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Bob Haozous is a Chiricahua Apache

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from Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is enrolled in the Fort Sill Apache Tribe.

Background

Bob Haozous was born on 1 April 1943 in

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."Ceremonial Space by Bob Haozous."
''City of Tampa, Florida: Art Programs.'' Accessed 2 April 2011. His parents are Anna Marie Gallegos, a Navajo-

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textile artist, and the late

Allan Houser Allan Capron Houser or Haozous (June 30, 1914 – August 22, 1994) was a Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter and book illustrator born in Oklahoma.Apache, Oklahoma, his tribe's headquarters. His parents both taught at Intermountain Indian School, in Brigham City, Utah.

Education and military service

Haozous studied at

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before enlisting in the

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, where he served for four years on board of the during the

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. After the war, Haozous attended the California College of Arts and Crafts in

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, where he earned his BFA degree in sculpture in 1971.

Artwork

Haozous works in a range of media, from drawing, painting, and printmaking to jewelry, but his primary focus is on sculpture, especially monumental public works. He sculpts in steel, stone, wood, and aluminum. His work is often humorous and extremely politically charged. He creates work about his Apache heritage, the environment–especially

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–and

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Art career

As an emerging artist, Haozous exhibited at the annual SWAIA

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, from 1971 until 1991. He moved on to a world stage and has participated in the

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in Venice, Italy, in both 1999 and 2001.

Notable exhibitions

* 2018–19: ''Old Man Looking Backward: Bob Haozous'', Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM * 2006: ''Relations: Indigenous Dialogue'',

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, with catalogue *2001 ''Umbilicus'',

, Italy *2000 ''Who Stole the Tee Pee'', Curated by Atlatl,

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, New York City, New York *1999 ''Ceremonial'',

, Italy *1971–1991 SWAIA

, New Mexico.

Notable collections

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Heard Museum The Heard Museum is a private, not-for-profit museum in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, dedicated to the advancement of American Indian art. It presents the stories of American Indian people from a first-person perspective, as well as exhibitio ...

, Phoenix, Arizona * Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM *

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, New Mexico *

Millicent Rogers Museum The Millicent Rogers Museum is an art museum in Taos, New Mexico, founded in 1956 by the family of Millicent Rogers. Initially the artworks were from the multi-cultural collections of Millicent Rogers and her mother, Mary B. Rogers, who donated ...

, Taos, New Mexico *

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, Santa Fe, NM *

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, Washington, DC *

Philbrook Museum of Art Philbrook Museum of Art is an art museum with expansive formal gardens located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The museum, which opened in 1939, is located in a former 1920s villa, "Villa Philbrook", the home of Oklahoma oil pioneer Waite Phillips and his ...

, Tulsa, Oklahoma *

Roswell Museum and Art Center The Roswell Museum (formerly Roswell Museum and Art Center) was founded in 1936 and is located in Roswell, New Mexico, United States. The museum features exhibits about the art and history of the American Southwest, as well as the Robert H. God ...

, Roswell, New Mexico * Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California * Westphalian Museum of Natural History, Munster, Germany * Dresdner Bank Collection, Stuttgart, Germany *

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, Frankfurt am Main, Germany * Norsk Sjøfartsmuseum, Trondheim, Norway *

Wheelwright Museum The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian is a museum devoted to Native American arts. It is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico and was founded in 1937 by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, who came from Boston, and Hastiin Klah, a Navajo singer and medici ...

, Santa Fe, New Mexico *

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at Brown University, Providence, RI *

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, Seattle, Washington He has also created public art for the cities of Albuquerque, New Mexico;

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;

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;

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; and

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, as well as for the Seattle Seahawks Stadium.

Personal

Bob Haozous lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has three children and four brothers. His brother Philip Haozous is also a respected sculptor.

References

External links

Bob Haozous
official website

by Larry Abbot
"Indian Art as Dialogue: The Tricky Transgressions of Bob Haozous."
Dissertation abstract by Traci L. Morris-Carlsten, University of Arizona, 2005
Bob Haozous
Vision Project, by Leanne L.Hirondelle {{DEFAULTSORT:Haozous, Bob 1943 births Living people American people of Mestizo descent Apache people Artists from Santa Fe, New Mexico California College of the Arts alumni Chiricahua Contemporary sculptors Mestizo artists Native American curators Native American sculptors United States Navy sailors Utah State University alumni Sculptors from New Mexico 20th-century American sculptors 21st-century American sculptors