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| Solo Museum Exhibits | |
| 2008 | Montclair Museum of Art, “American Abstraction: Dialogue with the Cosmos,” installation on view through January 2009, Montclair, NJ |
| 2004 | Southeast Missouri Regional Museum, "Kay WalkingStick: Mythic Dances. Paintings from Four Decades," Cape Girardeau, MO |
| 2003 | Eiteljorg Mus. of Amer. Indians & Western Art, “Sensual Texture: The Art of Kay WalkingStick,” Indianapolis, IN Nat. Mus. Amer. Indian, Smithsonian Inst. “Continuum 12 Artists,” G. Gustav Heye Ctr., NY, NY, 2 person exh. |
| 1999 |
Bayly Art Museum, “The Heritage of our Ancestor,” Univ. of VA, Charlottesville, VA, 2 person show |
| 1992 |
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; Jersey City Museum, “Works on Paper,” Jersey City, NJ |
| 1991 |
Hillwood Art Museum, “Kay WalkingStick: 1974-1990,” Long Island Univ., C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY, also to Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, and to Hartwick College Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY |
| 1985 |
Carl N. Gorman Museum, Univ. of CA, Davis, CA, 2 person show |
| 1975 |
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, 2 person show |
| Solo
Exhibits |
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| 2007 | June Kelly Gallery, “Kay WalkingStick, Paintings” Nov. 8-Dec. 8, New York, NY |
| 2002 |
June Kelly Gallery, “Haptic Memory,” New York, NY |
| 1999 |
June Kelly
Gallery, “Recent Drawings / The Italian Suite,” New York, NY Miami-Dade Community College Kendall Campus, “Kay WalkingStick,” Miami, FL |
| 1995 |
Atlantic Center for the Arts, “Works on Paper,” New Smyrna Beach, FL |
| 1994 |
June Kelly Gallery, “Recent Paintings,” New York, NY |
| 1993 |
Galerie Calumet, Heidelberg, Germany |
| Flushing Council on the Arts, Flushing, NY | |
| Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | |
| 1991 |
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Scotsdale, AZ |
| 1990 | M-13 Gallery,
New York, NY Rathbone Gallery, Junior College of Albany, Albany, NY |
| 1989 | Union College, Cranford, NJ |
| 1988 | Wenger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1987 | M-13 Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1986 | Galleria Maray, Englewood, NJ |
| 1985 | Beaver College, Spruance Art Gallery, Glenside, PA |
| Ohio State University, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH, Visiting Artist Exhibit | |
| 1984 | Fort Lewis College, Fine Arts Gallery, Durango, CO |
| Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Wenger Gallery at the Fine Arts Building, San Diego, CA | |
| 1981 | Bertha Urdang Gallery, “Painting on Paper,” New York, NY |
| 1979 | Wenger Gallery, San Diego, CA |
| 1978 | Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1976 | Soho Center for the Visual Arts, New York, NY |
| 1969 | Cannabis Gallery, New York, NY |
| Selected Group Exhibits | |
| 2008 | Kentler International Drawing Space, “Native Voices: Contemporary Indigenous Art,” co-curated by Deborah Everett and Raquel Chapa, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2007 | Nicole Fiacco Gallery, “Post Identity,” Hudson, NY |
| St. John’s University, Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, “From the Inside Out: Feminist Art Then & Now,” curated by Claudia Sbrissa, Queens, NY | |
| Ceres Gallery, “AGENTS of Change: Women, Art & Intellect,” curated by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, New York, NY | |
| 2005 | Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, "About Face: Self Portraits By Native American and First Nations Artists," Santa Fe, NM |
| 2004 | Artrain, "Native Views: Influences of Modern Culture" opened in Tempe, AZ, traveling throughout the United States through 2007 |
| Heights Arts Contemporary Community Gallery, "Master Artist, Master Printmaker Portfolio," traveling exhibit, Cleveland, OH | |
| Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, “Cross Currents in the Mainstream,” New Brunswick, NJ | |
| Bristol, Myers, Squibb, “Hearing Voices: Personal Narratives,” New York, NY | |
| 2003 | Eiteljorg Mus. of Amer. Indians & Western Art, “Pathbreakers,” Indianapolis, IN |
| Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, “Skowhegan 2002-2003 Faculty Exhibition,” Portland, ME | |
| Library of Congress, “Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop,” Washington DC | |
| 2002 | Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, “In Search of the Dream: The American West,” Greenwich, CT |
| 2001 | Arts Center, Rockefeller Gallery, “National Drawing Invitational,” Little Rock, AR |
| 2000 | Neuberger Museum of Art, “End Papers, Drawings 1890-1900, 1990-2000,” Purchase, NY |
| 1999 | Scuola dei Tiraoro e dei Battioro, “Ceremonial,” Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
| Montclair Art Museum, “Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America,” Montclair, NJ | |
| 1997 | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, “Native Abstraction: Modern Forms, Ancient Ideas,” Santa Fe, NM |
| 1996 | Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, “Honorees of W.C.A 1996,” Boston, MA |
| Currier Gallery of Art, “Retreat and Renewal: Painting and Sculpture by MacDowell Art Colonists,” Manchester, NH | |
| 1994 - 95 |
Cairo Biennial, USIA Exhibit, “Strategies of Narration,” Cairo, Egypt |
| 1993 - 94 |
Museum of Anthropology, U. of British Columbia, “Multiplicity: A New Cultural Strategy,” Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| 1992 | National Gallery of Canada, “Land, Spirit, Power,” Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| 1991 | Heard Museum, “Shared Visions, Native American Painters and Sculptors of the 20th Century,” Phoenix, AZ |
| 1990 | The New Museum, “The Decade Show, Framework of Identity in the 1980’s,” Studio Mus., MOCHA, New Mus., NY, NY |
| 1989 | United States Information Agency, “100 Women Artists’ Drawings,” traveled in South America |
| 1988 | American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 40th Annual Purchase Exhibition, NY, NY |
| 1987 | Artists Space, “We the People,” NY, NY |
| American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 39th Annual Purchase Exhibition, NY, NY | |
| 1985 | Heard Museum, “Second Biennial Invitational,” Phoenix, AZ |
| 1983 | Brooklyn Terminal, “Terminal Show,” Brooklyn, NY |
| 1982 | Israel Museum, “Tribute to Bertha Urdang,” Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1981 | Pratt Manhattan Center, “Dark Thoughts, Black Paintings,” NY, NY |
| 1980 | Bronx Museum, “Marking Black,” Bronx, NY |
| 1975 | Aldrich Museum, “Contemporary Reflections 1974-75,” Ridgefield, CT |
| Publications–Reviews and Articles | |
| 2006 | ARTNews, article by Alexandra Peers, “Canon Fodder,” February 2006, p. 124-127 |
| 2004 | American Indian Art Magazine, Article by Jo Ortel, “Exhibition Review of Continuum: 12 Artists at the George Gustav Heye Center, Part 1,” Winter 2004, p. 68-71 |
| ARTNews, article by Meredith Mendelsohn, “Sense and Sensuality: Painter Kay WalkingStick Seeks Sensory Overload,” October 2004, p. 132-135 | |
| 2003 | Ithaca Times, article by Michelle Peterson, “Honoring Her Heritage,” July 16, 2003, p. 8 & 12, Ithaca, NY |
| ARTNews, review by Hilary M. Sheets, “Continuum” NMAI, Summer 2003, p. 152 | |
| Art in America, review by David Ebony, “Kay WalkingStick at June Kelly,” April 2003, p. 143-144, NY, NY | |
| 2002 | The NY Times, review by Holland Cotter, “Kay WalkingStick,” October 25, p. E35, NY, NY |
| 2000 | Southwest Mag., “Kay WalkingStick, a Contemp. Artist’s Journey,” Dottie Indyke, winter issue, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1999 | ARTNews, review by Gerrit Henry, Summer, NY, NY |
| 1997 | New Art Examiner, “Native Paper,” review by Debra Parr, May 1997, p. 58, NY, NY |
| Passatiempo, “Transcending the Moment,” article/review by Gussie Fauntleroy, March 7-13, 1997, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 1996 | The NY Times, “Landscapes That Call for Saving Nature,” Vivien Raynor, August 25, NY, NY |
