Ed Singer . 2019 . Fine Arts C.V.
P.O. Box 584, Cortez, Co 81321
Birth date: June 17, 1951;
Tuba City Indian Health Service, Tuba City, AZ
Education:
Southern Utah State College, Cedar City, UT
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Website: https://edsinger.weebly.com/
928-856-0334; [email protected]
Biography ES 2014
Ed Singer, Navajo, born in Tuba City, A.Z., attended boarding schools in Arizona and Utah, continuing his study of fine art in college at Southern Utah State College, San Francisco Art Institute and Northern Arizona University.
Singer’s academic commitment to art history and skillful handling of old master techniques led Singer out of the reservation and into the rapidly developing contemporary art community of Native American Artists in the 1970-80s. Since then, international acclaim from collectors and art critics continues to acknowledge his work for its contemporary blend of political, Native American driven narrative, and old-master technique. He says that the most meaningful commendations come from the Native friends, family and colleagues that are the core subject of his work.
As such, he is sensitive to the stereotype that exists in many southwestern painting collections and works to eliminate all references to demeaning caricatures in landscape as well as figurative compositions. His work is found in corporate, private and museum collections throughout the U.S. and Europe, and most importantly to him, in the humble hogans neighboring his home on Gray Mountain, AZ, in the Cameron Chapter of the Navajo Nation. “My portfolio offers an opportunity,” he says, “for Diné to participate in our own pride, to see ourselves as we are today – alive, thriving, and secure in our Navajo way of being.”
Solo Exhibitions
1976 Sixth St Gallery
Albuquerque, NM
1979 K. Phillips Gallery
Denver, CO
1980 Enthios Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
1980 K. Phillips Gallery
Denver, CO
1987 Adobe Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
1990 Center for the Arts of the Southwest
Santa Fe, NM
1991 J. Cacciola Gallery
New York City, NY
2009 Desert Pearl Gallery
Cortez, CO
2019 “Laughing Chiefs, The Alleys of Cortez Dear Downwinder and Migration, Recent Works by Ed Singer”
Cortez Public Library
Two-Person Exhibitions
1979 Enthios Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
w/ Don Chunestudy
1981 Enthios Gallery
Santa Fe, nm
w/John Axton
1983 Rosebrough Gallery
Denver, CO
w/ Amado Pena
1984 Navajo Tribal Museum
Window Rock, AZ
w/Allen Moses
1987 Old Town Gallery
Flagstaff, AZ
w/ William B. Franklin
1990 Old Town Gallery
Flagstaff, AZ w/Carm Little Turtle
w/Car, Little Turtle
2010 Gallup Cultural Center
Gallup, NM
w/ Sonja Horoshko
2012 Creed Repertory Theatre
Creede, CO
w/ Sonja Horoshko
Group Exhibitions
1977 Four Hills Arts Center
Fine Art Resources
Albuquerque, NM
1977 Turtle Mountain Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
1978 All Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Albuquerque, NM
1978 Albuquerque Mini Museum
Albuquerque, NM
1979 Galeria Manaa
Albuquerque, NM
1979 Santa Fe Festival of the Arts
Santa Fe, NM
1980 Nicolaysen Art Museum
Casper, WY
1980 Missoula Museum of the Arts
Missoula, MT
1980 “Reflections and Promises”
Whitney Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
1980 “35 Under 35”
New York City, NY
1980 Lewiston Art Center
Lewiston, MT
1980 Paris Gibson Square
Great Falls, MT
1980 Cooper Village Art Center
Anaconda, MT
1981 Loveland Art Museum
Loveland, CO
1981 “Native American Prints and Posters”
Wheelwright Mueum
Santa Fe, NM
1981 “10”
Whitney Gallery
Taos, NM
1981 Anchorage Historical and
Fine Arts Museum
Anchorage, AK
1981 “American Indian Art in the 80s”
Turtle Museum
Niagara Falls, NY
1981 Hunter Museum
Chattanooga, TN
1981 Sangre de Cristo Art
and Conference Center
Pueblo, CO
1981 Gardiner Art Gallery
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
1981 Salon D’ Automne
Grand Palais
Paris, France
1982 Año Dos
El Taller Gallery
Austin, TX
1982 Salon D’ Automne
Grand Palais
Paris France
1984 Joy Tash Gallery
Scottsdale, AZ
1987 Taos Spring Arts Festival
Taos, NM
