Frohawk Two Feathers

Biography

Two Featherʼs latest body of work has continued to develop his fictionalized historical narrative, where colonists from the European super-power “Frengland” wage battle against “New Holland.” Blending colonialism and contemporary urban street culture, Two Featherʼs has established a broad macro-narrative via his intercontinental, empire-building struggles, while also creating a deeply nuanced micro-narrative of characters that love, lust, greed, and connive their way through the artists take on the 18th century.

Frohawk Two Feathers was born in 1976 in Chicago, Illinois, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He earned his BA at Southern Illinois University in 2000 and has had recent solo exhibitions at the Wellin Museum of Art (Clinton, NY), the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (Summit, NJ), the Nevada Museum of Art (Reno, NV), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver, CO). Recent group shows include exhibitions at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art(Santa Barbara, CA) and Burlington City Arts (Burlington, VT). In Fall 2014, Frohawk will exhibit as a MATRIX artist at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT. His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Progressive Collection, 21C Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Wellin Museum of Art, among others. Major publications that have reviewed his work include Art in America, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. He is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City.