EDUCATION

 

2015     Institute of American Indian Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico

               BFA: Creative Writing in Poetry

               BFA: Studio Arts in Printmaking & Painting

 

FUTURE EXHIBITIONS

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              Feb. 2020 - "Flora 14 & 15" will display in Spring Exhibition; Rainmaker Gallery; Bristol, United Kingdom

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PAST EXHIBITIONS

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2019     "Precursor IV & V" displayed in Veterans Art Exhibition; Exhibit C; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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              August 2019 - "Flora Series" displayed in Sovereign Santa Fe; La Fonda; Santa Fe, New Mexico

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              August 2019 - "Flora 04 - 08" displayed in Neighborhood Codices; KEEP Contemporary; Santa Fe, New Mexico

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              "USURP: Lincoln II" displayed at NVAM Triennial and Veteran Art Summit; National Veterans Art Museum; Chicago, Illinois

 

               Connect: Collect Print Exchange; Hulsey Gallery; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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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      Flat Rate Box; Modified Arts; Phoenix, Arizona

 

              "Own Mind" and "Alpha" on display; 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

 

              Petrichor; FaranHNHeight Fine Art; Taos, New Mexico

 

              Displacement; The Living Arts of Tulsa; Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

 

2016     Syncretic: The Tulsa Artist Fellowship; 108 Contemporary; Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

              "Notos 01" and "Notos 02" Selected to show in Beyond the Plaza: Indian Market at the Institute; Encaustic Art Institute; Santa Fe, New Mexico 

 

              Painting: "Gravitas 002" in exhibition; Fathoms, Radical Abacus; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

2015     SITE Scholar Exhibition, painting “Figures Disfigure a Calm Memory” on display; SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

               Paintings: “When the Day is Right” and “Carousel” on display; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

               Reciprocus; Alan Houser Haozous Gallery, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

               Painting: “Laying It to Rest” on display; 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

 

              “Forgotten Meaning Of” and “Study for Laying It to Rest” selected for 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

 

              “Discontent” selected for Annual Spring Art Show; Red Dot Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

2013     Six Pintores; Eggman & Walrus Art Emporium; 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

 

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

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2019    1st Place, Classification III, Division D, "Flora 13"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, 2019 Indian Market Art Competition; Santa Fe, New Mexico

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              1st Place, Classification III, Division D, "Trump 05"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, 2019 Indian Market Art Competition; Santa Fe, New Mexico

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              IAIA Distinguished Alumni Award, "Survivance 02"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, 2019 Indian Market Art Competition; Santa Fe, New Mexico

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              Vermont Studio Center Residency; May - June 2019; Johnson, Vermont

 

2018     1st Place, Classification III, Division D, "Contingency Combs Memory VI"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, 2018 Indian Market Art Competition; Santa Fe, New Mexico

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              2nd Place, Classification III, Division D, "Notos XXX"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, 2018 Indian Market Art Competition; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

              Tulsa Artist Fellowship, January-December 2018; Tulsa, Oklahoma

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2017    1st Place, Classification III, Division D, "003"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, 2017 Indian Market Art Competition; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

             Honorable Mention, Classification III, Division D, "Contingency Combs Memory IV"; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, 2017 Indian Market Art Competition; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

             Tulsa Artist Fellowship, January-December 2017; Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

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, 2015 Indian Market Art Competition; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

               2nd Place, Classification III, Division D, “Usurp Series: Carlton 2”; Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, 2015 Indian Market Art Competition; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

               1st Place Painting: “Proximal”; 2015 IAIA Student Art Competition; Balzer Contemporary Edge Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

               1st Place Mixed Media: “The Struggle Within”; 2015 IAIA Student Art Competition; Balzer Contemporary Edge Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

               1st Place Printmaking: “Somewhere Between Nowhere”; 2015 IAIA Student Art Competition; Balzer Contemporary Edge Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

2014     Nominated for SITE Scholar Program; SITE Santa Fe; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

               Private Collection: selected paintings: “Mourning the Silence” and “Figures in the Distance” for Pojoaque Pueblo Governor George Rivera; Pojoaque, New Mexico

 

               1st Place Printmaking: “Usurp Series: Samuel Beckett”; 2014 American Indian Higher Education Consortium; Billings, Montana

 

               1st Place Drawing: “Untitled”; 2014 American Indian Higher Education Consortium; Billings, Montana

 

               Top 3 Finalist for Tribal College Journal Student Writing Contest in Poetry for “To Erase A Whisper”; 2014 American Indian Higher Education Consortium; Billings, Montana

 

2013     “Mourning the Silence” selected for 2014 Ontario College of Art and Design Calendar

 

               Artist in Residency: Venice, Italy: Marist College Venice Biennale.

 

2012     Top 3 Finalist for Tribal College Journal Student Writing Contest in Fiction for “Of Hand Blooming”; 2012 American Indian Higher Education Consortium; Rapid City, South

               Dakota

 

2011     Selected painting: “Homage of Two Worlds” for United Tribes Technical College President Gipp’s Private Gallery; Bismarck, North Dakota

 

               Honorable Mention; Painting Category for “Homage of Two Worlds”; IAIA Student Art Competition; Balzer Contemporary Edge Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

 

REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS

 

'Indigenous OEF/OIF Veterans Express War Experience Through Art'. Pratt, Stacy. First American Art Magazine. Issue No. 20, Fall 2018, print. 

 

'Spotlight: Navajo Elder Waiting by Monty Little'. Lanteri, Michelle. First American Art Magazine. Issue No. 17, Winter 2017/18, print.

 

'Power of Transformation: Exhibition of works by Diné artist Monty Little set to open at FaraHNHeight Fine Art'. Testerman, Tamra. The Taos News. 8 September 2017, print.

 

'Artist Monty Little finds the surreal in war, peace'. Watts, James D.. Tulsa World. 8 January 2017, print.   

 

'Displacement: Monty Little'. Montgomery, Renee. Art Focus Oklahoma Magazine. Winter 2017, print. 

 

'Faces on the Wall: Monty Little Considers Portraits, Displacement, and PTSD'. Blood, Liz. The Tulsa Voice. November 2016, print.  

 

'Double Vision: Writer and Artist Monty Little'. Abatemarco, Michael. Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo. 21 August 2015, print.

 

'The Renga Project'. Axle Contemporary. June 2013 – July 2014; Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

'Next Hex Nest Curtain: Questionable Transolutions to the Curtain'. Design Wave: the Function of Art Vol. 3, Fall 2013. Collaboration with SITE Santa Fe Design Lab: Next Nest.