Nanibah Chacon
Aug 18th - 21st

Nanibah Chacon is a Diné (Navajo) and Chicana artist who has been highly active in the public arts sector for over two decades. While she is known for large scale murals, her practice expands across disciplines, including illustration and installation. Last year a major solo museum exhibition at SITE Santa Fe included rope installation pieces based on weaving patterns and large-scale paintings inspired by Diné creation stories. Her numerous murals focus on community engagement, addressing the complexity of contemporary Indigenous culture and identities. Chacon holds that art should be accessible and a meaningful catalyst for social change, that this is possible in works embedded with nuanced concepts and addressing urgent socio-political issues. Cultural repair and radical colonial resistance through masterful visual storytelling and re-telling. These murals are reclamations of the spaces they inhabit.

While in residence, Chacon will further develop her practice within painting.