Artists
We are excited to announce our guest artists at C&C Editions.
Julie Buffalohead's work creates visual narratives told by animal characters that have personhood, agency, and individuality. She connects the mythical with the ordinary and the imaginary with the real, offering a space to which viewers can bring their own experiences. Buffalohead coaxes viewers to discover additional layers of meaning – social, historical, political, personal – using metaphor, wisdom, and wit.
"I endeavor to create work relating to my experience as a Native woman. Historically, stories about American Indian people were written by anthropologists or other non-natives. When American Indians today tell their own stories we can change the perspective. We can reclaim the narrative of ourselves as distinct. I develop my work in response to social concerns and phenomena that exist in America today." —Julie Buffalohead, 2026
Buffalohead (b. 1972, enrolled Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma) is a visual artist living and working in St. Paul, Minnesota. Buffalohead received her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1995 and her MFA from Cornell University in 2001.
Buffalohead has received the Trellis Art Fund Milestone Grant (2025), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2019), the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant (2019), the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2016), and the McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts (2015), among other fellowships and accolades.
Solo exhibitions include Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park Kansas (2026); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN (2019-20); Denver Art Museum, CO (2018-19); Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, NY (2012-13); Highpoint Center for Printmaking, MN (2015-16); Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM (2015); Western Carolina University, NC (2018); Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, NM (2015); The Plains Art Museum, ND (2015); Minnesota Museum of American Art, MN (2014); Rochester Art Center, MN (2015); among others.
Group exhibitions include Museum of Kansas City, MO (2026); Portland Museum of Art, OR (2025); Tweed Museum of Art, MN (2025); Plains Art Museum, ND (2025); Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ (2025); Albuquerque Museum, NM (2024); Wellin Museum of Art, NY (2024); Baltimore Museum of Art, MO (2024); National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (2023); Chazen Museum of Art, WI (2021); Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, NY (2019-22); Rockbund Museum of Art, Shanghai (2019); Schingoethe, Center, Aurora University, IL (2019); Walton Arts Center, AK (2018-19); Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, IN (2017-18); among others.
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; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Weisman Art Museum, MN; Minnesota Museum of American Art, MN; Tweed Museum of Art, MN; Cafesjian Art Trust Museum, MN; Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, WI; Schingoethe Center, IL; Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum, NC; National Museum of Wildlife Art, WY; Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, NC; Yale University Art Gallery, CT; Smith College Museum of Art, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; among others. 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.
