Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

(American | Diné, Seminole, and Muscogee, born 1954)

California-based artist Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (Diné, Seminole, and Muscogee) works with photography and video art. Her focus is art for Indigenous communities and Indigenous sovereignty. She notes, "I take photographs so that Native people can look at Native people."

Tsinhnahjinnie was born into the Bear Clan of the Taskigi Nation and the Tsinajinnie Clan of the Diné (Navajo) Nation. She grew up in Arizona. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1981. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of California, Irvine in 2002. Tsinhnahjinnie serves as a professor of Native American Studies and as the Director of the Gorman Museum, both at the University of California, Davis.