Elisa Harkins
Indigenous (Cherokee/Muscogee) multi-disciplinary artist working across music, dance, sculpture, and video art to celebrate cultural heritage, revitalize Indigenous languages, and explore themes of sovereignty, identity, and resilience.
Contact
Elisa Harkins
3306 Charles Page Blvd, Bldg 2, STE 253, Tulsa, OK 74127
(323) 877-9180, elisaharkins@gmail.com, elisaharkins.org
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2025
Exploding Native Inevitable, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
Exploding Native Inevitable, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Katzen Center Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
Teach Me a Song, Center for Native Futures, Chicago, IL
Teach Me a Song, Mid America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, MO
2024
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series Concert, Indianapolis, IN
Assembly 2024: Horizon Scanning, MoCA Arlington, Arlington, VA
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Woody Guthrie Center, Tulsa, OK
Excerpt from Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ, Five Moons Dance Festival, Norman, OK
Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ, Furies Festival, Marsoui, QC
Ekvnv (Land), The Sacred Mother From Which We Came, Tube Factory, Indianapolis, IN
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Teach Me a Song, The Halsey Institute, Charleston, SC
2023
Lumenous, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, L.A. Dance Project, Los Angeles, CA
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Trahern Black Box Theatre, Clarksville, TN
Teach Me a Song, The New Gallery, Clarksville, TN
Exploding Native Inevitable, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Teach Me a Song, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Lewis Auditorium, St. Augustine, FL
Teach Me a Song, Crisp Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL
John Giorno Octopus Series, Performance Space New York, New York, NY
IndigiPOPX, First Americans Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
Reclaiming Home, The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
In the Parameters of What it is to Be…, Conley Art Gallery, Fresno State University, Fresno, CA
2022
Native Voices, Clovis Community College, Fresno, CA
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, OK#1, Tulsa, OK
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ, Birmingham Hippodrome presented by Fierce Festival, Birmingham, UK
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ, MDT, Stockholm, SE
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ, On the Boards, Seattle, WA
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ, BodyVox presented by PICA TBA Festival, Portland, OR
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ, MAI, Montreal, QC, CA
State of the Art: Constructs, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Add Space, Billboard at 390 S Detroit Ave., Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK
Grandmother Cindy, Artists Space, NYC, NY
State of the Art 2020: Constructs, Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, FL
Grandmother Cindy, The Poetry Project, NYC, NY
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Outcropping – Indigenous Art Now, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
2021
In Dialogue: A Community-Centered Public Art Project Reflecting Tulsa’s Inter-tribal Identity in Mvskoke Territory, Tulsa Garden Center, Tulsa, OK
Low End on the Bricks, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE
The Way Forward, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
PICA Creative Exchange Lab Meet the Artists, PICA, Portland, OR
Fractures Symposium, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2020
Endless State, Skowhegan, New York, NY
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL
Constellations of Kin curated by Eli Hirtle for ImagineNative, Toronto, ON
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
PICA TBA Festival, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Feminisms, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Virtual@Low End, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE
Settlement 2020, organized by Cannupa Hanska Luger, Plymouth, UK
Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art from Indigenous North America, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Teach Me a Song, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK
Philbrook Drawing Rally, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK
State of the Art, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AK
Drone and the Apocalypse, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK
Knowledge of Wounds, Performance Space New York, New York, NY
2019
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ, Plastic Orchid Factory, Vancouver, BC, CA
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Western Front, Vancouver, BC, CA
FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC, CA
Teach Me a Song, curated by Pablo de Ocampo, Western Front, Vancouver, BC, CA
Tender Works, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC, CA
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, Pop Montreal, Montreal, QC, CA
Recall/Respond, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ, MAI, Montreal, QC, CA
Record of Memory, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN
Tongue Between Teeth Slightly Open, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ: A Performance by Elisa Harkins, Snite Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Revisions: Contemporary Native Art, Snite Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Blinky The Friendly Hen 40th Anniversary Exhibition, CSUN Art Galleries, Northridge, CA
2018
Performance Lab: Translating Native Language, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR
Gilcrease After Hours, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
FELLOW, curated by Shane Darwent, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK
Quantum Fur, Studio 303, Montreal, QC, CA
FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA
Green and/or Triangulator, curated by Gary Kachadourian, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK
Open, Awake & Alive, curated by Rena Detrixhe, Tulsa Garden Center, Tulsa, OK
2017
Our Side: Elisa Harkins, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Marianne Nicolson, and Tanis S’eiltin, curated by Wendy Red Star, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
Under the Mango Tree – Sites of Learning presents Wood Land School, documenta 14, Kunsthochschule Kassel, DE
Elisa Harkins / Fire Queen / Skin Tone, Saw Video Media Art Centre, Ottawa, ON, CA
Wood Land School : Kahatènhston tsi na’tetiátere ne Iotohrkó:wa tánon Iotohrha / Drawing a Line from January to December, SBC Gallery, Montreal, QC, CA
Kids’ Campaign to Correct History, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Skowhegan Tarot,136 West 22nd Street, NY, NY
New Directions, Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Education, Tulsa, OK
2016
Wampum presented by Mutant Salon, Festival De Las Muertas, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Mutant Salon, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
Mutant Salon, The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA
We Are the People, Curated by Wendy Red Star, Weber State University, Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Visions into Infinite Archives, curated by Black Salt Collective, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Collections
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
The Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Performances/Productions
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ (2024) with and by Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Elisa Harkins
- Furies Festival, Marsoui, QC July 2024
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ (2022) with and by Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Elisa Harkins
- Birmingham Hippodrome Patrick Studio presented by Fierce Festival, Birmingham, UK 15 October 2022
- MDT, Stockholm, SE, 5-6 October 2022
- On the Boards, Seattle, WA, 22-24 September 2022
- BodyVox presented by PICA TBA Festival, Portland, OR 17-18 September 2022
- MAI, Montreal, QC, CA 12-14 September 2022
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ (2019) with and by Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Elisa Harkins
- Plastic Orchid Factory, Vancouver, BC, CA 25 November 2019
- MDT, Stockholm, SE 5-6 November 2019
- MAI, Montreal, QC, CA 4-6 June 2019
Publications
“The AIM Song,” FUTURE / PRESENT, Duke University Press, 2024
“Norman,” Not For Resale, Teeny Tiny Presse, 2023
Readings
An Evening of Poetry & Performance, OK#1, Tulsa, OK, 2023
Words of the People’s Rematriation Reading, Whitty Books, Tulsa, OK 2023
Not For Resale Book Launch Reading, OK#1, Tulsa, OK, 2023
Recordings
Hofonen (Long Ago) – Single, Bear Clan Records, 198000785901, 2021
What You Pawn I Will Redeem – Single, Bear Clan Records, 195448250039, 2020
Bear Hunting Song – Single, Bear Clan Records, 195448250145, 2020
Cate Owis (I Am Red) – Single, Bear Clan Records, 195448720549, 2020
Deadly – Single, Bear Clan Records, 198000696191, 2020
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ Double LP, Western Front Recordings, 003, 2020
Falling – Single, Bear Clan Records, 195079559204, 2020
Isolation – Single, Bear Clan Records, 195079502446, 2020
Free Everybody – Single, Bear Clan Records, 195079502323, 2020
Este Cvto – Single, Bear Clan Records, 194660177490, 2019
Mvkerrv – Single, Bear Clan Records, 194660066213, 2019
Pony – Single, Bear Clan Records, 192914424949, 2018
Stomp Dance – Single, Bear Clan Records, 192914851059, 2018
Peyote – Single, Bear Clan Records, 191061883876, 2017
Repertoire
Dance and Voice
- Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ (2019 – Present ) with and by Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Elisa Harkins.
- Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ (2017 – Present) by Elisa Harkins.
- Grandmother Cindy (2022) by devynn emory.
- Tongue Between Teeth Slightly Open (2019) by Elisa Harkins and Hanako Hoshimi-Caines.
Soft Synthesizer
- Drone and the Apocalypse (2020) by Maggie Boyett, Elisa Harkins, and Richard Zimmerman.
- Mutant Salon (2014 – 2016) by Marvin Astorga, Young Joon Kwak, Project Rage Queen.
