Today, issues regarding women’s rights, elders’ protection, and environmental concerns are critical for many North Americans, particularly in the contexts of the #MeToo Movement, the COVID-19 pandemic, and continued fossil fuel extraction. The artists in this exhibition grapple with the specific ways Native communities experience these and other concerns, addressing decolonization efforts, feminine aesthetic traditions, Indigenous ecocriticism, customs of gender fluidity, violence against Native women and Two-Spirit peoples, and Indigenous futurisms.

The breadth of these topics and their historical and contemporary relevance suggest the discursive potential of Native feminisms, taken up by the participating artists in ways that visually vary but uniformly insist on Native survivance.

Native Feminisms showcases the aesthetic richness and political power of artworks produced by contemporary Native North American artists whose practices address intersectional issues of feminisms and indigeneity.

Featuring Work By:

Demian DinéYazhi'

Marcella Ernest

Maria Hupfield

Elizabeth LaPensée

Natani Notah

Sheldon Raymore

Dyani White Hawk

Jolene Nenibah Yazzie

Native Feminisms is a 2020-2021 NYC Open Call exhibition and will be on view at apexart from January 15 - March 6, 2021.

Special virtual tour with curator Elizabeth Hawley will take place on Thursday, January 14, 6pm EST. RSVP here.