| 1995 | The NY Times, “Light & Heat from American Indian Women,” by William Zimmer, September 24, NY, NY |
| Art Papers, “Kay WalkingStick,” article by Anne Barclay Morgan, vol. 19, November-December 1995, Atlanta, GA | |
| Art in America, review by Richard Vine, January 1995, p. 106, NY, NY | |
| 1994 | Third Text, “Mistaken Identity: Between Death and Pleasure in the Art of Kay WalkingStick,” by Erin Valentino, Spring 1994, p. 61-73, Kala Press, London, England |
| NY Newsday, “American Indian Images of Nature’s Essences,” by Day Starr, January 11, NY, NY | |
| 1993 | “Landschaften und deren Spiegelbilder,” Nicole Vogtlin, Rhein-Neckar-Main, Mittwoch, April 7, 1993 |
| The NY Times, “Myths of the American Indian and Significant Photographs,” by Phyllis Braff, August 8, NY, NY | |
| The NY Times, “Intense Observations from Several Schools,” by Helen Harrison, July 25, NY, NY | |
| 1992 | The NY Times, “Charcoal on Paper,” by William Zimmer, June 21, NY, NY |
| 1991 | The Phoenix Gazette, “Artist Wants Her Work to Whisper,” by Lyn Dyne, September 23, Phoenix, AZ |
| 1990 | The NY Times, “A Special Regard for Nature’s Forces,” by Phyllis Braff, April 14, NY, NY |
| Long Island Newsday, “Applying Physical Artistry to Canvas,” by Margaret Moorman, April 19, NY, NY | |
| 1989 | The Village Voice, “Kay WalkingStick,” by Kellie Jones, May 16, NY, NY |
| The NY Times, “The Male Figure, Dual Images, and Landscapes,” by Vivien Raynor, March, NY, NY | |
| Los Angeles Times, review by Marlena Donohue, February 26, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1987 | Suddeutche Zeitung, “Somenstanz und Blutrausch,” Christoph Wiedmann, Jan. 16, Feuilleton Domerstag, W. Germany |
| 1985 | The NY Times, “The Meaning of ‘Duality’ in Art,” by Pat Malarcher, December 22, NY, NY |
| Artweek, “Beside and Beyond the Mainstream,” by Victoria Baldwin, November 2, Pacific Beach, CA | |
| 1984 | Art in America, review by Ted Castle, February, NY, NY |
| 1983 | ARTnews, review by Meg Perlman, December |
| 1981 | The NY Times, review by Vivien Raynor, June 19, NY, NY |
| ARTNews, review by Deborah C. Phillips, June, NY, NY | |
| Arts Magazine, review by Robert Yoskowitz, September, NY, NY | |
| 1980 | Artweek, “Psychological Fields,” by Ida K. Rigby, Pacific Beach, CA |
| Christian Science Monitor, “12 Artists Go Back to Perceptual Basics,” by Theodore F. Wolff, Boston, MA | |
| Arts Magazine, review by Robert Yoskowitz, June, NY, NY | |
| 1979 | San Diego Magazine, review by Elise Miller, October, San Diego, CA |
| 1978 | ARTnews, review by Peter Frank, Summer, NY, NY |
| Arts Magazine, NY, NY, review by Laurel Bradley, Summer, NY, NY | |
| Art in America, review by Marjorie Welish, September–October, NY, NY | |
| Publications–Selected Books & Catalogues | |
| 2007 | “Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination,” edited by Kathleen Ash-Milby, forward by W. Richard West, Jr., introduction by John Hayworth, essays by Kathleen Ash-Milby, Kate Morris, Paul Chaat Smith, pub. by NMAI Editions |
| Art of the Cherokee: Prehistory to the Present, by Susan C. Power, pub. by The University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia | |
| “About Face: Self-Portraits by Native American, First Nations, and Inuit Artists,” Forward by Gerald R. McMaster, Essays by Joanna Woods-Marsden, Joanna Roche, Janet Catherine Berlo, Lucy R. Lippard, pub. by Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 2004 | "Kay WalkingStick: Mythic Dances," intro. by John Yau, essay by Stanley I. Grand, pub. by Southeast Missouri Regional Museum, Cape Girardeau, MO |
| Native Universe: Voices of Indian America, edited by Gerald McMaster and Clifford E. Trafzer, pub. by The National Geographic Society, Washington D.C., p. 234 | |
| 2003 | “Path Breakers,” pub. by the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN |
| ART, pub.
by Flame Tree Publishing, London, England, p. 485 “Skowhegan 2002-2003 Faculty Exhibition at Maine College of Art,” |
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| 2002 | L’Art contemporain des Indiens: du Sud-Ouest des Etats-Unis, pub. by La Renaissance du Livre, Tournai, Belgique |
| “In Search of the Dream: The American West,” pub. by the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT | |
| “So Fine!: Masterworks of Fine Art from the Heard Museum,” pub. by the Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ | |
| “177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition,” pub. by the National Academy of Design, New York, | |
| 2001 | Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expressions in Pigmented Wax, by Joanne Mattera, pub. by Watson-Guptill |
| The American West: People, Places, and Ideas, by Suzan Campbell, essay by Kathleen E. Ash-Milby, pub. by Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, NY, pp. 123-124 | |
| Native America Collected, the Culture of an Art World, by Margaret Dubin, U of N M Press, Albequerque, NM | |
| 2000 | Women Artists of Color, A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas, edited by Phoebe Farris, pub. by Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, and London, England, pp. 108-116 |
| Self-Portraits by Women Artists, by Cheney, Faxon, and Russo, pub. by Ashgate Press, Brookfield, MA | |
| 1999 | Earth Songs, Moon Dreams, Paintings by Am. Indian Women, by Patricia Janis Broder, St. Martins Press, NY, NY |
| 1998 | Native North American Art, by Janet C. Berlo and Ruth B. Philips, pub. by Oxford University Press, NY, NY |
| Indian Art of North America, by David Penney, pub. by Editions Pierre Terrail, Paris, France, ed. in Eng., Fr., & Ger. | |
| 1997 | Dictionary of Women Artists, vol. 2, ed. Delia Gaze, article by Lea Rossen De Long |
| St. James Guide to Native North American Artists, ed. Roger Matuz, art. by Lisa Roberts, St. James Press, Detroit, MI | |
| Discovering Native American Art, by Abby Remer, pub. by Davis Publications, Inc., Worcester, MA | |
| 1996 | Native American Art Masterpieces, by David W. Penney, pub. by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., Southport, CT |
| Lives & Works, Vol. II, Sally Swenson, Beryl Smith, Joan Arbeiter, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ, & London, England | |
| 1995 | History of Art, by H. R. Janson, Prentice Hall & Abrams, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and NY, NY |
| North American Woman Artists of the Twentieth Century, ed. Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, article by Rhonda Cooper, pub. by Garland Publications, Inc., NY, NY, and London, England | |
| 1994 | Native American Art, by David Penney, pub. by Hugh Lauter Levin Assoc., Southport, CT |
| I Stand in the Center of the Good: Interviews with Contemp. Native American Artists, Lawrence Abbott, U of NE Press | |
| Native American Biographies, pub. by Globe Book Co., Paramus, NJ | |
| 1991 | Mixed Blessings, by Lucy R. Lippard, Pantheon Books, NY, NY |
| 1989 | Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, by Dr. Judith VanWagner, Hudson Hills Press, Inc., NY, NY |
| Published Articles and Other Projects | |
| 2004 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dialogue on WalkingStick’s art with Lowery Stokes Sims, New York, NY, September 13 |
| 2001 | Guest Curator, Catalogue Essayist, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, exhibit “So Fine!: Masterworks of Fine Art” |
| “Primal Visions: Albert Bierstadt ‘Discovers’ America,” catalogue essay “A Cherokee Artist Looks at the Landing of Columbus by Albert Bierstadt,” show at Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ | |
| 1993 | Public Art Project, “The Post Colonial Landscape,” design for Billboard Project, Mendel Art Cntr., Saskatoon, SK, CA |
| 1991 | Artforum International, “Democracy Inc., Kay WalkingStick on Indian Law,” November, pp. 20-21, NY, NY |
| Permanent Museum, College, Non-Profit Collections | |
| Albright-Knox
Museum, Buffalo, NY |
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| Permanent Corporate Collections | |
| AT&T,
Morristown, NJ Best Products, Ashland, VA Cumberland Family Care Center, Brooklyn, NY Johnson & Johnson, Personal Product Division, New Brunswick, NJ Lake Shore National Bank, Chicago, IL Nabisco World Headquarters, East Hanover, NJ Peat, Marwick, Mitchell, and Co., Montvale, NJ Pecker and Abramson, P.C., Hackensack, NJ Pharmacia (formerly Searle), St. Louis, MO Poskanzer and Tulp, Fort Lee, NJ Prudential-Bache, New York, NY Public Service Electric and Gas Company, Newark, NJ Schering-Plough Corporation, Madison, NJ Texwipe Corporation, Saddle River, NJ College Board Print Collection Lang Communications Print Collection |
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| Honors and Awards | |
| 2003 - 04 |
Distinguished Artist Award, Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Artists, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN |
| 1996 | Honoree, Women’s Caucus for Art, 1996 National Honor Award for Achievement in the Arts, Boston, MA |
| 1995 - 96 |
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in Painting |
| 1992 | NY
Foundation for the Arts, NYSCA grant in painting, NY, NY Residency, Rockefeller Conference and Study Center, Bellagio, Italy |
| 1991 | Richard A. Florsheim Art Fund Award, Tampa, FL |
| 1983 - 84 |
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship in Painting, Washington, DC |
| 1973 - 75 |
Danforth Foundation, Graduate Fellowship for Women to attend Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY |
| Education | |
| M.F.A., 1975, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; B.F.A., 1959, Beaver College, Glenside, PA | |
| Membership | |
| Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma | |
| Teaching | |
Cornell University, Department of Fine Art, Professor of Art, Ithaca, NY, 1988-2005 |
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