Vernon Bigman

Vernon Bigman is a Navajo artist known for specializing in abstract painting, he has espoused a belief in artist freedom. Bigman's work is housed in the permanent collections at the National Museum of the American Indian and San Francisco Art Institute.[1] As of 2019, Bigman works in the library of the Pratt Institute.[2]

Education

Bigman has received a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Masters of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He also received schooling at the Institute of American Indian Arts.[3]

Select artworks

Dreamsnake series

The Dreamsnake series is a collection of five oil paintings on canvas:[4]

  • Dream Snakes and Holy Mountain
  • Dream Snakes @ The Start of Ying and Yang
  • Dream Snakes and The Dreaming Grass
  • Dream Dance Kali
  • Black Dreams

Other artwork
  • Head of Wheel (Canvas, Oil Paint), made 1987, at National Museum of the American Indian[5]

Select exhibitions
  • 2009 Nathan Cumming Foundation New York, NY
  • 2008 New York Public Library, Tompkins Square Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2005 Graduate studios, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005 New York Public Library Tompkins Square Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1990 CommuNYCations: Public Mirror: Artists Against Racial Prejudice, Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan, NY[6]

Awards

Bigman has been awarded an honorable mention in the 2007 Sirsi-Dynix photography calendar competition.

References
  1. "Special Collections". SFAI. Retrieved 2020-04-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "Vernon Bigman". Pratt Institute. Retrieved 2020-04-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "NAAR | NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST ROSTER". www.amerinda.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "At Resobox, the Dream Snake paintings" (PDF). Resobox.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "Head Of Wheel". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  6. "CommuNYCations: Public Mirror: Artists Against Racial Prejudice". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2020-04-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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