Tamara Aupaumut is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist living on Mni Sota Makoce, also known as Minneapolis, MN. She descends from the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, the Oneida Nation, and the Brothertown Indian Nation. Her creative practice is guided by an epistemological and ontological framework, including what she terms "dream-epistemology," and engages critically with concepts of memory, belonging, interrelationship, space and time. Central to her research and artistic production is the enduring influence of her cultural heritage and ancestral lineage, which often serve as foundational elements in the development of her visual concepts. She continues to create a collection of multidisciplinary works, This Land Is My Body, that speaks to the healing connection between the land and our bodies.
Aupaumut’s work has been exhibited at All My Relations Arts and the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, regionally in the Midwest at the Watermark Art Center and Plains Art Museum, and in New York at the Albany Institute of History and Art and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Tamara was honored as the recipient of the 2025 Jim Denomie Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a Native artist who best exemplifies the values Jim demonstrated in his own career: commitment to excellence; generosity of spirit; and engagement in community.
