JAMISON CHAS BANKS: CV

Jamison Chās Banks

b. 1978 (Kansas, USA)

Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024 Species Pending, Commissioned collaboration with Animkeewa WhiteEagle,

Funded by The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Year long appointment: Artist-in-Residence,

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM

2023 STORE Vol. II, solo exhibition with friends, Form + Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Indigenous Annotations Lab Symposium, invited lecturer, Clemson University: Cooper Library/Adobe Studio & Makerspace, Clemson, SC

Artists as Knowledge Carriers curated by Rachelle B. Pablo, group exhibition, 516 ARTS,

Albuquerque, NM

2022 Giving Growth, collaboration with Eliza Naranjo Morse, two-person commissioned

events and installation, Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Working with Kin, curated by Heidi Brandow, group exhibition, Form + Concept Gallery,

Santa Fe, NM

Reclaiming Identity, group exhibition, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI

2021 Questionable History: Contesting Interpretations - Deconstructing

Lenin, group exhibition, Wende Museum of the Cold War;

Taschen Wende Gallery, Culver City, CA

             Instinctive Travels, three person show, Centre[3] for Artistic + Social Practice,
                     Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

2020    Windows on the Future, group exhibition, selected business storefronts,

Vital Spaces, Santa Fe, NM

2019 COE Curated, two person exhibition/curation, Vital Spaces,

Santa Fe, NM
Live Long and Prosper, group exhibition, Museum of Northern Arizona,

Flagstaff, AZ
Live Long and Prosper, group exhibition, MiraCosta College,

Oceanside CA
STORE Takeover, two person exhibition, 310 Johnson Str.,

Santa Fe, NM
Gallery of Conscience, group exhibition, International Folk Art Museum,

Santa Fe, NM
Vital MIX: Repair Salon, group exhibition and open studio, Vital Spaces,

Santa Fe, NM
Vital Open Studio, group exhibition and open studio, Vital Spaces,

Santa Fe, NM

2018 Most Things Happen When I Am Asleep, group exhibition, Artspace,

Auckland, New Zealand

Toofprints 058-059, solo exhibition, Alice Yard, Port-of-Spain,

Trinidad and Tobago

Surrealist Spectacular, group exhibition, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

Crypsis: Eradication Methods Laboratory, solo exhibition, Urban

Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Winnipeg, Canada

         Lobo: The Legend of Currempaw, group exhibition and graphic novel
                     publication, Seton Legacy Project/Academy for the Love of Learning,
                     Santa Fe, NM

Imprint, group exhibition, COE Foundation, Santa Fe, NM

Imprint, group exhibition, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

The Bountiful Fowl, artist demonstration/workshop, Meow Wolf,

Santa Fe, NM

Re-Riding History, group exhibition, Trout Gallery/Dickenson College,

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Re-Riding History, group exhibition, Cumberland Historical Society,

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

2017 Being: Between Fiction and Real, curated by Theo Pelmus, group exhibition

Axe Neo-7, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

Run Home Derby Store: Retour des Cendres Vol. IV, serigraphy group

exhibition, SITE Santa Fe & Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

Local Coloring, group exhibition, Axle Contemporary, SantaFe, NM

SITE Santa Fe Auction 2017, group exhibition, Charlotte Jackson Fine

Art, Inc., Santa Fe, NM

Ni Huinti, Nichoca, Nicnotlamati. Nicmati, Nic Ihtoa, Nic Ilnamiqui.

I’m Drunk, I Cry, I Hurt. I Know, I Say, I Remember. A Conversation

Between Fernando Palma Rodriguez & Jamison Chas Banks,

writing contributor, Notes for the Future: A Crossbreed Laborer’s Diary,

catalogue and online journal Terremoto Magazine/Frac des Pays de la Loire,

Mexico/France

Pollinators of the World, group exhibition and hand made book,

                    Cole Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
           As We See It, group exhibition, Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AK
            Marginalia 23, featured online exhibition April, TERREMOTO Magazine,

