Lynnette Haozous

Biography Lynnette Haozous is of Chiricahua Apache, Navajo, and Taos Pueblo ancestry. She spent her childhood and adolescence in Arizona and New Mexico. Haozous has said that moving a lot and spending time with family in each of these locations helped her to develop a "profound connection to all sides of my ancestors, and each has had an influence on my work."

Haozous graduated from New Mexico Highlands University in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in social work.

Career

Lynnette Haozous is an artivist, using art for positive social change to empower and strengthen communities. Haozous has said, "What I like about doing murals is that they speak directly to the community; they're readily available. You can speak directly to the people about these social issues that are impacting them in their own neighborhoods and communities."

In 2020 Haozous's mixed media installation, Braiding Reconciliation, was featured in the Reconciliation exhibit at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA). The exhibit was developed by Native American and Indo-Hispano artists and centered truth, racial healing, and transformation—grounded in the promise of reconciliation. The exhibit responded to a decades long journey to end La Entrada, a local annual pageant depicting the 1692 reconquest of New Mexico by the Spanish empire. Lynnette Haozous's installation used cords to represent past traumas and the future promise of reconciliation. Haozous's mural, titled Into the Sun, "re-matriates" or reasserts the presence and power of Native women in a colonial space.

In 2023 Haozous's mural Seeds of Change was selected from a call to artists to represent The Harwood Museum's 100th birthday in Taos, New Mexico. The mural measures eight feet tall and 10 feet wide and depicts a baby and three young Taos Pueblo women. Haozous said of the artwork, "I like to paint portraits of Native people in their element today, living both in the modern world, while carrying on our traditions of a thousand years." N/A N/A 105 Camino de la Placita, Taos, New Mexico 2022 - Into the Sun MESH Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon 2021 - 2022 Abolishing the Entrada Reconciliation IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) Santa Fe, New Mexico 2019 - 2021 Original Inhabitants N/A The Hardwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico Santa Fe, New Mexico 2018 Artist Rooms at Nativo Lodge N/A N/A Albuquerque, New Mexico 2017 - Mixed Media + Name of work Exhibit Museum Location Year Braiding Reconciliation Reconciliation IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) Santa Fe, New Mexico 2019 - 2020 Braiding Reconciliation

Artist Residence

2018–2019 Santa Fe Art Institute Truth and Reconciliation Residency

Fellowship

2020 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Mentor Artist Fellowship Award

Awards

2023 Hardwood Museum of Art, Centennial Call to Artists, Winner for Seeds of the Future 2023 Southwest Contemporary, 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now