Born January 15, 1940 at the St. Ignatius Indian Mission on her reservation, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is an enrolled Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Montana. Smith received an Associate of Arts Degree at Olympic College in Bremerton, Washington in 1960, a BA in Art Education from Framingham State College, Massachusetts in 1976, and an MA in Visual Arts from the University of New Mexico in 1980.

Smith has been creating complex abstract paintings and prints since the 1970s. Combining appropriated imagery from commercial slogans and signage, art history and personal narratives, she forges an intimate visual language to convey her insistent socio-political commentary with astounding clout. Smith’s work carries tremendous weight and yet feels light and conversational—in large part due to this forged, personal lexicon of developed imagery. As critic Gerrit Henry, (Art in America, 2001) writes: “For all the primal nature of her origins, Smith adeptly takes on contemporary American society in her paintings, drawings and prints, looking at things Native and national through bifocals of the old and the new, the sacred and the profane, the divine and the witty.” For her ability to create and integrate her own visual language in her canvases, Smith produces multi-faceted work grounded in themes of personal and political identity.

Smith has received numerous awards such as the Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, New York, l987; the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters Grant, 1996; the Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement, 1997; the College Art Association Women’s Award, 2002; Governor’s Outstanding New Mexico Woman’s Award, 2005; New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, 2005. Art Table Artist Honoree, New York, 2011; Visionary Woman Award, Moore College, Pennsylvania, 2011; Elected to the National Academy of Art, New York,  2011; Living Artist of Distinction Award, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2012; NAEA Ziegfeld Lecture Award, 2014; The Woodson Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015 along with four honorary doctorates: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1992; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1998; Massachusetts College of Art, 2003; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 2009.

Smith’s work in the collections of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida; Museum of Modern Art, Quito, Ecuador; the Museum of Mankind, Vienna, Austria; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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1940

Born: St. Ignatius Indian Mission, Salish and Kootenai Nation, Montana

Enrolled Flathead Salish #07137

EDUCATION

1960

Olympic College, Bremerton, Washington

1976

Framingham State College, Massachusetts

1980

University of New Mexico

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1978

Clarke Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1979

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Kornblee Gallery, New York, November–December 1

1980

Galleria de Cavallino, Venice, Italy

1983

Galerie Akmak, Berlin, Germany

1984

1985

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, August 14–September 4

1986

Speaking Two Languages, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, November

1987

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, February 5–21

1988

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, August

1989

Centric 37: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, October 3–29

1990

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: New Paintings, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, February–March 6

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, LewAllen/Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, August 17–September 7

1992

The Quincentenary Non-Celebration, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York

LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1993

Parameters Series, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, Parameters Series; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts

Sweet Briar College, Virginia

1994

SITE, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1995

Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York

Wabash College Art Museum, Crawfordsville, Indiana

1996–1998

Subversions/Affirmations: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, A Survey, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey, December 11, 1996–February 15, 1997; Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, April 9–June 14, 1997; Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, August 2–October 12, 1997; Missoula Art Museum, Montana, December 12, 1997–February 15, 1998

1997

Modern Times, New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces

The Evergreen State College Galleries, Olympia, Washington

1998

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art, Daybreak Star Cultural Arts Center, Dsicovery Park, Seattle, June 1–August 31

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York

1999

Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota

 2000

New Work, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago

Art Museum of Missoula, Montana

2001

Anton Gallery, Washington, D.C.

The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo

2002

Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago

200 Years: Change/No Change, Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

2003

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, Belger Arts Center for Creative Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City; University of Scranton, Pennsylvania

LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2003-2009

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, Belger Arts Center for Creative Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City, April 5–June 27, 2003; University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, 2003; Milton Hershey School Art Museum, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2004; Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, September 7, 2004; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, July 30–October 9, 2005; Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 2005–January 29, 2006; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, 2005; Montclair Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, September 17, 2006–January 14, 2007; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, 2007; Lauren Rogers Museum, Laurel, Mississippi, February 4–April 29, 2007; The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, 2008; Pensacola Art Museum, Florida, 2009

