Bently Spang

Bently Spang is a Northern Cheyenne multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Europe.

Spang was born on the Crow Indian Reservation in 1960 and grew up both on and off the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, living in places such as Sitka, Alaska and Portland, Oregon.300 He graduated from Montana State University Billings and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of WisconsinMadison. He taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 2007 to 2009 as a fulltime Visiting Faculty Member in Video. The University of Wyomings American Indian Study Program named Spang its Eminent Artist in Residence for the spring semester of 2014. During this time he taught a class on Native American art and held exhibitions at the universitys art museum. Spang now works as an independent artist and has a studio in Billings, Montana.

Source: Wikipedia