Audio Guide – “Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape”
Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River)
Transcription:
Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River), Third Bank of the River (Panorama), 2024, transparency in lightbox, 12 x 87 in., Courtesy the artist
Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River), Shattemuc (stills), 2009, HD video, 31 minutes, stereo soundtrack with original music by Laura Ortman. Courtesy the artist
Artist Biography:
ALAN MICHELSON (Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River) (b. 1953) is an internationally recognized New York-based artist, curator, writer, and lecturer. For over thirty years, he has been a leading practitioner of a socially engaged, critically aware, site-specific art grounded in local context and informed by the retrieval of suppressed histories. Recent exhibitions include the 14th Gwangju Biennale, Enmeshed at the Tate Modern, London, and Greater New York 2021 at MoMA PS1, New York, NY. His solo exhibition Alan Michelson: Wolf Nation was presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, in 2019-2020. Michelson’s work is represented in several collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. His essays have appeared in Aperture, Frieze, and October, and his work has been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times and Art in America. Michelson was co-founder and co-curator of the groundbreaking Indigenous New York series with the Vera List Center at The New School, New York, NY, which raised the visibility of contemporary Indigenous art in New York and beyond.