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," Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, June 20–October 11, 2026, and then will travel to The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, St. Petersburg, FL, November 7, 2026–March 21, 2027 .

UP NOW: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, has Kay WalkingStick's "Wallowa Mountains Memory" on continuous view in their Contemporary Gallery 601), in "Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800." .highlighting the relationship between historic and contemporary art.

UP NOW: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, has Kay WalkingStick's "April Contemplating May" on view on Floor 7 in the exhibition "Untitled (America)," organized by Kim Conaty, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, with Antonia Pocock, Curatorial Assistant. On continuous view beginning July 5th, 2025.

UP NOW: Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV. "Into the Time Horizon," organized by Apsara DiQuinzio , the Andrea and John C. Deane Family Chief Curator, along with assistant curator Kolin Perry. November 15, 2025 through January 3rd, 2027.

UP NOW: The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. "Niagara Falls: Mist and Majesty," curated by Sarah Cash, Associate Curator, Department of American and British Paintings, and Diane Waggoner, Curator of Photographs, Department of Photographs, both of the National Gallery of Art. May 2, 2025 through September 20th, 2026.

UP NOW: The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. "Homelands," curated by E. Carmen Ramos, chief curatorial and conservation officer, and Natalia Ángeles Vieyra, associate curator of Latinx art, both of the National Gallery of Art. June 27, 2026 - August 1, 2027.

UP NOW: Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ. "Wisdom from the Future," co-curated by Heard Museum Collections Coordinator and Curator Olivia Barney (Diné). April 10th through December 6th, 2026.

UP NOW: Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, "An Indigenous Present," co-curated by artist Jeffrey Gibson and independent curator Jenelle Porter. June 26th through September 27th, 2026.

UP NOW: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, Washington, DC, "Stretching the Canvas: Ten Decades of Native Painting," co-curated by Kathleen Ash-Milby and John P. Lukavic. On continuous view beginning May 15th, 2026.

UP NOW: The Trout Gallery - Art Museum of Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, "Branch: Trees in American Art," June 12, 2026 through January 23, 2027

UP NOW: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK. "Hold to This Earth: Works by Contemporary Indigenous North American Artists from The Collection," curated by Sarah Coulson, Senior Curator and Publications Lead at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. June 13, 2026 through April 18, 2027.

UP NOW: "American Voices and Visions," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. An ongoing exhibition curated by Melissa Ho. Kay WalkingStick's painting from 2012, "Orilla Verde at the Rio Grande" from the museum's collection, and "Two Women II," from 1973 are included and on view in the galleries for modern and contemporary art.

RECENT: SITE Santa Fe, NM. "Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969," curated by Candice Hopkins. June 5th through September 7th, 2026.

RECENT: The New-York Historical, New York, NY. "House Made of Dawn: Art by Native Americans 1880 to Now, Selections from the Hsu-Tang Collection," curated by Wendy Nalani E. Ikemoto (Native Hawaiian), Vice President and Chief Curator, in consultation with Dr. Hsu-Tang as collector. April 22nd through August 16th, 2026.

RECENT: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. "America 250: Common Threads," curated by Mindy Besaw . March 14th through July 27th, 2026.

RECENT: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. "Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection," curated by Cecilia Alemani. February 27th through July 26th, 2026.

RECENT: "Mesas/Mountains/Sky," Hales Gallery, 547 W 20th St, New York NY. April 11 to May 30, 2026.