November is Native/Indigenous American Heritage Month. Many contemporary Native American Artists use art to express their individualism and often, to raise awareness of our collective history. One such artist is Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
Smith was born in 1940, and raised on the Flathead Reservation in Montana and is a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation. Smith is deeply connected to her heritage. She creates work that addresses the myths of her ancestors in the context of current issues facing Native Americans. Her inspiration stems from the formal innovations of such artists as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as traditional Native American art.
Smith has had more than eighty solo exhibitions over the past 30 years. During the same period, she organized and curated more than 30 Indigenous exhibitions and lectured at almost 200 universities, museums, and conferences. In 2023, the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted the first NY retrospective of this tenured, prolific and dedicated 84 year old artist.
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