Joe Harjo - joeharjo.com - joeharjo@gmail.com - @ndnstagram
Education
2012 MFA - The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
2007 BFA - The University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma
2006 AA - Rose State College, Midwest City, Oklahoma
Professional Experience
2024 – Present - Professor of Instruction, University of Texas at San Antonio
2022 – 2024 - Associate Professor of Instruction, University of Texas at San Antonio
2020 – 2022 - Chair of Photography, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2014 – 2020 - Professor of Photography, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2011 – 2014 - Adjunct Faculty, University of Texas at San Antonio
Awards, Fellowships, Grants & Residencies
2024
Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Summer Residency, Omaha, NE
2023
Blue Star Contemporary Berlin Residency hosted by Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
City of San Antonio, Individual Artist Grant Recipient
Dreamstarter Creative Grant, Sponsored by Running Strong for Native Youth, Grant Recipient
2022
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency, Madison, ME
Harpo Foundation Fellow (awarded 2020) at Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT
2020
Contemporary Art Month (CAMMIE) Award, Nominated by Artpace for The Only Certain Way, Solo Exhibition at Sala Diaz, Awardee
2018
Vermont Studio Center Residency, July 2018, Johnson, VT
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Indian Removal Act III: We are a Wounding, The Fort Worth Contemporary Arts Gallery at TCU, Fort Worth, TX (upcoming)
2024
Indian Removal Act II: And She Was, The Contemporary at Blue Star, San Antonio, TX (upcoming)
2023
Indian Removal Act I: American Progress, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
Look Now What I’ve Become, Artpace Mainspace, San Antonio TX
2019
The Only Certain Way, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX
2018
One Nation Under, Dock Space Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2015
Of the Self, San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, TX
2014
#ThisIsNotAnIndian, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX
2012
Indians for Sale: MFA Thesis Exhibition, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Affective Territories, Alternate Belonging, Prospect Art, Los Angeles, CA & Lisbon, Portugal (upcoming)
2024
Proof Through the Night, Curated by Tommy Gregory, J.Rinehart Gallery, Seattle, WA (upcoming)
The Long Way, Curated by Jesus Benavente, Conference Call: Moving Image Series, Hi-ARTS, New York, NY
Conduit at 40: Forte!, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
FotoFest Biennial 2024: Critical Geography, Silver Street Studios, Houston, TX
Death Rights, Curated by Marian Casey, APEX Art NYC, San Antonio, TX
2023
SPACORE, Curated by Serena Elston & Rudolph Lingens, Co-Prosperity Chicago, Chicago, IL
2022
Portraits: Impressions of our Times, LHUCA, John F. Lott Gallery, Lubbock, TX
San Antonio Art Initiative, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
2021
Mutable Land, Curated by Mirian Casey, Nars Foundation Satellite Exhibition, Governor’s Island, New York, NY
2020
High Visibility: On Location in Rural America and Indian Country, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
2019
Texas, We're Listening, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX
We’re Still Here: Native American Artists, Then and Now, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2018
Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX
Destino San Antonio, Briscoe Museum of Western Art, San Antonio, TX
Deep Roots, UTSA Main Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Reimagining the Third Space, KCAI Crossroads Gallery, St. Louis, MO
BIG PICTURE!, LHUCA, Christine DeVitt Exhibition Hall, Lubbock, TX
St. Anthony’s Lost & Found, Culture Commons Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Common Currents, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2017
STATUS: Prints from Puerto Rico to San Antonio, Centro de Artes, San Antonio, TX
re/thinking photography: Conceptual Photography from TX, FotoFest, Houston, TX
Ebb:Flow::, 107 Gallery, San Antonio, TX
CAM Perennial: Reflections on Landscape and Memory, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
Homage, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX
Critical Mass, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2016
Feels So Right, Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2014
SAHO, The Mariago Collective, Houston, TX Luminaria, San Antonio, TX
2013
The Lullwood Group Invitational Exhibition, Ben Bailey Gallery, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX
Go West(!), Parchman Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Luminaria: Arts Come to Light, The Lullwood Group, Hemisfair Park, San Antonio, TX
Divergence: 9 San Antonio Artists, Martinez Fine Arts Center, Laredo TX
Collections
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; The City of San Antonio, TX; Briscoe Western Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK;
Private Collections in Texas, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Hawaii.