in Progress, Lawrence Alloway Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
2003
Recent Work, Terazza Gallery, Elmhurst, New York
1997
Recent Work, Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Geohaptics: Sensing Climate, 516 Arts Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
In Nature's Grasp, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
2023-2024
Art on Paper 2023: The 47th Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
2023
Liveable Worlds, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, Maine
The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Native American Art Now, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, New York
(Un)belonging, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Kindred Spirits, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, New York
Satellite and Sediment, Crowell and West Galleries, Union College, Schenectady, New York
2022
Anthem X, Malin Gallery at Mana Contemporary, Miami, Florida
Heavy, Private Public Gallery, Hudson, New York
2021-2022
Greater New York 2021, MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, New York
Shifting Boundaries, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
The Gift, Aktá Lakota Museum, Chamberlain, South Dakota; South Dakota State Museum, Brookings, South Dakota; Dahl Art Center, Rapid City, South Dakota
2021
Family Business, JDJ Tribeca, New York, New York
Land Escape: Nanette Carter, Athena LaTocha, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Fridman Gallery, Beacon, New York
Aldrich Care Box,The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Land Akin, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York
A stranger's soul is a deep well, Fridman Gallery, New York, New York
In Three: Athena LaTocha, Ulrike Müller, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, New York
2020-2021
ID: Formations of the Self, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, New York
High Visibility: On Location in Rural America and Indian Country, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
Urban Native Artists, Revelation Gallery, New York, New York
2020
Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Iyáchin, Aktá Lakota Museum, Chamberlain, South Dakota
Rituals of Regard and Recollection, Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota
2019
Up Next, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, New York
2018-2019
Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
2018
Landscape: Real and Imagined, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Takuwe (traveling exhibition), The Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, South Dakota; Journey Museum, Rapid City, South Dakota; Aktá Lakota Museum, Chamberlain, South Dakota; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota
Landscape Revisited, Sarah Silberman Art Gallery, Montgomery College, Derwood, Maryland
2017-2018
Tapun Sa Win (traveling exhibition), Journey Museum, Rapid City, South Dakota; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota; Aktá Lakota Museum, Chamberlain, South Dakota
2016-2019
The Horse Nation of the Ochéthi Šakówin (traveling exhibition), The Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, South Dakota; The Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota; The South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota; Aktá Lakota Museum, Chamberlain, South Dakota
2016
Stony Brook: 1973 - 2016, Braircliffe College Gallery, Patchogue, New York
The Other America, Patchogue Art Center, Patchogue, New York
Ars Nova, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
The Great Race, Journey Museum, Rapid City, North Dakota
2015-2018
Lakota Emergence (traveling exhibition), Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota; The South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota; Aktá Lakota Museum, Chamberlain, South Dakota
2015
How to catch eel and grow corn, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, New York
2013
The Old Becomes the New: New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement and the New York School, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, New York
2010
10th Anniversary Show, The New York Society of Etchers, Inc., The National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, New York, New York
The Concours, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, The Art Students League of New York, New York
IN/SIGHT 2010, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, New York
2009
Generations 7, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
PAINT!, climate/gallery, Long Island City, New York
One Way: MFA Alumni Exhibition, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
If I Didn’t Care, Park Gallery, The Park School, Baltimore, Maryland
2008
Red Dot Exhibition, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, The Art Students League of New York, New York
The Concours, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, The Art Students League of New York, New York
2007
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, New York
Art Student Exhibition, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, New York
2007 Best of SUNY, New York State Museum, Albany, New York
2007 SUNY Faculty Senate Student Art Show, College of Optometry, State University of New York, Albany, New York
College Art Association New York Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College MFA Gallery, New York, New York
