On view though 2/1/25

LAND BACK:

A Tiny Gallery Takeover in Lenapehoking

Curated by Jennifer Ley

Map to all the Tiny Galleries

In celebration of Native American Heritage Month and Interwoven Power: Native Knowledge/Native Art at the Montclair Art Museum, Tiny Gallery presents Land Back featuring collections from seven contemporary Native artists installed in six Tiny Galleries across Montclair, Glen Ridge, and Bloomfield, New Jersey—all part of Lenapehoking, the ancestral homelands of the Lenape people.

Art allows us to examine the past, interpret the present, and envision the future, and Ley’s curation of Land Back brings the stories of Indigenous Americans, too often dismissed or overlooked, forward.

One of Tiny Gallery’s missions is to bring artistic voices that may not normally be heard into communities and present them in a new context and we feel incredibly privileged to be able to collaborate with renowned Native artists.

Our Mission

  • Tiny is a discovery

    Tiny Gallery’s mission is to make creating, exhibiting, and collecting art more inclusive by disrupting the idea of what fine art can be.

  • Tiny is wondrous

    Our network of compact box-sized art galleries feature small works by local and national artists. Each Tiny Gallery is meant to challenge the notion that small isn’t serious by introducing the sublime into our everyday lives.

  • Tiny is anywhere

    Going small has big advantages. Tiny art can be made on a kitchen table, rather than a studio. It can be displayed on a shelf rather than a wall, and can travel in an envelope rather than a crate.

    To that end, Tiny Galleries can be installed on front lawns, in parks, schools, libraries, nursing homes, hiking trails, airports, hotels… anywhere you can imagine.

  • Tiny is for everyone

    Tiny Gallery provides a platform for artists willing to work small. We aim to help underrepresented, emerging, mid-career, and established artists reach a wider, more diverse audience while expanding the public’s access to fine art.

    We believe that everyone deserves to live with something beautiful and Tiny Gallery creates an opportunity for anyone to collect art in an unexpected and rewarding way—while removing the limitations of space and cost.

Tiny Gallery aims to:

  • Introduce a moment of wonder into our everyday lives

  • Expand opportunities for artists simply by changing the scale  

  • Challenge the notion that small isn’t serious

  • Activate under-recognized art regions

  • Provide a platform for emerging and underrepresented artists 

  • Expand public access to fine art in unconventional ways