Bio

Eliza Naranjo Morse (1980) is a mixed-media artist from Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. Her work engages drawing, land, collaboration, sculpture, and writing. She receives an ongoing education from her extended family and holds a Bachelor Degree in Art from Skidmore College. She works mostly locally and has traveled internationally for various forms of creative knowledge gathering and sharing.  She lives on Santa Clara Pueblo land and continues to work with creative and communal expressions and the universes of possibility that lies within them.

 

Photo

Photo courtesy of Ucross

Artist Statement

Eliza Naranjo Morse explores the existential questions that arise from current events, personal experiences, and spiritual seeking. Her art, in materials as varied as gathered earth, acrylic paint, digital media and community reference techniques from the knowledge of her Pueblo elders and her formal education to reflect on cultural history, spirituality, and contemporary existence. With focus on land, current events and personal and communal experience she gathers and creates stories that call attention to both the beautiful and challenging nature of existence. 

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Education

- The ongoing education I receive my Pueblo elders which spans considerations of language, values, knowledge systems and creativity that is rooted in Tewa world view as it meets a current global experience. 

-Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM.  Continuing Education, Figure Drawing.  2009-2011.  

-Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.  Bachelor of Fine Arts.  Graduated 2003.

-Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM. Exchange from Skidmore college.  2001-02. 

-Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.  Summer Program. 1998.  

-Native American Preparatory School, Rowe, NM.  High School Diploma.  Graduated 1999.  

Awards, Grants and Fellows

-Coe Center for the Arts recipient of their ‘Sharing their wealth of space’. Santa Fe, NM. Winter 2021-22.  

-UCROSS, Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists and Writers.  UCross, WY.  2021. 

-Kindle Project, Makers Muse, Grant recipient. Santa Fe, NM.  Fall 2009.  

-School for Advanced Research, King Artist Fellowship. Santa Fe, NM.  Fall 2007.

 

Forms of Residence

-Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. A recipient of their ‘sharing wealth of space’ to make artwork in their newly acquired warehouse.  November-May, 2022.  

 -Art teacher, Kha’ Po’ Community school.  Through collaboration, created and practiced a land based, culturally rooted art curriculum for elementary age students.  2017-2021.  2023-Current.

-Evergreen Longhouse, Olympia WA.  Tears of Duk’Wibahl.  By invitation, Artist in week long international gathering of Indigenous artists.  Fall 2017.  

-PRAKSIS, Oslo, Norway.  In Time We Too Will Become Ancestors.  By invitation, the lead artist in month long residency.  Fall 2016.

-Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ.  Mapp(ing).  By invitation, one week long printmaking residency.  Winter 2011.

 

 

Exhibition

- National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC. New Worlds: Women to Watch. April-August 2024.

-Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM.  Giving Growth, A Collaboration with Jamison Chas Banks. Spring-Fall,2022. 

-Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY.  Alumni Invitational 5.  Summer 2022. 

-Idyllwild Center for the Arts, Idyllwild, CE.  @Creation Native Arts Festival Invitational Exhibit.  Summer 2021. 

-Wheelwright Museum of Native American Art, Santa Fe, NM.  Making Our Way, Every Day.  All Together.  Mural.  Summer 2020.  

-Fung Collaboratives Art Kiosk, Redwood,CA. Seeking Life.  Collaboration with Nora Naranjo Morse.  Spring 2019.  

-Yekaterinburg Fine Arts Museum, Russia.  Borrowing the Earth.  Group Exhibit.  Winter 2019.  

-National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM.  Because It’s Time.  Unraveling Race and Place in New Mexico.  Group exhibit.  Fall 2018.  

-Coe Foundation for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM.  IMPRINT.  Group show.  Fall 2018.  

-SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM.  Much Wider than a Line. Biennial group exhibit. Fall 2016.  

-Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM.  Forward.  Solo Exhibition.  Spring  2017.  

-New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM.  Alcoves. Group Show.  Summer 2016.  

-5x5 Washington Public Arts, Washington DC.  Digging.  A collaborative performance.  Summer 2014.  

-Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM.  I Am Animal, Vegetable, Mineral.  Group show.  Summer 2011.  

-Cumbre de El Tajin, Veracruz, Mexico.  Tiyat-Nung-Tierra-Earth.  Group show. Spring 2011.  

-Berlin Gallery, Phoenix, AZ. Group exhibit.  Fall 2010.  

Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM.  Lucky Number 7 International Biannual.  Collaborative Instillation in group Exhibit. Summer 2008.   

-Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ.  Mothers and Daughters.  Mural in group exhibit.  Winter 2009. 

-Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY.  Senior Show. Group Exhibit. Spring 2003.  

 

Publication

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies. Edited by Elizabeth Sumida Huaman & Nathan D. Martin.  Cover Illustration.  Fall 2020.  

PRAKSIS Presents Issue: 2.  Online Publication through PRAKSIS, Norway.  Interview and shareable artwork. Spring 2021. 

Tewa Coloring Book.  Published by the Poeh Center and the National Museum of the American Indian. Coloring book images.  2021. 

“Request and Relationship” .  Weisel Collection Catalogue, Fine Arts Museum of San Fransisco, San Francisco, CA.  Essay co-written with Tessie Naranjo.  Winter 2019.   

“House of Clay” in Pastelegram, Online Publication. House of Clay.  Essay. http://pastelegram.org/e/227  Winter 2017.