Ute Indian Tribe/ Bois Forte Chippewa

Education

August-2016- May 2018 Master of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts

San Francisco, California   

August 2009- May 2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Summary of Exhibition & shows

2020

Portraits of the Northern Ute, Solo Exhibition, SCENE Metro Space, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

SFSU Faculty & Staff Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California

The Uncompahgre, Solo Exhibition, Local Language Arts, Oakland California

2019

City Of Souls: Dia De Los Muertos, Group exhibition, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California

Wounds Many: Portraits of the Northern Ute, Solo Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Cafe Valor, San Francisco, California

Threading pages, Kala Fellowship 2018-2019 Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, California

Bay Area Prints 2019, Juried Group Exhibition, Compound Gallery, Oakland, California

Wounds Many, Travois First Friday, Solo exhibition, Crossroads Arts district, Kansas City, Missouri

Ojiibikaawi, Solo Exhibition, Minneapolis American Indian Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Kala Auction Gala, VIP print & juried group exhibition, Kala Art institute, Berkeley, California

Postcolonial Revenge, Group Exhibition, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, California

Kala Artist Annual 2019, Group Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California

2018

Radical departures and Abruptions, Group Exhibition, Dream Farm Commons, Oakland, California

Bay Area MFA 2018, Group Exhibition, Mills Building, San Francisco, California

2018 CCA Graduation Exhibition, Group Exhibition, California College of the arts, San Francisco, California

CCA MFA Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, California

We the People, Group Exhibition, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota

Bring Her Home: Stolen Sisters of Turtle Island, Traveling Exhibition, All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

-Northwest Indian Community Development Center, Bemidji, Minnesota

-Giizhiigan Arts Incubator, Mahnomen, Minnesota

-Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota

-American Indian Community Housing organization, Duluth, Minnesota

2017

Mend 5/5 Collective, Group Exhibition, California College of the arts, San Francisco, CA

The Annual Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award Exhibition, Scholarship exhibition, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

For Directions/Weapons of Resistance, Group Exhibition, All My Relations Art, Minneapolis, MN

The Art of Indigenous Resistance, Juried Circulating Exhibit, Self-Help Graphic, Los Angeles, CA

Art & Crime, group exhibition, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, CA,

MFA Now 2017, juried exhibition, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016

Annual Yozo Hamaguchi Scholarship, Award Exhibition, August 2016, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA

Skateopolis, Group exhibition, Downtown Subscription, Santa Fe, NM

2015

AHA Progressive Arts Festival, Juried artist, Santa Fe Railyard, Santa Fe, NM

On Fertile Ground, Group Juried show, All My Relations Art, Minneapolis, MN

Decked Out, Group Collaboration exhibit, Studio Central, Santa Fe, NM

Monster show, Group Exhibit, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Fertile Grounds, Alumni Exhibition, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

All My Relations Art, featured artist, Powwow Grounds, Minneapolis, MN

2012

50/50: 50 Artist, 50 Years, MOCNA Santa Fe, NM

University of Colorado, invited artist, Boulder, CO

Initiation, Juried Group BFA Exhibition, MOCNA, Santa Fe, NM

Low-Rez, Invited Group Exhibition, Eggman & Walrus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

Awards & Residencies

Local Language Art, Artist-in-Residence, Oakland, California

Google American Indian Network (GAIN), Google Inc, Artist-in-Residence, Mountain View, California

2018-2019 Kala Art Institute Fellowship Award, Fellowship winner, Berkeley, California

2017 Annual Murphy Award & Cadogan Scholarships, Cadogan Scholarship winner, San Francisco, California

2016 Annual Yozo Hamaguchi Printmedia Scholarship award, MFA Scholarship Winner, Oakland, California

 

Lectures

In Conversation: Artists Consider Andrew J. Russell’s Photography, Guest Lecture, Oakland Museum Of California, Oakland,CA, August 2019

Misidentified, American Institute of Graphic Arts KC, Guest artist & speaker, Travios First Friday, Kansas City, MO, June 2019

San Francisco State University, Visiting Artist, San Francisco, CA, April 2019

Kala Art Institute, Artist lecture, Berkeley, CA, November 2018

Advancing Equity in Arts Education Summit, Guest Speaker, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA, September 2017

 

Publications

San Francisco Travel, “ How I see San Francisco: Keith Secola” October 11th 2019, Brenda Tucker

Berkley Times, “ Artist Profile: Keith Secola jr.” July 11th 2019, James Galvin

Mission Local, “At the Mission Cultural Center, producing art may be the best revenge”, February 20, 2019, Lydia Chavez

San Francisco Chronicle/ SF Gate, “Identity and History on Display at SOMArts Show”, September 20th, 2017, Ryan Kost

Native Max Magazine, “Five Questions”, Art & Style Issue October – November 2015, Daryl Begaye

Indian Country Today Media Network, “A Native American Life”- The Amazing Artwork of Keith Secola Jr. November 17th 2015 Alex Jacobs