Everton Tsosie
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Everton Tsosie is a contemporary Dine (Navajo) artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, whose expressive paintings merge abstraction and figuration to explore identity, resilience, memory, and the complexitities of contemporary Indigenous experience. Through layered surfaces, gestural mark-making, and vivid color, Tsosie creates emotionally charged works that balance personal reflection with broader cultural and social realities.
Drawing influence from the landscapes and communities of the American Southwest, Tsosie's practice engages themes of cultural continuity, environmental vulnerability, spirituality, and collective healing. His paintings often reflect on the intersection of Indigenous history and present-day life, addressing issues ranging from displacement and social inequity to the lived experience of Navajo communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tsosie received his BFA from the University of New Mexico and has emerged as part of a new generation of Indigenous artists expanding the language of contemporary painting through deeply personal and socially engaged perspectives. In 2020, he received First Place at the Virtual Santa Fe Indian Market for his painting The Last of the Pure, a pivotal work responding to the impact of COVID-19 on the Navajo Nation.
His work hs been featured in exhibitions and art fairs including the Santa Fe Indian Market, the Heard Musuem Indian Market, and the Autry American Indian Arts Marketplace. Tsosie has also been profiled by PBS New Mexico's Colores, Albuquerque Journal, Southwest Contemporary, and Native American Arts Magazine, which highlighted the emotional intensity and evolving visual language present throughout his practice.
Balancing Urgency, vulnerability, and painterly intensity, Tsosie continues to build a body of work that speaks to both personal transformation and the evolving landscape of contemporary Indigenous art.
Education
2018 BFA degree, University of New Mexico, ABQ, NM.
Selected Exhibitions
2017 Santa Fe Winter Indian Market, Santa Fe Plaza,
Santa Fe, NM
2018 Speed and Time are None of Our Business, CFA Downtown Exhibition,
Albuquerque, NM
2019 New York University/ Voices, Kimmel Windows Exhibition,
New York, NY
2020 Santa Fe Virtual Indian Market,
Santa Fe, NM
2020 Santa Fe Winter Virtual Indian Market,
Santa Fe, NM
2021 63rd Heard Annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market; Virtual,
Phoenix Arizona
2021 Urban Native, Ellsworth Gallery, Aug. 27 – Nov 7, 2021; Santa Fe, NM
2022 64th Heard Annual Guild Indian Fair and Market, March 3-4; Phoenix, Arizona
2023 Off the Grid Exhibition, Theater for the New City, Nov. 4 2022- Jan. 2, 2023, New York, NY
2023 65th Heard Annual Guild Indian Fair and Market, March 4-5; Phoenix, Arizona
2023 101th Annual Santa Fe Indian Market, August 19-20; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2024 66th Heard Indian Market, March 2,3; Phoenix, Arizona
2024 33th Annual The Autry American Indian Arts Festival, June 8, 9; Los Angeles, California
2024 102th Annual Santa Fe Indian Market, August 17, 18; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2025 103th Annual Santa Fe Indian Market, August 16, 17; Santa Fe, New Mexico
2025 Santa Fe Winter Indian Market, November 29, 30; Santa Fe, New Mexico
Publications
2012 O’Quirke, Sheila A. Taking Back the River, Printed in USA, 2012. Cover Drawing
2020 Colores NMPBS “The last of the Pure” Santa Fe Indian Market award winning
painting. Albuquerque, NM
2021 Inhale. Exhale., Southwest Contemporary Vol. 3, Printed in Arizona, Made in New Mexico, Fall 2021
2021 Albuquerque Artist brings figures to life with a deep look into the Native Soul, Albuquerque Journal, Kathleen Roberts, Assistant Art editor, Nov. 14 2021
2022 The Native American Warrior, Acrylic on Canvas, Native American Art Magazine, February 2022
2023 Explosive Absurdity; Chaotic emotion is thrown onto canvas by rising modern art painter Everton Tsosie., Native American Art Magazine. Erin Joyce. 08/2023-09/2023 issue.
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