image by Will Wilson

image by Will WIlson

TIMOTHY WHITE EAGLE

EDUCATION
BFA, Theater Stage Management, U of Utah, 1990

PERFORMANCES

Indian School Avant-Premier – On the Boards, Seattle, Nov 2024

The Indigo Room National Tour | 2023-2024
Presented at: University of Utah, Salt Lake – Texas A&M, College Station – Under the Radar Festival, La Mama ETC, NYC

Sacrifier les Vivants Performance as part of Daniel Alexander’s I Choose to Remember Us Whole exhibition at University of WA - 2023

Revival Expanded version of The Indigo Room – immersive theater installation – On The Boards, Seattle, March 2022

The Dead House Installed space/performance | Town Hall, Seattle, June 2021

Death and Mourning After Virtual Presentation – part of Reflections of Native Voices: International Indigenous Performance Festival | NYC, February 2021

Columbus Bon Voyage Public ritual performance | Columbus Circle, NYC, 2015

Cabaret of Despair Host/Performer/Sole Proprietor | Coffee Messiah, Seattle, 1995-2000

Collaborative Performances

Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce Touring Cast Member | 2019

Border Crossing with Guillermo Gómez-Peña | Bellwether Arts Festival, Bellevue, 2018

In the Tall Trees with Mandy Greer | Bellwether Arts Festival, Bellevue, 2018

A 24-Decade History of American Popular Music, Consultant, Performer, and Artistic Director for The Dandy Minions – collaborated with MacArthur Fellow Taylor Mac on Indigenous content, performer in NYC premiere, and Artistic Director for international tour | 2016

EXHIBITIONS OF VISUAL ART/DESIGN

Kintecoying Now: Performances, Projections and Presentations CultureHub NYC, Fall 2024
I Choose To Remember Us Whole: University of Washington Curated by Daniel Alexander 2023
Identity: Identity featuring photos and objects from /the White Room Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington Indiana, Fall 2022
Let It Happen Environment designer, Seattle Repertory Theater, Fall, 2021
There Comes A Time When You Have to Give Them Back/What Remains, Cal Anderson Park, AIDS Memorial Project, Seattle, 2019
The Events Set Designer, Intiman Theater, Seattle 2019
The Living and the Dead retrospective exhibition in collaboration with photographer Adrain Chesser, Oxbow Gallery, Seattle WA, 2019
Hir Co-Set Designer, Intiman Theater, Seattle 2018
The Red Room, Installed Public Space/performance/Solo, Seattle Studio, 2017
The White Room Installed Public Space/performance/Solo, Seattle Studio 2016
Artifact from The Return Hofburg Palace, Invitational exhibition, Vienna, Austria, 2014
Wayfinder : Forging Identity U of the Arts, Invitational exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, 2013
Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers Blue Sky Gallery, Invitational Group Exhibition, Portland, OR, 2013
Beyond The Western Lands SOIL Gallery, Invitational Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA, 2012
Intersections Western Washington University, Group Show, Bellingham, WA, 2012
Mars vs Venus : Images of Male and Female Greg Kucera Gallery, Invitational Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA, 2011
The Stalking the Wild Asparagus The Print Center, Invitational Group Show Philadelphia, PA 2010
Suggestions of A Life Being Lived SF Camerawork, Featured artist-Invitational Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, 2010
Fototage Trier Viehmarktthermen, Invitational Group show, Trier, Germany, 2010

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS

Rain Shed Installed Space, Outdoor gazebo for amplifying the presence of rain, WWT/SEA, Installation Date 2025
Songs for the Standing Still People Installed space, a central pavilion for the Yehaw group show at King Street Station, Commissioned by Na’ah Illaha Fund, with additional support from Yehaw Indigenous Collective and Seattle Office of Arts and culture. March 2019
Sometimes You Have to Give Them Back Cal Anderson Park, AMP Pathway, first project was destroyed less than 72 hours after installation. In response I created a new nearly indestructible project, What Remains. 2019 and 2020.

CULTURAL WORK

Member, Board of Directors, Naraya Cultural Preservation Council between the years of 2012 and 2018, Advisory Committee 2018 to present The Council is dedicated to preservation of Indigenous cultures in the inner mountain west
Since 2015, I have served as Ceremonial Dance Chief for the Naraya, Dance of All People
Member, Board of Directors, On the Boards, 2015 to 2018 Seattle, WA

AWARDS/GRANTS

Artist Trust, GAP Fund 2024
MAP Fund, Indian School 2023
4Culture, Project Grant, Indian School, 2023
4Culture, Project Grant, The Indigo Room 2021
City Artist Award, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 2020, 2023
Western Artist Association/Advancing Indigenous Performance LaunchPad/Career Development Award 2019-2022
“Best Photo Books of the Year 2014” for The Return from PDN, FLAKPhoto and Photo Eye

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Wiliam P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence, Guild Hall East Hampton, August 2024
Town Hall, Spring/Summer Seattle, 2021
La Mama Experimental Theater Club NYC, Winter 2020/Spring 2021
Oxbow Gallery “the Living and the Dead” Seattle, August 2019
PICA Creative Exchange Lab, Portland, 2019
On the Boards, Seattle 2018/2019 season

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

The Norton Museum of Art, Permanent Photography Collection
Washington State Arts Commission, “Art in Public Places” Collection

BOOKS

The Return, Daylight Publication, 2014

MAGAZINES

Hyperallergic, Yehaw, 2019
Venison, “How to Give a Shit”, 2017
Vice, “The Return” Published internationally in 7 languages, 2014
RFD 1Q 2019, 3Q 2018, 1Q 2015
Foto Artist, Cover Story, 2014