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A monumental gathering of more than 60 contemporary artists, photographers, musicians, writers and more, showcasing diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms and mediums. Click here to learn more about An Indigenous Present.

Click here to read a review of the exhibition Indigenous Absurdities at MCA Denver.

Episode No. 600 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Anna Tsouhlarakis and curator Michael Hartman. Click here for the podcast.

To Bind or To Burn presents recent works by multi-media and performance artist Anna Tsouhlarakis. Tsouhlarakis was the 2019-20 Andrew W. Mellon artist in residence at the FAC. During this time in the studio, she explored projects that questioned how to indigenize contemporary art practice. This exhibition combines art works from these explorations with earlier works to show her continued engagement with the connections between Native American Art and Minimalism. Click here to purchase the book, To Burn or To Bind.

Click here to read Anna Tsouhlarakis’s Artist Diary for her Creative Capital project, Indigenous Aburdities.

Anna Tsouhlarakis: Indigenous Absurdities is an exhibition of new work. (June 14-September 10) Through video, performance, sculpture, photography, and installation, Tsouhlarakis challenges and expands the boundaries of aesthetic and conceptual expectations for Native artmaking to reclaim and rewrite their definitions. Click here to learn more.

Established in 1918 by Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of the founder of Tiffany & Company, the Foundation remains one of the largest single sources of monetary grants to artists working in America today. Since 1980, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation’s biennial competition has awarded artists working in painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, and craft media with grants to produce new work and push the boundaries of their creativity. To learn more about the awardees, click here.

Tsouhlarakis is mentioned the Dec 2022/Jan 2023 issue of Vanity Fair magazine in a write up about the exhibition “Kinship” at the National Portrait Gallery. Click here to learn more.

A new, multilayered commission, “A Native Guide Project: Columbus” builds on Tsouhlarakis’s The Native Guide Project (2019–present), which deploys phrases that are variously poignant and pithy, such as “I LIKE HOW YOU SEE NATIVE AMERICANS AS YOUR INTELLECTUAL EQUAL.” Click here to learn more.

“Language in Times of Miscommunication” presents artworks that use various forms of language to critically examine the complexities of social reality during times of rampant miscommunication. The show will run from March 4 - August 27, 2023. Click here to learn more.

Anna Tsouhlarakis’s work is in the forthcoming exhibition Portraiture Now: Kinship at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC from October 28, 2022 to January 7, 2024. Click here to learn more.

“Transformative Power: Indigenous Feminisms” was open from September 15 - November 27, 2022. The exhibition was guest curated by Daina Warren, and features Indigenous artists from the international stage, including Shuvinai Ashoona, Rebecca Belmore, TJ Cuthand, Dayna Danger, Rosalie Favell, Yuki Kihara, Erica Lord, Nadia Myre, Shelley Niro, Laura Ortman, Annie Pootoogook, Cara Romero, Sarah Sense, and Anna Tsouhlarakis. Click here to learn more.

From April 2 - January 8, 2023, Tsouhlarakis is in “Lux et Veritas”, a group exhibition at the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The exhibition “explores a transformative period in contemporary art by focusing on a generation of artists of color who attended Yale School of Art for graduate studies between 2000 and 2010.” Click here to learn more.

Tsouhlarakis was in the exhibition, “Portals”, a joint project between The Hellenic Parliament and the NEON Foundation. The exhibition ran from June to December 2021 in Athens, Greece. Click here to learn more.

Tsouhlarakis is featured in the American Icon 2022 issue of The House Magazine. Article starts on page 40. Click here to visit the magazine.

“Announcing the 2021 Creative Capital Awards! In this award cycle, we provide 35 selected projects, represented by 42 forward-thinking artists from around the country, each with up to $50,000 in project funding and additional career development services. The Creative Capital Award marks the beginning of a long-term partnership between Creative Capital, artists, and a broader artistic community.” Click here to learn about Tsouhlarakis’s project.

Tsouhlarakis is highlighted in an article in the November 2021 issue of Boulder Lifestyle Magazine. Click here to visit the magazine.

While Tsouhlarakis was an Artist-in-Residence in Miami in June 2021, she was interviewed by Inspicio Arts. Click here for the interview.

For the month of June, Anna Tsouhlarakis was one of three artists in residence at the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, FL. Click here to learn more.

Tsouhlarakis had a 9-month Artist-in-Residence at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO. The residency concluded with a solo museum exhibition, To Bind or To Burn, that was open from February 12-August 21, 2021. Click here to learn more.