Red Skin Dreams
Twenty Years of Curating Indigenous Art at the Venice Biennale

By (author) Nancy Marie Mithlo

ISBN13: 9781496234568

Imprint: University of Nebraska Press

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 01/02/2026

Availability: Not yet available

Description
In Red Skin Dreams curator and scholar Nancy Marie Mithlo (Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe) recounts the challenges of exhibiting Indigenous art at the famed Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most-recognized international arts exhibition. Mithlo’s experience of organizing nine independently sponsored exhibitions in Italy from 1997 through 2017 reveals marginalization and breakthroughs in an ever-shifting global art market. Mithlo’s curated exhibitions highlighted contemporary American Indian and Indigenous artists on a global scale while also calling into question the dichotomies of margin and center, insider and outsider. Her scholarship asserts that Indigenous peoples are active participants in the contemporary arts world, despite mainstream assumptions to the contrary. This is a story about how Indigenous peoples-both collectively and individually-claim a place in a transnational world that often forgets their presence. It is a story not only about arrival but belonging.
List of Illustrations Preface            Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Ceremonial 1999 Chapter Three: Umbilicus 2001 Chapter Four: Pellerossasogna 2003 Di Mezzo Chapter Five: Requickening 2007 Chapter Six: Rendezvoused 2009 Chapter Seven: Epicentro 2011 / Air, Land, Seed 2013 Chapter Eight: Ga ni tha 2015 / Wash.ka 2017 Epilogue
  • Art treatments & subjects
  • Biography: general
  • Art of indigenous peoples
  • Indigenous peoples
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
Height:
Width:
Spine:
Weight:0.00
List Price: £35.00