SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND GROUP SHOWS

2020
Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics, Hood Museum, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH

Weaving History into Art: The Enduring Legacy of Shan Goshorn, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Speak: Speak While You Can, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK

2019
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, traveling exhibition. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Frist Museum, Nashville, TN; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK

Recall/Respond, Round II, Gilcrease Museum and Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK

Voices from the Drum, Osage Nation Museum and Osage Nation Foundation, Pawhuska, OK

It’s Not Always Black and White, Sometimes it’s Gold, King Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Stories from the Land: Indigenous Voices Connecting Within the Great Plains, Sandzen Gallery, Lindsborg, KS

2018
Art for a New Understanding, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR

Fluent Generations: The Art of Anita, Tom, and Yatika Fields, Sam Noble Museum, Norman, OK

New Now: Works from Tulsa Artist Fellows, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK

Open, Awake, and Alive, Tulsa Garden Center, Tulsa, OK

2017
Evolution of Color: Oklahoma Indian Art, Zarrow Art Center, Tulsa, OK Manhart: The Early Years, Living Arts Space, Tulsa, OK

Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Find in Contemporary Native American Art, curated by Manuela Well-Off-Man, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM

Catch 22: Paradox on Paper, curated by Nina Sanders, Ralph T. Coe Foundation, Santa Fe, NM

2016
From the Belly of Our Being: Art By and About Native Creation, Oklahoma State University Museum, 2016-17, Stillwater, OK

Art Now, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK

Savages and Princesses: The Persistence of Native American Stereotypes, curated by America Meredith, Tulsa, OK

2015
Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM

2014
Here and Now, Art in 108 Contemporary, 2014-15, Tulsa, OK

2013
Native Vanguard, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Linking the Past to Present: Recent Works by Anita Fields and Tony Tiger, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR

Chocolate, Chili, and Cochineal, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2012
Anita Fields – Earthen Thoughts, Oklahoma State Capital, Governor’s Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK Crafting Ritual and Identity, Living Arts Gallery, Brady Craft Alliance, Tulsa, OK

H2OK, MAINSITE Gallery, Norman, OK

2011
Doll, an Intimate Figure, Roxanne Swentzell Gallery, Pojoaque, NM

Art En Capital, Salon Du Dessin Et De La Peinture AL’Eau, Paris Grand Palais, Paris France

Smoke Signals, Orenda Gallery, Paris, France

American Indian Women Artists: Beyond Craft, Riverside Metropolitan Museum, Riverside, CA

Soul Sister, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM

2009
Little Black Dress, Alexander Hogue Gallery, Tulsa, OK

We Walk in Two Worlds, Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR

2007
Looking Indian, Untitled (Artspace), Oklahoma City, OK

Art from Indian Territory 2007, American Indian Cultural Center and Museum, traveling exhibit

2006
Vision Makers, Leslie Powel Gallery and Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Lawton, OK

2005
Decidedly Diva, Part Two, Cheyenne Harris, metal. Anita Fields, ceramic. Modo Gallery, Hudson, NY

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation, Part Two, curated by Ellen Taubman and David McFadden, Museum of Art and Design, New York City, NY

2004
Native Views: Influences of Modern Culture, curated by Joanna Bigfeather, Artain USA, five-year national tour

Shades of Clay, curated by Paul Andrew Wandless, A Multicultural Look at Contemporary Clay, traveling exhibition

2003
21st Century Ceramics in the United States and Canada, curated by Bill Hunt, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH

Shared Passion, Sara and David Lieberman Collection of Contemporary Ceramics and Craft, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

2002
Two by Two: Anita Fields and Rick Rivet, Heard Museum, 2002-03, Phoenix, AZ

Whispers, One Woman Exhibit, Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

8th Native American Fine Arts Invitational, Heard Museum, 2002-2003, Phoenix, AZ

2000
Who Stole the Teepee? National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute, New York City, NY

Anticipating the Dawn, Curator, Native Women’s Contemporary Invitational Exhibit and Symposium, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

1998
Nourishing Hearts, Creative Hands, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA

1997
The Legacy of Generations: Pottery by American Indian Women, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1997-98, Washington, D.C.

The Legacy of Generations: Pottery by American Indian Women, Heard Museum, 1997-98, Phoenix, AZ

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2020
George Kaiser Foundation, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Integrated Grant Awardee

2019
George Kaiser Foundation, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, 2017-19, Artist in Residence

2018
Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Social Engagement Artist in Residence

Ghost Ranch, Narrative Textures, Invited Artist

2016
Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Making Our Way to the Table, Artist in Residence

Osage Nation Foundation Grant, Banff International Arts Center, Canada, Artist in Residence

2014
Nelson Atkins Museum, Artist in Residence

AARP, Oklahoma Indian Elder Honoree

2008
Eiteljorg Museum, RARE PROGRAM, Artist in Residence

2007
Institute of American Indian Arts and Kellogg Foundation cultural exchange, South Africa and Tengenenge Sculpture Village, Zimbabwe, The Answers Lie Within, Invited Artist and Delegate

2003
Banff Art Center, Communion and Other Conversions, Artist in Residency

Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Heard Museum Artist’s Bench Project

2002
Heard Museum, Warhol Foundation, Artist in Residency

2000
University of Central Oklahoma, The Persistence of Heart (In the Red, Red, Earth), Choreographed by Loretta Livingston, Scenic Design, Guest Artist

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Megan Rossman. “Feminine Mystique.” Oklahoma Today 70, no. 4 (July/August 2020).

