
Photograph courtesy of Google, Mountain View CA
Angelica Trimble-Yanu, born and raised in Oakland,California is an enrolled member of the Oglála Lakȟóta Sioux Nation from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Angelica is a Curator, Designer and Visual Artist. She holds a Bachelors in Fine Art & Printmaking from The Pacific Northwest College of Art. Angelica’s work has been exhibited at various venues such as The De Young Museum, MarinMOCA and the Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello during the 2022 Venice Art Biennale. Angelica was nominated for the esteemed SFMOMA SECA Award in 2023 shortly after her first Solo Exhibition, BLACK SUN at San Francisco’s MRKT Gallery. Her interdisciplinary and community based practice has lead her to numerous public residencies, exhibitions and artist talks with the Museum Of Archaeology Alabama, Google, The De Young Museum, The Institute of Contemporary Art SF, The Berkeley Art Center, Kala Art Institute, Oregon State University, and Santa Clara University. Her talent has been acknowledged through various awards, including two accolades in writing and printmaking from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and an Expert Printmaking Award from Zealous England. Her talent has garnished attention by various publications, both locally and internationally, including The Palo Alto Daily, Urban Life Wash Park Magazine, Diablo Magazine, The Oregonian, Divide Art Magazine and PBS Newshour.
Recent News & Career Highlights:
PBS News Hour: Indigenous artists on reclaiming authenticity
Urban Life Wash Park Magazine: Angelica Trimble-Yanu
Angelica Trimble-Yanu BFA’19 brings together tradition and technology for the artwork in Google’s new flagship store
Interview with Creative Director, Emily Bolles For ARTBUDS in Portland Oregon 2020
Photographs by Emily Bolles
Emily Bolles: Who are your inspirations?
Angelica: “James Lavadour, A painter and Printmaker from Walla Walla, Washington. Lavadours landscapes introduced me to a new perspective of landscape. how landscape can serve as a vessel for communication and tradition, how can landscape serve as visual language. I am influenced by his first collaborative sculpture with the Walla Walla Foundry. “Ruby Lift” I am interested in Lavadours process in this particular piece. Lavadour took his paintings and translated them into 3D forms through digital process. He photographed and scanned his painting through a digital architecture program. He then rendered a 3D map through the painting. Lavadour’s brush strokes from the black and white abstract painting transformed into a three dimensional topographic reality of the Columbia River. The Columbia is a sacred space for him and his ancestors. I am interested in this reflection of intuitive and collective memory Indigenous nations have to their ancestral homelands. The marks transformed physically into who he is and where he is from. the mark making he used reflected his sacred homelands in Walla Walla, Washington. James experienced an unexpected phenomena with the uncanny reflection of his tribes homeland within the physical dimensions of Ruby LIft.”
At Home in Portland, Oregon with Angelica Trimble-Yanu