Solo Exhibitions
• Time Holds All The Answers,
Remai Modern Museum, Saskatoon, Canada, 2021.
• Some Reach While Others Clap,
LAXArt, Los Angeles, CA, 2020.
• The Point of Final Collapse,
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2019.
• With Each Incentive,
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2019.
• Coyotaje,
Art Gallery of York University, Tronoto, Canada, 2018.
• A Very Long Line,
Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada, 2017.
• Coyotaje,
Art in General, New York, NY, 2017.
• A Very Long Line,
Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2016.
• People of Good Will,
Musagetes Foundation, Guelph, Canada, 2014-2016.
• Repellent Fence,
US/Mexican Border, Douglas, AZ, U.S., Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mex., October 2015.
• The Advice Seekers Want To Be Told Their Right,
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, Spring 2015.
• Gallup Motel Butchering,
CentralTrak Gallery, University of Texas, Dallas, TX, Spring 2015.
• Pollination, SouthwestNET: Postcommodity
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, Spring 2015.
• It’s My Second Home,
But I Have a Very Spiritual Connection With This Place,
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, Spring 2013.
• The Night is Filled With the Harmonics of Suburban Dreams,
Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS, Fall 2011.
• It Wasn’t the Dream of Golden Cities,
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, Fall 2010.
• Worldview Manipulation Therapy,
Ice House, Phoenix, AZ, December 2009.
• Intersections, Institute Slavonice, Center For the Future, Slavonice,
Czech Republic, May 2007.
Group Exhibitions
• Snake whisky still life and other stories
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, California, February 2022.
• When Home Won't Let You Stay: Art and Migration
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, February 2020.
• how the light gets in
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithica, NY, September 2019.
• Desert X, 2019
Coachella Valley, CA, February 2019.
• 57th Carnegie International, 2018
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2018.
• Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, October 2018.
• Califas: Art of the US-Mexico Borderlands
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, September 2018.
• Hyperobjects
Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, April 2018.
• Contact: Global to Local
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, April 2018.
• In Around Beyond
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, November 2017.
• I am you, you are too
Walker Art Center, Minneopolis, MN, September 2017.
• Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, ON, June 2017.
• documenta14
Kassel, DE, June 2017.
• documenta14
Athens, GR, April 2017.
• 2017 Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 2017.
• Resistance After Nature
Haverford Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, PA, March 2017.
• Land Art - Broken Ground New Beginnings
Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, February 2017.
• Screens and Thresholds
Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, October 2016.
• Visions Into Infinite Archives
SOMArts, San Francisco, CA, January 2016.
• Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Liberation
Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY, May 2015.
• Image Festival, A Non-Place in A Space
A Space Gallery, Toronto, ON, April 2015.
• You Are On Indian Land,
Radiator Gallery, New York, NY, March 2015.
• Boundary//Battle,
Redline, Denver, CO, December 2014.
• Free State Festival,
Lawerence Art Center, Lawerence, KS, June 2014.
• 18th Biennale of Sydney,
Sydney, Australia, June 2012.
• Time Lapse / March 2012,
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2012.
• Adelaide International 2012: Restless,
Adelaide, Australia, March 2012.
• Here,
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Museum,
Philidelphia, PA, October 2011.
• Nuit Blanche,
Toronto, Canada. October, 2011.
• Contour 2011, 5th Bienniel of Sound and Image,
Mechelen, Belgium. August, 2011.
• Half Life: Patterns of Change,
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, June, 2011.
• Close Encounters,
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art,
Winnipeg, Canada, Winter 2011.
• Muorrajurdagat,
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design,
Oslo Norway, Fall 2010.
• Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures,
Arizona State University Art Museum, Fall, 2009.
• Martha and Mary Street Fair,
Arizona State University Art Museum Happening, April, 2009.
• 4+4+4 Days in Motion Festival,
Prague, Czech Republic, May, 2007.
Performances and Happenings
• Snake whisky still life and other stories
sound performance,
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, California, February 2022.
• Time Holds All the Answers
sound performance,
Remai Modern Museum, Saskatoon, Canada, September 2021.
• Sy/stem©
Community Engaged Sound Art Performance at the Santa Monica Airport,
18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, California, July 2019.
• In Memorium . . .
Music Concert,
Windspear Centre for Music, Edmonton, Canada, July 2017.
• Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Liberation
sound performance,
Silent Barn, New York, NY, April 2017.
• 6th Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence
sound performance,
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, April 2017.
• documenta14
sound performance,
Athens, Greece, April 2017.
• 2017 Whitney Biennial
sound performance,
New York, NY, April 2017.
• San Francisco Art Institute
sound performance,
San Francisco, California, February 2017.
• New Cities, Future Ruins
sound performance,
Dallas, Texas, November 2016.
• Screens and Thresholds
sound performance,
North Vancouver, BC, October 2016.
• Espectro Electromagnético
sound performance,
Mexico City, Mexico, June 2016.
• Center for Contemporary Arts
sound performance,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2016.
• Human Resources
sound performance,
Los Angeles, California, February 2016.
• Grand Central Art Center
sound performance,
Santa Ana, California, February 2016.
• Life Changing Ministries
sound performance,
Oakland, California, February 2016.
• The Lab
sound performance,
San Francisco, California, February 2016.
• Heritage Hall
sound performance in collaboration with Douglas Ewart,
Guelph, Ontario, November 2015.
• Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Liberation 2015
sound performance,
Brooklyn, New York, May 2015.
• Guelph Jazz Festival 2014
sound performance,
Guelph, Canada, September 2014.
• Kazoo! Festival 2014
sound performance,
Guelph, Canada, April 2014.
• GPS or Hacking the Coordinates to Enable Shape Shifting and Shadow Networks
sound performance,
Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, January 2014.
• Game Remains: Golden Horseshoe, Guelph Café,
sound performance, installation, and socially engaged collaboration
Musagetes Foundation, Guelph, Ontario, September 2013.
• Game Remains, 41st Annual John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium,
sound performance,
Small Engine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 2012.
• Piles of Cougar Pelts, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts,
Santa Fe, NM, August 2001.
• Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation,
Brooklyn, NY, June, 2011.
• Half Life: Patterns of Change, Santa Art Institute, sound performance,
Santa Fe, NM, June, 2011.
• Your New Age Fantasies Contain More Blood Than You Imagine,
sound performance and happening,
Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS, December 2010.
• Your New Age Fantasies Contain More Blood Than You Imagine,
sound performance and happening,
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada, May 2010.
• Your New Age Fantasies Contain More Blood Than You Imagine,
sound performance and happening,
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, April 2010.
• Your New Age Fantasies Contain More Blood Than You Imagine,
sound performance and happening,
Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, March 2010.
• Your New Age Fantasies Contain More Blood Than You Imagine,
sound performance and happening,
Ice House, Phoenix, AZ, December 2009.
• Do You Remember When?, Sound performance and happening,
Arizona State University Art Museum, October, 2009.
• Broom Shaman Ritual, Performance,
Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ, July 2007.
Museum Acquisitions
• de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 2022.
• Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV 2020.
• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA 2019.
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2018.
• Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 2018.
• Princeton Museum of Art, 2010, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 2018.
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. 2017.
• Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, 2016.
Books
• Postcommodity + Magor, Postcommodity Publications (PCP), 2010.
Publications by Postcommodity
• "Cosmovisión."
Published in:
Ford Foundation's Creative Futures: "40 Provocation to Reimagine the Arts, Documentary, and Journalism"
2020. Web.
• "New Postcommodity Codex Investigates Land, Systemic Violence, and Minnesota History: 44.8968° N, 93.1501° W."
Published in:
Walker Art Center: Sightlines"
October, 2019. Web.
• "Monuments are Like Words."
Published in:
October: For "A Questionaire on Monuments"
No. 165, 2018. Print.
• "Truth is Cultural Chauvinism."
Published in:
ASAP/Journal
Vol. 3, No. 2, 2018. Print.
• "Portfolio."
Published in:
Art in America
October 2017. Print.
• "Artist Project."
Published in:
Art Journal
Vol. 76, No. 2, Summer 2017. Print.
• "2043: No Es Un Sueño."
Published in:
Walker Art Center: Artist Op-Eds
2017. Print.
• "Art is Deaf."
Published in:
Wood Land School Critical Reader, Movement
Forthcomming, 2016. Print.
• "Repellent Fence / Valla Repelente."
Published in:
Art21, Movement
Jan/Feb issue, 2016. Print.
• "Repellent Fence in Our Own Words."
Published in:
Art Matters
2015. Print.
• "With Salvage and Knife Tongue."
Published in:
Art in the Global Present
Eds. Papastergiadis, Nikos, and Victoria Lynn. 2014. Print.
Publications Written About or Mentioning Postcommodity
• "Postcommodity Tells Time"
Published in:
Border Crossings.
By Robert Enright.
May 2022
• "Connection, Contemplation, and Contested Histories in Contemporary Native American and Indigenous Art"
Published in:
Hyperallergic.
By Caroline Ellen Liou.
February 2022
• "Seeking Specificity in Postcommodity"
Published in:
Momus.
By Adrienne Huard.
January 2022
• "Le Remai Modern de Saskatoon ouvre ses portes aux francophones"
Published in:
L’eau Vive: Le Journal Fransaskois.
By Jean-Philippe Deneault.
December 2021
• "Records of Thought"
Published in:
Chinati Foundation newsletter, Vol. 26.
By J. Burris.
October 2021
• "‘Suturing is Remembering’: See How the Art Collective Postcommodity Stages Unforgettable Scenes to Reframe Indigenous Issues in the Americas"
Published in:
Artnet News.
October 2021
• "Postcommodity: Time Holds All the Answers opens at the Remai Modern"
Published in:
Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
By Amanda Short.
September 2021
• "Ceremonial Complex: An interview with Postcommodity on hacking soundscapes and Indigenous technological self-determination"
Published in:
MIT Immerse Magazine.
By Jennifer Fukunaga.
February 2021
• "The voyeuristic allure of Art21, PBS’ ‘Art in the Twenty-First Century"
Published in:
Los Angeles Times.
By Christopher Knight.
September 2020
• "SB 1070 Inspires a Decade of Social Justice Art in Metro Phoenix"
Published in:
Phoenix New Times.
By Lynn Trimble.
July 2020
• "Meet LA’s Art Community: Nikita Gale is Thinking About the Politics of Sound and Music"
Published in:
Hyperallergic.
By Elisa Wouk Almino.
July 2020
• "Meet LA’s Art Community: Nikita Gale is Thinking About the Politics of Sound and Music"
Published in:
Hyperallergic.
