Heidi K. Brandow

Artist, Curator · Association for Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums

Santa Fe, NM, USA

Heidi K. Brandow (Diné, Kanaka Maoli) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work centers Indigenous stories, knowledge, and perspectives. Working across painting, drawing, textiles, and collaboration, she connects lived histories and ancestral knowledge with contemporary experience. She co-founded the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective, which advocates for Indigenous design within the discipline's history, theory, and future. Brandow holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, studied industrial design at Istanbul Technical University, and earned a Master of Design Studies from Harvard University.