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. 

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.