Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie

Why this artist matters now

Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie is a Native American artist and theorist working across photography, video, and installation since the 1980s. Her practice engages Indigenous sovereignty, colonial representation, and the politics of image-making, often interrogating how Native bodies and identities have been constructed and archived by dominant institutions. Working from a decolonial perspective, Tsinhnahjinnie employs appropriation and montage to dismantle ethnographic conventions and assert Indigenous authorship. Her work addresses the legacies of postwar displacement and the visual legacies of anthropological documentation.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago