Melanie Yazzie

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Biography: Melanie Yazzie is Navajo/Dine of the Salt Water Clan and Bitter Water Clan of the Dine/Navajo People of North Eastern Arizona. She is Associate Professor of Art at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. She completed her BA with honors at Arizona State University (1990) and her MFA at the University of Colorado (1993).

Collections: Her works belong to many collections such as the Anchorage Museum of History & Art, the Art Museum of Missoula, the Australian National Gallery, the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Kennedy Museum of Art and the Museum of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Corcoran Museum and the Arizona State University Art Museum.

Exhibitions: She has exhibited nationally and internationally in places such as: Alaska, Arizona, California, New Mexico, New York, Florida, New Zealand, France, Russia, Canada, Bulgaria, Northern Ireland and South Africa.
**Select International Solo Exhibitions**
2002, Making Connections, Village Cultural Center, Bulava, Russia
1999, Navajo in Gisborne,Toihoukura Gallery, Gisborne, New Zealand
1996, Images of Home, Indigo Print and Paper Works, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
**Select National Solo Exhibitions**
2006, Traveling, Heard Museum West, Arizona
2005, Untold Stories of My Present, Past and Dreamtime Prints by Melanie Yazzie, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, Canton, NY
2005 , The Journey I am Making, Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, AZ
2001, Prints and Art Work Made by Melanie Yazzie, Jacobson House: Native Art Center Norman, OK
2000, Holding the Truth: The Personal and Political in Art, Monroe G. Gutman Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Citations: Melanie Yazzie has been an active artist most of her life and has been well colelcted and exhibited since the 1990's. Yazzie has also been recognized by the scholarly and media communities.
**Catalogs**
2002, Hiteemlkiliiksix: Within the Circle of the Rim, (color image), Hemlock Printers, Ltd, Burnaby, B.C., Canada, p.26 & 69.
**Books**
2003, The Cream City Review, (image), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, English Department, Milwauke, Wisconsin, p. 32.
2001, Dan Welden and Pauline Muir, Printmaking in the Sun, (text and color image), Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, NY, p. 48.
1999, W. Jackson Rushing III, Native American Art in the Twentieth Century, (mention in essay), Routledge, New York, NY
1998, Pat Bringhurst Reed, Westtown in Word and Deed, (artist’s text), Westtown School, Pennsylvania, PA
1997, Women of Color Slide Project (slides are bound), Women’s Caucus for Art, NewYork, New York, NY
1997, Lucy Lippard, The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multi Centered Society, The New Press, New York, NY, (text and image), p. 146.

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