“The “House Made of Dawn” exhibition brings to light the artistic accomplishments of three generations of groundbreaking IAIA teachers and students beginning with the OG’s: Fritz Scholder (Luiseño), Momaday, Allan Houser (Apache), T.C. Cannon (Kiowa), Earl Biss (Crow), Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi), Joy Harjo (Muscogee), Dan Namingha (Hopi), and David Bradley (Chippewa) among them.”

At New York Historical, Indigenous Art Reclaims the American Story

Most museum exhibits ask you to look at history. “House Made of Dawn: Art by Native Americans 1880 to Now” asks you to reconsider who has been allowed to tell it. At New York Historical, the new exhibition brings together more than a century of Indigenous art in a collection that feels less like a retrospective and more like a correction.

“The New York Historical will showcase the promised gifts in an exhibition, House Made of Dawn: Art by Native Americans 1880 to Now, Selections from the Hsu-Tang Collection, from April 22 – August 16, 2026.”

This intimate and in-depth portrait of Earl Biss (1947-1998) showcases his dynamic and deeply spiritual art while giving insight into the joyous and bold man who created it.

“Pitkin County Sheriff Michael Buglione stands in front of an Earl Biss original at a Dec. 17 tour of the jail. He said the late Biss, a longtime Aspen artist and frequent resident of the jail, painted the landscape on the concrete jail walls so that the county commissioners could not sell and profit from his art. If the jail is relocated, the painting will be carved out of the wall and displayed at the new facility.” 

“I first came across Earl Biss art at the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art in St. Petersburg, FL in 2019.

…I could feel Earl Biss attempting to communicate with me from the great beyond. I’d never felt anything like this in front of a painting before. I saw the future and the past.”

“Close friends, historians, and artists shed light on the life of Earl Biss, the Crow artist who helped spearhead the contemporary Indigenous art movement.”