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Gerald Peters Contemporary is pleased to present The End of Nature. The group exhibition, guest curated by Erin Joyce and Ninabah Reid Winton, takes place of four themes: Introduction, Destruction, The Body + Space, A Renaissance.
Featuring currently practicing artists working in film, video, sculpture, assemblage, fashion and sound, the exhibition highlights artists who create and retell narratives in opposition of imperialism, borders, and a post-apocalyptic horror-scape resultant from colonial occupations. Their works investigate the body, movement, colonization, the impacts of the media on cultural understanding and environments – both natural and non-natural.
ARTISTS:
Sama Alshaibi (Iraq/Palestine, b. 1973, based in Tucson, AZ)
Janna Avner (Koyukon Athabascan, b 1989. Based in San Mateo, CA)
Yaritza Flores Bustos (Mexican, b. 1997. Based in Phoenix, AZ)
Alan Butler (Irish, b. 1981, based in Dublin, IE)
Demian DinéYazhi’ (Diné, b. 1983. Based in Portland, OR)
Shawné Michaelain Holloway (American, b. 1991. Based in Chicago, IL)
Justin Guthrie (American/Scottish/Cherokee/Navajo/Apache, b. 1993. Based in Los Angeles, California + Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk, b. 1984. Based in Annandale on Hudson, NY)
iris yirei hu (American, b. 1991. Based in Los Angeles, California)
Caroline Monnet (Anishnaabe/French, b. 1985. Based in Montréal, Canada)
ABOUT THE CURATORS:
Erin Joyce is a curator and scholar of contemporary art and has organized over 40 solo and group exhibitions for museums, galleries, and project spaces across the United States including Between Beauty and Decay (Artspace New Haven, 2017), Still Life No. 3: Raven Chacon (Heard Museum 2019), Erika Harrsch: Moving in the Borderlands (Idyllwild Arts Foundation, 2022), and Mending Across Borders and Boundaries (Sun Valley Museum of Art, 2025), and a forthcoming exhibition Migration and Memory at the Sun Valley Museum of Art (2026). In addition to her curatorial practice, Joyce is a frequent contributor to Hyperallergic, and has had writing featured in Salon, Selvedge Magazine, Canvas Magazine, SHFT, Art Wednesday, Native American Art Magazine, GOOD Magazine, Southwest Contemporary, NPR Art and Seek, and a recent essay in Digging Earth: Extractivism and Resistance on Indigenous Lands of the Americas (Ethics International Press). She was a 2019 nominee and a 2023 winner of the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism from The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation. Joyce currently serves as a member of the faculty at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University and the Vice President of Public Affairs at the Native Arts + Cultures Foundation.
Ninabah Reid Winton (Diné) is an independent curator and scholar of contemporary art. Winton is a current MA Candidate in Art History at the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts at Arizona State University and advisor to the ASU School of Art and Dreamscape Learn. Winton has served on the curatorial team of exhibitions including Color Riot! How Color Changed Navajo Textiles (Heard Museum, 2018), Looking at Us: Examining Institutional Critique (Idyllwild Arts Foundation, 2022), Seral Bodies, (Northlight Gallery, 2023), Making Visible, (Arizona State University Art Museum, 2022), and curated Everything is a Little Fuzzy (Arizona State University Art Museum, 2023). Winton’s research interests center on contemporary craft and design with an emphasis on material and craft economies, sound and audio art, as well as textile and fiber-based production. Winton lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona.
