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Nancy Marie Mithlo

Red Skin Dreams

Twenty Years of Curating Indigenous Art at the Venice Biennale

Nancy Marie Mithlo

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University of Nebraska Press
01 February 2026
Art of indigenous peoples; First Nations
In Red Skin Dreams curator and scholar Nancy Marie Mithlo (Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe) recounts the challenges of exhibiting Indigenous art at the famed Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most-recognized international arts exhibition. Mithlo’s experience of organizing nine independently sponsored exhibitions in Italy from 1997 through 2017 reveals marginalization and breakthroughs in an ever-shifting global art market.

Mithlo’s curated exhibitions highlighted contemporary American Indian and Indigenous artists on a global scale while also calling into question the dichotomies of margin and center, insider and outsider. Her scholarship asserts that Indigenous peoples are active participants in the contemporary arts world, despite mainstream assumptions to the contrary.

This is a story about how Indigenous peoples—both collectively and individually—claim a place in a transnational world that often forgets their presence. It is a story not only about arrival but belonging.
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Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781496234568
ISBN 10:   1496234561
Pages:   328
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nancy Marie Mithlo is a professor of gender studies and American Indian studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and curator in residence at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In addition to the Venice Biennale, she has curated exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian, Occidental College's Weingart Gallery, and the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum. She is the author of Knowing Native Arts (Nebraska, 2020) and editor of Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism and For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw, among numerous other publications. Visit Mithlo's website at nancymariemithlo.com.

Reviews for Red Skin Dreams: Twenty Years of Curating Indigenous Art at the Venice Biennale

“Timely and significant. . . . A great read that delves into some fascinating and complex issues around Native American art today: the local, the global, late-stage capitalism, deep thoughts, and more. Red Skin Dreams is so personal and erudite, and addresses major issues in thinking about the creation, exhibition, and criticism of Native American art on the global stage, that anyone interested in any of those topics—even if you don’t care about the Venice Biennale—will want to read and share it.”—Ryan Wheeler, director of the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology and coeditor of Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology


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