Michael Namingha was raised in New Mexico and currently lives and works in New Mexico as well as New York. He studied at Parsons School of Design, New York, NY as well as Master classes at Santa Fe Art Institute.

Current and recent exhibitions include: This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Michael Namingha: Altered Landscapes from August 12, 2021- January 2, 2022 at the El Paso Museum of Art; Michael Namingha: Altered Landscapes at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, February to July, 2021

The following museums own artworks by Michael Namingha in their permanent collections: Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM; Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ; Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; and Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.