Eric-Paul Riege at Burke Artist Studio

To celebrate the opening weekend of Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|ólǫ́, visit the artist offsite at the Burke Artist Studio, located in the Northwest Native Art Gallery at the Burke Museum, just a few blocks from the Henry. As part of Free First Thursday at the Burke, visitors will have the chance to watch the artist at work and speak with Riege about his process.

ojo|-|ólǫ́ is based on Eric-Paul Riege’s material research and engagement with the Navajo collections held by the Burke Museum, as well as the Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. The resulting new body of work is informed by ancestral knowledge and traditions contained within Indigenous objects, and which aims, in part, to redress practices of cultural dispossession by museums and other institutions.

Eric-Paul Riege (Diné) is a weaver and fiber artist working in collage, durational performance, installation, woven sculpture, and wearable art. Using weaving as both means and metaphor to tell hybrid tales that interlace stories from Diné spirituality with his own interpretations and cosmology, he understands his artworks as animate and mobile. His practice pays homage and links him to generations of weavers in his family who aid him in generating spaces of sanctuary. Riege’s recent solo exhibitions include iiZiiT [3]: RIEGE Jewelry + Supply at Canal Projects, New York (2025), Hammer Projects: Eric Paul Riege at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022–2023), and Hól ́ǫ—it xistz at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (2019). His recent group exhibitions include the 24th Biennale of Sydney in Australia (2024), Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination (2023), Prospect.5 Triennial in New Orleans (2022), and the Toronto Biennial of Art (2022). He holds a BFA in Art Studio and Ecology from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. His work is collected by Forge Project and ICA Miami, among others. He is represented by Bockley Gallery (MN) and STARS Gallery (CA). Riege is a member of the Charcoal Streaked Division of the Red Running Into the Water clan. He was born and is based in Na’nízhoozhí [Gallup, New Mexico].