By Elisa Wouk Almino.
July 2020
• "Protesting U.S. Immigration Policies, Artists Aim for the Sky"
Published in:
New York Times.
By Zachary Small.
July 2020
• "An Art Lover’s Guide to Warhol’s Hometown of Pittsburgh"
Published in:
Galerie Magazine.
By Stefanie Waldek.
April 2020
• "Long-term installation sounds out about Millennium Tower"
Published in:
San Francisco Examiner.
By Hannah Bennett.
March 2020
• "Refugee life jackets part of new exhibit at Minneapolis museum"
Published in:
Chicago Tribune.
By Kathy Berdan.
March 2020
• "New at Mia, "Postcommodity: LAXART"
Published in:
ARTFORUM.
By Andy Campbell.
March 2020
• "New at Mia, "Thousands of Refugee Life Jackets Attached to Mia Pillars"
Published in:
US News & World Report.
By Kathy Berdan.
February 2020
• "New at Mia, "When Home Won’t Let You Stay": Artists Respond to Migration"
Published in:
Minnesota Daily.
By Alex Strangman.
February 2020
• "‘When Home Won’t Let You Stay’ opens at Mia; Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’ at Northrop"
Published in:
MinnPost.
By Pamela Espeland.
February 2020
• "For exhibit about migration, Minneapolis museum wraps it white façade in colorful lifejackets: Minneapolis Institute of Art opens a provocative exhibitions"
Published in:
Star Tribune.
By A. Eller.
February 2020
• "Postcommodity “Some Reach While Others Clap” LAXART / Los Angeles"
Published in:
Flash Art.
By Laura Schoorl.
February 2020
• "Culture Type: The Year in Black Art 2019"
Published in:
Culture Type.
By Victoria L. Valentine.
January 2020
• "Walker Art Center Presents A Showcase of Indigenous filmmakers & Storytellers Called INDIgenisis: Gen 3"
Published in:
Native Max Magazine, Indan Country.
2020
• "Generative Geography: Postcommodity in Conversation"
Published in:
Art in America.
By Art in America.
January 2020
• "Postcommodity's Sound Installation Broadcasts A Luxury Apartment Tower's Slow Collapse"
Published in:
Art in America.
Written by Matt Sussman.
January 2020
• "The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade, Ranked: Part 4"
Published in:
ArtNet News.
Written by Ben Davis.
January 2020
• "If the Millennium Tower Falls, Does it Make a Sound?"
Published in:
KQED Arts.
Written by Sarah Hotchkiss.
December 2019
• "What does the Millennium Tower sound like as it sinks?"
Published in:
The San Francisco Chronicle.
Written by Sam Whiting.
November 2019
• "Drawing Attention to a Sinking High-Rise in San Francisco"
Published in:
Hyperallergic.
Written by Emily Wilson.
November 2019
• "Postcommodity amplifies sinking Millennium Tower in new audio installation"
Published in:
The Architects Newspaper.
Written by Shane Reiner-Roth.
November 2019
• "Sound Art Installation Simulates the Sinking and Tilting of Millennium Tower"
Published in:
SFIST.
Written by Jay Barmann.
October 2019
• "Sound art installation simulates sinking of Millennium Tower"
Published in:
Curbed, San Francisco.
Written by Adam Brinklow.
October 2019
• "Postcommodity plays the Soundtrack of destruction in San Francisco"
Published in:
The Art Newspaper.
Written by Zachary Small.
October 2019
• "Postcommodity Centers Optimism and Indigenous Philosophies in a New Site-Specific Installation"
Published in:
Hyperallergic.
Written by Graham Livingston and Marina Resende Santos.
September 2019
• "Postcommodity and the Unfinished Business of Building a Fairer Chicago"
Published in:
Frieze.
Written by Evan Moffitt.
August 2019
• "‘A Sacred Architectural Gesture’: In Chicago, Postcommodity Addresses Migration and
Community Through Spare, Sturdy Constructions"
Published in:
ARTnews.
Written by Claire Voon.
August 2019
• "Review: 18th Street Art Center debuts Santa Monica Airport space with Sleep Machines. Here's Why"
Published in:
LA Times.
Written by Carolina Miranda.
July 2019
• "Review: For Desert X 2019, I drove 198 miles to see 19 artists' work. Here's the best"
Published in:
LA Times.
Written by Christopher Knight.
February 2019
• "In the Vast Beauty of the Coachella Valley, Desert X Artists Emphasize the Perils of Climate Change"
Published in:
ArtNet News.
Written by Sarah Cascone.
February 2019
• "The Carnegie International Explores its Past With an Eye to the Future"
Published in:
Guernica.
Written by Roslyn Bernstein.
February 2019
• "Carnegie International: Reviews"
Published in:
Art in America.
Written by Brian Droitcour.
February 2019
• "Ingrid Schaffner: Sparking International Joy at the Carnegie Museum of Art"
Published in:
Architexx.
Written by Llana Curtis.
January 2019
• "The 57th Carnegie International Wanders in Search of "Museum Joy""
Published in:
Momus.
Written by Earl Miller.
January 2019
• "Experiencing a Museum Through Its Past: Liz Park Interviewed by Scott Turri"
Published in:
Bomb.
Written by Scott Turri.
December 2018
• "Ingrid Schaffner in Conversation"
Published in:
Ocula.