1988 El Taller Gallery
Taos NM
1989 Old Town Gallery
Flagstaff, AZ
1990 “Artists Shaman… Shaman as Artist”
Seoul, Korea
2005 “Art of the People”
Navajo Nation Museum
2008 “Dooda’ Desert Rock”
Center for Southwest Studies
Durango, CO
2009 Coconino Center for the Arts
Flagstaff, AZ
2010 “Border Crossing”
Desert Pearl
Cortez, CO
2010 “Art of the People”
Tuba City, AZ
2010 “Master Exhibit”
Gallup Cultural Center
Gallup, NM
2010 Aspen Guard Station
Artists in Residence Exhibit
Cortez Cultural Center
Cortez, CO
2010 Chadwick Gallery
Corrales, NM
2012 Singer & Family
The Farm Bistro
Cortez, CO
2014 IFAM, Santa Fe, NM
2015 IFAM, Santa Fe, NM
Awards
1977 9th Annual Red Cloud Indian Art Show
Pine Ridge, SD
1st Place – Painting
Honorable Mention
Mixed Media
Graphics
1977 Heard Museum Guild
Arts and Crafts Echibition
Phoenix, AZ
Painting Award
Graphics Award
1978 33rd American Indian Artists Exhibition
Philbrook Art Center
Tulsa, OK
1978 10th Annual Red Cloud Indian Art Show
Pine Ridge, SD
M.L. Woodard Award
1st Place Graphics
Honorable Mention – Graphics
1978 5th Annual Midwestern Printmaking
and Drawing Competition
Philbrook Art Center
Tulsa, OK
Best of Lithography Award
Purchase Award - Drawing
2009 Aspen Guard Station
Artist in Residence
San Juan Mountain Range
U.S. Forest Service, Mancos, CO
2014 Mesa Verde National Park
Artist in Residence
“Letters to my Grandchild”
w/ Sonja horoshko
Mesa Verde Museum Association, CO
Publications
Art Voices South, “Ed Singer,” by Penny Cox
Sept./Oct. 1979, p. 30
Santa Fe Profile, “Ed Singer, A Rising Star,” by Penny Cox, June, 1979, p,14
Southwest Art, “Ed Singer, Satisfaction without Surrender,” by Budge Ruffner, June 1981, p. 94-99
Southwest Art, “Adopting, Adapting, Rejection: The New Art of the American Indian,” by Stephen Parks, April 1980 p.99-106
Durango Herald, by Ted Holteen,
Arts & Entertainment Editor, Dec 2009
https://durangoherald.com/articles/7590-navajo-artist-to-show-paintings-in-cortez
Four Corners Free Press, July 2008
“Tribute to resistance: An exhibition showcases Desert Rock oosition,” by Sonja Horoshkohttp://fourcornersfreepress.com/tribute-to-resistance-an-exhibition-showcases-desert-rock-opposition/
Four Corners Free Press,
“Facing a Painted Reality,” by Sonja Horoshko, Dec 2009
http://fourcornersfreepress.com/facing-a-painted-reality/
“Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West,” Sarah Alisabeth Fox, 2014, University of Nebraska Press
Cover Art
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21945002-downwind
“Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation,” by Dana E. Powell, Duke University Press,
Frontispiece, black and white illus.,
pp. 65-71, 194-196
https://books.google.com/books/about/Landscapes_of_Power.html?id=BJIFngAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description
Select Important Public Collections
Heard Museum, Phoenix AZ
Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa OK
Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, SD
Diné Community College, Tsaile, AZ
Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
Navajo Tribal Museum, Window Rock, AZ
Artist Statement ES 1980c.
To artistically communicate on a broad scale, I chose to borrow from the dominant culture, the familiar visual idiom of representational work. To effectively communicate my own ideas, especially with the dominant culture, I have to be on the same artistic page with them. If they, the colonizers, wish to understand, to engage in a meaningful dialogue, then they must make an effort to educate themselves about prevalent issues―the view from a post-colonial point of view.
I hope that my work helps the audience rethink ideas about: colonizer/colonized, oppressor/victim, museum/artifact, documentarian/object, artist/model.
The immediacy of the painted surface, the direct incised line, is the most basic artery of communication. More open and honest than history books, more revealing than the artificial cloaks of “civilizations,” painting and drawing is a necessary and vital tool today, an assist as we move forward into the future presenting ourselves as we envision ourselves.
