Skip to main contentBiographyAthena LaTocha was born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1969 to a Polish father and a mother from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in Michigan. LaTocha received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Stony Brook University. Her artwork has been featured in numerous museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, NM, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR, and BRIC in Brooklyn, NY. LaTocha has been the recipient of residencies at various institutions, including the Barns Art Center in Hopewell, NY, Silver Art Projects, and the Joan Mitchell Center. She currently lives and works out of Peekskill, New York.
"Much of my work is project specific and based upon my research of local site visits that relate directly to the location where the work will be presented. It is important for me to be physically present in the environment I am working with. National and state parks provide the opportunity to experience the [not] trampled landscape and the unyielding power of nature through time. Similarly, industrial sites—quarries; gravel pits, mines; urban construction sites—present the capacity of human capability intervening with nature."—Athena LaTocha (Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe / Standing Rock Lakota)
Athena LaTocha
Húŋkpapȟa Lakota / Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe, born 1969
"Much of my work is project specific and based upon my research of local site visits that relate directly to the location where the work will be presented. It is important for me to be physically present in the environment I am working with. National and state parks provide the opportunity to experience the [not] trampled landscape and the unyielding power of nature through time. Similarly, industrial sites—quarries; gravel pits, mines; urban construction sites—present the capacity of human capability intervening with nature."—Athena LaTocha (Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe / Standing Rock Lakota)
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