Career
Although born Taos Pueblo, Sanchez was raised in Whiteriver, Arizona on the White Mountain Apache Reservation, and was named by the Ojibway. In Winnipeg he met Daphne Odjig, who had opened up the Warehouse Gallery in the early 1970s (now the Wahsa Gallery and currently owned by Gary Scherbain, the Winnipeg Free Press Reporter who originally dubbed the PNIAA the "Indian Group of Seven"). He exhibited in group shows in Canada, Europe, and the United States.
Sanchez returned to the United States in 1976 and, meeting new artists, formed two collectives near Phoenix.
He worked at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, the Phoenix Art Museum, and most recently at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Since 2001 Sanchez has been the curator at the IAIA Museum, and has been acting director there since 2008.
1975 Dominion Gallery, Montreal, Quebec (see Indian Group of Seven)
1975 Wallack Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1975 Art Emporium, Vancouver, British Columbia
1990s Spirits of the Sun exhibition in Phoenix
2009 Perversions of the Curator:a minor retrospective February 13 – March 15, 2009.
