Dan Namingha – Biography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 David Richard Gallery

2016 Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM

2013 Denver Art Museum; Georgia O’keeffe “Architecture, Katsinum and the Land”

2012 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

L.A. Projects, Kunstraum, Munich, Germany

2011 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

2010 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, FL

Ann Korologos Gallery, Basalt, CO

2009 Solo Exhibition at the Board of Governor’s of The Federal Reserve, Washington, DC

2008 Basalt Gallery, Basalt, CO

Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Lake View Museum, The Southwestern Art Collection of Charles and Jeanette Gilchrist White

Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM

2007 Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ

2006 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

2005 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

2004 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY

Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO

2003 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NM

2002 Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY

2001 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2000 Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA

Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Vanier Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ

J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY

Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO

1999 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Montclair Art Museum Art, Montclair, NJ

1998 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY

Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Joy Tash Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1997 Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, NM

1996 Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

1995 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO

1994 The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO

1992 Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO

The Art Guild, Farmington, CT

“Dan Namingha-Extending Pueblo Images”, Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas, NV

1991 Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

1990 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

1989 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1988 National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

1987 The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

1983-1986

International European Exhibit-Sponsored by the United States Information Agency; Coordinated by Jorg Ludwig, America Haus, Berlin, Germany

The Gallery of East Slovakia, Kasice, Czechoslovakia

The National Museum of Art, Craiova, Romania

The Museum of tarii Crisurilor, Oredea, Romania

The Naprstkova Museum, Prague, Czechoslovakia

The Modern Gallery, Rijeka, Yugoslavia

The Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia

The Museum of Modern Art, Osijek, Yogoslavia

Kunstlerhaus, Gallery of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

German American Institute, Nuremberg, Germany

German American Institute, Heidelberg, Germany

Amerika Haus, Stuttgart, Germany

The State Library and Archives of Lower Saxony, Hanover, Germany

Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany

1980 The Arizona Bank Galleria, Phoenix, AZ

1978-1979

Extensions of the Nampeyo Creative Spirit, CA

Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA

1977 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ

1973-1975

Navajo Gallery, Taos, NM

1973-1975

Cassidy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

EDUCATION

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

American Academy of Art, Chicago, IL

DOCUMENTARIES

1985 PBS Documentary

1988 Interviewed by Charlie Rose on CBS Night Watch

1989 The Art of Dan Namingha, filmed for CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt

1992 PBS Documentary, Dan Namingha; Seeking Center

IMPRINT

Namingha Institute, Flagstaff, AZ

Master Instructors 2021-2022

Dan Namingha and Arlo Namingha

SELECTED PUBLIC and PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

  • New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
  • Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
  • Georgia O’keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
  • Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
  • Cancer Research Center, Albuquerque, NM
  • The Booth Museum, Atlanta, GA
  • Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM
  • Board of Governor’s of the Federal Reserve, Washington, DC
  • The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
  • Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
  • The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
  • British Royal Collection, London, England
  • De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
  • U.S. Embassy Chisinau, Moldova
  • U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia
  • U.S. Embassy Port of Spain
  • U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh
  • U.S. Embassy Caracas, Venezuela
  • Dahlem Museum, Berlin, Germany
  • The Gallery of East Slovakia, Kosice, Czechoslovakia
  • Hallmark Collections and Archives, Kansas City, MO
  • The Heard Museum,Phoenix, AZ
  • Intrawest Financial Corporation, Denver, CO
  • Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM
  • Mountain Bell Collection, Albuquerque, NM
  • The Naprstkovo Museum, Prague, Czechoslovakia
  • NASA Art Collection, Washington, DC
  • Native American Center for the Living Arts, New York, NY
  • Opto 22 Corporation, Huntington Beach, CA
  • Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
  • The Arizona Bank Collection, Phoenix, AZ
  • City of Phoenix Collection, Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, AZ
  • City of Scottsdale Fine Arts Collection, Scottsdale, AZ
  • U.S. Embassy Brasilla, Brazil
  • U.S. Embassy Corpenhagen, Denmark
  • U.S. Embassy La Paz, Bolivia
  • U.S. Embassy Cotonou, Africa
  • U.S. Embassy Geneva, Switzerland
  • State Capitol, Santa Fe, NM
  • Sundance Institute, Park City, UT
  • The Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
  • Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
  • Raymond James Financial, St. Petersburgh, FL

