exhibitions

solo
2011 Double Vision: New Works by Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1/7-3/31 and C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, 9/29-12/2.
2009 Kill the Man, Save the Indian, FotoArt Festival, Bielsko, Poland, 10/16-10/31. I am Not a Mascot!, Women’s Center Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, 4/3-6/5.
2005 Against Amnesia: Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Mois de la Photo, Dazibao, Montreal, Oct. Two-Spirit Honor Project, Native Wellness Research Center, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2004 Community Spirit Award Recipients, First Peoples Fund, Rapid City, SD.
2003 Portraits Against Amnesia, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Aug-Sep .
2002 Native Women of Hope, The Tempe Library, Tempe AZ, June-August.
2001 An Aboriginal World View: Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Tribe, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 10/25-11/24. First Peoples Fund, Award Recipients, 2000, Denver Art Museum, CO.
2000 Native Women of Hope, The Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 4/1-5/1.
1999 Images of Seminole Identity: Dialogues in Art and Anthropology, The Claude Pepper Changing Art Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, 2/26-3/19.
1998 New Works: H.J. Tsinhnahjinnie, CN Gorman Museum, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 4/12-7/12.
1997 Art of the Americas, Identity Crisis, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 7/16-12/7. Native Women of Hope: Portraits of Indigenous Women, 1199 Gallery, Bread and Roses Cultural Project, New York, NY, 3/7-4/7.
(Commissioned by Union 1199 to photograph twelve Native women for a series of posters entitled, “Women of Hope: Native American and Hawaiian”. Time spent on the project, one year.
1994 Photographic Memoirs of an Aboriginal Savant, CN Gorman Museum, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 11/13-12/23.
1993 Nobody’s Pet Indian, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 4/2-5/1. Heroes, Meridien Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 4/1-5/1.
1991 Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, The Brick Hut Café, Berkeley, CA, 1/20-2/28. Native Motion, Campos Photography Center, Tonawanda, NY, 5/20-7/1.

 

group
2011

Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, 10/8-3/1/2012.

Fragile Connection, The University of Texas at Dallas, University Theatre Gallery, 2/8-4/16.

Acting Up: Performing the Indian, Platform Gallery, Winnepeg, 1/21-3/4.

Map(ing) 2011: Working Proof, Night Gallery, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Phoenix, 1/6-1/30.

2010

Unfixed: Photography and postcolonial perspectives in contemporary art, Center for Contemporary Art, Dordrecht, the Netherlands 10/23-12/4.

2009

Shelley + Hulleah = Trouble, you me gallery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 7/10-8/9.
                                               
Spirit Red: Visions of Native American Artists from the Rennard Strickland Collection, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, 6/4-9/13.

Visual Sovereignty: International Indigenous Photography, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, 4/3-9/4.

2008

From the 4 Directions, SOMARTS Bay Gallery, San Francisco, 7/3-7/31.

Identities, Cecil and Ida Green Center, University of Texas, Dallas, 2/1-3/7.

2007

Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers, Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 3/26-5/31; Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA, 9/15-1/31/08; Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis 2/4-5/31; AmerInd Foundation, Dragoon 8/1-3/30/09. On tour through Mid-America Arts Alliance through 2016.

Internal Exile, from Palestine to the USA to Mexico, SOMARTS Bay gallery, San Francisco, 11/19-30.
 
PIKO, Indigenous Artist Gathering, Marriott Outrigger, Kailua Kona, 6/17-6/23; East/West Gallery, Hilo, HI, 6/18-6/27.

Digital Transitions, Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery, New York, 1/8-3/16.

2006

Intersections: Locating Acts of Courage, Monterrey Bay Women’s Caucus for Art, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, 6/1-7/15.

Enduring Spirit: 4th Annual Native Women’s Leadership Development Forum & Enduring Spirit Awards Honoring Luncheon, Event and Honoree Portraits, 5/11.

Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, 4/7-9/28.

Holy Land: Diaspora and the Desert, Heard Museum, Phoenix, 4/8-12/31.

2005

Land, Peoples, Identities, International Center of Bethelem, Dar annadwa Addawliya, Bethlehem, Palestine, Nov-Dec.

Eiteljorg Fellowship Collection, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianpolis, IN, 11/1-2/1.

The Hungry Woman, Visual Design, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, May.

Two-Spirit Honor Project, Native Wellness Research Center, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

H.J. Tsinhnahjinnie & Friends, Memorial Union Art Gallery, UC Davis, CA, 3/5-4/15.

Te Mata, Contemporary Indigenous Artists Gathering, Hastings, New Zealand, Jan.

2004

Encounters, The Lewis and Clark Museum, Portland, OR.

Images of Identity, The University Library Gallery, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA. 9/3-11/13.

Public/Private: Tumatanui/Tumataiti The 2nd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand, Aotearoa.

Only Skin Deep, International Center for Photography, New York, NY.

2003

Deep Roots, Sioux Indian Museum, Rapid City, SD.

Pathfinders: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN, 11/8-2/1.

2002

Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950-2000, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 6/22-11/3.

An Aboriginal World View with Aboriginal Dreams, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Video Installation, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 4/30-5/7.

Indian Art Fact, George Eastman House, Rochester NY, 5/4-8/25.

2001

An Aboriginal World View: Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Tribe, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 10/25-11/24, (solo).

Re-Imaging the West: A New History, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA 5/16-6/16.

