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Luiseño-Mexican-American performance and installation artist from the La Jolla Indian Reservation in California. (1950-2018)

United StatesArtistsLived 1950 to 2018 · aged 68
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James Luna was a Puyukitchum, Ipai, and Mexican-American performance artist, photographer and multimedia installation artist. His work is best known for challenging the ways in which conventional museum exhibitions depict Native Americans.

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2017Guggenheim Fellowship

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James Luna was a Puyukitchum, Ipai, and Mexican-American performance artist, photographer and multimedia installation artist. His work is best known for challenging the ways in which conventional museum exhibitions depict Native Americans. With recurring themes of multiculturalism, alcoholism, and colonialism, his work was often comedic and theatrical in nature. In 2017 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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United States
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Artists
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Artist
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deceased
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Lived 1950 to 2018 · aged 68
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