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X is a multidisciplinary artist whose large-scale, site-specific installations and environments investigate the intersections of spatial politics, deep time, and speculative technology. Converging emerging digital architectures with physical installations, X reconfigures the built environment into a series of living systems. Their work confronts the architectures of erasure, deconstructing space to examine how memory and embodied experience manifest under conditions of ecological and existential precarity.

Advancing concepts of algorithmic sovereignty through the lens of a Coushatta and CHamoru worldview, X’s practice challenges the institutional decoupling of technology from the natural world. Synthesizing a dual background in Architecture (MArch, USC) and Art and Technology (MFA, SAIC), X develops a material language that replaces static colonial structures with fluid, biotic architectures. Functioning as both a conceptual intervention and a technical feat, this work has been exhibited globally—including at Ars Electronica, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Field Museum, and the Autry Museum—engineering resilient spatial narratives that bridge deep-time systems with speculative, tech-mediated landscapes.

AWARDS_

2026

2025

AAPI Artists Fellowship
Viet Voices

United States Artists Fellowship
Media - Ford Foundation

2025

Creative Impact Award
Joyce Foundation + United States Artists

2022

2021

E(ART)H Fellowship
Illinois Science and Energy Innovation Foundation

Joyce Foundation Fellowship
Joyce Foundation

2019

3Arts Fellowship
Chandler Family Awardee

  • FUTURE IMAGINARIES 2024

    FOR FREEDOMS 2024

    ASSEMBLY 2024

    COUNTERPUBLIC 2023

    AND OTHER SUCH STORIES 2020

    INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS 2020

    ERROR 2018

  • (SELECTED)

    PBS
    Feature Interview: "Indigenous Artists Imagine the Future"

    Hyperallergic
    Feature Article: "Highlights from the Santa Fe Indian Market"

    National Geographic
    Feature Article: "How Indigenous People are building Solidarity"

    The Art Newspaper
    Cover Story: "Rebuilding Indigenous Cities, One Mound at a Time"

    Chicago Tribune
    Feature Story: "Artist X Makes his Mark"

    Newcity Design
    Interview: "Reappropriation of Misappropriation"

    Newcity Art
    Special Edition: "Art 50 2020: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists"

  • (SELECTED)

    THE RETURN, 2018. Immersive new media installation.
    Exhibited: Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 2018.

    THE KEEPER, 2020. New media installation. Projection Mapped Video.
    Exhibited: Museum of Contemporary Native Art (MoCNA), Santa Fe, NM, 2020.

    NATIVE BUILDS A COMPUTER, 2020. Single channel video. Performance. Digital occupation.
    Exhibited: Settlement: Mayflower 400 Festival, Plymouth, UK, 2020.

    THE FIRE INSIDE (HAYO TIKBA), 2020. 12’ x 12’ Architectural Installation. Exhibited: Commissioned by The Chicago Architecture Biennial, 2020.

    FLUX ROOM, 2021. Immersive 360° installation.
    Exhibited: Solo Exhibition, WNDR Museum, Chicago, IL, 2021.

    AUGMENT EARTH, 2022. Augmented reality interactive installation.
    Exhibited: Joyce Foundation Award Project, Chicago, IL, 2022.

    OUR RETURN, 2022. Permanent immersive installation. Exhibited: Native American Hall, Field Museum, Chicago, IL, 2022-Current
    Collection: Acquired by Field Museum Permanent Collection, Chicago, IL, 2022.

    THE COILED SERPENT, 2023. Earthwork. 100’ x 100’
    Commissioned: Chicago Public Art Group, Schiller Park, Chicago, IL, 2019.

    (A RIVER) WILL FLOW, 2023. Land Art + Analog Light/Sound Installation. Exhibited: Counterpublic Triennial, St. Louis, MO, 2023.

    VOID_COLLECTION, 2024. Collection of sculpted, quilted, new media. Exhibited: Solo Exhibition, Gerald Peters Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, 2024.
    Collection: Acquired by TIA Collection, Santa Fe, NM, 2024.

    GLITCH IN PERPETUAL TIME, 2024. 270° XR Installation.
    Exhibited: Pacific Standard Time: Future Imaginaries, Autry/Getty, Los Angeles, CA, 2024–2026.
    Collection: Acquired by Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA, 2024.