Biography
Duane Slick was born 1961 in Waterloo, Iowa, to a Meskwaki father and a Ho-Chunk mother. [4] [5]
He received a BFA degree in painting and a BA degree in Art Education from the University of Northern Iowa.[ when? ] Slick completed an MFA degree in 1990 in painting from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). [6] While at UC Davis, he was mentored by artist George Longfish. [7] He previously taught at Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from 1992 to 1995. [8] Since 1995, Slick has taught printmaking and painting at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). [4]
In 2010, he was a resident at School for Advanced Research (SAR), where he created his work Field Mouse Goes to War. [9] In 2012, Slick was awarded the Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, and his work was included in the associated group exhibition, We Are Here! (2012). [10] [3]
Slick's work is included in many public art collections including the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution, [11] Milwaukee Art Museum, [12] Chazen Museum of Art, [13] Danforth Art Museum, [14] and the Des Moines Art Center, [15] among others.
His first solo museum exhibition, The Coyote Makes the Sunset Better, premiered in 2022 at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. [16] [17]
Slick was also a co-curator of Marking Resilience: Indigenous North American Prints, a 2023 exhibition staged by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [18]