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About Karma

ABOUT THE ARTIST

 Cloud Woman Studio: An Art & Culture studio in New Mexico.


Member of the Great Basin Native Artists group.

"I am a painter who primarily recreates landscapes with overlays referencing Native elements; 
essentially placing Nüümü (Paiute) aesthetics into various geographical situations".
-Karma Henry

 CV

Karma Henry                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       www.KarmaHenry.com
 

Born
1972 in Vallejo, California.
Tribal member; Fort Independence Community of Paiute Indians
(Fort Independence Indian Reservation, California).

Profile
Karma Henry (Paiute/Italian/Portugeuse) resides in Santa Fe, NM.

Her current bodies of work are related to place, experience and pattern. Reflections of simple forms and shapes (from basketry designs, natural materials such as shells or plant life, as well as architectural elements and geometrical forms) have become overlays for landscape imagery. The juxtaposed images are a visual interpretation her experiences.

Karma Henry belongs to the Great Basin Native Artists group. 

“I hope I can also impress upon those who meet me and/or see my work, that Native peoples are immeasurably tied to the land. While we live in a modern world, our beliefs reflect what we’ve been taught historically and traditionally, and as a Native artist, I think those beliefs are important in the context of our tribal communities, Native art community, and in the greater Art community. I want to recognize the designs of our ancestors while also exploring my interpretation of the patterns and imagery around me. “ -Karma Henry

Exhibitions

2023  Regalos at Hecho Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2023  SWAIA Winter Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM.
2023  Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA. 
2023  Collective Wisdom, UNT CoLab Gallery, Denton, TX.
2023  It Started with Willows: curated by Melissa Melero-Moose at the Bristlecone Gallery on the Western Nevada College campus,  Carson City, NV.
2023 10th Invitational New Mexico Painter’s Exhibition, Kennedy Hall, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM.   
2023 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM.
2023 American Indian Arts Marketplace, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2023 12 Artists to Know Now, 516 Arts, Albequerque, NM.
2023 Native Treasures Market, Santa Fe, NM.
2023 Bernallilo Indian Arts Festival, Bernallilo, NM.
2023 Heard Indian Fair & Market, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
2023 Inherent Memory: Great Basin Tribal Arts & Culture, South Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM.
2022 SWAIA Winter Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM.
2022 9th Invitational New Mexico Painter’s Exhibition, Kennedy Hall, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM.           
2022 SWAIA Santa Fe Centennial Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM.     -2nd Place Ribbon-
2022 Connecting Landscapes: Karma Henry & SWAIA Collection in the  Horseshoe Gallery at Bishop's Lodge, Santa Fe, NM.
2022 American Indian Arts Marketplace, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2022 Spring 2022 Show at Rainmaker Gallery, Bristol, UK
2022 Great Basin Artists Exhibit: Part II – Connection: Indigenous Art of the Great Basin at the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Cultural Center,  Bishop, CA.
2021 Inheritance: Basketry and the Art of the Great Basin, Stewart Indian School and Cultural Center & Museum, Carson City, NV.
2021 Our Place in Space: Melissa Melero-Moose and the Great Basin Native Artists at the Savage Mystic Gallery, Reno, NV.
2021 Connection (Part I): Indigenous Art of the Great Basin at the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Cultural Center,  Bishop, CA.
2021 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market (Juried-In but no Booth due to pandemic cuts), Santa Fe, NM
2021 Beads: Indigenous beadwork of the Great Basin at Great basin Native Artists Gallery in the Stewart Indian School and 
                                                                                                                                                                            Cultural Center and Museum, Carson City, NV.
2020 SWAIA Virtual Winter Market, Santa Fe, NM.
2020 Autry Live! Virtual Native Marketplace, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2020 SWAIA Santa Fe Virtual Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM.
2020 Indigenous Voices of the Great Basin at Wa-Pai-Shone Gallery in the  Stewart Indian School, Carson City, NV. 
2019 Indigenous Voices of the Great Basin at depARTures Gallery at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, Reno, NV. 
2019 Intertwined: a GBNA Group Exhibition at Lolmĕn Gallery on the Shingle Springs Rancheria), Placerville, CA. 
2019 Pattern: a group Contemporay Native Artist show, Rainmaker Gallery, Bristol, UK.
2019 Autry Native Marketplace, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 We Are Here: A Festival of Contemporary Native American Art atThe Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
2019 Intertwined: a GBNA Group Exhibition at Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno, NV.  
2019 IM:EDGE Contemporary Show, Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM.
2019 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM.
2019 Reawakening Celebration, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV.
2019 Heard Indian  Fair & Market, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
2019 Pop-Up Show at Art Under the Arches Gallery, Ajo, AZ.
2018 Autry Native Marketplace, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2018 IM:EDGE Contemporary Show, Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM.
2018 Great Basin Native Artists, Metro Gallery in City Hall, Reno, Nevada.
2017 Autry Native Marketplace, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2017 IM:EDGE Contemporary Show, Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM.
2017 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM.
2017 Summer Showcase, Museum of the Plains Indians, Browning, MT.
2017 Great Basin Native Artists, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV.
2017 Great Basin Artists, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA.
2016 Autry Native Marketplace, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2016 Coyote IV, Maidu Museum & Historic Site, Roseville, CA.
2016 Intersections: Aboriginal Underground, Ahalenia Studios, Santa Fe, NM.
2016 We Are Then, We Are Now, Maidu Museum & Historic Site, Roseville, CA.
2016 48th Annual Red Cloud Art Show, Pine Ridge, SD.
2016 Heard Indian Fair & Market, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
2015 Coyote III, Maidu Museum & Historic Site, Roseville, CA.
2015 The Odyssey, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.
2014 Mas Attack Albuquerque, Creative Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM.
2013 Mas Attack 2, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.

Bibliography

Lanier, Chris, It Started with Willows, Double  Scoop Nevada, October 23, 2023. 
https://www.doublescoop.art/it-started-with-willows/

Scott, Chadd,  Karma Henry- from operating room to artist studio, SeeGreatArt.com, August 22, 2021,
doi: https://www.seegreatart.art/?s=karma+henry

Untold Arizona: Ajo Artists Colony Brings Century-Old Curley School To Life, Casey Kuhn for KJZZ .
Published: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 

First American Art Magazine Summer 2018 issue, Great Basin Native Artists, pp. 24-31.

Cowboys & Indians Magazine, April 2018 issue, American Indian Arts Marketplace,
pp. 42-43.

First American Art Magazine Fall 2017 issue, Great Basin Artists - CN Gorman Museum by Thollem, pp 73-74.
 
Our Ever Changing World; Through the Eyes of Artists:  Artists, ART & Story: Southern California.
Co-ordinated by Karrie Ross (book four), Foreword by Hilarie Kelly. Publisher: Be It Now!

Collections
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art Collections, Santa Fe, NM
Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
U.S. Department of the Interior Museum, Washington DC

Residencies
Fall 2021;  Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Artist-in-Residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
January 2019;  Sonoran Arts Residency in Ajo, Arizona.

Prizes and Awards
2022 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM.   - 2nd Place Ribbon

Education
2010 Master of Fine Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
2007 Bachelor of Arts/Minor in American Indian Studies, California State University, Northridge, CA.

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 Cloud Woman Studio

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Markets

- Native Treasures, Santa Fe, NM
- Autry Museum's American Indian Marketplace, Los Angeles, CA

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Established

 2004



I appreciate you stopping by and taking a peek at Cloud Woman Studio! 
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