INVITED TALKS, SYMPOSIA AND SEMINARS
(Selected | Recent)
The Albuquerque Museum, “Across the Lake.” (April 2024)
The National Hispanic Cultural Center, “Platicas Para Cambio: Film Symposium.” (February 2024)
American Indian Studies Association, “In Praxis: An Indigenous Feminist Art History Approach to Collective Knowledge Making.” (Feb 2024)
Native American Art Studies Association. Paper “Articulating Queer Indigenous Pedagogies for Art History.”
What Was Ours at the University of New Mexico, panel discussion on re-thinking Native curation and repatriation with Drs. Jennifer Denetdale, Marcella Ernest, and Jolene Manus. Sponsored by the Institute for American Research. Invited Panelist
International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs at the University of California, Berkeley on the theme “Relations Beyond Colonial Borders: Indigeneity, Racialization, Hospitality” Invited Speaker
516 ARTS, “Artists as Knowledge Carriers” Albuquerque, NM, Invited Panelist
Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Invited Speaker
Basement Films Public Talk at Arts Lab, Albuquerque, NM, Invited Speaker
Basement Films Presents Experiments in Cinema v 16.1; Invited Curator of Experiments 6 Acts of Reciprocity
z-topia video podcast & talk show hosted by Phil Balagtas of the Design Futures Initiative; Invited Guest
Society for Cinema and Media Studies “Indigenous Sound Studies” Seattle, WA; Panel Participant
University of California Los Angeles, Department of Gender Studies, “Indigenous Others and the Gaze” Los Angeles, CA; Invited Speaker
The Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, in Honor of Luana Ross; Invited Speaker
Native American Art Studies Association “Decolonizing the Screen: Visual Sovereignty through Indigenous Moving Image Arts” (Chair, Dr. Kristin L. Dowell) Minneapolis, MN (Conference Presenter)
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association “Ojibwe Language and Memory in Multimedia Art, Research and Genealogy” Aotearoa, New Zealand (Conference Presenter)
Smithsonian National Museum (NMAI) “Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound” New York, NY
The Autry Museum of the American West “Reduction” Los Angeles, CA
New York Museum of Arts and Design, CROSSROADS: ART + NATIVE FEMINISM” New York, NY
Occidental College, “Biocolonialsm, Native Feminist Voice, and Visual Representations” Los Angeles, CA
57thLa Biennale di Venezia Symposium with Dr. Nancy Mithlo, “Indigenous Women, Arts and the Environment.” Venice, Italy (EU)
ART EXHIBITION
(Recent | Selected)
2023
Alabama Contemporary Art Center, “Borderwaters”
516 ARTS, “Artists as Knowledge Carriers” Albuquerque, NM
Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver
2022
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, “From the Earth” Minneapolis, Minnesota
Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans “H2O Exhibition” New Orleans, LA
Maidu Museum, “WUTE •PAĪ PE’ A WĒNĒ YO•” Roseville, CA
2021
NYC Gallery Apexart, “Native Feminisms” New York City, NY
Lincoln Center Gallery, Center for Fine Art Photography “The Right to Herself” Fort Collins, CO
Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art at James Madison University. Gallery Exhibition “7 Works to Bend Time”
(Past | Selected)
Center for Visual Arts, “Gravity of Perception” MSU Denver, CO
Smithsonian NMAI Native Cinema Showcase “Blood (and) Memory 2” Santa Fe Indian Market, NM *Screening only
Seattle International Film Festival “Blood (and) Memory 2” Seattle, WA (USA) *Screening only
Echo Park Film Center Annual Super 8 commissioning program with Acid-Free Los Angeles
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, “Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound” Nov 10, 2017–January 2019. New York, NY (USA) Kathleen Ash-Milby, Associate Curator at the Smithsonian for NMAI http://nmai.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item/?id=960
Wah.shka, during the 57th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (EU)
The Autry Museum of the American West, “Reduction”Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Edicao do Dobra- International de Cinema Experimental. Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de (Janeiro, Brazil)
56th La Biennale di Venezia. “Ga Ni Tha”May 2015. Venice, Italy
Williamsburg Art and Historical Center. “Self” May 2015. Brooklyn, NY
Los Angeles Film Forum. “The Los Angeles Nomadic Division’s LAND “Manifest Destiny Billboard Project” June Los Angeles, CA
The McCord Museum “Iakwé:iahre Colloquium”October– April, Montreal, Canada
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum “Can YouHear Me?Silence as an Indigenous Representational Strategy in Film” Palm Springs, CA
Brenda Taylor Gallery “Feminist Forms and Resistance” Chelsea Art New York City, NY
Museum of Modern Art “ChangingHands 3” NYC, NY
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Washington, D.C.
