SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Aáni yéi xat duwasáakw (I am called Land), MassArt Art Museum, Boston, MA
2024 The persistence of Land claims in a climate of change, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Seletega (run, see if people are coming/corre a ver si viene gente), Faena Art, Miami Beach, FL
Exist in the Width of a Knife's Edge, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
'kʼidéin yéi jeené (You're doing such a good job)', Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
2023 Interference Patterns, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Nicholas Galanin: In every language there is Land / En cada lengua hay una Tierra, Public Art Fund,
Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Empire Fulton Lawn, Brooklyn, NY
2022 It Flows Through, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Nicholas Galanin: Dreaming in English, Van Every Gallery, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Nicholas Galanin: White Noise, ONE/Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Nicholas Galanin: I Think It Goes Like This (Gold), Montclair Art Museum, NJ
Nicholas Galanin: I Think It Goes Like This (Gold), Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
2020 Created to Hold Power (Intellectual Property), Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
Carry a Song / Disrupt an Anthem, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY 2019
2019 Everything We’ve Ever Been, Everything We are Right Now, Law Warschaw Gallery, Saint Paul, MN
They’re Threatened by your Survival, Art Mur, Montreal, QC, Canada
The Value of Sharpness: When it Falls, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Dear Listener: Works by Nicholas Galanin, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
The Imaginary Indian, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
2017 Indian Water: The Native American Pavilion, Venice, Italy
We Dreamt Deaf, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
I Think It Goes Like This, Peters Project, Sante Fe, NM
2016 Kill The Indian, Save The Man. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
2015 e.g. Nicholas Galanin: We Will Again Open This Container of Wisdom That Has Been Left in Our Care,
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT
2014 Home, Memory of Land & Space, Trench Contemporary, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2013 Ever Shoot an Indian?, The Audain Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada
The State of Being, Displaced, Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AK
When the Land Forgets You, How Will You Carry On?, ANAF, Anchorage, AK
2012 I Looooove Your Culture, Trench Contemporary, Vancouver BC, Canada
Things Are Looking Native, Native’s Looking Whiter, Bunnell St. Gallery, Homer, AK
The Tlingit Experience, The Mckenna Museum of African American Art, New Orleans, LA
2011 Nicholas Galanin's First Law of Motion, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
New Culture, Trench Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2010 Raven and the First Immigrant, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Oblique Drift, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Sante Fe, NM
2009 Oblique Drift, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Native Preference, ANAF Gallery, Anchorage, AK
2006 What Have We Become?, Takatake Gallery, Whakatane, New Zealand
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Smoke In Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers,
New York
The Exchange, Boston Public Art Triennial, Boston, MA
RugLife, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, NC
Traveling to: Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, MN, fall 2025; Pratt Manhattan Gallery,
Pratt Institute, NY, spring 2025; Knoxville Museum of Art, TN, summer 2026; Boise Art Museum, ID, fall 2026
Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
2024 Public Art Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Toronto Biennial, Toronto, Canada
The Shape of Power, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Charle’s Peterson’s Nirvana: On Photography and Performance, Tacoma Art Museum, Seattle,
WA
The Space Between, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Columbia
We are Here: Scenes from the Streets, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Interwoven Power: Native Knowledge / Native Art, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
In Pursuit: Artist’s Perspectives on a Nation, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Is This North?, Icelandic Art Center, Akureyri, Iceland
The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, New Britain Museum of
American Art, New Britain, CT
Anything Can Happen, Sculpture on the Gulf, Waheike Island, New Zealand
New Terrains, Phillips, New York, NY
2023 The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Science Fiction(s), Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Liverpool Biennial 2023, Liverpool, United Kingdom
What Now? (Or Not Yet), The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums and Making Knowledge, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
2022 Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, Amon Carter Museum of American Art,
Fort Worth, TX
Real Wild, Palo Gallery, New York, NY
Gilded, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Conversing in Clay: Ceramics from the LACMA Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Indigenova, Spring Hills Arts Gathering, New Preston, CT
Conceptions of White: A research toolkit on the origins and meaning of white identity, Mackenzie Art Gallery,
Regina,Saskatchewan, CA
A Divided Landscape, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR
Skin in the Game, Zoe Lukov Projects, Chicago, IL
Past in Prologue: History in Contemporary Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA
OUR ISLANDS, THEIR PEOPLE: Becoming an archipelago, Pintô Art Inc, New York, NY
US | THEM | WE: RACE X ETHNICITY X IDENTITY, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
You Are Here, Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, Pendelton, OR
2021 You Are Here: Bearings for Unsettled Grounds, The Donald H. Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College,
Walla Walla, WA
An Immeasurable Melody, Medicine for a Nightmare, GoMA Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
Desert X 2021, Coachella Valley, CA
Art and the Enviornmental Struggle, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Shifting Horizons, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Speculations on the Infrared, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
Skin in the Game, Zoe Lukov Projects, Miami, FL
2020 World Peace, MoCA Westport, Westport, CT
Living Just Enough, Goodman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz,The Jewish Musuem, New York, NY
Democracy 2020: Craft in America, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA [online]
Unwrapped! 125 years of history in the Museum Natur und Mensch, Museum Natur und Mensch, Breisgau,
Germany
Adapt And Pivot, Patel Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Sanctuary, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
2020 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past, Present, Future, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts,
Santa Fe, NM
Native Voices, 1950s to Now: Art for a New Understanding, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis,
TN
2019 Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke Univeristy,
Durham, NC
Survivance And Sovereignty On Turtle Island: Engaging With Contemporary Native American Art, Kupferberg
Holocaust Center, New York, NY
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Value of Sanctuary, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
Unraveling: Reimagining Colonization in the Americas, Sun Valley Center for Arts, Ketchum, ID
Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Nerman Museum of
Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
The Honolulu Biennial: To Make Wrong / Right / Now, Honolulu Museum, Honolulu, HI
Aiviq and Nanuq: Sea horse and sea bear of the arctic, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
2018 Unsettled, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, FL
Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
Conflicting Heroes, Native Art Biennial, Berlin, Germany
The Condor and the Eagle: Moving Forward After Standing Rock, Elisabeth Jones Art Center, Portland, OR
I Continue to Shape, Art Museum, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Believe, MOCA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It, Mainsite Contemporary, Norman, OK
The Abundant North: Alaska Native Films of Influence, MOCNA, Sante Fe, NM
Between Beauty and Decay, Artspace New Haven, CT
Monarchs Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE
2017 Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound, National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY
We The Hell Am I, Lightyear, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Out Of Sight, Seattle, WA
Sanctuary, Fort-Site Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Monarchs, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Broken Boxes, Form & Concept, Sante Fe, NM
American Domain, Museum of Capitalism, Los Angeles, CA
Waterline, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Single Channel Video Installation, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Standing Rock: Art & Solidarity, The Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Songs From The Extraction Zones, Sante Fe Art Institute, Sante Fe, NM
Converge, Reed College, Portland, OR
Resistance: Art After Nature, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Native Fashion Now, National Museum of The American Indian, New York, NY
Decolonizing Alaska, Corcoran School of The Arts & Design, Washington, D.C.
Decolonizing Alaska, Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AK
This Is A Creation Story, California State University, Fresno, CA
Unsettled, Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV
Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Art, MOCNA, Sante Fe, NM
My Country Tis of Thy People, You’re Dying, Radiator Arts, New York, NY
View From Up Here, Northern Norway Art Museum, Tromsø, Norway
2016 Latitude 64, Kajaani Art Museum, Kajaani, Finland
Life Size, Art Mur, Montreal, QC, Canada
It’s in the Making, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Without Boundaries: Visual Conversations, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
Race and Revolution, Nolan Park, New York, NY
Out of Sight, King Station, Seattle, WA
What You See is What You Sweat, CoCA, Seattle, WA
Light Year 16, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum,
San Francisco, CA
Indian Acts: Truths in the Age of Reconciliation, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Kingdom, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada
Contemporary Native Art Biennial, Stuart Hall Art Gallery, Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
View from Up Here, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
Native Fashion Now, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Native Fashion Now, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Homo Faber: A Rainbow Caravan, Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan
The Fifth World, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, SK, Canada
Dead Animals, or the curious occurrence of taxidermy in contemporary art, David Winton Bell Gallery,
Providence, RI
Contemporary Native American Indian Photographers and the Legacy of Edward Curtis, Palm Springs
Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Decolonizing Alaska, Bunnell St. Arts Center, Homer, AK
2015 Native Fashion Now, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Toioho XX, Te Manawa Museum of Art, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Our Story, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
You Are On Indian Land, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Living Alaska, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
Beau Dick / Nicholas Galanin / Jeneen Frei Njootli, Macaulay Fine Art, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Put A Feather On It!, Red Dot Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
60 Americans, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, NY
You Are On Indian Land, Radiator Arts, New York, NY
The Fifth World, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Personalities: Fantasy and Identity Photography and New Media, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2014 Native Art Now, NONAM, Zürich, Switzerland
Late Harvest, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Wendy Red Star’s Wild West And Congress of Rough Riders of The World, Bumbershoot,Seattle, WA
Your Fest Has Ended, The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Le Symposium International d’art-nature multidisciplinaire, de Val-David, QC, Canada
Storytelling: The Contemporary Native Art Biennial, 2nd edition, ArtMur, Montreal, QC,Canada
Storytelling, Ottawa School of Art, Ontario, ON, Canada
Where Did It Go?, Online, www.ultraextra.org
Mother/Land, Kurumaya Museum, Oyama City, Japan
Twisted Path III: Questions of Balance, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME
This is Not a Silent Movie, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
I.M.N.D.N. - Native Arts for the 21st Century, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
Native American Voices, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Porcelain: Breaking Tradition, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2013 RezErect: Native Erotica, Bill Reid Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Porcelain: Breaking Tradition, Art Mur, Montreal, ON, Canada
American Painting Now, WAAS Gallery, Dallas, TX
RED: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Beat Nation, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Cross Currents, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Who Am I?, Maison des Jésuites de Sillery, QC, Canada
Playing with Process: Experimental Prints at the MFAH, The Museum of Fine Arts,Houston, TX
Sakahàn: 1st International Quinquennial of New Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa, ON, Canada
SCOPE NYC, International Contemporary Art Show, New York, NY
Map(ing), Night Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
This is Not a Silent Movie, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Two Worlds Indigenous Media and Performance Festival, Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC, Canada
2012 Process Alaska, Good Question Gallery, New York, NY
Carrying on "Irregardless": Humour in Contemporary Northwest Coast Art, Bill Reid Gallery, Vancvouver,
BC, Canada
Indian Modernism - Art From North America, Humboldt-Forum, Berlin, Germany
Beat Nation, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON, Canada
Beat Nation, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
A Stake In The Ground, Art Mur, Montreal, QC, Canada
Shapeshifting: Transformations In Native American Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2011 Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
AWARDS
2024 Guggenheim Fellow
2023 Joan Mitchell Fellow
2020 Soros Arts Fellowship
2020 Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award in Art
2018 Rasmuson Fellow
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellow
2017 NACF Mentor Fellow
2014 Rasmuson Fellow
2013 Eiteljorg Fellow
2012 United States Artists, USA Rasmuson Fellow Artist of the
Year, Greater Sitka Arts Council
2011 Rasmuson Individual Artist Award
2008 Best Experimental Film, ImagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival, Toronto
Rasmuson Individual Artist Fellowship
2006 1st place, Contemporary Arts, Sealaska
2003 Goldsmiths Commendation London, United Kingdom
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Van Every | Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Microsoft Corporation Art Collection Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Art Bridges, Bentonville, AR Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY
UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC,
Canada Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany
Musée D'Art Contemporain De Baie St-Paul, QC, Canada
Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Sealaska Heritage Foundation, Juneau, AK
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK Pratt Museum, Homer, AK
Museum of the North, UAF, Fairbanks, AK
Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AK
Sir John Cass, London, United Kingdom
Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
CN Gorman Museum, Davis, CA
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
NONAM, Zürich, Switzerland
Sitka Historical Society, Sitka, AK
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Portland State University, Portland, OR
LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
ABBREVIATED BOOKS
2023 The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, National Gallery, Washington DC
Gibson, Jeffrey. An Indigenous Present
2021 Never Forget Publication
2018 NICHOLAS GALANIN: Let Them Enter Dancing and Showing Their Faces, Minor Matters Books, Seattle, WA
2017 Unsettled, Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV
Ice Bear, The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA
2016 Without Boundaries, Visual Conversations, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
Creative Alaska, University of Alaska Press, Anchorage, AK
From Generation to Generation, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Sanders, Terrance. 60 Americans, ArtVoices, Los Angeles, CA
Decker, Julie. True North: Contemporary Art of Circumpolar North, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
Aichi Triennale 2016, Nagoya, Japan (catalog)
2015 Urban Tribes, Annick Press, Toronto, ON, Canada
2014 Late Harvest, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2013 RED: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2012 Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art, Yale University Press, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem,
MA
Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The Landscape of Being, AGENCY - Art, Life and Society production e-book
BLIZZARD: Emerging Northern Artists, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Mithlo, Nancy.Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Sante Fe, NM
Carrying on "Irregardless": Humour in Contemporary Northwest Coast Art, Gallery of Northwest Coast Art,
Vancvouver BC, Canada, Harbour Publishing
2011 KINDRED SPIRITS: Native American Influences on 20th Century Art, New York: Peter Blum Edition
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art,
Hood/UPNE
Book Art: Iconic Sculptures and Installations Made from Books, Published by Gestalten
2008 Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2007 No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art,
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2006 What Have We Become?, Self-Published
2005 Totems to Turquoise, The Natural History Museum, New York, NY
McFadden, David Revere. Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2 (Contemporary Native
North American Art From West, Northwest & Pacific), New York : Museum of Arts & Design, 2005.
