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EXHIBITIONS

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025

Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Independent Art Fair, New York, NY

2024

Remnant, Catriona Jeffries, Toronto, CA

2023

Mark, Stars, Los Angeles, CA

2023

Secrets, Andrew Kreps, New York, NY

2023

Visceral: Verity, Legacy, Identity: Alaska Native Gut Knowledge and Perseverance, Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AK

2023

Mark, Tureen, Dallas, TX

2019

Goodbye: The Things We Carry, Yukon Arts Center, Whitehorse, YT Canada

2019

Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer, AK

2019

Mark, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

2019

Mark, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

2018

Recent Work, Artspace Gallery, Anchorage, AK

2018

The Things We Carry, Kunsthall Svalbard, Northern Norway Art Museum, Svalbard, Norway

2017

New Work, Kenai Arts Center, Kenai, AK

2017

Remnant, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM

2016

Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Carrie McLain Museum, Nome, AK

2015

Stitch: Line, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK

2014

Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Recent Work, Jaffe Friede Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

2012

Where they Overlap, Gorman Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA

2012

Qupak, Pratt Museum, Homer, AK

2011

Hide, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM

2010

Hide, National Museum of Indian Art, New York, NY

2008

Walrus Family Portrait, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK

2007

New Secrets, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK

2007

Unraveled Secret, Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer, AK

2006

Secret, Modo Gallery, Hudson, NY

2006

Unraveled Secret, Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

Hawaiian Triennial, Capital Modern, Honolulu, HI

2025

Points of Illumination, Tara Downs Gallery, New York, NY

2025

Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ

2025

Collection Conversations, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY

2025

Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead, Tureen Gallery, Dallas, TX

2025

Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

2025

An Indigenous Present, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

2024-26

Shifting Landscapes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2024

All 4 U, Tureen, Dallas, TX

2024

Ilagiit/Relationships, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2024

Common Thread, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM

2024

Flags, A Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

2023

Young Elder, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY

2023

The Inseparables, Stars Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2022-23

Arctic Highways, Swedish Embassy, Washington, D.C; Yukon Art Center, Canada; Swedish American Museum, Chicago, IL; Scandinavia House, New York, NY; National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA

2022

Alakkaajut, SAW Gallery/Nordic Lab, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2022

ADDENDA, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY

2022

Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity, Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2022

Agency, Feminist Art and Power, Museum of Sonoma County, Sonoma, CA

2022

Object Relations: Indigenous Belongings, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

2021

Another Crossing, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

2021

Climate Change and Struggle: Indigenous Ecology in Contemporary Art, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, NY

2020

The Un-heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S., Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY

2020

Ecofeminism, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY

2020

Allegories of Transformation, Pace Center, Parker, CO

2020

Settlement, Digital Exhibition due to Covid 19 originally slated to be in Central Park, Plymouth, UK

2020

Place of Origin, Korundi Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland

2020

Art for a New Understanding, Native Voices 1950’s to Now, Crystal Bridges, Fayetteville, AR; Nasher Museum, Durham, NC

2019-20

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Frist Museum, Nashville, TN; Renwick Gallery, D.C.; Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK

2018-20

Among All These Tundras, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal; Esker Foundation, Calgary, Onsite Gallery, Toronto, Canada; PĀTAKA ART + MUSEUM in Porirua, New Zealand

2017

Native Art Now, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN

2017

Subsistence (NO/US), Gallery of Northern, Norway, Harstad, Norway

2016

SITElines: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas, SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM

2015

Gyre: the Plastic Ocean, David J. Spencer CDC Museum, Atlanta, GA

2015

Fifth World, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

2014

Native Art Now – Contemporary Indigenous Art from North America, Nordamerika Native Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

2014

Gyre: The Plastic Ocean, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK

2014

Annual Group Show, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2013

This is not a Silent Movie, Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR; University of Montana, Missoula, MT

2013

Sakahan, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2013

Masks and Transparencies: Contemporary Artists of Alaska, Orenda Art International, Paris, France

2012

True North, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK

2010-11

This is Displacement, Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts, Bigfork, MT; Northrup Theatre, Minneapolis, MN; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; American Indian Community House, New York, NY

2010

Contemporary Inuit Art, Katuaq Cultural Center, Nuuk, Greenland

2009

Dry Ice, Robeson Arts Center, Princeton, NJ

2009

50/50: Fifty Years of Alaska’s History, Statewide touring exhibit

2008

Native Voices, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

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