Mexico City DF, Mexico
SITECenter: Retour des Cendres Vol. III, resident artist; workshop,

lecture series, and baseball game, Native American Community

Academy (NACA) /Institute of American Indian Arts(IAIA)/

SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe & Albuquerque, NM
Re-Riding History, group exhibition, Kenosha Museum System,

Kenosha, WI
Train of Ink, group exhibition, SGC International Printmaking Exhibition,

Atlanta, GA
As We See It, group exhibition, New Mexico State University Art

Museum, Las Cruces, NM
The Free Exercise Thereof, group exhibition, Axle Contemporary,

Santa Fe, NM

2016 Out of SITE, group exhibition, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
50 to 500, annual member exhibition, Urban Shaman:

Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Manitoba, Canada
Sign Language, commissioned juried public installation, Temporary

Installations Made for the Environment (T.I.M.E.) Cibola County,

                    Grants/Milan, NM
             Put Another Feather On It, group exhibition, Red Dot Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
             Fresh Native, group exhibition, Warehouse 21, Santa Fe, NM
             The Journey of Objects: The 1968 “International Exhibition of Folk Art”

Collection, Artista Nativo Del Siglo 21, invited presenter,

University Collections Hall; University of Tlatelolco Cultural

Center; National Autonomous University of Mexico,

                    Mexico City, Mexico
      Conversatorio: Tierra, Territorio y Territorialidad, invited presenter,
                    Casa Del Lago; Centro Cultural Universitario; National Autonomous

                    University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
            Tepoztlaculolizti: Tepoztlaculolizti itechpa malacachtepec momoxoca, lecture
                    and workshop, El Centro Cultural Comunidad de Santa Martha;

Milpa Alta, Mexico City, Mexico
Residencia Artisticas y Creatividad, inaugural resident artist, Capulli Tecalco

A. C./Patronato de Arte Contemporaneo (PAC); Milpa Alta, San Pedro

Actopan, Mexico City, Mexico

Sign Language, commissioned juried public installation, Temporary

Installations Made for the Environment (T.I.M.E.) Cibola County,

Grants/Milan, NM

The Journey of Objects: The 1968 “International Exhibition of Folk Art”

Collection, invited presenter, University Collections Hall;

University of Tlatelolco Cultural Center; National Autonomous

University of Mexico

Tarapaulin Sky Book Launch, group exhibition, El Zaguan Gallery,

Santa Fe, NM

As We See It, group exhibition, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM

SITE Unseen 9, group exhibition, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

Transforming Landscapes, group exhibition, Balzar Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Re-Riding History, group exhibition, Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, OK

Re-Riding History, group exhibition, University of Buffalo Art Gallery,

Buffalo, NY

Re-Riding History, group exhibition, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

CIBOLA: Seven Cities of Gold/The Shaman Exterminator: On The Trail Of

The Woodcraft Indians With The Buffalo Boy Scouts of America,

(Jamison Chas Banks and Adrian Stimson) two-person film exhibition,

Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

2015 SPOR E, solo exhibition, Art Shack, Madrid, NM

SITE Flag, jury selected artist, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

Night’s Dark Agents, lead actor, Duchy Parade Films Productions, Santa Fe, NM
50 to 500, annual member exhibition,

                    Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Manitoba, Canada
             Fact or Fiction, group exhibition, Wakaja Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
             Native American Art Studies Association Biennial Conference (NAASA),

invited presenter, Buffalo Thunder Casino, Pojoaque Pueblo, NM
Indigenous Serigraph, group exhibition -curator,

Santa Fe Convention Center, Santa Fe, NM

Octopus Dreams, group exhibition, Tobinodai Historic Site Park Museum,

Funabashi City, Japan

Heard Museum, visiting artist, Phoenix, AZ

Em'a'nate: IAIA Faculty Exhibition, group exhibition, Balzar Gallery,

Santa Fe, NM

Axle Indoors, group exhibition, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM

Re-Riding History, group exhibition, The A.D. Gallery

University of North Carolina-Pembroke, Pembroke, NC

Re-Riding History, group exhibition, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum,
St. Augustine, FL

