Education:
B.B.A. Strategic Design and Management, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.
Public Collections:
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Museums at Washington and Lee, Lexington, VA
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Solo Exhibitions:
2021
Michael Namingha: Altered Landscapes, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Michael Namingha: Altered Landscapes, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Group Exhibitions:
2023
In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Earth and Sky, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Surreal Futures, Max Ernst Museum, Bruhl, Germany
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Seeing America: 18th and 19th Century, The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Earth and Sky, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ
2022
Survivance, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
A Celebration of Trees, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
Grounded in Clay, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM
Land Back, 6th Contemporary Native Art Biennial, Montreal, Canada
On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2020
Word Play, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM.
2019
The Art of the Namingha’s: Dan, Arlo, and Michael, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA.
Nine for Ninety: Artists for a New Era, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ.
2018
Recent Gifts From the Southwest: CN Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA.
The Black Place: Georgia O'Keeffe and Michael Namingha, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM.
Vantage Points: History and Politics in the American Landscape, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ.
2017
Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Conception, Abstraction, Reduction: The Art of Dan, Arlo, and Michael Namingha, Santa Fe Botanical Garden, Santa Fe, NM
2016
Grand Muse, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona
Alcoves 16/17.4, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Train Must Be Fed, Santa Fe Community Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Lululemon Men Atheletica, New York, New York
You Are On Indian Land, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona.
2015
Octopus Dreams, Group Exhibition, Tobinodai Historic Site Park Museum, Funabashi City, Japan
NewsFeed: Santa Fe Collective, Santa Fe, New Mexico
25th Anniversary Exhibit, Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Double Vision, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2014
Pop-Up Gallery: Santa Fe Collective, Brooklyn, New York
August Exhibit, Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Lucent Exhibit, Cloud 5 Studio, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Pop Up Gallery: Santa Fe Collective, Albert Kinney Festival, Venice Beach, California
Pop-Up Gallery, Santa Fe Collective, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2013
Arternative Light 3, Musee Oceanographique de Monaco, Monaco
Michael Lord Gallery, Palm Springs, California
Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ekaterinburg Museum, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Arternative Light 2, Chapiteau de Fontvieille, Monaco
Namingha Family: Landscape, Form, and Light, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Berlin Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2011
Arternative Light, Chapiteau de Fontvieille, Monaco
2010
Jay Etkin Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2009
Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Appointments, Participation, and Commissions:
2023 | Rollin and Mary Ella King Native Artist Fellow | School for Advanced Research | Santa Fe, NM
2022 | Google Chrome Commissioned Native American Artist
2018-2019 | Participating Artist | NEW INC at New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, NY.
2013-2017 | Board of Directors, Foundation Board of the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008-2013 | Arts Commissioner for the City of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico..
2012-2015 | Chairman, Art in Public Places Committee City of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2012-2016 | Board of Directors, Santa Fe Community Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 UNESCO delegate. New Designers Workshop 2008: Roots Finder - DESIGN DNA Nagoya, Japan