New York

Ty Defoe

(He/Him)

Ty Defoe (Giizhig), Oneida/ Ojibwe Nations is a writer, interdisciplinary artist, and Grammy Award winner. Ty aspires to an interweaving and glitterizing approach to artistic projects with social justice, indigeneity, indiqueering, and environmentalism. Ty’s global cultural arts highlights include the Millennium celebration in Cairo, Egypt; Ankara, Turkey, International Music Festival; and Festival of World Cultures in Dubai. He has won the Global Indigenous Heritage Festival Award, a Robert Rauschenberg Artist in Residence, and Jonathan Larson Award.

Works created and authored: River of Stone, Red Pine, The Way They Lived, Ajijaak on Turtle Island, Hear Me Say My Name. They are the co-founder of Indigenous Direction and a core member of All My Relations Collective’s, ‘GIZHIBAA GIIZHIG | Revolving Sky’. Ty also appeared on the Netflix show; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Broadway debut in Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men.