Dance
- How we mark land and how land marks us (2017) by Tanya Lukin Linklater.
- …you are judged to be going against the flow because you are insistent., Part 1, (2017) by Tanya Lukin Linklater.
Screenings
Presence is Power: An Evening of Indigenous Short Films, Bates Museum, Lewiston, ME, 2024
Imagining Indigenous Cinema, New Voices, New Visions, Vidiots, LA, CA, 2023
A Celebration of Alanis Obomsowin, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2023
EXPS/SLC, School of Dance, University of Utah College of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, 2023
8th Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB, 2021
Doc Fortnight, MoMA, New York, NY, 2021
The Tune Therefore is Preserved Among Them: Stories of Indigenous Music and Tradition, Winnipeg Film Group, Winnipeg, MB, CA, 2019
Indigenous Now: Experimental Moving Image Works By Native American Artists curated by Eve-Lauryn LaFountain, Echo Park Film Center, LA, CA, 2018
Awards and Honors
Creative Capital “Wild Futures” Award in Moving Image 2024
New Music Creator Fund 2023
M-AAA Interchange Fellowship 2021
PICA Creative Exchange Lab, Portland, OR, 2021
NEA Grant Award, Tube Factory, Indianapolis, IN, 2020
CEAM Artist Residency, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL, 2020
Tulsa Artist Fellowship Integration Grant, 2020
Montréal, arts interculturels Residency, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019
Agora de la danse Residency, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019
Dance Victoria Residency, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2019
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant 2019
Tulsa Artist Fellowship 2018
Santo Foundation Fellowship 2013
Harpo Foundation Fellowship 2013
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2013
Flux Factory, Queens, NY, 2012
ACRE Artist Residency, Steuben, WI, 2010, 2011, 2012
The Fountainhead Artist Residency, Miami, FL, 2009
Related Professional Work
Teaching
Visiting Lecturer, Contemporary Indigenous Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 2024
Visiting Lecturer, Music Appreciation, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, 2023
Visiting Lecturer, Foundations, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 2021
Mentor, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2017-2019
Teacher Assistant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 2013-2015
Lectures and Panel Discussions
2024
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, Tube Factory, Indianapolis, IN
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN,
2023
Our Own Work, Our Own Audiences: New Directions in Indigenous Arts, REDCAT, LA, CA
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, The Halsey Institute, Charleston, SC
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, Austin Peay University, Clarksville, TN
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, Art NOW, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL
2022
Social Practice in Conversation, Mid America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, MO
BIPOC Surviving Predominately White Institutions, art Equity, Pasadena, CA
You Are Heleswv (Medicine) Webinar, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Chelsea T. Hicks launches new book ‘A Calm and Normal Heart,’ Magic City Books, Tulsa, OK
2021
Mound Summit, Center for Native Futures, Chicago, IL
Native Arts Colloquium: Expressing Relations of Bodies and Lands, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
PICA CXL LAB, Portland Institute of the Arts, Portland, OR
Fractures Symposium, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2020
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, California State University, San Marcos, CA
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL
Elisa Harkins Performance and Lecture, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
PICA TBA Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2019
Elisa Harkins Artist Lecture, Emily Carr University’s Indigenous Gathering Place, Vancouver, BC
Wampum Belt Workshop, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Fancy Dance Shawl Workshop, Open Space, Victoria, BC
Indigenous Emerging Artist Program: Elisa Harkins, Open Space, Victoria, BC
Elisa Harkins Performance and Artist Lecture, The Snite Museum, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
2018
The Sonic Lines: Indigenous Artists Using Music and Sound, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK
Convening Indigenous Voices Forum: Panel Discussion, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
2017
Adoption, Electronic Music, and Enrollment – a skype/virtual lecture presented by Decolonize LA, Human Resources, LA, CA
Indigenous Futures Cluster Presents: An Artist Talk by Elisa Harkins, Concordia University, MTL, QC, CA
Curation
Freelance Curator, You Are Heleswv (Medicine), Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA, 2022
Chief Curator, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2007-2009
Freelance Curator, Select Media Festival, Chicago, IL 2003-2006
Freelance Curator, Version Festival, Chicago, IL 2002-2006
Freelance Curator, IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, NL 2004
Public Programming
6 Moons Indigenous Concert Series, Online, OK#1, and Mercury Lounge, Tulsa, OK, 2020-2022
Mvhayv Radio, WQRT 99.1FM in Indianapolis, IN, 2020-Present
Music Publication
Creek Seminole Hymns CD, Sand Creek Congregation, Makosee Records, 001, 2020
Honor Beats – Single, Travis Mammedaty, Bear Clan Records, 195079859502, 2020
Bibliography
- Alapa’i, Kapena. “Introduction.” Essay. In FUTURE / PRESENT, 375. Duke University Press, 2024.
