Exhibitions
DECEMBER 3-7, 2025
Kite
Wakpá Iyóžaŋžaŋ (River of Light)
Kite | Wakpá Iyóžaŋžaŋ (River of Light)
Untitled Art, Miami
Booth SP14
December 3, 2025 — December 7, 2025
Press Preview & VIP: Tuesday, December 2
Performance by Kite of Wakpá Iyóžaŋžaŋ (River of Light), 5 PM
Central Standard and Tulsa Artist Fellowship are pleased to present Wakpá Iyóžaŋžaŋ (River of Light), a major installation by artist Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta), within the 2025 Special Projects sector at Untitled Art, Miami Beach.
Wakpá Iyóžaŋžaŋ (River of Light) offers a profound exploration of Lakota cosmology, dream practices, and the transmission of Indigenous knowledge through technology, sound, and score-based forms. Rooted in the Lakota understanding of the Milky Way as a wakpá iyóžaŋžaŋ—a river of light that carries loved ones across the sky—the installation situates Lakota dream practices within the realm of contemporary art and performance.
The installation brings together three interconnected works: the tactile embroidered score Wichahpih’a (a clear night with a star-filled sky) (2019), a new sculptural installation Stone Score (River of Light) (2025) comprising black deer hide, mirror, and river stones; and Her Dream Becomes a River (2025), a video work that translates the score into gesture, sound, and light through violin and percussion.
Rather than interpreting water as literal matter, Kite approaches the river as a conduit of memory, movement, light, and relation where dreams materialize through sound and stone. Through these works, Kite articulates a language of interconnection between body, land, and cosmos, demonstrating how Indigenous knowledge systems can shape contemporary forms of art, technology, and performance.
Wakpá Iyóžaŋžaŋ (River of Light) is curated by Central Standard in partnership with Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
The Special Projects sector of the fair is curated by Allison Glenn.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta) is an artist, composer, and scholar whose work spans performance, sound, sculpture, and computational media to explore contemporary Lakȟóta ontologies, ethics, and relations with technology. She is Director of the Wíhaŋble S’a Center for Indigenous AI at Bard College—a National Endowment for the Humanities–designated Humanities Research Center and a pod of the Abundant Intelligences research program—where she serves as Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor of American & Indigenous Studies.
Kite’s recent presentations include the 2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA, New York), and the 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema; additional projects have appeared with NOME (Berlin), REDCAT (Los Angeles), and the Max Ernst Museum. Her practice includes machine-learning–informed performance interfaces, dream-derived sculptural systems, and collaborative research with family and community members.
Her writing has been published by the Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press) (“Making Kin with Machines”), Atlas of Anomalous AI, Indigenous Protocol and AI Position Paper, and other venues. Honors include the Ruth Award (Ruth Foundation for the Arts), United States Artists Fellowship (2023), Creative Capital (Wild Futures), Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2020-2022), a Creative Time commission (with Alisha B. Wormsley), and fellowships with Forge Project.
Kite holds degrees from the California Institute of the Arts and Bard College and earned her PhD at Concordia University. She is an enrolled citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and lives and works in Catskill, NY.
February 22 - April 18, 2025
Arco Building, 119 E. 6th Street, Tulsa, OK
Reception:
Wednesday, March 5, 5-8pm
Public Program: Terra Cognita: Mapping Land Narratives and Embedded Epistemologies, Sound bath and panel discussion, Thursday, April 17, 5:30-7pm
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Ashanti Chaplin, Yatika Fields (Osage, Muscogee, Cherokee), Le’Andra LeSeur, Warren Realrider (Pawnee, Crow), and Nathan Young (Delaware Tribe of Indians)
Drift///Hold brings together artists whose work navigates states of flux—between memory and presence, movement and stillness, the known and the unknown. Through installation, sound, performance, and material interventions, the exhibition explores how perception is shaped by history, social constructs, and alternative ways of knowing.
Ashanti Chaplin, Yatika Fields (Osage, Muscogee, Cherokee), Le’Andra LeSeur, Warren Realrider (Pawnee, Crow), and Nathan Young (Delaware Tribe of Indians) engage in a dynamic inquiry into transformation, ritual, and resilience. Water emerges as a central motif—at once a force of migration and a site of grounding, a symbol of passage and a threshold between past and future. Performative gestures and sensorial encounters extend the exhibition beyond the visual, emphasizing experience, presence, and interconnectedness.
By centering artists with ties to Oklahoma, Drift///Hold positions the region as an active site of contemporary artistic dialogue, resisting fixed narratives while embracing a fluid state of becoming.
Drift///Hold is presented in partnership with Tulsa Artist Fellowship and through the generous support of our sponsor, Price Family Properties.
Press inquiries, please contact TAF@fitzandco.com