Linda Lomahaftewa

Linda Lomahaftewa (born 1947) is a Native American printmaker, painter, and educator living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

As a safety measure, the college arranged a studio for the artist off-campus at Vital Spaces to reduce exposure risks of COVID-19.

She produced a new work during the residency, many of which were included in her retrospective exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (2021), in Santa Fe.

Art historian and critic Michelle J. Lanteri wrote of the new paintings, "One work, Healing Prayers for a Pandemic Universe (2020) evokes hope through gestural webs of yellow, purple, blue, and gold embedded in a night sky.

Through these pathways, the painting offers new possibilities in the current social landscape that's redefining its future within each fluid moment.

'"[12] Linda Lomahaftewa was a participant in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art Pandemic Oral History Project in September 2020.

Conducted virtually, the Pandemic Oral History Project featured eighty-five short-form interviews with a diverse group of artists, teachers, curators, and administrators, including Linda Lomahaftewa.

[13] Linda has a son, Logan L. Slock, and a daughter, Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer, who is the curator of collections at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.

Entrance to the exhibition, showing the title, curatorial statement, and four 2D artworks.
Installation view of the 2021 exhibition of "The Moving Land: 60+ Years of Art by Linda Lomahaftewa" at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, featuring works created in 2019.
Abstract expressionist paintings in bright colors hanging on the museum wall.
Installation view of the 2021 exhibition of "The Moving Land: 60+ Years of Art by Linda Lomahaftewa" at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. These paintings were created during the artist's time in San Francisco during the early 1970s.