Emmi Whitehorse

EMMI WHITEHORSE

1957
Born: Crownpoint, New Mexico

Lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico

EDUCATION

1980
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

1982
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1981
Emmi Whitehorse: Mixed Media Paintings on Paper, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, November 22–December 9

1982
Sun Valley Center for Arts & Humanities, Sun Valley, Indiana

1983
Judith Stern Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1984
Akmak Gallery, West Berlin, Germany
Art Resources, Denver, Colorado
American Indian Contemporary Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California

1985
Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 10–31
American Indian Contemporary Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California

1987
Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, August 21–September 4
Hartje Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
LewAllen/Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1988
Yuma Art Center, Yuma, Arizona
LewAllen/Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1989
Emmi Whitehorse: Paintings and Works on Paper, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, February 9–28
LewAllen/Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 18–September 2

1990
Emmi Whitehorse, LewAllen / Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 17–September 7
Hartje Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany

1991
Neeznáá: Emmi Whitehorse Ten Years, The Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 16–May 11
LewAllen/Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 9–30
Hartje Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Karin Iserhagen Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Thomas Riley Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1992
LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 7–29
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Will Thompson Gallery, Telluride, Colorado
The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

1993
Bentley-Tomlinson Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, February 18–March 6
LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 6–28
Hartje Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico

1994
Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 5–27
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

1995
Indian Country Revisited, Peiper-Riegraf Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany, May 3–June 16
Jan Maiden Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Homme Art, Antwerp, Belgium

1996
Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 2–August 31
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas
Jan Maiden Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

1997
Emmi Whitehorse, Cline LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 1–30

1997–1998
Emmi Whitehorse: Contemporary Southwest Images XII, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona, November 7, 1997–January 4, 1998

1998
Emmi Whitehorse, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1999
Emmi Whitehorse: New Work, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, February 19–March 20
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 14–September 5
Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
New Mexico Visions, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, Oregon; LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe,New Mexico

2000
Rushing Water: The Paintings of Emmi Whitehorse, Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 5–29
Emmi Whitehorse: Selfward, Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, Oklahoma, October 20–November 25

2001
Emmi Whitehorse, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 10–September 6
20/21 Emmi Whitehorse, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, September 8–October 14
Emmi Whitehorse: New Paintings, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, November 30–December 29

2002
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 4–November 1
Mainsite Gallery, Norman, Oklahoma
Vanier Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2004
Vanier Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2004–05
Emmi Whitehorse: Soul Weaving, KC Jewish Museum, Overland Park, Kansas, October 31, 2004–January 9, 2005; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska October 31, 2004–January 9, 2005

2006
Emmi Whitehorse: Language Imagined, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, May 12–July 29

2008
Recommence, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2009
Emmi Whitehorse: Forth, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 17–August 8

2010
Emmi Whitehorse, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2012
Opuntia, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe,New Mexico

2013
Headwater, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2015
Outset, Launching, Progression, Chiaroscuro Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2021
Emmi Whitehorse: Sanctum, Chiaroscuro Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 20–January 30

2024
Emmi Whitehorse, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, September 6–October 26

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
American Embassy: Ljubljana, Slovenia; Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Tokyo, Japan
Arizona State University, Tempe
Art Bank/Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Art Museum of Missoula, Montana
Autry Museum of the West, Los Angeles, California
Beloit College, Madison, Wisconsin
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
Central Michigan University Library, Mt Pleasant
Citibank NA, Long Island City, New York
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Collette Art Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
Corning University, Corning, New York
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Detroit Institute for the Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Edna Carlsten Gallery, University of Wisconsin,Stevens Point
Ebert Art Center, College of Wooster, Ohio
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City, Missouri
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Fransisco, California
Fine Art Museum, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
Fred Jones Jr Museum, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Gutenberg Büchergilde, Frankfurt, Germany
Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
JP Morgan, New York, New York
Longwood University Art Department, Farmville, Virginia
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Merchants National Bank, Grinnell, Iowa
Missoula Art Museum, Montana
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Philbrook Museum of Art
Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, Indiana
Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
Sea-First National Bank, Seattle, Washington
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, Oklahoma
St. Louis Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
State Capital Collections, State of New Mexico,Santa Fe
Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona
Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
US General Services Administration, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Valley Bank of Nevada, Reno
Weber State University, Provo, Utah
Westtfalisches Museum, Munster, Germany
Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

