Verge Center for the Arts is pleased to present DECOLONIZATION, a solo show by artist Spencer Keeton Cunningham. The show will be on view January 11 through March 25, 2025, with an opening reception on Saturday evening, January 11, from 5 to 8 p.m. Cunningham is a contemporary artist exhibiting in museums and galleries for the past 23 years. This will be his second exhibition at Verge after his work was first featured in Champagne, a group exhibition curated by Yarrow Slaps in 2014. Cunningham’s work also adorns Verge’s bathroom hall. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in Sacramento.
Cunningham is an enrolled member of the Colville Tribe. His painting work is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Berkeley Art Museum, and Crocker Art Museum. He has also exhibited at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, The Wenying Highland Museum in China, as well as institutions in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, British Columbia, Amsterdam, Seattle, New York City, San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, New Orleans, Miami and elsewhere. Cunningham works in painting, sculpture, public art, film, photography, and writing, and has worked on various music albums with cult hip-hop art icon Buck 65. His work was included in the World Congress of Art History in Beijing China by Art Historian Elaine O’Brien from Sacramento State University.
Cunningham uses his art to address Indigenous issues, environmental conditions, and gentrification. His work for DECOLONIZATION will include monumental paintings standing up to 20 feet tall. It will be an immersive art exhibit, exploring themes of an autobiographical nature, history, past and present cultural archetypes, Reservation life, and a contemporary view of the modern world through a lens of decolonization and humor.
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