M O N T Y
L I T T L E
After five semesters of studying Architecture at Arizona State University, Monty Little enlisted in the Marine Corps as a Rifleman in 2004. Within his enlistment, Little was stationed with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines where he deployed with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to various countries in Southeast Asia in 2006, and to Ar Ramadi, Iraq in 2007. Little served as a fireteam leader, overseeing three Marines in a squad, while deployed in Iraq for a little over seven months. In 2008, Little was Honorably Discharged from the Marine Corps.
Following his service, Little graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Creative Writing and Studio Arts. It was here; he began to feel the urge to translate his thoughts on his experience of war and post-war. Little wrote extensively on his encounters of conflict and commenced an unfolding of his deployments. Much of his writing initiated surreal images; thus, wanting to visually relay those images, Little began to paint and print what he wrote, using each medium as erasure, where unsettling truths reveal personal components and texture is integral, yet disruptive to find his past chaotic.
EDUCATION
2023 University of Wisconsin - Madison; Madison, Wisconsin
MFA: Printmaking
2015 Institute of American Indian Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
BFA: Creative Writing in Poetry
BFA: Studio Arts in Printmaking & Painting
FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
2023. Atrium Gallery; Edgewood College; Madison, Wisconsin
Art + Literature Laboratory; Madison, Wisconsin
Connect: Collect Annual Print Exchange; Hulsey Gallery; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
SOLO EXHIBITIIONS
2023 Premonitions: New Work by Monty Little; Leslie and Johanna Garfield Galleries, The Chazen Museum of Art; Madison , Wisconsin
2022 Dystopia; Gallery 7; George L. Mosse Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Madison, Wisconsin
2020 Where Do We Go When We Sleep?; 9th Gallery; Phoenix, Arizona
2017 Petrichor; FaranHNHeight Fine Art; Taos, New Mexico
Displacement; The Living Arts of Tulsa; Tulsa, Oklahoma
2015 Reciprocus; Alan Houser Haozous Gallery; Institute of American Indian Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2014 Bombs, Birds & Buffaloes; Eggman & Walrus Art Emporium; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2013 Six Pintores; Eggman & Walrus Art Emporium; Santa Fe, New Mexico
PAST GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Surviving the Long Wars: Reckon and Reimagine; Chicago Cultural Center; Chicago, Illinois
Surviving the Long Wars: Residues and Rebellions; Newberry Library; Chicago, Illinois
2022 Reclaiming Identity; The Trout Museum of Art; Appleton, Wisconsin
Mark of Empowerment; Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art; University of Akron; Akron, Ohio
Deep Time; Gallery 7; George L. Mosse Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Madison, Wisconsin
Return to Sender; Gallery 7; George L. Mosse Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Madison, Wisconsin
2021 UW-Madison Alumni: A Legacy of Indigenous Perspectives; University of Wisconsin - Madison Union Main Gallery; Madison, Wisconsin
2020 Connect: Collect Print Exchange; Hulsey Gallery; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Spring Exhibition; Rainmaker Gallery; Bristol, United Kingdom
2019 National Veterans Art Museum Triennial and Veteran Art Summit; National Veterans Art Museum; Chicago, Illinois
Connect: Collect Print Exchange; Hulsey Gallery; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Standing Their Ground: Veteran Artists; Exhibit C; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Sovereign Santa Fe; FaranHNHeight Fine Art, La Fonda Hotel; Santa Fe, New Mexico
Neighborhood Codices; KEEP Contemporary; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2018 Original Warriors; National Veterans Art Museum; Chicago, Illinois
Forget Me Not; Safe Harbors Ann Street Gallery; Newburgh, New York
Languages of Abstraction; MA Doran Gallery; Tulsa, Oklahoma
First Nations Biennial; Tubac Center of the Arts; Tubac, Arizona
2019 ArtNow Exhibition; Oklahoma Contemporary; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Post-Colonial Frames / Landing America; B#S Gallery; Trevino, Italy
Multilayered: New Prints 2018 / Summer; International Print Center New York; New York, New York
Return to Dine' Bike'yah: The 150 Anniversary of the Signing of the Navajo Peace Treaty; Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico; Albuquerque, New Mexico
Fellow; The Refinery; Tulsa, Oklahoma
