Nicholas Galanin — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works23

Museum Acquisitions

12 Institutions

Whitney

MoMA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Art Institute of Chicago

Cleveland Museum of Art

Seattle Art Museum

Amon Carter Museum

Princeton University Art Museum

Yale University Art Gallery

Crystal Bridges

Phillips Collection

Toledo Museum of Art

Previous Sales 3

Public Art Fund Benefit Auction · Artsy

There Is No "I", 2012

Bidding closed

C-print mounted on Dibond

Public Art Fund Benefit Auction · Artsy

Ancestral Acumen, 2019

Bidding closed

Ink and goldleaf on paper

Toronto Biennial of Art Benefit Auction · Artsy

Let Them Enter Dancing and Showing Their Faces: Soothsayer, 2018

Bidding closed

Monotype on paper

For Sale 3

Trotta-Bono Contemporary · Artsy

American Talking Stick, monochrome, 2023

Price on request

Glazed porcelain and tassel with bullet shell casings and cast-iron eagle finial

Minor Matters Books · Artsy

Let Them Enter Dancing and Showing Their Faces/Neil Has Yaxdaxoon, 2018

For sale

Hardcover, with 7-inch LP

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts · Artsy

Things Are Looking Native, Native’s Looking Whiter, 2012

For sale

Digital print

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Galleries2

#65 Library Street Collective

#307 Peter Blum Gallery

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Podcast Interviews1

podcasts No. 540: Paintings on Stone, 1530-1800, Nicholas Galanin The Modern Art Notes Podcast · Mar 10, 2022

Episode No. 540 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator Judith W. Mann and artist Nicholas Galanin. Mann is the curator of “Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred, 1530-1800,” which is on view at the Saint L…

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Biennial Selections1

Whitney Biennial — New York

2019

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Current Exhibitions0

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Recent News20

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‘Hold to This Earth’ Surveys the Abundance of American Indigenous Contemporary Art

A new exhibition titled 'Hold to This Earth' at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield, U.K., will open on June 13 and run through April 18, 2027. It f…

exhibitionsJun 9, 2026

‘Indian Theater’ Native Performance exhibition in Santa Fe

The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) and SITE SANTA FE are collaborating on a major exhibition titled 'Indian Theater: Native Performan…

exhibitionsJun 4, 2026

‘We have a shared sky and stars’: the Indigenous American artists challenging our relationship to the natural world

Hold to This Earth, the largest exhibition of contemporary Native North American art ever shown in Britain, has opened at a time when the United State…

exhibitionsJun 4, 2026

Waterbury’s Mattatuck Museum Balances Art and Local

The Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut, balances art and local history, serving as a community hub. Director Bob Burns has integrated school p…

localMay 8, 2026

Saint Louis’s Counterpublic Triennial Reveals Artist List for Third Edition

The Counterpublic Triennial has unveiled the artist list for its third edition, titled "Coyote Time," scheduled to run from September 12 to December 1…

exhibitionsApr 8, 2026

Artist list for Counterpublic 2026 announced

The St. Louis-based triennial Counterpublic has unveiled its full artist list for the 2026 edition, titled 'Coyote Time.' Running from September 12 to…

exhibitionsApr 7, 2026

Counterpublic Triennial Names 47 Artists and Collectives for Upcoming Third Edition, Including Glenn Ligon, Rebecca Belmore, Rirkrit Tiravanija

The St. Louis-based triennial Counterpublic has unveiled the artist list for its third edition, titled "Coyote Time," scheduled to run from September …

exhibitionsApr 7, 2026

IN REVIEW: To be felt, not read — ‘Paper Trails: Unfolding Indigenous Narratives’ at IAIA MoCNA

A new exhibition titled 'Paper Trails: Unfolding Indigenous Narratives' has opened at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), part of the Inst…

reviewApr 5, 2026

museum openings 2026

Major international museum projects are nearing completion for 2026, signaling a period of significant institutional expansion despite global economic…

exhibitionsMar 19, 2026

Hyperallergic Spring 2026 New York Art Guide

The Hyperallergic Spring 2026 New York Art Guide outlines a massive seasonal program featuring nearly 70 exhibitions across the city's major instituti…

exhibitionsMar 2, 2026

an indigenous takeover of the met asks who should be writing art history

An unsanctioned augmented reality exhibition titled “Encoded” has taken over the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring works by 1…

exhibitionsJan 3, 2026

museum artists

The article reflects on the final 2025 edition of the Museum Artists list, which tracks the most exhibited artists in U.S. museums each quarter. The a…

cultureDec 17, 2025

Political statements at Art Basel Miami Beach are sparse but strident

At Art Basel Miami Beach, one year into Donald Trump’s second presidential administration, most galleries are avoiding overt political themes, though …

exhibitionsDec 5, 2025

Indigenous Artists Infiltrate the Met With a Guerrilla A.R. Project

On Indigenous Peoples' Day, nonprofit media lab Amplifier launched an unsanctioned augmented reality exhibition titled “Encoded” at New York's Metropo…

exhibitionsOct 15, 2025

Indigenous artists transform works at Metropolitan Museum in unsanctioned augmented reality project

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day (13 October), 17 Native artists staged an unsanctioned augmented reality intervention inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art…

exhibitionsOct 13, 2025

george soros trump open society foundations investigation

The Trump administration has escalated its attacks on billionaire philanthropist George Soros, with the Justice Department calling for an investigatio…

policySep 27, 2025

These 16 Artists Are the Biggest at U.S. Museums Right Now

This article presents a quarterly analysis of which living artists are most featured in temporary exhibitions across U.S. museums during September 202…

newsSep 16, 2025

nicholas galanin pulls out smithsonian syposium

Artist Nicholas Galanin withdrew from a symposium tied to the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and Amer…

policySep 12, 2025

Nicholas Galanin pulls out of Smithsonian event, claiming censorship

Nicholas Galanin, a multidisciplinary artist and member of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, withdrew from a symposium hosted by the Smithsonian American Art…

policySep 12, 2025

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Announces Historic Expansion Opening

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has announced a historic expansion, increasing its size by 50 percent to 114,000 squa…

exhibitionsSep 8, 2025

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Past Exhibitions9

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#388 Trotta-Bono Contemporary

Ever-Changing Nations

Kent Monkman, Chris Pappan, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Nicholas Galanin, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Cara Romero, Virgil Ortiz, Rose B. Simpson, David Bradley, Rick Bartow, Will Wilson (b. 1969), Richard Glazer Danay, Pop Chalee (Merina Lujan), Bob Haozous, Bertha Harvey, Craig George

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