Athena LaTocha is a Hunkpapa Lakota and Ojibwe artist focusing on unique ways of making landscape paintings and the relationship of man-made and natural landscapes. Her work has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the New York State Museum, Artists Space, South Dakota Art Museum, the CUE Art Foundation in New York, the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, Alaska, and the Ice House gallery in New York. She was one of six artists selected for Wave Hill's winter workspace program in 2018. Raised in Alaska, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.