BORN:
St. Ignatius Indian Mission, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Reservation, Montana
Enrolled Salish, member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Montana
EDUCATION:
M.A. Art, University of New Mexico, NM
B.A. Art Education, Framingham State College, MA
SELECTED AWARDS:
2014
Woodson Foundation, Lifetime Achievement Award, Santa Fe, NM
NAEA Ziegfeld Lecture Award
2012
Living Artist of Distinction, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Anna Lamar Switzer Distinguished Artist, Pensacola State College, Pensacola, FL
2011
National Academy Museum & School, 2011 National Academician, New York, NY
ArtTable, Artist Honors, New York, NY
Visionary Woman Award, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
National Women’s History Project, Women’s Art: Women’s Vision Award
2005
Governor’s Award for the Arts, NM
Governor’s Award for Outstanding NM Women
2003
Honorary Doctorate, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2002
CAA Committee on Women in the Arts, Lifetime Achievement Award
1999
The Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, Indianapolis, IN
1998
Honorary Doctorate, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1997
Women’s Caucus for Art Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts
1996
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
1995
Wallace Stegner Award, Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
SITE Santa Fe fellowship Award, Santa Fe, NM
Third Place Painting Award, Fourth International Bienal, Cuenca, Ecuador, South America
1992
Honorary Doctorate, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
1989
Honorary Professor, Beaumont Chair, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
41st Annual American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters, purchase award, New York, NY
1987
Purchase Award, The Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, NY
1979
Named as one of “80 Professional Women to Watch in the 1980s” by New Mexico Women’s Political Caucus
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2015
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Art After the Drought, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2014
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, The Bernstein Gallery, The Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Robert E. Elberson Fine Arts Center, Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Maudeville Art Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY
2013
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Water and War, Accola Griefen Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Landscapes of an American Modernist, Georgia O’Keefe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, Pensacola FL
2009
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, Pensacola Art Museum, Pensacola, FL
2008
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, NC
2007
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, Lauren Rogers Museum, Laurel, MS
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa, TX
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Muscarelle Museum, College of William and Mary, Jamestown, VA
2006
New Drawings: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: New Paintings, Valdosta State University, GA
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ Tour
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
2005
Connections: Old work/New Work, Flomenhaft Gallery, NY, NY
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: She Paints the Horse, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY Tour
Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, CO
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL Tour
Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2004
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Postmodern Messenger, Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, AZ Catalog
Continuum, NMAI, Smithsonian, NY, NY
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, Milton Hershey School Art Museum, Hersey, PA, Tour
Keene State college, NH
2003
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, Belger Foundation, Kansas City, MO Tour, Catalog
University of Scranton, PA
LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2002
200 Years: Change/No Change (Installation): Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Penn State University, College Park, PA
2001
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Poet in Paint, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2000
New Work. Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NY, NY
1997
Modern Times, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, Catalog
1996
Subversions/Affirmations: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, A Survey, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, tour: Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA; Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX; Missoula Art Museum, MT, Catalog
1994
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
SITE Santa Fe, NM
1993
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, Parameters Series, tour: Smith College Museum of Art, MA, Brochure
1992
The Quincentennary Non-Celebration, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NY, NY
1990
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: New Paintings, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NY, NY
1989
Centric 37 University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1986
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Speaking Two Languages, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT, Brochure
1985
Marilyn Butler Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1983
Galerie Akmak, Berlin, Germany
1980
Galleria de Cavallino, Venice, Italy
1979
Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY
1978
Clarke Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2015
The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
2014
Women Only, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY
Face to Face, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Pushing the Limits, Expanding the Vision of Printmaking, Central Booking Gallery, New York, NY
Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay, Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum,
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL; and Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL (touring)
2013
National Academy Museum & School, New York, NY
The Old Becomes the New: New York Contemporary Native American Art and the New York School, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, NY
Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women, and Art – Art Works for Change, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; and Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, Tour
The Map is Not the Territory, The Jerusalem Fund Gallery, Al Quds, Washington, DC
2012
… As Apple Pie, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Creating a Living Legacy, Cue Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
Artists Choosing Artists, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY
Indianische Moderne – Kunst aus Nordamerika, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Shapeshifting:Transformations in Native American Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Privacy Please, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Octopus Dreams, Ekaterinburg Museum, Novosibirsk State Museum, Togliatti Art Museum, Russia, Catalog/touring
