Tony A. Tiger

Tony Tiger is an enrolled member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma with Muscogee Creek and Seminole lineage. He is an artist, independent Indigenous art curator and art educator. His exhibitions projects include, Speak: Speak While You Can (focused on the revitalization of Indigenous languages in Oklahoma) on view at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History University of Oklahoma in August 2024 and Return From Exile: Contemporary Southeastern Indian Art 2015-2017 (with colleague Bobby C. Martin on the art of the removed First Americans from ancestral homelands from the southeast United States after the Indian Removal Act of 1830). Tiger earned his Master of Fine Art degree from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, and completed his undergraduate studies with a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. Tiger is the former director of art and assistant professor at Bacone College, Muscogee, Oklahoma. His art is included in private and public collections in North America and abroad, including the Ford Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma; the Museum of Contemporary Native Art Santa Fe, New Mexico and the First American Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Tiger is currently participating in the group exhibition Reclaiming Home: Contemporary Seminole Art at the Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota, Florida and Altars of Reconciliation at the Knights of Columbus Museum New Haven, Connecticut. He is represented by the Exhibit C Gallery in Oklahoma City, the Sunset Ridge Gallery Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and the Rain Maker Gallery Bristol, United Kingdom.