Native Labs

kadetwist@nativelabs.com

Kade L. Twist is a multi-disciplinary artist working with video, installation, sound, text and two-dimensional media. Mr. Twist’s work embeds Indigenous postcolonial narratives within a contemporary landscape of American popular culture and consumerism. Twist’s new series of two-dimensional work, The First Syntax Rebellion, is available at Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art. His mixed-media installation, Just As I Am, was recently accessioned into the Arizona State University Art Museum’s permanent collection. Twist’s multi-media installation work is currently featured in Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian. He is one of the co-founders of Postcommodity, a contemporary American Indian artist collective working to advance postcolonial Indigenous discourse through collaborative, interdisciplinary, transborder actions. Twist received the 2007 Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award for his poetry manuscript, Amazing Grace. Twist graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BA in American Indian studies, with an emphasis on tribal policy and economic development. Twist has worked in Washington DC as a tribal telecommunications policy analyst for the Benton Foundation and the Native Networking Policy Center. He is currently a member of the Federal Communications Commission Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age. Twist is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.