America Meredith. “Masked Heroes.” First American Art Magazine no. 27 (Summer 2020).

Jami C. Powell, Anya Montiel, Sequoia Miller, and Courtney L. Miller. Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics. Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, 2020.

“Clay Tells All.” American Craft Magazine. (February/March, 2019).

Jill Ahlberg Yohe, Teri Greeves, Laura Silver, Kaywin Feldman, and Anita Fields. Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists. Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Institute of Art in association with the University of Washington Press, 2019.

American Indian Quarterly 43, no. 4 (Fall 2019): cover artist.

Anita Fields, Tom Fields, Yatika Fields, Daniel C. Swan, Christina Naruszewicz, and Konrad Eek. Fluent Generations: the Art of Anita, Tom, and Yatika Fields. Norman, OK: Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, 2018.

Denise Neil-Binion. “Anita Fields: NY.O.KA^.SKA WA.K’O Y.NA WA.KA.XE VKY” First American Art Magazine. (Spring, 2013) 18-23.

Bryn Potter and Brenda Focht. “From Traditional Crafts to Art Beyond Craft: American Indian Art at the Riverside Metropolitan Museum.” American Indian Art Magazine 36, no. 3. (Summer 2011): 36-45.

“35th Anniversary Issue.” American Indian Art Magazine 36, no. 1 (Winter 2010).

David Revere McFadden and Ellen Napiura. Changing Hands: Art without Reservation. New York City, NY: Museum of Arts and Design, 2005.

“Vision Makers.” Exhibition catalogue. Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, 2006.

Bill Hunt. 21st Century Ceramics in the United States and Canada. Westerville, Ohio: American Ceramic Society, 2003.

Peter Held and Susan Peterson. Shared Passion: Sara and David Lieberman Collection of Contemporary Ceramics and Craft. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University of Art Museum, 2003.

“25 Oklahoma Potters: Anita Fields” The Studio Potter 30, no. 2 (June 2003). Susan Peterson. Contemporary Ceramics. London, UK: Laurence King, 2000.

Ms. Magazine. Inside cover photograph, 1998.

Susan Peterson. Pottery by American Indian Women: The Legacy of Generations, Gifts of the Spirit; Works by 19th Century and Contemporary Native American Artists. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1997.

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

Downstream Casino, Quapaw, OK

Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN

Fred Jones Museum of Art, James T. Bialac Collection, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AK

Hood Museum, Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

Museum of Art and Design, New York City, NY

Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM

National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK

National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Osage Tribal Museum, Pawhuska, OK

Riverside Metropolitan Museum, Riverside, CA

Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Sara and David Lieberman Collection. Phoenix, AZ

State of Oklahoma Art Collection, Oklahoma City, OK

PANELS, WORKSHOPS, KEYNOTES

2020
Indigenous Resonance: Native Womanist Art, Research, and Community, panelist, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK Native Women Artists, panelist, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2019
The Legacy, Relationships, and Power of Native Women Artists, panelist, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

Art Embodying Culture, panelist, Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS

Keynote Speaker, Oklahoma Arts Education Association, Oklahoma City, OK

2018
Center for Creativity, panelist, Inclusion in Art, Tulsa, OK

2016
From the Belly of Our Being, artist talk, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK

2014
Osage Artists, panelist, St. Louis Art Museum and Midwest Art History Society, St. Louis, MO

2013
James T. Bialic Collection Opening Symposium, panelist, Fred Jones Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

2012
Philbrook Museum, lecture and workshop, Tulsa, OK

2011
Craft to Make Art, panelist, Riverside Metropolitan Museum, Riverside, CA

Plains Women Artists, panelist, Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY

2009
Keynote Speaker, Native American Art Studies Association, Norman, OK

2007
Contemporary American Craft Master Lecturer, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK

SERVICE

Member, Post Traditional Collective, Tulsa, OK

Advisory Board Member, Hearts of Our People, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2019

Advisory Board Member, Hearts of Our People, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2017

Election Board Alternate, Osage Nation, Pawhuska, OK, 2016-present Board Member, Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition, Oklahoma City, OK, 2008-10

Collaborative Project, Heard Museum and Mayo Clinic Healing Garden, Phoenix, AZ, 2006

Roster Artist, Oklahoma Arts Council, Residencies in Schools, Oklahoma City, OK, 1990-present

EDUCATION

1991 A.B., Fine Arts and Studio Arts, Oklahoma State University

1974 Institute of American Indian Arts