March 2004
 Bently
Spang (Cheyenne) is a multi-disciplinary artist and
videomaker who works in site-specific video installation, photography,
live performance, and short films. Spang's work deals with issues
surrounding his Northern Cheyenne identity. His art is in private
and museum exhibits and collections in the U.S. and Europe. Spang
was awarded a Paul Allen Foundation Grant in 2004 for a residency
in conjunction with the Techno Powwow Project. In 2003 he received
a Woodrow Wilson Foundation: Imagining America grant, and an Outstanding
Alumni Award from Montana State University-Billings. Spang has
also received artist fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation
and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
"I am interested in sampling from as many mediums and modes
of expression as are necessary to express my experience as a living
Cheyenne man. I sit squarely in the center of a continuum of making
that is countless generations old. Moving forward with my work,
I strive to illuminate the contradictions, the injustices and
to celebrate the intricacies of a living culture."
Screened by NMAI
Selected Museum Exhibitions
- Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit
Place, Race, and Memory (Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma,
2004)
- Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self
(International Center of Photography, New York, 2003)
- Staging the Indian: The Politics of Representation
(Tang Museum, Skidmore College, 2002)
Image credit:
Bently Spang - courtesy of Monica Wehri; Bently Spang - courtesy
of the filmmaker
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