CV

NATANI NOTAH 

b. San Bernardino, CA

Lives and works in Tulsa, OK

EDUCATION

2018

MFA, Art Practice, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

2014

BFA, Fine Arts with minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

FELLOWSHIPS 

2024

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

2020

Kala Art Institute Fellowship 

2018

Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship

RESIDENCIES 

2023

Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) Artist Residency

2022

Studios at MASS MoCA Artist Residency 

2021

This Will Take Time, Oakland, BIPOC Artist Residency

2020

Djerassi Resident Artist Program (canceled due to COVID 19)

2019

Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency

Headlands Center for the Arts Affiliate Artist Program (2019-2021)

2018

International Sculpture Center x Grounds for Sculpture Artist Residency

 

GRANTS & AWARDS

2020

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant 

Center for Cultural Innovation Grant 

Artists Now Grant via Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The Space Program San Francisco Relief Fund Grant

The Soze Foundation, Artist + Activist Relief Fund Grant

2019

Art Matters Grant

Vermont Studio Center Civil Society Institute Award 

Tosa Studio Award (Nominee) 

2018

International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture  Award

2017

San Francisco Foundation, Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award

Arthur Bridgman Clark Memorial Fund, Stanford University

2014

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award (Finalist)

Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal of Art

2013

Edith Stone & Walter King Memorial Prize

2012

John Kip Brady Prize in Printmaking

2011

David R. Bean Prize Award

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

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

2023

Thoughts on Being Thrown, DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL

2022

Natani Notah: Inner Lining, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), Boulder, CO 

2021

Natani Notah: Normal Force, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA 

2019

Divinely Diné, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION 

2022

Kite & Natani Notah: In the Realm of Miracles, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, OK

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

We Have Arrived, as part of Sovereign Futures, Territory Indigenous Art, Tulsa, OK

2023

Current, Flagship at Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK

Duality: Contemporary Works of Indigenous Artists, Longmont Museum, Longmont, CO

2022

The Potential of Objects, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (Marin MOCA), Novato, CA

Unsettling: A Story of Land Removal and Resistance, Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio

Resonance of Place, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA

2021

AH’-WAH-NEE, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas, NV 

Sea of Fertility, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 

A Joy Unexpected, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 

But When You Come From Water, The Chapter House LA, Online  

Native Feminisms, apexart, New York, NY 

Material Intimacies, NXTHVN, New Haven, CT

2020

In the Meantime, Farhouse Gallery, Pescadero, CA

A Place Beyond, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (canceled due to covid-19) 

Identity, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico (canceled due to covid-19) 

Staying Relevant: Making During Times of Division, Linder Gallery, Keystone College, Factoryville, PA

Custom, Gas Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Art is the Seed: Contemporary Native American Female Art, Tucson Desert Art Museum, Tucson, AZ

2019

The mind is also a landscape, Public Land Gallery, Sacramento, CA

Illuminative, Slide Space 123, Mills College, Oakland, CA

Natani Notah / Mitzi Pederson / Lisa Williamson / Brenna Youngblood, / (slash) gallery, San Francisco, CA

Open Book Show 6, Arion Press, San Francisco, CA

Volcanoes, The Holland Project, HP Galleries, Reno, NV

The Ordinary Instant, HCA Graduate Fellows Exhibition, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

That’s What She Said, Penn State University, School of Visual Arts, University Park, PA

Postcolonial Revenge, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA

Through Her Eye, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, IL

2018

Open Book Show V, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA

New Lands: Popup Exhibition, 1599 Project Space, San Francisco, CA

The Hand That Guides, 302 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA

Bay Area MFA, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA

Urban X Indigenous IV: Unite the Tribes, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

Grid, “Domain”, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Where, here, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, CA

Badlands, O'Donnohue Family Stanford Educational Farm, Stanford, CA

Skirted, A Performance, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

2017

Annual Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, SOMArts Cultural Center, San   

Francisco, CA

Hi-5: The Annual First Year MFA Exhibition, Coulter Art Gallery, Stanford, CA

ART COLLECTIONS

2024

Private Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA 

2023

Montage Health Art Collection, Monterey Bay, CA 

2021

Meta Open Arts, San Francisco, CA 

Cornell Botanic Gardens, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 

2021

Private Art Collection via Southern Exposure’s Annual Art Auction, San Francisco, CA 

Private Art Collection via the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) San Jose’s Annual Art Auction, San Jose, CA 

Private Art Collection, San Francisco, CA 

2020

Kala Art Institute Permanent Collection 

Private Art Collection, Sea Ranch, CA 

Private Art Collection, Oakland, CA

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