Bob Haozous: A Retrospective View is the first major retrospective for the artist Bob Haozous (Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache, b. 1943). The exhibition brings together six decades of his work including sculpture, painting, prints, and jewelry. The exhibition will examine the timely social commentary embedded in Haozous’s work and his overlooked contributions to the field of contemporary art through the presentation of more than 75 works.
Throughout his career, Haozous has shaped current dialogues about the complicated reality of American Indian creative expression as art, commodity, and cultural practice. Haozous uses satire and irony to reconsider figurative traditions within Indigenous art while contemplating the philosophical meaning of being Indigenous in the postmodern world.