8 Native American Artists: Richard Glazer-Danay, Edgar Heap of Birds, Conrad House, George Longfish, Truman Lowe, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Richard Ray (Whitman), Emmi Whitehorse. Exhibition catalogue. Fort Wayne: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 1987.

Abbott, Lawrence, ed. I Stand in the Center of the Good: Interviews with Contemporary Native American Artists. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

Adlmann, Jan Ernst, and Barbara McIntyre. Contemporary Art in New Mexico. North Ryde: Craftsman House, 1996.

Anthes, Bill. “Introduction to Painting, Printmaking, and Drawing.” In Native Art Now! Developments in Contemporary Native American Art since 1992, edited by Veronica Passalacqua, Kate Morris, and James H. Nottage. Indianapolis: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, 2017.

Archuleta, Margaret, and Craig Smith, eds. Art in 2 Worlds: The Native American Fine Art Invitational, 1983–1997. Phoenix: Heard Museum, 1999.

Ashman, Stuart, and Suzanne Deats. Abstract Art. Albuquerque: Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2003.

Ash-Milby, Kathleen E., ed. Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, D.C.: NMAI Editions, 2007.

Brailsford, Charlotte. 6 from Santa Fe. Exhibition catalogue. Charleston: Gibbes Museum of Art, 1989.

Breunig, Robert. Innovations: New Expressions in Native American Painting. Exhibition catalogue. Phoenix: Heard Museum, 1984.

Broder, Patricia Janis. Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Bullis, Douglas. 100 Artists of the Southwest. Atglen: Schiffer Publication, 2006.

Chase, Katherin L. Indian Painters of the Southwest: The Deep Remembering. Albuquerque: School for Advanced Research Press, 2002.

Confluences of Tradition and Change. Exhibition catalogue. Davis: The Regents of the University of California; Richard L. Nelson Gallery, 1981.

Contemporary Native American Art. Exhibition catalogue. Stillwater: Gardiner Art Gallery, 1983.

Devon, Marjorie, ed. Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art. Exhibition catalogue. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Deyhle, Donna. Reflections in Place: Connected Lives of Navajo Women. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009.

Doss, Erika, and Marsha Semmel. Expanded Visions: Four Women Artists Print the American West. Denver: Women of the West Museum, 2000.

D’Souza, Aruna. “The Fourth World and the Second Wave: On (Non)Encounters Between Native Women and Feminism.” In Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, edited by Candice Hopkins, Mindy N. Besaw, and Manuela Well-Off-Man, Exhibition catalogue., 62–75. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2018.

Everett, Deborah, and Elayne Zorn. Encyclopedia of Native American Artists. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2011.

Farber, Janet L. 20/21 Emmi Whitehorse. Exhibition catalogue. Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2001.

Farris, Phoebe, ed. Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Hansen, T. Victoria, and Eleanor Hartney. Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers. New York: Lang Communications, 1991.

Harjo, Joy, LeAnne Howe, and Jennifer Elise Foerster, eds. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

Hobson, Geary. The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature. Albuquerque: Red Earth Press, 1979.

Jacka, Lois. Beyond Tradition: Contemporary American Indian Art and Its Evolution. Flagstaff: Northland Publishing, 1988.

Jeffri, Joan. The Painter Speaks: Artists Discuss Their Experiences and Careers. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Kalil, Susie. Slipstream. Exhibition catalogue. Dallas: Kirk Hopper Fine Art, 2016.

Katz, Jane, ed. Messengers of the Wind: Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.

Kirsch, Elisabeth. Emmi Whitehorse: Soul Weaving. Exhibition catalogue. Overland Park: KC Jewish Museum, 2004.

