Dale DeForest

Dale Deforest is a member of the Diné tribe and grew up in the Four Corners area of the Navajo Nation around Shiprock and Farmington, New Mexico. He studied 2-D arts and photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dale’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions. Most recently, his piece “The Force Is With Our People”—an exhibition celebrating Native people’s relation to pop culture—was shown at the Museum of Northern Arizona. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.