1. Hulleah J Tsinhnahjinnie was born on 1954 and is a Navajo Nation photographer, museum director, curator, and professor.
14 Facts About Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie
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Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie serves as the director of the Gorman Museum of Native American Art and teaches at University of California, Davis.
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Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie's father was a painter and muralist who studied at the Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie grew up outside of Scottsdale; at age 13, she moved to the Navajo Reservation near Rough Rock.
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Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie is an enrolled citizen of the Navajo Nation.
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In 1978, Tsinhnahjinnie enrolled in the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting with a photography minor in 1981.
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Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts from University of California, Irvine in 2002.
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Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie served as a board member for the Intertribal Friendship House, Oakland and the American Indian Contemporary Art Gallery in Oakland.
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Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie taught her skill of photography and media to younger students.
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Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie has used unusual supports for her work, such as car hoods.
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Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie uses fifteen pages of an electronic diary to reflect on life with her family, politics, and other life experiences.
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In many of her key works from the 1990s, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie examined the notion of beauty.
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Meanwhile, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie was working from a cultural background where beauty had never been a taboo.
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Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie defined the beauty of women in terms of their empowerment, grounded in her own perspective as an Indigenous woman.