Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie was born into the Bear Clan of the Duskegee Nation, and born for the Tsinajinnie Clan of the Diné Nation. Exhibited nationally and internationally, Tsinhnahjinnie claims photography and video as her primary languages. Creating fluent images of Native thought, her emphasis is art for Indigenous communities.

She has been a recipient of the Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, a Chancellor’s Fellowship at the University of California Irvine, the First Peoples Community Artist Award, and a Rockefeller artist in residence. She is currently Director of the C.N. Gorman Museum at University of California Davis and Associate Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at University of California Davis.

recent exhibitions:

solo
Double Vision: New Works by Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1/7-3/31
and C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, 9/29-12/2/11.

Kill the Man, Save the Indian, FotoArt Festival, Bielsko, Poland, 10/16-10/31/10.

I am Not a Mascot!, Women’s Center Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, 4/3-6/5/10.

group
Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photography
Currently on tour through Mid-America Arts Alliance until 2016.

Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, 10/8/11-3/1/2012.

Fragile Connection, The University of Texas at Dallas, University Theatre Gallery, 2/8-4/16/11.

Acting Up: Performing the Indian, Platform Gallery, Winnepeg, 1/21-3/4/11.

Map(ing) 2011: Working Proof, Night Gallery, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Phoenix, 1/6-1/30/11.

Unfixed: Photography and postcolonial perspectives in contemporary art, Center for Contemporary Art, Dordrecht, the Netherlands 10/23-12/4/10.

Shelley + Hulleah = Trouble, you me gallery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 7/10-8/9/09.

• Detailed exhibition listing for the artist (1975-2011)

recent publications with writings by the artist:

"When is a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words?" in Photography's Other Histories,
C. Pinney and N. Peterson (eds.), Duke University Press, Durham and London: 40-52.
Click here for the essay (without illustrations)

• Other publications by the artist

recent publications with writings about the artist:

Archival Encounters
The Norman and Jane Geske Lectureship in the History of the Arts, 2011
Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Click here for an essay by V.Passalacqua about the 2010 series, Double Vision by H.J. Tsinhnahjinnie (without illustrations)

Path Breakers: Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art
Eiteljorg Museum and University of Washington Press, 2003
Click here for an essay by V.Passalacqua about H.J. Tsinhnahjinnie (without illustrations)

• Other publications about the artist