Jason Garcia
Okuu Pin--Turtle Mountain
583 Star Road
Espanola, NM 87532
www.okuupin.com
EDUCATION
2016
Master of Fine Arts
University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin
1998
Bachelor of Fine Arts
University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
2017
Artist In Business Leadership Fellow
First Peoples Fund Rapid City, South Dakota
2016
Artist In Residency
Institute of American Indian Arts Santa Fe, New Mexico
Best of Classification and Best of Division Awards
SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market Santa Fe, New Mexico
Advanced Opportunity Fellow
University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin
2015
Advanced Opportunity Fellow
University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin
2012
American Indian Chancellors Fellow
University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin
Helen Cox Kersting Award
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Indianapolis, Indiana
2011
American Indian Chancellors Fellow
University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin
2010
Judges Choice Award
Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market Phoenix, Arizona
2009
Best of Classification and Best of Division Awards
SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008
Conrad House Award for Innovation
Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market Phoenix, Arizona
2007
Ronald N. & Susan Dubin Fellow
School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, New Mexico
Honorable Mention
Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market Phoenix, Arizona
2006
Second Place and Third Place Awards
SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market Santa Fe, New Mexico
Best of Division Award
Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market Phoenix, Arizona
LECTURES/FILMS
2017
Speaker-“Pride and Power: ReImagining Indigenous Identity”
Indigenous Comic Con 2017 Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico
Speaker-“THE FUTURE OF NATIVE ART”
Robert T. Coe Foundation Santa Fe, New Mexico
Speaker
Poeh Museum Pojoaque Pueblo, New Mexico
Speaker
Willamette University Salem, Oregon
Speaker
Haffenreffer Museum, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island
2016
Speaker
Robert T. Coe Foundation Santa Fe, New Mexico
Speaker-Southwest Seminars Lecture Series
Hotel Santa Fe Santa Fe, New Mexico
2015
Speaker-New Mexico Poetic Seminar
Santa Fe Art Institute Santa Fe, New Mexico
Speaker-Jeanne & Richard Leavitt Lectureship: ‘American Craft In Context’
University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa
“Every Hero Has A Story-Summer Reading at NM Tribal Libraries
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Santa Fe, New Mexico
NMPBS ¡COLORES!: Tewa Artist Jason Garcia.
New Mexico PBS KNME-TV Albuquerque, New Mexico
2014
Jason Garcia - Nordamerika Native Museum.
Nordamerika Native Museum Zurich, Switzerland
Speaker-Native American Heritage Month
Northern New Mexico College Espanola, New Mexico
EXHIBITIONS
2017
TEWA TALES OF SUSPENSE!
Poeh Museum Pojoaque Pueblo, New Mexico
Catch 22-Paradox on Paper
Robert T. Coe Foundation Santa Fe, New Mexico
P’o: Symbolic Representations of Water in Pueblo Art
School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, New Mexico
Now Is The Time: Investigating Native Histories and Visions of the Future
Museum of Native Contemporary Art Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Map(ing)-Multiple Artists Printing (Indigenous and Native Geographies)
Arizona State University Art Museum Tempe, Arizona
2016
Back Where They Came From
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art Kansas City, Missouri
'INTO THE FUTURE: CULTURE POWER IN NATIVE AMERICAN ART'
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Santa Fe, New Mexico
TEWA TALES OF SUSPENSE!
7th Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin
“Between Earth and Sky: Contemporary Art from The American Southwest”
Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona
2015
Graphics Art Show-UW Graduate Printmakers
University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin
Quinceañera: Our Story, Our Future
National Hispanic Cultural Center and Art Museum Albuquerque, New Mexico
“Between Earth and Sky: Contemporary Art from The American Southwest”
Sichuan University Chengdu, China
“Between Earth and Sky: Contemporary Art from The American Southwest”
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
“Slices of Wonder”
Axle Contemporary Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico
Super Heroes: Art! Action! Adventure!