2011
The Narcissism of Minor Differences, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Tamarind Touchstones: Fabulous at Fifty, Celebrating Excellence in Fine Art Lithography, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
NASA|Art: 50 Years of Exploration, Smithsonian Institution, Companion book/touring
Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women, and Art, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Kunst der Indianischen Moderne und Postmoderne aus der Sammlung Peiper-Riegraf, Leon Berg, Germany
Montana Women in the Visual Arts, The Emerson Center for Arts and Culture, Bozeman, MT
50 Places, College of Arts and Sciences Gallery, University of Miami, Miami, FL
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop: Suites and Portfolios, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO
The Question of Drawing, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Island Press: Three Decades of Printmaking, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Pressing Ideas Fifty Years of Women’s Lithography from Tamarind, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2010
Albuquerque Now, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
P0P! Popular Culture in American Indian Art, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Violencia Mujer Y Arte, Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Baja
California, Mexico; and Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico, Tour
The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Dain Rauscher Collection, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, University of Montana, MT
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, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, touring
Land/Art, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM
Unconquered Imagination, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Clewiston, FL
Animal Connections, Print Walls Gallery, University of Wisconsin, touring
Paper Trail: How the West is One, New Mexico Art Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Favorite Works, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2008
Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, Brooklyn, NY
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
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, MA
The Human Condition: A Multi-Cultural Print Exhibition, Molloy College, Rockville Center, Long Island, NY
Print Lovers at Thirty: Celebrating Three Decades of Giving, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2007
Elizabeth Sacker Center for Feminist Art, New York City, NY
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, FL
Unlimited Boundaries: Dichotomy of Place in Contemporary Native Art, Albuquerque Museum, NM
Green: Inaugural Exhibition, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2006
The Missing Peace for the Dalai Lama, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
About Face, Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Chamalieres Carrefour Int’l de L’estampe, French Print Triennial, Clichy, France
Lessedra World Art Print, Sofia, Bulgaria
Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
2004
New Additions: Prints for an American Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY
The Flag Project”, Rubin Museum of Art, NY, NY
Newer Genres: Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, NJ
2003
Off the Press: Re-Contextualizing the Newspaper, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Honorary Degree Exhibit, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, RI
Cross-Cultural Identities: An Artist Print Exchange between South Africa and North America for the 3rd
Impact International Printmaking Conference, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2002
Unforgettable, Chelsea Studio Gallery, NY, NY
The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine, Institute for American Universities, Aix-en-Provence, France
2001
The View from Here, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia, Catalog
Passageways: Growing up in the World, tour in Israel
2000
5th Triennale Mondiale d’Estampes Petit Format 2000, Chamalieres, France
Sharjah Arts Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
1999
“Ceremonial” Native Americans at the Venice Biennale, Schola Dei Tiraoro E. Battioro, Venezia, Italy
Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century, Tour: Washington DC, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Singapore
23rd International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
World Views: Maps & Art, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, MN Catalog
Barbie Doll Show, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Mixed Blessings, Two person, Amerika Haus, Frankfurt, Germany
1998
National Invitational Works on Paper Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI
Mouse: An American Icon, The Alternative Museum, NY, NY
1997
New Prints, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Text and Identity, Twelve Women/Twelve Artists, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY Catalog
Real(ist) Women II, Northwood University, West Palm Beach FL Catalog
1996
American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Catalog
Brücken und Abgrenzungen: Zeitgenössische indianische Kunst (Bridges and Boundaries: Contemporary Indian Art), Taunus-Sparkasse, Kronberg, Germany Tour
V Bienal Internacional de Pintura de Cuenca, Tour through South America
Sniper’s Nest (Collection of Lucy Lippard), curated by Bard College, Hudson, NY, Tour
1995
Justice/Injustice: Art Against Death, Puffin Room, NY, NY
Art at the Edge:Social Turf, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, Brochure
Old Glory, New Story: Flagging of the 21st Century, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Heroes and Heroines: From Myth to Reality, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
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, OK, Tour, Catalog
1994
AD*VANCES, Museum of Modern Art, Art Advisory Service for General Electric, NY, NY
Reuse/Refuse, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI, Catalog
Artistas Contemporaneo de Nuevo Mexico, University of Guadalajera, Guadalajera, Mexico
Multiplicity: A New Cultural Strategy, University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Toi te Ao, an Aotearoa World Celebration of Indigenous Art & History, Te Taumata Gallery, Auckland, NZ, Catalog
Salon de Barbie: A Multi-Media Exhibition, The Kitchen, New York, NY and Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Weltpremiere: Remember the Earth Whose Skin You Are, Kunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
1993
Current Identities: Recent Paintings in the United States, organized by Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, traveling exhibition includes venues in Panama, Honduras, Salvador, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay, Venezuela, Paraguay and Dominican Republic, running through 1996, Catalog
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
For the Seventh Generation: Native Americans Counter the Quincentennary, Columbus, New York, Art In General, NY, NY, Tour, Catalog
Art and Environment: Celebrate Earth Day, National Arts Club, NY, NY
Indianer Nordamerikas, Kunst und Mythos, Internationale Tage Ingelheim, Ingelheim, Germany, Catalog
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and David Johns, Works on paper, Peiper-Riegraf Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany.
