(b. St. Paul, MN 1988) Harlon Louise Baddog is a trans, disabled artist HAILING FROM THE COLD mnisota TUNDRA, A DESCENDENT OF THE WHITEST OF WHITE SWEDISH SETTLERS who flooded Dakota and Anishinaabe Land in the 1800s. gmo corn crop and ghost towns are the heirlooms passed down from his ancestors.

after a ten year long-distance love affair, harlon finally got the guts to follow his heart into the desert. He now occupies unceded Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui territories.

He works in the quiet hours of the night, in between bouts of spying on the neighborhood’s mountain lion, bobcats, and raccoons. His love for the Sonoran desert and all of its inhabitants continues to grow as he humbly learns from them with fascination and respect.

Harlon’s work is interdisciplinary, containing elements of scientific illustration, portraiture, collage, and photography. The work in this exhibition depicts creatures of the natural world while exploring themes of grief, self-sabotage, and depression. The process of creating these pieces requires an intimate relationship between form and artist, allowing the artist to lay bare raw human emotion against the desert’s quiet complexity.