Home Artist Programs Supported Artists Eric-Paul Riege

Eric-Paul Riege

Gallup, New Mexico

iiZiiT [3]: Riege Jewelry + Supply is a performance and installation in which a person with face obscured in dark regalia and headdress crouches in front of oversized hanging beaded forms made of black and white textiles.

iiZiiT [3]: Riege Jewelry + Supply

2025

Hólǫ́ llUllUHIbI [duet] is an installation of large hanging sculptures with stacked cylindrical shapes and draped materials, resembling oversized necklaces and beaded forms, displayed symmetrically in a white-walled gallery space.

Hólǫ́ llUllUHIbI [duet]

2022 - 2023

+ [pronounced t’] is a sculptural installation of black and white components suspended from the ceiling featuring stylized ram sculptures, rows of tall cylindrical white candle-like forms above black cylinders, extending in iterations from a central vertical structure made of stacked disks.

+ [pronounced t’]

2021 - 2022

A person stands with bare tattooed arms, wearing a large, elaborate symmetrical headdress with hanging white ropes, long black fringe, and padded sections, obscuring their face and upper body.

regalia for Hólo ́–it xistz and ...Son, yáázh, mijo...

2019

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Eric-Paul Riege

Eric-Paul Riege stands in a room with artwork and materials. He is a Diné/Navajo man with long dark hair, and wears black and white paint with a bead and wire jewelry across his nose. Around his neck is a thick white coil with a large black medallion with 4 crosses.

Eric-Paul Riege (Diné/Navajo) works in woven sculpture, installation, and performance. He celebrates the ancestral stories in weaving, language, and adornment passed down from his maternal family. As a descendent of this knowledge, Riege honors the Diné worldview of hózhó, which encompasses the values of beauty, balance, and goodness in all things physical and spiritual. What results are sensorial projects built in homage to ceremony, cosmology, and craft. Riege's recent solo exhibitions include Canal Projects (NY), Hammer Museum (CA), and ICA Miami (FL). Recent group exhibitions include The 24th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Toronto Biennial of Art; and Prospect.5: New Orleans Triennial. He received his BFA in Studio Art and Ecology, with a minor in Navajo Language and Linguistics, from the University of New Mexico. Riege lives and works in his hometown Na’nízhoozhí (Gallup, New Mexico).

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2025

Website / Social Links

“ I am a descendent of weavers and fiber artists extending back to Na'ashjé'ii Asdzáá (Spider Woman), a Holy Person who protects Diné peoples and taught us how to weave. All of my practice exists as a form of weaving.”