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Black and white landscape with a sign that reads, "never look a skinwalker in the eye"
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Anna Tsouhlarakis, NEVER LOOK A SKINWALKER IN THE EYE, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.

Logan Lecture: Anna Tsouhlarakis

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Anna Tsouhlarakis (born 1977, Lawrence, Kansas) uses a stereotype-busting sense of humor to reframe discussions about Native American art and identity. For more than two decades, she has centered Native histories in her practice to address indigenous rights and strategies of decolonization in the United States. From sculptures composed of Ikea furniture remnants, animal parts, and found objects, to large-format text paintings and installations, Tsouhlarakis offers deeper insight into the contemporary Native experience. This lecture will unfold in a more intimate setting, inviting audiences into a closer, more personal encounter with her ideas and practice.

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Martin Building, Level 1—Garden Room
Ticket required, discount for members, free for Museum Friends and students.
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Logan Lecture Series

This event is part of the 2025-26 Logan Lecture Series.

Collage with the text "you know she buys her sage at Urban Outifitters"

Anna Tsouhlarakis, YOU KNOW SHE BUYS HER SAGE AT URBAN OUTFITTERS, 2024. Artwork courtesy of the artist and Tilton Gallery, New York.

Artwork sculpture installation with a tied pair of hands pointing up toward the sky

Anna Tsouhlarakis, SHE'S SO TOUGH SHE WHISTLES AT NIGHT, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Tilton Gallery, New York.

Billboard sign that reads "I really like the way you respect Native American rights."

Anna Tsouhlarakis, The Native Guide Project, 2019–present. Artwork courtesy of the artist.

Black and white landscape with a sign that reads, "never look a skinwalker in the eye"

Anna Tsouhlarakis, NEVER LOOK A SKINWALKER IN THE EYE, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.

Collage with the text "you know she buys her sage at Urban Outifitters"
Artwork sculpture installation with a tied pair of hands pointing up toward the sky
Billboard sign that reads "I really like the way you respect Native American rights."
Black and white landscape with a sign that reads, "never look a skinwalker in the eye"

Artist Bio

A recipient of the Creative Capital Award (2021), Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2023), and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2024), Anna Tsouhlarakis has had solo exhibitions at the Fine Arts Center Museum at Colorado College, Colorado Springs; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; and Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, Columbus. She has participated in various artist residencies at MacDowell, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Yaddo. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts Center Museum at Colorado College; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; and Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence.

An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and of Creek and Greek descent, Tsouhlarakis received a BA in 1999 from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and an MFA in 2002 from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. She is an associate professor of arts practices at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Since 2007, the Logan Lecture Series at the Denver Art Museum has presented talks by over 130 contemporary artists. Organized by the Modern and Contemporary Art department, the series is made possible through the generous support of Vicki and Kent Logan.