play it as it lays, Lawrence Alloway Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
MFA Group Thesis Exhibition, University Art Gallery, Staller Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
2006
2006 Fall SUNY Student Exhibit, State University Plaza Gallery, Albany, New York
2005
Art Show: Fine Art Street Galleries, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
3.75 oz., MFA First Year Exhibition, Lawrence Alloway Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
New York Mix, American Indian Community House Gallery, New York, New York
2003
Native Americans, Credit Suisse First Boston, New York, New York
Warriors of the Rainbow, American Indian Community House Gallery, New York, New York
1997
Sacred Art, Juried Exhibition, The International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska
Big Drawings, TOAST Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska
Creative Lives: Women of the Smithsonian, SITES, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia
1996
Singing Our Songs: Women, Art, Healing, American Indian Community House Gallery, New York, New York
1995
New American Paintings, Juried Midwestern Exhibition Edition, The Open Press Studios, Needham, Massachusetts
1994
10,000 Plus, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED AWARDS
2024
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2023
Anonymous Was A Woman Award
Saint-Gaudens Fellowship
2022
Pocantico Prize for Visual Artists, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
2021
National Academy Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting
Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship
2016
Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant
2013
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency
2011
Honorable Mention, The Concours, The Art Students League of New York
2010
Y. G. Srimati Printmaking Scholarship, The Art Students League of New YorK
2008
Jean Gates Award, The Art Students League of New York
2007
Honorable Mention, 2007 Best of SUNY, New York State Museum
2005-2007
W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship, The Graduate School, Stony Brook University
2006
Dorothy L. Pieper Purchase Award, The Graduate School, Stony Brook University
1997
Artist Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
RESIDENCIES
2023
Surf Point Foundation, York, Maine
Naturarchy, SciArt Program, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
2022
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Pocantico Art Center, Tarrytown, New York
2021-2022
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, New York
2021
Barns Art Center, East Fishkill, New York
2020-2021
Silver Art Projects, World Trade Center, New York, New York
2019
Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
2018
Winter Workspace Program, Wave Hill, New York, New York
2017
Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008-2015
chashama, Inc., New York, New York
2013
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Captiva, Florida
1997
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
PERIODICALS
2023
Emproto, Robert. “Art and Soul: A Conversation with Howardena Pindell and Athena LaTocha,” Stony Brook University News, March 24, 2023.
Kuspit, Donald. "Athena LaTocha,” Artforum, April 2023, Reviews, page 169-170.
Nash, Indiana. “On Exhibit: Landscapes as you’ve never seen them, on view at Union,” The Daily Gazette, January 18, 2023.
“Peekskill Artist’s First-Ever Outdoor Installation Showcases Large-Scale Tree Sculptures,” River North Journal, Arts & Culture, January 18, 2023.
2022
Angeleti, Gabriella, Benjamin Sutton and Osman Can Yerebakan. "Some of the must-see exhibitions during Upstate Art Weekend in New York," The Art Newspaper, July 22, 2022, Upstate Art Weekend, Preview.
Embuscado, Rain. “‘We are stepping out and owning the space’: Santa Fe Indian Market’s centennial comes at a pivotal moment for Indigenous artists,” The Art Newspaper, August 31, 2022.
Green, Christopher. "Time Signatures: Athena LaTocha Interviewed by Christopher Green," BOMB, March 02, 2022.
2021
Bishara, Hakim, “92 New York Artists Receive $616,000 in Grants”, Hyperallergic, July 13,2021.
Bury, Louis. “Athena LaTocha Digs Deep into Brooklyn’s Past,” Hyperallergic, December 15, 2021.
Greenberger, Alex. “8 Standout at MoMA PS1’s Greater New York: Passionate Protests, Otherworldly Beings, and More,” ARTnews, October 06, 2021.
Jen. “The Aldrich Care Boxes Featured in Forbes!,” Hamlethub, April 17, 2021.
Lee, Shannon. “8 Artists to Discover at MoMA PS1’s Greater New York 2021,” Artsy, Oct 6, 2021.
Ma, Sophia. “Land Akin at Smack Mellon,” Whitehot Magazine, February 2021.
Marston-Reid, Linda. “Inaugural exhibit at new Beacon gallery features 'conceptual landscapes',” Poughkeepsie Journal, June 04, 2021.
Mitter, Siddhartha. “Her Art Reads the Land in Deep Time,” The New York Times, November 26, 2021, Weekend Art, page C12.
“MoMA PS1 Unveils Artist List for 2021 Greater New York Exhibition,” Artforum International, July 29, 2021.
Rabinowitz, Chloe. BRIC Announce Fall Exhibition ATHENA LATOCHA: IN THE WAKE OF..., Broadway World, July 26, 2021.
Rooney, Alison. “Fridman Expands to Beacon,” The Highlands Current, April 26, 2021.
Schulman, Sandra Hale. “How Collectors Can Support Indigenous and Native American Artists,” Artsy, October 07, 2021.
Shen, Shellenberger. “The First Water is the Body and After the Falls Exhibitions Present Visual Celebration of Indigenous People,” Jersey Arts, November 05, 2021.