Written by Jareh Das.
December 2018
• "57th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA"
Published in:
Terremoto.
Written by Noah Simblist.
December 2018
• "the indigenous art collective digging up pittsburgh's problematic labor legacy"
Published in:
i-D Vice.
Written by Benoit Loiseau.
November 2018
• "Art Speaks in Many Languages at the Carnegie International"
Published in:
Entertainment Central.
Written by Mike Vargo.
November 2018
• "Curatorial Expression"
Published in:
Aesthetica.
Written by Olivia Hampton.
November 2018
• "The best of times, the worst of times: art in the age of rising white supremacy"
Published in:
Los Angeles Times.
Written by Carolina A. Miranda.
November 2018
• "Around the globe at the Carnegie International"
Published in:
Apollo. The International Art Magazine.
Written by Louise Nicholson.
November 2018
• "On the Ground: Pittsburgh"
Published in:
Artforum.
Written by Suzanne Hudson.
October 2018
• "Carnegie International, 57th Edition"
Published in:
The Brooklyn Rail.
Written by Sabrina Mandanici.
October 2018
• "The 57th Carnegie International: Looking Forward While Mindful Of The Past"
Published in:
Pittsburgh Quarterly.
Written by Vicky A. Clark.
October 2018
• "2018 Carnegie International’s Prizes Go to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Postcommodity"
Published in:
Artnews.
Written by Andrew Russeth.
October 2018
• "Postcommodity takes Fine Prize and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye receives the Carnegie Prize"
Published in:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Written by Marylynne Pitz.
October 2018
• "Carnegie International Opens in Pittsburgh"
Published in:
Wall Street Journal.
Written by Kelly Crow.
October 2018
• "Postcommodity creates art from Pittsburgh's steel, music history for Carnegie International"
Published in:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Written by Marylynne Pitz.
October 2018
• "Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Postcommodity won prizes at the 2018 Carnegie International."
Published in:
Artsy.
Written by Benjamin Sutton.
October 2018
• "The Pleasure Principle: The 57th Carnegie International is Beautiful but Safe"
Published in:
Frieze.
Written by Evan Moffitt.
October 2018
• "The Carnegie International Puts Joy before Politics"
Published in:
Artsy.
Written by Alina Cohen.
October 2018
• "Double Take—“The 57th Carnegie International”"
Published in:
Art Agenda.
Written by Orit Gat and Rachel Valinsky.
October 2018
• "Double Take—“Art Movement”"
Published in:
Hyperallergic.
Written by Jasmine Weber.
October 2018
• "The Carnegie International Wants You to Feel ‘Museum Joy’ Again..."
Published in:
Artnet News.
Written by Taylor Dafoe.
October 2018
• "Labors of Love: The 2018 Carnegie International Is Buoyant, Beautiful, and Strangely Conservative"
Published in:
Artnet News.
Written by Andrew Russeth.
October 2018
• "The Carnegie International opens with crowds and revelry"
Published in:
Artdaily.org.
Written by Jose Villarreal.
October 2018
• "Pittsburgh's Carnegie International Opens"
Published in:
PittsburghCurrent.
Written by Jake Mysliwczyk.
October 2018
• "Carnegie International Returns For 57th Iteration"
Published in:
PittsburghCurrent.
Written by Amanda Reed.
October 2018
• "See Highlights of the 57th Carnegie International Exhibition"
Published in:
Galerie Magazine.
Written by Rozalia Jovanovic.
October 2018
• "Beyond, Between, and Under the Border"
Published in:
The Seen.
Written by Hiba Ali.
September 2018
• "Reconstructing History"
Published in:
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
Written by Julie Hannon.
August 2018
• "New Artwork Honors Pittsburgh's Legacies Of Jazz And Steel"
Published in:
90.5 WESA, NPR.
Written by Bill O'Driscol.
August 2018
• "57th Carnegie International will bring artists who engage spatial politics around the world"
Published in:
The Architects Newspaper.
Written by Sarah Rafson.
April 2018
• "Required Reading"
Published in:
Hyperallergic.
Written by Hrag Vartanian.
April 2018
• "Decentering Land Art from the Borderlands:
A Review of Through the Repellent Fence.""
Published in:
Art Journal.
Written by Emily Eliza Scott.
March 2018
• "…in memoriam: The Sonority, the Together Sound, Outside of Time"
Published in:
C Magazine.
Written by Natasha Chaykowski.
Issue 137, Spring 2018
• "Swimming with Sharks: Postcommodity and Wafaa Bilal in a Sea of Hammerheads."
Published in:
Glasstire.
Written by C. Rees.
February 2018
• "Under Indigenous Eyes."
Published in:
Art in America.
Written by Gerald McMaster.
October 2017
• "Learning from documenta14: Athens, Post-Democracy, and Decolonization."
Published in:
Third Text.
Written by TJ Demos.
September 2017
• "The Other Side of the Wall: A New Generation of Latino Art."
Published in:
New York Times.
Written by Kristin Valdez Quade.
August, 17 2017
• "The Art Of the Possible: With and Against Documenta14."
Published in:
Biennial Foundation.
Written by Andrew Stefan Weiner.
August, 14 2017
• "Mark Van Proyen on Documenta 14 (Part 1)."
Published in:
Square Cylinder: Northern California Art.
Written by Mark Van Proyen.
July, 25 2017
• "Pick a Lock: On the Hunt at Documenta in Athens."
Published in:
Artnews.
Written by Andrew Russeth.
June, 7 2017
• "Let's Make Protest Great Again."
Published in:
Mousse Magazine.
Written by Jens Hoffmann.
Summer, 2017
• "Mending the Border: The Indigenous Eye of Postcommodity."
Published in:
American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
Written by Anya Montiel.
Summer, 2017
• "Postcommodity Interviewed by Sadia Shirazi"
Published in:
C Magazine.
Written by Sadia Shirazi.
Issue 134, Summer 2017
• "Reviews: Postcommodity at Art in General."
Published in:
Art in America.
Written by David Markus.
June 1, 2017
• "Make America Mexico Again: 10 Artworks About Immigration and the Border."
Published in:
Artspace.
Written by Loney Abrams.
May 25, 2017
• ""Dialogue Is Our Ceremony": An Interview With Postcommodity."
Published in:
The Quietus.
Written by Adam Lehrer.
May 13, 2017
• "Documenting documenta14 Athens."
Published in:
Metropolis M.
Written by iLiana Fokianaki.
May, 5 2017
• "Artist Collective Postcommodity on Recovering Knowledge and Making Border Metaphors."
Published in:
Hyperallergic.
Written by Risa Puleo.
May 4, 2017
• "Crossing Over: Postcommodity Flips the Script on U.S. Border Patrol."
Published in:
ARTNEWS.
Written by Alex Greenberger.
May 4, 2017
• "How Postcommodity Brought Arizona's Border to the 2017 Whitney Biennial."
Published in:
Phoenix New Times.
Written by Lynn Trimble.
May 4, 2017
• "POSTCOMMODITY Coyotaje."
Published in:
The Brooklyn Rail.
Written by Jared Quinton.
May 1, 2017
• "10 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn."
Published in:
New York Times.
Written by Martha Schwendener.
April 27, 2017
• "47 Galleries That Bring You the Art of Now."
Published in:
New York Times.
Written by Will Heinrich.
April 27, 2017
• "Imagining the Wall."
Published in:
New York Times.
Written by Robert Ito.
April 23, 2017
• "Trump Proposed a Wall. They Imagined How It Would Work."
Published in:
New York Times.
Written by Robert Ito.
April 21, 2017
• "Is Political Art the Only Art That Matters Now?"
Published in:
Vulture.
Written by Carl Swanson.
April 20, 2017
• "Sonic Spirituality: Louise Erdrich on Postcommodity's Ceremonial Transformation of LRAD"
Published in:
Walker Art Center Untitled (Blog).
Written by Louise Erdrich.
April 18, 2017
• "Goings On About Town: Postcommodity, Coyotaje"
Published in:
The New Yorker.
April 18, 2017
• "Art: Interview, Postcommodity"
Published in:
Bomb.
Written by Rob Goyanes.
April 13, 2017
• "Critics’ Picks, Postcommodity: Art in General"
Published in:
ARTFORUM.
Written by Katherine Brewer Ball.
April 7, 2017
• "How Political Art Heats Up a Divided Arizona."
Published in:
Vice.
Written by Julio César Morales.
April 4, 2017
• "Postcommodity’s Latest Installation Confronts Viewers with Fears at the U.S. Border"
Published in:
ARTSLANT.
Written by Zachary Smalls.
April 4, 2017
• "Art in the Age of Trump"
Published in:
Time Magazine.
Written by Eliza Berman.
March 29, 2017
• "'Through the Repellent Fence': Film Review | SXSW 2017"
Published in:
The Hollywood Reporter.
Written by Michael Rechtshaffen.
March 27, 2017
• "Away with Escapism: The 2017 Whitney Biennial Reflects Our Dark Times"
Published in:
The Villager.
Written by Stephanie Buhmann.
March 22, 2017
• "The Violence of the 2017 Whitney Biennial"
Published in:
Hyperallergic.
Written by Hrag Vartanian.
March 20, 2017
• "9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week"
Published in:
ARTnews.
Written by The editors of ARTnews.
March 20, 2017
• "Editors Picks: 9 Things to See in New York This Week"
Published in:
ARTNET News.
Written by Sarah Cascone.
March 20, 2017
• "10 Artists to Discover at the 2017 Whitney Biennial"
Published in:
The Huffington Post.
Written by Natalie Hegert.
March 18, 2017
• "Whitney Biennial 2017: Trump’s shadow looms over politically charged show"
Published in:
The Guardian, US Edition.
Written by Nadja Sayej.
March 17, 2017
• "Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation"
Published in:
New York Times.
Written by Roberta Smith.
March 16, 2017
• "The Bold Groups Tying Art History to Political History at the Whitney Biennial"
Published in:
The Village Voice.
Written by Siddhartha Mitter.
March 15, 2017
• "The 2017 Whitney Biennial Is the Most Politically Charged in Decades"
Published in:
Vulture and New York Magazine.
Written by Jerry Saltz.
March 14, 2017
• "The 2017 Whitney Biennial Is a Moving, Forward Looking Tour de Force — A Triumph"
Published in:
ArtNews.
Written by Andrew Russeth.
March 14, 2017
• "For Artists: the U.S. Mexico Border is Fertile Territory"
Published in:
Artsy.
Written by Matt Stromberg.
March 7, 2017
• "Protest Art in the Era of Trump"
Published in:
New York Times.
Written by M.H. Miller.
February 20, 2017
• "Border Patrol: Indigenous arts collective Postcommodity breaches the US-Mexico border fence"
Published in:
The Santa Fe Reporter.
Written by Jordan Eddy.
February 15, 2017
• "‘Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film’
Trailer Stitches Together the US and Mexico’s Border With Art"
Published in:
IndieWire.
Written by Liz Calvario.
January 30, 2017
• "Here Comes the Whitney Biennial, Reflecting the Tumult of the Times"
Published in:
New York Times.
Written by Robin Pogrebin.
November 17, 2016
• "Borderland Readymades: Postcommodity’s Repellent Fence"
Published in:
THE Magazine.
Written by Alicia Inez Guzmán.
December 2, 2016
• "About Place: An Interview with Postcommodity"
Published in:
The Miami Rail.
Written by Crystal Migwans.
Winter 2016
• "The Implication of a Fence: Part One – An Early Form of Surveillance"
Published in:
Beacon Broadside, Beacon Press.
Written by Mark Trecka.
June 2016
• "The Implication of a Fence: Part Two – Eye to Eye"
Published in:
Beacon Broadside, Beacon Press.
Written by Mark Trecka.
June 2016
• "The Implication of a Fence: Part Three – The Sovereignty of Context"
Published in:
Beacon Broadside, Beacon Press.
Written by Mark Trecka.
July 2016
• "The Implication of a Fence: Part Four – We Just Don’t Live in That World"
Published in:
Beacon Broadside, Beacon Press.
Written by Mark Trecka.
July 2016
• "Gang Up: 16 Great Canadian Art Collaborations"
Published in:
Canadian Art.
Written by Alison Cooley and Daniella Sanader.
June 27, 2016
• "Projects We Love: Repellent Fence"
Published in:
Public Art Review.
Written by Jen Dolan.
Issue 54 - Spring/Summer 2016
• "Critical Reflection"
Published in:
THE Magazine.
Written by Susan Wider.
June 2016
• "A temporary artwork by the art collective Postcommodity visibly transcends the US-Mexico border"
Published in:
art ltd.
Written by Deborah Ross.
Jan/Feb 2016, v. 10 no. 1
• ""Repellent Fence" Stares Across the U.S.-Mexican Border"
Published in:
World Policy Blog
Written by Karina Taylor.
December 2015
• "Column Follow up: Postcommodity Threads Indigenous Narrative into Border Narrative"
Published in:
Adobe Airstream
Written by Matthew Irwin.
November 15, 2015
• "Column Follow up: A 'Repellent Fence' made of air rises at the border"
Published in:
Los Angeles Times, Culture High and Low
Written by Carolina A. Miranda.
November 3, 2015
• "Artists Bisect the US-Mexico Border with Balloons"
Published in:
Hyperallergic
Written by Adele Olivera.
October 16, 2015
• "Postcommodity Stitched Together the U.S./Mexico Border With Repellent Fence"
Published in:
Phoenix New Times
Written by Lynn Trimble.
October 13, 2015
• "Postcommodity Artist Collective Creates Repellent Fence at Arizona-Mexico Border"
Published in:
Phoenix New Times
Written by Lynn Trimble.
October 6, 2015
• "A border fence made of air: Native Artists to create two-mile installation"
Published in:
Los Angeles Times
Written by Carolina A. Miranda.
September 18, 2015
• "Borderline: How ‘Repellent Fence’ Clears Up the Immigration Debate"
Published in:
BigThink
Written by Bob Duggan.
September 2015
• "'Centering the Indigenous': Postcommodity's Trans-Indigenous Relational Art"
Published in:
Third Text
Written by Mark Watson.
September 2015
• "Artist Collective Postcommodity to Fly Giant Eyes Over US/Mexican Border"
Published in:
artnet news
Written by Cait Munro.
August 18, 2015
• "Postmodern Ambush"
Published in:
Afterall
Written by Lucy Lippard.
Summer 2015
• "Reimagining Ceremonies: A Conversation With Postcommodity."
Published in:
Afterall
Written by Bill Kelly Jr.
Summer 2015
• "Glimpses of a Pastoral Dystopia"
Published in:
Hyperallergic
Written by Erin Joyce.
April 9, 2015
Recordings
• Postcommodity, Alex Waterman -
In Memorium...Mary Cecil, Victoria Callihoo (née Belcourt), And Elenore (Helene) Thomas Garneau,
Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, full length double LP.
• We Lost Half the Forest, and the Rest Will Burn This Summer,
Anarchy Moon Records, full length LP.
• Pile of Cougar Pelts, featured in The Contour 2011 Sound + Vision LP,
Plug In Editions and Contour vzw, 2011.
• Your New Age Dream Contains More Blood Than You Imagine,
Anarchy Moon Records, full length LP, 2011.
• Postcommodity + Magor,
Postcommodity Publications (PCP), 2010.
Exhibition Catalogs
• Time Holds All the Answers, Postcommodity Monograph,
Remai Modern Museum and Wapatah, Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge, OCAD University, 2022.
• Dispatch, Carnegie International, 57th Edition, 2018
Carnegie Museum of Art, 2019.
• The Guide, Carnegie International, 57th Edition, 2018
Carnegie Museum of Art, 2018.
• Nature's Nation,
Princeton Art Museum, 2018.
• Califas: Art of the US-Mexico Borderlands,
Richmond Art Center, 2018.
• documenta14,
documenta14, 2017.
• Whitney Biennial 2017,
Whitney Museum of American Art, 2017.
• All Our Relations,
18th Biennale of Sydney, 2012.
• Adelaide International 2012,
Adelaide Festival, 2012.
• Here,
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 2011.
• Contour 2011,
5th Biennial of the Moving Image, 2011.
• Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years,
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2011.
• Defining Sustainability,
Arizona State University Art Museum, 2009.
Speaking Engagements
• Artist Talk,
Anderson Lecture Series,
Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA April 2022.
• Artist Talk,
Book Launch Hosted by Gerald McMaster,
Remai Modern Museum,,
Saskatoon, Canada January 2022.
• Artist Talk,
Wiseman Fine Arts 2021-22 Visiting Artist Lecture Series,
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA December 2021.
• Artist Talk,
Postcommodity in Conversation with Gerald McMaster Time Holds All The Answers,
Remai Modern Museum,
Saskatoon, Canada September 2021.
• Artist Talk,
Postcommodity: Three Works and a Conversation,
Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY April 2021.
• Artist Talk,
Postcommodity, A Conversation About New Work,
University of California San Diego,
San Diego, CA March 2021.
• Artist Talk,
2020-2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series,
Cranbrook Academy of Art,
Bloomfield Hills, MI February 2021.
• Artist Talk,
Generative Geography: Postcommodity: A conversation with Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist
Platform CSU Art Speaker Series,
ConSortiUm, California State University,
Fresno, CA and Long Beach, CA, October 2020.
• Interview and Discussion,
Generative Geography: Postcommodity in Conversation
Art in America and The San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, CA, January 2020.
• Artist Talk,
2019 Distinguished Public Artists
Public Art St. Paul, Minnesota Museum of American Art
St. Paul, MN, October 2019.
• Artist Talk,
With Each Incentive
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL, June 2019.
• Artist Talk,
Keynote for University Night With Postcommodity
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA, November 2018.
• Artist Talk,
Recent Works by Postcommodity
St. Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, MO, March 2018.
• Artist Talk,
Recent Works by Postcommodity
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, November 2017.
• Artist Talk,
Recent Works by Postcommodity
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, April 2016.
• Artist Talk, Artist Op-Eds
2043: No Es Un Sueño
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN, February 2016.
• Artist Talk,
Repellent Fence
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL, February 2016.
• Artist Talk,
Hacking the Coordinates: Postitionality and the Repellent Fence
Idyllewild Arts Academy
Idyllewild, CA, February 2016.
• Artist Talk,
Hacking the Coordinates: Postitionality and the Repellent Fence
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA, February 2016.
• Artist Talk,
Hacking the Coordinates: Postitionality and the Repellent Fence
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, February 2016.
• Artist Talk,
Hacking the Coordinates: Postitionality and the Repellent Fence
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, CA, February 2016.
• Artist Talk,
Hacking the Coordinates: Postitionality and the Repellent Fence
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA, February 2016.
• Artist Talk,
Hacking the Coordinates: Postitionality and the Repellent Fence
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada, January 2016.
• Artist Talk,
Repellent Fence / Valla Repelente
MLA Subconference
Austin, TX, January 2016.
• Artist Talk,
SouthwestNET: Postcommodity
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
Scottsdale, Arizona, March 2015.
• Artist Talk,
Postcommodity Artist Talk
University of North Texas.
Denton, Texas, January 2015.
• Artist Talk,
Postcommodity Artist Talk
Centraltrak, University of Texas at Dallas.
Dallas, Texas, January 2015.
• Artist Talk,
Postcommodity Artist Talk
Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois, September 2014.
• Artist Talk,
Postcommodity Artist Talk
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas.
Lawrence, Kansas, September 2014.
• Artist Talk,
Postcommodity Artist Talk
University of Oklahoma.
Norman, Oklahoma, September 2014.
• Artist Talk,
GPS or Hacking the Coordinates to Enable Shape Shifting and
Shadow Networks: Postcommodity
Banff Centre.
Banff, Canada, January 2014.
• Artist Talk,
Big Ideas in Art & Culture Lecture Series: Postcommodity
Musagetes and Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (CAFK+A).
Guelph, Ontario, November 2013.
• Artist Talk,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18th Biennale of Sydney,
Sydney, AUS, June 2012.
• Panel Discussion,
Postcommodity, John Wolseley, and
Gerald McMaster, June 2012.
Opening Week Symposium: Art Gallery of New South Wales,
18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AUS, June 2012.
• Art After Hours: Celebrity Talk AFTER_DARK,
18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AUS, June 2012.
• Artist talk and presentation,
2012 Adeleaide International, March 2012.
• Artist talk and presentation,
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, October 2011.
• Artist talk and presentation,
Lawrence Art Center, October 2011.
• Artist talk and presentation,
Santa Fe Art Institute, June 2011.
• Artist talk and presentation,
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada, May 2011.
• Artist talk and presentation,
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, August, 2010.
• Artist talk and presentation,
Arizona State University, November 2009.
• Artist talk,
Heard Museum, September 2009.
• Artist talk and presentation,
Arizona State University, August 2009.
• Artist presentation and panel discussion,
Native Creative, presented by the Tucson Pima Arts Council at the
University of Arizona Poetry Center, June 2009.
