Kay WalkingStick, the Cherokee painter, focuses on the American Landscape and it’s metaphorical significances not only to Native Americans but also to all of our citizenry. The landscape sustains us physically and spiritually. It is our beautiful corner of the cosmos. The varied rendering of landscape in WalkingStick’s art is the thread that weaves together the many painterly directions her art has taken over the last 50 years.
UP NOW: "Kay WalkingStick/Hudson River School," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, on view from September 14 , 2024 to February 2, 2025. Organized by the New-York Historical Society.
UP NOW: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY (in Gallery 915).
UP NOW: Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH. August 2022 to August 2024. An exhibition exploring the topographic- the natural world & the
corporeal and their interconnectedness, WalkingStick's "All Good Things I" is on loan from the Musée d'Art Classique de Mougin, France.
UP NOW: "Experience America," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, an ongoing exhibition. Kay WalkingStick's painting from 2012, "Orilla Verde at the Rio Grande" from the museum's collection is included.
RECENT: "Deconstructing the Tipi," Hales Gallery, New York NY. March 16 to April 27, 2024.
RECENT: "Kay WalkingStick/Hudson River School," The New-York Historical Society, New York, NY, on view from October 20th, 2023 to April 14th, 2024. Exhibition catalogue available. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/arts/design/kay-walkingstick-american-landscape.html
RECENT: "Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, curated by Cecilia Alemani. Shah Garg Foundation, 548 W 22 St, New York, NY, Nov 2, 2023 - March 23, 2024. Kay WalkingStick's painting from 1976, "Red Painting/Red Person" is included.
RECENT: "Collection: 1970s—Present," Kay WalkingStick's sculpture "Tears" is in a group exhibition in the 2nd floor galleries, David Geffen Wing, MoMA, New York, NY, currently on view in 2023.
RECENT: "The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans," curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. September 22, 2023 to January 15th, 2024.
RECENT: "Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale," Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, September 15, 2023 to January 7, 2024.
RECENT: "How Do We Know the World," at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Balitmore, MD, an extended exhibition running from November 14, 2021 until September, 2023. Kay WalkingStick's painting from 1971, "Fantasy for A January Day" from the museum's collection will be on view.
RECENT: Frieze Art Fair, London, England, October 11-15, 2023.
RECENT: The Armory Show at the Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY, September 7-9, 2023.
RECENT: "Inspired Encounters: Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art," a group exhibition at The David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center at Pocantico Center, 200 Lake Road, Tarrytown, NY, October 1, 2022 to March 19, 2023.
RECENT: "In the Balance: Between Painting and Sculpture 1965-1985," a group exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, on view October 19, 2022 through March 5, 2023. The goal of this show is to think about what painting and sculpture offer to each other during the time period of the title.
RECENT: "Remembering the Future," at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, an extended exhibition running from October 24, 2021 until January 2, 2023. Kay WalkingStick's painting from 1984, "Cardinal Points" from the museum's collection will be on view.