Artist/Museum Index

Asian, Pacific Islander MN Artists

Pao Houa Her photography
Minneapolis

Sophia Chai photography

Rochester

Cy Thao painted a 50 piece series of Hmong History
St. Paul

Chamindika Wanduragala
puppet artist and filmmaker

Wing Young Huie photography

Minneapolis

Victoria Vang graphic designer, illustrator

St. Paul

Ka Zoua Lee textile artist

Aki Shibata, founder of primary school of behavior art

Minneapolis/St.Paul

Peng Wu, cofounded
CarryOn Homes watch this video about migration

Minneapolis/St.Paul

Shun Yong, photographer

Minneapolis/St.Paul

Isa Gagarin site-responsive installation & mixed media works on paper

Minneapolis

Roshan Ganu, is a multimedia artist originally from Goa, India

Minneapolis

Jovy Rockey, jeweler, metalsmith, community activist, business owner

Winona

Black, African American MN Artists

Ta-coumba T. Aiken
No Words
Medium: acrylics on canvas
Dimensions: 6’H x 24’W triptych
Collection of Walker Art Museum

Ta-coumba T. Aiken, public artist, community activist, educator

Minneapolis/St.Paul

Jovan C. Speller photography,collage, installations

Osage

Ifrah Mansour, Somali, multimedia and performance artist
watch a video about her here

Minneapolis

Yunior Rebollar,Cuban-American,
portraits & digital manipulations
Osage

Eyenga Bokamba,(LGBTQIA+) abstract painter

Leslie Barlow, painter

Minneapolis/St.Paul

Kprecia Ambers, freelance illustrator

Khadijah Muse, Somali, Executive Director of Soomal House of Art

Mohamud Mumin, Somali, curator co-founder of Soomal House of Art

Kaamil A. Haider, Somali, visual artist and designer

Rock Johnsen, ceramic artist

Lamar Peterson, painter

Seitu Jones, paintings, drawings, visual art installations

Dom Venzant, potter and founder of Little Free Pottery

Chenoa Williams (Aonehc Aonehc), Identifies equally with Black and Native Heritage
enrolled member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute tribe
Bead Artist
Duluth

Lori Greene, (Mississippi band of Choctaw, African American and Caucasian)
Mosaic artist and sculptor, community and public artist
St. Paul

Chotsani Elaine Dean, Artist and Assistant Professor of Ceramics at the University of Minnesota

Minneapolis/St.Paul

Emma Eubanks, Illustrator and Designer

Latin/X, MN Artists

Luis Fitch, (L to R)
The Missing 43, On Top of the World, El Árbol de La Muerte
Screenprints-part of The National Museum of Mexican Art
2018

Luis Fitch, artist, designer, from Tijuana, MX, studio and design brand UNO in Minneapolis

Alexa Horochowski, artist, sculptor, dual citizen of Argentina and the US
watch a video of her work here

Alondra Marisol Garza, Tejana, artist, painter, drawer

Alonso Sierralta, sculptor, originally from Chile
Watch him talk about his work here

Carmen Gutiérrez-Bolger, mixed media artist, originally from Cuba

Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo,
artist, documentary
filmmaker, educator

Dougie Padilla, painter, Norwegian, Mexican cowboy

Guillermo Cuellar, potter, originally from Venezuela

Gustavo Lira Garcia, professional art educator, artist and activist

Maria Cristina Tavera (Tina) Mexican-American printer, public art and installation artist

Martha Gabriela Driessen, originally from Mexico, photographer

Selma Fernández Richter, photographer of Mexican heritage

Xavier Tavera, photographer and filmmaker

Guillermo Guardia, ceramic artist

LGBTQIA+ MN Artists

Emmet Ramstad
ALONE TOGETHER
Rebar, mortar, stucco, wood, paint, wood, bathtub, earth, grass, concrete
2019
Photo by Jaffa Aharonov and/or Franconia Sculpture Park staff

Emmet Ramstad, sculptor and
maker of participatory works

Nicole Thomas, interdisciplinary artist

Noah Lawrence-Holder, (LGBTQIA+) non-binary, illustration & animations

Minneapolis/St.Paul

Kathy McTavish, media composer,
cellist and installation artist

Duluth

Ka Oskar Ly,
multidisciplinary,
co-founder of Ua Si Creative, a Hmong womxn
artist collective

Heather C. Lou, multi media artists and
co-organizer of @supportlocalhustle

Chris Willcox, (White women category as well) painter

Petra Lee, (they/them) raised in Singapore, Vietnam and the US, artist and graphic designer

MALFLOR, trans disciplinary artist and writer.

American Indian, Indigenous MN Artists

Dyani White Hawk
Wopila | Lineage (2021).
Acrylic, beads
Photo by Ben Davis.
Exhibited at The 2022 Whitney Biennial

Dyani White Hawk(Sičáŋǧu Lakota), a painter, draws from the history of Lakota abstraction in beadwork, painting, and quill work. Video of her painting/beading process here.

Julie Buffalohead,(Ponca tribe of Oklahoma), printmaker, mixed media artist

Marlena Myles,(Spirit Lake Dakota),
digital artist, illustrator, fabric and fashion design, animator

Minneapolis/St.Paul

Frank Bigbear,(Anishinabe), collage and mixed media

Andrea Carlson, painting and drawing,

Maggie Thompson, (Fond Du Lac Ojibwe)founder of Makwa studio,
a creative space with a focus on textiles, art and fashion

Jennie Kappenman,(Ojibwe)textile, beadwork artist

Moira (pronounced "Miri")Villiard,(grew up on Fond du Lac Reservation
and is a Fond du Lac direct descendent), visual artist, educator, activist

Angela Two Stars, (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate),
contemporary studio and public artist

Sam Zimmerman/ Zhaawanoogiizhik,
(Ojibwe), painter, author

Cole Redhorse Taylor, (Mdewakanton Dakota and member
of the Prairie Island Indian Community)Drawing, Painting, Beadwork,Quillwork
Mankato

Doug Limon, (enrolled member of "the" Oneida Nation and a
descendent of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe)
traditional and contemporary Native American beadwork