Tony Abeyta

Contemporary Diné painter Tony Abeyta is knowns for mixed media paintings and oil southwestern landscapes. The youngest of seven children of a Diné painter and code talker, Narcisco Abeyta (Ha So De), and a Quaker ceramicist and weaver, Sylvia Ann, Tony Abeyta was born in 1965 in Gallup, New Mexico. He studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe where he received an Associate of Fine Arts degree in 1986 then earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999. After college, he studied in France and Italy before earning a Master of Fine Arts from New York University in 2004. His awards include an honorary doctorate from the Institute of American Indian Arts, the 2012 New Mexico Governor's Excellence in the Arts Award, and recognition as a Native treasure by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. His work is in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, Boston Fine Arts Museum, Denver Art Museum, and the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. He currently works in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Berkeley, California.