Rose B. Simpson

Why this artist matters now

Rose B. Simpson is a Tewa artist working across ceramic, metal, painting, performance, and installation to examine identity, sovereignty, and contemporary Native experience. Her sculptural practice combines traditional pueblo pottery techniques with industrial materials and fashion design, creating works that refuse containment within a single medium or historical narrative. Simpson has exhibited at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Heard Museum, and SITE Santa Fe. Her work operates at the intersection of ancestral knowledge and urgent contemporary intervention, challenging conventions of both Native art and institutional modernism.

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