Biography

TERI GREEVES (Kiowa),b. 1970. Lander, WY

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

British Museum, London, England
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
First Americans Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, RI
Hampton University Museum, Hampton University, VA
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Joselyn Museum, Omaha, NE
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM
New Mexico Arts/State of New Mexico
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Tweed Museum of Art, University of MN, Duluth

SELECTED HONORS

2025 Maxwell | Hanrahan Award in Craft
2024 Caldwell Artists-in-Residence Teri Greeves and Keri Ataumbi, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2022 American Craft Council Fellow
2018 Mellon Indigenous Arts Visiting Fellow, University of Virginia
2017 United States Artists, Distinguished Fellow
2015 Living Treasure Award, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Native Treasures Exhibit, Santa Fe, NM
2003 Dobkin Fellowship Recipient, School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM
2003 Signature Artist, Heard Museum Fair, Phoenix, AZ

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026 Sovereign Stitches + Wild Weaves, McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal, Que.
2026 Visions of America, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
2025 Future Past, online exhibition for the 25th British Textile Biennial (BTB)
2025 Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland, Block Museum, Evanston,IL
2025 Sustained! The Persistent Genius of Indigenous Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2024 Native Fashion, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
2024 Art and Sole, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2024 To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary American Indian Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2024 Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY
2024 Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill NC
2023 The Land Carries our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2023 Always in Relation, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM
2023 Common Ground: Art in New Mexico, Albuquerque Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2023 Craft Front & Center: Exploring the Permanent Collection, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
2023 Indigenous Art, Culture, and Community: Works from the Ruth and Sidney Schultz Collection, Albuquerque Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2022 Fashioning America: From Grit to Glamour, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR
2022 Art of Indigenous Fashion, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Honoring Tradition and Innovation: 100-Years of Santa Fe's Indian Market 1922-2022, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Here, Now and Always, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
2022 Radical Stitch, MacKenzie Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
2020 Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Original Warriors, National Veterans Museum, Chicago, IL
2018 Beadwork Adorns the World, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West,Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM
2016 Belly of Our Being, Oklahoma State University Museum, Stillwater, OK
2016 Into the Future, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Native Fashion Now, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2015 Unraveling Identities: Our Textiles, Our Stories, George Washington University Museum/Textile Museum, Washington DC
2014 State of the Art, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
2013 Alcoves 12.9, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2011 Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Storied Beads: The Art of Teri Greeves, O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2011 Beyond Craft, Riverside Metropolitan Museum, Riverside, CA
2009 Treasures: The World’s Cultures from the British Museum, Royal BC Museum, CAN
2009 The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2009 Native Couture II, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Craft In America: Expanding Traditions, traveling exhibit in conjunction with PBS series “Craft in America”, various cities
2007 How the West is One: semi permanent exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Native Pop, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Wondrous Works, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Changing Hands 2, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
2005 Our Lives, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC
2004 Teri Greeves: Narratives in Beadwork, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
2002 Beadwork by Teri Greeves, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
2002 Mind Over Matter: Reworking Women's Work, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Be Dazzled: Masterworks of Jewelry and Beadwork from the Heard Museum, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2002 Winter Camp Honoring the Legacy, Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
2001 Art of Western Living Desert Caballeros, Western Museum, Wickenburg, AZ
2000 Native American Artists of the 21st Century, Southwest Museum, LACMA West, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Winter Camp 2000: Honoring the Legacy, Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK
1999 Fashion/Fusion, Heard Museum North, Scottsdale, AZ
1999 Native American Gallery: Permanent Collection, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA
1996 Native American Beadwork: The Continuum, American Indian Contemporary Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA
1995 Saynday Was Coming Along, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/MEDIA

2025 Western Art & Architecture, Creating Connectivity
2024 Google Arts & Culture, Artist Profile: Teri Greeves
2024 New York Times, "For This Indigenous Beadworker, Every Stitch is an 'Act of Resistance'" (June 6, 2024)
2023 Vogue, "21 Artists to Know at this Year's Santa Fe Indian Market" (August 16, 2023)
2022 Vogue, "A New Fashion Exhibit Spotlights Contemporary Indigenous Design"
2022 American Craft Magazine, "Teri Greeves: 2022 Fellow" (Fall 2022)
2021 First American Art Magazine, "Kiowa Beadwork Artist Teri Greeves" (Winter 2021)
2020 PBS, "Craft in America: Democracy," (premiered December 11, 2020)
2020 NRDC, "The Story of Colonialism and Climate Change Told Through Centuries of Indigenous Artworks," (November 24, 2020)
2020 NPR, "'Making is About Our Survival': Exhibition Celebrates Artwork of Native Women," (March 7, 2020)
2019 PBS, "State of the Art," (premiered April 26, 2019), artist website
2019 Vogue, "In 'Hearts of Our People' Indigenous Women Reclaim Space Through Art," (June 3, 2019)
2019 New York Times, "The Hand of Native American Women, Visible at Last" (May 31, 2019)
2019 MPR News, "Exhibit is First Major Show of Artwork by Native Women" (May 31, 2019)
2019 Pasatiempo, "Sister Act: Artists Keri Ataumbi and Teri Greeves" (April 12, 2019)
2018 C'Ville Weekly, "Voices Coming Through"
2017 El Palacio Magazine, "Stitched to the Soul"
2017 The National/Amtrak Magazine, "Real Life: Aboriginal Style," (Feb/Mar 2017 issue)
2017 PBS, ¡Colores!, (February 18, 2017 air date)
2016 United States Artists Distinguished Fellow, Traditional Arts
2016 Cowboys and Indians Magazine, "Beading Tradition"
2016 UCSC News, "Craft Becomes Art for Celebrated Kiowa Artist and Alumna"
2014 LA Times, "Dress for the West," (September, 7, 2014)
2013 Four Winds Gallery Blog, "Interview 1" & "Interview 2"
2013 Pasatiempo cover (March 8, 2013)
2014 Indian Country Today, "Beadworking in Two Worlds: 10 Fascinating Pieces by Teri Greeves," (August 19, 2014)
2011 American Indian Art Magazine, “From Traditional Craft to Beyond Craft”, pp 36-45 (Summer 2011)
2011 American Profile Magazine, "Embellishing with Beads,"
2010 Bead and Button Magazine, “Taking a Stand”, pp 61-63 (August 2010)
2009 PBS, Craft In America, "Origins," (national air date October 7, 2009)
2008 Martha Stewart Show (November 5, 2008)
2006 Pasatiempo cover, published by the Santa Fe New Mexican (August 18-24, 2006)
2006 Southwest Art Magazine, feature article, pp 180-183 (August 2006)
2002 Ornament Magazine cover (Spring 2002)
1999 Contemporary American Indian Beadwork: The Exquisite Art. Jill Alden, Dolph Publishing. pp 33-35. 82-83
994 Native American Art, David W. Penney & George C. Longfish, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. Inc. pp. 269

SELECTED AWARDS

2009 Judge’s Choice Award, Heard Museum Fair and Market Phoenix, AZ
2002 SWAlA Standards Award, Utilitarian Items, Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Best of Division, Heard Museum Fair and Market, Phoenix, AZ
2001 Best of Division, Heard Museum Fair and Market, Phoenix, AZ
1999 Best of Show, Indian Market Santa Fe, NM
1999 Best of Class, 28th Eight Northern Pueblo Artist and Craftsman Show, San Juan Pueblo, NM
1998 First Place Diversified, Coordinated Set Category, Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM
1998 Best of Class, 27th Eight Northern Artist and Craftsman Show, Pojoaque Pueblo, NM

Teri Greeves - Kiowa Beadwork