Ishi Glinsky (b. 1982, Tucson, AZ) lives and works in Los Angeles.

Working in a variety of media, which includes painting, drawing and sculpture, Ishi Glinsky investigates the traditional practices of his tribe, the Tohono O’odham Nation, as well as other North American First Nations to create contemporary homages to sacred events and customs. These investigations often consist of a close study of the history and significance of a craft tradition, the committed apprenticeship of its technique, and its assimilation or transformation within Glinsky’s artistic practice. Each immersive installation, sculpture or painting is a fusion of intertribal celebration and resourcefulness, permanence or evolution, all of which is intimately reflected in the carefully crafted material nature and composition of a given work. A strategy common to Glinsky’s production consists of creating disproportionate shifts in scale in order to both amplify Indigenous practices and stories, and memorialize them in the form of monuments to survival.

Current group exhibition includes and Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time, Hudson River Museum, New York, 2025.

Recent solo exhibitions include Duration of Being Known, P.P.O.W., New York, 2024; Lifetimes That Broke the Earth, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2023; Upon a Jagged Maze, AD&A Museum UCSB, Santa Barbara, 2022; Monuments to Survival, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2021; and Dead Weight, Visions West, Denver, 2020.

Recent group exhibitions include A Different Kind of Conversation, Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, Los Angeles, 2025; Step and Repeat, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 2025; Needle in the Hay, As-Is, Los Angeles, 2024; Models, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, 2024; Trespass sweetly urged, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, 2024; Western Values: Re-thinking the "Old West," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, 2024; Second Skin, Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta, 2023; Indian Theatre: An Artistic Experiment in Process, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, 2023; Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2023; North American Pavilion, Frieze Gallery, London, 2023; Ecstatic: Selections From the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2023; and I’ve Gone to Look for America, murmurs, Los Angeles, 2023.