Biography from AskART:
| The following information is submitted in 2004 byAllison Colborne, Art Librarian,
Chase Art History Library, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Norman AKERS, b. 1958- (Osage) [Painter/Printmaker]
Born and raised in Fairfax, Oklahoma, Akers is of Osage descent and is an active member in the Osage tribal community.
Akers has an MFA from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1991), a
BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute (1982) and a Certificate in Museum
Training from the Institute of American Indian Arts (1983).
Norman Akers has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1999 where teaches
drawing and painting at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
SELECTED EXHIBITS:
"Rewritings": New Paintings from Native America, Artfit Exhibition Space,
Phoenix, Arizona, 2002.
Reopening the West, Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York, 2001.
Who stole the tepee?, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian
Museums, New York, New York, 2000.
Paintings, The Gallery, East Central University, ADA, Oklahoma, 2000.
Norman Akers, Paintings, Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University,
Stillwater, Oklahoma, 1999.
Oklahoma Painting and Drawing Biennial V, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, 1999.
Art in 2 Worlds, The Native American Fine Arts Invitational 1983-1999, Heard
Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 1999.
LINK: 22 Painters, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1998.
From the Earth XIII, American Indian Contemporary Arts, San Francisco,
California, 1997.
New Art from Native America, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania, 1997.
Beyond the 95th Meridian: Indian Territory 1996, Alexander Hogue Gallery,
Univ. of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1996.
Native Streams, Turman Art Gallery, Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute,
Indiana, 1996.
Gilcrease Native Invitational, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1995.
Contemporary Native American Prints, Goshen College Art Gallery, Goshen,
Indiana, 1995.
1994 Eiteljorg Invitational, New art of the West 4, Eiteljorg Museum,
Indianapolis, Indiana, 1994.
6th Native American Fine Arts Invitational, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona,
1994.
The Roots, American Indian Community House Gallery, New York, New York,
1994.
Pathology of Symbols, I Space, Chicago, Illinois, 1993.
Without Boundaries, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana, 1993.
Local Aesthetic 3; Champaign-Urbana, University Galleries, Illinois State
Univ., Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, 1991.
Perception of the Other, Peace Museum, Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica,
Chicago, Illinois, 1990.
Big Ten, Painting at the Graduate Level, Milwaukee Institute of Arts and
Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1990.
Akers/Chitto, Southern Plains Indian Museum and Crafts Center, Anadarko,
Oklahoma, 1986.
Contemporary Native American Artists, Governors Gallery, State Capitol,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1986.
Institute of American Indian Arts, Governors Gallery, State Capitol, Santa
Fe, New Mexico, 1985.
III Contemporary Native Americans, Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, New
Mexico, 1984.
COLLECTIONS:
Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York
Gardiner Museum, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Southern Plains Indian Art Museum and Crafts Center, Anadarko, Oklahoma
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
The American West, People, Places, and Ideas, Suzan Campbell and Kathleen E.
Ash-Milby, The Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York; Western
Edge Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2001.
Who stole the tepee?, Edit. Fred Nahwooksy, Richard Hill, Phoenix,
AZ, 2000.
St. James Guide to Native North American Artists, Roger Matuz, St. James
Press, Detroit, Michigan, 1998
Native American Streams, Turman Art Gallery, Indiana State Univ., Terre
Haute, Indiana, 1996.
Contemporary Native American Prints, Goshen College Art Gallery, Goshen,
Indiana, 1995.
New Art of the West 4, Eiteljorg Museum, catalog, Indianapolis, Indiana,
1994.
6th Native American Fine Arts Invitational, catalog, Heard Museum, Phoenix,
AZ, 1994.
Giselle Atterby, "Gallery Nine Exhibit Offers Frenetic Art", News Gazette,
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, August 4, 1994.
David Bell, "Quality Marks Exhibit of Indian Artists Work", Journal North,
Albuquerque, NM, August 14, 1986.
Michael Roth, "Artist Says, Painting is a Performance", Artist of the Sun,
The New Mexican, Santa Fe, NM, July 28, 1985
John Arnold, "Governors Gallery Goes American Indian", The Arts,
Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, NM, 1985.
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