Tony Abeyta
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Tony Abeyta (b. 1965, Gallup, New Mexico) Navajo, is the son of painter Narciso Abeyta and brother of sculptor Elizabeth Abeyta. He grew up off the Navajo Reservation on Gallup New Mexico and attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, earning an Associate Degree in Fine Arts followed by study at the Maryland Institute's College of Art in Baltimore. With the help of a Ford Foundation grant, he then traveled to the south of France to study sculpture. Further studies took him to Florence, Italy. Despite his affection for Europe, Abeyta chose to return to the United States and to study painting and film making in the graduate program at the Chicago Art Institute.
Abeyta uses many different techniques, mediums and processes to reinforce his ideas. He uses the bold colors representative of his homeland and uses the materials of sand, acrylic, and oil paint, gold leafing and encaustic wax and collage elements to achieve the desired results in his work.
Selected Exhibitions:
- 1998 Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- 1997 Native Abstraction, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, NM
- 1997 Reinventions/Departures, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- 1997 Water, Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
- 1996 US Artists '96, Philadelphia, PA
- 1995 Group Exhibition, Munich, Germany
- 1994 Narcisso & Tony Abeyta, Wheelright Museum, Santa Fe, NM
- 1994 J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, NY
- 1993 Indian Market Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
- 1992 Alumni Exhibition, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
- 1991 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
- 1987 One Person Show, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
- 1987 Print Exhibition, Pembroke University, North Carolina
- 1985 Governor's Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- 1985 Navajo Community College, Tsaile, AZ
