Nayana Lafond
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TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Anishinaabe
MEDIUM: Painting/Illustration
BIOGRAPHY
Nayana LaFond is a multi-disciplinary artist and human rights advocate living and working in Massachusetts. She attended Greenfield community college for fine art and Mass College of art for Photography. Primarily a painter Nayana is also a sculptor and curator serving as former primary curator for The Whitney Center for The Arts. Nayana also serves on the executive board of directors of Artist Organized Art, is an advisory board member for the Native Youth Empowerment fund and sits on the board of several other arts and non arts organizations. Nayana's paintings and sculptures can be seen in museums and galleries all over the world. She is best known for her ongoing painting series titled "Portraits in RED; Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples Painting Project" for which she makes absolutely no profit. Nayana is an enrolled citizen of the Metis Nation of Ontario with roots in the historic Red River Settlement and has additional First Nation and non indigenous descent.
