The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York presents the largest exhibition to date of the work of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (19 April–1 August). Spanning the full breadth of her five-decade career, the show brings together more than 130 works including drawings, paintings, collages and sculptures that reveal how Smith’s practice blurs the boundaries between art and activism. Bringing the experience of Indigenous communities to the fore and drawing on a wide range of art-historical references, Smith’s work challenges commonly held conceptions of history and explores contemporary American life. Highlights on show include several of Smith’s maps such as Indian Map (1999) and Memory Map as well as the drawings Petroglyph Park (1987), the first in a series of works born out of the artist’s involvement in efforts to save areas of New Mexico where ancient petroglyphs were at risk of being destroyed by residential development. Find out more on the Whitney’s website.
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Kallispell #3 (1979), Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Kallispell #1 (1979), Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
War is Heck (2002), Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith