On View:	May 24–November 30, 2025
Public Reception:	Saturday, May 24, 2025, 4:00–6:00 PM

Making in Between: Indigenous Americans – Exhibition Overview

This project is the third and final exhibition in AMOCA’s “Making in Between” series, which brings together works by artists who explore identity, culture, and community. 

In 2020, Making in Between: Contemporary Chinese American Ceramics featured works by six first- and second-generation artists who shared themes of cultural heritage, identity, language, politics, migration, and displacement. In 2023, Making in Between: Queer Clay shifted the lens to consider influences on identity, centering queerness as an unapologetic presence and featuring works by historical artists whose identities have remained largely unseen alongside contemporary makers.

Making in Between: Indigenous Americans will exhibit works by Osage, Cochiti Pueblo, Shinnecock, and Tongva artists who embrace their heritage and explore boundary-pushing themes of identity, culture, history, and community. MIB: IA will introduce the breadth of unique narratives these trailblazing artists use and complicate viewers’ expectations of what constitutes contemporary Indigenous art. 

The exhibition is accompanied by catalog featuring full color images and new essays by Kendra Greendeer, Larissa Nez, and Isabella Robbins.

Exhibiting Artists

Artists whose work will be presented in Making in Between: Indigenous Americans include Mercedes Dorame, Anita Fields, Courtney M. Leonard, and Cannupa Hanska Luger.

Exhibition Acknowledgments

This exhibition and accompanying full-color exhibition catalog will be funded, in part, by a grant from the Dew Foundation and by support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture.