The Autry's debut solo exhibition drawn from its acquisition of the estate of Harry Fonseca (Nisenan Maidu, Hawaiian, Portuguese, 1946–2006), featuring 60 paintings, sketches, and lithographs selected from a collection of over 500 works. Organized into four thematic sections, the exhibition traced Fonseca's use of Coyote — the archetypal trickster figure — as both personal avatar and cultural commentary, exploring his identity as a Native artist and gay man navigating a world where representations of Indigenous peoples were too often shaped by outside forces. Vibrant, boundary-defying, and deeply personal, Fonseca's work moved fluidly between traditional Maidu visual culture, European modernism, and pointed satire — expanding the definition of American Indian art in ways that continue to resonate.

Design: The galleries were kept white, recalling the reverent setting of a traditional gallery, a deliberate foil for work that is anything but reverent. Against that quiet ground, Fonseca's saturated color and the exaggerated poses of his figures read at full volume, while the typography and accent colors took their cues from the paintings themselves.

| AC: Creative & Art direction; Spatial, Furniture, & Graphic Design; Co-curation

Team
| Curation: Amy Scott, Sarah Wilson 
| Media + Technology Development and Fabrication: Anton Lieberman 
| Studio: Autry Museum