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Education

2005 Master of Fine Arts, Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois

2005 Master of Arts, Museum Studies, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois

1994 Summer Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York

1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Academic Appointments

 

2019-present   Professor, Art Department

                        University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

2012- 2019      Associate Professor, Art Department

                        University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

2006-2012       Assistant Professor, Art Department

                        University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

2005-2006       Lecturer, Art Department

                        University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

2002                Lecturer, Photography Department

                        Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois

Solo/Two Person Exhibitions

 

2023    Here We Stand, Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Florida

2022    Remnants, Leech Gallery, Wriston Art Galleries at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin

            Here We Stand,, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin

2021    Strong Unrelenting Spirits, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2020    Strong Unrelenting Spirits, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

            Remnants, The Heritage Center, Pine Ridge, South Dakota

2019    Strong Unrelenting Spirits, Pablo Center at the Confluence, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

2018    Remnants, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

The North American Landscape, Trout Museum, Appleton, Wisconsin

Remnants, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin (Two Person Show)

2013    I am an Indian first and Artist second, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin

2012    Indian First-Identity, Appropriation, and Reclamation, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

“Native” Commodity, Theodore Robinson Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Rock County, Janesville, Wisconsin

Encountering Cultures, Wautrous Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin

            I am an Indian first and an Artist second, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

2010    The People of the Big Voice, Diocletian’s Palace, Croatian American Society, Split, Croatia

2009    Rendezvoused, La Biennale di Venezia 53rd international arts exhibition in collaboration with the University of Venice’s Department of Postcolonial Literature, Venice, Italy

            Encountering Cultures/Rendezvous, Casa Del Cinema Venezia, Venice, Italy

            “Native” Commodity, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia

Encountering Cultures, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin

            “Native” Commodity, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri     

2008    Encountering Cultures, Sundance Cinemas, Madison, Wisconsin

Dear America, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

            Encountering Cultures, Endenfred, Madison, Wisconsin

Among the Ho-Chunk, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin

2004    Dear America & The Ho-Chunk People, Blue Heron Designs, Birmingham, Michigan

            Honoring the Ho-Chunk Warrior, Michigan State University Museum, Michigan

            The Ho-Chunk People, Nokomis Learning Center, East Lansing, Michigan

2003    The Ho-Chunk People, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, New York

Honoring the Ho-Chunk Warrior, Wisconsin Veterans Museum, Madison, Wisconsin

            Choka, De Ricci Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin

2001    The Ho-Chunk People, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota

            The Ho-Chunk People, Pump House Regional Art Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin

            The Ho-Chunk People, Wisconsin Cultural Center, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin

            The Ho-Chunk People, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin

Wonk Sheek Ka Day/ The Big People, Ho-Chunk Nation Executive Building, Black River Falls, Wisconsin

2000    Wonk Sheek Ka Day/ The Big People, H. H. Bennett Studio Museum-Wisconsin State Historical Society, Wisconsin, Dells, Wisconsin

Group Exhibitions

 

2023    Speaking with Light, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

            National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (curated by Juane Quick-To-See Smith)

            Native Photography Exhibition, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota

            Surviving the Long Wars, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois

 

2022    Refracting Histories, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois

            Speaking with Light, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

            Reclaiming Identity, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, Wisconsin

            Home, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin

Beyond the Frame, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois

University of South Dakota’s Contemporary Native Arts Program Alumni Exhibition, John A. Day Gallery, Vermillion, South Dakota

Water Memory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today, Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. 

            No More Stolen Sisters, Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Contemporary Indigenous Printmaking, James Watrous Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin

            No More Stolen Sisters, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Madison Alumni: A Legacy of Indigenous Perspectives, UW-Union Main Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin

            Snake Whisky Still Life and Other Stories, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, California

2021    The Document is Personal, Refraction Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Summer Invitational, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed. Where Contemporary Art and Diverse Perspectives Intersect, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, Wisconsin

2020    Fall Show, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

            Voting Rights Are Human Rights (mural in collaboration with Shepard Fairey, Dyani White Hawk, Tyanna Buie, Claudio Martinez, Niki Johnson), Milwaukee, Wisconsin    

            Group Show, Wisconsin Governor’s Mansion, Madison, Wisconsin

            Stolen Sisters, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, Wisconsin

2019    Ho-Chunk Art: Sharing our Sacred Voice through our Art, Overture Galleries, Madison, Wisconsin

            Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin

            Among the Wonders of the Dells: Photography, Place, and Tourism, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin

            Time Returns: A Continuous Now, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

2018    Original Warrior, National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois

            Native American Visions II, Grand Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada

            IN/SIGHT, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

            Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay, Trout Museum of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

            Reading Material, Crossman Gallery, Whitewater, Wisconsin

2017    As We See It:  Works by Ten Contemporary Native American Photographers, Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska

            The Capitol at 100: Madison Artists Celebrate the Centennial, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin

            A Thousand Words, Tweed Museum, Duluth, Minnesota

            Weaving Our Traditions Together, Electric Machete Studios, Minneapolis, Minnesota

            For Directions, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

            For Directions, Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

            New Acquisitions: 2011-2017, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

            As We See It:  Works by Ten Contemporary Native American Photographers, New Mexico State Art Museum, Las Cruces, New Mexico

My Country Tis of Thy People, You’re Dying, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, New York

Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay, Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha, Wisconsin

            Native Art Evolving, Promega, Madison, Wisconsin

Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin

2016    Map(ing), Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

            Native American Visions, Charleston Heights Art Center, Las Vegas, Nevada

            Arriving at Fresh Water: Contemporary Artists from Our Great Lakes, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota

            Native American Visions, Grand Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada

            The Art of Photographic Portraiture, Gallery 211, Madison College, Madison, Wisconsin

            Back From Where They Came, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Kansas, Missouri  

            In Our Midst, Scarabocchio Art Museum, Stevens Point, Wisconsin

As We See It:  Works by Ten Contemporary Native American Photographers, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico      

            Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay, Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, Oklahoma

            The 2nd Annual Allegany National Photography Competition and Exhibition, The Arts Council's Saville and Schwab Galleries, Cumberland, Maryland

            Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

            Super Natural and the WISCONSIN WILD AND TAME, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin

Collections

 

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York

Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois

Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, Oregon

Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin

CUNA Mutual Group, Madison, Wisconsin

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri

En Foco, New York, New York

Georgette Klinger Inc., Chicago, Illinois

Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem Oregon

The Ho-Chunk Nation, Black River Falls, Wisconsin

Lightwork, Syracuse, New York

MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois

Mc Millan Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin

Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, Michigan

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois

Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin

National Museum of the American Indian- Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC

Nerman Museum, Kansas City, Missouri

Polaroid Corporation, Waltham, Massachusetts

Proyecto’ace, Contemporary Print Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York

Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio

Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri

Sprint Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri

Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota

University of Colorado Special Collections, Boulder, Colorado

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center, Lincoln, Nebraska

University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Wriston Art Galleries, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin

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