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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