Cannupa Hanska Luger's "American Traditional" at Garth Greenan Gallery

Key facts

• Cannupa Hanska Luger's exhibition "American Traditional" is on view at Garth Greenan Gallery in Soho.
• The show departs from Luger's participatory, ceramics-heavy projects, featuring wood, ink, and archive.
• Luger was born on the Standing Rock Reservation and is an enrolled citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation.
• The work "Requiem" (2026) places a black abstracted bison atop a blackened rendering of a 19th-century American wood dining table.
• Another work in the show is titled "Shoots Today, Kills Tomorrow" (2026).
• Cree scholar Tasha Hubbard characterizes the bison slaughter as a genocide by proxy and a "second major wave of trauma for Plains Indigenous peoples."
• Colonel Richard Irving Dodge said, "every buffalo dead is an Indian gone."
• General Philip H. Sheridan in 1875 opposed a Texas bison protection bill, as recorded by hunter John R. Cook.
• The review references a 2026 encounter at the Baltimore Museum of Art with an 1892 image of two men with a hill of buffalo skulls, covered by a curtain by Yurok artist Stormi Turner for the "Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum" exhibition.
• Mari Sandoz's 1954 book "The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men" is cited for its account of bison abundance before European settlers.