Kosinski, Dorothy M., and Marion Bijur. Women of the American West. Exhibition catalogue. Greenwich: The Bruce Museum, 1985.

LewAllen, Arlene. Nourishing Hearts, Creative Hands: Contemporary Art by Native American Women. Exhibition catalogue. Hampton: Hampton University Museum, 1998.

Lippard, Lucy. Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.

———. Neeznáá: Emmi Whitehorse Ten Years. Exhibition catalogue. Santa Fe: Wheelwright Museum, 1991.

Lopez, Josie, and Lacey Chrisco, eds. Common Ground. Albuquerque Museum Collection Series 4. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2020.

Martine, David Bunn, and Jennifer Tromski. No Reservation: New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement. New York: Amerinda, 2017.

Matuz, Roger. “Emmi Whitehorse.” In Native North American Artists, 622–25. Detroit: St. James Press, 1998.

McKee, Nancy P., and Linda Stone, eds. Readings in Gender and Culture in America. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2002.

McNutt, Jennifer Complo. New Art of the West 7. Exhibition catalogue. Indianapolis: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, 2000.

Mithlo, Nancy, John Hitchcock, Suzanne Newman Fricke, and Beverly Morris. Air, Land, Seed. Exhibition catalogue. Albuquerque: 516 Arts, 2013.

Newmann, Dana. New Mexico Artists at Work. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2005.

Octopus Dreams: 200 Works on Paper by Contemporary Native American Artists. Exhibition catalogue. Yekaterinburg: Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, 2012.

Penn, W.S. The Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996.

Peterson, William. Emmi Whitehorse. Exhibition catalogue. Santa Fe: LewAllen / Butler Fine Art, 1990.

Portfolio II: Eleven American Indian Artists. Exhibition catalogue. San Francisco: American Indian Contemporary Arts, 1988.

Priester, Mary. Grey Canyon and Friends. Exhibition catalogue. Portland: Portland Art Museum, 1983.

Sanders, Nina. Catch 22: Paradox on Paper. Exhibition catalogue. Santa Fe: Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts Inc., 2017.

Sasse, Julie R. Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch. Scottsdale: Cattle Track Arts and Preservation and Tucson Museum of Art, 2020.

Sherman, Tisa Rodriquez, Robert A. Yassin, and Lucy R. Lippard. Emmi Whitehorse. Exhibition catalogue. Tucson: Tucson Museum of Art, 1997.

Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See. Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar and Sage. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Gallery of the American Indian Community House, 1985.

Wade, Edwin L., and Carol Haralson, eds. The Arts of the North American Indian: Native Traditions in Evolution. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986.

Williams, Lucy Fowler, ed. Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in the Barnes Foundation. Philadelphia: Barnes Foundation, 2022.

Yohe, Jill Ahlberg, and Teri Greeves, eds. Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2019.

PERIODICALS

Abatemarco, Michael. “‘Art on the Edge 2015’ and ‘Material Matters’ at NMMoA.” Pasatiempo, May 8, 2015.

———. “Depth of Field: Artist Emmi Whitehorse.” The Santa Fe New Mexican, January 8, 2021.

———. “Fit to Print: Native Female Artists and Collaborative Printmaking.” Pasatiempo, February 14, 2020.

———. “Mixed Media Indelible Ink UNM Art.” The Santa Fe New Mexican, February 14, 2020, 12.

———. “Sharing Inner Peace with the Larger World.” The Santa Fe New Mexican, January 8, 2021, 2.

Allaire, Christian. “Stretching the Canvas Showcases Eight Decades of Native American Paintings.” Vogue, November 19, 2019.

Archuleta, Margaret. “Art in 2 Worlds: The Native American Fine Art Invitational 1983–1997.” American Indian Art, 24, no. 2 (1999): 30–35.

Ash-Milby, Kathleen E. “Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination.” American Indian Art, 32, no. 2 (2007): 66–71.

Baker, Lori. “But Is It Indian Art?” Phoenix Magazine 27, no. 11 (November 1992): 94–99.

Bensley, Lis. “Emmi Whitehorse.” Pasatiempo, May 30, 1997, 6.

Bergé, Carol. “Smith and Whitehorse – Painterly Leaps and Continuities.” Santa Fe Reporter 16, no. 10 (1990): 23,25.

Boggs, Johnny D. “The Mother of Southwest Pop.” Wild West 33, no. 1 (June 2020): 26–28.

Byrne, Alexandra. “Muscarelle Museum of Art Looks towards Expansion.” The Flat Hat, October 4, 2021. https://flathatnews.com/2021/10/04/muscarelle-museum-of-art-looks-toward-expansion/.

Chase, Katherin L. “Indian Painters of the Southwest.” Southwest Art 32, no. 3 (August 2002): 176–89.

Clark, William. “Beyond the Surface.” Albuquerque Journal, February 17, 1991, F1-F4.

“Contemporary Visions in San Antonio.” Art-Talk, March 1987, 27.

“Depth of Field: Artist Emmi Whitehorse.” The Santa Fe New Mexican, January 8, 2021, 17.

Eauclaire, Sally. “Emmi Whitehorse.” ARTnews 93, no. 4 (April 1994): 179.

“Emmi Whitehorse.” Native Peoples Magazine 16, no. 6 (October 2003): 48–49.

Gibson, Daniel. “Indian Imagery: A Torrent of Creativity Unleashed.” Santa Fean Magazine 17, no. 7 (August 1989): 16–19.

Glueck, Grace. “Lands You Can’t See in a Guidebook.” The New York Times, March 23, 2007, E32.

Gorman, Geoff. “LewAllen/Butler Fine Art: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Emmi Whitehorse.” GuestLife Culture & Cuisine, 1990, 20–21.

Green, Christopher. “An Exhibition of Native Painting Fills a Stubborn Gap in the History of Modernism.” Art in America, January 10, 2020. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/stretching-the-canvas-native-painting-nmai-1202674933/.

———. “Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting.” Art in America 108, no. 3 (March 2020): 84–86.

Grimes, John R., Thomas Haukaas, Mary Lou Curran, and Karen Kramer. “Power and Beauty.” American Indian Art Magazine, 2003, 48–57.

Hagerty, Donald J. “The New West: Searching for Modern Metaphors.” Southwest Art 27 (November 1997): 22.

Herrick, Roxanna. “The Desert Is No Lady.” Library Journal 122, no. 1 (January 1997): 169.

Indyke, Dottie. “Nature’s Calm.” SouthwestArt 30, no. 2 (July 2000): 44–46.

Kolpas, Norman. “Trailblazers.” SouthwestArt 39, no. 3 (January 2009): 100–105.

Krantz, Claire Wolf. “Emmi Whitehorse at Jan Cicero.” Art in America 87, no. 9 (September 1999): 133.

Krasnow, Bruce. “Hospital Unveils New Patient Pavilion.” The Santa Fe New Mexican, November 3, 2017, A9.

Lanteri, Michelle. “Fall Group Show.” First American Art, no. 10 (Spring 2016): 79–80.

Lebow, Edward. “Running Against the Heard: Contemporary Indian Art Is a Bust at Museum Shows.” Phoenix New Times, April 15, 1999, 67.

May, Stephen. “Diverse Visions: Western Art in the 1990s.” SouthwestArt 29, no. 6 (November 1999): 93–98.

Medina, Danny. “Whitehorse: Making Art, Breaking Stereotypes.” Art-Talk, September 1996, 20–21.

Melkonian, Neery. “Emmi Whitehorse.” Arts Magazine 66, no. 1 (1991): 72.

Mendelsohn, Meredith. “A Celebration of Female Native American Artists.” T Magazine, March 5, 2020.

“Messengers of the Wind: Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories.” Windspeaker 13, no. 9 (January 1996): 29.

