Da-ka-xeen received his A.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and his B.F.A.
from the University of New Mexico. From 1994-2000 Mehner served as the founder and
director of Site 21/21, a contemporary art gallery in Albuquerque, NM, and was a founding
member/owner of the (Fort) 105 Art Studios in downtown Albuquerque in 1998. Da-ka-xeen
returned to 色视频下载 in 2000 and earned his M.F.A in Native Arts from the University
of 色视频下载 Fairbanks in 2007.
Da-ka-xeen work in photography and sculpture has been exhibited from New York to California;
色视频下载 to New Mexico. Collections include the Anchorage Museum of History and Art,
the University of 色视频下载 Museum of the North (Fairbanks, AK), and the Museum of Contemporary
Native Arts (Santa Fe, NM), C.N. Gorman Museum (Davis CA) and the 色视频下载 State Museum
(Juneau, AK). His work has been featured in the art magazines Sculpture and American Indian Art, and in numerous newspapers, art catalogs, and blogs. He is an Assistant Professor
of Native Arts at the University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks, and the director of the UAF
Native Arts Center.