Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Born: 1940 in St. Ignatius Indian Mission, Salish and Kootenai Nation, Montana
Enrolled Flathead Salish #07137
Died: 2025 in Corrales, New Mexico
Education
1980 University of New Mexico, Santa Fe (MA Visual Arts)
1976 Framingham State College, Massachusetts (BA Art Education)
1960 Olympic College, Bremerton, Washington (Associate of Arts Degree)
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions (selected)
2025
Wilding, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, UK
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Glenstone Pavilions, Room 9, Travilah, Maryland
Hope with Humor: Works by Jaune Quick-To-See Smith from the Collection, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2024
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Memory Map, Seattle Art Museum, Washington (touring)
2023
Memory Map, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (touring)
Memory Map, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (touring)
2021
Woman in Landscape, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
2019
In the Footsteps of My Ancestors, Tacoma Art Museum, Washington (touring)
2018
Making Medicine, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
Trickster in Print, Historic Fifth Street School Mayor’s Gallery, Las Vegas
In the Footsteps of My Ancestors, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado College (touring)
In the Footsteps of My Ancestors, Loveland Museum, Colorado (touring)
2017
In the Footsteps of My Ancestors, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana (touring)
In the Footsteps of My Ancestors, Missoula Art Museum, Montana (touring)
2016
Layered Stories, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
2015
CUE Foundation 2016 Solo Exhibition Program, New York
Art after the Drought, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
2014
The Bernstein Gallery, The Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, New Jersey
Robert E. Elberson Fine Arts Center, Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Maudeville Art Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, New York
2013
Water and War, Accola Griefen Gallery, New York
2012
Landscapes of an American Modernist, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, Florida
2009
Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Made in America, Pensacola Art Museum, Florida (touring)
2008
University of North Carolina at Pembroke, North Carolina
2007
Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa, Texas
Muscarelle Museum, College of William; Mary, Jamestown, Virginia
Made in America, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota (touring)
Made in America, Lauren Rogers Museum, Laurel, Mississippi (touring)
2006
New Drawings: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Suffolk University, Boston
New Paintings, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia
2005
She Paints the Horse, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado (touring)
Made in America, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (touring)
She Paints the Horse, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming (touring)
Connections: Old Work/New Work, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York
Made in America, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque (touring)
Made in America, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida (touring)
2004
Postmodern Messenger, Tuscon Museum of Art, Arizona
Made in America, Milton Hershey School Art Museum, Hershey, Pennsylvania
2003
Made in America, University of Scranton, Pennsylvania (touring)
Made in America, Belger Arts Center for Creative Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City
2002
Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
200 Years: Change/No Change, Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
2001
Poet in Paint, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
Anton Gallery, Washington, D.C.
The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2000
New Work, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Art Museum of Missoula, Montana
1999
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota
Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, Oregon
1998
Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art, Daybreak Star Cultural Arts Center, Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York
1997
Subversions/Affirmations: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, A Survey Missoula Art Museum, Montana (touring)
Modern Times, New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces
Subversions/Affirmations: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, A Survey, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin
The Evergreen State College Galleries, Olympia, Washington
Subversions/Affirmations: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, A Survey, Lehigh University Art
Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (touring)
1996
Subversions/Affirmations: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, A Survey, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey (touring)
1995
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York
Wabash College Art Museum, Crawfordsville, Indiana
1994
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
SITE, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993
Parameters Series; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts (touring)
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York
Sweet Briar College, Virginia
Parameters Series, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia (touring)
1992
The Quincentenary Non-Celebration, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York
LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1990
New Paintings, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York
LewAllen/Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1989
Centric 37: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
1988
Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
1987
Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
1986
Speaking Two Languages, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York
1985
Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1984
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York
1983
Galerie Akmak, Berlin, Germany
Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1980
Galleria de Cavallino, Venice, Italy
Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
1979
Kornblee Gallery, New York
1978
Clarke Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Curated Exhibitions
2025
Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2004
Continuum 12 Artists, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, New York
1985
Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar, and Sage, Gallery of the American Indian Community House, New York (curated with Harmony Hammond)
Public Works and Commissions
1998
West Seattle Cultural Trail project, Washington
1994
Great Hall of the Denver International Airport, Colorado
1993
Oche Wat Te Ou Reflection Garden, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco (created with James Lunain)
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2025
Past as Prologue: A Historical Acknowledgment, Part II, National Academy of Design, New York
Visualizing Survivance, Visualizing Permanence, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
2024
