• Steven Yazzie

  • 2014

Artist's Website

Grant Summary
Support for The Mountain Project, an ongoing project that involves tours of regional geographies with indigenous participants.
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Artist Statement
My work is the product of multidisciplinary activities including painting, video installations, performance, and socially-driven collaborations. My ancestry, Navajo (Dine’), Laguna, and European, plays a fundamental role in the postcolonial subtext embedded in the narratives of my work. I use specific geographies in the southwest region of the United States as points of reference in framing metaphors about cultural conditions, specifically land as a source of identity, conflict, and resource.

  • Mountain Project (Holocene) 2013, Steven J. Yazzie, Digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

  • Mountain Project 2012, Steven J. Yazzie, Video still. Courtesy of the artist.

  • Mountain Project (Looking for Tsosido) 2013, Steven J. Yazzie, Video still. Courtesy of the artist.