Artists

Julie Buffalohead's work has focused thematically on describing Indian cultural experience through personal metaphor and narrative. Just as frequently as the work has been evocative of animals, anthropomorphism and nature, it has been a critique of the simulacrum of the Old West, and of the prejudicial commercialization of Native culture.
 

Buffalohead is a member of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma. She has had solo exhibitions at Denver Art Museum, CO; Western Carolina University, NC; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, NM; Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, NY; Bockley Gallery, MN; The Plains Art Museum, ND; Minnesota Museum of American Art, MN; Rochester Art Center, MN; to name a few. Group exhibitions include Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, NY; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN; Rockbund Museum of Art, Shanghai; Schingoethe, Center, Aurora University, IL; Walton Arts Center, AK; Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, MN; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, IN; Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, PA; Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, OK; Plains Art Museum, ND; to name a few.

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Public collections include Denver Art Museum, CO; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Walker Art Center, MN; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, MO; Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, D.C.; Heard Museum, AZ; Eiteljorg Museum, IN; The Field Museum, IL; Rockwell Museum, NY; Weisman Art Museum, MN; Minnesota Museum of American Art, MN; Tweed Museum of Art, MN; Schingoethe Center, IL; Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum, NC; National Museum of Wildlife Art, WY; to name a few.

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Buffalohead (b. 1972) lives and works in St. Paul, MN.