2004

Continuum 12 Artists, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, New York

2004-2005

2005

Connections: Old Work/New Work, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York

2005-2006

New Drawings: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Suffolk University, Boston

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: New Paintings, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia

2007

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa, Texas

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Muscarelle Museum, College of William; Mary, Jamestown, Virginia

2008

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, North Carolina

2009

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

2012

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Landscapes of an American Modernist, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 12–April 29

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, Florida, January 23–March 9

2013

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Water and War, Accola Griefen Gallery, New York

2014

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, The Bernstein Gallery, The Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, New Jersey

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Robert E. Elberson Fine Arts Center, Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Maudeville Art Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, New York

2015

CUE Foundation 2016 Solo Exhibition Program, New York

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Art after the Drought, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

2016 

Layered Stories: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana 

2017-2019

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: In the Footsteps of My Ancestors, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, March 23–July 16, 2017; Missoula Art Museum, Montana, September 20, 2017–March 10, 2018; Loveland Museum, Colorado, June 30–September 16, 2018; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado College, October 27, 2018–January 27, 2019; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, March 9–June 30, 2019

2018

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Trickster in Print, Historic Fifth Street School Mayor’s Gallery, Las Vegas, March 29–April 14

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Making Medicine, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, April 12–May 19

2021

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Woman in Landscape, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, November 4–December 18

2023

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 19–August

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1976

Whittemore Gallery, Framingham State College, Massachusetts

1977

Arthur B. Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, Massachusetts

1978

New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Biennial, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe

Indian Art Now, Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1979

Fall Invitational, Roswell Museum, Roswell, New Mexico

Grey Canyon Artists, Upstairs Gallery, Berkeley, California

Rick Dillingham and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Clarke-Benton, Santa Fe, July

Group Show, Clarke-Benton, Santa Fe, August

Summer Show, Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York

1979–1980

1980

Cavallino Gallery, Venice, Italy

Three Visions, Massachusets College of Art, Boston

Work From the Tamarind Institute, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland

Buscaglia–Casteliani Gallery, Niagara University, Niagara, New York

1981

Rosalind Constable Invites, Sweeney Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October

An Exhibit of Contemporary Art by Native American Artists, Whitney Gallery of Taos, New Mexico, April

Fiber Arts, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Kornblee Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

1982

Galleria D’arte L’Argentario, Trento, Italy

University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Aspen Center for the Arts, Aspen, Colorado

Works on Paper, Foundations Gallery, New York

1983

The New Feminism, curated by Lucy Lippard, Ohio State University, Columbus

Grey Canyon, Portland Art Museum, Portland

Henry Gallery, Seattle, Washington

The Horse Show, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York

1983-1984

Common Ground, American Indian Community House, New York, May–June 18

Second Western States Exhibition/38th Corcoran Biennial of American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983; Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, May 1983; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Arizona, October 1983; Albuquerque Museum, 1983–1984; Long Beach Museum of Art, California, 1984; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 1984

1984

East Meets West, Brooklyn Museum, May 13

Western States Biennial, Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Expanding Powers, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; Cal State College, Stanislaus, California

Academy of Arts and Letters Group Invitational, New York

36^th Annual Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

Artists Call – Reconstruction Project, Artists Space, New York

1985

Women of the American West, Bruce Museu, Greenwich, Connecticut

Twenty-Five Years of Printmaking at Tamarind, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque

Signale, organized by Katrina Hartje, Galerie Akmak, Berlin, Germany

Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar and Sage: Contemporary Art by Native American Women, AICH (American Indian Community House Gallery), New York

1986

Views Across America, Museum of Modern Art, Art Advisory Service of Gannett Corporation and Pfizer Corporation Headquarters, New York

American Women in Art: Works on Paper – An American Album, Nairobi, Kenya

In Homage to Anna Mendieta, Zeus-Trabia Galler, New York

Visible/Invisible, Palo Alto Cultural Center, California

1987

Connections Project/Conexus, Women Artists from Brazil and U.S., Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York

