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Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie
Seminole/Muscogee/Diné

Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie was born into the Bear and Raccoon Clans of the Seminole and Muscogee Nations, 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 Assistant Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at University of California Davis.


current / recent exhibitions:

Visual Sovereignty: International Indigenous Photography @ C.N. Gorman Museum
The Gathering: Apr 4-5, 2009
The Exhibition: Apr 3-Sep 15, 2009

Our People, Our Land, Our Images
Currently on view at the AmerInd Foundation, Dragoon AZ through March 2009.

PIKO: Kona, Waimea & Hilo, multiple venues, June 2007.
See the photos!
Land, Peoples, Identities, November 2005
International Center of Bethlehem, Dar Annadwa Addawliya
Bethlehem, Palestine

Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, 2004
The catalogue is now available mail-order from the museum shop, just click here!.

 

recent publications with writings by the artist:

Visual Currencies: Reflections of Native American Photography
National Museums of Scotland (forthcoming, 2009)

Diversity and Dialogue: Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art
"Visual Sovereignty: A Continuous Aboriginal/Indigenous Landscape"
Eiteljorg Museum and University of Washington Press, 2007
Get the catalogue
Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photography
Heyday Books, Berkeley, 2007.
About the exhibition
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Path Breakers: Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art
Eiteljorg Museum and University of Washington Press, 2003
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Click here for an article about H.J. Tsinhnahjinnie by V.Passalacqua (without illustrations)

Photography's Other Histories, 2003
When is a photograph worth a thousand words? by H.J.Tsinhnahjinnie
Click here for the essay (without illustrations)

Native Women of Hope (get the posters):
Commissioned by Bread and Roses
As featured in Native Peoples Magazine

NTV (to request an educational copy)
18 min. video, 1994

 

other links for artists and info:

Andrew V. Tsihnahjinnie, (press from the exhibition)
"Andrew Van Tsihnahjinnie: A Celebration and Reflection",
held at the Navajo Nation Museum, Feb-Jun 2001.

Another family artist: Architect Tsosie Tsinhnahjinnie

Larry McNeil, photographer, multimedia artist, author

click here to contact Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie

or email Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Director
CN Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall
University of California, Davis CA 95616

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Do not copy, download or use without permission of the artist.


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