- Wlusek, Ola, et al. Reclaiming Home: Contemporary Seminole Art. Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2023.
- Gibson, Jeffrey, et al. An Indigenous Present. BIG NDN Press and DelMonico Books, 2023.
- Dunnill, Ginger, “Finding The Words: Conversation with Elisa Harkins,” Broken Boxes Podcast, 30 Dec. 2022.
- Olivia Wood, “Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ: A Conversation in Three, by Olivia Wood,” O BOD MAGAZINE, 13 Dec. 2022.
- Parkes, Diane. “Fierce Festival to mark 25 years with a latex pig from Tokyo, opera cow from Zurich & lots more,” What’s On, Birmingham World Publishing, 12 Oct. 2022.
- Rebecca Jacobson, “Radio III Closed TBA 2022 with Silliness and Subversion.” Portland Monthly, 23 Sept. 2022.
- Vansynghel, Margo, and Brangien Davis. “ArtSEA: Nine Fall Arts Events to See Right Now.” Crosscut, Cascade Public Media, 22 Sept. 2022.
- Karnick, Sonali. “Interview with Elisa Harkins and Hanako Hoshimi-Caines.” Our Montreal. CBC Television, 10 Sept. 2022. Video, 44:10, https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2071215683865.
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- Hansen, Melody Datz. “Seattle-Area Dance Performances to Put on Your Calendar in Fall 2022.” The Seattle Times, The Seattle Times Company, 7 Sept. 2022.
- Sun Eagle, Russell “Okie Podcast with Elisa Harkins,” Okie Podcast, 7 Sept. 2022.
- Vansynghel, Margo. “Things to Do in Seattle This September.” Crosscut, Cascade Public Media, 1 Sept. 2022.
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- Taylor, David. “Outcropping: SAC Show Features Exclusively Indigenous Art.” Dan’s Papers, 3 Mar. 2022.
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- Andrew Jankowski, “Dispatches from Week Two of the 2020 Time-Based Art Festival,” Portland Monthly, 29 Sept. 2020.
- Boston, Stacey, “Harkins integrates Cherokee, Creek languages into her art,” Cherokee Phoenix, 15 Oct. 2020.
- McDonnell, Brandy. “From the Tulsa Race Massacre to an Indigenous Mural Series, Get to Know the Artists and Projects to Receive the $25,000 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Arts Integration Awards.” The Oklahoman, Oklahoman, 13 Oct. 2020.
- Roberts, Kathaleen. “Exhibition Explores the Meaning of ‘Feminisms’.” Albuquerque Journal, 4 Oct. 2020.
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- Carney, Sean J Patrick, “Taking Up Space: An Interview with the Wood Land School,” Art in America, 30 Oct. 2017.
Extracurricular
Member, Matriarch | 2023
Participates in bi-monthly meetings to promote the social welfare of Native women through education, community building, and direct services to create positive change within our communities.
Member, Music to Life – Artist Changemaker | 2023
Meets 3 times a week over the course of 2 months to build entrepreneurial skills as change agents, mentor next-generation artists, identify and secure funding and promotional opportunities, and collaborate on music-driven social change projects.
Education
College of the Muscogee Nation, Okmulgee, OK
Certificate in Mvskoke Language
Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting
2015
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2015, MFA. Fine Art
Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1998-2001, Bachelor of Arts, Interactive Media