#38 • Tia KeoBounpheng

Part of NDMOA: 29th Annual Autumn Art Auction (live auction by AcrePro )

Starting at $500.00

Status: Available

Lot 38 Tia KeoBounpheng Minneapolis, Minnesota Intention no. 4, 2023 Pencil, colored pencil 20 x 15 inches $700 – 900 Tia Keobounpheng (b. 1977) is a Minneapolis-based multimedia artist who draws from historic, ancestral, and epigenetic influences. Her art reflects a journey of personal reconciliation with her Finnish and Sámi heritage. Keobounpheng holds a BA in Architecture from the University of Minnesota. Her work has been widely exhibited nationally including recent solo exhibitions Revealing Threads, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (2023), Muitit at the Armory Show in New York (2025), and Gullat at Weinstein Hammons Gallery in Minneapolis (2026). Just completing a summer residency in Kunstkvarteret Lofoten, Norway, she is now heading to Madison, Wisconsin, as a 2027 artist-in-residence at Tandem Press. As described by the artist, Geometry becomes the cipher for a transformed worldview, a universal language that defines the abstract world where I am free to unlearn dominance and imagine reciprocity. My practice moves in tandem with my ongoing reconnection to Sámi land, relatives, language, and culture. With responsibility, I try to honor my ancestors and their indigenous perspectives, however broad or specific, by expressing a relationship with the natural world that was nearly erased from my consciousness along with them.