• Artist talk and Presentation,
Arizona State University, April 2008.
Symposiums and Conferences
• Resistance, Resilience, and Refuge: Sustaining a Contemporary Creative Practice
CCA Conference
Los Angeles, CA, March 2018.
• Conflict: three-dimensional art practice addressing global concerns
Keynote Address, 2018 Texas Scultprure Syposium
Texas Tech
Lubbock, TX, March 2018.
• Of Homelands and Revolution
Creative Time Summit, Toronto, Canada, September 2017.
• Arts & Community: What Native Artists Are Bringing to Social Change
2017 Annual Convention, Americans for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, June 2017.
• 2017 Public Art Preconference
Americans for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, June 2017.
• Decolonial Gestures: A Symposium on Indigenous Performance
Universtity of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, May 2017.
• New Cities, Future Ruins
Dallas, TX, November 2016.
• Exploring Public Art Practices
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, September 2016.
• 2015 International Sculpture Conference
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, November 2015.
Artist Residencies
• Cycles of Creation, Decay and Renewal in Art and Life,
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, May 2011.
• GPS or Hacking the Coordinates to Enable Shape Shifting and
Shadow Networks (Residency by Postcommodity),
Hosted by Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, January 2014.
• Denver Art Museum Artist Residency,
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, April-May 2014.
• VR2167 + Indigenous Future Imaginaries Artist Residency,
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, January 2015.
• SOMA Residency,
SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2016.
• 6th Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, April 2017.
• 18th Street Art Center Residency
18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, California, July 2019.
• San Fraicnsco Art Institute, Harker Residency
San Francisco, California, 2018-2019.
Documentaries and Biographies
• Through the Repellent Fence, World Premier,
Directed by Sam Wainwright Douglas.
Princeton University / Princeton, NJ / Nov 9, 2018
American Reframed / WORLD Channel, PBS / April 24, 2018
Tufts University / Boston, MA / April 5, 2018
Violet Crown Cinema / Santa Fe, NM / March 20, 2018
Lightbox Film Center / Philadelphia, PA / March 17, 2018
Violet Crown Cinema / Charlottesville, VA / March 13, 2018
Bechtler Museum of Modern Art / Charlotte, NC / March 4, 2018
Utah Film Center / Salt Lake City, UT / February 28, 2018
Boston University / Boston, MA / February 26, 2018
Northwest Film Forum / Seattle, WA / February 18, 2018
St. Louis Art Museum / St. Louis, MO / February 9, 2018
Smithsonian American Art Museum / Washington, DC / January 20, 2018
Ogden Museum of Southern Art / New Orleans, LA / December 7, 2017
Museum of Fine Arts (Houston Cinema Art Festival) / Houston, TX / November 11, 2017
Texas Theater (Hosted by Dallas Art Museum) / Dallas, TX / November 5, 2017
Laguna Art Museum / Laguna Beach, CA / November 4, 2017
Hollywood Theatre / Portland, OR / November 4, 2017
The Oklahoma Contemporary / Oklahoma City, OK / November 2, 2017
AFS Cinema / Austin, TX / October 22 & 28, 2017
Pickford Film Center / Bellingham, WA / October 21 & 24, 2017
Louise Underwood Center for the Arts / Lubbock, TX / October 21, 2017
Texas State University / San Marcos, TX / October 12, 2017
North Park Theatre / Buffalo, NY / October 10, 2017
Texas A&M University / College Station, TX / October 5, 2017
Oriental Theatre / Milwaukee, WI / October 4, 2017
Avalon Theater / Milwaukee, WI / October 2, 2017
Times Cinema / Milwaukee, WI / September 30, 2017
Guild Cinema / Albuquerque, NM / September 16-17, 2017
Smithsonian Native Cinema Showcase / Santa Fe, NM / August 20, 2017
Full Frame Theater / Durham, NC / July 27, 2017
Montclair Film Festival / Montclair, NJ / May 5-6, 2017
New Mexico Museum of Art / Santa Fe, NM / May 5, 2017
Alamo Drafthouse / Lubbock, TX / April 27, 2017
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art / Scottsdale, AZ / April 22, 2017
Full Frame Documentary Festival / Durham, NC / April 7, 2017
Sarasota Film Festival / April 4-5, 2017
South By Southwest Film Festival / Austin, TX / March 11-12, 2017
Doc Fortnight 2017, Museum of Modern Art / New York / Feb. 18-19, 2017
Awards and Grants
• 2022 Hewlett 50 Art Commissions.
• 2021 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Shift Grant.
• 2019 The Harker Fund of The San Francisco Foundation.
• 2018 Fine Prize, The Fine Foundation.
• 2017 Art of Change Fellowship, Ford Foundation.
• 2017 USArtist International Grant, Mid Atlantic Art Foundation.
• 2014 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Grant.
• 2013 Art Matters Grant.
• 2012 Creative Capital Artist Grant.
• 2010 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.
• 2010 Harpo Foundation Grant.
• 2010 National Museum of the American Indian, Expressive Arts Grant.
• 2010 Elly Kay Fund Award for excellence in contemporary art.
• 2009 Artist Project Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts.
• 2008 Common Ground Grant, First Nations Composers Imitative,
American Composers Forum.
• 2007 Telluride Institute Fellowship for a residency at the Center for the
Future in the Czech Republic.