Julie Buffalohead

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Julie Buffalohead (born 1974) is a contemporary Indigenous artist from the United States and member of Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. [1] [2] [3] [4] Her work mainly focuses on themes of racial injustice, indigenous rights, and abuse of power. [5] [6] She creates paintings with stories told by anthropomorphic animal characters who have agency as individuals. Buffalohead conflates the mythical with the ordinary, the imaginary, and the real, and offers a space into which viewers can bring their own experiences. [7]

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Early life and education

Born in Minnesota in 1974, [1] Buffalohead grew up around academia, as both of her parents were college professors. [8] Notably, her father, Roger Buffalohead, was one of the first professors of the American Indian Studies department at the University of Minnesota. [4] With a Native American father and white mother, Buffalohead but she explores her mixed-race identity within her art. [9] 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. [10] 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, which led her to create art about Indigenous history. [11] She currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota. [10]

Artistic style and influences

You are on Indian Land (2017) at the National Gallery of Art in 2023 You are on Indian Land, 2017, Julie Buffalohead at NGA 2023.jpeg
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 Indigenous people used in popular culture, including Disney's Pocahontas. [11] [12] She often uses metaphors and allegorical images in her work to critique social issues including gun violence. [5] Her work may include whimsical imagery like tea parties and cartoon characters, Buffalohead claims that the work is intended to be unsettling. [3] Buffalohead's work also incorporates the use of anthropomorphic animals, mainly coyotes. [3] [13] Buffalohead is a mixed media artist, and works with many different mediums, including oil painting and printmaking, and includes materials like birch bark and porcupine quills in her pieces. [10]

Solo exhibitions

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. [5]

Collections

Her work is included in the collection of the Walker Art Museum [21] and the Muscarelle Museum of Art. [22]

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  9. ↑ Regan, Sheila (February 16, 2015). "Julie Buffalohead's Theater of Animals" . Retrieved May 7, 2024.
  10. 1 2 3 "Bockley Gallery :: Artists :: Julie Buffalohead". bockleygallery.com. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
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  12. ↑ "Pocahontas Cessation, Julie Buffalohead ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  13. ↑ "Personal Narratives and the Eye of the Beholder: Julie Buffalohead at the Denver Art Museum". Fiction Unbound. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  14. ↑ "Julie Buffalohead: Let the Show Begin | National Museum of the American Indian".
  15. ↑ "'Julie Buffalohead: Coyote Dreams': First of 3 winter Native American exhibits". 2014-12-18.
  16. ↑ "Animal tricksters rule in Julie Buffalohead's narrative artworks". Star Tribune .
  17. ↑ "Animal dreams: Julie Buffalohead". 17 August 2018.
  18. ↑ Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists. Seattle : University of Washington Press. 2019. OCLC   1105604814.
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