Inkpa Mani: The Land Remembers Us

september 11-december 10

Join us for the Gallery Opening and Reception on September 11th at 6PM. Complimentary light refreshments will be served. Register using the button below.

This body of work emphasizes the land as an active participant in cultural memory and belonging. The paintings feature energetic gestures and colors that evoke sacred geographies and spiritual resonance. The stone sculptures, carved from found stone, act as carriers of ancestral memory. Together, these works represent land not as a backdrop, but as a keeper of identity and spirit.

Artist Bio:

Inkpa Mani (b. 1997, St. Paul, MN) is an Indigenous Mexican-American artist whose practice explores land-based spirituality, identity, and memory through painting, stone sculpture, and installation. Raised in both Chihuahua, Mexico and the Lake Traverse Reservation of South Dakota, Inkpa is of Mexica (Aztec) and Tarahumara ancestry. His work draws from the ancestral wisdom of his people, merging Indigenous abstraction, material traditions, and contemporary aesthetics. Through the use of stone, pigment, textile, and symbolic forms, Inkpa Mani creates works that speak to the continuity of Indigenous knowledge systems and their deep relationship to land. He is especially interested in the ceremonial and everyday uses of materials—how a stone, fabric, or pigment can carry story, memory, and identity. He holds a BFA from the University of South Dakota and is currently an MFA candidate in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art, Class of 2026.

8’x8’ acrylic and oil paintings on panel

stone sculptures (limestone, basalt, granite)

Marie Louise Trichet Art Gallery

“What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.” –Willa Cather

About the Gallery

What a happy marriage the Marie Louise Trichet Gallery and Wisdom House Retreat and Conference Center enjoy. Over 25 years a wide variety of artists working in various mediums have exhibited in the gallery, each capturing some element of life that reveals the Divine.

Visit the gallery Monday through Saturday* 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. *It is advisable to call to inquire about Saturday hours.

Come breathe in this quiet space and catch a glimpse of a moment of creation.