Eric-Paul Riege: Durational Performance + Talk

To mark the opening weekend of , the Henry invites you to a performance and conversation with Eric-Paul Riege.

Durational Performance by Eric-Paul Riege*
11 AM – 1:30 PM
Upper Level Galleries

Eric-Paul Riege in Conversation with Thea Quiray Tagle and Nina Bozicnik
2 – 3 PM
Auditorium

Join us in the galleries for an immersive performance by Eric-Paul Riege. Working in close concert with exhibition objects, Riege utilizes performance as a means of care and relationality among materials and objects. At once haptic and visceral, Riege will perform his self-described “weaving dances” as an extension of his world building across and within exhibitions.

After the performance, Riege will be joined by co-curators, Thea Quiray Tagle and Nina Bociznik, for an in-depth conversation about the connections among his research, practice, and performance.

*During the performance, visitors are welcome to arrive and/or leave as needed. Limited in-gallery seating will be available.

Eric-Paul Riege (Diné) is a weaver and fiber artist working in collage, durational performance, installation, woven sculpture, and wearable art. Using weaving as both means and metaphor to tell hybrid tales that interlace stories from Diné spirituality with his own interpretations and cosmology, he understands his artworks as animate and mobile. His practice pays homage and links him to generations of weavers in his family who aid him in generating spaces of sanctuary. Riege’s recent solo exhibitions include iiZiiT [3]: RIEGE Jewelry + Supply at Canal Projects, New York (2025), Hammer Projects: Eric Paul Riege at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022–2023), and Hól ́ǫ—it xistz at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (2019). His recent group exhibitions include the 24th Biennale of Sydney in Australia (2024), Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination (2023), Prospect.5 Triennial in New Orleans (2022), and the Toronto Biennial of Art (2022). He holds a BFA in Art Studio and Ecology from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. His work is collected by Forge Project and ICA Miami, among others. He is represented by Bockley Gallery (MN) and STARS Gallery (CA). Riege is a member of the Charcoal Streaked Division of the Red Running Into the Water clan. He was born and is based in Na’nízhoozhí [Gallup, New Mexico].

Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD (she/her) is a Filipinx femme curator, writer, and transdisciplinary scholar of visual studies, ethnic studies, and queer studies. Within and between these roles, Thea remains invested in amplifying the worldmaking potential of installation, photography, performance, and socially-engaged art made by BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and immigrant artists and communities. Her arts criticism and academic essays have been published in outlets including Hyperallergic, frieze, BOMB Magazine, American Quarterly, and Verge: Studies in Global Asia. While working as an Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Washington Bothell, Thea curated exhibitions and performances in the PNW at The Alice, Vachon Gallery at Seattle University, and Feast Arts Center. She was co-curator of New York Now: Home (2023), the inaugural contemporary photography triennial at the Museum of the City of New York. Most recently, Thea was the Associate Curator of The Bell at Brown University, where she curated exhibitions, performances, residencies, and public programs by artists including Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Autumn Knight + SA Smythe (THEYFXRST), Eric-Paul Riege, Barbara T. Smith, Jasmine Thomas-Girvan, Julie Tolentino, Carrie Mae Weems, and Dorian Wood. www.theaquiraytagle.com.

Nina Bozicnik is the Senior Curator at the Henry Art Gallery, the contemporary art museum on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. Bozicnik joined the Henry in 2014 and during her ten-year tenure, she has worked extensively with contemporary artists on a national and international scale through commissions and organized exhibitions of loans as well as works from the Henry Collection. Previous to joining the Henry, Bozicnik was the assistant curator at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire and was the Koch Curatorial Fellow at the De Cordova Sculpture Park + Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Bozicnik received an MA in Art History, Museum Studies at Tufts University and a BA in Art History, Arts Management at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Her curatorial work advances a feminist and queer perspective rooted in questions related to the body, environment, agency, and knowledge production.

Accessibility

The Henry strives to be a welcoming and accessible space for all visitors. Assisted Listening Devices (ALDs) will be available for the talk. For additional accessibility information, please visit henryart.org/visit/accessibility or contact Museum Services at 206.221.3850 or Y29udGFjdC1tdXNldW1zZXJ2aWNlcyB8IGhlbnJ5YXJ0ICEgb3Jn with questions or needs.

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