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S O L O  E X H I B I T I O N S

2025          New Works. Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, Oregon.

2023         GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE. Russo Lee Gallery. Portland, Oregon.

                  LAND BACK. Curated by Brittany Britton (Hupa). Goudi'ni Native American Arts Galleries, Cal Poly Humboldt, California.

2022         IN SITU. Favell Museum, Klamath Falls, Oregon

2021        Ghost Rider. Ditch Projects. Springfield, Oregon

2020        A Lie Nation, Alienation. SCALEHOUSE, Bend, Oregon

                Un-Erasing. Nine Gallery. Portland, Oregon

2019       A Lie Nation, Alienation: New Paintings. Stumptown Artist Fellowship. Portland, Oregon

               Marks From A Journey Home. Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University. Corvallis, Oregon

             

S E L E C T E D  G R O U P  E X H I B I T I O N S

2024         Seattle Art Fair. New Artists New Collectors, Russo Lee Gallery, booth D07. July 25-28, 2024

                  The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans. Curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. New Britain Museum of Art, Connecticut.

2023         The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans. Curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

                  Inherent Memory. Curated by Melissa Melero Moose (Northern Paiute and Modoc). IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA),    

                  Santa Fe, New Mexico.
                 Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea. This is a multi-year Art Bridges + Terra Foundation Initiative project organized by the

                  Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). Traveling to The Boise Art Museum, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Jordan Schnitzer

                  Museum of Art, and Whatcom Museum.

2022          MESH. Curated by Kathleen Ash-Milby. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

                  Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea. This is a multi-year Art Bridges + Terra Foundation Initiative project organized by the Smithsonian American                         Art Museum. Traveling to The Boise Art Museum, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and Whatcom Museum.

2021         MESH. Curated by Kathleen Ash-Milby. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.

                Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea. This is a multi-year Art Bridges + Terra Foundation Initiative project organized by the Smithsonian American                          Art Museum (SAAM). Traveling to The Boise Art Museum, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and Whatcom Museum.

                  A Critical Conversation. ANTI-AESTHETIC Gallery, Eugene, Oregon

2020         Eartha. Adams and Ollman Gallery, Portland, Oregon

                  Portraiture from the Collection of Northwest Art. Curated by Storm Tharp and Grace Kook-Anderson. Portland Art Museum. Portland, Oregon

                  Making a Better Painting:  Thinking Through Practice. Exhibit and Symposium. Curated by Cara Tomlinson, Elise Richman, Cynthia Camlin, Tia Factor, Sylvan

                  Lionni, Amy Chaloupka, Kevin Bell. Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College. Portland, Oregon

                  Native Portraiture: Power and Perception. Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma, Washington.

2019         Portland 2019 Biennial. Curated by Yaelle S. Amir, Elisheba Johnson, and Ashley Stull. Disjecta, Portland, Oregon

                Water Shapes the West. Prints, Painting, and Drum Glyph: Cordage, + Hitchhiker Installation. High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon

2018         Reverence. Natalie Ball, Rick Bartow, Ka'ila Farrell-Smith. The Little Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

                  In Red Ink. Curated by RYAN! Federsen. Museum of Contemporary Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington

                 America Likes Me. Curated by Josephine Zarkovich, Linfield Gallery, McMinnville, Oregon

               Woven. Curated by Todd Clark. Port of Portland, Portland Airport, Oregon

                 Conversations in The Round House: Roots, Roads and Ritual. Curated by Cheryl Hartup and Danielle Knapp. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon 

 2017       Out of Sight. Curated by Ben Heywood, Greg Lundgren, S. Surface and Justen Waterhouse. Schoenfelds’ Building, Seattle, Washington

                 from which we rise. Curated by Satpreet Kahlon. The Alice Gallery, Seattle, Washington

                 Celilo Falls: The Center of the Universe. Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery, Salem, Oregon

                 Protect the Sacred: Native Artists for Standing Rock. Curated by Asia Tail. Spaceworks Gallery, Tacoma, Washington

