Chris T Cornelius (Oneida) is the founding principal of studio:indigenous and professor and chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of New Mexico. He creates architecture and artifacts that dismantle stereotypes surrounding Indigenous design and offer a distinct vision of contemporary Indigenous culture. Their search for a new architectural language through drawing and making absorbs, embeds, and ultimately obscures direct references to Indigenous forms.

His firm’s works include ukwé·tase (Stranger), which was shown at the 2023 Chicago Architectural Biennial (shown); the permanent land acknowledgment Otaeciah (Crane), at the Lawrence University Campus in Wisconsin; and Oneida Maple Sugar Camp, also in Wisconsin.