AFFILIATIONS
2016- Present CERF+ Artist Advisory Committee
2016-present
2013- Present USArtists Fellows Alumni Council
First Light Alaska Board Member
2010-19 Sealaska Heritage Artist Advisory Committee
PROFESSORSHIPS
2017 University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau
2016 Adjunct professor, Arts department, University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka, AK
2012 Audain guest professor, 2012 -2013, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
LECTURES
2023 Meet the Artist: Nicholas Galanin, Rochester Institute of Technology, October 27, 2023
The Convening: Borders and Exchange, CreativeTime and Fotofocus, The Contemporary Arts
Center, Cincinnati, OH, October 21, 2023
Public Art Fund Talks: Nicholas Galanin, Public Art Fund, New York, October 18, 2023
Care, Critique, and Return: Artist Talk with Nicholas Galanin and Joseph M. Pierce, SITE Santa
Fe, Santa Fe, NM, October 7, 2023
2020 MCA Talk: To Commune, Between Choice And Care, MCA Chicago, IL, panel webinar, October 22, 2020
Nicholas Galanin: Haa Aaní (Our Land), Cornell University, NY, virtual lecture, October 21, 2020
UH School of Art 2020 Speaker Series: Nicholas Galanin, University of Houston
School of Art, TX, via Zoom, Ocotber 15, 2020
Nicholas Galanin - Architecture of Return, Escape, Sealaska Heritage, Juneau, Alaska, via Zoom,
October 13, 2020
Shadow On The Land, part of Intra-Disciplinary Seminar series and Cooper Union x Climate Week,
The Cooper Union, New York, NY
As the Statues Fall: A Conversation about Monuments and the Power of Memory, Webinar Discussion,
Anthropology Magazine, July 23, 2020
Art History From Home: Art and Technology Online, via Zoom, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
May 26, 2020
2018 Oklahoma University, Norman, OK
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2017 UBC MOA, Vancouver, BC, Canada
WWU, Bellingham, WA
2016 Brown University, Providence, RI
American Craft Council, Omaha, NB
2015 University of Washington, Seattle, WA
USA Artists Gathering, Chicago, IL
2014 University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2013 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, QC, Canada
2012 Anchorage Art Museum, Anchorage, AK
Ethnology Museum, Berlin, Germany
Capilano University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2011 Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Humboldt-Forum, Berlin, Germany
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY
2010 Emily Carr, Vancouver, BC, Canada
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Institute of American Indian Arts, Sante Fe, NM
MOCA, Sante Fe, NM
2009 Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Bill Reid Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
SERVICE/COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2018 42 foot Healing Pole carved for Tlingit T’aaku Kwaan Family, funded by Goldbelt Heritage,
to be installed in Juneau, AK
Eternal Flame Fire Dish burial ground monument, Sayeik Gastineau Community School, Juneau, AK
2016 28 foot Northern Style Dugout Cedar Canoe, funded through National Park Service, Alaska
State Council for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts
2015 Glass Clan House Screen, Walter Sobeleff Center, Sealaska Heritage Juneau AK, created with Preston Singletary
1999 Sheet’ka Kwaan Naa Kahadi Tribal Community House Screen, Sitka, AK, created with Will Burkhart
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 Lanay, Jessica. "Nicholas Galanin," ArtReview Magazine, May 2025 issue
Carollo, Elisa. “For Nicholas Galanin, Art Is a Tool of Indigenous Resilience and Resistance,”
Observer, January 7
"8 New York City Art Shows to Kick Off the New Year," Hyperallergic, January 3
Karl, Brian. "Nicholas Galanin: Baltimore Museum of Art," Artforum, January 1
2024 Mothes, Kate. "Nicholas Galanin Hews Visions of the Present From Indigenous Knowledge, Land, and
Memory," Colossal Magazine, December 24
Rosa, Amanda. “A Spanish ship emerges from the sands on Miami Beach for Art Week. Here’s
how to find it,” Miami Herald, December 3
Scott, Chadd. “Miami Art Week Preview 2024: Nicholas Galanin Installation Grounds Luxury
Fantasyland,” Forbes Magazine, December 1
Albrecht, Elliat. “The Third Toronto Biennial of Art is Joyfully Defiant,” Ocula Magazine, October
21
Kelly, P. Brian, “’We are Here: Scenes from the Streets’ Review: On-the-Ground Action at the
International Center of Photography,” Wall Street Journal, October 25
Therrien, Marie-Josée. “Nicholas Galanin Exhibits at the Toronto Biennial,” Radio Canada,
October 15
Blogg, Pheobe. “International exhibition The Space Between highlights Indigenous knowledge and
methodology,” National Indigenous Times, October 4
Taylor, Kate. “At The Toronto Biennial, precariousness is a good thing,” Globe and Mail,
September 26
Duray, Dan. "One Fine Show: Nicholas Galanin's 'Exist in the Width of a Knife's Edge' in Baltimore,
Observer, September 20
“Nicholas Galanin,” Japanese Art Journal, July 2024. “Indigenous Futures,” National Geographic, July
Scott, Chadd. "A Native ‘Takeover’ At Baltimore Museum of Art, "Forbes Magazine, May 25
"The Guggenheim Names 2024 Fellowship Recipients," Artforum, April 11
Nayyar, Rhea. "Lorraine O’Grady and Nicholas Galanin Named Guggenheim Fellows," Hyperallergic, April 11
Cassady, Daniel. "Recipients of the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship Announced, Including Nicholas Galanin,
Lorraine O'Grady, and More," Artnews, April 11
Bywater, Thomas. "Anything could happen at Sculpture on the Gulf 2024," New Zealand Herald, February 23
Ho, K. Karen. “What the New Federal Regulations for Native American Ancestors and Sacred
Objects Mean for Museums,” Artnews, February 21
Platt, J. Stacy. "Nicholas Galanin Looks Past Trauma to Recovery," Hyperallergic, January 24
Sandford, Brian. "Indigenous artist's exhibit explores the impacts of colonization," Pasatiempo,
January 19
Jacobs, Harrison, "In New Show, Lingít Artist Nicholas Galanin Shows What Decolonization
Actually Looks Like," Artnews, January 5
2023 "The Top 10 Artnews Stories of 2023," Artnews, December 29
"The Top 50 Exhibitions of 2023," Hyperallergic, December 28
Polston, Pamela. "The Top 10 Vermont Art Exhibitions of 2023," Seven Days, December 27
"Explore 7 Artworks by Native American Artists From the Artnet Gallery Network," Artnet News, December 26
Hegert, Natalie. "Will You Break Your Silence and Scream? Nicholas Galanin Wants to Know,"
Southwest Contemporary, December 21
Sgambati, Joseph. “2023 Year in Review: Unframed,” Design Milk, December 20
“The Defining Atworks of 2023,” Artnews, December 18
Roberts, Kathaleen. “Running 'Interference': Nicholas Galanin challenges the legacies,
consequences of colonization through art,” Albuquerque Journal, December 17
Kessler, Ylise. "Living with Art: The Changing Landscape," Santa Fe New Mexican, December 3
"Power 100: The Ranking of the Most Influential People in Art," ArtReview, December 1
Robinson D, Megan. "10 Must-See Artworks by Indigenous American Artists at the Seattle Art
Museum," Art & Object, November 28
"Weekly News Roundup," Art Asia Pacific, November 10
Battaglia, Andy. "Nicholas Galanin’s Pointed Public Sculpture Inspires Glorious Noise in New
York," Art in America, November 10
Malcom, Kim, Davis, Mike. "Arts picks: Screaming at SAM, an anger jar at the Frye, and butterbeer in
Bellevue, KUOW Live Stream," November 9
“INDIGENOUS A&E: LAND artist, storytellers and Native films,” Indian Country Today, October 29
“Interference Patterns: SITE Santa Fe hosts a powerful solo exhibition of Nicholas Galanin’s highly conceptional,
contemporary works, Native American Art Magazine, September 22
Krasinski, Jennifer, “Indian Theater: Resistance, performance, and self-determination are at the forefront
of a dazzling display of works by over three dozen Native artists and collectives,” 4 columns, September 15
Mothes, Kate. “’An Indigenous Present’ is a Paradigm-Shifting Illumination of Native American Art Today,”
Colossal Magazine, September 12
Skena Culgan, Rosilynne. “The best outdoor art in NYC this fall,” TimeOut Magazine, September 11
“Focus Highlights Indigenous Artists at the 2023 Armory Show,” First American Art Magazine, September 9
Akers, Torey. “Indigenous artists in the spotlight at this year’s Armory Show,” The Art Newspaper, September 7
“Hyperallergic Fall 2023 New York Guide,” Hyperallergic, September 1
Huw, Dylan. “Artforum Reviews: Liverpool Biennial 2023,” Artforum, August 24
“Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces 2023 Fellowships,” Artforum, August 23
Beringher, David. “2 New Exciting Outdoor Artworks in New York This Summer,” Design Milk, August 22
Smith, Melissa. “Whose Land? Indigenous Artist Nicholas Galanin Probes America’s Violent Past in Public,”
Cultured Magazine, August 21
Cotter, Holland. “On the Hudson, Visions for a New Native American Art,” The New York Times, August 10
“Datebook: The Art World’s Fall Happenings to Add to Your Calendar,” Art in America, August 8
So, Wendy. “A new monument lands in Brooklyn: Look up at Nicholas Galanin’s 30-foot-tall steel sculpture
in New York City,” Foyer, July 19
Skena Culgan, Rossilynne , Rahmanan, Anna, Weaver, Shaye. “The best outdoor art in NYC this summer,”
TimeOut Magazine, July 11
Stigler, Britt. “Artist Nicholas Galanin on How Art Has Changed Him," ALLARTSTV, June 29
Pes, Javier. “Nicholas Galanin, the artist asking whose land is it anyway?” Heni News, June 28
Gavan, Stephanie. “Liverpool Biennial 2023 Review: The Shadows of a Slave Trading Past,” ArtReview, June 14
Di Liscia, Valentina. Velie, Elaine. Nayyar, Rhea, Pontone, Maya. "30 Art Shows to See in New York this Summer,"
June 14
Scott, Chadd. "Influence of performance on contemporary Native American art," See Great Art, June 13
Clugston, Hannah. "Liverpool Biennial 2023 review – devastating insights into the horrors of slavery,"
The Guardian, June 12
Ward, Saffron. "Liverpool Biennial: 5 Artists to Know," Aesthetica Magazine, June 10
"Vengeful Orca Pod and Anna Delvey’s Pod…cast,” The New Yorker Magazine, June 9
Sooke, Alastair. "Liverpool Biennial 2023: a powerful, city-wide study of the scars of the slave trade,"
The Telegraph, June 8
"Dave Johns on I, Daniel Blake, the Liverpool Biennial and Dario Fo's work having a moment,"
BBC Sounds, June 7
"High Line Presents Proposals for 2026 + 2027 Plinth & They Want to Know What You Think,"
Gotham To Go, June 5
“Liverpool Biennial,” Apollo Magazine, June 5
Scott, Chadd. "Jaune Quick-To-See Smith Continues Breaking The ‘Buckskin Ceiling,'" Forbes Magazine, May 31
Fondren, Precious. "A new sculpture at Brooklyn Bridge Park evokes colonization and migration with weathered
steel," Gothamist, May 24
Pontone, Maya. “A New Brooklyn Sculpture Turns Pop Art on Its Head,” Hyperallergic, May 24
Ludel, Wallace. “’My work holds a mirror to one’s perspective:’ Nicholas Galanin on his new public sculpture
made of border wall steel,” The Art Newspaper, May 19
Pacheco, Josh. “A Massive Sculpture at Brooklyn Bridge Park Forces a Dialogue Around Land,” Brooklyn
Magazine, May 18
“'Country': US Artist Places Artwork Under Brooklyn Bridge,” Deutschlandfunkkultur, May 19
Saraniero, Nicole. “TOWERING NEW SCULPTURE IN BROOKLYN RECONGIFURES THE U.S. BORDER
WALL,” Untapped New York, May 18
Rajgor, Nikole. “A Massive 30-Foot Sculpture Spells Out ‘LAND’ In Brooklyn Bridge Park,Here’s Why,” Secret
NYC, May 17
Del Cerro, Ximena, “New sculpture at Brooklyn Bridge sends message about the Southern border,” Brooklyn
Paper, May 17
Rossilynne Skena Culgan, Anna Rahmanan, Shaye Weaver. “The Best Outdoor Art in NYC This Summer,”
Time Out, May 16
Fisayo, Okare. “US-Mexico Border Reinterpreted As Steel Monument in Brooklyn Bridge Park,” Documented
NY, May 16
“Brooklyn Bridge Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Announce 2023 Programming Calendar,” City
Tour NY, May 10
Anania, Billie. “Truth-Telling Confronts the Colonial Gaze,” Hyperallergic, February 7
Finkel, Jori. "Doing It Their Way," W Magazine, February 2
Donoghue, Katie. "NICHOLAS GALANIN : Allowing generational conversations to flow through and memory to
reveal itself across material," Whitewall Magazine, January 16
Herring, Sophia. "Indigenous Art Communites Emerged from the Panemic More Resilient," The Art Newspaper,
January 3
2022 Scott, Chadd, "Fierce, Not Afraid. Indigenous Photography Takes the Spotlight," Forbes Magazine, December 13
Keats, Johnathon. “This Powerful Exhibit Shows How Indigenous Photographers Are Taking Native American
Identity Back From The Colonizers,” Forbes Magazine, November 7
Immerwahr, Daniel. “Contest or Conquest?,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1
"Bard College Receives $50 Million Gift in Support of Indigenous Studies,” Artforum, September 28
Schwendener, Martha. "What to See in N.Y.C Galleries Right Now," The New York Times, June 29
Nonfiction Publishing, “Exposition Imprimeé”, Nonfiction Edition 03, May 31
Martin, Philip. “A New Frontier,” Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, May 29
D’Souza, Aruna. “Nicholas Galanin: In an Indigenous artist’s unsparing work, powerful indictments of
settler-colonial violence,” 4 Columns, June 1
Schulman, Sandra Hale. "Indigenous A&E: Broadway, Language, INDIAN LAND artist," Indian Country Today,
May 13
Laver, Michelle.“Visual Artist Nicholas Galanin is redefining reality at Peter Blum Gallery,” DDW, May 9
"MUST SEE: Nicholas Galanin: It Flows Through", Artforum, May 7
Greenberger, Alex. “The 25 Best Artworks About the U.S. Flag, From the Patriotic to the Provocative,” ARTnews,
April 6
DeAngelis, Mary Elizabeth, “ ‘Unshadowed Land’ Installation Celebrates Resilience of Indigenous Peoples,”
