Kendra Greendeer, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and descendant of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, is the Ihlenfeld Curator of Collaborative and Community Exhibitions at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her research explores the work of contemporary Native American women artists who enact rematriation as a method, Indigenous museum practices, and land and materiality relations.
Dr. Greendeer received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023. She earned her M.A. in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, District of Columbia, and her B.F.A. in Museum Studies from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She recently completed a fellowship as the Paul Mellon Guest Predoctoral Fellow at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. She has also assisted with numerous exhibitions and community-based projects relating to Ho-Chunk art and history.