11 Facts About Lorenzo Clayton

Lorenzo Clayton is a contemporary Navajo sculptor, printmaker, conceptual and installation artist.

Lorenzo Clayton's artwork is notable for exploring the concepts of spirituality through abstraction.

Lorenzo Clayton was born and raised on the Tohajiilee Indian Reservation.

Lorenzo Clayton is a professor in the printmaking department at Cooper Union.

Lorenzo Clayton's artwork is heavily influenced by the search for the spiritual, which he believes is seen throughout Indigenous cultures around the world.

The series Come Across had Lorenzo Clayton blending both Christianity and Navajo spirituality to explore a personal loss of self.

In 2006 Lorenzo Clayton exhibited his "mythistoryquest" installations at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York.

In 2004 Lorenzo Clayton began working with fellow Cooper Union professor and engineer George Sidebotham on a series called Inner Equations.

Lorenzo Clayton displayed the journal he kept during the creation of the artwork.

In 2009 Lorenzo Clayton collaborated with filmmaker and sound engineer Jacob Burckhardt to create Current, a 3-minute video installation as part of Wave Hill's exhibition "The Muhheakantuck in Focus".

Burckhardt and Lorenzo Clayton created an interpretation of that literal meaning creating a video displaying the river moving in different directions and flows.