The Ohi:yo’ Art Market is a celebration of Native American Resiliency through art and culture. We welcome Native American artists from nations across the United States and Canada to participate in our art show competition and art market.

We further welcome all visitors to experience the creativity and talent of today’s finest Native artists at the market.

Check out the winning artists from 2025’s competition below. Nya:wëh to all the participating artists who made this event a success!

Anishnabe from Mitchikanibikok Inik

1st place: Ronnie-Leigh & Stonehorse Goeman, Onondaga Nation/Tonawanda Seneca, Gwesloeata-Two Row Wampum

2nd place: Ronnie-Leigh & Stonehorse Goeman, Onondaga Nation/Tonawanda Seneca, First Act of Compassion

3rd place: Carrie Hill, Akwesasne Mohawk, Porcupine Cutie

1st place: Natasha Thompson, Mohawk Nation, Katinekwá:tare

2nd place: Michael R. L. Begay, Navajo, Evening Lights

3rd place: Konwahonwawi Stacey, Kahnawà:ke Kanien’keha:ka, Kew’niiohantehja

Katinekwá:tare

Evening Lights

Kew’niiohantehja

1st place: Michael Galban, Washoe Tribe of NV & CA. and Mono Lake Paiute, Gasha:a’ Trumpline

2nd place: Frazer Sundown, Oneida Nation, Twined Kayowas

3rd place: Trevor O. Brant, Mohawk, Resilience

Gasha:a’ Trumpline

1st place: Ron Mitchell, Cherokee Nation, Where our World Spiraled Out of Control

2nd place: Victoria Ransom, Akwesasne Mohawk, Lakotatberonni

3rd place: Ron Mitchell, Cherokee Nation, Re-Emergence

1st place: Clifford C. Redeye III, Seneca, Rez 1s

2nd place: Carrie Hill, Akwesasne Mohawk, She Wears the Bone on her Chest

3rd place: Trevor Brant, Akwesasne Mohawk, Oh Kwa Ho Kowa Gunta

Rez 1s

1st place: Chaslyn L. Crespin, Kewa Pueblo, Cleopatra

2nd place: Chaslyn L. Crespin, Kewa Pueblo, Thunderbird

3rd place: Janie Reano, Santo Domingo Pueblo, Ee-tsi-chïn

1st place: David Martin, Pokagon Potawatomi, Ojibwa Woman

2nd place: Victoria Ransom, Akwesasne Mohawk, A Grandmother’s Embrace

3rd place: Clifford C. Redeye III, Seneca, Land O’Takes

1st place: Marjorie Kaniehtonkie Skidders, Akwesasne Mohawk, Ahtahwan

2nd place: Karley Brooks, Tonawanda Seneca, Merlin Release

3rd place: Maurice A. John, Jr., Oglala Lakota/Seneca, Old Bridge

1st place: Natasha Smoke Santiago, Akwesasne Mohawk, Residential School Survivors

2nd place: Peter B. Jones, Onondaga, Beginning

3rd place: Peter B. Jones, Onondaga, Old Ways

1st place: Michael Galban, Washoe Tribe of NV & CA. and Mono Lake Paiute, The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

2nd place: Kiera Pyke, Mohawk, Trump Who’s Your Daddy

3rd place: Michael R.L. Begay, Navajo, Homecoming

1st place: David Farnham, Onondaga, Mom I’m Hungry

2nd place: Leroy Henry, Cayuga, Dawa:noha’ (Our Mother)

3rd place: Oronhiokewahton Watio Splicer, Kanien’kehaka, Ahtsihkwa

1st place: Emma Shenandoah, Saint Regis Mohawk, She Spills Over the Town

2nd place: Natasha Thompson, Mohawk Nation, Onekwénhtara

3rd place: Jillian Waterman, Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan, Let them Eat Corn

She Spills Over the Town

2024 was the Ohi:yo’ Art Market’s inaugural year. Nya:wëh to all the participating artists who made this event a success!

Check out the winning artists from the market’s competition below. And read more about our inaugural year here.

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi

1st place: David Martin, Star Brothers

2nd place: Bruce Boots, Akwesasne Mohawk, Little People

3rd place: Kenneth T. White III, Dine’h/Navajo, Charging New Treaties

1st place: Leroy Henry, Cayuga-Grand River Territory, Haudenosaunee Strong

2nd place: Kaysun Tremblay, Kanien’keha’:ka, Kanehsodake, Wisdom in the Water

3rd place: Margaret Jacobs, St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, Old Growth Blueberry

Haudenosaunee Strong

1st place: Brennen Johns, Onondowa’ga, They Cut Across the Sky

2nd place: Cynthia Thomas, Oneida Nation, Exercising Indigenous Rights

3rd place: Cynthia Thomas, Oneida Nation, Kanehelatu’ksla

1st place: Ronnie-Leigh & Stonehorse Goeman, Onondaga Nation/Tonawanda Seneca, Grandfather

2nd place: Penelope S. Minner, Seneca Nation, Born to Shine

1st place: Faye Lone, Tonawanda Seneca, Winter Traditions

2nd place: River Webb, Nez Perce, Meskwaki, Gettigawigea

3rd place: Rachel White, Onondaga Nation, Ceremony Trade Cloth

1st place: Jaycee Custer, Diné, Blossom

2nd place: Mickey Sickles, Oneida Nation of The Thames, Silver Arm Bands

3rd place: Christal Ratt, Anishnabe-Mitchikanibikok Inik, Wabikoni

1st place: Kierra Pyke, Mohawk/Akwesasne, Creation

2nd place: Christal Ratt, Anishnabe-Mitchikanibikok Inik, Ayashesh

3rd place: Michael Begay, Navajo & Santo Domingo Pueblo, Bandless Growth

Creation

1st place: Ronnie-Leigh & Stonehorse Goeman, Onondaga Nation/Tonawanda Seneca, Pope

2nd place: Samantha Jacobs, Seneca Nation, Reconnection-Land

3rd place: Trevor Brant, Mohawk, Knowledge