Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
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Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (b. 1940) is a Cree–Métis–Shoshone contemporary artist. Born in 1940 at St. Ignatius, Montana on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai (Flathead) Indian Reservation, Montana, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith is an internationally renowned painter and printmaker. She earned a AA degree at Olympic College, Bremerton, WA, a BA in Art Education from Framingham State College, Massachusetts, and an MFA in Art from the University of New Mexico. Smith has been awarded three Honorary Doctorates, from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts and Massachusetts College of Art.
Smith has been creating complicated abstract paintings and lithographs since the 1970s. She employs a wide variety of media, working in painting, printmaking and richly textured mixed media pieces. Such images and collage elements as commercial slogans, sign-like petroglyphs, rough drawing, and the inclusion and layering of text are unusually intersected into a complex vision created out of the artist’s personal experience. Her works contain strong, insistent socio-political commentary that speaks to past and present cultural appropriation and abuse, while identifying the continued significance of the Native American peoples.
A guest lecturer at over 185 universities, museums and conferences around the world, Smith has also shown her work in over 90 solo exhibitions. An articulate speaker, she is an outspoken activist for avant-garde and feminist causes, and her art reflects these concerns. In a second USA PBS TV series in 1982, she was one of the few women artists featured. Her work has been reviewed by The New York Times, ArtNews, Art InAmerica, Art Forum, The New Art Examiner and many other notable publications. She has curated numerous Native American exhibitions and serves as an activist and spokesperson for contemporary Native art. She is in many private and public international collections, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Museum of Mankind, Vienna, Austria; The Museum of Modern Art, Quito, Ecuador, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Among other honors, she has received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters Grant, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, the College Art Association’s Committee on Women in the Arts Award, the 2005 New Mexico Governor’s Outstanding New Mexico Woman’s Award, and the 2005 New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (Allan Houser Award). Smith also has been admitted to the New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame.
Books
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: Made in America, Belger Art Center for Creative Studies, 2003.
Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar and Sage: Contemporary Art by Native American Women, with Harmony Hammond, Gallery American Indian Community House, 1985.
Every Day is a Good Day: Reflections of Contemporary Indigenous Women , Wilma Mankiller, Fulcrum Publishing, 2004.
See Also
- National Museum of Women in the Arts - Biography
- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at LewAllen Contemporary Gallery
- Continuum 12 exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian
- Biography and Art from Flomenhaft Gallery
- Jaune Quick-To-See Smith Biography & Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Lithographs at the Tamarind Institute
- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America
- more Jaune Quick-To-See Smith paintings
- Five works at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
- Two works at Midwest Museum of Art
- Two works at the Jersey City Museum
- One work at the Arizona State Museum Americas Gallery
