Emmi Whitehorse
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Emmi Whitehorse (b. 1956, Crownpoint, New Mexico) is a Native American painter. She was born in Crownpoint, New Mexico and is a member of the Navajo tribe. She had a traditional childhood, growing up in the checkerboard section of the Navajo reservation, speaking only Navajo. Later she and her brothers and sisters were sent to government boarding schools, where they were not allowed to speak the Navajo language. She was encouraged to do art in high school and later studied art at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Emmi Whitehorse is represented in many public collections including the Heard Museum, Phoenix; the Joslyn Museum, Omaha; the St. Louis Museum; and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe. Her work is in public collections in North America, Europe, Japan, Uzbekistan and Morocco.
Whitehorse is known primarily for her large, abstract, mixed-media panels, often created with chalk, oil-stick, and pigment rubbed, drawn, and scratched onto paper and applied to canvas. Her ethereal work explores memory and land, as well as her Navajo culture. Because she was raised in a desert climate, she has often returned to the subject of water.
[edit] Education
1980 B.A., University of New Mexico, Major in Painting
1982 M.A., University of New Mexico, Major in Printmaking, Minor in Art History
[edit] External links
- Whitehorse paintings in the Off the Map exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian
- Whitehorse paintings at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
