Within Indigenous knowledge systems across the Americas, mathematics, science, and technology have long been understood as relational practices rooted in reciprocity. Through a hemispheric perspective that views North, Central, and South America as interconnected geographies, this exhibition brings together contemporary Indigenous and Latin American artists whose practices illuminate vectors of knowledge in which the mathematical, metaphysical, and artistic converge. Collectively, the works reveal creation stories, ceremony, and kinship as living systems that continually generate, transmit, and renew knowledge.  

At its core, Radiant Geometries centers Indigenous ways of knowing that continue to shape relationships to territories, waterways, and interspecies care. Rather than treating geometry as an abstract system of forms, the exhibition presents it as a spatial practice through which correspondences between land, sky, time, and community are observed, nurtured, and carried forward. The exhibition proposes an Indigenous historiography of mathematics, architecture, and science, countering notions of progress embedded in the colonial logic of extraction and dispossession. 

Throughout the works, geometry emerges as a visual language through which Indigenous cosmologies—understandings of the origin, order, and nature of the universe—are expressed in technologies of agriculture, architecture, and astronomical observation. This indivisible approach bridges the celestial and the terrestrial, situating humans, the environment, and the sacred within reciprocal relationships that sustain a world held in balance. 

Participating artists include Nanibah Chacon (Diné/Chicana) (b. 1980 in Gallup, New Mexico; lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico), Melissa Cody (Navajo/Diné) (b. 1983 in No Water Mesa, Arizona; lives in Long Beach, California), Jordan Ann Craig (Northern Cheyenne) (b. 1992 in San Jose, California; lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico), Patricia Domínguez (b. 1984 in Santiago de Chile; lives in Puchuncaví, Chile), Sara Flores (Shipibo-Konibo) (b. 1950 in Tambomayo, Peru; lives in Yarinacocha, Peru), Suzanne Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta) (b. 1990 in Sylmar, California; lives in Catskill, New York), Patrick Martinez (b. 1980 in Pasadena, California; lives in Los Angeles), Cisco Merel (b. 1981 in Panama City; lives in Panama City), Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) (b. 1985 in Ottawa, Canada; lives in Montreal), Natalia Montoya Lecaros (Aymara) (b. 1994 in Iquique, Chile; lives in Santiago de Chile), and Eamon Ore-Giron (b. 1973 in Tucson, Arizona; lives in Los Angeles).
 

The exhibition is curated by Noor Alé, Associate Curator. Graphic design is by Sébastien Aubin. 

Radiant Geometries: Vectors of Knowledge from the Indigenous Americas is made possible by the Libbie Rice Shearn Moody Fund for the Arts and the Thomas D. and Pamela Riley Smith Endowment for the Moody Center for the Arts. Major support is provided by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, the Elizabeth Lee Moody Excellence Fund, the H. Russell Pitman Fund for the Moody Center for the Arts, and the Moody Center for the Arts Founders Circle.