                 Linda Hodges Gallery, Duo Show with Patti Bowman. Seattle, Washington

                 Many Lands. Curated by Ben Gannon. Bridge Productions, Seattle, Washington

2016        What's the Story. Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington

                The Crossing over Place. Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, David Huffman, Nadia Myre, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Justen Waterhouse. Curated by Justen Waterhouse. Institute                       New Connotative Action (INCA), Seattle, Washington

                 Out of Sight. Curated by Greg Lundgren, Sierra Stinson, Minh Nguyen, Julia Fryett, Beth Sellars, Molly Sides, Scott Lawrimore, Justen Waterhouse. King Street                   Station, Seattle, Washington

                 IMNDN: Woven | Contemporary Native Basketry. Curated by Todd Clark. Schingoethe Center at Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois

                 Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art, 1977-2015. Curated by Gail Tremblay and Miles Miller. Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana                     Northwest Art Now @ TAM. Co-curated by Rock Hushka & Juan Roselione-Valadez. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington

                 In the Spirit: Contemporary Native Art. Washington History Museum, Tacoma, Washington

                 IMNDN Series:Woven | The Art of Contemporary Native Basketry. Curated by Todd Clark. Archer Gallery, Vancouver, Washington

2003        Giovani Pulscioni. Arte Contemporaneo Cortona, Medici Fortress, Cortona, Italy

P E R M A N E N T  C O L L E C T I O N S

2023         Talon. Land Back Series (2019-2021). Wild harvested pigments from Klamath land, land back stencils, aerosols, acrylic paint, graphite on birch wood panel.

                  30" x 24," 2020. Permanent collection acquisition of the Seattle Convention Center Summit Building.

2022        Off the Ground. Land Back Series (2019-2021). Wild harvested pigments from Klamath land, land back stencils, aerosols, acrylic paint, oil bars and graphite

                 on birch wood panel. 60" x 48," 2021. Permanent collection acquisition of the Portland Art Museum.

2021        Vision Quest Glyphology. Oil painting, 2013. 72” x 48,” Kamiak Elementary School, Pullman, Washington. Curated by RYAN! Feddersen.

2018        Enrollment. Oil painting in the Permanent Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Eugene, Oregon

2012        After Boarding School: In Mourning. Permanent Collection purchased with funds from the Native American Art Council, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

P U B L I C A T I O N S

2024        Decolonial Arts Praxis: Transnational Pedagogies and Activism. Edited by Injeong Yoon-Ramirez, Alejandra I. Ramírez. Chapter 3, “Ghosts Rider: Performing  

                 Fugitive Indigeneity” by Ka’ila Farrell-Smith. Copyright 2024. Routledge Research in Decolonizing Education, Taylor and Francis Group, CRC Press.

2023        The Land Carries our Ancestors. Exhibition Book. Curated and edited by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, written contributions by Joy Harjo, heather ahtone, Shana   

                 Bushyhead Condill. National Gallery of Art, Washington in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2023.

                 An Indigenous Present. Edited by Jeffrey Gibson. BIG NDN PRESS. Delmonico Books. D.A.P. New York.

2022        Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence. Edited by Tsim D. Schneider and Lee M. Panich. University Press of Florida, 2/15/2022. Cover Art "Alien Invasion: 1492,"

                Crow's Shadow five color lithograph with collaborating Master printer Judith Baumann, 30" x 22.5," 2018.

2021       The BEAR A/PART #38. Orlo curated by Kristin Rogers Brown. Ka’ila is a Sponsoring Artist, nominated and interviewed RYAN! Feddersen.

2020       Fire Season. Edited by Armory Abbott and Liz Toohey-Wiese. Printed by First Choice Books in Canada.

                Making a Better Painting: Thinking Through Practice. Exhibition and Symposium Lewis & Clark College Catalog. Photography by Aaron Johanson, Mario                               Gallucci, Cara Tomlinson, and Juequian Fang. Catalog Design by Martha Lewis.

2019       Basalt: dark-colored, fine-grained. Volume 13, number 1 | 2019. Editor David Axelrod, Contributing Editors James Crews, Jodi Varon, Web Editor                                            James Benton, Web Design Chris Jennings, Graphic Design redbat design. College of Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences, Eastern Oregon University.

