Armond Lara

(American | Navajo, born 1939)

Artist Armond Lara is a contemporary artist of Navajo and Mexican descent. His artworks often include handmade paper, found objects, and mixed media including traditional Navajo beadwork that is sewn onto the canvas. He creates paintings, collages, fetish objects, and marionettes.

Lara studied at the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Glendale College in California. He also studied at the University of Washington in Seattle where he was influenced by the Northwest artist, Paul Horiuchi. He lived in Seattle for many years during the 1960s and 70s and worked in the aerospace industry and later in arts administration. He helped to establish the 1% for the Arts program in Seattle in 1973. Lara currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His art is in many collections in the United States and Europe, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Eiteljorg Museum of Western and American Indian Art in Indiana, and more.