Alan Michelson

Alan Michelson is a celebrated New York-based Mohawk artist, curator, writer, and member of Six Nations of the Grand River. For more than three decades, he has created site-responsive works in sculpture, video, installation, and public art that engage place, memory, and suppressed histories through both Indigenous and Western cultural forms.

The Knowledge Keepers, his acclaimed major public commission, stands at the Huntington Avenue entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Other current projects include Hanödaga:yas (Town Destroyer): Reflect at the new Princeton University Art Museum. Major public works include Mantle (2018), a permanent monument honoring Virginia's Native nations located on the grounds of the Thomas Jefferson-designed Virginia State Capitol in Richmond.

His writings have appeared in Aperture, Frieze, and October, and his work was recently featured on Art21. His work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Canada, among others. Michelson is co-founder and co-curator of Indigenous New York, the influential series organized with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics