Artisans of Nations, New Beginnings - Volume I was recently published and highlights the work of Native artists, including Heidi K. Brandow. Created to uplift the stories, art and communal ties among Native artists through exhibitions, events, and contemporary art sales, Artisans of Nations provides a platform to support Native art now and in the future. Learn more at LINK.
As part of the Venice Indigenous Arts School, this public program will focus on the theoretical underpinnings of developing keywords in Indigenous arts. Often, these terms have no equivalence in Western arts terminology and, therefore, constitute a new means of contextualizing Indigenous arts, one that is centered on Indigenous ways of knowing. This public program continues the discussion of contemporary Indigenous arts terminology with a focus on the application of this new lexicon within various arts discourses, such as art history, theory, and criticism from the perspective of artist practitioners. More information at LINK
TIA X CHATTER MURAL
Chatter is excited to announce the inaugural Tia Collection x Chatter Mural, created by Santa Fe-based Diné and Kanaka Māoli artist Heidi Brandow and on view from March 9–July 31, 2024. View the mural at the Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Santa Fe, NM, by appointment and learn more at LINK
Honored to be selected as the 2023 Dubin Fellow, School for Advanced Research - Indian Arts Research Center. Learn more about this award at LINK.
The MFA in Studio Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts hosted a discussion of ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters, a radical exhibition that recently opened at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa addressing the exclusion of Kānaka worldviews from academia in general, and specifically within the university’s Department of Art and Art History, as well as an overall lack of institutional support for Kānaka art across the Islands. This event can be viewed at LINK.
Curators
Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick (Kanaka ʻŌiwi)
Noelle M. K. Y. Kahanu (Kanaka ʻŌiwi)
Josh Tengan (Kanaka ʻŌiwi)
Representative Artists
Kaili Chun (Kānaka Maoli)
Kapulani Landgraf (Kānaka Maoli)
Moderated by Heidi K. Brandow (Diné and Kānaka Maoli), MFASA Faculty at IAIA and Guest Curator & Artist Liaison at the Coe Center.
Gallery mainstay Heidi Brandow curates and contributes to this group exhibition, Working With Kin. The show is a dimensional biography of the Santa Fe-based artist’s life, uniting friends and mentors who have shaped her path. Conceptual and aesthetic influences flow in every direction, offering new context for each artist’s work.
“The artists I chose are asking a lot of the same questions, and not accepting the status quo of what art or Native art should be,” Brandow says. The exhibition serves as a tribute to Jeff Kahm, Brandow’s former professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts, who passed away in March 2021. More info at LINK
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Jamison Chās Banks, Heidi Brandow. Nigel Paul Conway, Eliza Naranjo Morse, Alex Peña
In Place: Future Artifacts and Remembrance on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is an art exhibition and LASER series happening in Santa Fe, New Mexico created by SciArt Santa Fe in partnership with The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI,) Vital Spaces, and STEAM NM an initiative of UNM Fine Arts. The show encourages dialogue about the relationships of art and science to monuments and other historical artifacts and representation through the lens of land use, colonization, climate change, extractive industries, and community. More info at LINK
Opening: March 3rd at 7 pm at Artspace West, 4701 W Thunderbird Rd, Phoenix, AZ
Ongoing: March 7-31, 12 pm - 5 pm, Mon - Thurs.
More info LINK
The Reconfiguring Histories Symposium is a project by Harvard Graduate School of Design students, Heidi K. Brandow (GSD, MDes ‘21) and Divya Saraf (MDes, ‘21) and will be hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Forms of Assembly. This event will commence on April 28th, 2021 in an online format. This symposium initiates critical conversations between artists, activists, and scholars working on museum discourse related to institutionalized knowledge with a focus on provenance, narrative, decolonial curatorial praxis, and community engagement.
The Reconfiguring Histories Symposium addresses unethical museum practice while highlighting restorative measures currently being utilized nationally and internationally among communities adversely affected by the legacy of inequitable and unjust collection practices.
Recorded video sessions can be found at LINK
For centuries, humor has played a vital role among many Native American tribes as an important form of artistic expression. Native artists past and present employ humor in a wide variety of ways, using a range of artistic media. Laughter is universally appealing and relatable. We all want to laugh and be less worried or serious. Laughter or rather, the opportunity to do so, is attractive or desirable. Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art inspires an appreciation and better understanding of Native Art through the introduction of the concept of how humor, telling jokes, being light-hearted, and taking a less serious approach to life (especially during times that require or have required acts of resiliency), is central to many Native American groups.
A majority of the artists in this exhibit are from Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, as well as California; with a few additions of artworks from the Eiteljorg’s permanent collection. Representations from the Ojibwe, Lakota, and Haudenosaunee will be included, thus rounding out a more North American Native perspective on humor.
More information on this exhibition at LINK
Heidi K. Brandow and Luzenne Hill to be featured in an exhibition highlighting the two artists and their work and time as Artists in Residence at UCross in Wyoming. The exhibition will be held at UCross and at the Yellowstone Art Museum in 2021. The exhibition catalog can be found at LINK.
A National Geographic article, "Indigenous Symbols Rise as Colonial Monuments Fall in New Mexico", included my research project "The Memory Project" which was developed as a fellow at the Santa Fe Art Institute. More at: https://on.natgeo.com/3oBtgxf
The 2021 Death to Museums speaker series kicks off in January series will highlight the experiences of indigenous women working in museums and the art world at large, and how their work paves the way for radical transformation and change.
More info at LINK
Check out Tilt Podcast, Unsettled Series. I was recently apart of Episode II “You’re Not From Here.” More info HERE.
In Santa Fe, as in many cities, the most public versions of history are made visible in monuments that reinforce conquest and colonization. Those, it seems, are the only stories worth knowing and celebrating. But whose voices are being left out? And what stories are being erased? Visit LINK for more info.
November 2020: An article in the Harvard Graduate School of Design News on the course, “This Land is Your Land,” which highlighted a collaborative studio by Professor Daniel D’Oca and Teaching Assistants Heidi K. Brandow & Elsa Hoover. This article can be found HERE
The “Collective for the Culture” article can be found in the November 2020 edition of Landscape Architecture Magazine
More info HERE
A recording of the panel discussion “Historical Truths, Representation, and Its Consequences, Part I” can be found at the following LINK
A recording of this presentation can be found at the following LINK
The Harvard Indigenous Design Collective (HIDC) was recently featured in an interview on the Design Voice Podcast. Listen on Spotify at: https://bit.ly/nativevoicesgsd
Harvard University Graduate School of Design students Elsa Hoover, Zoë Toledo, Heidi Brandow, and Jaz Bonninou have come together to create the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective (HIDC), a group that "promotes design by and for Indigenous communities as foundational to the history, theory, and practice of design fields." More info HERE
“Hoover, Zoë Toledo, Heidi Brandow, and Jaz Bonnin are the four at Harvard, and together they have formed the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective, to address some of the architectural issues that are unique to Native American communities…” Find the article HERE
Heidi Brandow is included in this Hyperallergic article which explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the Navajo Nation. Find the article HERE
Heidi K. Brandow will serve as Chair of Information on the Harvard Graduate Council Executive Board for the 2020-2021 academic year. Heidi is the first Native American/Kanaka Maoli to serve on the HGC Executive Board. More info HERE
First American Art, Winter 2020 Edition: Heidi K Brandow
Read the Article: HERE
Pasatiempo | November 2019
Several IAIA alumni such as: Cara Romero, Frank Buffalo Hyde, America Meredith, Gerald McMaster, & Heidi K. Brandow, to name a few, will be featured in an exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian entitled, "Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art." Find out more in this thoughtful Pasatiempo article HERE
Albuquerque Journal | August 2019
“Back to Basics” - Heidi K. Brandow’s first solo-exhibition at Form & Concept Gallery
Albuquerque Journal North | August 2019
Back to Basics: Heidi K. Brandow Solo-Exhibition at Form & Concept Gallery
“DRAWING & DRIVING” - Axle Contemporary Art, June 26 - August 18, 2019
More info: AXLE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY
In February, 2019, as part of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts’ Art for New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950’s to Now exhibition, artist Steven Yazzie led a group of artists in a MoCNA/Axle Contemporary art-making workshop, using his custom-built Drawing and Driving recumbent tricycle/studio-vehicle. Participants included IAIA art students and local artists invited by Santa Fe’s Axle Contemporary.
The goal was to to engage and connect both students and the Santa Fe art community with the exhibition and Yazzie's art practice. Under Yazzie’s direction, each artist draws or paints while driving the vehicle, adding a performative and community-based element to Yazzie’s project. After the artworks were completed by the group, The vehicle was installed in the exhibition during its run at MoCNA.
Axle Contemporary and Yazzie have now taken the project a step further by inviting more local artists to draw and drive for the project this week. The collection of resulting small drawings and paintings will be the exhibited in the Axle Contemporary mobile exhibition space from July 26 through Aug 18, 2019. After the opening in the Santa Fe Railyard, the mobile gallery will locate around Santa Fe during the run of the exhibition. Axle Contemporary will be located at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts' Allan Houser Art Park during Indian Market week, from August 14 – 18.
Artists Featured: Gregory Ballenger, Rita Bard, Jeff Benham, Heidi Brandow, Nani Chacon, Aquila Chase-Daniel, Matthew Chase-Daniel, David Sloan, Nina Elder, Andrew Fearnside, Jason Garcia, Nicola Heindl, Chaz John*, Shakti Kroopkin, Ian Kuali’i, Stephanie Lenchard-Warren, Nina Mastrangelo, Eliza Naranjo Morse, Timothy Nero, Rose Simpson, Robyn Tsinnajinnie, Andrea Isabel Vargas, Erika Wanenmacher, Marion Claire Wasserman, Jerry Wellman, Steven J. Yazzie, and Susan York.
“12 New Mexico Artists to Know” - THE Magazine, Feb/March 2019
“..Artists whose work deserves sustained attention, whether or not you’ve ever heard of them before.”
The November 28, 2018 edition of The Santa Fe Reporter was designed by Heidi K. Brandow as part of the Story Maps Fellowship. Check out the article HERE.
Join us for the exhibition opening: November 30, 2018, 5:30-7:30 at the Santa Fe Institute More info HERE.
I’ll have some work in this exhibition alongside several great artists. Join us! More info HERE
Join us for Form and Concept's Annual Represented artists' Group Exhibition.
More information HERE
First Peoples Fund | July 2018
"Bold, Free, Passionate, Courageous" - Check out the glowing article by the First Peoples Fund HERE
Santa Fe New Mexican | June 2018
A recent collaboration between Peruvian art collective, Amapolay, Heidi K. Brandow, and other invited artists at the Museum of International Folk Art. Link HERE.
Honored to be an invited artist to participate in a collaborative art project between the Peruvian-based art collective, Amapolay.
Check out the image above for more info on this event.
Recently featured in the Wall Street Journal | March 2018
"A Cliche-Free Guide to Santa Fe"
FRIENDS + FAMILY: Please consider joining me for an artist talk + presentation on my social engagement art project: [in]dispensable. RSVP + Event information can be found HERE
EVENT: 16 MARCH 2018 | 19:00 PM @ CIRCUIT ISTANBUL, KADiKÖY, iSTANBUL, TURKEY
Incredibly honored and excited to be selected for the 2018 First Peoples Fund Artist in Business Leadership Fellowship. More information on this unique opportunity can be found HERE
I'm honored to be selected for the 2018 Story Maps Fellowship. More information can be found HERE
Gallery Chaco is a new Indigenous Artist Gallery at the beautiful Hotel Chaco in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I am pleased to be among several respected Indigenous Artists such as Mateo Romero, Melissa Cody, Roxanne Swentzell, Gregory Lomayesva, Rhett Lynch, and more.
In addition to Form & Concept, you can also purchase and view my work at Gallery Chaco. Thanks!
July 2017
"Heidi K Brandow Documents Definitions of "Home" for Native Peoples, Refugees, and Normalized Residents"
June 2017
MAY 2017 | SANTAFE.COM RADIO | RICHARD EEDS SHOW
CLICK HERE to Listen to an interview featuring artists Heidi K Brandow and Matt Mullins with Form & Concept Director, Frank Rose, as they chat with RIchard Eeds on the upcoming Anniversary Exhibition and Masquerade Party at Form & Concept Gallery.
for more information, please visit: form & concept gallery
Artist: Heidi K. Brandow | 2016 Winter Events Update
IAIA Alumni Holiday Market, 10 December 2016 & 16-18 December 2016, SWAIA Holiday Market, La Fonda | Click on the Link Above to View Video. Thanks!
The Richard Eeds Show | October 27, 2016
Radio Interview featuring Gallery Director Frank Rose, Artists Heather Bradley & Heidi Brandow
The 95th Santa Fe Indian Market | Aug. 20-21, 2016
Please join me for the 95th annual Santa Fe Indian Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico during August 20-21. Stop by my booth to say "hi" and to collect new artwork and apparel. BOOTH #121 POG. Thank you!
New York Times | May 2016
Native Artists Transform Rooms with Large-Scale Art
Albuquerque Journal North | March 2016
Through Our Eyes Podcast | IAIA Alumni Show | September 2015
Turkish Cultural Foundation | 2014 Fellowship Announcent
King Galleries | October 2014
BACK TO THE FUTURE: IAIA STUDENT ARTISTS OF NOTE – PART 2
Albuquerque Journal North | August 2014
A fresh approach: IFAM’s acceptance of nontraditional art has appeal for first-time participants
Santa Fe Reporter | August 2014
Happy Monsters and Other Creatures: Enter the world of Heidi K Brandow