Natani Notah is an artist and a proud member of the Navajo Nation. Her current art practice explores contemporary Native American existence through the lens of Indigenous Feminism. Notah has exhibited her work at institutions, such as DOCUMENT Chicago, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (Marin MOCA), Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, Tucson Desert Art Museum, Longmont Museum, apexart NYC, and elsewhere. Notah has received awards from Art Matters, International Sculpture Center, and the San Francisco Foundation. Her work has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Forbes, and Sculpture Magazine and she has completed artist residencies at the Studios at MASS MoCA, Santa Fe Art Institute, Vermont Studio Center, and Grounds for Sculpture. Additionally she has successfully completed artist fellowships with the Headlands Center for the Arts, Kala Art Institute, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Notah holds a BFA with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Cornell University and an MFA from Stanford University. 

Photograph by Melissa Lukenbaugh for the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Cover image courtesy of DOCUMENT.

Current Fellowship:

Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2021-2023), Alumni in Residence (Spring 2024)

Upcoming Solo Exhibition:

Skirmishhh, TUREEN, Dallas, TX (May 25- July 13 , 2024)

Group Exhibition:

Sovereign Futures, We Have Arrived, Territory Indigenous Art, Tulsa, OK (April 4- 7, 2024)

Art Fair:

DALLAS Art Fair 2024 with TUREEN (Dallas, TX, April 4- 7, 2024)

Recent:

FELIX Art Fair 2024, Los Angeles, CA with DOCUMENT (Feb 28- Mar 3, 2024)

Natani Notah: Thoughts on Being Thrown, DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL (Nov 3- Dec 23, 2023)

Current: Shane Darwent, Natani Notah, Elspeth Schulze, Flagship at Tulsa Artist Fellowship (Oct 3- Dec 14, 2023)

Duality: Contemporary Works of Indigenous Artists, Longmont Museum (Jan 28- May 14, 2023)

Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) Embodied Geology Residency (April 2023)

Studios at MASS MoCA Residency (Dec 2022)

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“Notah routinely draws from her identity as a Diné woman in projects that underscore Native histories and cultural continuance. In recent work as well as earlier pieces, her investment in calling attention to the significant role of Diné womanhood intersects with an insistence on accounting for resource extraction on Indigenous lands and the environmental degradation that has ensued.”

Elizabeth S. Hawley for ART IN AMERICA

“In Natani Notah’s haunting Hooked, 2022, a piece of leather enhanced with Native American beadwork is sewn onto a found metal hook, turning a mass-produced symbol of danger and violence into something much stranger, richer, and emotionally complex. The work also asserts the validity and superiority of Native American techniques in contemporary art.”

Jeanne Gerrity for ARTFORUM

“In similarly minimal but potent gestures, Natani Notah reveals troubled and exploitative histories of indigenous peoples in the United States in elegant assemblages like Raring to Go, made with a bike part and horsehair, and Shell-Shocked, a tender, belted bundle comprised of a vintage Four Corners T-shirt, shell beads, fake fur and plastic corn pellets. Gathered together, these cultural signifiers offer a portrait of inheritance, identity and place.”

Kristen Wawruck for SQUARE CYLINDER

“Familial ties are also emphasized in Natani Notah’s Sister, Sister (2018), comprising a shower stool, two skirts (one of them suspended by rope), and a mixing bowl of pinto beans and sunflower seeds. Alluding, through its “missing” bodies, to the ongoing colonial violence against Native American women, the work questions, Notah said in interview, “what it means to hold up, hold onto, and let go of each other simultaneously, across generations and subjectivities.”

Danni Shen for ART IN AMERICA

Current & Previous Institutions Worked With:

Meta Open Arts

Massillon Museum

Kala Art Institute

apexart NYC

NXTHVN

Southern Exposure

Headlands Center for the Arts

Vertmont Studio Center

Mana Contemporary Chicago

The Holland Project

SOMArts Cultural Center

Grounds for Sculpture

Gas Gallery LA

The Chapter House LA

Arion Press

UNLV Donna Beam Gallery

Stanford Art Gallery

Cantor Center for Visual Arts

Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts

Penn State University School of Visual Arts

Berkeley Art Center

Tucson Desert Art Museum

Axis Gallery

International Sculpture Center

Slide Space 123

Root Divison

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ICA San Jose

Jen Tough Gallery

Institute for Diversity in the Arts

Linder Gallery, Keystone College

Tulsa Artist Fellowship

108 Contemporary

BMoCA

Marin MOCA

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