Virgil Ortiz is an award-winning artist from Cochiti Pueblo who brings his vision of the future to life through ceramics, projection mapping, and augmented reality.
Virgil Ortiz is a renowned artist who is known as the progenitor Indigenous Futurism. He comes from a multi-generational family of potters from the Cochiti Pueblo. Ortiz's mission is to educate people about the Pueblo Revolt which was North America's first revolution, conceived and led by Po'Pay, a Native American shaman. His work is featured in some of the top international collections including the Fondation Cartier, and he recently spoke at Scope during Miami Basel Week in December 2023. In 2024 Ortiz will be a part of the Getty Museum's 2024 Pacific Standard Time exhibition, and he will have a solo exhibition of his work at the Lowe Museum in Miami that coincides with Miami Basel Week. In addition, he recently completed a new portal for Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe. During Indian Market 2024 and for two months following, Ortiz will take over [CONTAINER] and present a multidimensional exhibition that includes historic ancestral clay works, augmented reality, new video work, as well as his own contemporary clay and monumental works as a way of showcasing a new way to understand the Pueblo Revolt.