Artist, educator, writer and curator George Longfish (b.1942) has been influential in contemporary Native American art for more than five decades. Born in Ontario, Canada, he earned his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1970 and 1972. Longfish joined the University of California, Davis, in 1973, teaching in the Department of Native American Studies until his retirement in 2003. He also served for many years as director of the C.N. Gorman Museum, now the Gorman Museum of Native American Art, helping establish it as an important venue for contemporary Indigenous artists. Drawing on abstraction, Indigenous visual traditions and what he calls “warrior information,” Longfish creates vivid paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures that combine Native imagery with commercial symbols and popular culture. Often pointed and humorous, his work confronts colonization, stereotypes and the commodification of Native identity while asserting Indigenous culture as living, adaptive and resolutely contemporary.