Venaya Yazzie (Diné/Hopi ) was raised in the shadow of Dzi'naodi'thle (Huerfano Peak) which is located on the eastern region of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Born into the Manyhogans Clan, she believes that she was endowed with the divine gifts of the artistic way of life from her Dine’ clan relatives from the past.
Venaya’s contemporary American Indian work has been called “visionary” as she strives to create images that work outside the boundaries of what …
Venaya Yazzie (Diné/Hopi ) was raised in the shadow of Dzi'naodi'thle (Huerfano Peak) which is located on the eastern region of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Born into the Manyhogans Clan, she believes that she was endowed with the divine gifts of the artistic way of life from her Dine’ clan relatives from the past.
Venaya’s contemporary American Indian work has been called “visionary” as she strives to create images that work outside the boundaries of what society views as stereotypical Native American art. She has great affinity for the work of Russian painter, Vassily Kandinsky, and therefore believes that the spiritual connection between the artist and their art is innately strong and always present in the process of creating Art.
As a painter first, Yazzie also focuses her time in the realm of Fine Art Photography, which generally holds the subject matter of the southwestern landscape. Venaya’s love of language and the oral history stories of her ancestors has also led her become an avid writer of poetry and jewelry maker. Yazzie’s images of the Native American woman pays homage to the cultural belief of the female as a matriarch. Venaya divides her time in Albuquerque, NM and the San Juan Valley in northwestern New Mexico.
