Sonya Kelliher-Combs is an artist and curator who lives and works in Anchorage. Kelliher-Combs’ work is currently on view in An Indigenous Present, co-organized by Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter at the ICA Boston through March 8. In 2025, her work was included in the exhibitions ALOHA NŌ, Hawai’i Triennial 2025, Shifting Landscapes, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Smoke In Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. Additionally in 2025, Kelliher-Combs was the recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman grant. Past awards and fellowships include the United States Artists Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Fellowship, Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, Rasmuson Fellowship, Anchorage Mayor’s Arts Award, and the Alaska Governor’s Individual Artist Award. In 2024, Mark, the first major monograph of her work, was published by Hirmer Verlag, edited by Julie Decker, PhD. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Anchorage Museum, Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Forge Project, Taghkanic, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, National Museum of the American Indian, New York, University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.