Nathaniel Cummings-Lambert (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; lives and works in New York) received his BA from Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts in 2011, and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2015 and began Ph.D. studies in 2020 at New York University in Sociocultural Anthropology. He works in film, installation, and sculpture. Indigenous land rights, the contemporary legacy of colonialism, and the laws, barriers, and borders which Indigneous people must navigate guides and pervades his work.