Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky

• Accompanies the artist’s first major museum solo exhibition at the Denver Art Museum October 5, 2025–January 18, 2026.
• The first book that explores the work of this fascinating contemporary artist on the rise.
• Carlson’s paintings utilize a combination of text and complex visual references to animals, art objects, and cultural belongings that are organized in prismatic layers of colorful landscape.

An Indigenous Futurist reimagining of landscape, addressing imperialism, ownership, and place.

This beautifully illustrated volume is the first book to explore the work of contemporary Indigenous North American artist Andrea Carlson, accompanying the artist’s major solo exhibition at the Denver Art Museum (October 5, 2025–January 18, 2026).

Using oral and archival research, as well as art historical and philosophical theory, Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe descent) creates multipanel landscapes on the themes of museum collection practices, consumption, possession, and repatriation. Her work addresses the colonial construction of landscape genre painting and imperial concepts of land ownership and connection to place.

Through the lens of Indigenous Futurism, an artistic movement emphasizing the successful, sovereign presence of Indigenous people into the future, the works question human-centered biases and relationships to dominance and assimilation.

Dakota Hoska is Associate Curator of Native Arts at the Denver Art Museum and curator of Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky.

 

Aruna D’Souza is a journalist of modern and contemporary art, board member of 4Columns.org, curator, and educator.

 

Heid Erdrich (Ojibwe) is a writer, author of several collections of poetry, curator, educator, and a Poet Laureate of Minneapolis.

 

Nasrin Himada is a Palestinian writer and Associate Curator at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston (ON), Canada.