Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
1940–2025 · USA
About Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940–2025) was an artist, curator, teacher, and activist and a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation. She earned a BA in art education from Framingham State College and an MA in visual arts from the University of New Mexico.
Across painting, printmaking, collage, drawing, and mixed media, Smith combined abstraction, maps, newspaper text, popular imagery, humor, and satire to address land, Native presence, environmental damage, colonial history, and dominant accounts of the United States. The Whitney Museum’s 2023 Memory Map was her first New York retrospective and the largest, most comprehensive presentation of her career to that date. Later that year she became the first artist to curate an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art with The Land Carries Our Ancestors.
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940–2025) was an artist, curator, teacher, and activist and a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation. She earned a BA in art education from Framingham State College and an MA in visual arts from the University of New Mexico.
Across painting, printmaking, collage, drawing, and mixed media, Smith combined abstraction, maps, newspaper text, popular imagery, humor, and satire to address land, Native presence, environmental damage, colonial history, and dominant accounts of the United States. The Whitney Museum’s 2023 Memory Map was her first New York retrospective and the largest, most comprehensive presentation of her career to that date. Later that year she became the first artist to curate an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art with The Land Carries Our Ancestors.