Re-Riding History, group exhibition, Wright Museum of Art

Beloit College, Beloit, WI
CoLab, group exhibition, Studio Central, Santa Fe, NM

Byting Willows, group exhibition, 1Spot Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

Beautiful Games: American Indian Sport & Art, group exhibition,

Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2014 SITElines. 2014: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas:
Unsettled Landscapes, Biennial exhibition, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Commissioned artist and designer of exhibition bag
Economologies, group exhibition, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Modern Illusions, group exhibition, Winterowd Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
As We See It, group exhibition, Perm State Art Gallery, Perm, Russia
As We See It, group exhibition, Ekaterinburg Museum of Photography,
Ekaterinburg, Russia

As We See It, group exhibition, ROBA Art Gallery, Omsk, Russia

As We See It: Novosibirsk Festival of Photography, group exhibition,

Novosibirsk State Museum of Art, Novosibirsk, Russia

Transformation(s): Cultural Spaces, Indigenous Peoples, and Arts symposium,

invited panelist, School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM

Imago Mundi Project, group exhibition, Fondazione Benetton, Treviso, Italy
Estrella Mountain Community College, visiting artist, (May 24-25) Phoenix, AZ
Salutations: Alumni Exhibit, group exhibition, I.A.I.A., Santa Fe, NM

No Rhyme or Reason, group exhibition, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton,

New Brunswick, Canada

The Armory Show, group exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM

SITE Unseen 8, invited group exhibition, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

2013 Re-Riding History, group exhibition, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL

10 to a 1000, annual member exhibition,

Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Manitoba, Canada

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Official Selection, Santa Fe, NM
Not Yet Rated, group exhibition, 1Spot Gallery, Phoenix,AZ
Co-Opting, group exhibition, The Hive No. 27, Phoenix, AZ

AHA Festival of Progressive Arts, group exhibition, Santa Fe Railyard,
Santa Fe, NM
SWAIA Indian Market, Class X Film, Winner-Best of Class,
Winner-Experimental, Santa Fe ,NM
Blood Memoirs, group exhibition, Tweed Museum of Art-University of
Minnesota, Duluth, MN
Placed/Displaced, commissioned mural, Wells Park Rail Corridor Mural Project,
Albuquerque, NM
My Land, group exhibition, Winterowd Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Santa Fe Reporter Art Box, group exhibition, Santa Fe Reporter, Santa Fe, NM

Style Your Sole!, group exhibition and silent auction, Goler, Santa Fe, NM

No Rhyme or Reason, film festival, The Works Festival 2013, Edmonton, Canada

I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, group exhibition, ABC No Rio,
NYC, NY
Octopus Dreams, group exhibition, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM

CIBOLA: Seven Cities of Gold, film screening and art installation,
The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), artist-in-residence,

(Jan. 2-Apr. 31, 2013) Santa Fe, NM

That’s Not Me!, invited group exhibition, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

2012 50 to 500, annual member exhibition,
Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Manitoba, Canada

Inner Demons, invited group exhibition, Ahalenia Studios, Santa Fe, NM

Buffalo Dudes Go To Market, collaborative performance with Terrance Houle and

Adrian Stimson, MoCNA, Santa Fe, NM

Public Poles, live art project, MoCNA, Santa Fe, NM

Low Rez, invited group exhibition, Eggman and Walrus, Santa Fe, NM

Zombie Skins, invited group exhibition, Ahalenia Studios, Santa Fe, NM

Initiation, juried group exhibition, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

alumni alumnUS, IAIA alumni group exhibition, MoCNA, Santa Fe, NM

Under the Influence, Iroquois alumni group exhibition, MoNCA, Santa Fe, NM

Lumen, juried group exhibition, Red Dot Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

University of Colorado at Boulder, visiting artist, (January 5-8) Boulder, CO

Works on Paper by Contemporary Native Artists, traveling group exhibition,

Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia

2008 SUPERPOWERS!, solo show, Proof Modern Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Borrowed Spaces, invited group show, Proof Modern Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2006 EXHIBIT, group exhibition, Feral Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Blowout, group exhibition, Peanut Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Ring of Paper, group exhibition, Peanut Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2003 Daily Terrors, collaborative installation with Charlene Teters, Santa Fe Art

Institute, Santa Fe,NM

Print Exchange, traveling group exhibition, Western Sydney Institute of Fine Art,

Sydney, Australia

2002 WANTBUYHAVE, two person exhibition, Seattle Independent Media Center,

Seattle, WA

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Davis, Jon. “Heteronymy: An Anthology.” La Nana Creek Press. 2015. Print.

