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    Red Skin Dreams
    Twenty Years of Curating Indigenous Art at the Venice Biennale

    Nancy Marie Mithlo (Author)

    9781496234568

    Paperback / softback, published 1 February 2026

    328 pages, 40 color photographs, 16 color illustrations
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

    “Timely and significant. . . . A great read that delves into some fascinating and complex issues around Native American art today: the local, the global, late-stage capitalism, deep thoughts, and more. Red Skin Dreams is so personal and erudite, and addresses major issues in thinking about the creation, exhibition, and criticism of Native American art on the global stage, that anyone interested in any of those topics—even if you don’t care about the Venice Biennale—will want to read and share it.”—Ryan Wheeler, director of the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology and coeditor of Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology

    In Red Skin Dreams curator and scholar Nancy Marie Mithlo (Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe) recounts the challenges of exhibiting Indigenous art at the famed Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most-recognized international arts exhibition. Mithlo’s experience of organizing nine independently sponsored exhibitions in Italy from 1997 through 2017 reveals marginalization and breakthroughs in an ever-shifting global art market.

    Mithlo’s curated exhibitions highlighted contemporary American Indian and Indigenous artists on a global scale while also calling into question the dichotomies of margin and center, insider and outsider. Her scholarship asserts that Indigenous peoples are active participants in the contemporary arts world, despite mainstream assumptions to the contrary.

    This is a story about how Indigenous peoples—both collectively and individually—claim a place in a transnational world that often forgets their presence. It is a story not only about arrival but belonging.

    List of Illustrations
    Preface
    Introduction
    1. Ceremonial 1999
    2. Umbilicus 2001
    3. Pellerossasogna 2003
    Di Mezzo
    4. Requickening 2007
    5. Rendezvoused 2009
    6. Epicentro 2011 / Air, Land, Seed 2013
    7. Ga ni tha 2015 / Wah.shka 2017
    Epilogue
    Notes
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