Luanne Redeye, Under The Same Sky

Luanne Redeye is a portrait and figurative artist whose work explores representation, visual storytelling, and personal archive through painting and craft-based practices. Drawing from the land, kinship, and familial histories of her home community, her work reflects themes of memory, identity, and cultural continuity. 

A citizen of the Seneca Nation and member of the Hawk Clan, Redeye grew up on the Allegany territory in Western New York. She received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of New Mexico and has participated in residencies, exhibitions, and grant-supported programs through institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Wassaic Project, and the New York State Council on the Arts. 

The solo exhibition, Under The Same Sky, features new paintings by Redeye alongside works from her Frame series with more recent work from her Resonance, Inheritances, and Liminal series, tracing recurring figures, relationships, and personal histories across multiple bodies of work. Family members and ancestral subjects reappear throughout these series in shifting contexts and forms, creating layered connections between portraiture, memory, and lived experience. Through these repeated images and evolving narratives, Redeye explores how identity and familial knowledge are continually shaped, remembered, and carried forward across generations. Together, the works highlight the interconnected nature of her practice and her ongoing engagement with Indigenous visual storytelling, personal archive, and kinship.  

Redeye is the ninth recipient of the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s Langley H. Kenzie Award, which recognizes an outstanding artist from The Sylvia L. Rosen Craft Art Biennial with a solo exhibition the following year. Luanne Redeye: Under The Same Sky is made possible through generous support from Odie and Rob Porter and an Anonymous Donor. This exhibition is also supported by Burchfield Penney Members.