Solo shows
2026
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Curated by John P. Murphy, Derrick R. Cartwright & William Morrow
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Traveling exhibition
Heart in the Sky
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig. De/Collecting Memories from Turtle Island
Curated by Santi Grunewald & Miriam Szwast
Museum Ludwig, Köln,
2025
Thirteen Moons
Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Curated by John Murphy, Derrick Cartwright & William Morrow
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Traveling exhibition
2024
Telegraph
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
LAND STITCHES WATER SKY
Curated by Liz Park, Richard Armstrong & Alyssa Velazquez
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
SKY DANCES LIGHT
Curated by Hannah Klemm
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Curated by John Murphy, Derrick Cartwright & William Morrow
Print Center of New York, New York, NY
Traveling Exhibition
2023
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Curated by John Murphy, Derrick Cartwright & William Morrow
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois , Champaign, IL
Traveling exhibition
Sky Dances Light
Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago , IL
Singing Everything
Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Curated by John Murphy, Derrick Cartwright & William Morrow
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Traveling Exhibition
2022
A Shared Horizon (Western Door)
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger
Curated by John Lukavic
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Traveling exhibition.
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Curated by John Murphy, Derrick Cartwright & William Morrow
Art Museum of West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Traveling Exhibition
Gather: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger
Stelo Arts, Portland, OR
Hodinöhsö:ni’ Resurgence: Marie Watt, Calling Back, Calling Forward
Curated by Jason Vartikar, Joe Stahlman, PhD & Jordan Reznick, PhD
The Buffalo History Museum, Buffalo, NY
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Curated by John Murphy, Derrick Cartwright & William Morrow
University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
A mid-career retrospective.
Companion Species (Calling Back, Calling Forward)
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA
2021
Companion Species (At What Cost): The Works of Marie Watt
Curated by Jason Vartikar
The Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger
Curated by John Lukavic
Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Traveling Exhibition
Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger
Curated by John Lukavic
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2020
Companion Species: Acknowledgement, Blanket Stories, Generations
Loro Piana Meatpacking District Store, New York, NY
Turtle Island
Marc Straus, New York, NY
2019
Artifact
Curated by Petra Sairinen
Helzer Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2018
Companion Species Calling Companion Species
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Companion Species (Underbelly)
Curated by Ryan Hardesty
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
2017
Companion Species
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Blanket Stories: Western Door, Salt Sacks and Three Sisters
Curated by Jennifer Kramer
The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
2016
Blanket Stories: Textile Society, R.R. Stewart, Ancient One
United States Embassy, Diplomatic Enclave, Islamabad,
Witness
Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY
2014
Blanket Stories: Transportation Object, Generous One, Trek
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Receiver
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Receiver
C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
2012
Skywalker/Skyscraper
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Cradle
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Lodge
Curated by Rebecca J. Dobkins
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
A mid-career retrospective
2010
Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons
Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, Pendleton, OR
Marker
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
2009
Pendleton Stories
Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, OR
Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons
Curated by Ben Mitchell
Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane, WA
Heirloom
Curated by Stephen Glueckert
Missoula Art Museum
2008
Portraits: Six Degrees and Seven Generations
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Fort
The Portland Building, Portland, OR
Blanket Stories: Homestead
Jackson Hole Center for the Arts, Jackson, WY
2007
Blanket Stories: Compass
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Custodian
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
In Seattle Art Museum’s Think Tank education space. Portions of Custodian: Belly were sewn here.
Tread Lightly
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2006
Blanket Stories: Almanac
Curated by Sandy Harthorn
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Blanket Stories: Almanac
Curated by Ben Mitchell
Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
Blanket Stories: Album
Curated by Jennifer Gately
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
2005
Blanket Stories: Ladder
Curated by Margaret Archuleta
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Blanket Stories: Receiving
Curated by Linda Tesner
Ronna & Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
Everything Is Drawing
Curated by Rebecca Dobkins
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR
2004
Blanket Stories
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Blanket Stories: Sewing Bee
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, OR
Continuum: Blanket Stories
Curated by Truman Lowe
National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustave Heye Center, New York, NY
Letter Ghosts and Recent Work
Art Center Gallery, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR
2003
Stack
Evergreen Galleries, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
The first blanket tower was part of this show.
2002
PDX Window Project
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Art in the Governor's Office
Oregon State Capitol, Salem, OR
Sleep and Sleeplessness
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2001
Courier
SVC Art Gallery, Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA
2000
Pedestrian
River Overlook Park, Portland, OR
An In Situ Portland project managed by the Regional Arts & Culture Council. The piece was subsequently acquired by Portland Community College.
1999
Navigation
Friendly House, Portland, OR
Courier
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Group shows
2026
America 250: Common Threads
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
still/emerging: Native American Works on Paper
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Shared Horizon: New Editions from Tandem Press
Tandem Press, Madison, WI
2025
Truth Be Told: Artists Activate Traditions
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM
Rising Suns: Art from the Confederacies of the Great Lakes and Rivers
Curated by Léuli Eshrāghi
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, QC
A Room for Animal Intelligence
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Women of the Pacific Northwest
Curated by Betsy Eby
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Traveling Exhibition
Steel Valley Visions: An American Legacy
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
Words Matter & Untold History
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Shadow & Light: Native American Printmakers from the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts
Curated by Jochen Wierich
The Brinton Museum , Big Horn, WY
Ancestral Edge: Abstraction and Symbolism in the Works of Nine Native American Women Artists
Curated by Ola Wlusek
The Ringling, Sarasota, FL
Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection
Curated by Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen & Sabine Eckmann
Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis, MO
Global Icons, Local Spotlight: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Fabricated Imaginaries: Crafting Art
Curated by Gannit Ankori
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Summer Group Show
PDX Contemporary, Portland, OR
Making a Noise: Indigenous Sound Art
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
madder and madder and hotter and hotter
Curated by Queer Art & Lite Brite Neon
New York Live Arts, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
In the Shadow of the Eagle
Curated by Donna Loring (Penobscot Nation), Dr. Darren Ranco (Penobscot Nation) & Siera Hyte (Cherokee Nation)
Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME
Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969
Curated by Candace Hopkins
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, CA
Crossing The Divide
Curated by Miri Kim & Isaac King
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT
Matter of Fact: Material as a Political Act
Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years
Curated by Nancy Princenthal & Vesela Sretenović
Grey Art Museum, New York, NY
Good Relations: Contemporary Native American Artists in the MAM Collection
Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time
Curated by Sháńdíín Brown (Diné)
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always
Curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Words Matter: Contemporary Native American Works on Paper
Curated by Dr. Johanna Minich
Piedmont Arts , Martinsville , VA
Women of the Pacific Northwest
Curated by Betsy Eby
The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA
Traveling Exhibition
Border Crossings: Contemporary Art from the Zirinsky Collection
Curated by Ellen Johnson
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2024
Spirit in the Land
Curated by Trevor Schoonmaker
Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Traveling Exhibition
Grace Under Fire
Curated by Kyle DeWoody, Laura Dvorkin & Maynard Monrow
The Shepherd, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
A Democracy of Multiples: Recent Print Publications from the Studio of Mullowney Printing
Curated by Paul Mullowney
Linfield Gallery, Miller Fine Arts Center, McMinnville, OR
The Indelible Spirit: Artists in Situ Revitalizing Old Town
Curated by Roberta Wong
220 Building, Portland, OR
Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology
Curated by Stephen Aron, PhD
Samuel & Minna Grodin Gallery, The Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue
Curated by Ginger Dunnill & Josie Lopez
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
Curated by Joseph R. Wolin & Sean Horton
Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY
The Sky You Were Born Under: Sharing Stories Through Abstraction
Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum
Curated by Leila Grothe, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art , Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe), Curator of Indigenous Art at the Brooklyn Museum & Curatorial Research Assistant, Elise Boulanger (Citizen of the Osage Nation)
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
In Search of Liberty
Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY
Time Travelers: Foundations, Transformations, and Expansions at the Centennial
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Spirit in the Land
Curated by Trevor Schoonmaker
Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Traveling Exhibiton
Artists as Cultivators
Curated by Leah Triplett Harrington, Director of Exhibitions & Contemporary Curatorial Initiatives, Dr. Anna Marley & Kenneth R. Woodcock Curator of Historical American Art
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
New Terrains: Contemporary Native American Art
Curated by Tony Abeyta, Bruce Hartman & James Trotta-Bono
Phillips Building, New York , NY
2023
Daughter/Mother/Ancestor: Threads of Connection
Curated by Shelley Selim
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields , Indianapolis , IN
The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans
Curated by Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.,
Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship
Curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné
The Center for Native Arts and Cultures, Portland, OR
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
Curated by Amy Chaloupka, Melanie Fales, Danielle Knapp, Whitney Tassie, E. Carmen Ramos & Anne Hyland
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Stereo Sights and Sounds
Curated by Josh Gosselin & Ana Stjepanović
Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY
How We Live, Part II: A Rolling Exhibition
Curated by Marc Straus & Livia Straus
Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY
Through the Eye of the Needle
Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY
Considering Kin: Sharing the Same Breath
Curated by Kaytie Johnson
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Sun Drinks White
Curated by JoAnne Northrup
Nerman Museum, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Spirit in the Land
Curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, Mary D.B.T. & James H. Semans Director
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
Curated by Amy Chaloupka, Melanie Fales, Danielle Knapp, Whitney Tassie, E. Carmen Ramos & Anne Hyland
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Poor People's Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States.
Curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné
Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today
Curated by Alison Weaver, Frauke V. Josenhans & Molly Everett
Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX
2022
Social Fabric: Textiles and Contemporary Issues
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
American Art: The Stories We Carry
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
Curated by Amy Chaloupka, Melanie Fales, Danielle Knapp, Whitney Tassie, E. Carmen Ramos & Anne Hyland
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
Curated by Amy Chaloupka, Melanie Fales, Danielle Knapp, Whitney Tassie, E. Carmen Ramos & Anne Hyland
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Words Matter: Contemporary Native American Works on Paper
Curated by Dr. Johanna Minich
Mary Ann Frable Works on Paper Gallery, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Radical Stitch
Curated by Sherry Farrell Racette, Michelle Lavallee, & Cathy Mattes
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts 2017-2019
Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
2021
New Textiles: The 12th Contemporary Iroquois Art Biennial
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Time and Place: Northwest Art from the Permanent Collection
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists
Curated by Gail Stavitsky &
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale
Curated by Elisabeth Hodermarsky
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Untrammeled: At Wilderness’ Edge
Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Walking
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
The Stories Woven Within
Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
Under the Same Sun and Moon: New Acquisitions from the Collection
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Narrative Thread: Gina Adams and Marie Watt
Curated by Erin Gallagher
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale
Curated by Jodi Throckmorton & Brittany Webb
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Between the Earth and Sky
Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, New York, NY
2020
More than a Trace: Native American and First Nations Contemporary Art
Curated by Brooke Leboeuf
K Art, Buffalo, NY
Companion Species
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Heroines of Abstract Expressionism and FEM
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond
Curated by Rachel Seligman & Minita Sanghvi
Tang Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
STTLMNT: an Indigenous digital world wide occupation
Pounds House, Plymouth, UK
A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists from the Collection
BYU Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art from Indigenous North America
Curated by Erin Joyce
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AR
2019
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019
Curated by Jennie Goldstein & Elisabeth Sherman, with Ambika Trasi
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Extended Self: Transformations and Connections
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Re:Define
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AR
Don't Touch My Circles
Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco , CA
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists
Curated by Jill Ahlberg Yohe & Teri Greeves
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
The Honolulu Biennial: To Make Wrong/Right/Now
Curated by Nina Tonga
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
Unraveling: Reimagining Colonization in the Americas
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Hailey, ID
Revisions: Contemporary Native Art
Curated by Frances Jacobus-Parker & Larissa Nez (Diné/Navajo)
O’Shaughnessy Galleries I, II, & III, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
2018
Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now
Curated by Candice Hopkins, Manuela Well-Off-Man & Mindy Besaw
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Witness: Themes of Social Justice in Contemporary Printmaking and Photography from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.
Curated by Elizabeth Anne Bilyeau
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
Blanket Statements, Works by Gina Adams, Maria Hupfield and Marie Watt
Accola Griefen at Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
Not Fragile
Curated by RYAN! Feddersen
Center for Contemporary Native Art, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
America Likes Me
Curated by Josephine Zarkovich
Linfield Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
Becoming American
Curated by Fionn Meade
English Camp, San Juan Island National Historical Park, Friday Harbor, WA
Wildlife, Pattern, & Identity—Contemporary Native American Works, Selections from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation
Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
Continuum: Contemporary Native American Art
Curated by Nikolyn Garner
Salish Kootenai College, Three Woodcocks, Pablo, MT
Traveling exhibit organized by Missoula Art Museum and Salish Kootenai College.
2017
Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Conversations in the Round House: Roots, Roads and Remembrances
Curated by Danielle Knapp, Cheryl Hartup & Beth Robinson-Hartpence (Lenni Lenape)
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
PDX -> PDT: Select Artists from PDX Contemporary Art
Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, OR
Hawks on the Highway: Prints from Crow's Shadow
Newport Visual Arts Center, Newport, OR
Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Outcasts: Women in the Wilderness
Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
If You Remember, I’ll Remember
Curated by Janet Dees
The Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2016
From the Belly of Our Being: Art By and About Native Creation
Curated by heather ahtone
OSU Museum of Art, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Seattle Art Fair: Greg Kucera Gallery, PDX Contemporary Art
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
A Stand of Pine in the Tilled Field: 21 Years at PDX
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Material Girls
Curated by Blair Fornwald, Jennifer Matotek & Wendy Peart
Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB
Finding a Contemporary Voice: The Legacy of Lloyd Kiva New and IAIA
New Mexico Museum of Art , Santa Fe, NM
Contemporary Native Art Biennial, 3rd edition Culture Shift – Une révolution culturelle
Curated by Mike Patten
Art Mûr, Central Pavilion, Montreal, QC
Unraveled: Textiles Reconsidered
Curated by Kate Bonansinga
Contemporary Arts Center, Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH
Art for a Nation: Inspiration from the Great Depression
Curated by Faith Brower
The High Desert Museum, Bend, OR
Exhibition combining work from WPA artists with new work commissioned by the museum, including Blanket Stories: Talking Stick, Works Progress, Steward.
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Transferring Thought: Prints by Indigenous Artists
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2015
Weaving Past into Present: Experiments in Contemporary Native Printmaking
Curated by Sarah Diver
International Print Center, New York, NY
Unsuspected Possibilities
Curated by Janet Dees
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Collaborative exhibition between Marie Watt, Leonardo Drew, and Sarah Oppenheimer.
Let's Get Lost
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Material Girls
Curated by Blair Fornwald, Jennifer Matotek & Wendy Peart
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
2014
Somewheres & Nowheres: New Prints 2014/Autumn
Curated by Nicola López
International Print Center, New York, NY
LandMarks: Indigenous Australian and Native American Artists Explore Connections to the Land
Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2013
Cross Currents
Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO
Heart Lines: Expressions of Native North American Art
Curated by Melanie Yazzie & Stephen V. Martonis
UC Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art
Curated by Greg Hill, Christine Lalonde & Candice Hopkins
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
Global survey of contemporary Indigenous art featuring over 150 artworks by more than 80 artists from 16 countries and six continents, supported by a 288-page catalogue.
Dreams Wiser than Waking: Recent Acquisitions of Native American Prints
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
2012
Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3
Curated by Ellen Taubman & David McFadden
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Traveling show
Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art
Curated by Karen Kramer Russell
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2011
Bonnie Bronson Fellows: 20 Years
Curated by Linda Tesner
Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
Counting Coup
Curated by Ryan Rice
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts
Curated by Amy Chaloupka
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Oomph: enthusiasm, vigor, or energy. sex appeal
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Seattle as Collector: Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs Turns 40
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years
Curated by Candice Hopkins, Steve Loft, Lee-Ann Martin & Jenny Western
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, MB
2010
Vantage Point: The Contemporary Native Art Collection
Curated by Rebecca Trautmann
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC
When Dog Turns to Wolf
David Krut Projects, New York, NY
Group exhibition of four women sculptors—Jess Perlitz, Beverly Semmes, Jude Tallichet and Marie Watt—whose work investigates the space between reality and illusion.
Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880–2010
Curated by Barbara Matilsky
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Lightcatcher, Bellingham, WA
Northwest Mid-Career Artists
Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Seattle, WA
View 21 artworks by 20 mid-career Northwest artists-including paintings, photographs, works on paper, sculpture, ceramics, baskets and mixed media -in Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works Collection.
Migrations: New Directions in Native Art
Curated by Marjorie Devon
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
2009
New American Voices
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Currents: Native American Forces in Contemporary Art
Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO
Redefining the Canvas: Edda Renouf, Ramona Sakiestewa and Marie Watt
Tai Modern, Santa Fe, NM
I Like Winners: Sport and Selfhood
Curated by Marjorie Vecchio
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
2008
Seattle City Light Elevator Lobby Artworks
Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Seattle, WA
Seven artists created artworks for recently renovated elevator lobbies at Seattle City Light offices.
Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art
Curated by Marjorie Devon
Crisp Museum, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO
Twisted Path: Native American Artists Walking in Two Worlds
Curated by Rick Hunt
Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME
Modern Art, Modern Lives: Then and Now
Curated by Andrea Mellard
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Contemporary Northwest Art Awards
Curated by Jennifer Gately
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Marylhurst University
Curated by Terri Hopkins & John Olbrantz
Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit
Curated by Rickie Solinger
Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
Widely traveled; Each included work features a tool that was important for women’s domestic labor from the 18th century through World War II.
Tradition and Change: A Survey of Contemporary American Indian Art
Curated by Ben Mitchell
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA, Spokane, WA
2007
Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Curated by Terri Hopkins & John Olbrantz
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Oh So Iroquois
Curated by Ryan Rice
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
The 8th Northwest Biennial
Curated by David Kiehl & Rock Hushka
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2006
Building Tradition
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art
Curated by Marjorie Devon
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art
Curated by Richard Klein
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Neo-Sincerity: The Difference Between the Comic and the Cosmic Is a Single Letter
Curated by Amei Wallach
Apexart, New York, NY
2005
Into the Fray: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Exhibition of 2005 Fellowship recipients: John Hoover, Harry Fonseca, C. Maxx Stephens, James Lavadour, Tanis S’eiltin, and Marie Watt
2004
Artists Select
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2003
Artist in Residence
Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
Craft Biennial
Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
Form to Function
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
18 Women Artists
Art Center Gallery, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR
Building Tradition
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2002
12 and Under
OHT Gallery, Boston, MA
Sitka Center Art Invitational
The World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
Sitka Collaborative Exhibition
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Inaugural Exhibition
Open Studios Press Gallery, Boston, MA
Faculty Exhibition
North View Gallery, Portland Community College Sylvania Campus, Portland, OR
Slowness
The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR
New American Paintings
Curated by Lisa Dennison
Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
2001
The Bellevue Annual
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
Horse Tales: American Images and Icons, 1800–2000
Curated by Ezra Shales
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
PDX at CCC
Art Center Gallery, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR
Contemporary Skeins
Curated by Heather Rogers
Contemporary Craft Gallery, Portland, OR
2000
Open Walls
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Traditional and Contemporary Native Women Artists
Museum of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Circle of Friends
Curated by Lillian Pitt
Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR
1999
Introductory Show
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
1998
Time and Materials
The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
1997
The Uncommon Book
Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, ID
The Oregon Biennial
Curated by Katherine Kanjo
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
State of the Nations
Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1996
Traditions and Transitions
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Art and Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Fellowships, residencies, awards
2025
The Heinz Award for the Arts
The Heinz Awards, Pittsburgh, PA
Obama Presidential Center Artwork Commission
The Obama Presidential Center, Chicago, IL
Collaboration with Nick Cave
Portland International Airport Artwork Commission
Portland International Airport, Portland, OR
Visiting Artist in Residence
Tandem Press, Madison, WI
2024
Herb Alpert Award in the Arts
The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Santa Monica, CA
Print Residency with Master Printer Julia D’Amario
The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
Artist Legacy Foundation 2024 Artist Award
Artist Legacy Foundation, Oakland, CA
The Ellis-Beauregard Fellowship in the Visual Arts
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Rockford, ME
2023
Peabody Essex Museum Artist Award
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2022
Visiting Artist in Residence
Art Museum of West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Print Catalyst Printmaking Residency
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Visiting Artist in Residence
Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
Knapp Chair of Liberal Arts
The College if Arts and Sciences and the Humanities Center, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
2021
Visiting Artist in Residence
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Arts and Letters Award in Art
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Stelo Artist Core Residency
Camp Colton, Colton, OR
Residency with Cannupa Hanska Luger in preparation for exhibition at Denver Art Museum
Printmaking Residency
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR
Collaborative residency with master printer Julia D’Amario
2020
Visual Arts Fellowship
Harpo Foundation
2019
Residency
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Social Engagement Residency
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM
Printmaking Residency
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Cascade Head, OR
Collaboration with Master Printer Julia D’Amario
2018
The Hockenhull Distinguished Lecturer Award
Washington State University, Seattle, WA
2017
Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
Hallie Ford Fellowship in the Visual Arts
The Ford Family Foundation, Roseburg, OR
Printmaking Residency
Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Printmaking Residency
Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR
Collaboration with Master Printer Frank Janzen
Artist Residency
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
2016
Printmaking Residency
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Residency and workshop in collaboration with master printer and Julia D’Amario (Smith 1982)
Doctor of Fine Arts (Honoris Causa)
Willamette University, Salem, OR
2015
2014
Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology , Otis, OR
Collaborative residency with master printmaker Julia D’Amario.
2013
Artist Residency
Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
LandMarks: Indigenous Australian and Native American Artists Explore Connections to the Land
2012
Artist Research Fellowship
Smithsonian Institution, Aspen, CO
2011
Artist Research Fellowship
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Printmaking Residency
Crow's Shadow Institute, Pendleton, OR
2011 Visual Arts Fellowship
Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, Vancouver, WA
2010
Artistic Innovation Grant
Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, Vancouver, WA
2009
Artist in Residence
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Oregon Individual Artist Opportunity Grant
Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
Bonnie Bronson Visual Arts Fellowship
Oregon Community Foundation, Portland, OR
Individual Artist Project Grant
Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2008
2008 Patron Print Edition
Vivian & Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Printmaking Residency
Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
Artist in Residence
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2007
2006 Anonymous Was a Woman Award
Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation, New York, NY
Artist in Residence
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Tamarind Institute Print Project
Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
In collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian and the Art in Embassies Program, Washington, DC
2005
Betty Bowen Memorial Award
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2005 Painters & Sculptors Grant
Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
2005 Eiteljorg Native American Contemporary Art Fellowship
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
2004
2004 Visual Artist Fellowship
Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
Project and Professional Development Grant
Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2003
Full-year Professional Sabbatical
Portland Community College, Portland, OR
Printmaking Residency
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR
In collaboration with Tamarind Master Printer Frank Janzen
Senior Residency and Fellowship
Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2002
Printmaking Residency
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR
The first of five collaborative residencies with TMP Frank Janzen
Printmaking Residency
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
The first of many collaborations with master printer Julia D’Amario
2001
Individual Artist Project Grant
Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
Full Fellowship
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2000
In Situ Portland Project Grant
Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
1996
Elizabeth Cranfield Hicks Award for Drawing
Yale University, New Haven, CT
1995
Professional Development Fellowship
College Art Association, New York, NY
A two-year fellowship, running through 1996
Full Fellowship
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1994
Kellogg Fellow, American Indian Ambassadors Program
Americans for Indian Opportunity, Albuquerque, NM
Academic Scholarship
Seneca Nation of Indians, Irving, NY
Academic scholarship; extended to cover 1994–96
Graduate Fellowship
Philip Morris Foundation, New York, NY
Educational fellowship; was extended to cover 1994–96
Graduate Fellowship
American Indian Graduate Center, Albuquerque, NM
The fellowship was extended to cover 1994–96
1991
Internship
National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Community involvement
2026
Printing Circle
Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2025
Sewing Circle
Stockbridge Munsee Community Center, Bowler, WI
Artist Lecture
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Artist Lecture
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Panel Discussion
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Printing Circle
Chachalu Tribal Museum and Cultural Center, Grand Ronde, OR
In Collaboration with Native Wellness Warrior Camp
Printing Circle
Chachalu Tribal Museum and Cultural Center, Grand Ronde, OR
Artist Lecture
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin , Madison, WI
Sewing Circle
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Artist Lecture
Semans Lecture Hall, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
2024
PEM Prize Community Art Project
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Printing Circle
Print Center New York, New York, NY
Artist Panel Member
IFPDA Print Fair, New York , NY
2023
Visiting Panel Member
Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Artist Lecture
Broward College, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Virtual Lecture. Art Appreciation Course.
2022
Calling Companion Species (lecture)
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Artists on Artworks Artist Talk
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Portland Art Museum Board of Trustees
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Since 2020
Sewing Circle
Hunterdon Art Museum and Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY
Sewing Circle
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Knapp Chair of the Liberal Arts Lecture
French Parlor, Founders Hall, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
Virtual Guest Artist Speaker
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Visiting Artist Lecturer
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Sewing Circle
Willamette University, Portland, OR
2021
Woman/Artist Conference: Marie Watt in conversation with Anna Smist
Department of the History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Juror
Artists' Legacy Foundation, Oakland, CA
Marie Watt in conversation with Sarah Sentilles
Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID
Artist's talk and sewing circle
Carlos Museum, Ackerman Hall, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
As part of her artist-in-residency at the Carlos Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger
Visiting Artist & Critic
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Visiting Artist Lecturer
Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
Inside the Artist’s Studio
Art is a Verb: Session 1
Denver Art Museum, Online event
Visiting Artist Lecturer
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Visiting Artist Lecturer
Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM
Sewing Circle
Aboriginal Gathering Place, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
Visiting Artist Lecturer
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2020
Visiting Artist Lecturer
516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
Visiting Artist Lecturer
The Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Artist Lecturer
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, NY
Never Done Artist Talk with Marie Watt
Visiting Artist Lecturer
Broward College & Florida Atlantic University, Weston & Boca Raton, FL
Art and Intersectional Feminism
Visiting Artist and Sewing Circle
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Visiting Artist Lecturer
Reed College, Portland, OR
Visiting Artist Lecturer
Faubion PK-8 Elementary, Portland, OR
2019
Visiting Artist and Sewing Circle
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Visiting Artist Lecturer
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Visiting Artist Lecturer
Seattle, WA
Native American Art History Lecture Series
2018
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecturer
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Washington, DC
Keynote Address and Sewing Circle
United States Society for Education through Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Hockenhull Distinguished Artist Lecturer
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
2017
Workshop Presenter and Participant
Voices in Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist, Lecturer and Sewing Circle
Clark Art Talk Series, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, BC
Lecture, community conversation, and sewing circle
Visiting Artist, Lecturer, and Sewing Circle
The Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Board Member
Voices of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2016
Voices of Contemporary Art
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Discussion with Marie Watt and oral historian James Lancel McElhinney
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
Contemporary Arts Center, Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH
Lecture and sewing circle in concert with Unraveled: Textiles Reconsidered
2015
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
Native American Art Studies Association Conference, Santa Fe, NM
Visting Artist/Collaboration
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe Indian School, Institute of American Indian Arts, Tierra Encantada High School, Santa Fe, NM
Sewing circles and lectures in concert with the run of Unsuspected Possibilities at SITE Santa Fe.
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
Carelton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
U.S. Embassy, Ottawa, ON
Part of the Contemporary Conversations Series, a partnership between the National Gallery of Canada and the US Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies.
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2014
Visual Arts FY 2015 Grants Panelist
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
2013
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
U.S. Embassy, Egkomi, CY
Sewing circles and other community events as part of the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassies program.
Native Arts Artist-in-Residence
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Contemporary Art Lecture Series
Brigham Young University, Museum of Art, Provo, UT
Talk held in connection with the BYU Museum of Art’s exhibition Shaping America: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection of American Art.
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
2010
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
University of Oregon, School of Art + Design, Eugene, OR
2008
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO
Lecture and sewing circle in support of Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art.
Symposium and Panel Discussion
Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
Lecturer
Portland State University, Portland, OR
2007
Ferrall Artist in Residence
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Lecturer
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2006
Lecturer
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
Lecture and community sewing circles in support of the Center’s exhibit “Album: Shifting Native Stories”
Panelist, Diverse Voices / Diverse Media Symposium
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Moderated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
Visiting Artist
Montclair University, Montclair, NJ
Juror, Professional Development Fellowships
College Art Association, New York, NY
Visiting Artist
Boise State University, Boise, ID
Guest Instructor
Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
2005
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
2004
Session Chair, Annual Conference
College Art Association, New York, NY
2003
Visiting Artist/Lecturer
The Evergreen State University, Olympia, WA
Visiting Artist/Panelist
Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR
Donor and Catalogue Participant
Art for Life, Cascade AIDS Project , Portland, OR
2002
Lecturer and Youth Mentor
Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR
Member
College Art Association, New York, NY
Since 1996
Volunteer Instructor
Native American Youth Association, Portland, OR
Lecturer
Native American Youth Association, Portland, OR
Presented Pedestrian to summer camp students.
Juror, Wapato Corrections Facility
Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
2001
Lecturer
Native American Art Studies Association Biennial Conference, Portland, OR
Chair, Welcoming Pole Project
Portland Community College Sylvania Campus, Portland, OR
Commissioned and raised 30-foot totem pole by Kwaguilth carver Richard Hunt. Involved fundraising, educational programs, and community outreach.
Lecturer
Metropolitan Learning Center, Portland, OR
Guest speaker on public art with high school students.
Visiting Artist/Lecturer and Guest Critic
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Education
1996
MFA, Painting & Printmaking
School of Art, Yale University , New Haven, CT
1992
AFA, Museum Studies
Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1990
BS, Speech Communications & Art
Willamette University, Salem, OR
Selected collections
- Abrahamson Family Collection Oakland, CA
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, NY
- Art 4 Culture Seattle, WA
- The Autry Museum of the American West Los Angeles, CA
- Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MD
- Julie Beeler & Brad Johnson Portland, OR
- Beth Rudin DeWoody New York, NY
- Boise Art Museum Boise, ID
- Rose Art Museum & Brandeis University Waltham, MA
- Bonnie Bronson Collection Portland, OR
- Buffalo History Museum Buffalo, NY
- Crocker Art Museum Sacramento, CA
- Crow's Shadow Press Pendleton, OR
- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville, AR
- Davis Museum at Wellesley College Wellesley, MA
- Denver Art Museum Denver, CO
- Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI
- EcoTrust Portland, OR
- Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Indianapolis, IN
- The Fabric Workshop & Museum Philadelphia, PA
- Facebook Seattle, WA
- Fenimore Art Museum Cooperstown, NY
- Fidelity Investments Boston, MA
- Forge Project Collection Taghkanic, NY
- Fort Wayne Museum of Art Fort Wayne, IN
- Fredriksen Family AC Collection Oslo, Norway
- George Fox University Newberg, OR
- Gochman Family Collection & Forge Project Houston, TX
- Hallie Ford Art Museum Salem, OR
- The Johnson Museum, Cornell University Ithaca, NY
- The High Desert Museum Bend, OR
- The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College Hanover, NH
- Hudson Valley MoCA Peekskill, NY
- Newfields Indianapolis, IN
- Jeri Waxenberg Sun Valley, ID
- Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Portland, Oregon
- Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon Eugene, OR
- Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University Pullman, WA
- K Art Gallery Buffalo, NY
- Dorothy Lemelson Portland, OR
- United States Library of Congress Washington, DC
- Lori Uddenberg Providence, RI
- Loro Piana New York, NY
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY
- Microsoft Collection Redmond, WA
- Missoula Art Museum Missoula, MT
- Montclair Art Museum Montclair, NJ
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Montreal, Quebec
- Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, NM
- The National Gallery of Art Washington, DC
- National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, Ontario, CA
- North Carolina Museum of Art Raleigh, NC
- Obama Presidential Center Chicago, IL
- Oregon Health Sciences University Portland, OR
- Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA
- Portland Community College, Cascade Campus Portland, OR
- Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus Portland, OR
- The Peabody Essex Museum Salem, MA
- Portland Art Museum Portland, OR
- Portland International Airport Portland, OR
- Princeton University Art Gallery Princeton, NJ
- Regional Arts & Culture Council Portland, OR
- The Rockwell Museum Corning, NY
- San Diego Museum of Art San Diego, CA
- Arlene & Harold Schnitzer Portland, OR
- Seattle Art Museum Seattle, WA
- Seattle City Light Seattle, WA
- Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Otis, OR
- Smith College Northampton, MA
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery Washington, DC
- Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Washington, DC
- The Cantor Art Center at Stanford University Stanford, CA
- Tacoma Art Museum Tacoma, WA
- The Art Museum of WVU Morgantown, WV
- The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation Dallas, TX
- The Friendly House Portland, OR
- The Heard Museum Phoenix, AZ
- The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation Santa Fe, NM
- The Tia Collection Santa Fe, NM
- Tippet Rise Art Center Fishtail, MT
- Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, OH
- The Tweed Museum of Art Duluth, MN
- U.S. Department of State Washington, DC
- U.S. Embassy Accra, Ghana
- U.S. Embassy Islamabad, Pakistan
- Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Salt Lake City, UT
- Utah Museum of Fine Art Salt Lake City, Utah
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Hartford, CT
- The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University New York, NY
- Jeri L. Waxenberg Sun Valley, ID
- Davis Museum at Wellesley College Wellesley, MA
- Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
- Willamette University Salem, Oregon
- Wright Museum of Art Beloit, WI
- Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT
- Driek & Michael Zirinsky Boise, ID
Reviews & publications
2026
Touch the art: Three shows to tap into this spring at Philbrook Museum
Tulsa People
Staff
2025
Art in Place: The Ford Foundation Collection
Conti Tipocolor
Lisa Kim
Portland Artist Marie Watt Wins Prestigious Heinz Award
Thinking Out Loud NPR
Dave Miller and Marie Watt
Crystal Bridges and the Momentary Present 2026 Exhibitions Celebrating the American Spirit
Shore Fire Media
Staff
Dyani White Hawk: Love Language
Roundtable Conversation
Walker Art Center
Dyani White Hawk, Marie Watt, Christi Belcourt and Candice Hopkins
IAIA Alum Marie Watt (Seneca Nation) '94 Wins Prestigious Heinz Foundation Award in Arts Category
Institute of American Indian Arts
Staff
Portland artist MarieWatt receives prestigious $250,000 Heinz Award
Underscore Native News
Jarette Werk
Artists Jennifer Packer and Marie Watt receive $250,000 Heinz Awards
The Art Newspaper
Benjamin Sutton
You Like What You Like. One Texas-based Human’s Top Six Artists of the Armory
Glasstire
Maggie Adler
Obama Center Commissions Jenny Holzer, Alison Saar, More for Art-Filled Campus
Artnet
Eileen Kinsella
What Sold at The Armory Show 2025
Artsy
Maxwell Rabb and Arun Kakar
Three Oregon Indigenous Artists Chosen to Create Large-Scale Sculptures at Portland International Airport
Port of Portland
Meech Boakye
Library of Congress Magazine: Native American Art
Library of Congress
Mark Hartsell and Ashley Jones, Essay by Neely Tucker
How to Survive: Practicing Care in a Changing Climate
Hirmer
Edited by Francesca Du Brock, Essay by Amy Meissner and Jessie French
In an Exhibition of Native Artists, Clichés Give Way to Charged Memories
The New York Times
Petala Ironcloud
Art Collection of the United States Embassy Islamabad
U.S. Department of State
Staff
Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years
New York University’s Grey Art Gallery and Hirmer Publications
Edited by Nancy Princenthal and Vesela Sretenovic
Marie Watt: Weaving Tradition and Innovation in Indigenous Art
Beyond the Art
Joe Williams and Marie Watt
Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue
Albuquerque Museum
Ginger Dunnill and Josie Lopez
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s final curatorial project honours Indigenous community she championed for decades
The Art Newspaper
Anisa Tavangar
NACF: The Magazine
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
Demian Dinéyazhi’, DJ Emcee One / Marcus Anthony Guinn, Laronn Katchia, Alan Michelson, Dare Turner, Ninabah Winton
The Most Anticipated Art Musuem Openings and Expansions of 2025
Observer
Christa Terry & Elisa Carollo
2024
Now Held at Oregon Contemporary, the Sitka Art Invitational Celebrates its 30th Year
Portland Tribune
Jason Vondersmith
Finding Pictures: Celebrating Indigenous American Creators
Library of Congress
Melissa Linberg and Katherine Blood
Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology
University of Washington Press
Autry Museum of the American West
Albuquerque Museum Presents Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue
Hyperallergic
Albuquerque Museum Staff
Intimate Expression: 'Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action and Dialogue' Celebrates Personal Stories
Albuquerque Journal
Kathaleen Roberts
Here are 6 must see things at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin
Austin American-Statesman
Micheal Barnes
Immaterial: Blankets and Quilts
The MET
Camille Dungy, Loretta Pettway Bennett, Marie Watt, Ally Barlow
The BMA's 'Preoccupied' prioritizes Indigenous voices in much-needed ways
Baltimore Fishbowl
Aliza Worthington
Marie Watt's Blanket Stories of Printmaking and Community at Print Center New York
Art Currently
Yasmina Cabrera
Marie Watt: Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Art Seen, The Brooklyn Rail
Annabel Keenan
Marking Resilience: Indigenous North American Prints
Art Seen, The Brooklyn Rail
Davida Fernández-Barkan
Print Center of New York Presents the First Institutional Survey of Marie Watt's Work
Widewalls
Hesper Cane
New Terrains: Contemporary Native American Art
Phillips New York
Tony Abeyta, Bruce Hartman, and James Trotta-Bono
2023
Center for Native Arts and Cultures Hosts Community Events in its SE Portland Building
The Oregonian
Janet Eastman
5 Artists to see at The Armory Show 2023
Fad Magazine
Ida Ivanka Hamilton
Marie Watt Interviewed by Tess Billhartz: Creating Multisensory Experiences of Place
Bomb Magazine
Tess Bilhartz
The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, Exhibition Catalogue
National Gallery of Art
Princeton University Press
Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Joy Hajo, heather ahtone and Shana Bushyhead Condill
Indigenous Space, Hodinöhsö:ni’ Sky World and the Territories of American Art
American Art, Smithsonian Institution Published by the University of Chicago Press, Vol. 37, No. 2
Jordan Reznick
Substance of Stars
Heard Museum
‘We Get the History We Are Ready For’: Meet the Native Women Artists Claiming Their Place in New York
Cultured Magazine, April/May Issue
Devorah Lauter
2022
Marie Watt New Releases
Mullowney Printing
Oregon Painters, Landscape to Modernism, 1859-1959, Second Edition
Oregon State University Press
Ginny Allen and Jody Klevit
Marie Watt talks Expanding Your Team, Running Your Practice like a Business, and Navigating Life as a Mid-Career Artist
Beyond the Studio: Artists and Creative Entrepreneurs
Amanda Adams and Nicole Mueller
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Classical & Art: Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
San Diego Union Tribune
Staff
Marie Watt and Ana Teresa Fernández in Conversation with Natasha Becker
Catherine Clark Gallery
Natasha Becker & Ana Teresa Fernández
Marie Watt Companion Species (Calling Back, Calling Forward)
Press Release - Catherine Clark Gallery
Staff
2021
Seneca artist uses blankets, sewing circles for inspiration
Indian Country Today
Sandra Hale Schulman
Virtual Double Take: "Edson's Flag" Honoring Native Veterans
The Smithsonian American Art Museum
Nora Atkinson, Alexandra Harris & Rebecca Trautmann
A Conversation with Marie Watt, Cannupa Hanska Luger, and Megan O’Neil
Rose Library Presents: Community Conversations, s2:e2
Emory University
Lolita Rowe
Practice and Process, Narrative Thread, Interview with Marie Watt
Wallach Art Gallery, MODA
Erin Gallagher
'Exactly what we needed': Armory Show Returns to New York in a New Modern Location
The Art Newspaper
Daniel Cassady
Patricia Marroquin Norby is Bringing a Native Perspective to the Met
New York Times
Elizabeth Pochoda
Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger Find Creative Ways to Collaborate through the Pandemic in Denver Art Museum
The Art Newspaper
Gabriella Angeleti
The Denver Art Museum’s Latest Features a Collaboration From Contemporary Indigenous Artists
5280, May 23, 2021
Philip Clapham
An Expansive Exhibition Pairs Two Indigenous Artists to Explore the Power of Socially Engaged Artmaking
Colossal, May 21, 2021
Grace Ebert
Indigenous Art Exhibit 'Each/Other' Aims to Tell Stories People Can Connect With
CBS4 Denver
Shawn Chitnis
“Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Arte Fuse, October 17, 2020
Nina Mdivani
Loro Piana Sets Up Permanent Shop in the Meatpacking District
Women’s Wear Daily, December 14, 2020
Lisa Lockwood
An artist sews a sense of community
Yale Alumni Magazine, March/April 2021
Yale University
Robin Cembalest
It's About Time: The Yale University Art Gallery's Recent Embrace of Indigenous Futurisms
BA Thesis, Yale University
Anna Smist
Exhibition at Marc Straus presents a new body of work by Marie Watt
artdaily.com, January 24, 2021
K Art gallery honors the artistic voices of contemporary Native artists
The Buffalo News, January 20, 2021
Melinda Miller
2020
Loro Piana Celebrates Community and a New Store Opening With a Powerful Art Installation
Vogue, December 14, 2020
Brooke Bobb
Loro Piana’s New Meatpacking District Store Comes With a Brand New Art Installation and a Charitable Initiative
Departures, December 14, 2020
American Express
Alessandra Codinha
Feminisms: A New 516 Arts Exhibition
KUNM
Carol Boss
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
The Art Newspaper, October 16, 2020
Gabriella Angeleti
A Questionnaire of Decolonization
MIT Press, October 2020
Huey Copeland, Hal Foster, David Joselit, Pamela M. Lee
Editors’ Picks: 22 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week
Artnet, October 12, 2020
Closing this week, ’A Studio of Her Own’ exhibit features powerful lessons for 2020
The Daily Universe, September 9, 2020
Brigham Young University
Maddie Mehr
A Call to Repair
Hallie Ford Catalouge, The Ford Family Foundation , Rosenberg, OR
Sarah Sentilles
Museums need new models for exhibiting indigenous art. Yale starts by thanking the objects.
Boston Globe, January 9, 2020
Murray Whyte
2019
Hearts of Out People: Native Women Artists
University of Washington Press, June 2019
Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves
'A Healthy Hive' The Art of Diplomacy: Strengthening the Canada-U.S. Relationship in Times of Uncertainty
Simon & Schuster, April 30, 2019
Bruce Heyman & Vicki Heyman
A Museum Gains Prominence Through Collecting Native American Artists’ Work
Hyperallergic, February 20, 2019
Jonathan Rinck
2018
'Exhibition Highlights: Companion Species' American Craft Inquiry: Volume 2, Issue 1
American Craft Council
Micheal Radyk
Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950 to Now
The University of Arkansas Press, October 2018
Mindy N. Besaw, Candice Hopkins, and Manuela Well-Off-Man
The Kavanaugh break you need: immersive art by Northwest women
Crosscut, October 3, 2018
Brangien Davis
Becoming American Opens in Seattle and San Juan Island National Historic Park
Sugarcane Magazine, May 21, 2019
Staff
2017
Pre-To-Post Studio: Mixed Media in Contemporary Native American Art, Native Art Now!
Native Art Now! in Collaboration with Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, PBS, 2017
Rebecca J. Dobkins
Amended Materiality
Surface Design Journal
Fiona McDonald
In Conversation with Marie Watt: A New Coyote Tale
Art Journal, Vol 76, No. 2
College Art Association
Marie Watt and an Ecology of Cultural Imagination
Surface Design Journal, Fall 2017
Fiona P. McDonald, PhD.
Open Form: Facebook Artists in Residence, 2012-2017
FB Art, 2017
Mark Zuckerberg
Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Manuel Well-Off-Man & Gracie Schild
Outcasts: Women in the Wilderness
Wave Hill
Gather Round: Connecting the Circle of Community Drives Marie Watt's Multifaceted Work
American Craft Magazine, April 17, 2017
Joyce Lovelace
Looking Forward, Looking Back: New Exhibitions at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Pasatiempo Magazine
Micheal Abatemarco
2016
Seneca Installation Artist Marie Watt
First American Art Magazine, Winter 2016/2017
Heather Ahtone
Blanket Stories
U Magazine
Bridget McGinn
2015
Denver Art Museum Strengthens Commitment to Native American Work
The New York Times, October 27, 2015
Judith Dobrzynski
48 things Globe Arts is most excited about to start 2015
The Globe and Mail
15 Shows We Want to See in 2015
Canadian Art
2014
Sparks and Roots
Temenos Academy Review
John H. Bowles
With a video, an app and wall texts, Tacoma Art Museum has begun expanding the stereotypical Western art vision of its new Haub galleries
The News Tribune
Rosemary Ponnekanti
2013
'Artists.' Sakahan: International Indigenous Art
National Gallery of Canada
Greg A. Hill
2012
'Marie Watt'
Oregon Arts Commission, November 2
Lisa Radon
2011
Plates, Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years
Plug In Editions, Catalogue
Sherry Farrell Racette and Candace Hopkins
Visualizing Sovereignty in the Time of Biometric Sensors
South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 110, No. 2
Duke University Press
Jolene Rickard
Shared Memory: Artists’ Perspectives and Practices
Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts
John Michael Kohler Foundation
Erika Doss
New aboriginal art show tells stories of adaptation and transformation
The Globe and Mail
Robert Enright
2010
Exhibit Explores Modern Native American Art
VOAnews.com, November 2010
Review: Marie Watt at PDX Contemporary Art
ARTNews
Richard Speer
2009
Five ‘Voices’ in a Song of Diversity
Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 2009
Edward Sozanski
Warm Welcome
The Missoulian, March 23, 2009
Jodi Rave
Never Ending Story: Marie Watt Speaks Nostalgia with Heirlooms
Missoula Independent
Erika Fredrickson
Man Repeatedly Drowns in Elevator Lobby
City Arts Magazine
Stacey Levine
Illuminating edge to "lobby art" at Seattle City Light
Visual Art
The Seattle Times
Gayle Clemens
Forget Me Not: Connecting lost soldiers to mothers to all of us
Arts and Culture
Inlander
Leah Sottile
2008
A Woolen Thanks: Marie Watt at Greg Kucera Gallery
Seattle Weekly, November 26, 2008
Adriana Grant
Arlene Schnitzer Prize Winner Announced
Artforum, July 8, 2008
Building with Cloth Blocks
A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum, 2008
Seattle Art Museum
Pamela McClusky
Portland Art Museum Declares Itself Art Capital of the Northwest
The Stranger, July 2, 2008
Jen Graves
Blankets Tell Stories; Ricard Photos; Local Threads
JH Weekly, June 18, 2008
Henry Sweets
Sculptor folds historical, personal blankets
Stepping Out: Jackson Hole News & Guide
Katy Niner
1st Impression: Contemporary NW Art Awards
unBlogged, June 16, 2008
TJ Norris
The First Contemporary Northwest Art Awards
PORT, June 13, 2008
Jeff Jahn
Contemporary Traditionalists: American Indian artists blend history with modern imagery in show at the MAC
The Spokesman, Review
Jim Kershner
2007
“Kwah í:Ken Tsi Iroquois = Oh so Iroquois = Tellement Iroquois.” Kwah í:Ken Tsi Iroquois = Oh so Iroquois = Tellement Iroquois
Ottawa Art Gallery, pp. 49-50
Emily Flakey and Ryan Rice
Tribal Hybrids
ArtNews
Cynthia Nadelman
Disparate Beauties
Visual Arts Review, Seattle Weekly
Adriana Grant
The 8th Northwest Biennial
Tacoma Art Museum
Rock Hushka & David Kiehl
Artist Profile: Marie Watt
SAM Downtown
Pamela McClusky
2006
Wrapped in Art
Idaho Statesmen
Dana Oland
On the Town: Blanket Statement
Seattle Metropolitan
Wilson Diehl
Into the Fray: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, 2005
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
James H. Nottage
No Reservations
Native American Hisotry and Culture in Contemporary Art: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Richard Klein
A Pile of Blankets, With Personal History Woven into the Fabric
The New York Times
Alison Leigh Cowen
American Indian Painting and Sculpture in Santa Fe
Review Magazine
Andrea S. Norris
Neo Sincerity: The Differnece Between the Comic and the Cosmic is a Single Letter
Apexart
Amei Wallach
Blanket Stories: Ladder
Art in America, January 2006
Sue Taylor, Ph.D.
2005
Marie Watt: Blanket Stories: Ladder
THE Magazine
Rinchen Lhamo
Casting Shadows
Zanes World, SF Reporter
Zane Fischer
Marie Watt: The Blanket Project at the National Museum of the American Indian
Art on Paper
Matt Ferranto
Marie Watt at the Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College
Artweek, Oregon Review
Lois Allen
2004
Pacific Edge
City Focus: Portland, ArtNews
Richard Speer
IFCC Main Gallery presents Marie Watt: Sewing Bee
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center
IFCC Staff
Marie Watt: Blanketed Space
Smithsonian: National Museum of American Indian
Lara M. Evans
2003
Crow's Shadow
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Kathy Korengel
The Next Generation
Southwest Art
Bonnie Gangelhoff
Building Tradition: Gifts in Honor of the Northwest Art Collection
Tacoma Art Museum
Rock Hushka, Ivan Doig, Patricia McDonnell
2002
Portland: essay on the exhibit "Slowness"
Art Papers
Lois Allen
Slowness
The Oregonian
D.K. Row
Sleep and Sleeplessness
WIllamette Week
New American Painting
Open Studios Press
2001
Contemporary Skiens Press Release
Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Hodge and Roberts Galleries
Heather Wexler Rogers
PDX Contemporary Gallery Listing, Annual Guide
Art in America
Staff
Brooklyn artist Marie Watt creates esplanade art
Brooklyn Neighborhood News
Staff
Pedestrian Press Release
PDX Gallery
Staff
2000
Of Myth and Personal Histories
The Oregonian
D.K. Row
Well-Rounded
The Oregonian
Bob Hicks
Marie Watt at PDX
Artweek, Volume 30, No. 12
Pat Boas
1999
Of Cornhusk and Cedar
The Oregonian
D.K. Row
1998
Art for Biennial: A Fresh Look
The Oregonian
Randy Gragg
July Jems: Marie Watt and Julie Swan
Willamette Week
Kate Bonasinga
The Oregon Biennial
Portland Art Museum
Katherine Kanjo
Time and Materials Press Release
The Art Gym, Marylhurst College
Terri M. Hopkins