Natani Notah

Natani Notah is an interdisciplinary artist and a proud member of the Navajo Nation. Her current art practice explores contemporary Native American identity through the lens of Diné womanhood. Notah has exhibited her work at institutions, such as Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA); Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (Marin MOCA); Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Massillon Museum (MassMu), Ohio; apexart, New York City; NXTHVN, New Haven; Tucson Desert Art Museum, Tucson; Gas Gallery, Los Angeles; Mana Contemporary, Chicago, and elsewhere. Notah has received awards from Art Matters, International Sculpture Center, and the San Francisco Foundation. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Forbes, and Sculpture Magazine and she has completed artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Grounds for Sculpture, Headlands Center for the Arts, This Will Take Time, Oakland, and Kala Art Institute. Notah holds a BFA with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Cornell University and an MFA from Stanford University. Currently she is a 2021-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellow and a Faculty Mentor for Sierra Nevada University’s Low-Residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program.

Education

• Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Cornell University (2010 — 2014)
• Diploma Programme International Baccalaureate (2006 — 2010)
• High School Diploma Cajon High School (2006 — 2010)

Companies

• Tulsa Artist Fellow Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2021)
• Affiliate Artist Headlands Center for the Arts (2019 — 2021)
• Instructor Stanford Continuing Studies (2019 — 2021)
• Assistant Adjunct Professor Mills College (2019 — 2019)
• Graduate Fellow Headlands Center for the Arts (2018 — 2019)
• Teaching Assistant Stanford University (2016 — 2018)
• Instructor Stanford University (2018 — 2018)
• Communications Assistant American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (2015 — 2016)
• Graphic Designer (Temp) Cornell University - College of Arts and Sciences (2014 — 2015)