Working in a variety of media, which includes painting, drawing and sculpture, Ishi Glinsky investigates the traditional practices of his tribe, the Tohono O’odham Nation, as well as other North American First Nations to create contemporary homages to sacred events and customs. These investigations often consist of a close study of the history and significance of a craft tradition, the committed apprenticeship of its technique, and its assimilation or transformation within Glinsky’s artistic practice. Each immersive installation, sculpture or painting is a fusion of intertribal celebration and resourcefulness, permanence, or evolution, all of which is intimately reflected in the carefully crafted material nature and composition of a given work. A strategy common to Glinsky’s production consists of creating disproportionate shifts in scale to both amplify Indigenous practices and stories, while memorializing them in the form of monuments to survival.

Ishi Glinsky is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He has exhibited at MOCA Tucson, Human Resources, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery with solo shows at These Days LA and Open Studio Tokyo, Japan and a Public art commission entitled, “Here, 2022” for the State of California at the Natural Resources Agency in Sacramento, CA. Glinsky had his first solo exhibition at Chris Sharp Gallery in 2021, he was a part of the Hammer Museum's biennial "Made in L.A.: Acts of Living" in 2023 and is currently preparing a solo show for PPOW New York for Fall 2024.