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Eric-Paul Riege

He // Him // His

Maker, Performer, and Weaver

Na'nízhoozhí, Gallup, New Mexico

A man with long hair wears a taped headdress made from a burnt felting rolling mat and a soft sculpture tube and stares intensely at the camera.

Photo courtesy of the artist.

I honor the Diné (Navajo) worldview of hózhó which encompasses the values of beauty, balance, and goodness in all things physical and spiritual and its bearing on everyday experience.”

Eric-Paul Riege (Diné/Navajo) is a weaver and fiber artist working in collage, durational performance, installation, woven sculpture, and wearable art. Using weaving as both means and metaphor to tell hybrid tales that interlace stories from Diné spirituality with his own interpretations and cosmology, Riege understands his artworks as animate and mobile. His practice pays homage and links him to generations of weavers in his family who aid him in generating spaces of sanctuary.

Riege’s recent solo exhibitions include ojo|-|ólǫ́ at the Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence (2025) traveling to Henry Gallery in Seattle (2026), iiZiiT [3]: RIEGE Jewelry + Supply at Canal Projects, New York (2025), Hammer Projects: Eric Paul Riege at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022–2023), and Hólǫ ́ —it xistz at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (2019). His recent group exhibitions include the 24th Biennale of Sydney in Australia (2024), Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination (2023–2026), Prospect.5 Triennial in New Orleans (2022), and the Toronto Biennial of Art (2022). 

His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Hammer Museum, ICA Miami, LACMA, Denver Art Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Forge Project, among others.

He received his BFA in Studio Art and Ecology, with a minor in Navajo Language and Linguistics, from the University of New Mexico. Riege was born and is based in Na’nízhoozhí (Gallup, New Mexico).

Donor -This award was generously supported by Ford Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 01.14.2026

A male artist wearing a mask performs with large monochromatic soft sculptures that are hanging from the ceiling. The artist sways and moves and dances with these plush sculptures, often wearing them and dancing among and within the audience.

iiZiiT [3]: Riege Jewelry + Supply by Eric-Paul Riege, 2025. Opening performance and reception at Canal Projects, January 31, 2025.

Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk, courtesy of the artist and Canal Projects.

Large monochromatic sculptures made from fabric, wool, hides, and yarn hang from the ceiling to the floor. These works are inspired by the Navajo artist's family and community and creation stories. Many of these sculptures are inspired by and resemble jewelry, particularly earrings, that viewers are allowed to touch.

Installation view of Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|ólǫ́, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, 2025.

Photo by Julia Featheringill, courtesy of the artist and The Bell / Brown Arts Institute.

A still from from Hólǫ́—it xistz, a five-hour "weaving dance" by Eric-Paul Riege

Excerpts from Hólǫ́—it xistz, a five-hour "weaving dance" by Eric-Paul Riege on the occasion of his debut solo museum presentation at ICA Miami.