Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo, Creek, Greek) works in sculpture, installation, video, and performance. She received her BA from Dartmouth College with degrees in Native American Studies and Studio Art. She went on to receive her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture. Her work has been part of national and international exhibitions at venues such as Rush Arts in New York, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Crystal Bridges Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Portrait Gallery. Tsouhlarakis has participated in various art residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and was the Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at Colorado College for the 2019-2020 academic year. She was awarded a Creative Capital Grant in 2021 and recently received a 2022 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Tsouhlarakis lives with her family in Colorado and Maine.

“This installation explores Navajo mythology and beliefs around multiple worlds. Navajos from various areas and families were surveyed using SurveyMonkey.com about their beliefs and their thoughts of reaching harmony, or hozho. After collecting data, findings were merged into the installation. Spatial constructions of reality and legend are created and converge at moments of pause where text and object illustrate a selection of Indigenous metaphysical insight.  The materials suggest a hindered return to the natural while the palette subtly evokes the industrial. The signs exhibited at East Window were part of a larger outdoor installation of Edges of the Ephemeral.”

— Anna Tsouhlarakis

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