39^th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

1988

Cultural Currents, San Diego Museum of Art

Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York

American Herstory: Women and the U.S. Constitution, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

1989

Cambridge Multi-Cultural Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Natural Image: Nature as Image in Contemporary Art, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Connecticut, March 12–June 4

100 Drawings by Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, New York

41^st Annual Academy–Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

1990

Menagerie, Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Decade Show, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York

The Matter at Hand: Contemporary Drawings, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Fine Arts Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Coast to Coast–The Box Show, Art in General, New York

1991

Figuration, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers, Lang Communications Collection, London

Myth and Magic in the Americas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico

Okanta, A-Space, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1992

Counter Colonialismo, Center Cultural Tijuana, Mexico; Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego

44^th Annual Exhibit, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

One World, Kassel, Germany

Columbus Drowning, Rochdale Art Gallery, England

Wind and Glacier Voices: The Native American Film & Media Celebration, Lincoln Center, New York

Six Directions, Galerie Calumet, Heidelberg, Germany

1992–1993

In Plural America: Contemporary Journeys, Voices and Identities, Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, October 2, 1992–January 24, 1993

1993

Current Identities: Recent Painting in the United States, organized by Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey

For the Seventh Generation: Native Americans Counter the Quncentennary, Columbus, New York; Art in General, New York

Indianer Nordamerikas, Kunst und Mythos, Internationale Tage Ingelheim, Ingelheim, Germany

Art and Enviornment: Imagine Celebrates Earth Day, National Arts Club, New York

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and David Johns, Works on Paper, Peiper-Riegraf Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany

Indian Territories: 20th-Centry Native-American Artists Dismantle 19th-Century Euro-American Myths, René Fotouhi Fine Art East, East Hampton, August 30

1994

AD*VANCES, Museum of Modern Art, Art Advisory Service for General Electric, New York

Reuse / Refuse, Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Hawaii

Artistas Contemporaneo de Nueva Mexico, University of Guadalajera, Mexico

Multiplicity: A New Cultural Strategy, University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Toi te Ao, an Aotearoa World Celebration of Indigenous Art & History, Te Taumata Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Salon de Barbie: A Multi-Media Exhibition, The Kitchen, New York; Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York

Weltpremiere: Remember the Earth Whose Skin You Are, Kunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

1994–1996

Pintores en grabado, IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura de Cuenca, Panama; Honduras; Salvador; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Columbia; Uragauay; Venezuela; Paraguay; Dominican Republic

1995

Art at the Edge: Social Turf, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

Old Glory, New Story: Flagging of the 21^st Century, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California

The Stephane Janssen Collection of Contemporary American and European Art: In Memory of R. Michael Johns, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman; SITE, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Justice/Injustice: Art Against Death, Puffin Room, New York

Heroes and Heroines: From Myth to Reality, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey

1996

Brücken und Abgrenzungen: Zeitgenössiche indianische Kunst, Taunua-Sparkasse; Kronberg, Germany; Haus an der Redoute, Bonn Germany; Kaisertrutz, Görlitz, Germany

American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

V Bienal Internacional de Pintura de Cuenca

Sniper’s Nest (Collection of Lucy Lippard), Bard College, Hudson, NY

1997

New Prints, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Text and Identity, Twelve Women/Twelve Artists, University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, State University at Stony Brook, New York

Real(ist) Women II, Northwood University, West Palm Beach, Florida

1998

City Series: Taos, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa

National Invitational Works on Paper Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Hilo

Mouse: An American Icon, The Alternative Museum, New York

Indian Humor, National Museum of the American Indian, New York, May 31–August 2

1999

Ceremonial, Eight Native Americans, Venice Biennale, Schola Dei Tiraoro E. Battioro, Venezia, Italy

Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century, Washington D.C.; Vietnam; China; Indonesia; Singapore

23^rd International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia  

World Views: Maps & Art, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota

Millennium Messages, SITES, Smithsonian

Mixed Blessings, Two person, curated by Dorothee Peiper-Riegraf, Amerika Haus, Frankfurt, Germany

