Join KEXP for Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday, October 12th, featuring a live broadcast from Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center from 10 AM to 4 PM. All day, we’ll share music from people and communities actively resisting histories of colonization since time immemorial. Hosted by Dirk Whitebreast, Kevin Sur, and more KEXP DJs and special guests.
Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) is a multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and "disruptor." His work is informed by his Native identity and includes exhaustive critiques of American society, politics, popular culture and history. Through paintings, murals, performance work, filmmaking, spoken word, and more, Deal invites the viewer to confront these issues both in the present and the past tense.
In a 2018 TED Talk, Deal described his work as “honoring Indigenous experiences, challenging stereotypes, and pushing for accurate representations of Indigenous people in art.” It is in these "disruptions" of stereotypes and ahistorical representations which Deal uses the term to describe his work. Gregg Deal has exhibited his work at notable institutions both locally, nationally, and internationally including the Denver Art Museum, RedLine Gallery, and The Smithsonian Institution. The artist currently lives with his wife and five children along the Front Range of Colorado.
