2024

  • Center for Native Futures, “Gagizhibaajiwan” Chicago, IL 

  • Albuquerque Museum, “Across the Lake” Albuquerque, NM

  • Bates College Museum of Art, “Presence is Power,” Main. 

2023

  • Alabama Contemporary Art Center, “Borderwaters”

  • 516 ARTS, “Artists as Knowledge Carriers” Albuquerque, NM 

  • Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, “Entanglements,” CO 

  • Basement Films, Art Talk at UNM Arts Space

2022

  • John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C

  • Minneapolis College of Art and Design, “From the Earth” Minneapolis, Minnesota

  • Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans “H2O Exhibition” New Orleans, LA

  • Maidu Museum, “WUTE •PAĪ PE’ A WĒNĒ YO•” Roseville, CA

2021

  • NYC Gallery Apexart, “Native Feminisms” New York City, NY Lincoln Center Gallery, Center for Fine Art Photography “The Right to Herself” Fort Collins, CO

  • Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art at James Madison University. Gallery Exhibition “7 Works to Bend Time”

2020

  • Cancelled

2019

  • Metropolitan State University of Denver Center for Visual Art. Gallery exhibition “Gravity of Perception”

  • Smithsonian NMAI Native Cinema Showcase “Blood (and) Memory 2” Santa Fe Indian Market, NM

  • Smithsonian NMAI Native Film Festival “Blood (and) Memory 2” New York, NY

  • Seattle International Film Festival “Blood (and) Memory 2” Seattle, WA

2018

  • Echo Park Film Center Annual Super 8 commissioning program with Acid-Free Los Angeles, April 2018

2017

  • Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Gallery exhibition “Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound” November 10, 2017–January 2019. New York, NY 

  • Gallery exhibition “Wah.shka,” during the 57th La Biennale di Venezia.  Venice, Italy (EU)

  • The Autry Museum of the American West. Gallery exhibition “Reduction” Los Angeles, CA

2016              

2015

  • 56th La Biennale di Venezia. Outdoor art performance and installation “Ga Ni Tha” May 2015. Venice, Italy (EU)

  • Williamsburg Art and Historical Center. Gallery exhibition “Self” May 2015. Brooklyn, NY

  • Los Angeles Film Forum. “The Los Angeles Nomadic Division's LAND “Manifest Destiny Billboard Project.” Los Angeles, CA

  • Smithsonian NMAI Native Cinema Showcase “Because of Who I Am” Santa Fe, NM

  • International Film Series.  “Native Women Resistance” Boulder, CO

  • Echo Park Film Center. “Hurt” December 2015. Los Angeles, CA

2014

  • The McCord Museum. Gallery exhibition “Iakwé:iahre Colloquium” Montreal, Canada (Canada)

  • Proto-Cinema: Redefined. “Video Art: to re-conceptualize traditional kinetoscope with female-made films” Melbourne, AU (Australia)

  • University of Michigan Museum of Art. Gallery exhibition “Changing Hands 3” MI

  • Smithsonian NMAI. “Horizon: Anishinaabe short films” New York, NY

  • Currents. “DRIFT” intermedia exhibition. Santa Fe, NM

  • Agua Caliente Cultural Museum “Can You Hear Me? Silence as an Indigenous Representational Strategy in Film” Palm Springs, CA

  • FIREHOUSE Art Center. A hosted evening of lecture and all of my works with discussion. Longmont, CO

  • The NAVE Gallery. Gallery exhibition “CHAOTIC FORMS”

2013

  • Brenda Taylor Gallery. Exhibition “Feminist Forms” Chelsea Art District- New York NY

2012

  • Museum of Modern Art and Design. Gallery exhibition “Changing Hands 3” NYC, NY

  • Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Washington, D.C.

  • Cotton Candy Machine. With the artist Skinner. Brooklyn, NY

2011

  • Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.  “Soul Sister” Santa Fe, NM

  • Metropolis RTVE. “Special selection” Madrid, Spain 

  • MIX NYC “Gay and Lesbian Experimentalism” New York City, NY

  • Rush Arts Gallery. “Amalgamation Beyond Gender for DRIFT NY” NYC, NY

  • Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ (USA)

 

CURRATED EXHIBITIONS

 

Interview: LensScratch, Fine Art Photography Photographers on Photographers: Anna Rotty in Conversation with Marcella Ernest, by Aline Smithson. https://lenscratch.com/2024/08/photographers-on-photographers-anna-rotty-in-conversation-with-marcella-ernest/

Interview: The Guggenheim Museum Three Part Interview with Senior Curator Vivien Greene  https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/checklist/citizen-of-nowhere-a-conversation-with-interdisciplinary-artist-marcella-ernest-part-1

Review: The New Yorker “Native Feminisms,” Art Exhibition Review by Andrea K. Scott https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/native-feminisms

Interview: Art Works Blog, National Endowment for the Arts www.arts.gov/art-works/2017/five-questions-keli-mashburn-marcella-ernest

Interview: “Native American Art, Feminist Filmmaking and the Power of Podcasting” Imagine Otherwise Podcast Series for Alternative Academics https://ideasonfire.net/podcast/43-marcella-ernest/

PUBLISHED REVIEWS OF MY CREATIVE AND SCHOLARLY RESEARCH (selected)