Jeremy Dennis: Persisting on the Land
Shinnecock Nation artist Jeremy Dennis discusses Indigenous perspectives on land, persistence, and visual storytelling at Grey Art Museum.
Why we picked this
Dennis photographs Shinnecock land and life with the eye of someone who belongs to both the place and the contemporary art world — the result is documentation that's also assertion.
Jeremy Dennis, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and a visual artist working primarily in photography, speaks at Grey Art Museum about land, persistence, and the practice of making Indigenous life visible on its own terms. His work documents Shinnecock territory on Long Island and the broader experience of Native presence in a landscape that often pretends that presence doesn’t exist.
Dennis’s photographs are both documentary and conceptual — they record places and people while also making arguments about sovereignty, visibility, and continuity. The talk at Grey Art Museum situates his practice within broader conversations about Indigenous contemporary art, land rights, and the politics of representation.
Free and open to the public.