Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful
A retrospective featuring one of the most renowned Indigenous artists from Canada. For Robert Houle (Saulteaux Anishinaabe, Sandy Bay First Nation), color is powerful, expressive, and lies at the foundation of his artistic practice. (Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian)
Throughout his career, his work has embodied and expressed what he most values: the creative moment, the earth, and the sacred. He works at the nexus of Western and Indigenous artistic traditions, whether he pierces the canvas with porcupine quills, reworks a grand history painting from an Indigenous perspective, or reconceives what is sacred while acknowledging his ancestors.