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
TAD Gallery. Gallery exhibition “Traces of the Others” for Outskirts: Bodies, Places, and Identities of women’s issues and politics. Denton, Texas
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/