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop: Highlights from the Archive, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Invisible Luggage, The Historic Hampton House, Miami, Florida
American Sunrise: Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Power of the People: Art and Democracy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor, Hudson River Museum, New York
For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California
By Dawn’s Early Light, Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, Marc Straus, New York
Flags: A Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Indigenous Power, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Yours Truly, Nahmad Contemporary, New York
Summer with Friends and Family, 47 Canal, New York
Illustrating Agency, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Women Reframe American Landscape, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin
Echoes of the New Frontier, COL Gallery, San Francisco, California
Ancestors And Place: Indigenous North American Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Fantastic Realms: Myths, Magic, And Folklore, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana
Between Worlds: Stories Of Artists And Migration, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts
Institute, Utica, New York
2023
Transcendent, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Supporting Indigenous Sisters: An International Print Exchange, Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
Wishing Well, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969, CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, New York
From the Vault: Post-War to Contemporary Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Women Reframe American Landscape, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
The House Edge, Curated by Candace Tompkins, The 8th Floor, New York
Boundless, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts
2022
Catching the Moment: The Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection, Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Working Thought: Art, Labor, and the American Economy, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
True Colors: Picturing Identity, West Virginia University Art Museum, Morgantown
2021
Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
For America, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Indigenous Voices in Contemporary Art, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham State University
Color into Line: Pastels from the Renaissance to the Present, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco
Poetic Justice, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
New Light: Encounters and Connections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Proof of Stake – Technological Claims, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
Shared Ideologies, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia
Learning to Look: The Addison at 90, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Now is the Time: Recent Acquisitions to the Contemporary Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
Trade Canoe: Forty Days and Forty Nights, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
2020
We Fight to Build a Free World: A Project by Jonathan Horowitz, Jewish Museum, New York
Someday is Now: A Century of Women, Art, & Social Change, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art from Indigenous North America, Heard Museum
Contemporary Art + Design: New Acquisitions, Dallas Museum of Art
Politics & Religion: Artists Speak Out!, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
Waves: Feminism, Art and Power, Museum of Sonoma County
Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art from Indigenous North America, Heard Museum, Phoenix
Someday is Now: A Century of Women, Art, & Social Change, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
2019
5 Ways In: Themes from the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Stretching the Canvas: Eighty Years of Native Painting, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
5 Ways In: Themes from the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Landscape Without Boundaries, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma (touring)
From the Vault, Tandem Press, Madison, Wisconsin
Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power, MCA Chicago
NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today, Phillips, New York
Landscape Without Boundaries, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis
From Dürer to Digital and 3-D, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, New Jersey
Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis
Who Do You Say That I Am?, Marxhausen Gallery of Art, Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska
In Praise of Folly: Five Artists After Philip Guston, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana
Common Bonds: Artists and Architects on Community, Art, Design & Architecture
Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
2018
Constructing Identity in America (1766–2017), Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Graphic Revolution: American Prints 1960 to Now, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
We the People: New Art from the Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment, Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (touring)
Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
From Paint Brushes to Camera Lenses: Creative Women of the Great Plains, Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Dreamlandia, Foyer Gallery, MIdwestern University, Wichita Falls, Texas
Modes of Mapping, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, New York
Random Search: Mining the Archives of Tamarind Institute, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Women with Vision: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
2017
Multiple Modernisms, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
Dress Matters: Clothing as Metaphor, Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, Arizona
An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Conversation Pieces: Selection from the Permanent Collection in Dialogue, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
Great Basin Artists, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, California
BIG Deal: Sizable Paintings from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
2016
Home: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Responding, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado; Sojourner Truth Library, State University of New York at New Paltz; Pattee Library, University Park, Pennsylvania State University
The Map Is Not the Territory, Lower Level Gallery, Arab American Museum, Dearborn, Michigan
Embassy of the United States, Ankara, Turkey
2015
Octopus Dreams, Funabashi City, Japan
Weaving Past into Present: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking, International Print Center, New York
The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from 1960 to Present, Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, Florida
2014
Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay, Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum, Norman, Oklahoma
Face to Face, Wall to Wall, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
Women Only, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York
2013
The Map Is Not the Territory, The Jerusalem Fund Gallery, Al Quds, Washington, D.C.
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 Old Becomes the New: New York Contemporary Native American Art and the New York School, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York
National Academy Museum & School, New York
2012
Octopus Dreams, Ekaterinburg Museum, Novosibirsk State Museum, Togliatti Art Museum, Russia; Siberia
Privacy Please, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (tour, catalogue)
Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts (catalogue)
Indianische Moderne – Kunst aus Nordamerika, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Creating a Living Legacy, Cue Foundation Gallery, New York
...As Apple Pie, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2011
Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithography from Tamarind, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Island Press: Three Decades of Printmaking, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Montana Women in the Visual Arts, Emerson Center for Arts and Culture, Bozeman, Montana
Kunst der Indianischen Moderne und Postmoderne aus der Sammlung Peiper-Riegraf, Leon Berg, Germany
NASA|Art: 50 Years of Exploration, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (tour, book)
Tamarind Touchstones: Fabulous at Fifty, Celebrating Excellence in Fine Art Lithography, Portland Art Museum, Oregon (catalogue)
The Narcissism of Minor Differences, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop: Suites and Portfolios, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri (catalogue)
2010
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, University of Montana, and Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Drain Rauscher Collection, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Violencia Mujer Y Arte, Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico (touring)
2009
Common Ground, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, New Mexico
Favorite Works, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
Unconcquered Imagination, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Clewiston, Florida
Land/Art, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Visual Power, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; London, United Kingdom; and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (touring)
Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art – Art Works for Change, Stenersen
Museum, Oslo, Norway (tour)
Cuban Biennial, Havana, Cuba
2008
Print Lovers at Thirty: Celebrating Three Decades of Giving, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
The Human Condition: A Multi-Cultural Print Exhibition, Molloy College, Rockville Center, Long Island, New York
The Third Space: Cultural Identity Today, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
International Print Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, Brooklyn, New York
2007
Unlimited Boundaries: Dichotomy of Place in Contemporary Native Art, Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico (catalogue)
An International Printers Exchange, University of North Florida, Jacksonville
We Are All Knots, National Museum of the American Indian and Art in Embassies, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art, New York
2006
Lessedra World Art Print, Sofia, Bulgaria
Chamalieres Carrefour Int’l de L’estampe, French Print Triennial, Clichy, France
The Missing Piece for the Dalai Lama, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, California; Loyola University, Chicago
2005
Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
2004
New Editions: Prints for an American Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Newer Genres: Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, State University of New Jersey, Rutgers
The Flag Project, Rubin Museum of Art, New York (catalogue)
2003
Cross-Cultural Identities: An Artists Print Exchange Between South America and North America, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Honorary Degree Exhibit, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Rhode Island
Off the Press: Re-Contextualizing the Newspaper, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida (catalogue)
2002
The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine, Institute for American Universities, Aix-en-Provence, France (catalogue)
Unforgettable, Chelsea Studio Gallery, New York; Berliner Kunstproject, Berlin, Germany
Women’s National Art Invitational, Clemson University, South Carolina
2001
Passageways: Growing up in the World, Israel
Prints & Prints, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York
The View from Here, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2000
Tamarind at 40, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
Sharjah Arts Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
5th Triennale Mondiale d’Estampes Petit Format 2000, Chamalieres, France
1999
Barbie Doll Show, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Indian Reality Today, Westphalian State Museum, Munster, Germany
Contemporary Masters, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
Mixed Blessings, Two person, curated by Dorothee Peiper-Riegraf, Amerika Haus, Frankfurt, Germany
Millennium Messages, SITES, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
World Views: Maps & Art, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota
23rd International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century, Washington D.C.; Vietnam; China; Indonesia; Singapore (touring)
Ceremonial, Eight Native Americans, Venice Biennale, Schola Dei Tiraoro E. Battioro, Venezia, Italy
1998
Indian Humor, National Museum of the American Indian, New York
Mouse: An American Icon, The Alternative Museum, New York
National Invitational Works on Paper Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Hilo
City Series: Taos, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa
1997
Real(ist) Women II, Northwood University, West Palm Beach, Florida
Text and Identity, Twelve Women/Twelve Artists, University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, State University at Stony Brook, New York
New Prints, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
1996
Sniper’s Nest (Collection of Lucy Lippard), Bard College, Hudson, NY (tour, catalogue)
V Bienal Internacional de Pintura de Cuenca
American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
Brücken und Abgrenzungen: Zeitgenössiche indianische Kunst, Taunua-Sparkasse; Kronberg, Germany; Haus an der Redoute, Bonn Germany; Kaisertrutz, Görlitz, Germany (touring)
1995
Heroes and Heroines: From Myth to Reality, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey (catalogue)
Justice/Injustice: Art Against Death, Puffin Room, New York
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 (touring)
Old Glory, New Story: Flagging of the 21st Century, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California
Art at the Edge: Social Turf, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (catalogue)
1994
Pintores en grabado, IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura de Cuenca, Panama; Honduras; Salvador; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Columbia; Uragauay; Venezuela; Paraguay; Dominican Republic (touring)
Weltpremiere: Remember the Earth Whose Skin You Are, Kunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Salon de Barbie: A Multi-Media Exhibition, The Kitchen, New York; Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
Toi te Ao, an Aotearoa World Celebration of Indigenous Art & History, Te Taumata Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Multiplicity: A New Cultural Strategy, University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Artistas Contemporaneo de Nueva Mexico, University of Guadalajera, Mexico
Reuse / Refuse, Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Hawaii (catalogue)
AD*VANCES, Museum of Modern Art, Art Advisory Service for General Electric, New York
1993
Indian Territories: 20th-Centry Native-American Artists Dismantle 19th-Century Euro-American Myths, René Fotouhi Fine Art East, East Hampton
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and David Johns, Works on Paper, Peiper-Riegraf Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Art and Enviornment: Imagine Celebrates Earth Day, National Arts Club, New York
Indianer Nordamerikas, Kunst und Mythos, Internationale Tage Ingelheim, Ingelheim, Germany (catalogue)
For the Seventh Generation: Native Americans Counter the Quncentennary, Columbus, New York; Art in General, New York (tour, catalogue)
Current Identities: Recent Painting in the United States, organized by Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
1992
In Plural America: Contemporary Journeys, Voices and Identities, Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers
Six Directions, Galerie Calumet, Heidelberg, Germany
Wind and Glacier Voices: The Native American Film & Media Celebration, Lincoln Center, New York
Columbus Drowning, Rochdale Art Gallery, England
One World, Kassel, Germany
44th Annual Exhibit, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
Counter Colonialismo, Center Cultural Tijuana, Mexico; Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego (touring, catalogue)
1991
Okanta, A-Space, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Myth and Magic in the Americas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico (catalogue)
Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers, Lang Communications Collection, London (tour, catalogue)
Figuration, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1990
Figuration, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Matter at Hand: Contemporary Drawings, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Fine Arts Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (catalogue)
The Decade Show, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York (catalogue)
Menagerie, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Coast to Coast – The Box Show, Art in General, New York (tour)
1989
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Emma Whitehorse, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale
41st Annual Academy–Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
100 Drawings by Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, New York (tour, catalogue)
The Natural Image: Nature as Image in Contemporary Art, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Connecticut
Cambridge Multi-Cultural Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1988
American Herstory: Women and the U.S. Constitution, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cultural Currents, San Diego Museum of Art
1987
39th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
Connections Project/Conexus, Women Artists from Brazil and U.S., Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York (tour)
1986
Visible/Invisible, Palo Alto Cultural Center, California
In Homage to Anna Mendieta, Zeus-Trabia Galler, New York
American Women in Art: Works on Paper – An American Album, Nairobi, Kenya
Views Across America, Museum of Modern Art, Art Advisory Service of Gannett Corporation and Pfizer Corporation Headquarters, New York
1985
Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar and Sage: Contemporary Art by Native American Women, AICH (American Indian Community House Gallery), New York (catalogue)
Signale, organized by Katrina Hartje, Galerie Akmak, Berlin, Germany (tour, catalogue)
Twenty-Five Years of Printmaking at Tamarind, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque (catalogue)
Women of the American West, Bruce Museu, Greenwich, Connecticut
1984
Artists Call – Reconstruction Project, Artists Space, New York
36th Annual Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
Academy of Arts and Letters Group Invitational, New York
Expanding Powers, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; Cal State College, Stanislaus, California (catalogue)
Western States Biennial, Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C. (tour, catalogue)
East Meets West, Brooklyn Museum, New York
1983
Second Western States Exhibition/38th Corcoran Biennial of American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Arizona; Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico; Long Beach Museum of Art, California; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (touring)
Common Ground, American Indian Community House, New York
The Horse Show, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York
Henry Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Grey Canyon, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (brochure)
The Wild West Show, Alberta College of Art, Canada (catalogue)
The New Feminism, curated by Lucy Lippard, Ohio State University, Columbus
1982
Works on Paper, Foundations Gallery, New York
Aspen Center for the Arts, Aspen, Colorado
University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Galleria D’arte L’Argentario, Trento, Italy
1981
Grey Canyon Group, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Kornblee Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Fiber Arts, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
An Exhibit of Contemporary Art by Native American Artists, Whitney Gallery of Taos, New Mexico, April
Rosalind Constable Invites, Sweeney Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1980
Buscaglia–Casteliani Gallery, Niagara University, Niagara, New York
Work From the Tamarind Institute, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland
Three Visions, Massachusets College of Art, Boston
Cavallino Gallery, Venice, Italy
1979
Imagery of the Plains: R. Lee White and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Heard Museum
Summer Show, Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York
Group Show, Clarke-Benton, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Rick Dillingham and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Clarke-Benton, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Grey Canyon Artists, Upstairs Gallery, Berkeley, California
Fall Invitational, Roswell Museum, Roswell, New Mexico
1978
Indian Art Now, Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Biennial, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1977
Arthur B. Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, Massachusetts
1976
Whittemore Gallery, Framingham State College, Massachusetts
Awards and Residencies
2023
Artists’ Legacy Foundation Artist Award, Oakland, California
2022
Anonymous Was a Woman Award, New York
2021
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, New York
2020
United States Artists fellowship, Chicago, Illinois
2015
The Woodson Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award
2014
NAEA Ziegfeld Lecture Award
2012
Living Artist of Distinction Award, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2011
Art Table Artist Honoree, New York
Visionary Woman Award, Moore College, Pennsylvania
2009
Honorary Doctorate from University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2005
New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, Santa Fe
2003
Honorary Doctorate from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
2002
College Art Association Women’s Award, New York
1998
Honorary Doctorate from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1997
Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, New York
1996
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters Grant
1992
Honorary Doctorate from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minnesota
1987
Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award
Public Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Akron Museum of Art, Ohio
Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico
Arizona State University Art Museum, Phoenix
Art in Embassies, Washington, D.C.
Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles
Baltimore Museum of Art
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
College of Wooster Art Museum, Ohio
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
Detroit Institue of Arts
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis
Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University Bloomington
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Fort Wayne Museum, Indiana
Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe
Goshen College, Indiana
Heard Museum, Phoenix
Hennepin County Library, Minnesota
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Jersey City Museum
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe Museum für Naturkunde, Münster, Germany
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, New Orleans
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Miami Dade College Museum of Art and Design, Florida
Midwest Museum of Art, Elkhart, Indiana
Mildred Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
Missoula Art Museum, Montana
Molloy College Gallery, Rockville Centre, New York
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, Cuenca, Ecuador
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Quito, Ecuasdor
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
New Orleans Museum of Art
Newark Museum, New Jersey
Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming
Pensacola Museum of Art, University of West Florida
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, Saint Lawrence University, New York
Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York
Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Sweet Briar College Gallery, Virginia
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon
University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana