Venaya J Yazzie
Contemporary Diné – Hopi Woman Artist
New Mexico, USA
"Tip Toe through the Sage"
2020
2020
Current Exhibitions:
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Indigenous Brilliance:
Culture Without Compromise Group Exhibition April 1 -May 23, 2022 North Fourth Art Center Albuquerque, New Mexico "Masani' is my Muse: Four Parts of Her" Acrylic mixed media on canvas Venaya's contribution to this group show is her offering of a four-part painting that stands as homage, or honoring of the legacy of her late maternal grandmother, Jane Werito Yazzie. North Fourth Art Center and the link to Indigenous Brilliance wordpress site. |
Past activities and commissions:
"The mountain is a sister"
2021
In late Fall of 2021, Venaya was commissioned by Bears Ears Coalition organization to
create an original painting that "celebrated" the place in the southwest cultural landscape
called "Bears Ears." Venaya made this work with the concept of "sacred places" in mind.
'Shash Jaa' the mountain itself is a vital are of the cultural landscape of the Dine' (Navajo),
Hopi, Zuni, Pueblo and Ute people.
The painting includes many aspcts of the Bears Ears natural community, with specific
attention paid to the flora and fauna, skyscape, and medicinal plant life and insect species
that are unique to this female mountain. Link: www.instagram.com/bearsearscoalition/
create an original painting that "celebrated" the place in the southwest cultural landscape
called "Bears Ears." Venaya made this work with the concept of "sacred places" in mind.
'Shash Jaa' the mountain itself is a vital are of the cultural landscape of the Dine' (Navajo),
Hopi, Zuni, Pueblo and Ute people.
The painting includes many aspcts of the Bears Ears natural community, with specific
attention paid to the flora and fauna, skyscape, and medicinal plant life and insect species
that are unique to this female mountain. Link: www.instagram.com/bearsearscoalition/
Venaya J Yazzie (middle) with the mural she painted in Bluff, UT
'Visit with Respect' Community Mural
In September 2021 Venaya was commissioned by Friends of Cedar Mesa to design and
paint a mural in the community of Bluff, UT. The mural is painted on the building of
Tse' Tooh Outfitters building on the west side of Bluff, in northeast Utah.
www.friendsofcedarmesa.org/new-cultural-mural-to-inspire-respect-for-bears-ears/
In September 2021 Venaya was commissioned by Friends of Cedar Mesa to design and
paint a mural in the community of Bluff, UT. The mural is painted on the building of
Tse' Tooh Outfitters building on the west side of Bluff, in northeast Utah.
www.friendsofcedarmesa.org/new-cultural-mural-to-inspire-respect-for-bears-ears/
dawn mist girl
original art
By Venaya Yazzie
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www.opendoorsartinaction.com/venaya-yazzie High Desert Matriarch Indigenous SW Women Artists Group Exhibition Firecreek Coffeehouse Flagstaff, AZ February - March 2020 Venaya's art has been selected for the 2019 official poster for the - 98th Annual Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial Red Rock State Park Gallup, NM August 2- 11, 2019 "Dawn Mist Girl" is a mixed media piece on Arches archival paper. The painting is rooted in the stories of Dine' (Navajo) story of emergence and migration of the People in the time before the Fourth World existence. |
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Peach Tree Project - Navajo Churro Wool Inspired Designs Group Exhibition Gallery Fritz 540 S. Guadalupe St. Santa Fe, NM Public Premier Opening Friday, August 16 - 5 -7 pm Venaya's original black & white photography will be also featured in this group exhibition Pictured photography is from series "Woman of Water" by Venaya Yazzie |
Second 2 Fourth Series:
The World of the Ancestral
Bird Relatives
Solo exhibition March 9 – April 30, 2018
The Farm Bistro & Lounge, Cortez, CO
Hummingbird Relative
Mixed on Topographic New Mexico map
Venaya Yazzie ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2018
Diné 'Sisters' Series: Shídéézhí doo Shádí
.mountaintop songs-western horizonline.
acrylic mixed media on paper
by venaya yazzie
mountaintop songs II-northern horizonline. acrylic mixed media on paper by venaya yazzie
Art exhibition - Indigenous Brilliance
Venaya has been a participant in the UK group art show titled,
Indigenous Brilliance
traveled and has been exhibited in:
+Highgate London, UK
+Olocau, Spain
+Principality of Seborga, Italy
+Amsterdam, Netherlands.,
+Little Rock Gallery in the Hague, Netherlands.
In 2016 the final European show Indigenous Brilliance was exhibited in
+Scotland.
For more info visit:
http://indigenousbrilliance.wordpress.com/#
.her name is resistance, the earth is her mother.
acrylic mixed media on board by venaya yazzie ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2014 |
.hopi-ness.
by venaya yazzie
This painting was published in 2013 for the annual indigenous Brilliance poster in Europe.
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All Rights Reserved 2014 ©Venaya Yazzie
