with Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta), Cannupa Hanska Luger, and Candice Hopkins

This panel brings together Indigenous curators, artists, and collectors to discuss best practices for stewarding Indigenous art as collectors and collecting institutions. Centering Indigenous-led methodologies, the conversation will touch on research, relationship building, contracts, loaning and displaying Indigenous art.

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Bios

Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta) is an artist, composer, and scholar whose work merges Lakȟóta knowledge systems with performance, sound, sculpture, and computational media. She holds a PhD from Concordia University, Montréal. Kite is Director of the Wíhaŋble S’a Center for Indigenous AI, a National Endowment for the Humanities–designated Humanities Research Center at Bard College, where she is Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor of American & Indigenous Studies. She is also Co-PI and Co-Director of the international Abundant Intelligences Research Program. Major projects include Cosmologyscape (Creative Time, 2022–24), Dreaming with AI (Institute of American Indian Arts Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 2025), List Projects 31: Kite (MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2025), and Wičháȟpi Owihaŋke Waníča Kiŋ (Infinite Collapsing Star) (Bockley Gallery, 2025). Her work has been featured internationally at the Guatemala Biennial, Whitney Biennial, São Paulo Biennial, and the Shanghai Biennale. Kite is an enrolled citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and lives in Catskill, NY.
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Rachel Martin is a Tlingít visual artist based in New York City and also serves as Creative Director and Co-Curator of the Gochman Family Collection. 

Her artistic practice explores the intersections of contemporary and traditional Indigenous worldviews, addressing identity, culture, and representation through incisive, often provocative works. Drawing on personal experience and traditional knowledge, Martin honors matriarchal contributions and challenges conventional notions of femininity. Martin uses wit, humor, and satire as curatorial tools to provoke viewers and challenge assumptions about Indigenous identity and art. Her work itself functions as a form of curating, as she assembles and examines personal memories along with modern figures and traditional Northwest coast iconography. 

Her dual role as both an artist and curator actively allow her to actively shape new perspectives on the ever changing role of an artist. 

rachelm@goch.com | @__rachelmartin__
gochmancollection.com | @gochmancollection

Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and cultural innovator whose expansive practice introduces new methodologies, ideas, and speculative technologies rooted in Indigenous innovation. Through installation, performance, and community engagement, he uplifts cultural continuity, ecological repair, and collective care. His work is exhibited and collected internationally.

"My practice is rooted in the continuum of generations before me, the urgency for Indigenous visibility in this moment and the dreaming of Indigenous futures.” - Cannupa Hanska Luger

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Candice Hopkins
forthcoming