In Conversation: Larissa Nez and Tricia Rainwater

Join us for the closing week of "I split the ground, so it would not close over me" with a conversation with exhibiting artist Tricia Rainwater and Larissa Nez, Curatorial Associate of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA.

The dialogue will center around art as a pathway towards healing, particularly in femme Indigenous spaces. Using Rainwater's work as a framework, the talk will also touch on how the body responds in these healing journeys and how the body responds through sharing space and making art.

"I split the ground, so it would not close over me" is on view through August 29.

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Tricia Rainwater is a Choctaw multimedia artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with roots in the Central Valley and New Mexico. Her multidisciplinary practice spans self-portraiture, sculpture, large-scale murals, and installation, and her work has been presented at institutions including the Berkeley Center for the Arts, ICA San Francisco, MOCA Toronto, Muz Collective, ICA San Jose, and San Francisco Camerawork, among others.

Larissa Nez is a Diné scholar and curator from the Navajo Nation. Her doctoral research and curatorial practice examine the intersections of Indigenous Critical Theory and the Black Radical Tradition. Focusing on Afro-Indigenous, Black, and Native modern and contemporary visual artists and filmmakers, she studies how artistic practices articulate memory, interiority, and embodied relationships to land and water, foregrounding sacred geographies and ecologies as critical sites for understanding race, settler colonialism, capitalism, kinship, and collective futurity. She is a Curatorial Associate of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA and is concurrently a doctoral student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, with a designated emphasis in Critical Theory.