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Kay
WalkingStick
Nez Perce Crossing, 2008
Oil
on wood panel, 40 x 80 inches
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Born in Syracuse, NY
Lives and works in New York City |
Education |
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1975 |
MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY |
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1959 |
BFA, Beaver College, Glenside, PA |
Solo Exhibitions |
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2007 |
Recent Paintings,
June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue |
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2005 |
Kay WalkingStick:
A Mythic Journey, Paintings from Three Decades, University
Art Gallery, Indiana State University,
Terre Haute, IN |
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2004 |
Kay WalkingStick:
Mythic Dances, Paintings from Four Decades,
Southeast Missouri Regional Museum, Southeast Missouri University,
Cape Girardeau, MO |
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2003 |
Sensual Texture:
The Art of Kay WalkingStick, Eiteljorg Museum of American
Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis,
IN
Continuum 12 Artists: Kay WalkingStick/Rick Bartow, Smithsonian,
National
Museum of the American Indian, New York |
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2002 |
Haptic Memory:
Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York;
brochure |
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2001 |
National Drawing
Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK |
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2000 |
Kay WalkingStick:
works on paper from The Italian Suite, 1997-1999 and Dancing
to Rome, 2000, Olive Tjaden
Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
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1999 |
Paintings and
Drawings, Miami Dade Community College, FL
The Heritage of Our Ancestors: Paintings by Kay WalkingStick and
Jaune
Quick-To-See
Smith, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA |
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1997 |
Collector’s Show,
selected by director and chief curator Townsend Wolfe, The
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK |
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1995 |
Works
on Paper, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Common Ground: Phil Young and Kay WalkingStick, Atrium Gallery,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT |
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1994 |
Paintings
and Works on Paper, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
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1993 |
Galerie
Calumet, Heidelberg, Germany |
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1992 |
Works on Paper, Morris
Museum, Morristown, NJ
Works on Paper, Jersey City Museum, NJ |
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1991 |
Elaine
Horwitch Gallery, Scotsdale, AZ
Kay WalkingStick: 1974-1990, The Hillwood Art Museum of Long Island
University, CW Post Campus, Brookville, NY; traveled to Heard
Museum, Phoenix, AZ, and Hartwick College Gallery, Oneonta, NY |
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1990 |
M-13
Gallery, New York
Rathbone Gallery, Junior College of Albany, NY |
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1988 |
Wenger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1987 |
M-13 Gallery, New York |
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1986 |
Beaver College, Spruance Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Ohio State University, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
Carl N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA |
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1984 |
Fort Lewis College, Fine Arts Gallery, Durango, CO
Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York |
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1981 |
Painting on Paper, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York |
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1979 |
Wenger Gallery, San Diego, CA |
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1978 |
Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York |
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1975 |
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ |
Museum and Corporate Collections |
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Albright-Knox Museum,
Buffalo, NY
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Museum of American Indian, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Montclair Art Museum, NJ
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
The Newark Museum, NJ
San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, CA
Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, OK
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Davidson College, NC
Rollins College, Roanoke, VA
Sweet Briar College, VA
City University of New York
University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ
Bailey-Howe Library of the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Cherokee Heritage Foundation, Tahlequah, OK
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York
AT&T, Morristown, NJ
Best Products, Ashland, VA
Cumberland Family Care Center, Brooklyn, NY
Johnson & Johnson, Personal Product Division, New Brunswick, NJ
Lake Shore National Bank, Chicago, IL
RJR Nabisco World Headquarters, East Hanover, NJ
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., Montvale, NJ |
Honors and Awards |
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2003 |
Distinguished
Artist Award, Path Breakers: Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native
American Fine Art,” Eiteljorg Museum of
American Indians and Western
Art, Indianapolis, IN |
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2002 |
Skowhegan, Visiting
Artist and Lecturer, Skowhegan, ME, summer |
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1998 |
Residency, American
Academy in Rome |
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1996 |
Honoree, Women's
Caucus for Art, 1996 National Honor Award for
Achievement in the Arts, Boston, MA |
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1995-96 |
Joan Mitchell
Foundation Award in Painting |
Miscellaneous |
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2004 |
A Conversation
with Kay WalkingStick, moderated by Dr. Lowery Stokes
Sims,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 13 |
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2003 |
Native American
Art and Spiritual Aesthetics?, panelist, SoHo 20, Chelsea
Gallery, New York, February 21 |
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1993 |
Death, Pleasure
and Formations of Identity: The Art of Kay WalkingStick, lecture by
Erin Valentine at the National Museum
of American Art, Washington, DC,
November 16 |
Membership |
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Member of Cherokee
Nation of Oklahoma |
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