Kade L. Twist is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist working with installation, video, two-dimensional media and sound. Twist’s work embeds Indigenous geopolitical narratives within a contemporary landscape of American popular culture and consumerism. His multi-media installation work is currently featured in ‘Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World’ at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian. October through December of 2008 his installation ‘Prosthetic Faith’ will be featured at the Notre Dame College Performing Arts Center. His mixed-media installation, ‘Just As I Am’, was recently accessioned into the Arizona State University Art Museum’s permanent collection. He is one of the co-founders of Postcommodity, a contemporary American Indian artist collective working to advance postcolonial Indigenous discourse. Twist received the 2007 Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award for his poetry manuscript ‘Amazing Grace’, which will be published by the University of Arizona Press in 2009. Twist co-authored, with Nathan Young, the fictional narrative screenplay Heavy Metal Indians, which received runner-up honors in the 2008 All Access program at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Twist graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BA in American Indian studies, with an emphasis on tribal policy and economic development. Twist has worked in Washington DC as a tribal telecommunications policy analyst for the Benton Foundation and the Native Networking Policy Center. He is currently a member of the Federal Communications Commission Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age. Twist is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.