AWARDS

2016 Living Treasures Award, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM

2009 Honorary Doctorate from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2008 The Abbott Sekaquaptewa Award, Futures for Children, Albuquerque, NM

1997 The Visionary Award, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1995 New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1994 Award and Tribute from the Harvard Foundation-Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

2021 Printmakers Exhibition, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM

2019 Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

2018 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

2017 Hasso Plattner Museum Barberini, Germany

Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Santa Fe Botanical Garden, Santa Fe, NM

2016 Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA

2015 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

The Contemporary Art Collection of Charles and Jeanette Gilchrist White, Pueblo, CO

Santa Fe Botanical Garden, “Power and Place”, Santa Fe, NM

Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Funabashi, Japan

Coors Art Exhibit, Denver, CO

2014 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Modern West Art Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

Palm Desert Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Coors Art Exhibit, Denver, CO

2013 Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ

Eclairages Indirects, Chapiteau de Fontanelle, Monaco

Georgia O’keeffe in New Mexico, “Architecture, Katsinum and the Land”, Santa Fe, NM

2012 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Berlin Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Ekaterinburg Museum, Russia

2011 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

2010 Niman Fine Art Santa Fe, NM

2009 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Georgetown, Washington, DC

Ann Korologos Gallery, Basalt, CO

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, OK

2008 The Art Foundation of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Lake View Art Museum, Illinois-The Southern Art Collection of Charles and Jeanette Gilchrist White

Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM

2007 Traveling Exhibit-Out West-The Great American Landscape; Organized by the Meridian International

Center with The National Museum of China in Beijing, Urumqi, Xian and Shanghai

Museum of Northern Arizona, “Elemental Forms; The Art of Dan Namingha and Arlo Namingha”,

Flagstaff, AZ

Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT

2002 American Craft Museum, New York, NY

Galeria im Turm, Berlin, Germany

2001 Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA

1996 Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, Oklahoma City, OK

Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, CA

Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM

1995 Art and the U.N.; “One World Many Visions, New Canaan, CT

Cline Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO

1994 “The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism”, National Museum of the American Indian, Touring Exhibit,

New York, NY

Maryland Institute and College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Westmoreland Museum of Fine Art, Greensburg, PA

Owensboro Museum of Art, Owensboro, KY

Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY

1993 Babcock Galleries, New York, NY

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT

1989 “Sights and Sounds”, Kennedy Space Center Art Gallery, Cape Canaveral, FL

Glyphs of New Mexico, New Interpretations-Governor’s Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1988 Western Heritage Center, Oklahoma City, OK

NASA Art Collect’s tin, “Vision of Flight, Kennedy Space Center; Traveled to: Mesa, AZ, Huntsville, AL,

Washington, DC and Europe

1987 NASA Art Program, Kennedy Space Center, FL

1986 Contemporary Visions of New Mexico; Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference, Pueblo, CO

1983 Flagstaff Festival of Native American Arts, Flagstaff, AZ

FIAC International Exhibit, Grand Palais, Paris, France

1982 American Circle, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

Inaugural Art Exhibition, Armand Hammer United World College, Montezuma, NM

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

1981 Salon d’Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, France

1980-1981

-“Hopi Kachina Spirit Life”, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

-Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

-National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

1980 Native American Center for the Living Arts, Niagara Falls, NY

1979 Contemporary Meridian Painting-Organizd by Lloyd Kiva New; Traveled to Chile, Bolivia, Peru,

Columbia and Equador

“The Real People”, Sponsored by Native American Center for the Living Arts; Tour of Cuba

1978 “Messengers of the Earth”, California State University, Sacramento, CA

Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibit, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ

Graphics Invitational, New Britain, CT

Printmakers Invitational, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ

1977 Invitational Sculpture III Exhibition; The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Alumni Exhibition; Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Phoenix, AZ

1974 Nampeyo Family Exhibition; Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA

1973 Mary Livingston Gallery, Santa Ana, CA

The Cassidy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

Navajo Gallery, Taos, NM

1972 The Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

The Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK