{"id":2704,"date":"2019-09-12T21:54:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T01:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2021-06-02T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:10:39","slug":"demian-dineyazhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/demian-dineyazhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Demian Din\u00e9Yazhi\u00b4"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Kali Spitzer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/b>Demian Din\u00e9Yazhi\u00b4 (born 1983) is an Indigenous Din\u00e9 transdisciplinary artist born to the clans Naasht\u2019\u00e9zh\u00ed T\u00e1b\u0105\u0105h\u00e1 (Zuni Clan Water\u2019s Edge) and T\u00f3d\u00edch\u2019\u00ed\u00ed\u2019nii (Bitter Water). Growing up in the colonized border town of Gallup, New Mexico, the evolution of Din\u00e9Yaz\u00b4\u2019s work has been influenced by their ancestral ties to traditional Din\u00e9 culture, ceremony, matrilineal upbringing, the sacredness of land, and the importance of intergenerational knowledge.<\/p>\n

Through research, mining community archives, and social collaboration, Din\u00e9Yazhi\u00b4 highlights the intersections of Radical Indigenous Queer Feminist identity and political ideology while challenging the white noise of contemporary art.<\/p>\n

They have recently exhibited at Portland Biennial (2019), Honolulu Biennial (2019), Whitney Museum of American Art (2018), Henry Art Gallery (2018), Pioneer Works (2018), CANADA, NY (2017); and Cooley Art Gallery (2017). Din\u00e9Yazhi\u00b4 is the founder of the Indigenous artist\/activist initiative, R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment. They are the recipient of the Henry Art Museum\u2019s Brink Award (2017), Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts (2018), and Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellow (2019). Follow on Instagram @heterogeneoushomosexual<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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“Untitled (Sovereignty)” is a collaboration between Demian Din\u00e9Yazhi\u00b4and artist Noelle Sosaya. The flag is inspired by Indigenous Din\u00e9 American flag textiles and serves as a sacred object of peaceful protest and political distress in a colonized country. Courtesy: the artist and Cooley Art Gallery, Reed College. Photography: Evan La Londe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Demian Din\u00e9Yazhi\u00b4, my ancestors will not let me forget this, 2019, glass, neon, aluminum frame. 106 \u00d7 56 \u00d7 58 cm. Courtesy: the artist and the Honolulu Biennial Foundation; photograph: Justen Waterhouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Landing of the Homophobes, 2016. Courtesy: R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance and Empowerment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by Kali Spitzer Demian Din\u00e9Yazhi\u00b4 (born 1983) is an Indigenous Din\u00e9 transdisciplinary artist born to the clans Naasht\u2019\u00e9zh\u00ed T\u00e1b\u0105\u0105h\u00e1 (Zuni Clan Water\u2019s Edge) and T\u00f3d\u00edch\u2019\u00ed\u00ed\u2019nii (Bitter Water). Growing up in the colonized border town of Gallup, New Mexico, the evolution of Din\u00e9Yaz\u00b4\u2019s work has been influenced by their ancestral ties to traditional Din\u00e9 culture, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wybcxlogoforweb-big-1sq-e1491800568261.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}