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NATANI NOTAH
b. 1992, San Bernardino, CA
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
2025 Lunder Institute for American Art Fellowship (Summer 2024-2025)
2023 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
2023
2024 SECA Art Award via SFMOMA (Nominated)
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 (Nominated)
2018
International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture
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 Natani Notah: Skirmishhh, TUREEN, Dallas, TX
2023 Natani Notah: 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 Natani Notah: Divinely Diné, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Is It Real? Contemporary Artists Address Reproductive Freedom, curated by Sarah Hignite & Emily Edwards, Lagoon Studio, Dallas, TX
In an effort to be held, curated by Allison Glenn, The Shepherd via Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
Cosmic Disco: Natani Notah, John Opera, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Kazuhito Tanaka, and Pedro Vaz, Mrs. and DOCUMENT, Queens, NY
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
Two-Person Exhibition, Kite & Natani Notah: In the Realm of Miracles, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, OK
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)
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
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Cornell Botanic Gardens, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Kala Art Institute Permanent Collection, Berkeley, CA
Meta Open Arts, San Francisco, CA
Montage Health Art Collection, Monterey Bay, CA
Private Art Collections via Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA; Southern Exposure’s Annual Art Auction, San Francisco, CA; and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) San Jose’s Annual Art Auction, San Jose, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Corris, Michael, “Michael Corris on Natani Notah,” Artforum. Review. November 2024.
MUST SEE, Cosmic Disco: Natani Notah, John Opera, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Kazuhito Tanaka, and Pedro Vaz. Artforum. Artguide. July 11- August 16, 2024.
Pontone, Maya. “In Tulsa, Artists Mine Local History Through an Afro-Indigenous Lens,” HYPERALLERGIC, April 17, 2024.
Gonzalez, Alex, “The Dallas Art Fair Arrives with Must-See Galleries and Artsy Events,” Preview, Thrillist, April 1, 2024.
2023
Jimenez, Paloma, “Duality: Contemporary Works by Indigenous Artists,” Review. DARIA Mag, May 3, 2023.
2022
Hawley, Elizabeth S. “From the Ground Up: Diné Women Artists Fight for Environmental Justice,” Art in America, November 23, 2022.
Hawley, Elizabeth S. “Native Feminisms and Contemporary Art: Indigeneity, Gender, and Diné Resurgence in the Work of Natani Notah and Jolene Nenibah Yazzie,” Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Artivism, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, November 5, 2022. Print.
Gerrity, Jeanne. “Critics’ Picks: The Potential of Objects,” Artforum, May 12, 2022.
Balint, Ed. “Provocative Massillon Museum art exhibit confronts Native American land removal,” The Repository, April 27, 2022.
2021
Dortch, Shannon. “Art and exhibits illustrate hope for climate resilience,” Cornell Chronicle. November 29, 2021.
Myers Reese, Laurence. “Review: AH’-WAH-NEE at UNLV’s Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery,” Southwest Contemporary. November 23, 2021.
Karel, Janna. “Their Own Stories: Exhibit Highlights Work by Indigenous Women,” Las Vegas Review. September 19, 2021.
Suarez Porras, Tamara. “Natani Notah limns the push-pull of Native existence in ‘Normal Force’,” 48hills. Review. August 25, 2021.
Shen, Danni. “The Stuff of Life,” Art in America. Review. January 19, 2021.
2020
Stromberg, Matt. “LA’s Spring/Break Art Show Is Delightfully Garish and Over-the-Top,” Hyperallergic. Review. February 15, 2020.
Scott, Chad. “Spotlight Continues Shining on Female Native American Artists,” Forbes. Review. January 19, 2020.
2018
International Sculpture Center’s Award Announcement, Sculpture Magazine, October Print Issue.
Metzger, Cyle. “Natani Notah: A Nucleus of Contemporary Form, Indigeneity and Feminist Action,” Stanford University Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Catalog, Stanford University Press. May 2018.