darylina powderface
Bio: darylina powderface is an interdisciplinary artist and storyteller from the Iyarhe Nakoda Nation, including one of the four nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Siksika Nation. Community engagement has been central to her practice, reflected in collaborations with Indigenous-led organizations including Savage Society, Full Circle: First Nations Performance, and 2 Rivers Remix Society, as well as the Arts Council of New Westminster and Leaky Heaven Performance. She’s performed in ensemble works with Spiderwoman Theater, and Safe Harbors NYC. Her latest experimental short screened at ICA Boston in 2025 and 2026, the Blue Sky Documentary Film Festival in February 2026, and will be making its way to Portland, Oregon, at the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. She also created a documentary series on Indigenous food sovereignty, in partnership with Full Circle: First Nations Performance, which has yet to be screened.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Working across multiple mediums, including theatre, movement, video, animation, and painting, my practice explores spatial, temporal, and embodied experience– weaving memory, land, and language into immersive, transformative expressions. I reflect deeply about relationality, and how objects, place, space, plants, humans, and more-than-human beings are constituted by a web of relations that are underpinned by culturally embedded practices.
darylina powderface
stoney nakoda/blackfoot
twelve components, 2026
Amber and ash wooden poles, wood shaving bundles, satin ribbon, my ancestors stories
Courtesy of the artist
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twelve components, 2026
Multi-channel video installation with directional audio and digital video, my ancestors stories 11 min. looped
Courtesy of the artist, music by Ásalaus
First Year Exhibition
Darylin Powderface
Two-channel video with sound
11 min., 13 sec.
Courtesy of the artist