My Achievements

Bob Haozous is a man with a mission, or two. Some thirty years ago he set out to be a damn good sculptor. He has since achieved this, successfully wedding Native and especially Apache imagery with powerful form and a sharp, unequivocal wit aimed at contemporary American life, at “the white man in all of us.” Between them, he and his father – the deeply respected artist Allan Houser – have defined the range of Native American sculpture.

BOB HAOZOUS

(b. 1943, Los Angeles, CA)

Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache

Selected Public Collections

• City of Tampa, Tampa, FL
• Seahawk Stadium, City of Seattle, WA
• Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
• The British Museum, London, England
• City of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
• Daybreak Star Arts Center, Seattle, WA
• Dresdner Bank AG, Stuttgart, Germany
• The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
• Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
• The Hopewell Foundation, New York City, NY
• Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
• Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
• Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM
• Stadmuseum Münster, Münster, Germany
• Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
• Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
• Sky Harbor Airport, City of Phoenix, AZ
• Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, OK
• Trondheim Sjofartsmuseum, Trondheim, Norway
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
• University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
• University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
• Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM

Selected Group Exhibitions

2002

American Craft Museum, New York, NY – Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation

2001

La Biennale di Venezia (49th Exhibition), Venice, Italy – Umbilicus, 2nd Sovereign Native American Group Exhibition

2000

Roswell Museum and Art Center, NM – Two Apaches, Two Visions (with Oliver Enjady)

University of New Mexico – Cultural Crossroads of the Americas (censored sculpture)

Westphalian State Museum, Germany – Indian Reality Today

1999

La Biennale di Venezia (48th Exhibition), Venice, Italy – Ceremonial, 1st Sovereign Native American Group Exhibition

Bridges and Boundaries, Bonn & Görlitz, Germany (USIS and US Embassy-sponsored)

1997

Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, The White House, Washington, DC – Twentieth Century American Sculpture (curated by the Heard Museum)

Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM – Curatorial Selections

1996

Peace Art Show: Atomic Synthesis & Social Fallout from New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque United Artists, Japan Tour – Art from the Birthplace of the Atomic Bomb (Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki)

1995

Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ – Group Show

Socrates Park Sculpture Garden, Long Island, NY

1993

Trondheim Sjofartsmuseum, Trondheim, Norway – Variety

1992

Castillo Cultural Center, New York, NY – Quincentennial Perspective: Artists Discover Columbus

The Morning Star Foundation, Washington, DC – Visions from Native America

Shared Visions – National traveling exhibition including:

• The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
• Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
• Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, OK
• Oregon Art Institute, Portland, OR
• National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY
• 1988
• Galería Expositum, Mexico City, Mexico
• 1985
• Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK – What is Native Art?
• Grand Palais, Paris, France – Native American Art Exhibition
• 1984
• Indianische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert – Exhibited across eight German museums
• 1983
• The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ – Houser and Haozous: A Sculptural Retrospective