250 Years, Indigenous Futures |
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September 15 – November 7, 2026 |
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17, 2026 | 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
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As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, Haines presents 250 Years, Indigenous Futures, a group exhibition centering the work of eight leading Native American artists: Victoria Grace Canby, Jordan Ann Craig, Sky Hopinka, Brad Kahlhamer, Terran Last Gun, Jamie Okuma, Wendy Red Star, and Keith Secola. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and film, these artists engage contemporary culture, Nation-specific visual traditions, and personal histories in distinct and expansive ways.
Looking beyond commemoration, 250 Years, Indigenous Futures recognizes 1776 as only one moment within much longer histories of Indigenous presence, adaptation, and sovereignty. Creating space for artists to define their own terms of engagement, the exhibition aims to bring forward concerns central to their practices. The works on view draw inspiration from a vivid range of sources: boldly painted Piikani lodges; the precise geometry of Northern Cheyenne beadwork; the Indians of All Tribes’ occupation of Alcatraz; cars adorned with blankets and regalia for the annual Crow Fair; blood-soaked horror films; and archival photographs whose subjects meet the visitor’s gaze. |
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Victoria Grace Canby, We Grow Our Own Medicine - Interdimensional and Intertribal Healing - Plant Studies: Three Sisters - Squash, 2026 |
| Jordan Ann Craig, Miss Your Musk, 2024 |
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Victoria Grace Canby's (Diné, b. 1978) new works on paper depict the Three Sisters—corn, beans, and squash—as a living model of resilience, healing, and collective care that connects Indigenous Peoples throughout the Americas. Jordan Ann Craig's (Northern Cheyenne, b. 1992) painting Miss Your Musk evokes associations ranging from Northern Cheyenne beadwork and quillwork to the postwar abstraction of Agnes Martin, foregrounding Indigenous abstraction as a living, evolving practice. |
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Sky Hopinka, Death is an obstacle and I've exhausted a place called home, 2022 |
| Brad Kahlhamer, Pima Air + Space, 2025 |
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A film and related photograph by Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, b. 1984) connects distinct Indigenous sites and histories, including the Indians of All Tribes' occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969–1971), and the Cahokia and Dickson Mounds, both in present-day Illinois. Brad Kahlhamer's (Native American ancestry, b. 1956 ) recent "dream sheet" painting Pima Air + Space explores what he refers to as the “third place”—a meeting point of two opposing personal histories—through a highly personal visual iconography. |
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Terran Last Gun, Continuum And Survival, 2026 |
| Jamie Okuma, Of Love And Sacrifice: Motherhood, 2026 |
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New ledger drawings by Terran Last Gun (Piikani/Blackfeet, b. 1989) feature bold geometric designs inspired by Piikani painted lodges on vintage ledger paper, bringing ancestral forms, colonial records, and Indigenous abstraction into charged relation. Jamie Okuma's (Luiseño, Shoshone-Bannock, Wailaki, and Okinawan, b. 1977) signature single-stitch beadwork transforms a spiked, deerskin handbag into a dazzling portrayal of figures from Luca Guadagnino's 2018 horror film Suspiria. |
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Wendy Red Star, The (HUD) 3, 2026 |
| Keith Secola, Macheavant, 2019 |
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Works from Wendy Red Star's (Apsáalooke, b. 1981) The (HUD) series collage the colorful facades of houses built through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Montana’s Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation, revealinging signs of domestic beauty that exceed the mandates of bureaucracy. Keith Secola (Northern Ute/Anishinaabe, b. 1988) screen prints archival portraits of Native Americans onto the covers of vintage books, placing Indigenous presence in direct tension with exclusionary narratives of America’s past. |
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Images credits: 1) Victoria Grace Canby, We Grow Our Own Medicine - Interdimensional and Intertribal Healing - Plant Studies: Three Sisters - Squash, 2026. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Shaun Roberts; 2) Jordan Ann Craig, Miss Your Musk, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Hales Gallery, London and New York. © Jordan Ann Craig. Photo: JSP Art Photography; 3) Sky Hopinka, Death is an obstacle and I've exhausted a place called home, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Broadway Gallery, New York; 4) Brad Kahlhamer, Pima Air + Space, 2025. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Shaun Roberts; 5) Terran Last Gun, Continuum And Survival, 2026. Courtesy of the artist; 6) Jamie Okuma, Of Love and Motherhood: Sacrifice, 2026. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Shaun Roberts; 7) Wendy Red Star, The (HUD) 3, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles. Photo: Paul Salveson; 8) Keith Secola, Macheavant, 2019. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Shaun Roberts |
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