Contemporary Masters, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana

Indian Reality Today, Westphalian State Museum, Munster, Germany

Barbie Doll Show, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada

2000

5^th Triennale Mondiale d’Estampes Petit Format 2000, Chamalieres, France

Sharjah Arts Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Tamarind at 40, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque

2001

The View from Here, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Prints & Prints, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York

Passageways: Growing up in the World, Israel

2002

Women’s National Art Invitational, Clemson University, South Carolina

Unforgettable, Chelsea Studio Gallery, New York; Berliner Kunstproject, Berlin, Germany

The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine, Institute for American Universities, Aix-en-Provence, France

2003

Off the Press: Re-Contextualizing the Newspaper, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida

Honorary Degree Exhibit, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Rhode Island

Cross-Cultural Identities: An Artists Print Exchange Between South America and North America, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa 

2004

The Flag Project, Rubin Museum of Art, New York

Newer Genres: Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, State University of New Jersey, Rutgers

New Editions: Prints for an American Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2005

Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

2006

The Missing Piece for the Dalai Lama, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, California; Loyola University, Chicago

Chamalieres Carrefour Int'l de L'estampe, French Print Triennial, Clichy, France

Lessedra World Art Print, Sofia, Bulgaria

2007

Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art, New York

We Are All Knots, National Museum of the American Indian and Art in Embassies, Washington, DC

An International Printers Exchange, University of North Florida, Jacksonville

Unlimited Boundaries: Dichotomy of Place in Contemporary Native Art, Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico

2008

Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, Brooklyn, New York

Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana

International Print Exhibition, USA and Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan 

The Third Space: Cultural Identity Today, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts

The Human Condition: A Multi-Cultural Print Exhibition, Molloy College, Rockville Center, Long Island, New York

Print Lovers at Thirty: Celebrating Three Decades of Giving, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

2009

Cuban Biennial, Havana, Cuba

Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art – Art Works for Change, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway

Visual Power, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; London, United Kingdom; and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Land/Art, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Unconcquered Imagination, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Clewiston, Florida

Favorite Works, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey

2009–

Common Ground, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, New Mexico, June 2009–

2010

Violencia Mujer Y Arte, Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico

The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Drain Rauscher Collection, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, University of Montana, and Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana

2011

The Narcissism of Minor Differences, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

Tamarind Touchstones: Fabulous at Fifty, Celebrating Excellence in Fine Art Lithography, Portland Art Museum, Oregon

NASA|Art: 50 Years of Exploration, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Kunst der Indianischen Moderne und Postmoderne aus der Sammlung Peiper-Riegraf, Leon Berg, Germany 

Montana Women in the Visual Arts, Emerson Center for Arts and Culture, Bozeman, Montana

Island Press: Three Decades of Printmaking, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women's Lithography from Tamarind, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

2012

...As Apple Pie, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Creating a Living Legacy, Cue Foundation Gallery, New York

Indianische Moderne  – Kunst aus Nordamerika, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany

Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts

Privacy Please, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Octopus Dreams, Ekaterinburg Museum, Novosibirsk State Museum, Togliatti Art Museum, Russia; Siberia

2013

National Academy Museum & School, New York

The Old Becomes the New: New York Contemporary Native American Art and the New York School, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York

Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women, and Art – Art Works for Change, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa, and Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

The Map Is Not the Territory, The Jerusalem Fund Gallery, Al Quds, Washington, D.C.

2014

Women Only, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York

Face to Face, Wall to Wall, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana

Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay, Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum, Norman, Oklahoma

2015

Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from 1960 to Present, Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, Florida

The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Weaving Past into Present: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking, International Print Center, New York

Octopus Dreams, Funabashi City, Japan

2016

Embassy of the United States, Ankara, Turkey

The Map Is Not the Territory, Lower Level Gallery, Arab American Museum, Dearborn, Michigan

2016–2018

Home: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Responding, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, November 8–November 20, 2016; Sojourner Truth Library, State University of New York at New Paltz, December 4–22, 2017; Pattee Library, University Park, Pennsylvania State University, March 1–August 31, 2018