Heard Museum Phoenix, Arizona
Orale! Kings Queens of Cool-Nuevo Lowbrow: Pop Culture in the West
Harwood Museum Taos, New Mexico
2014
Native Art Now-Contemporary Indigenous Art
North America Native Museum Zurich, Switzerland
Re: Curtis. Contemporary Indian Artists Respond to the Imagery of Edward S. Curtis
Arizona State Museum Tucson, Arizona
BUILD! Toy Brick Art
Heard Museum Phoenix, Arizona
Gray, Matters
SFCC Visual Arts Gallery, Santa Fe Community College Santa Fe, New Mexico
Native American Voices: The People: Here and Now
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
American POP! Comic Books to Science Fiction
Tempe Center for the Arts Gallery Tempe, Arizona
2013
Inspiration and Identity-20th Century Native American Art
Philbrook Museum of Art Downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma
Ancestral Visions: Contemporary Voices
Edgewood College Gallery. Edgewood College Madison, Wisconsin
Na’a wii k’e ah o’ bu khema--Becoming Badger
7th Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin
Make It Pop
All My Relations Gallery Minneapolis, Minnesota
Leftovers and Appetizers—Second Year Graduate Review
7th Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin
2012
Painted Violins 2012
Santa Fe Symphony Santa Fe, New Mexico
International Society of Electronic Arts 2012: Machine Wilderness
Albuquerque Museum Albuquerque, New Mexico
“Comic Art Indigene”
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center Mashantucket, Connecticut
“Goya’s ‘Los Caprichos’ and Social Satire”
Albuquerque Museum Albuquerque, New Mexico
“Comic Art Indigene”
Rockwell Museum of Western Art Corning, New York
2011
“11.11.11--First Year Graduate Show”
Art Lofts Gallery, University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin
“Counting Coup”
Museum of Contemporary Native Art Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Comic Art Indigene”
Palm Springs Art Museum Palm Springs, California
“Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha”
Museum of Contemporary Native Art Santa Fe, New Mexico
2010
“Transcending Traditions”
Mesa Arts Center Mesa, Arizona
“POP! Popular Culture in Native American Art”
Heard Museum Phoenix, Arizona
2009
“Comic Art Indigene”
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C.
“Map(ing):Working Proof”
Arizona State University Night Gallery Tempe, Arizona
2008
“Comic Art Indigene”
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Santa Fe, New Mexico
2007
“Clay²”
Arizona State Museum Tucson, Arizona
2006
“Okuu Pín-The Art of Jason Garcia”
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Albuquerque, New Mexico
“NATIVE POP!”
Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, New Mexico
“COLOR-Elements of Earth & Fire”
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005
“HOME-Native People in the Southwest”
Heard Museum Phoenix, Arizona
COLLECTIONS
Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona
Brown University Providence, Rhode Island
Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino Pojoaque Pueblo, New Mexico
Des Moines Art Center Des Moines, Iowa
Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Art Phoenix, Arizona
Museum of Contemporary Native Art Santa Fe, New Mexico
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Santa Fe, New Mexico
National Hispanic Cultural Center Albuquerque, New Mexico
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City, Missouri
Newberry Library Chicago, Illinois
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art Overland Park, Kansas
North America Native Museum Zurich, Switzerland
Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa, Oklahoma
Poeh Museum Pojoaque Pueblo, New Mexico
Santa Clara Pueblo Day School Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico
Talking Stick Resort and Casino Scottsdale, Arizona
University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa
University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian Santa Fe, New Mexico
PUBLICATIONS
Santa Fe Indian Market: A History of Native Arts and the Marketplace
Bruce Bernstein, PhD
Museum of New Mexico Press, 2012
REVOLT - An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico.
Matthew Liebmann, PhD.
University of Arizona Press, 2012.
Cover artist.
Counting Coup Exhibition Catalogue
Foreword by Patsy Phillips, Director. Essays by Ryan Rice, Chief Curator and Jolene Rickard, Guest Essayist.
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 2011
White Shell Water Place: Native American reflections on the Santa Fe 400th commemoration.
Edited by F. Richard Sanchez; with Stephen Wall and Ann Filemyr.
Sunstone Press, 2010.
Cover artist and cartouche.
‘"POP! Pop Culture in American Indian Art" blends Warhol and Spider-Man with Ceramics and Beadwork’ Phoenix New Times
Tricia Parker
August 26 – September 1, 2010. Volume 41, Number 34
“Without Reservation”
Art ltd. Magazine
Scott Andrews
March, 2010
Talking with the Clay: The Art of Pueblo Pottery in the 21st Century
Stephen Trimble
SAR Press, 2007
Hopi & Pueblo Tiles: An Illustrated History
Kim Messier & Pat Messier
Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2007