Pacific Diaspora Kin

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This self portrait of the artist and members of their kin tells a story of homecoming. Whether home be among chosen family, within one’s body, within one’s gender, or united with nature, Pacific Diaspora Kin celebrates the sanctity and ceremony of Indigenous peoples coming home to their traditional ways. Through depicting himself nude and nestled on a hillside, the artist expresses kinship and relationality with the natural world. Intertwined and bathed in a golden light, Coyote makes place for healing by documenting and preserving the joy, divinity, and lucidity that result from being in community with nature. Sharing space, story, and memory restores harmony to us and all our relations.

From the 2023 exhibition Love as Ceremony: Legacies of Two-Spirit Liberation, A Space for Dialogue 114, curated by Moonoka Begay '23, Conroy Intern

Course History

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 2.01, Introduction to Queer Studies, Eng-Beng Lim, Summer 2023

English 31.01, Asian American Literature and Culture, Jodi Kim, Fall 2023

English 7.62, War and Colonialism in Asian American Literature, Jodi Kim, Spring 2024

Space for DIalogue Gallery Talk: Love as Ceremony: Legacies of Two-Spirit Liberation, Fall 2023

English 31.01, Asian American Literature and Culture, Jodi Kim, Fall 2024

Native American and Indigenous Studies 42.01, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality, Studies 40.01, Gender Topics in Native American Life, Jami Powell, Fall 2024

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 65.07, Queer Popular Culture, Eng-Beng Lim, Winter 2025

English and Creative Writing 7.62, War & Colonialism in Asian American Literature, Jodi Kim, Spring 2025

College Course 26.01, What’s in Your Toolbox?, Casey Aldrich and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2025

Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies 65.07, Queer Popular Culture, Eng-Beng Lim, Fall 2025

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 114, Love as Ceremony: Legacies of Two-Spirit Liberation, Moonoka Begay, '23, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 19 August - 14 October 2023.

Visual Kinship, Lathrop, Jaffe and Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30 - November 29, 2025.

Provenance

The artist, Coyote Park; sold to present collection, 2023.

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