2017 Neo-Native: Connecting Past to Present; Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts; Alta Loma, California
Flat Rate Box; Modified Arts; Phoenix, Arizona
New Acquisitions: 2011 - 2017; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
Neo-Native: Connecting Past to Present; Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts; Alta Loma, California
Catch-22: Paradox on Paper; Ralph T. Coe Foundation; Santa Fe, New Mexico
Creative Nation II, Ellsworth Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2016 Syncretic: The Tulsa Artist Fellowship; 108 Contemporary; Tulsa, Oklahoma
Beyond the Plaza: Indian Market at the Institute; Encaustic Art Institute; Santa Fe, New Mexico
Fathoms, Radical Abacus; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2015 SITE Scholar Exhibition, painting “Figures Disfigure a Calm Memory” on display; SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
“When the Day is Right” and “Carousel” displayed; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Laying It to Rest” displayed; Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“When the Day is Right” and “Carousel” displayed February-December 2015; True West Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2014 IAIA Blood Quantum Drive: Making Relatives; Axle Contemporary; Santa Fe, New Mexico
Art in the Raw; Balzer Contemporary Edge Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico
Imago Mundi Native Art Project; Fondazione Benetton Studi E Ricerche; Treviso, Italy
Bombs, Birds & Buffaloes; Eggman & Walrus Art Emporium; Santa Fe, New Mexico
Annual Spring Art Show; Red Dot Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2012 “Diaspora” and “Amorphous” selected for Contemporary Native Art to Russia; State Museum of Novosibirsk; Novosibirsk, Russia
“Diaspora” and “Amorphous” Selected for Contemporary Native Art to Russia; Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts; Ekaterinburg, Russia
2011 Creative Destruction: Innovation as Tradition; Primitive Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Money & Wealth; Primitive Edge Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2010 Art Rush: 3rd Annual IAIA “Art In” Exhibit; Primitive Edge Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico
FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2023 Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize; University of Wisconsin - Madison
National Endowment of Humanities Fellowship; University of Illinois in Chicago
1st Place, Division 1, Category 104, "Survivance Series"; Eiteljorg Museum of Native and Western Art; Indianapolis, Indiana
3rd Place, Division 1, Category 104, "Survivance 11"; Eiteljorg Museum of Native and Western Art; Indianapolis, Indiana
2022 National Endowment of Humanities Fellowship; University of Illinois in Chicago
2021 Demil Art Fund Grant; Veteran Art Movement
2019 Vermont Studio Center Residency; May - June 2019; Johnson, Vermont
1st Place, Classification III, Division D, "Flora 13"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
1st Place, Classification III, Division D, "Trump 05"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
IAIA Distinguished Alumni Award, "Survivance 02"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2018 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, January-December 2018; Tulsa, Oklahoma
Institute of American Indian Arts Artist-in-Residence, October 2018; Santa Fe, New Mexico
1st Place, Classification III, Division D, "Contingency Combs Memory VI"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2nd Place, Classification III, Division D, "Notos XXX"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2017 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, January-December 2017; Tulsa, Oklahoma
1st Place, Classification III, Division D, "003"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
Honorable Mention, Classification III, Division D, "Contingency Combs Memory IV"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2016 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, January-December 2016; Tulsa, Oklahoma
2015 Recipient of SITE Scholar Program; SITE Santa Fe; Santa Fe, New Mexico
IAIA Distinguished Alumni Award, “Unaccompanied Voices”; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2nd Place, Classification III, Division D, “Usurp Series: Carlton 2”; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2013 Artist in Residency: Venice, Italy: Marist College Venice Biennale.
“Mourning the Silence” selected for 2014 Ontario College of Art and Design Calendar
REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS
'Displacement: Monty Little'. Montgomery, Renee. Art Focus Oklahoma Magazine. Winter 2017, print.