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James Luna Biography James Luna Biography 1950 Two Multimedia Installations, Center for Contemporary Born: Orange, California Arts, Santa Fe Enrolled Luiseño Tribe Indian Tales, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego; La Jolla Reservation, California The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe; Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada 2018 Indian Tales: Stories of Native People from the Rez Died: New Orleans, Louisiana and Cities, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Sometimes It’s Not So Beautiful to Be an Indian, EDUCATION Intermedia Arts and Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis 1976 The Red Album, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago University of California Irvine 1993 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Relocation Stories, Capp Street Project, San Francisco 1981 New Basket Designs, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago Rolando Castellón Gallery, San Francisco The History of the Luiseño People: La Jolla Reservation, Christmas 1990, Memorial Art Gallery of the 1982 University of Rochester, New York James Luna, San Jose State University, California Indian Tales, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California; Humboldt State University, Arcata, 1983 California San Diego State University James Luna, University of Colorado at Denver; University of Oklahoma, Norman 1987 The Shameman, Art Awareness, Lexington, New York The Artifact Piece, Sushi Gallery, San Diego 1994 1989 The Sacred Colors, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Two Worlds, International Arts Relations Gallery, New Connecticut York; Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego Old Designs/New Messages, Pomona College Museum of Art, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, California 1991 The Shameman: My Way, Imagining Indians: Native On the Spiritual, Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery, American Film and Video Festival, Scottsdale Delgado Community College, New Orleans Center for the Arts, Arizona; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina 1992 James Luna: My Way, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design James Luna: Actions and Reactions, An Eleven Year Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York Survey of Installation/Performance Work 1981–1992, My Way, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of The Web of Life (with Palomar Choir and Chamber California, Santa Cruz Singers), Palomar College, San Marcos, California Places for People to Meet, Art Awareness, Lexington, New York 1995 The Sacred Colors, Galeria Posada, Sacramento, Tribal Identity: An Installation by James Luna, Hood California Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New James Luna, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Hampshire Beach, Florida The Shameman, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Futuristic Native Outfits for Night Raids (and Other Milwaukee, Wisconsin; New Mexico State University, Paraphernalia), 911 Media Arts, Seattle, Washington Las Cruces Petroglyphs in Motion [performance], SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico 1996 Tribal Identity, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern 2001 Oregon University, Ashland James Luna, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, The Dream Hat Ritual, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California California Take a Picture with a Real Indian and Creation and In My Dreams, Getty Center, Los Angeles, California; Destruction of an Indian ATLATL Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma; The Swiss Reservation, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas Institute, New York; Siena Heights College, Adrian, American Indian Studies, Washington State University, Michigan Pullman American Indian Studies II, The Heard Museum, 1997 Phoenix, Arizona; University of California San Diego; The Dream Hat Ritual, Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, University of California Santa Cruz Washington The Deadfall Revue, Institute of American Indian Arts Our Indians, Arizona State University, Tempe Museum, Santa Fe, New Two Installations, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, Mexico California Subterranean Post Indian Blues, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, California 1998 Take a Picture with a Real Indian, Cornell University, The Spirits of Virtue and Evil Await My Ascension, Ithaca, New York University of Wyoming, Laramie; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia 2002 Our Indians, Florida State University, Tallahassee Petroglyphs in Motion [installation], de Saisset Collage, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Museum, Santa Clara University, California Rapids, Michigan 2003 1999 The Sun and Moon Blues, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, The Ballad of the Shameman and Betty Day Bird, Canada Tozzer Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Artists on the Cutting Edge: Cross Fertilizations Series, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary American Indian Studies, Georgia State University, Art San Diego Atlanta; Living Arts of Tulsa, Oklahoma Take a Picture with a Real Indian/The Sun and Moon The Last Wild California Indian, Cleveland Public Blues, University of Essex, Colchester, United Theater, Ohio Kingdom The Last Wild California Indian and Collage, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York 2005 James Luna: Emendatio, Venice Biennale, June 12– 2000 November 6 Outfits & Other Paraphernalia for Night Raids, California State University, San Marcos 2014 The Ballad of the Shameman and Betty Day Bird, I CON, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, March 17– Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, Oklahoma April 16, 2014 The Chapel of the Sacred Colors, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 2020 Canada James Luna: Take a Picture with a Real Indian, Garth American Indian Studies, National Museum of Wildlife Greenan Gallery, New York, September 10– Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming; 7A*11d International December 19 Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1991 Facing the Finish: Some Recent California Art, San 1975 Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Carl N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis Encuentro: Invasion of the Americas and the Making of Native American Art Exhibit for the Governor of the Mestizo, Social and Public Art Resource Center California, California State Capitol Building, Gallery, Venice, California Sacramento SITEseeing: Travel and Tourism in Contemporary Art, Native American Art, American Indian Studies Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Department, San Diego State University, California Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century, Heard Museum, Phoenix, 1981 Arizona; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Carl N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana Disputed Identities, California Museum of Photography, 1986 University of California, Riverside; Presentation Made in Aztlan, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia California Selected Works 1990–91, Palomar College, San Marcos, Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, California California He’s Resting Now, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Contemporary American Indian Art, San Bernardino Diego, California County Museum, Redlands, California Indigenous America: Honoring Our Heritage, University of 1987 California, San Diego Arts and Culture Show, Public Arts Advisory Council, Counter-Colonialismo, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San San Diego Diego, California En Memoria, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego San Francisco Arts Commission Public Art Program, Street Sets, Sushi Gallery, San Diego Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, California Submuloc Show/Columbus Wohs, ATLATL Traveling 1988 Exhibition, Phoenix, Arizona Up Tiempo!, El Museo del Barrio/Creative Time, New York 1992 California Mission Daze, Installation Gallery, San Diego, Sites of Recollection: Four Altars and a Rap Opera, California Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Native American Art in the ‘80s, University of California, Massachusetts; Museum of the National Center of Riverside Afro-American Artists, Boston, Massachusetts Body Takes, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Ontario, 1990 Canada The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery 1980s, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario York, in collaboration with the New Museum As Public As Race, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Banff, Alberta, Canada Contemporary Hispanic Art The Alcove Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Art History/AA Meeting, Atlanta College of Art, Georgia Mexico Disputed Identities, San Francisco Camerawork, Kísh Tétayawet Wampkísh (Dream House) with Lewis California deSoto, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, California Mission Daze, California Indian Conference, California Riverside Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors The Tell Tale Heart, Washington Project for the Arts, in the Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Oregon; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma 2 Worlds, American Indian Community House Gallery, The People Themselves: Native American Photography, New York Los Angeles Photography Center, California Cultural Diversity in American Theater, University of California, San Diego Message Carriers: Contemporary Photography by Re: public/Listening to San Diego, Museum of Native American Artists, Photographic Resource Photographic Arts, San Diego, California Center, Boston University, Massachusetts Native America: Reflecting Contemporary Realities, 1997 Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum of Facing the Finish: Some Recent California Art, Art Art and Culture Center, University of California Los Center College
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