Vernon Bigman Explained

Vernon Bigman is a Navajo artist known for his abstract painting. Bigman's work is housed in the permanent collections at the National Museum of the American Indian and San Francisco Art Institute.[1] As of 2019, Bigman is a library worker for the Pratt Institute.[2]

Education

Bigman was born in 1958[3] and completed his Bachelors in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. He also completed a Masters in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and received schooling at the Institute of American Indian Arts.[4]

Select artworks

Dreamsnake series

The Dreamsnake series is a collection of five oil paintings on canvas:[5]

Other artwork

Select exhibitions

Awards

Bigman was awarded an honorable mention in the 2007 SirsiDynix photography calendar competition.[9]

References

  1. Web site: Special Collections. SFAI. 2020-04-07.
  2. Web site: Vernon Bigman. Pratt Institute. 2020-04-07.
  3. Web site: Head Of Wheel. Smithsonian Institution. en. 2020-04-07.
  4. Web site: NAAR NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST ROSTER. www.amerinda.org. 2020-02-14.
  5. Web site: At Resobox, the Dream Snake paintings. Resobox.
  6. Web site: Head Of Wheel. Smithsonian Institution. en. 2020-04-07.
  7. https://thevillagesun.com/native-american-art-in-village-show The Village Sun website
  8. https://www.moma.org/artists/70364 MOMA website
  9. http://m.amerinda.org/naar/bigman/painter/painter.htm Amerinda website

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