ARTIST

Through immersive and responsive environments, the interdisciplinary artist X explores the relationships between architecture, Indigenous knowledge systems, and emerging technologies. Working across architecture, new media, and extended reality, X’s practice integrates light, sound, and computational media to reimagine space as a living system shaped by memory, time, and embodied experience.

An enrolled citizen of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana and Indigenous CHamoru of Guam, X brings Indigenous epistemologies into both contemporary installations and collected works. X’s projects have been presented internationally and acquired by major institutions, inviting viewers to engage space as an active, perceptual field that challenges static notions of architecture and authorship. X holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. X’s work has been presented internationally and collected by institutions including the Ars Electronica, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Field Museum, and the Autry Museum. X currently resides and works in California.

AWARDS

2019

3Arts Fellowship
Chandler Family Awardee

2025

2025

Creative Impact Award
Joyce Foundation + United States Artists

United States Artists Fellowship
Media - Ford Foundation

2021

2022

Joyce Foundation Fellowship
Joyce Foundation

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

  • 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.