Background
Spang was born on the Crow Indian Reservation in 1960 and grew up both on and off the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, living in places such as Sitka, Alaska and Portland, Oregon.
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Bently Spang
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He graduated from Montana State University Billings and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Career
His work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Europe. He taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 2007 to 2009 as a full-time Visiting Faculty Member in Video. The University of Wyoming"s American Indian Study Program named Spang its "Eminent Artist in Residence" for the spring semester of 2014.
During this time he taught a class on Native American art and held exhibitions at the university"s art museum.
Spang now works as an independent artist and has a studio in Billings, Montana.
Achievements
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In 2003, Spang won an Outstanding Alumni Award from Moscow State University Billings for "Exceptional Contribution" and a Woodrow Wilson Foundation: Imagining America grant. The next year, he was awarded a Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Grant for his residency in conjunction with the Techno Powwow Project. Spang has also gained artist fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
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