P.O. Box 584, Cortez, Co 81321
Birth date: June 17, 1951;
Tuba City Indian Health Service, Tuba City, AZ
Education:
Southern Utah State College, Cedar City, UT
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Website: https://edsinger.weebly.com/
928-856-0334; [email protected]
Biography ES 2014
Ed Singer, Navajo, born in Tuba City, A.Z., attended boarding schools in Arizona and Utah, continuing his study of fine art in college at Southern Utah State College, San Francisco Art Institute and Northern Arizona University.
Singer’s academic commitment to art history and skillful handling of old master techniques led Singer out of the reservation and into the rapidly developing contemporary art community of Native American Artists in the 1970-80s. Since then, international acclaim from collectors and art critics continues to acknowledge his work for its contemporary blend of political, Native American driven narrative, and old-master technique. He says that the most meaningful commendations come from the Native friends, family and colleagues that are the core subject of his work.
As such, he is sensitive to the stereotype that exists in many southwestern painting collections and works to eliminate all references to demeaning caricatures in landscape as well as figurative compositions. His work is found in corporate, private and museum collections throughout the U.S. and Europe, and most importantly to him, in the humble hogans neighboring his home on Gray Mountain, AZ, in the Cameron Chapter of the Navajo Nation. “My portfolio offers an opportunity,” he says, “for Diné to participate in our own pride, to see ourselves as we are today – alive, thriving, and secure in our Navajo way of being.”
Solo Exhibitions
1976 Sixth St Gallery
Albuquerque, NM
1979 K. Phillips Gallery
Denver, CO
1980 Enthios Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
1980 K. Phillips Gallery
Denver, CO
1987 Adobe Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
1990 Center for the Arts of the Southwest
Santa Fe, NM
1991 J. Cacciola Gallery
New York City, NY
2009 Desert Pearl Gallery
Cortez, CO
2019 “Laughing Chiefs, The Alleys of Cortez Dear Downwinder and Migration, Recent Works by Ed Singer”
Cortez Public Library
Two-Person Exhibitions
1979 Enthios Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
w/ Don Chunestudy
1981 Enthios Gallery
Santa Fe, nm
w/John Axton
1983 Rosebrough Gallery
Denver, CO
w/ Amado Pena
1984 Navajo Tribal Museum
Window Rock, AZ
w/Allen Moses
1987 Old Town Gallery
Flagstaff, AZ
w/ William B. Franklin
1990 Old Town Gallery
Flagstaff, AZ w/Carm Little Turtle
w/Car, Little Turtle
2010 Gallup Cultural Center
Gallup, NM
w/ Sonja Horoshko
2012 Creed Repertory Theatre
Creede, CO
w/ Sonja Horoshko
Group Exhibitions
1977 Four Hills Arts Center
Fine Art Resources
Albuquerque, NM
1977 Turtle Mountain Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
1978 All Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Albuquerque, NM
1978 Albuquerque Mini Museum
Albuquerque, NM
1979 Galeria Manaa
Albuquerque, NM
1979 Santa Fe Festival of the Arts
Santa Fe, NM
1980 Nicolaysen Art Museum
Casper, WY
1980 Missoula Museum of the Arts
Missoula, MT
1980 “Reflections and Promises”
Whitney Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
1980 “35 Under 35”
New York City, NY
1980 Lewiston Art Center
Lewiston, MT
1980 Paris Gibson Square
Great Falls, MT
1980 Cooper Village Art Center
Anaconda, MT
1981 Loveland Art Museum
Loveland, CO
1981 “Native American Prints and Posters”
Wheelwright Mueum
Santa Fe, NM
1981 “10”
Whitney Gallery
Taos, NM
1981 Anchorage Historical and
Fine Arts Museum
Anchorage, AK
1981 “American Indian Art in the 80s”
Turtle Museum
Niagara Falls, NY
1981 Hunter Museum
Chattanooga, TN
1981 Sangre de Cristo Art
and Conference Center
Pueblo, CO
1981 Gardiner Art Gallery
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
1981 Salon D’ Automne
Grand Palais
Paris, France
1982 Año Dos
El Taller Gallery
Austin, TX
1982 Salon D’ Automne
Grand Palais
Paris France
1984 Joy Tash Gallery
Scottsdale, AZ
1987 Taos Spring Arts Festival
Taos, NM
1988 El Taller Gallery
