Vernon Bigman is a Navajo artist[1] known for his abstract painting. Bigman's work is housed in the permanent collections at the National Museum of the American Indian and San Francisco Art Institute.[2] As of 2019, Bigman is a library worker for the Pratt Institute.[3]

Education

Bigman was born in 1958[4] and completed his Bachelors in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. He also completed a Masters in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and received schooling at the Institute of American Indian Arts.[5]

Select artworks

Dreamsnake series

The Dreamsnake series is a collection of five oil paintings on canvas:[6]

  • Dream Snakes and Holy Mountain
  • Dream Snakes @ The Start of Ying and Yang
  • Dream Snakes and The Dreaming Grass
  • Dream Dance Kali
  • Black Dreams

Other artwork

  • Head of Wheel (Canvas, Oil Paint), made 1987, at National Museum of the American Indian[7]

Select exhibitions

  • 2020 Revelation Gallery, New York, NY[8]
  • 2009 Nathan Cumming Foundation New York, NY
  • 2008 New York Public Library, Tompkins Square Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2005 Graduate studios, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005 New York Public Library Tompkins Square Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1990 CommuniCations: Public Mirror: Artists Against Racial Prejudice, Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan, New York, NY[9]

Awards

Bigman was awarded an honorable mention in the 2007 SirsiDynix photography calendar competition.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Amerinda website
  2. ↑ "Special Collections". SFAI. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  3. ↑ "Vernon Bigman". Pratt Institute. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  4. ↑ "Head Of Wheel". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  5. ↑ "NAAR | NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST ROSTER". www.amerinda.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  6. ↑ "At Resobox, the Dream Snake paintings" (PDF). Resobox.
  7. ↑ "Head Of Wheel". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  8. ↑ The Village Sun website
  9. ↑ MOMA website
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