Davidson College, February 4
2021 Laver, Michelle. “Nicholas Galanin | “Art can be so powerful. It can change the world,” DDW, December 3
Halperin, Julia. “5 Memorable Booths to Seek Out at Art Basel Miami Beach,” Artnet News, December 2
Angeleti, Gebriella. "North American museums face a reckoning on Indigenous rights," The Art Newspaper,
December 2
Durón, Maximilíano. “The Best Booths at Art Basel Miami Beach,” ARTnews, December 1
Lloyd-Smith, Harriet. “Miami Art Week 2021: a guide to Art Basel and shows in the city,” Wallpaper*, December 1
Durón, Maximilíano. “At Art Basel Miami Beach, Large-Scale Artworks Reflect on Tumultuous Past Two Years,”
ARTnews, November 29
Hedgepeth, Dana and Rachel Hatzipanagos. “We are still here,” The Washington Post, November 19
Anderson, Cora. "Native American Heritage Month: Get to Know 8 Contemporary Indigenous Artists," Ask.com,
November 16
Hale Shulman, Sandra. “11 Influential Native American Artists,” Artsy, November 9
Blueskye, Brian, "New Desert X documentary pulls the curtain back on 2021 exhibition," Desert Sun, October 18
Hale Schulman, Sandra. "How Collectors Can Support Indigenous and Native American Artists," Artsy, October 7
Falkenstein, Michelle. “ ‘I hope our ancestors can see what we are doing’: New fellowship supports Indigenous
leaders, artists,” USA Today, September 29
Battaglia, Andy. "Art x Music: How Collaborations Between Artists and Musicians Bring Forth New Sounds,"
ARTnews, September 13
Léger, Devon. “Bandcamp Friday is Back – The Future of Trad!” FolkAlley.com, August 6
Kenney, Nancy “Revising a mostly white ‘greatest hits’ narrative, Seattle Art Museum will overhaul its American art
galleries” The Art Newspaper, June 16
Schulman, Sandra Hale “Art Installation Calls for Return of Native Lands” Indian Country Today, May 24
Keats, Jonathan. “In The Southern California Desert, An Artist Has Transformed The Iconic Hollywood Sign Into
An Icon For Land Repatriation,” Forbes, March 31
Finkel, Jori. “Desert X Artists Dig Beneath the Sandy Surface,” The New York Times, March 12
2020 Selvin, Claire. “The Defining Public Artworks of 2020, from Toppled Monuments to Messages in the Sky,”
ARTnews, December 28, 2020
Devi, Reena. “2020 Wrapped: Five Works of Art that Resonated Deeply with the Year,” CoBo, December 23
Widwalls Editoral. “The Most Beautiful Murals of 2020,” Widewalls, December 22
Adamson, Glenn. “Making the Nation,” Smithsonian Magazine, Vol. 51, No.09, January/February 2021,
pgs. 96-97.
The Editors of ARTnews. “The Defining Art Events of 2020,” ARTnews, December 9
Cotter, Holland, Roberta Smith and Jason Farago. “The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020,” The New York
Times, December 4
Artsy Editorial, Brooke Andrew. “The Best Public Art of 2020,” Artsy, December 2
Olsen, Carlene. “’World Peace’ Exhibition Opens at MoCA Westport in Connecticut,” Interior Design,
November 28
Kai, Maiysha. “For the Culture: Spend This Long Weekend With Some of Our Greatest Authors and Artists,”
The Root, November 27
PBS Craft In America: STORYTELLERS, December 11 [television episode]
Simon Krichewsky , Laureline. “When Will We Return What We Took From Indigenous People?,”
One Resilient Earth, November 21
Williams, Gisela. “An Homage to the Creatives, Entrepreneurs, and Change-Makers of Today's America,”
Departures Magazine, October 14
Wagley, Catherine. “Where is Our Reckoning?,” Contemporary Art Review LA, September 29
Biennial of Sydney. “NIRIN'S Cinematic Worlds,” Google Arts & Culture, September 24
“University of Houston School of Art Spotlights Bold Voices in Contemporary Art, Design, and Criticism,”
Hyperallergic, September 10
Ozerkevich, Rachel. “Seeking Sanctuary at the Aga Khan Museum of Islamic Art,” Art&Object,
September 1
“NEFES ALAMIYORM…,” Art Unlimited, Summer 2020
Cotter, Holland. “As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst,” The New York Times,
July 17, 2020.
Jones, Brendan. “14 Miles: Alaska artists consider distance and the role of the arts in a time of pandemic,”
FORUM, Summer 2020
Abeo, Mariangela. “Nicholas Galanin, Episode 27,” Faces to Faces, Podcast, July 21
Angeleti, Gabriella, Gareth Harris and José da Silva. “Three exhibitions to see in New York, London
and online this weekend,” The Art Newspaper, July 17
Browning, Daniel. “Burying the colonial past,” AWAYE! for Alaska Public Media, July 11 [recorded interview]
ABC Australia. “The Mix,” Saturday, July 4 [recorded interview]
Grove, Casey. “LISTEN: This Alaska Native artist dug a grave for Capt. Cook’s statue,” Alaska Public Media,
June 26[recorded interview].
Crouse, Tripp. “Statues spark discussion about colonialism in Alaska,” KNBA Grove for Alaska Public Media,
June 25 [recorded interview]
Rami. Trupti. “It’s Funeral Time for Colonial Monuments,” Vulture, June 19
Ebony, David. “TOP 10 NEW YORK GALLERY EXHIBITIONS CAUGHT IN THE COVID-19
SHUTDOWN,” SNAP Editions, May 20
Lichter-Marck, Rose. "Ring the Alarm: Artists Respond to Climate Change," Garage Magazine,
Issue 18, April 22
Ferrey, Jenna. “Reviewing Carry a Song – Disrupt an Anthem, Nicholas Galanin solo exhibition
at Peter Blum Gallery, New York,” eazel, March 23
Cruz, Cristina. "Editors’ Picks: 10 Things Not to Miss in the Virtual Art World This Week," Artnet news,
March 23
Weber, Jasmine. "In the Time of Social Distance, Galleries Go Digital," Hyperallergic, March 20
Devi, Nirmala. "The shows must go on," ArtReview, March 13
Cascone, Sarah. “Editors’ Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” Artnet news,
March 2
Battaglia, Andy. “Ancient to the Future: Nicholas Galanin Aims to Change How Indigenous Art Is
Understood,” ARTnews, February 13
Gauss, Daniel. “Carry a Song, Disrupt an Anthem: Nicholas Galanin at Peter Blum Gallery, Manhattan”,
Wall Street International, February 10
Bahadur, Tulika. “Carry a Song / Disrupt an Anthem: Nicholas Galanin On Indigenous Identities and
Contemporary Conditions,” OnArtandAesthetics.com, February 7
Gallaher, Rachel. “Voice of Resistance,” Gray Magazine, Issue 50, February/March 2020
Gaskin, Sam. “Biennale of Sydney to Tackle Race and Colonialism,” OCULA, February 4
Schneider, Tim. “Editors Picks: 11 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” Artnet news,
February 3
FAAZINE. “First American Art Magazine’s Top Ten Native Art Events of 2019,” First American Art Magazine,
January 3
Schmid, Christina. “Nicholas Galanin | LAW WARSCHAW GALLERY, MACALESTER COLLEGE,” Artforum,
January 2020.
2019 Eler, Alicia. “The year's best Twin Cities art exhibitions were diverse and international,” StarTribune,
December 20
Kroik, Jenny. “Living with Art,” The New Yorker, November 28
The Editors of ARTnews. “The Most Important Works of the 2010s: Favorite Artworks That
Didn’t Make the List,” ARTnews, November 28
The Editors of ARTnews. “ARTnews in Brief: Liverpool Biennial Names Artists—and More from
November 6, 2019,” ARTnews, November 4
Greenberger, Alex. “Biennale of Sydney Releases Artist List for 2020 Edition With Focus on
Indigenous Artists,” ARTnews, September 12
Galanin, Nicholas. “Standing Together: Whitney Biennial Artist Nicholas Galanin on His Decision in
July to Pull Work from the Show,” ARTnews, September 11
Mitter, Siddhartha. “The Whitney Biennial Called. How Will They Answer?,” The New York Times, May 9
Green, Christopher. “Nicholas Galanin: The Value of Sharpness: When It Falls,” The Brooklyn Rail,
March, 2019
Galanin, Nicholas. “Out of Line: Nicholas Galanin Rejects the Traditional/Contemporary Binary,”
Walker Reader (Primer), March 26
2018 Steinhauer Jillian. “Nicholas Galanin remixes Native American identity at Phoenix’s Heard
Museum,” The Art Newspaper, August 6
Green, Christopher. “Break Open This Container,” Art In America, January 1, 2018
2015 Smith, Matthew Ryan. “Tlingit-Unangax Interdisciplinary Artist Nicholas Galanin,” First American Art
Magazine, Issue No. 7, (Summer 2015)
2014 Temenos Academy Review 2014
Smith, Matthew Ryan. “Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan, by Nicholas Galanin,” First American Art
Magazine, Issue No. 4, Fall
2012 Walker, Ellyn. “Nicholas Galanin: First Law of Motion,” C Magazine, Issue 113
2008 Jonaitis, Aldona. “A generation of innovators in southeast Alaska: Nicholas Galanin, Stephen
Jackson, Da-ka-xeen Mehner and Donald Varnell,” American Indian Art Magazine, Vol. 33,
No. 4 (autumn 2008)
2007 Nadelman, Cynthia. “Tribal Hybrids,” ARTnews, Vol 106, No. 6, June 2007
Wallin, Rose. “Painted Bravery: Contemporary Native Artwork Redefines Tradition,” The
Anchorage Press, Vol. 16, Ed. 28, July 12, 2007
2006 Genocchio, Ben. “Visions of Native Americans in Today’s World,” The New York Times, September 17