“VACNJ’s new exhibitions to focus on work by indigenous artists,” Union News Daily, September 06, 2021.
Walsh, Brienne. "With The Aldrich Care Boxes, A Museum Proposes A Radical New Model," Forbes, March 31, 2021. [ill.][online]
White, Katie. “Editors’ Picks: 8 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Ming Smith’s Air Jordan Project to an Art Advisor’s New Podcast,” Artnet News, June 28, 2021.
2020
Gempel, Natalie. "The Best Virtual Events in Dallas This Weekend: April 16 - April 19," Arts and Entertainment, D Magazine, April 16, 2020.
McManus, Jill. “Urban Native Artists Show at the Revelation Gallery,” WestView News, December 03, 2020.
Moore, Charles. “At 76, Howardena Pindell Is Making Deeply Personal Paintings—and Gaining Overdue Acclaim,” Artsy, February 05, 2020.
Scutari, Mike. “Cultivating ‘Creative Risk-Taking.’ A Look at a Foundation’s Oasis for Artists,” Inside Philanthropy, February 07, 2020.
Westhall, Mark, “25 international artists receive studio space at 4 World Trade Center,” FAD magazine, August 03, 2020. [online]
2019
Green, Christopher. “Beyond Inclusion,” Art in America, February 01, 2019, page 72.
Rooney, Alison. “Flowing Through the Ice House,” The Highlands Current, May 12, 2019.
Sucato, Sabrina. “The Ice House Is the Hidden Hudson Valley Art Center You Need to Visit,” Hudson Valley Magazine, April 24, 2019.
2018
“Fall Preview: The Most Promising Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World,” ARTnews, Fall 2018, page 20.
Hinman, Michael, Simone Johnson, Zak Kostro & Tiffany Moustakas. “The Bronx still beckons with cultural offerings and just plain fun,” The Riverdale Press, October 14, 2018.
Kinder, Kevin. “Contemporary native art serves as focus of new exhibit at Crystal Bridges,” Fayetteville Flyer, October 05, 2018.
McKay, Serenah. “Arkansas museum spotlights American Indians,” Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, October 06, 2018.
Martin, Philip. “No reservations, Crystal Bridges’ ‘Art for a New Understanding’ offers different perspectives on American Indians,” Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, October 21, 2018.
Moustakas, Tiffany. “Artists warm to winter workspace,” The Riverdale Press, March 02, 2018.
2017
Abatemarco, Michael. “MoCNA – Athena LaTocha: ‘Inside the Forces of Nature’,” Pasatiempo, January 27, 2017.
D’Agostino, David. “Environmental Painting as Landscape,” The Woven Tale Press, May 05, 2017.
Eddy, Jordon. Review. “Athena LaTocha: Inside the Forces of Nature,” Art Ltd., May / June 2017, page 31-32.
Lanteri, Michelle. “Athena LaTocha: Inside the Forces of Nature. Santa Fe: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.” First American Art Magazine, Issue 15 (Summer 2017), page 74–76.
2016
Halperin, Julia. “The Florida island that revived Rauschenberg,” The Art Newspaper, December 2, 2016.
Montiel, Anya. “The Monumental Scrapings of Athena LaTocha,” American Indian Magazine, Summer 2016, page 14-17, 19-20.
2015
“How to Catch Eel and Grow Corn,” Wall Street International Magazine, April 01, 2015.
Geiger, Dorian. “Native American Post-Modernism on Display,” Voices of New York. May 12, 2015.
Wong, Ryan. “Exploring the Terrain of Native American Art,” Hyperallergic, May 19, 2015.
2013
Brennan, Patrick. “Manahatta Revisabled: The Old Becomes New: New York Contemporary Native Art Movement and The New York School,” resolve40.com, May 2013.
Pearlman, Ellen. “Everything Old Is New Again: Native Americans and the New York School,” Hyperallergic, April 24, 2013.
2012
Meier, Allison. "GO Sunset Park: An Emerging Art Community," Hyperallergic, September 10, 2012.
2010
Russeth, Andrew. “The Insight from Way Out,” ArtInfo, January 15, 2010.
2007
Cockroft, James. “MFA Thesis Exhibition 2007,” SBGradMag, Stony Brook Online Graduate Magazine, April 12, 2007.
Das, Nanditha. “MFA Thesis 2007,” The Stony Brook Statesman, April 19, 2007.
