Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

One of the most acclaimed artists living and working today, Juane Quick-To-See-Smith merges her rich Native American heritage with reappropriated ideas of mapping, history, and environmentalism while incorporating personal and collective memories. With French-Cree, Shoshone, and Salish ancestry, Smith comments on historical oppression with striking wit, forming a distinct visual language using commercial signage and slogans, canonical art references, and pop culture imagery. Smith is part of the new generation of Native American artists who are helping to redefine their culture's relationship to contemporary American life and its problematic past. She lives and works in Albuquerque, in close proximity to the land that inspires much of her art.

Smith has had more than eighty solo exhibitions over the past thirty years, including a recent major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. Her work is included in many prestigious institutional collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., Museum of Mankind, Vienna; and Museum of Modern Art, Quito, Ecuador.