Whitney Museum Presents Sonya Kelliher-Combs: TITIQ/MARK, First Solo Exhibition in New York
The Facts
The Whitney Museum of American Art announced its first solo museum show in New York for Indigenous artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs. Titled TITIQ/MARK, the exhibition spans nearly two decades of the Iñupiaq and Koyukon artist's work, incorporating materials such as marine mammal gut, hair, fabric, animal hide, and acrylic polymer. Kelliher-Combs's practice explores colonialism, cultural continuity, self-determination, and land use through repetition, seriality, and traditional methods like gut processing and sewing. The show includes series like Curls, Remnants, Idiot Strings, and Secrets, and is co-organized with the Anchorage Museum.
The Signal
As the first mid-career survey of an Indigenous artist at the Whitney, TITIQ/MARK signals a meaningful institutional commitment to broadening the canon of contemporary American art. The exhibition also foregrounds the material culture of the Bering Strait region, underscoring its ongoing relevance in Indigenous communities. Co-curated by Whitney curator Jennie Goldstein and Anchorage Museum director Julie Decker, the show positions Kelliher-Combs's work within a larger conversation about land, identity, and cultural resilience.
- Artists: Sonya Kelliher-Combs
- People: Jennie Goldstein, Julie Decker, Rose Pallone
- Museums: Whitney Museum of American Art, Anchorage Museum
- Locations: New York
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