Yvonne N. Tiger

Yvonne N. Tiger is a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and is also in relation with the Seminole and Mvskoke Nations. She is a PhD candidate in the Cultural, Social and Political Thought program at the University of Lethbridge. A first-generation college graduate, Tiger holds an AB degree from Smith College, and two MAs from the University of Oklahoma, in 20th c. U.S. History, and in Native American Studies—Native American Art History and Curating, studies conducted within OU’s department of Art History. She is an Indigenous art historian and teaches Indigenous art history as an Associate Professor at MacEwan University, having also taught at the University of Lethbridge and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. Her current research connects Cherokee pottery to the land in kinship as a place-based art and to her mound building ancestors. In her work, she has structured Indigenous refusal as an ethical Indigenous methodological approach to her citational practice. She has held fellowships at the Peabody-Essex Museum, with the Momus Emerging Indigenous Critics Residency, Otsego Institute for Native American Art History, and the Canadian Museum of History. Most recently, Tiger was published in Five: Limited Edition (Radius Books) for Paris Photo, 2024.