Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Seminole/Muscogee/Dine’)

Appointed 2003, Department of Native American Studies

Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
B.F.A., Painting, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
M.F.A., Studio Arts, U.C. Irvine, Irvine, CA, 2002

Assistant Professor
2411 Hart Hall
530-752-0568
tsinhnahjinnie at ucdavis.edu

Director, C.N. Gorman Museum
C.N. Gorman Museum website
1326 Hart Hall
530-752-6567

Research Interests:

Contemporary and traditional Indigenous arts. Studio works include, photography, video, multi-media installations and traditional Native American techniques.

Tsinhnahjinnie is the Principle Investigator for the April 2009, “Visual Sovereignty: International Indigenous Photographers Conference and Exhibition” to be hosted by the C. N. Gorman Museum.

Personal website

Undergraduate Courses Taught:
  • NAS 10 Native American Experience
  • NAS 34 Native American Art Workshop
  • NAS 101 Contemporary Indian Art
Graduate Courses Taught:
  • NAS 202 Advanced Topics in NAS, Contemplating Issues: Indigenous/Native Multi Media Production, seminar
  • NAS 202 Advanced Topics in NAS, Indigenous Creative Voice, seminar
  • NAS 202 Advanced Topics in NAS, Creative Response, Multi-media Art: Theory and Practice, seminar
  • NAS 298 Group Study for Graduate Students
Recent Publications
  • ’08 (forthcoming) Lidchi, H. and Tsinhnahjinnie, H.J. (eds.), Visual Currencies: Native American Photography, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh.
  • ’07 Tsinhnahjinnie, H.J. and Passalacqua, V. (eds.), Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photography, Heyday Books, Berkeley.
  • ’06 Tsinhnahjinnie, H.J., Our People, Our Land, Our Images, Native Peoples Magazine, Nov/Dec.
  • ’04 Tsinhnahjinnie, H. J., “Native American Photography", The Oxford Companion to Photography, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • ’03 Tsinhnahjinnie, H. J., “When is a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words?”, Photography's Other Histories. C. Pinney and N. Peterson. Duke University Press, Durham and London: 40-52.
Recent Selected Exhibitions
  • ’08 "Picturing the People", Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA
  • ’08 "From the Four Directions", SOMARTS Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
  • ’07 "Mai Ka PIKO Mai: Gathering of Indigenous Artists", Outrigger Keauhou, Kailua-Kona, West Hawai’I Culture Center, Hilo and the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI.
  • '06 Our Peoples, Our Land, Our Images", C.N. Gorman Museum, UC Davis, CA. Burke Museum, Seattle, 2007. Autry National Center, 2008. Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, 2008.
  • ’06 "Holy Land: Diaspora and the Desert", Heard Museum, Phoenix.
  • ’05 "Land, Peoples, Identities", International Center of Bethlehem, Dar Annadwa Addawliya, Bethlehem, Palestine.
  • ’05 "Against Amnesia: Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Dazibao, Mois de la Photo", Montreal. (solo)
  • ’04 "Contemporary Native American Art", Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington DC
  • ’04 "Public/Private: Tumatanui/Tumataiti The 2nd Auckland Triennial", Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, Aotearoa.
  • ’03 "Only Skin Deep", International Center for Photography, New York, NY.
  • ’03 "After the Storm: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art", Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN.
  • ’02 "Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950-2000", San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
  • ’02 "An Aboriginal World View with Aboriginal Dreams", MFA Thesis Exhibition, Video Installation, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA.
  • ’02 "Indian Art Fact", George Eastman House, Rochester NY.