The Brink: Demian DinéYazhi´

This exhibition features the work of Demian DinéYazhi´ (born 1983), the recipient of the 2017 Brink Award. This iteration of the Brink Award marks the culmination of a five-cycle biennial prize awarded to emerging artists, ages thirty-five and under, who are working in the Cascadia region of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.

The Brink exhibition is an opportunity for DinéYazhi´, an Indigenous Diné transdisciplinary artist, to further explore threads of inquiry within his practice, which is rooted in a reverence for traditional Diné culture and social formations. Working across formats and using conceptual strategies inclusive of image and text to speak truth to power, DinéYazhi´ gives voice to a contemporary Indigeneity that challenges Western archetypes and notions of authenticity and reclaims sovereignty from the white heteronormative patriarchy.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website