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Venaya J Yazzie

Contemporary Diné – Hopi Woman Artist
​
New Mexico, USA
​

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"Tip Toe through the Sage"
​
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:

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"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/

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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/
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dawn mist girl original art By Venaya Yazzie

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
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​
 Second 2 Fourth Series:

The World of the Ancestral

​ Bird Relatives
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 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

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Diné 'Sisters' Series: Shídéézhí doo Shádí
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.mountaintop songs-western horizonline. acrylic mixed media on paper by venaya yazzie
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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/#
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.her name is resistance, the earth is her mother.
acrylic mixed media on board
by venaya yazzie

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2014

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.hopi-ness. by venaya yazzie This painting was published in 2013 for the annual indigenous Brilliance poster in Europe.


All Rights Reserved 2014 ©Venaya Yazzie
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