Jaune Quick-to-See Smith was a Native American visual artist and curator. She was an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and was also of Métis and Shoshone descent. She was an educator, storyteller, art advocate, and political activist. Over the course of her five-decade long career, Smith gained a reputation for her prolific work, being featured in over 50 solo exhibitions and curating over 30 exhibitions. Her work draws from a Native worldview and comments on American Indian identity, histories of oppression, and environmental issues. In the mid-1970s, Smith gained prominence as a painter and printmaker, and later advanced her style with collage, drawing, and mixed media. Her works have been widely exhibited and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith was a Native American visual artist and curator. She was an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and was also of Métis and Shoshone descent. She was an educator, storyteller, art advocate, and political activist. Over the course of her five-decade long career, Smith gained a reputation for her prolific work, being featured in over 50 solo exhibitions and curating over 30 exhibitions. Her work draws from a Native worldview and comments on American Indian identity, histories of oppression, and environmental issues. In the mid-1970s, Smith gained prominence as a painter and printmaker, and later advanced her style with collage, drawing, and mixed media. Her works have been widely exhibited and many are in the permanent collections of prominent art museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Walker Art Center as well as the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her work has also been collected by New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe) and Albuquerque Museum, both located in a landscape that has continually served as one of her greatest sources of inspiration. In 2020, the National Gallery of Art bought her painting I See Red: Target (1992), which was the first painting on canvas by a Native American artist in the gallery. Smith supported the Native arts community by organizing exhibitions and project collaborations, and she also participated in national commissions for public works. She lived in Corrales, New Mexico, near the Rio Grande, with her family. Smith was represented by Garth Greenan Gallery in New York City....more