Diné/Pueblo of Laguna/European ancestry, Steven J. Yazzie (b. 1970) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, installation, video/film, photography and community collaboration. Yazzie is a member of the Navajo Nation and a veteran of the Gulf War, having served honourably with the United States Marine Corps from 1988 to 1992. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Intermedia from Arizona State University and was named 2014 Outstanding Graduate for the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. He was a Community Scholar for the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (in)Equality, University of Denver, Colorado (2019–2020). Additionally, the artist was a founding member of Postcommodity, an Indigenous arts collective, and co-founder of the Museum of Walking.