Landi, Ann. “Telling Stories in Three Dimensions.” ARTNews. January 2015. Print.

Smith, William S. “SITElines.2014: Unsettled Landscapes.” Art in America. November 2014. Print.

Kadis, Roseanne. “Jamison Chas. Banks.” Contemporary Native Art Magazine. 2014. Print.

Bigfeather, Joanna & Amy Lonetree. “Perspectives and Parallels.” University of Minnesota Tweed Muesum. 2014. Print.

Davis, Katheryn M. “SITE Santa Fe Reinvents the Biennial.” Trend. Summer 2014. Print.

SITE Santa Fe. “SITElines: Unsettled Landscapes. New Perspectives on the Art of the Americas.” SITE Santa Fe publication. 2014. Print.

Zimmer, Lori. “SITE on “Unsettled Landscapes”.” Huffington Post. July 25, 2014. Online.

Brooks, Katherine. “Native American Artist Jamison Chas Banks Plans a Baseball Game for Napoleon Bonaparte.” Huffington Post. Jul. 18, 2014. Online.

Abatemarco, Michael. “This Land is Our Land: SITE Santa Fe’s Biennial Exhibition.” Pasatiempo. Jul. 18, 2014. Print & online.

Abatemarco, Michael. “SITE Santa Fe - Jamison Chas Banks: Evening the Scoreboard.” Pasatiempo. Jul. 18, 2014. Print & online.

Eichelberger, Austin. “Home in SITE: Two Local Artists Take on the Prestigious Biennial” The Santa Fe Reporter. Jul. 15, 2014. Print & online.

Roberts, Katherine. “SITE Santa Fe Exhibit Explores Landscape, Territory and Trade.” Albuquerque Journal. Jul. 13, 2014. Print & online.

De Walt, Rob. Art Without Borders. New Mexico Magazine. July 2014. Print and online.

Hirsh, Jenine. “A New Chapter in SITE Santa Fe’s Biennial.” Art in America. Jun. 13, 2014. Online.

Limon, Enrique. “Watch List: Cultural Power Players.” The Santa Fe Reporter May 21-27, 2014: 33. Print.

SITE Santa Fe. “Meet SITELines Artist: Jamison Chas Banks”. SITE Santa Fe. May 7, 2014. Online.

Brooks, Katherine. “10 Artists To Watch At Santa Fe’s Upcoming Biennial Exhibition SITElines.” Huffington Post. Feb. 19, 2014. Online.

Sorensen, Barbara Ellen. “Beyond Tradition: Culture, Symbolism, and Practicality in American Indian Art.” Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education Fall 2013: 16,19. Print.

Olivira, Adele. “Striking gold in film.” Santa Fe New Mexican Aug. 16, 2013: A1, A4. Print.

Ketchum Heap-of-Birds, Shanna and Suzanne Newmann Fricke. “Crossing Boundaries: Native America and the Contemporary Art World.” Octopus Dreams: 200 Works on Paper by Contemporary Native American Artists Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts publication. 2012. Print.

Lemon, Colette and Ryan Rice. “Iroquois Artists at IAIA.” Under the Influence: Iroquois Artists at IAIA (1962-2012) Museum of Contemporary Native Arts publication. 2012. Print.

Quintana, Chris. “Artists shake up market with unconventional methods.” The New Mexican Aug. 19, 2012: A-4. Print.

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS

New Mexico Arts, Division of the New Mexico Cultural Affairs, New Mexico
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM
516 Arts/ New Mexico Rail Runner/ (Wells Park) City of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

The University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

EDUCATION

2012 BFA -Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1998 AFA- Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM