Skip to main contentBiographyLarry McNeil makes art that is a visual manifestation of the provocative times in which we live. He has won numerous fellowships and awards for his art, which reinforces his idea that art may strive to embody relevance, meaning and hopefully, a sense of grace. McNeil earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico, has been a practicing artist for over thirty years and has work in many national and international museum collections. McNeil serves on many national advisory boards for various universities and arts organizations, and as a scholar has taught photography since 1992, and has many publications and exhibitions on his CV, including international fellowships for his research.
McNeil’s art is about the intersection of cultures, American mythology, irony, satire, and embodies a distinctive sense of American identity. McNeil is a scholar, a Full Professor in the Art Department at Boise State University and he also taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. He is from the Dakl’aweidi Kéet Gooshi Hít, Killer Whale Fin House in Klukwan Alaska, one of the oldest Tlingit clan houses on the Northwest Coast, and has been living in Boise for twenty years.
Larry McNeil
Tlingit / Nisgaá, born 1955
McNeil’s art is about the intersection of cultures, American mythology, irony, satire, and embodies a distinctive sense of American identity. McNeil is a scholar, a Full Professor in the Art Department at Boise State University and he also taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. He is from the Dakl’aweidi Kéet Gooshi Hít, Killer Whale Fin House in Klukwan Alaska, one of the oldest Tlingit clan houses on the Northwest Coast, and has been living in Boise for twenty years.
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