ANNA TSOUHLARAKIS
Born in Lawrence, KS, 1977
Lives and works in Boulder, CO
Education
2002 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1999 New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, & Sculpture, New York, NY
1999 BA, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Indigenous Absurdities, MCA Denver, Denver, CO
The Native Guide Project: Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2021
To Bind or To Burn, Fine Arts Center Museum at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2020
Incomplete Drawings of Decolonization, Guest House, Jackson Hole, WY
2016
She Made For Her, Neubauer Collegium Gallery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013
In Other Words: A Native Primer, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC
2007
Clash of the Titans, Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock, AZ
Clash of the Titans, American Indian Community House Gallery, New York, NY
2005
fixations, Downtown Contemporary Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Group Exhibitions
2025
An Indigenous Present, curated by Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2024
New Terrains, Phillips, New York, NY
2023
Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX Counterpublic Triennial, St. Louis, MO
Language in Times of Miscommunication, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Breath of Wind, The Box, Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2022
Kinship, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Lux Et Veritas, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Air, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw, MI
Water Is Life, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO
Our Diné Art, Ned Hatathłi Museum, Diné College, Tsaile, AZ
Transformative Power: Indigenous Feminism, Vicky Myhren Gallery at University of Denver, Denver, CO
2021
Portals, NEON Foundation, Athens, Greece
Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
WF Online Series: Indigenous Contemporary Artists and Filmmakers, White Frame, Basel, Switzerland
TSA_PDF 018: Conversation Pieces, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, NY
2020
Art for a New Understanding, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
A(mend): New Narratives in Native American Life, The Galleries at the Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Her Words Still Echo, LMP PDA, Laner Meyer Projects, Denver, CO
The Other 50%: Women’s Voices in the Public Sphere, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2019
Art for a New Understanding, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
Decussate, Cliff Gallery, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
Sagas, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
Nanabozho’s Sisters, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario
Art for a New Understanding, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2018
bodynobody, 'sindikit, Baltimore, MD
Art for a New Understanding, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Nanabozho’s Sisters, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2017
Observatories, Jackson Center for the Arts, Jackson, WY
Past Myth Future Form, Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY
The Geometry of Expression, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Home + Discordance = US, NYU Washington DC, Washington, DC
Survivance: North American Arts from the Past and Present, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Lending Library, Beltway Public Works, Washington, DC
(IM)migration, Community College of Baltimore County Essex Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Hope and Trauma in a Poisoned Land, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
Synergy Visual Arts Exhibition, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC
Dogs: Faithful and True, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
2016
Ward 12, Halcyon House, Washington, DC
Sondheim Artscape Prize Semifinalists Exhibition, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2015
Identity Cinema: Volume Four, Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
AFP16 Visual Arts Exhibition, I Street Galleries, Washington, DC
Alumni in the Arts Biennial Exhibition, Black Family Visual Art Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2014
Storytelling: The Contemporary Native Art Biennial, 2nd edition, Art Mûr, Montreal, Quebec
Setting|Land, Grimsby Art Gallery, Grimsby, Ontario
Reprise: 40 to the Fore, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
Setting|Land, Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
2013
Slippage, Towson University Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson, MD
Connect 4, Martin Luther King Library, Washington, DC
Thicker Than Water, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Setting|Land, A Frame Gallery, Sioux Lookout, Ontario
2012
smoke signals: istwa, paisajes and allegories, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, FL
TIME Temporary Installations Made for the Environment: Navajo Nation, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
We are Here, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY
Setting|Land, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2011
We are Here: Native Expression in the 21st Century, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Here, Now, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
Collaboration for Awareness: Artists Protesting Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA
Callback, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2010
Scrapes: Unruly Embodiment in Video Art, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Female Shorts Film Festival, The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
Northwest Convergence, The Loft at Atlas Arts Center, Washington, DC
Video Installation, Experience Music Project | Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Seattle, WA
2009
After School Lessons, Dreamspace Gallery, London, England
Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World, Art Gallery of Ontario, Musee des beaux-arts de l'Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
The Muhheakantuck in Focus, Wave Hill Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY
Code-Switchers, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
Bedtime Stories, Red House Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2007
Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
The New York Armory Show, Presented by Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY
Conservation and Construction: The Evolution of the American Landscape, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA
2006
Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, 20th Anniversary, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Invisible Graffiti: Magnet Show, On-site installation in a Richard Serra Torqued Ellipse, Bronx, NY
2005
Contemporary Native American Art in New York, Citigroup, New York, NY
2004
Albuquerque Contemporary 2004, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM Juried Exhibition (catalogue) *Received Juror’s Choice Award and three Merit Awards
2003
All Together Now, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
2024 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
2023 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
2021 Creative Capital Award
2018 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship
2017 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship
2016 S&R Foundation Studios Program Fellowship
2015 Harpo Foundation Artist Grant
2015 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Artist Fellowship
2015 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship
2013 Cultural DC Artist Fellowship
2011 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship
2008 Institute for Civil Society Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship, Atlantic Center for the Arts
2006 Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship
2004 Juror’s Choice Award, Albuquerque Contemporary, Albuquerque Museum
2002 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship
2002 Yale University-Skowhegan Fellowship
2001 Di Modolo Award, Worldstudio Foundation
Artist Residencies
2024 MacDowell, Peterborough, NH
2024 Indigo Arts Alliance, Portland, ME
2021 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2021 Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2021 Sandy Spring Friends School, Sandy Spring, MD
2020 Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2019 Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2017 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
2008 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2008 Grand Canyon National Park, Artist-in-Residence, AZ
2008 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2007 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, Master Artist: Paul Pfeiffer
2002 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Public Collections
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Fine Arts Museum at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
University of Denver, Denver, CO
The Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI
Bibliography
Rinaldi, Ray Mark. “MCA takes a break from trauma for something rare in contemporary art shows: Humor.” The Denver Post, July 24, 2023
https://www.denverpost.com/2023/07/24/anna-tsouhlarakis-indigenous-absurdities-mca-denver-funny/
Schaller, Allison. “Kith and Kin: A Smithsonian exhibition Explores Complex Bonds.” Vanity Fair, January, 2023
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fa5ca7de0fad509d0a9675f/t/639e73c7ab66435847fe8636/1671328717426/IMG_1293.jpg
Perez, Kacey. “Anna Tsouhlarakis – An Icon in the Native American and Art Community.” The House Magazine, Aug 16, 2022.
https://issuu.com/thehouseofperez/docs/july_2022_the_american_icon_issue_rumer_cover_uplo
Mordacq, Jessica. “Celebrating Three Indigenous Artists for native American Heritage Month.” Boulder Lifestyle, November, 2021.
https://citylifestyle.com/articles/celebrating-three-indigenous-artists-for-native-american-heritage-month
Martinez. Nicole. “Leticia Bajuyo, Anna Tsouhlarakis and Alisa Sikelianos-Carter.” Fountain Head Arts, June, 2021.
https://www.fountainheadarts.org/stories/blog-post-title-three-x9d6e
Editor. “Anna Tsouhlarakis: To Bind or to Burn.” Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 2021.
https://fac.coloradocollege.edu/exhibits/anna-tsouhlarakis-to-bind-or-to-burn/