Our Journey to Deyo:gê:h (between two rivers), 2026
1968 Chevrolet Mini 90 van and vinyl
75 × 86 × 168 in. approx.
A lifelong organizer and advocate of the arts and culture of the Haudenosaunee, a confederacy of six Indigenous nations in what is now the northeast United States and Canada, G. Peter Jemison invited Jay Carrier, Katsitsionni Fox, Hayden Haynes, Tom Huff, Craig Marvin, Diane Schenandoah, and Randee Spruce to present their work alongside his own for the 59th Carnegie International. In a re-creation of a touring exhibition on the arts of the Haudenosaunee he curated in 1975, Jemison has driven a vintage Chevy van from his residence in Upstate New York to deliver the artworks on view here, leaving the vehicle parked in the museum’s Fountain Plaza. Contemporary expressions of Haudenosaunee crafts and cultural knowledge by the seven artists accompany Jemison’s paintings of a map of Ga’dä gës gëö’geh (Cattaraugus Reservation), his childhood home, and friends in Irving, New York.