C O M M I S S I O N S
2019       Water in the West. Drum, Cordage + Hitchhiker Installation. High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon
2017       Abstract Painting Installation. Four (4’ x 4’) Abstract Paintings. Ilani Casino Resort, Cowlitz TribeRidgefield, Washington
 
E D U C A T I O N

2014        M.F.A. Contemporary Art Practices/ Studio degree program, Portland State University (PSU). Portland, Oregon

2004        B.F.A. Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). Portland, Oregon

A W A R D S |  G R A N T S 

2022       Golden Spot artist in residency program, Caldera Arts Center. Ford Family Foundation + Caldera, Sisters, Oregon

2021       Hallie Ford Fellowship. Ford Family Foundation, Oregon

2020       Fields Artist Fellowship. Oregon Humanities and Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon

2019       Fields Artist Fellowship. Oregon Humanities and Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon

2018       Golden Spot Award, Ford Family Foundation. Crows Shadow Residency. Umatilla, Oregon

2017       Ford Foundation Fellowship, Ucross Foundation Residency Program. Sheridan, Wyoming

               Researcher Grant. Bill Holm Center, Burke Museum. University of Washington. Seattle, Washington

2016      Native Arts Grant. Potlatch Fund, Seattle, Washington

              Honoring the Northwest Award. ‘In the Spirit: Contemporary Native Arts Exhibit.’ Washington Historical Society, Tacoma, Washington.

              Professional Development Grant. Funding for Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Regional Art’s and Culture

              Council (RACC) Portland, Oregon       

P R O F E S S I O N A L   A C T I V I T I E S

2020       Board Member. Rogue Climate, Pheonix, Oregon

                Ascend Printmaking Collaborative. Organized by Kanani Miyamoto and Stephanie Fogel. Project Grant support from RACC, Portland, Oregon

                Rural + Tribal Community Director, Signal Fire. Artist + Creative Agitator Residency Program. Chiloquin, Oregon

2019       Rural + Tribal Community Director, Signal Fire. Artist + Creative Agitator Residency Program. Chiloquin, Oregon

2018       Paddles, 5 Prayers. Apprentice/Mentorship with Shirod Younker. Native Arts & Culture Foundation. (2017-2018)

               Community Coordinator, Co-Director. Signal Fire, Artist + Creative Agitator Residency Program. Portland, Oregon

2017      Artist Presentation + Museum Guide for MEPI Student Leaders Program. Middle-East Partnership Initiative with Portland State University at the Portland Art

              Museum, Portland, Oregon

              Artist Presentation. Dispatch, First 100 Days. PICA, Portland, Oregon

              Co-Director. Signal Fire. Artist + Creative Agitator Residency Program. Portland, Oregon

             Steering Committee Member. Journeys in Creativity. Native American pre-college, full-residency art camp. OCAC. Portland, Orego

2015     Visiting Artist. Integrated Practices, MFA in Craft, Oregon College of Arts and Craft (OCAC), Portland, Oregon

             No Boundaries Field Guide. Workshop for Journeys in Creativity students exploring the "No Boundaries: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting" Exhibit. Portland 

             Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon

T E A C H I N G

2018      Portland State University."Decolonizing Via Indigenous Art," INST 410. Winter Term. Portland, Oregon

2017     Portland State University: "Decolonizing Via Indigenous Art," INST 410. Winter 2017. Portland, Oregon

2015     Portland Community College: Sylvania Campus, Portland, OR. Art Instructor (Spring 2015-Fall 2015). Professor of Painting & Drawing 131 A, B, C and

             231 A, B, C.

             A. Susana Santos: Journeys in Creativity Native Youth Art Camp: Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon

             Mentor and Art Instructor (2012-Present) ‘Introduction to Painting’ workshop 2013 and ‘Monotype’ workshop 2014.

2005    Siletz Tribe: Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, Oregon. Art Instructor (2005-2004) 3-day tribal youth camp, ages 7-16 for the Siletz Tribe.

 

 

 

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