Anna Tsouhlarakis

Anna Tsouhlarakis works in sculpture, installation, video, and performance to challenge and stretch the aesthetic and conceptual boundaries of Native art. Using Indigenous epistemologies as starting points, her work reframes the discourse around the construction of Native identity. She received her BA from Dartmouth College and her MFA from Yale University. Tsouhlarakis has participated in various art residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and was the Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at Colorado College for the 2019-2020 academic year. Tsouhlarakis’s work has been part of national and international exhibitions at venues such as NEON Foundation in Athens, Greece; White Frame in Basel, Switzerland; Rush Arts in New York; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the National Museum of the American Indian; and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. She recently received a Creative Capital Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Tsouhlarakis is an Assistant Professor in the Art and Art History Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is Greek, Creek, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation.