BIOGRAPHY
Asia Tail is an artist and community organizer based in Tukwila, Washington. Asia attended the Cooper Union School of Art in New York and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2014. Her studio practice includes painting, collage, beadwork, and other media.
Asia is a co-founder and the executive director of yəhaẃ Indigenous Creatives Collective, a community of intertribal Indigenous artists rematriating 1.5 acres of land in South Seattle. She also works as a freelance consultant with cross-sector organizations to channel resources into Indigenous communities. She was the recipient of the first Vadon Foundation Native Artist Fellowship in 2019, and was named one of Seattle’s Most Influential People by Seattle Magazine the same year. In 2022, she was selected to serve on the City of Seattle’s inaugural Indigenous Advisory Council. In 2023, she participated in Harvard Business School’s Young American Leaders Program. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, born and raised on Coast Salish territories.