CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS:

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 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY."The American Wing at 100." On continuous view beginning November 10th, 2024.

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.

UP NOW: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, has Kay WalkingStick's "April Contemplating May" on view on Floor 7. Video about this artwork:

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.

PRESS on the NMAI RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION:

Hyperallergic: Best of 2016 Our Top 15 Exhibitions across the United States, by Hrag Vartanian, December 29, 2016

The New York Times, The Week Ahead, A Survey of the Cultural Landscape: Art: "Kay WalkingStick's American History, Personal Journey," by Holland Cotter. Sunday, April 17, 2016

Hyperallergic.com, "A Cherokee Artist Wrestling with Grief, Colonialism, and False Dichotomies," by Elena Goukassian, April 6, 2016.

The Washington Post review of Kay WalkingStick's NMAI retrospective. "Kay WalkingStick, Painting her Heritage" by Philip Kennicott, Art and Architecture Critic. Published November 6th, 2015.

Smithsonian.com, "A Long Overdue Retrospective for Kay WalkingStick Dispels Native Art Stereotypes," by Menachem Wecker, December 4, 2015 (smithsonianmag.com)

Washington City Paper, Arts Desk, "At Museum of the American Indian, an Exploration of KayWalkingStick's Art," by Kriston Capps, November 15, 2015.

Artdaily.org, "National Museum of the American Indian Presents 'Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist'," November 8, 2015

American Indian Magazine, "Kay WalkingStick: Passion and Place," by Kathleen Ash-Milby and Bradley Pecore, Volume 16, No. 3, Fall 2015.

A symposium "Seizing the Sky, Kay WalkingStick and the Redefinition of American Art," was presented on November 5th, 2015, in the NMAI on the Mall in Washington, DC.

This special symposium celebrates the opening of Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist, the National Museum of the American Indian’s major retrospective of acclaimed Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick, which is on view through September 18, 2016. Seizing the Sky: Redefining American Art honors Kay WalkingStick and considers her renowned work as a launching point for a fresh perspective and dialogue about contemporary American art with speakers from diverse viewpoints and backgrounds. The program features distinguished scholars, artists, and curators Janet Berlo, Jessica Horton, Robert Houle, Elizabeth Hutchinson, Angela Miller, Kate Morris, Jolene Rickard, Lisa Seppi, and Paul Chaat Smith. Kathleen Ash-Milby and David Penney moderate. View the symposium videos on YouTube.

Below, a film from the exhibition, Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist on view at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC until Sept. 16, 2016. Produced by the National Museum of the American Indian's Media Group.

A Solo exhibition, "New Paintings," by Kay WalkingStick is currently on view at June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer St., New York, NY, November 19th, 2015 to January 5th, 2016, concurrent with the retrospective at NMAI.

EVENT: "Kay WalkingStick and Jeff Chang: A Conversation"

Jeff Chang author of "Who We Be: The Colorization of America" and executive director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University and Kay WalkingStick will engage in a dialogue about contemporary American art and culture.

Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
4th Street and Independence Ave SW Washington, D.C. 20560
Saturday, February 6th, 2016.

MUSEUMS WHERE WALKINGSTICK’S WORK CAN OFTEN BE SEEN:

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN

Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Hunter Art Museum, Chattanooga, TN

The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY

The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH


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