Nicholas Galanin (American, born )

Timeline

1979
born in Sitka, Alaska
2003
received BA in Silversmithing and Jewelry Design with honors, London Guildhall University, London, UK
2007
received Masters of Indigenous Visual Arts, Massey University, New Zealand
lives and works in Sitka, Alaska

Exhibitions

2020
Nicholas Galanin Selected Exhibitions in 2020:
New Works, Peter Blum, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2019
Nicholas Galanin Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Everything We’ve Ever Been, Everything We are Right Now, Law Warschaw Gallery, Saint Paul, MN (solo exhibition)
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 of Arts, Ketchum, ID
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
Nicholas Galanin Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Dear Listener, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ (solo exhibition)
The Imaginary Indian, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK (solo exhibition)
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, Santa 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
Nicholas Galanin Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Indian Water: The Native American Pavilion, Venice, Italy (solo exhibition)
We Dreamt Deaf, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (solo exhibition)
I Think It Goes Like This, Peters Project, Santa Fe, NM (solo exhibition)
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, Nevada
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
Nicholas Galanin Selected Exhibtions in 2016:
Kill The Indian, Save The Man, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK (solo exhibition)
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

Public Collections

NMAI, 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, UK
Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
CN Gorman Museum, Davis, CA
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
NONAM, Zürich, Switzerland
Sitka Historical Society, Sitka, AK
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Portland State University, Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
English (US)

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