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Steven J Yazzie

Steven J. Yazzie (Born 1970) is active/lives in Arizona, California.  Steven Yazzie is known for Painting, video, installation, performance, collaborative art.

Statement

My work is the product of interdisciplinary projects and multidisciplinary activities including: painting, video installation, performance, and socially driven collaborations.  My ancestry, Navajo (Dine’), Laguna, and European, play a fundamental role in the postcolonial subtext embedded in the narratives of my work.  I use specific geographies within the southwest region of the United States as points of reference in framing metaphors of cultural condition, specifically land as a source of identity, conflict, and explicit resource.

Biography

Steven J. Yazzie (b.1970) Newport Beach, California; lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona. Yazzie is a proud member of the Navajo Nation and a veteran of the Gulf War serving honorably with the United States Marine Corps. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Intermedia at Arizona State University and was named the 2014 outstanding graduate for the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. He also   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5106 characters.]  Artist bio

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