Alvin Amason

Term Associate Professor of Art, Alaska Native Art
Alaska Native Art Program Coordinator
Engineering Temporary Building

(907) 786-1766
aeamason@alaska.edu

Education

M.F.A., Arizona State University
B.A., Central Washington University
M.A., Central Washington University

Biography

After high school he attended Central Washington University where he received a B.F.A degree in painting. He then attended Arizona State University and earned a M.F.A degree in painting. He worked for several years for the Navajo Nation as Art Department Chair and instructor at Navajo Community College. He had studios in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, California and Washington state. In 1992, he was offered a position as Director of Native Art at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks where he served for seventeen years. After retiring, he was asked to join the Department of Art at the University of Alaska, Anchorage and develop a Alaska Native Art curriculum.

Teaching Responsibilities

Beginning Alaska Native Art
Intermediate Alaska Native Art
Advanced Alaska Native Art

Professional & Department Service

Native Arts Coordinator
Visiting Elder Program Coordinator
BFA Committee
Community Outreach Committee

Solo Exhibitions

2012 “Open House”, Magpie Artworks, Anchorage, Alaska

“Amason and Eaton”, Magpie Artworks, Anchorage, Alaska

2009 “Brothers on the Water”, Alaska House, New York, New York

2007 “Alvin and Lena Amason”, Artique Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska

2004 “Alvin Amason & Kesler Woodward”, Well Street Art Gallery, Fairbanks, Alaska

2003 “Heart of My Home”, Decker Morris Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska

Group Exhibitions

2016 “UAA Faculty Exhibition”, Kimura Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska

2013 “Re/Marks”, works from the collection of the Anchorage Museum at Rasmusen Center, Anchorage, Alaska

2011 “The Alaskans”, Masks at the Stonington Gallery, Seattle, Washington

2009 “United Nation’s Permanent Forum on Indigenous”, New York, New York

2005 “N.Y.C Alaska”, New York, New York

“Native Arts Now”, Kenai Culture Center, Kenai, Alaska

2004 “Native Art Invitational”, Well Street Art Gallery, Fairbanks, Alaska

2003 “Gallery Artist” ,Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, Alaska

“Shaped by Design”, Anchorage Museum at Rasmusen Center, Anchorage, Alaska

2001 “Alaska Native Contemporary Art” , Anchorage Museum at Rasmusen Center, Anchorage, Alaska

“Gallery Artist Show” Decker/Morris Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska

2000 “Art in Two Worlds”, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

Collections

Institute of American Indian Art , Santa Fe, New Mexico
National Collection of France at Chatau-Muse’e, Boulogne-sur-mer, France
Clark Middle School, Anchorage, Alaska
Alyeska Pipeline Company, Corporate Collection, Anchorage, Alaska
Koniag Native Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska
Doyon Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska
University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
His Holiness, Patriarch Aleksy II, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark 
U.S. Government Services Administration, Federal Bldg., Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska Indian Arts and Craft Board, Department of Interior, Washington D.C.
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
State of Alaska Art Bank, Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage, Alaska