Indomitable, Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 2/20-2/28.

2000

Native Women of Hope, The Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 4/1-5/1, (solo).

Deep Roots…Indian Artists, Community Heroes, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, 11/3-5/6.

American Dreams Sixth International Triennial, The Ecology and the Art, Umetnostna Galerija Marlbor, Slovenia, 9/1-10/15.

1999

Altering the Discourse: Contemporary Native American Women Photographers Facing the Year 2000, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Traveling Exhibitions Program, Arizona Commission on the Arts.       

Outwest, Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, NM.

Images of Seminole Identity: Dialogues in Art and Anthropology, The Claude Pepper Changing Art Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, 2/26-3/19, (solo).

1998

Native Nations: Journeys in American Photography, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England, 9/7-1/99.

Defiance: OUR SELVES, Black and Native American Photography, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA, 4/4-5/15.

Dimensions of Native America: The Contact Zone, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, 2/13-3/31, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL, 4/15-6/17.

1997

Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO.

Indian Casino: Slots and Sovereignty, Redding Museum, Redding, CA.

1996

Dark Planet: The Absolute and Unflinching Nature of Beauty, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 11/12-12/15.

Indian Casino: Slots and Sovereignty, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA, 11/7-12/12.

Transforming Social Order, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 9/6-10/4.

Shared Visions, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, traveling exhibit, Auckland, Christ Church, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Indigenous America: The Glass Floor, State University of New York College at Cortland, Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, Cortland, NY, 2/2-3/8.

1995

Image and Self in Contemporary Native American Photoart, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 9/9-11/26.

Post-Colonial California, San Francisco State University College of Creative Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2/27-3/23.

Moving the Message: Artist’s Social Actions from Private to Public, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, 3/9-4/29.

1994

Keepers of the Western Door, Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

This Path We Follow, Gustave Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute, New York, NY, 10/27/94-10/95.

Watchful Eyes, Native Women Artists, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 10/4/94-10/95.

Praising the Spirit, 803 Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 4/30-5/31.

New World (Dis)Order, Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco, CA, 2/11- .

1993

Stand, Erie Art Museum, Bruce Art Gallery, Edinboro, PA, 12/11/93-1/29/94.

Partial Recall, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 10/3-11/3, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 1/19-94-2/11/94.

Defining Our Realities: Native American Women Photographers, Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2/3-5/23.

1992

Divide and Conquer, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA, 12/11-2/2.

International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Municipality Nejat F. Eczacibasi Art Museum, Halic, Turkey, 10/17-11/30.

500 Years Later/Present Day Realities, Everhart Museum, Sacraton, PA, 9/6-10/25.

The People Themselves, Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA, 8/25-10/12.

Message Carriers, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, 10/9-11/8/92, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, 11/10-10/8/93,  Raymond Johnston Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 6/10-7/8/94.

Ancestral Memories, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, 9/20-11/14.

Imaging Indian, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY, 5/6-7/11.

1991

The Figure Identified, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 9/28-11/28.

Counter-Colon-lalismo, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA, 11/27-’93.

Art and Society: Face to Face, Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA, 10/6-12/14.

Truth or Consequences, Salad Bar, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 9/16-10/3.

The American Scene, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 5/3-7/13.

Shared Visions, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, ’91-96, United States and New Zealand traveling exhibit.

Composite Images, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, 1/20-2/24.

Works on Paper, Southwest Museum, Pasadena, CA, 10/1- /92.

1990

Talking Drums, Koncepts Gallery, Oakland, CA, 10/1-11/30.

Native Photographers, Stewart Indian School Museum, Reno, NV, 10/92-11/92.

Artifacts for the Seventh Generation: Multimedia, Multi-tribal Visions, American Indian Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, 9/13-11/16.

It’s All Relative: First & Second Generation Artists, American Indian Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, 7/12-9/8.

Language of the Lens: Contemporary Native Photographers, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 6/16- /93.

Compensating Imbalances, American Indian Contemporary Arts traveling exhibit, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2/9-4/15, Inter-cultural Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA.

Political Prints, La Pena, Berkeley, CA, 1/16-1/31.

1989 Genre: People Doing Everyday Things, Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA, 1/23-2/23.
1988 Compensating Imbalances, American Indian Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, 11/9-12/15.
1986 The Photograph and the American Indian, The Library, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 9/8-1/16.
1985

Metropolitan Indian Series, Galeria Posada, Sacramento, CA, 6/6-7/2.

San Francisco Arts Festival, American Indian Contemporary Arts, San Francisco Civic Center, San Francisco, CA, 7/24-7/23.

Photographing Ourselves: Contemporary Native American Photography, ATLATL, Phoenix, AZ, traveling 5/3/85-6/30/87.

1984

Native Images: Native Photography, American Indian Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, 4/3-5/26.

The First American Indian Exp. ’84, XXIII Olympiad, American Indian Center, Los Angeles, CA, 6/12-8/28.

1983 Artistas Indigenas, Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 12/6-12/24, and Austin, TX, 9/7/83-9/30/84.
1982 Native Americans Now, Santa Rosa Jr. College Museum, Santa Rosa, CA, 10/7-11/13.
1981 Three Indian Women Photographers, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 6/15-6/27.
1980 The Last Picture Show, The Triumvirate: Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 10/11-11/15.
1977 Indian Art Today: Traditional and Contemporary, Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM, 7/31-10/2.
1975 Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM.