Window Exhibition

Tattoo Revitalization
Hotvlkuce Harjo

January 2 — June 30, 2026

Hotvlkuce Harjo is a queer Mvskoke Creek interdisciplinary artist based in Oklahoma. Their work engages with ancestral Southeastern Woodlands and Mississippian motifs, Indigenous Tattoo Revitalization, and surfaces dimensions of contemporary Mvskoke identity. Guided by frameworks like Mvskoke epistemology, Indigenous Feminisms, Queer Theory, and Indigenous Futurity, their art practice spans mediums such as visual art, photography, and graphic design. Hotvlkuce’s work has been exhibited in galleries and at institutions such as the University of Nebraska, Abrons Art Center, and Stanford University, amongst others. Their clientele and collaborations include For Freedoms, NDN Collective, Industry PDX, and the FX Network. Hotvlkuce attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, where they majored in Studio Arts. Later they pursued their education in Women + Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Indigenous Feminisms, Race, Class, and Gender at the University of New Mexico. As well as fine art photography, analogue processing techniques, and photography theory. Currently, their work centers around the rematriation of Mvskoke people and artists back to the ancestral homelands in what is currently known as, Alabama and Georgia. With specific efforts being made to reestablish a kinship with Atlanta and Macon. Hotvlkuce comes from a long lineage of Mvskoke and Southeastern people actively reinstilling that former relationship to the homelands.

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