Artists
We are excited to announce our guest artists at C&C Editions.
Julie Buffalohead's work has focused thematically on describing Indian cultural experience through personal metaphor and narrative. Just as frequently as the work has been evocative of animals, anthropomorphism and nature, it has been a critique of the simulacrum of the Old West, and of the prejudicial commercialization of Native culture.
Buffalohead is a member of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma. She has had solo exhibitions at Denver Art Museum, CO; Western Carolina University, NC; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, NM; Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, NY; Bockley Gallery, MN; The Plains Art Museum, ND; Minnesota Museum of American Art, MN; Rochester Art Center, MN; to name a few. Group exhibitions include Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, NY; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN; Rockbund Museum of Art, Shanghai; Schingoethe, Center, Aurora University, IL; Walton Arts Center, AK; Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, MN; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, IN; Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, PA; Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, OK; Plains Art Museum, ND; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, KS; to name a few.
Public collections include Denver Art Museum, CO; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Walker Art Center, MN; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, MO; Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, D.C.; Heard Museum, AZ; Eiteljorg Museum, IN; The Field Museum, IL; Rockwell Museum, NY; Weisman Art Museum, MN; Minnesota Museum of American Art, MN; Tweed Museum of Art, MN; Schingoethe Center, IL; Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum, NC; National Museum of Wildlife Art, WY; Cafesjian Art Trust Museum, MN; Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, WI; to name a few.
Buffalohead (b. 1972) lives and works in St. Paul, MN. She is represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco CA.
"Todd Norsten transforms images and observations from his daily life and travels into painted meditations on the universal impulse to make a mark. Riffing on a throughline the artist has identified from ancient petroglyphs, to lovers’ initials carved into trees, to bathroom graffiti, Norsten absorbs visual culture all around us — roadside billboards, peeling paint on the side of a barn, hand-painted “Keep Out” signs, lottery advertisements — then translates and transforms these snippets and non sequiturs into sometimes earnest, often satirical works that give character to things that are transitory or ephemeral, elevating banal moments into subjects worthy of contemplation.”
—Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
Norsten has had solo exhibition at Adams and Ollman, OR; Federica Schiavo Gallery, Milan, Italy; Diane Kruse Galerie, Hamburg, Germany; Fitzroy Gallery, NY; Tinderbox Gallery, Hamburg, Germany; Cohan and Leslie, NY; Arario Gallery, Seoul, South Korea; Midway Contemporary Art, MN; Highpoint Center for Printmaking, MN; Weinstein Hammons Gallery, MN; to name a few. Group exhibitions include Adams and Ollman,OR; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Schiavo Zoppeli Gallery, Milan, Italy; The Pit, CA; Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy; Diane Kruse Galerie, Hamburg, Germany; Highpoint Center for Printmaking, MN; Weinstein Hammons Gallery, MN; Dayton Art Institute, OH; Josée Bienvenu Gallery, NY; Sue Scott Gallery, NY; Leo Koenig, Inc., NY; Walker Art Center, MN; Midway Contemporary Art, MN; Blondeau Fine Art, Geneva, Switzerland; Larissa Goldston Gallery, NY; Tinderbox Contemporary Art, Hamburg, Germany; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, NY; International Print Center New York, NY; Plains Art Museum, ND; to name a few.
Norsten was included in the Whitney Biennial 2006, “Day for Night”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Public collections include the British Museum, London, UK; the Walker Art Center, MN; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN; Hood Museum of Art, NH; RISD Museum, RI; Minnesota Museum of American Art, MN; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; to name a few.
Norsten (b. 1967) lives and works in Minneapolis, MN. He is represented by Adams & Ollman, Portland, OR, and Federica Schiavo, Milan and Rome, Italy.
“I am not a philosopher and I am not a politician. I work as an artist, craftsperson, teacher, learner, and researcher in this community, respecting those who are living and exchanging in the landscape of art and the ecology of life.”
— Kinji Akagawa, 2026
Kinji Akagawa is an American sculptor, printmaker, and arts educator best known for sculptural constructions that also serve a practical function. A pioneer in the public art movement, Akagawa has throughout his career examined the relationship between art and community, most notably the concept of art as a process of inquiry. His sculpture and public artworks are noted for their refined elegance and use of natural materials, such as granite, basalt, field stone, cedar, and ipe wood.
Akagawa trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles; the Minneapolis College of Art and Design; and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where he earned an MFA degree in 1969. From 1973 to 2009, Akagawa was a professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), where he taught sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, installation and conceptual art.
Akagawa's work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is found in numerous public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Norton Simon Museum, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Walker Art Center, MN; the University of Iowa Museum of Art, IA; and the Ackland Art Museum, N.C., to name a few.
Notable public artworks include "Peace Garden Bridge" (2009), a collaboration with American architect Jerry Allan, in the Lyndale Park Peace Garden, Minneapolis; "Garden Seating, Thinking, Reading" (1987), in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden; "Bayou Sculpture" (1985), Houston, Texas; and "Four Seasons with a Sundial" (1984), Tettegouche State Park, near Silver Bay, Minnesota.
Akagawa's awards and recognitions include the McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist Award (2007); Minnesota State Arts Board cultural collaborations grant (1995); Carnegie Mellon Foundation faculty enrichment grant (1984); McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship (1983); Bush Foundation Fellowship (1982); and a Ford Foundation Fellowship (1965).
Akagawa (b. 1940, Tokyo, Japan) lives and maintains a studio in Afton, Minnesota. He is married to fiber artist Nancy Gipple.