Taos NM
1989 Old Town Gallery
Flagstaff, AZ
1990 “Artists Shaman… Shaman as Artist”
Seoul, Korea
2005 “Art of the People”
Navajo Nation Museum
2008 “Dooda’ Desert Rock”
Center for Southwest Studies
Durango, CO
2009 Coconino Center for the Arts
Flagstaff, AZ
2010 “Border Crossing”
Desert Pearl
Cortez, CO
2010 “Art of the People”
Tuba City, AZ
2010 “Master Exhibit”
Gallup Cultural Center
Gallup, NM
2010 Aspen Guard Station
Artists in Residence Exhibit
Cortez Cultural Center
Cortez, CO
2010 Chadwick Gallery
Corrales, NM
2012 Singer & Family
The Farm Bistro
Cortez, CO
2014 IFAM, Santa Fe, NM
2015 IFAM, Santa Fe, NM
Awards
1977 9th Annual Red Cloud Indian Art Show
Pine Ridge, SD
1st Place – Painting
Honorable Mention
Mixed Media
Graphics
1977 Heard Museum Guild
Arts and Crafts Echibition
Phoenix, AZ
Painting Award
Graphics Award
1978 33rd American Indian Artists Exhibition
Philbrook Art Center
Tulsa, OK
1978 10th Annual Red Cloud Indian Art Show
Pine Ridge, SD
M.L. Woodard Award
1st Place Graphics
Honorable Mention – Graphics
1978 5th Annual Midwestern Printmaking
and Drawing Competition
Philbrook Art Center
Tulsa, OK
Best of Lithography Award
Purchase Award - Drawing
2009 Aspen Guard Station
Artist in Residence
San Juan Mountain Range
U.S. Forest Service, Mancos, CO
2014 Mesa Verde National Park
Artist in Residence
“Letters to my Grandchild”
w/ Sonja horoshko
Mesa Verde Museum Association, CO
Publications
Art Voices South, “Ed Singer,” by Penny Cox
Sept./Oct. 1979, p. 30
Santa Fe Profile, “Ed Singer, A Rising Star,” by Penny Cox, June, 1979, p,14
Southwest Art, “Ed Singer, Satisfaction without Surrender,” by Budge Ruffner, June 1981, p. 94-99
Southwest Art, “Adopting, Adapting, Rejection: The New Art of the American Indian,” by Stephen Parks, April 1980 p.99-106
Durango Herald, by Ted Holteen,
Arts & Entertainment Editor, Dec 2009
https://durangoherald.com/articles/7590-navajo-artist-to-show-paintings-in-cortez
Four Corners Free Press, July 2008
“Tribute to resistance: An exhibition showcases Desert Rock oosition,” by Sonja Horoshkohttp://fourcornersfreepress.com/tribute-to-resistance-an-exhibition-showcases-desert-rock-opposition/
Four Corners Free Press,
“Facing a Painted Reality,” by Sonja Horoshko, Dec 2009
http://fourcornersfreepress.com/facing-a-painted-reality/
“Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West,” Sarah Alisabeth Fox, 2014, University of Nebraska Press
Cover Art
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21945002-downwind
“Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation,” by Dana E. Powell, Duke University Press,
Frontispiece, black and white illus.,
pp. 65-71, 194-196
https://books.google.com/books/about/Landscapes_of_Power.html?id=BJIFngAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description
Select Important Public Collections
Heard Museum, Phoenix AZ
Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa OK
Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, SD
Diné Community College, Tsaile, AZ
Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
Navajo Tribal Museum, Window Rock, AZ
Artist Statement ES 1980c.
To artistically communicate on a broad scale, I chose to borrow from the dominant culture, the familiar visual idiom of representational work. To effectively communicate my own ideas, especially with the dominant culture, I have to be on the same artistic page with them. If they, the colonizers, wish to understand, to engage in a meaningful dialogue, then they must make an effort to educate themselves about prevalent issues―the view from a post-colonial point of view.
I hope that my work helps the audience rethink ideas about: colonizer/colonized, oppressor/victim, museum/artifact, documentarian/object, artist/model.
The immediacy of the painted surface, the direct incised line, is the most basic artery of communication. More open and honest than history books, more revealing than the artificial cloaks of “civilizations,” painting and drawing is a necessary and vital tool today, an assist as we move forward into the future presenting ourselves as we envision ourselves.