Phiyá Kithí -
To Make a New Camp for Oneself.
MCBA Outlook Gallery
May 18, 2026–Aug 9, 2026
Viewable from the street (and from inside the shop during open hours)
This installation centers on the enduring practice of Indigenous placemaking. Native people have always forged spaces of belonging, even under conditions not of their choosing. This constructed environment occupies the threshold between ancestral knowledge and modern experience. I wanted to carve out a space where the stories of my people can be shared and I could dwell. I’m using material tradition and contemporary art forms to create a living archive of place. I incorporate themes of kinship, language and land to act as carriers of memory and my teachings. These elements do not just describe what a Native space can be, they help create it.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Delia Touché is a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Assiniboine printmaker, bookmaker, and fiber artist based in the Midwest. A citizen of Spirit Lake Nation, their multidisciplinary practice explores the estranged and complex relationship they hold with their Indigenous identity, drawing from familial archives, Dakota and Assiniboine cultural frameworks, Native nuances, diaspora, wry humor and pop culture.
Delia has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Travemeise (Lübeck, Germany), San Francisco Center of the Book, Missoula Art Museum, The Art Galleries at Austin Community College (Austin, TX), Cranbrook Art Museum, BULK Space (MI), Minnesota Center for Book Arts, All my Relations Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Die Graphische (Vienna, Austria) among others.
Their work is held in permanent collections at the Walker Art Center, North Dakota Museum of Art, Minnesota Historical Society, American Prairie, Northwestern University, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, as well as in numerous private collections.
Delia earned a BFA in Drawing from Minnesota State University Moorhead and an MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art, where they were awarded the Gilbert Fellowship.