1992
Counter Colon-ialismo, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego CA, tour Cultural Tijuana, Mexico Catalog
44th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY, NY, purchased by the Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Fund, NY, NY
One World, in conjunction with the Earth Summit, Kassel, Germany
Six Directions, Galerie Calumet, Heidelberg, Germany
Wind and Glacier Voices: The Native American Film & Media Celebration, Walter Reade Cinema Gallery, Lincoln Center, NY, NY, Poster.
Columbus Drowning, Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, England
1991
Figuration, The Museum of Modern Art, Art Advisory Service for Pfizer Corporation, NY, NY
Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers, Lang Communications Collection, tour, Catalog
Myth and Magic in the Americas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, Catalog
Okanta, A-Space, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1990
Menagerie, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
The Decade Show, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, NY, NY, Catalog
The Matter at Hand: Contemporary Drawings, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Fine Arts Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, Catalog
Coast to Coast-The Box Show, Art in General, NY, NY, Tour
1989
Cambridge Multi-Cultural Art Center, Cambridge, MA
The Natural Image: Nature as Image in Contemporary Art, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
100 Drawings By Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, NY, NY, U.S.I.A. Tour, Catalog
41st Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, purchased by the Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Fund, NY, NY
1988
Cultural Currents, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
American Herstory: Women and the U.S. Constitution, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1987
Connections Project/Conexus, collaborative exhibition between women artists from Brazil and the United States, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, NY, NY, Tour
39th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, purchased by Hassam and Speicher Purchase Fund, NY, NY
1986
Views Across America, Museum of Modern Art, Art Advisory Service of Gannett Corporation and Pfizer Corporation Headquarters, NY, NY
American Women in Art: Works on Paper – An American Album, Nairobi, Kenya
In Homage to Ana Mendieta, Zeus-Trabia Gallery, NY, NY
Visible/Invisible, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1985
Women of the American West, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
Twenty-five Years of Printmaking at Tamarind, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Catalog
Signale, Organized by Katrina Hartje, Galerie Akmak, Germany, tour, Catalog
Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar and Sage: Contemporary Art by Native American Women, AICH (American Indian Community House Gallery), NY, NY, Tour, Catalog
1984
Western States Biennial, traveling exhibition including Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, DC (1983), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, Brooklyn Museum, NY, NY, Catalog
Expanding Powers, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Tour Cal State College, Stanislaus, CA Catalog
Academy of Arts and Letters Group Invitational, NY, NY
Artists Call – Reconstruction Project, Artists Space, NY, NY
1983
The New Feminism, curated by Lucy Lippard, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Grey Canyon, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Brochure
The Wild West Show, Alberta College of Art, Canada, Catalog
Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Horse Show, Robert Freidus Gallery, NY, NY
1982
Galleria D’arte L’Argentario, Trento, Italy
University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Aspen Center for the Arts, Aspen, CO
Works on Paper, Foundations Gallery, NY, NY
1981
Rosalind Constable Invites, Sweeney Center, Santa Fe, NM
Fiber Arts, Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
Kornblee Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Albright – Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1980
Cavallino Gallery, Venice, Italy
Three Visions, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Work from the Tamarind Institute, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland
Buscaglia-Casteliani Gallery, Niagara University, Niagara, NY
1979
Fall Invitational, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
Grey Canyon Artists, Upstairs Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Summer Show, Droll/Kolbert Gallery, NY, NY
1978
New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Biennial, 5-State Juried Group Show, NM
Indian Art Now, Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, NM
1977
Arthur B. Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, MA
1976
Whittemore Gallery, Framingham State College
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, NH
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Museum fuer Voelkerkunde, Frankfurt, Germany (Museum of Mankind)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
The Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Quito, Ecuador
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, KS
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of World Cultures, Vienna, Austria
The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England