Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith
One of the most acclaimed American Indian artists working today, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is also an internationally known curator, lecturer, print-maker and professor. With an oeuvre that spans over 40 years, Smith regularly uses satire and humor as means to examine the paradox of American Indian life in modern American society. Through historical reference, myths, and stereotypes, Smith has built a vast vocabulary of visual reverence, interweaving legends, iconic imagery and personal narrative. Deeply rooted in post-modernism, social activism and political commentary, the bold strokes, natural palette, and compositional balance of Smith’s works define her as one of the most iconic artistic voices of the twentieth century.
Smith has had over a hundred solo exhibitions in the past forty years, including the Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia, National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., and the Nicolaysen Art Museum, Wyoming. In addition to her work, Smith has created over thirty Native exhibitions, delivered lectures at over two hundred universities and institutions worldwide. She has collaborated on many public works including an outdoor sculpture piece in Yerba Buena Park, San Francisco. Recent awards include a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the 2011 Art Table …
One of the most acclaimed American Indian artists working today, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is also an internationally known curator, lecturer, print-maker and professor. With an oeuvre that spans over 40 years, Smith regularly uses satire and humor as means to examine the paradox of American Indian life in modern American society. Through historical reference, myths, and stereotypes, Smith has built a vast vocabulary of visual reverence, interweaving legends, iconic imagery and personal narrative. Deeply rooted in post-modernism, social activism and political commentary, the bold strokes, natural palette, and compositional balance of Smith’s works define her as one of the most iconic artistic voices of the twentieth century.
Smith has had over a hundred solo exhibitions in the past forty years, including the Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia, National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., and the Nicolaysen Art Museum, Wyoming. In addition to her work, Smith has created over thirty Native exhibitions, delivered lectures at over two hundred universities and institutions worldwide. She has collaborated on many public works including an outdoor sculpture piece in Yerba Buena Park, San Francisco. Recent awards include a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the 2011 Art Table Artist Award, the 2011 Moore College Visionary Woman Award, Induction into the National Academy of Art in 2011, Living Artist of Distinction, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, NM, 2012 and the 2012 Switzer Award.
Whitney Museum, New York
The Metropolitan Museum, New York
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Walker, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum for World Cultures, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum for Ethnology, Berlin
ACCOLA GRIEFEN, New York, NY
