Join us as artist Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations) discusses her work in the exhibition What Is Parasite and What Is Kin? with scholar Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation citizen).
After the conversation, enjoy Artist Party: Destination Unknown, a celebration of contemporary art at MoMA, highlighting works in our second-floor collection galleries.
Admission to the Artist Talk is free with registration.
Admission to the Artist Party requires advance ticket purchase.
Dana Claxton is a critically acclaimed artist who works with film, video, photography, single- and multi-channel video installation, and performance art. Her practice investigates Indigenous beauty, the body, the sociopolitical, and the spiritual. Her work has been shown at MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, Sundance Film Festival, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Her work is held in public, private, and corporate collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Audain Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Getty Museum, Eiteljorg Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Forge Project, Minneapolis Institute of Art, University of Toronto, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery.
Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation citizen) is an associate professor and the founding director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair (2025) and Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890–1910 (2019), and was a 2024–25 MoMA Scholar in Residence. Along with S.J. Norman (Wiradjuri), he is co-curator of the performance series Knowledge of Wounds.
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