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Dan Namingha
Hopi Montage #11, 1997
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Dan Namingha
Hopi Montage #11, 1997
Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 84 x 1 3/4 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of Margaret Velie Kinney
2014.1.1

Painting, Acrylic on canvas. Using a horizontal format segmented in three parts depicting on the left a Kachina against a neutral background of biege complemented by a stand of delineated cactus-like forms. At the center, irregular and geometric cultural symbols are set against a mottled background in pink, dissolving at the left into transparent bands of light green and pink against a beige background and held visually in place by a gray-black horizontal band. The center is partitioned from both sides of he composition with a vertical band in light blue on the left and a black and white band on the right. The right portion of the composition depicts a Kachina, similar in size and posture to the figure on the left side. but now in grays and black against a vivid mottled background of red, orange and salmon colors with circular symbols at each side.
DETAILS

Inscriptions

Handwritten on the lower right of the painting is the artist's signature and handwritten on the top stretcher on the back of the painting is the title and signature and copyright on the back of the canvas.

Recto signature Lower right
Verso top stretcher AC 538 Hopi Montage # 11
canvas signed © Namingha

Exhibition History

DAN NAMINGHA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2013 Eclairages Indirects, Chapiteau de Fontvieille

in Monaco

2013 “Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico:

Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land”

2013 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2013 Michael Lord Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2013 Altamira Fine Art, Jackson, Wyoming
2013 Denver Art Museum, Georgia O'keeffe

“Architecture, Katsinum and the Land”


2012 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2012 L.A. Projects, Kunstraum, Munich, Germany

2011 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2010 Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, Florida
2010 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2010 Ann Korologos Gallery, Basalt Gallery, Colorado


2009
Federal Reserve, Washington, D.C.
Solo Exhibition at the Board of Governor's

2008 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2008
Lake View Museum
The Southwestern Art Collection of Charles and Jeanette Gilchrist White
2008 Basalt Gallery, Basalt, Colorado
2008 Landfall Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2007 Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona

2006 ReedSavage Gallery, Coral Gabels, Florida
2006 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2005 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2004 Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
2004 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York
2004 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2003 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York
2003 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2002 Vanier Galleries on Main, Scottsdale, Arizona
2002 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York

2001 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2001 Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2000 Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania
2000 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000 Vanier Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
2000 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York
2000 Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, Colorado

1999 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey

1998 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
1998 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York
1998 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1998 Joy Tash Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

1997 Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1997 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York
1997 Joy Tash Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

1996 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996 Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1995 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1995 Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, Colorado

1994 The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1994 Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, Colorado

1992 Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1992 The Art Guild, Farmington, Connecticut

1992
Dan Namingha-Extending Pueblo Imagery
Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada


1991
Timeless Land and Enduring Images
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California

1990 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1989 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1989 Governor's Gallery, State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico


1988
Images of the Southwest
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC


1987
Dan Namingha, Tewa-Hopi Reflections
Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona,


1983-86
International European Exhibit
sponsored by the United States Information Agency/Cultural Affairs Department
Coordinated by Jorg W. Ludwig, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany;

The Gallery of East Slovakia, Kosice, Czechoslovakia
The National Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria
The Museum of Art of the Republic of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
The Museum of Art, Craiova, Romania
The Museum of Tarii Crisurilor, Oredea, Romania
The Naprstkova Museum, Prague, Czechoslovakia
The Modern Gallrey, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
The Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
The Museum of Modern Art, Osijek, Yugoslavia,
Kunstlerhaus, Gallery of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
German American Institute, Nurenberg, Germany
German American Institute, Heidelberg, Gemany
Amerika Haus, Stuttgart, Germany
The State Library and Archives of Lower Saxony, Hannover, Germany
Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany


1980
The Arizona Bank Galleria, Phoenix, Arizona


1978-79
Extensions of the Nampeyo Creative Spirit
California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

1978
Namingha, Imagery of a Hopi Indian
Sonoma County Library, Santa Rosa, California

1977 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California
1977 Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona


1973-75 Navajo Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
1973-75 Cassidy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 Michael Lord Gallery, Palm Springs, California

2012 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2012 Berlin Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2012 The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
2012 Ekaterinburg Museum, Russia

2011 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2009 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2009 Georgetown, Washington Exhibit, Washington, DC
2009 Ann Korologos Gallery, Basalt, Colorado
2009 Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma

2008 The Art Foundation of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2008 Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2008
Lake View Museum, IL
The Southwestern Art Collection of Charles and Jeanette Gilchrist White
2008 Landfall Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2007
Traveling Exhibit - Out West - The Great American Landscape, Organized by

the Meridian International Center with The National Museum of China in Beijing,

Urumgi, Xian and Shanghai

2007
Museum of Northern Arizona - Elemental Forms;

The Art of Dan Namingha and Arlo Namingha

2007 Dana Gallery, Missoula, Montana

2002 American Craft Museum, New York
2002 Galeria im Turm, Berlin, Germany

2001 Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California

1996 Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

1996
National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1996 Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, California
1996 Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1995 Art and the U.N.: One World Many Visions, New Canan, Connecticut
1995 Cline Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado


1994
The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism
National Museum of the American Indian, New York Touring Exhibit
1994 Maryland Institute and College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1994 Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
1994 Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, Kentucky
1994 Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York

1993 Babcock Galleries, New York
1993 Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont


1989
Sights and Sounds, Kennedy Space Center Art Gallery,
Cape Canaveral, Florida

1989
Glyphs of New Mexico, New Interpretations, Governor's Gallery,
Santa Fe, New Mexico

1988 Western Heritage Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1988
Visions of Flight, NASA Art Collection, Kennedy Space Center,
traveled to Mesa, Arizona, Huntsville, Alabama, Washington, DC and Europe

1987 NASA Art Program, Kennedy Space Center, Florida


1986
Contemporary Visions of New Mexico,
Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, Pueblo, Colorado

1983 Flagstaff Festival of Native American Arts, Flaggstaff, Arizona
1983 FIAC International Exhibit, Grand Palais, Paris, France

1982 Amerindian Circle, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

1982
Inaugural Art Exhibit
Armand Hammer United World College, Montezuma, New Mexico

1982
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska

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

1980-81 Hopi Kachina Spirit of Life,
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

1980-81
Hopi Kachina Spirit of Life,
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1980-81
Hopi Kachina Spirit of Life,
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC


1980
Native American Center for the Living Arts,
NiagaraFalls, New York


1979
Contemporary Amerindian Painting, organized by Lloyd KivaNew,
traveled to Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Columbia and Ecuador

1979
The Real People,
sponsored by Native American Center for the Living Arts, tour of Cuba


1978
Messengers of the Earth,
California State University, Sacramento, California

1978
Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibit,
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flaggstaff, Arizona
1978 The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
1978 Graphics Invitational, New Britain, Connecticut

1978
Printmakers Invitational,
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flaggstaff, Arizona


1977
Invitational Sculpture III Exhibition,
The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

1977
Alumni Exhibition,
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico


1974
Nampeyo Family Exhibition,
Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California

1973 Mary Livingston Gallery, Santa Ana, California
1973 The Cassidy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1973 Navajo Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

1972 The Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1972 The Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Art in Embassies - Bangui, Central African Republic
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
The Booth Museum, Atlanta, GA
MIAC ( Museum of Indian Arts and Culture) Santa Fe, New Mexico
Board of Governor's of the Federal Reserve, Washington, DC
The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
British Royal Collection, London, England
U.S. Embassy Chisinau
U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia
U.S. Embassy Port of Spain
U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh
United States 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, Arizona
Intrawest Financial Corporation, Denver, Colorado
Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico
Mountain Bell Collection, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona
The Naprstkovo Museum, Prague, Czechoslovakia
NASA Art Collection, Washington, DC
Native American Center for the Living Arts, NY
Opto 22 Corporation, Huntington Beach, CA
Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Arizona Bank Collection, Phoenix, Arizona
City of Phoenix Collection, Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, Arizona
City of Scottsdale Fine Arts Collection, Scottsdale, Arizona
U.S. Department of the Interior, Indian Arts Collection, Washington, DC
United States Embassy, Brasilia, Brazil
United States Embassy, Coppenhagen, Denmark
United States Embassy, Dakar, Senegal
United States Embassy, La Paz, Bolivia
United States Embassy, Cotonou, Africa
United States Embassy, Geneva, Switzerland
State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sundance Institute, Utah
The Reading Museum, Reading, PA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Robert Redford
Jackie Onasis
Ted danson and Mary Steenburgen
Raymond James Financial, St. Petersburg, FL

EDUCATION

University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
American Academy of Art, Chicago, Illinois

AWARDS

2009 Honorary Doctorate, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 The Abbott Sekaquaptewa Award, Futures for Children
1997 The Visionary Award, IAIA Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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

1995
Distinguished Artist of the Year,
Rotary Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1994
Award and Tribute from the Harvard Foundation, Fogg Art Museum,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

DOCUMENTARIES


1995
PBS Documentary


1988
Interviewed by Charles Rose on CBS Nightwatch


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


1992
PBS Documentary, Dan Namingha; Seeking Center

IMPRINT
The Art of Dan Namingha
by Thomas Hoving, Abrams Publishing, New York








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