Cotton Candy Machine. With the artist Skinner. Brooklyn, NY
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. “Soul Sister” SantaFe, NM
Metropolis “Special selection”Madrid, Spain
MIX NYC“Gay and Lesbian Experimentalism” NewYorkCity, NY
REVIEWS OF ART WORK (Selected)
The New Yorker. Art Section. Review of “Native Feminisms” by Andrea K. Scott https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/native-feminisms
Alec Peterson. “Gallery: Gravity of Perception.” SALT Magazine. January 2019 https://saltmag.online/2019/01/19/gallery-gravity-of-perception/
HYPERALLERGIC. Paddy Johnson “Technology is Our New Nature,” August 2018 http://<https://hyperallergic.com/456419/technology-is-our-new-nature/>
Art Daily. “10 Native American artists challenge boundaries of tradition at National Museum of the American Indian,” September 2, 2018 http://artdaily.com/news/100135/10-Native-American-artists-challenge-boundaries-of-tradition-at-National-Museum-of-the-American-Indian#.W4tqKS-ZO9Y
American Indian Magazine. Kathleen Ash-Milby. “Art That Moves,” Fall 2017/ Vol.18 No.3. http://< https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/art-moves>
National Endowment for the Arts – Art Works Blog. Rebecca Sutton “Five Questions with Keli Mashburn and Marcella Ernest,” November 21, 2017 https://www.arts.gov/art-works/2017/five-questions-keli-mashburn-marcella-ernest
The New York Metro. Linda Laban, “This is what Native American art looks like in the 21st century” November 7, 2017 https://www.metro.us/things-to-do/new-york/native-american-modern-art
Canadian Art. Ryan Rice, “Trouble Me Venice: An Indigenous Curator’s View of the Biennale,” May 30, 2017 http://canadianart.ca/reviews/ryan-rice-venice-biennale/
First American Art Magazine. Sarah Tamashiro “La Biennale di Venezia,” Issue 16, Fall 2017 Pp 78-79
Global Arts and Politics Alliance, Review “What VENICE BIENNALE 57: WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT TO SEE THIS YEAR?” http://www.ga-pa.org/2017/05/01/venice-biennale-57-political-social-topics/
First American Art Magazine. John Rangel, “Ga ni tha, Three Native Women, and the Venice Biennale” No. 8 Fall 2017
Huffington Post. Dawn Morais, “NACF Fellows Bring Hawaii to the 2015 Venice Biennale,” June 6 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dawn-morais/nacf-fellows-bring-hawaii_b_7520406.html
VANS Official Art Blog “Skinner X Marcella Ernest Viz-Hun & Juxtapoz Adult Swim Triptych,” 2011
NTERVIEWS
Interview: The Guggenheim Museum (2020)
Interview: Art Works Blog, National Endowment for the Arts (2017)
https://www.arts.gov/art-works/2017/five-questions-keli-mashburn-marcella-ernest
Interview: “Native American Art, Feminist Filmmaking and the Power of Podcasting” Imagine Otherwise Podcast Series for Alternative Academics (2017) https://ideasonfire.net/podcast/43-marcella-ernest/
Interview: BITCH Magazine,Issue 58, p10,winterissue,(2015) http://bitchmagazine.org/issue/65
Interview: BITCH Magazine,Pulp edition,Winter2014, Issue 65, p68,
Interview: Native Peoples Magazine, Jul/Aug2012, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p160,
Featured Artist: Kimiwan issue #6 “sex & gender.” Sikwan