RAIR | 2020-21

MIKAYLA PATTON | PINE RIDGE, SD

Mikayla Patton is an Oglala Lakota artist born and raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation near the Black Hills of so called South Dakota. In 2019, Patton attained a Bachelor's of Fine Arts Degree in printmaking from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Chiaroscuro Contemporary Gallery (Santa Fe); Texas Tech School of Art (Lubbock); All My Relations Gallery (Minneapolis); and the Rainmaker Gallery (Bristol). As of 2020, Patton has received the Goodman Aspiring Artist fellowship through Museum of Indian Arts and Culture; Artist in Business Leadership from First Peoples Fund; and the Ronald and Susan Dubin fellowship through the Indian Arts and Research Center.

As an interdisciplinary artist, I combine and move in the realms of alternative printmaking, papermaking, beadwork, and digital media. My work explores the connections between land, memory, body and healing through the lens of Lakotawomanhood. Influenced by Indigenous survivance and cultural methodologies, my practice has become meditative allowing me to process the damaging effects of colonialism, stereotyping, and historical traumas.

https://mikaylapatton.com/

Roswell Museum and Art Center

Rair exhibition • Mikayla Patton “Visitation” • September 4 - October 10, 2021