(Cherokee Nation enrolled, Mvskoke Creek descended)

An artist, curator, and musician, Kalyn Fay Barnoski’s work centers Indigenous and decolonial methodologies, focusing on self-location, community-building, collaboration, and empathy through the use of music, publication, storytelling, and contemporary craft.

Barnoski is Assistant Curator, Native American Art, at the Philbrook Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include Trade & Transformation. Barnoski holds an M.F.A. from University of Arkansas (2021),  an M.A. from The University of Tulsa (2016), and a B.F.A. from Rogers State University (2012).