2017

BIG Deal: Sizable Paintings from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, September 5–December 17

Great Basin Artists, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, April 4–June 16

2017–2018

Conversation Pieces: Selection from the Permanent Collection in Dialogue, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, June 29, 2017–July 29, 2018

An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1940–2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, August 18, 2017–August 27, 2018

Dress Matters: Clothing as Metaphor, Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, October 21, 2017–February 18, 2018

2017–2019

Multiple Modernisms, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, November 17–January 31, 2019

2018

Women with Vision: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, February 10–May 13, 2018

Random Search: Mining the Archives of Tamarind Institute, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, August 24–December 2018 

Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, August 23, 2018–March 31, 2019

From Paint Brushes to Camera Lenses: Creative Women of the Great Plains, Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebrasks-Lincoln, September 7, 2018–April 6, 2019 

Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, October 6, 2018–January 7, 2019; IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, January 25–July 19, 2019

2019

Common Bonds: Artists and Architects on Community, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, January 12–December 8

In Praise of Folly: Five Artists After Philip Guston, Missoula Art Museum, January 25–May 18, 2019 

Who Do You Say That I Am?, Marxhausen Gallery of Art, Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska, February 10–March 29

Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, February 14–June 21

From Dürer to Digital and 3-D, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, New Jersey, March 8–April 28

Landscape Without Boundaries, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, July 14–December 29

NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today, Phillips, New York, June 19–August 3

2019–2020

Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power, MCA Chicago, October 26, 2019–January 26, 2020

From the Vault, Tandem Press, Madison, Wisconsin, November 15, 2019–January 11, 2020

2019–2021

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, Minneapolis Institute of Art, June 2–August 18, 2019; Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, September 27, 2019–January 12, 2020; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., February 21–March 13, 2020; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 7, 2020–January 3, 2021

Landscape Without Boundaries, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, July 14–December 15, 2019

5 Ways In: Themes from the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 14, 2019–September 12, 2021
Stretching the Canvas: Eighty Years of Native Painting, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, November 16, 2019–Fall 2021

2019–2023

5 Ways In: Themes from the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 14, 2019–January 1, 2023

2020

Someday is Now: A Century of Women, Art, & Social Change, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, August–November 2020

Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art from Indigenous North America, Heard Museum, Phoenix, May 1–November 17, 2020

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS AND CATALOGS

Anreus, Alejandro. Subversions / Affirmations: Jaune Quick-to-See. Jersey City: Jersey City Museum, 1996.

Berlo, Janet Catherine and Ruth B. Phillips. Native North American Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Binstock, Jonathan P. American Kaleidoscope. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, 1996.

Bowles, K Johnson. A Journey Through Tribal Lands. Farmville, VA: Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, 2001.

Brodsky, Judith K. and Ferris Olin. Junctures in Women’s Leadership: The Arts. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2018.

DeWitte, Debra J., Ralph M. Laumann, and M. Kathryn Shields. Gateway to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2018.

Ewing, Heather. Arrivals. Katonah, New York: Katonah Museum of Art, 2021.

Fralin Museum of Art. Writer’s Eye 2018. Charlottesville, Virginia: Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, 2018.

Gerhard, Jane and Dan Tucker. Citizen Woman. New York: Prestel, 2020.

Goodman, Abigail Ross, Molly Epstein, and Laura Beshears. Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Volume III. Winterpark, Florida: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 2018.

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. A Handbook of the Collections. Ithaca: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2018.

Kusserow, Karl and Alan C. Braddock. Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2019.

Martine, David Bunn. No Reservation: New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement. New York: AMERINDA, Inc., 2017.

McCarthy, Jeremiah William and Diana Thompson. For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design. New York: American Federation of Arts, 2019.

New Jersey City University. The Persistence of History. Jersey City: New Jersey City University, 2018.

Robertson, Jean and Deborah Hutton. The History of Art: A Global View. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2021.

Rushing III, W. Jackson. Native American Art in the Twentieth Century. New York: Routledge , 1999.

Saltz, Jerry. How to be an Artist. New York: Riverhead, 2020.

Scott, Amy, ed. Art of the West: Selected works from the Autry Museum. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.

Tanguy, Sarah. A View from Here. Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, 2000.

The History of Art: A Global View. London: Thames and Hudson, 2020.

University of Oklahoma School of Visual Arts. Ascendant: Expressions of Self-Determination. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma, 2022.

Wyckoff, Elizabeth and Gretchen L. Wagner. Graphic Revolution: American Prints 1960 to Now. Saint Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2019.

Yohe, Jill Ahlberg and Teri Greeves. Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2019. 

PERIODICALS

Archuleta, Margaret and Rennard Strickland. “Shared Visions: Part 3.” Native Peoples 5, no. 2 (1992): 28–33.

Baker, Lori K. "But Is It Indian Art?." Phoenix Magazine (November 1992): 94–99.

Bass, Ruth. “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.” Art News 83, no. 3 (1984): 224.

Bell, David L. "Action Centers on San Francisco St." Albuquerque Journal North, July 20, 1983.

Berge, Carol. "Smith and Whitehorse: Painterly Leaps and Continuities". The Santa Fe Reporter, August 29-September 4, 1990.

Borum, Jenifer P. “Reviews: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at Steinbaum Krauss Gallery.” Artforum 31, no. 5 (1993): 87–88.

Braff, Phyllis. “Myths of the American Indian and Significant Photographs.” New York Times, August 15, 1993.

Brown, Betty Ann. “Centric 37 by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.” Artweek (October 21, 1989): 11–12.

Cain, Corrinne and Albion Fenderson. "Collecting with Heart: The Collection of Albion Fenderson.” Native Peoples 14, no. 2 (2001): 72–74.

Camper, Fred. “Self-Expressionism.” Chicago Reader 24, no. 7 (1994): 30–31.

Clark, William. "Artist Taps Into Politics, Environment.” Albuquerque Journal, August 26, 1990.

Cohen, Mark Daniel. “Regional Reviews: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Poet in Paint at Neuberger Museum of Art.” Art New England 22, no. 3 (2001): 44.

Cohen, Ronny H. “Review of Exhibitions: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at Kornblee.” Art in America 68, no. 3 (1980): 116–17.

Conrad, Mary. “Art Knows No Boundaries: Tamarind Institute Goes Worldwide.” Mirage (Winter 1990): 4–5.

Corry, John. "A Current View of American Indians." New York Times, July 29, 1983.

Cortright, Barbara. "Photographing Ourselves: Contemporary Native American Photography." Artspace 9, no. 4 (1985): 12–13.

“Entertainment and Performing Arts: Ethnic Village.” Native Peoples 15, no. 2 (2002): 70.

Fabricant, Don. "Shidoni Show Highlights Gallery Openings.” New Mexican, July 15, 1979.

“Faces and Places.” History News 46, no. 5 (1991): 31.

Farris, Phoebe. "Contemporary Native Amiercan Women Artists: Visual Expressions of Feminism, the Environment, and Identity." Feminist Studies 13, no. 1 (2005): 95–109.

Ferber, Andrea L. “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.” First American Art Magazine, no. 25 (2020): 62–67.

Frank, Peter. "Glimpsing the Nature of the True West.” Newsday, April 8, 1984.

Gabriel, Bertram. "The Nation: Santa Fe: From Main Street to Mainstream.” Art News 81, no. 1 (1982): 134–36.

“Gallery Row: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.” Phoenix Home and Garden (February 1987): 28.

Galligan, Gregory. "Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: Crossing the Great Divide." Arts Magazine 60, no. 5 (January 1986): 54­–55.

Galligan, Gregory. "Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: Racing with the Moon.” Arts Magazine 61, no. 5 (1987): 82–83.

Garcia, Corinne. "Unsettled.” Western Art & Architecture 11, no. 4 (2017): 148–153.

Gerrit, Henry. “Jaune Quick-to-See at the Neuberger Museum,” Art in America 89, no. 11 (2001): 155.

Glueck, Grace. "Two Biennials: One Looking East and the Other West.” New York Times, March 27, 1983.

Goldman, Judith. “Talking About Collecting: Trailblazing Art.” Vogue 169, no. 9 (1979): 332.

Green, Christopher. “Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting.” Art in America 108, no. 3 (2020): 84–86.

Hammond, Harmony. “Exhibitions: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.” Art in America 100, no. 5 (2012): 181–82.

Harjo, Suzan Shown. "Without Reservation.” Native Peoples 11, no. 3 (1998): 50–55.                           

Harnett, Joel. “Treasure Hunt of the Senses.”Native Peoples 13, no. 6 (2000): 48–50.

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. A Handbook of the Collections. Ithaca, New York: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2018.

Hice, Michael. "Contemporary Masters: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art." Native Artists 1, no. 2 (1999): 48–49. 

Highwater, Jamake. "Contemporary Native American Painting and Sculpture.” Native Arts/West (July 1980): 19–23, 29, 32–33.

Highwater, Jamake. "Indians in Painting." American Indian Journal 6, no. 1 (January 1980): 26–31.

Highwater, Jamake. "Noble Savages and Wild Indians." New York Arts Journal, no. 17 (January 1980): 22–24.

Highwater, Jamake. "Profiles of Contemporary North American Indian Artists: Jaune Quick-To-See Smith". Native Arts/West (November 1980): 69.     

Hirsch, Faye. “Working Proof: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.” Art on Paper 7, no. 1 (2002): 88–89.

Hoffman, Gerhard. “Frames of Reference: Native American Art in the Context of Modern and Postmodern Art.” Artspace 2, no. 2 (1987): 24-30.                              

Hopkins, Candice. “Reviews: ‘Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists’ at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.” Artforum 58, no 3 (2019): 218.

Houle, Robert. "Sovereignty Over Subjectivity.” C Magazine, no. 30 (Summer 1991): 28–35. 

Hunt, Joshua. “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Maps New Meanings.” New York Times, December 2, 2021.

Hurst, Tricia. "Crossing Bridges: Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Helen Hardin, Jean Bales." Southwest Art 10, no. 11 (1981): 82–89.

Indyke, Dottie. “Reviews: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at LewAllen Contemporary.” Art News 102, no. 4 (2003): 130.

Jordan, Kyle and Rick Remien. "Images of Indian Women in Art." Eagle Free Press (October 1985): 3.

Josslin, Victoria. “Art With a Message Rubs Off on its Viewers.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 7, 1998.

Kastner, Carolyn. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: An American Modernist. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 2013.

Kotrozo, Carol. "You Name It—Arizona's Got It.” Arizona Arts & Lifestyle (Fall 1980): 20. 

Lanteri, Michelle J. “Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art from Indigenous North America.” First American Art Magazine, no. 29 (2021): 84–85.

Larson, Kay. “Caribbean Visions.” New York Magazine 17, no. 25 (1983): 80–81.

Ledesma, Jared. “One Years of Modern and Contemporary Art.” VIEW (Spring 2022): 8–12.

Levin, Kim. "Jaune Quick-To-See Smith.” Village Voice 35, no. 10 (1990): 109.

–––. "Bad Timing.” Village Voice 35, no. 10 (1990): 102.

Lippard, Lucy R. “Native Intelligence.” Village Voice 28, no. 52 (1983): 102.

Lovell, Charles Muir. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America. Kasas City: University of Missouri, 2003.

Luomala, Nancy. “Women of Sweetgrass.” Woman’s Art Journal 9, no. 1 (1988): 42–44.

Martin, Philip. “No Reservations.” Arkansas Democrat Gazette, October 21, 2018.

Montiel, Anya. “After Columbus.” Art in America 105, 9 (2017): 86–91.

Montini, Ed. "In a Group, Indian Artists Grow as Individuals." The Arizona Republic, February 3, 1981.

Montini, Ed. "Loyalties: Artist Brings Dual Tradition to Landscapes in Motion." The Arizona Republic, October 15, 1980.                   

Moore, S. Derrickson. “Quick-To-See Smith Offers Art with a Conscience and a Message.” Sun-News, January 25, 1997.

Murphy, Jocelyn. “Through Living Eyes.” Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, October 14, 2018.

Nelson, Mary Carroll. "Etching: Contemporary Definitions of an Ancient Technique." Four Winds 2, no. 5 (1981): 24–31.                

Nelson, Mary Carroll. "Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: In the Mainstream." ArtWest (June 1983): 70–74.

Obrist, Hans Ulrich. “Die Kunst einer Native American.” Das Magazin, no. 6 (2021), 9.

Obrist, Hans Ulrich. “Was haben Sie gesehen, Herr Obrist?” Weltkunst, no. 181 (2021): 98.

Osborne, Tom. “Green Light.” Laguna Beach Independent, November 14, 2019.

P., S.M. “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: In the Fog, Near the Cliff.” Artlines 4, no. 7 (1983): 6–8, 10.

Peterson, William. "Portrait: The Southwest.” Portfolio 3, no. 4 (1981): 71–76. 

Phillips, Deborah C. “New Editions: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.” Art News 82, no. 8 (1983): 93.

“Recent Developments: Art Fairs.” First American Art Magazine, no. 29 (2021): 9

“Reception to Honor Lithograph Artists.” Albuquerque Journal, August 14, 1981.

Ross, Deborah. "Indian Pioneer Blazes Art-World Trails." The Arizona Republic, February 24, 1989.

Schulman, Sandra Hale. “11 Influential Native American Artists.” Artsy, November 9, 2021.

“Scottsdale Nabs Coup d’Art.” Phoenix Gazette, October 11, 1983.

“Shorter Takes.” Woman’s Art Journal 20, no. 2 (1999–2000): 65.

Simek, Peter. "Art of the Horse.” Cowboys & Indians 22, no. 6 (2014): 72–80.                         

Simon, Joan. "Report from New Mexico.” Art in America 68, no. 6 (1980): 33–41.  

Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See. “Celebrate 40,000 Years of American Art.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 23, no. 2 (2002): 154–155.

Smith, Katherine. "Outside the Pueblo." Portfolio 4, no. 4 (1982): 52–57.                                

Tarzan, Deloris. "Indian Artists." Seattle Times, September 20, 1983.

“The Grey Canyon Artists.” Turtle 2, no. 1–2 (1980): 14–15.

Thollem. "Great Basin Artists, C.N. Gorman Museum, Davis, California." First American Art Magazine, no. 16 (Fall 2017): 73–74.

Tobin, Richard. “Reviews: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.” Art News 111, no. 8 (2012): 116–17.

Traugott, Joseph. "Artist's Sojourn Results in Exploration, Growth.” Albuquerque Journal, July 24, 1983,

Trembley, Gail. “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at Bush Barn Art Center, Salem.” Art Papers 23, no. 2 (1999): 56.

Trevelyan, Amelia. "Jaune Quick-To-See Smith." Native Peoples 13, no. 2 (2000): 76–81.

Valentino, Erin. “Coyote’s Ransom." Third Text 38 (Spring 1997): 25–37.

VanderPlas, Jaap. “Smith, Jaune Quick-To-See: We Are Here to Stay.” ArtLines 6, no. 4 (1985): 13.

Walsh, Cory. “Five Artists Tap into the Humor and Rage of Philip Guston.” Missoulian, March 15, 2019.

Weathers, Chelsea. “‘Art For a New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now.’ at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe.” Artforum 57, no. 8 (2019): 185.

Young, Joseph E. "Two Exhibits Revitalize Native American Art." The Arizona Republic, December 23, 1979.

Zdanovics, Olga. “Reviews: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at Jan Cicero Gallery.” New Art Examiner 22, no. 4 (1994): 42­–43.

Zimmer, William. “Drawing Visual Power from a Social Cause.” New York Times, December 22, 1996.

–––. “Three Shows of Independent Vision.” New York Times, March 11, 2001.

Zwinger, Susan. "Viewpoint: An Interview with Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.” El Palacio 92, no. 1 (1986): 51–53.