Hollis Chitto (Choctaw and Laguna Pueblo)

Hollis Chitto

Hollis Chitto (Choctaw and Laguna Pueblo) is a Two-Spirit Indigenous artist whose beadwork practice is rooted in a deep family legacy of artmaking. His grandmother was a beadworker who created and sold her work to support her family, and his father was a painter and illustrator who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before coming to Santa Fe to study at IAIA. His mother comes from the village of Seama in Laguna, New Mexico, home of Arroh-ah-och, a celebrated Two-Spirit potter who lived at the turn of the twentieth century. Chitto sees his work as a continuation of this lineage, bringing spiritual teachings into the physical world through beauty, materiality, and contemporary beadwork.