Hayes, Stephanie. “MFA Thesis Exhibit,” The Stony Brook Press, Volume 28, Issue 12, March 28, 2007, page 24.
Skolnik, Lisa. “An Urban Set Piece.” Chicago Tribune Magazine, July 29, 2007, Section 10, page 23.
“SUNY Chancellor To Award Best of SUNY Student Art,” SUNY News, May 24, 2007.
2006
Cockroft, James. “Athena LaTocha’s Sturm und Drang,” SBGradMag, November 29, 2006.
Howard, Brian C. “Creative Visions: the Contemporary Native Arts Scene,” Native New Yorkers: The American Indian Identity of New York City, 2006.
Romano, Jowy. “Sturm und Drang,” The Stony Brook Press, Volume 28, Issue 5, November 2006, page 19.
2005
Schultz, Natalie. “3.75 oz: MFA First-Year Exhibition,” The Stony Brook Press, May 4, 2005.
1989
Northern Light, St. Lawrence University, Spring 1989, back cover.
BOOKS AND CATALOGS
Athena LaTocha. New York: CUE Art Foundation. 2015.
New American Paintings, Midwestern Exhibition Edition. Needham: The Open Press Studios, 1995.
PAINT!. Long Island City: climate/gallery, 2009.
Besaw, Mindy N., Candice Hopkins, and Manuela Well-Off-Man. Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2018.
BRIC. Athena LaTocha: In the Wake of . . .. Brooklyn: BRIC Arts Media, 2021.
D’Souza, Aruna. "Athena LaTocha: Being In / Being Of.” In Shifting Boundaries, edited by Elisa Phelps and Dorene Red Cloud, 74-87. Indianapolis: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, 2021.
Delaney, Rick. If I Didn’t Care: Multigenerational Artists Discuss Cultural Histories. Baltimore: The Park School of Baltimore, 2009.
Hepworth, Stephen. How to catch eel and grow corn. New York: American Indian Artists Incorporated (AMERINDA), 2015.
Howe, Craig. Takuwe. Martin: CAIRNS, 2018.
_____. Tapun Sa Win. Martin: CAIRNS, 2017.
_____. The Great Race. Martin: CAIRNS, 2016.
_____. Lakota Emergence. Martin: CAIRNS, 2015.
Katrib, Ruba, ed. with Jody Graf. Greater New York 2021. New York: MoMA PS1, 2022.
Martine, David Bunn. No Reservation: New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement. New York: American Indian Artists Incorporated (AMERINDA), 2017.
_____. The Old Becomes the New: New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement and the New York School. New York: American Indian Artists Incorporated (AMERINDA), 2013.
Panzera, Lisa. ID: Formations of the Self. New York: Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 2021.
Santos, Julie Poitras and Sabine Malcolm. Liveable Worlds. Portland: Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art & Design, 2023.
Quick-to-See Smith, Jaune. The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans. Washington: National Gallery of Art, in association with Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford, 2023.
PUBLIC LECTURES / ARTIST TALKS
2023
Artist Talk, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, Maine
Artist Talk, Cooper Union, New York, New York
Distinguished Alumni Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Artists in Conversation: Howardena Pindell and Athena LaTocha, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Artist Talk, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2022
Panelist, The Gift, South Dakota State Museum, Brookings, South Dakota
2021
Conversation with Athena LaTocha and Christopher Green, BRIC House Contemporary Art Programs, Brooklyn, New York
Artist Talk, LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Artist Talk, Department of Art & Design, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Artist Talk, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
2020
Artist Talk, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2019
Artist Talk, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
2018
Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Art Studio Department, University of California, Davis, California
2017
Artist Talk, Art and Design Department, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, New York
Panelist, No Reservation, conversation with Diane Fraher, G. Peter Jemison, David Martine, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Athena LaTocha, Artists Space, New York, New York
2014
Artist Dialog with Curator Harry Weil, In the Beginning, St Ann and the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, New York
2009
Panelist, One Way: MFA Alumni Exhibition, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, New York
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aktá Lakota Museum, Chamberlain, South Dakota
Alaska Native Medical Center Auxiliary, Anchorage, Alaska
Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies, Martin, South Dakota
The Chicago Bulls, Chicago, Illinois
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Forge Project, Taghkanic, New York
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Kenkeleba House New York, New York
Marieluise Hessel Foundation / Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia