Julie Buffalohead

Julie Buffalohead (born 1972) is a contemporary Indigenous American artist. Her work mainly focuses on themes of racial injustice, indigenous rights, and abuse of power.[1][2]

Early life and education

Buffalohead was born in Minnesota in 1972, and is an enrolled member of Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.[3][4][5] In 1995, she received her Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design before going on to get her Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University in 2001.[6] Buffalohead has stated that her time working with elementary school students while in graduate school caused her to change the way she looked at her Native heritage, spurning her to create art portraying Native stories and myths.[7] She currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.[6]

Artistic style and influences
You are on Indian Land (2017) at the National Gallery of Art in 2023

Buffalohead's art focuses on Indigenous experiences and stories, often subverting imagery of Native people used in popular culture, including Disney's Pocahontas.[7][8] She often uses metaphors and allegorical images in her work to critique issues within modern society such as gun violence.[1] While her work often includes imagery such as tea parties, and children's cartoon characters, Buffalohead has said that the work is intended to be unsettling.[4] Buffalohead's work also incorporates the use of anthropomorphic animals, mainly coyotes.[4][9] Buffalohead is a mixed media artist, and works in many different mediums, including oil paints, birch bark, porcupine quills, and printmaking.[6]

Solo exhibitions
  • 2000 - Offerings From the Heart at Carl N. Gorman Museum in Davis, CA.
  • 2003 - Alice P. Rogers Gallery at St. Johns University in Collegeville, MN.
  • 2008 - Expecting at the Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis, MN.
  • 2010 - Julie Buffalohead at the Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis, MN.
  • 2012 - Julie Buffalohead at the Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis, MN.
  • 2012 - Julie Buffalohead, Let the Show Begin at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian George Gustave Haye Center in New York, NY.[10]
  • 2014 - Julie Buffalohead: Uncommon Stories at the Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis, MN.
  • 2014-2015 - Julie Buffalohead: Coyote Dreams at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul, MN[11] and the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, ND.
  • 2015 - The Truth About Stories: Julie Buffalohead at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM.
  • 2015-2016 - Entwined: New Prints by Julie Buffalohead at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, MN.
  • 2017 - Julie Buffalohead at the Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis, MN.[12]
  • 2018 - Julie Buffalohead: You and I at Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum, John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee, NC.
  • 2018-2019 - Eyes On: Julie Buffalohead at the Denver Art Museum in Denver, CO.[13]

Group exhibitions

Honors and awards

Buffalohead has been the recipient of several awards, including the McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and the Minnesota State Arts Board for Visual Artists.[1]

Collections

Her work is included in the collection of the Walker Art Museum[17] and the Muscarelle Museum of Art.[18]

References
  1. "The Truth About Stories: Julie Buffalohead > Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)". Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  2. Thackara, Tess (2019-05-31). "The Hand of Native American Women, Visible at Last". The New York Times.
  3. Campbell, Suzan (2001). The American West: People, Places, and Ideas. Rockwell Museum of Western Art. ISBN 9781889921143.
  4. Combs, Marianne (15 January 2015). "Artist Julie Buffalohead uses animals to tell unsettling stories". www.mprnews.org. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  5. "St. Paul artist Julie Buffalohead explores Native American themes". 2015-01-08.
  6. "Bockley Gallery :: Artists :: Julie Buffalohead". bockleygallery.com. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  7. "Julie Buffalohead". mcad.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  8. "Pocahontas Cessation, Julie Buffalohead ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  9. "Personal Narratives and the Eye of the Beholder: Julie Buffalohead at the Denver Art Museum". Fiction Unbound. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  10. "Julie Buffalohead: Let the Show Begin | National Museum of the American Indian".
  11. "'Julie Buffalohead: Coyote Dreams': First of 3 winter Native American exhibits". 2014-12-18.
  12. "Animal tricksters rule in Julie Buffalohead's narrative artworks". Star Tribune.
  13. "Animal dreams: Julie Buffalohead". 17 August 2018.
  14. Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists. Seattle : University of Washington Press. 2019. OCLC 1105604814.
  15. "Indelible Ink: Native Women, Printmaking, Collaboration – UNM Art Museum". Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  16. "Shared Ideologies".
  17. "Julie Buffalohead". walkerart.org. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  18. "Web Module - Results Page".
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