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Kay
WalkingStick
Autumn’s End, 2010
Diptych, oil and aluminum leaf on wood panel
32 x 64 inches
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Born in Syracuse, NY
Lives and works in Ithaca, NY |
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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2011 |
Living in the
City, Painting in the Wild: New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New
York, |
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2010 |
Kay WalkingStick:
Prints, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art,
Indianapolis, IN |
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2009 |
Kay WalkingStick,
Works on Paper, 1981-2000, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery,
Lafayette College, Easton, PA |
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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;
catalogue |
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2003 |
Sensual Texture:
The Art of Kay WalkingStick, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and
Western Art, Indianapolis,
IN |
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2002 |
Haptic Memory:
Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York;
brochure |
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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
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
The Newark Museum, NJ
The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
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
Sweet Briar College Museum, 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 |
Honors and Awards |
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2011 |
Honorary Doctorate of
Humane Letters from Arcadia University (formerly known as
Beaver College), Glenside, PA,
May 20 |
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2010 |
Invited Guest,
Montana Artist’s Refuge, an artist’s colony and retreat, Basin, MT,
September |
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2009 |
Distinguished Alumni,
“At Home and in the World,” featured in publication, campaign
for Arcadia University, pp. 26-27 |
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2008 |
National Association
of Women Artist, Honorary Vice-President, New York |
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2004 |
New York City
Department of Education and The School Art League, Youth Friends
Award, New York |
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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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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 |
Media |
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2010-2011 |
“Art Through Time: A
Global View,” A 13-part PBS-TV series that examines themes that
connect works of art created
throughout the world in different eras and reflecting
diverse cultural perspectives on
shared human experiences. “The Natural World,” the
10th segment includes
WalkingStick’s interview about her life and work |
Special Projects and Lectures |
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2011 |
WalkingStick will
speak on April 16 at the National Museum of American Indian in
Washington, DC, in conjunction
with the American University's Art History Program.
She will talk on "A Painted
Life," the evolution of her art over the past 45 years in the
context of the arts and politics
of the times, April 16 |
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2010
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America: Now+Here: A
cross-country journey of artists and art, organized by artist Eric
Fischl |
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2004 |
A Conversation
with Kay WalkingStick, moderated by Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 13 |
Membership |
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Member of Cherokee
Nation of Oklahoma |
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