Monk, Janice, and Vera Norwood. “The Desert Is No Lady.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 18, no. 3 (December 1997): 110–12.

Mulholland, Patrick. “Native American Art Breaks Free in Stretching the Canvas.” Financial Times, December 11, 2019.

Nahwooksy, Fred. “Native Art in the Windy City.” Native Peoples Magazine 13, no. 6 (October 2000): 52.

Pollmeier, Von Andrea. “Die Botschaft Des Hasen: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Und Emmi Whitehorse ‘Mixed Blessings’ Im Amerika Haus.” Frankfurt Rundschau, September 23, 1999, 21.

Pulkka, Wesley. “A Slow Unfolding of Landscape.” Trend 13, no. 2 (2012): 84–86.

Regan, Margaret. “Emmi Whitehorse’s Stonewall Exhibit at TMA Blends Abstraction with the Navajo Aesthetic.” Tucson Weekly, November 26, 1997.

Roberts, Kathaleen. “Abstract Art Exhibit Embraces Seismic Shifts.” Albuquerque Journal, April 12, 2015.

———. “The Diverse Process of Printmaking.” Albuquerque Journal, March 23, 2014. https://www.abqjournal.com/373086/the-diverse-process-of-printmaking.html.

———. “The Shape of Things.” Albuquerque Journal, April 12, 2020.

Roberts, Kathleen. “Native American Printmakers Layer Past with Present.” Albuquerque Journal, January 15, 2017.

Rubinstein, Raphael. “Not a Mirage.” Art in America 90, no. 12 (December 2002): 40–47.

“Sacred Circle Gallery.” Four Winds 2 (Spring 1982): 58.

Shirazi, Sadia. “Returning to Dialectics of Isolation: The Non-Aligned Movement, Imperial Feminism, and a Third Way.” Panorama 7, no. 1 (2021)..

Stratford, Herb. “Museum of Art Open Exhibits of Abstract, Contemporary Art.” Inside Tucson Business, July 19, 2010, 15.

Strickland, Rennard. “Where Have All the Blue Deer Gone? Depth and Diversity in Post War Indian Painting.” American Indian Art Magazine 10, no. 2 (Spring 1985): 39.

Tall Chief, Russ. “A Scholar’s Touch.” Native Peoples Magazine 26, no. 3 (June 2013): 52.

“The Superb Six: Booth Western Art Museum Hosts an Exhibition Honoring the Creativity of Six Contemporary Navajo Artists.” Native American Art, no. 21 (June 2019): 124–27.

Traugott, Joseph. “Emmi Whitehorse.” ARTSPACE, Summer 1982, 40–41.

Van Sickle, Lisa J. “Emmi Whitehorse.” Santa Fean Magazine 46, no. 3 (June 2018): 51.

Whitehorse, Emmi. “The Other Portfolio.” Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics 2, no. 2 (1979): 66–72.

———. “Untitled.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 18, no. 3 (1997): 118–20.

“Women of the West Museum in Denver Unveils Print Portfolio.” Art Business News 28, no. 4 (April 2001): 16.

Young, Joseph. “Native Artists Share Common Bond.” Scottsdale Daily Progress, April 29, 1983, 17

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1979
Contemporary Native American Artists, The Gallery Upstairs, Berkeley, California, January 10–February 14
Grey Canyon, Arts Octoberfest ‘79, Downtown Center for the Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 8–26

1979–1980
Grey Canyon, Gallery of the American Indian Community House, New York, New York, November 15, 1979–January 6, 1980

1980–1983
Grey Canyon and Friends, Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, October 11–November 15, 1980; K. Phillips Gallery, Lincoln Hall, Denver, Colorado, June 20–July 11, 1980; Portland Art Museum, Oregon, May 3–June 26, 1983; University of North Dakota, Grand Forks; The Southern Plains Museum, Anadarko, Oklahoma; The Sioux Land Heritage Museum, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

1980
Spring Indian Artists Show, Tom Bahti Indian Arts, Tucson, Arizona, February 29–March 2
Conceptual Art: Four Native American Women Artists, Southern Plains Indian Museum and Crafts Center, Anadarko, Oklahoma, June 29–July 31
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith e gli amici del Grey Canyon, Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy, October 14–November 3

1981
Changing Myths: The Evolution of Tradition, Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art, Seattle, Washington, July 10–August 1
Grey Canyon Group, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Works on Paper, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1981–1982
Confluences of Tradition and Change, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, California, January 19–February 27, 1981; Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas, April 26–June 7, 1981; Gallery of the American Indian Community House, New York, New York, September 1–October 30, 1981; Brunnier Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, March 17–April 18, 1982

1982
Native Woman Artists, Gallery of the American Indian Community House, New York, New York
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Emmi Whitehorse, Galleria D’Arte “L’Argentario”, Trento, February 5–March 5
Flowers in Monotype, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, June 10–30
Taos to Tucson, The Foundations Gallery, New York, New York

1982–1983
Contemporary North American Indian Art, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, March 12, 1982–January 1, 1983
Modern Native American Abstraction, The Philadelphia Art Alliance Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania December 10, 1982–January 8, 1983; American Indian Community Gallery, New York, New York, January 21–March 18, 1983

1983
The Southwest Scene, The Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, April 1–May 6, 1983
Contemporary Native American Art, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 7–30
Indian Market, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 19–27
Native Artists of the Eighties, The Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1983–1984
Contemporary Native American Art, Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, October 1–28, 1983; Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, New York, November 19–December 18, 1984; Montana State University, Bozeman, May 9–June 9, 1984

1984
The New Native American Aesthetic, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 29–July 14, 1984
She Holds Her Own, The Green County Council on the Arts, Catskill, New York

1984–1985
Innovations: New Expressions in Native American Painting, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, December 9, 1984–May 31, 1985

1985
Women of the American West, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, May 19–August 31
Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar and Sage, Gallery of the American Indian Community House, New York, New York, June 1–29
Group Show, Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art, Seattle, Washington, July 11–30
Visage Transcended, American Indian Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California, October 21–December 28
Artists Under Thirty, The Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut

1985–1986
Eight Artists, The Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California, September 15, 1985–January 5, 1986

1986
Native American Art: Our Contemporary Visions, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada, November 6–30; Jones Visitor Center Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, November 5–28; Reno City Hall Gallery, Nevada, November 13–December 14; Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, November 13–December 14

1987
Four Sacred Mountains’ Contemporary Indian Arts Festival, Tuba City High School Auditorium, Arizona, June 5–27

1987–1988
Eight Native American Artists, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, November 14, 1987–January 10, 1988

1988
Mask, The Old Pueblo Museum, Tucson, Arizona
Earth and Sky, Ann Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho

1989
Changing Woman, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, California, February 4–February 26
New Works / New Visions, Frairie Lee Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, February 24–March 25
Andrew Baird, Larry Fodor, Emmi Whitehorse, Prairie Lee Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, May 12–27
6 from Santa Fe, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, November 16–December 31

1990
Selections from the James T. Bialac Collection of 20th Century Native American Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, March 5–April 15
We Are Part of the Earth: 11 Native American Artists Contemporary Works on Paper, Palomar College, San Marcos, California, April 6–May 20; Centro Cultural de la Raza, Balboa Park, San Diego, California, April 6–May 20
Primavera, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

1991
Gallery Selection 1991, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 31–June 22
Gathering Voices: Mixed Media Works on Paper, American Indian Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California, July 12–August 31
Presswork, The Art of Women Printmakers, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., September 24–December 1
Without Boundaries: Contemporary Native American Art, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, October 18–November 16
Grey Canyon, Gallery of the American Indian Community House, New York, New York

1992
Group Exhibition, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Group Exhibition, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, January 10–February 8

1993
Indianer Nord-Amerikas: Kunst und Mythos, Internationale Tage, Ingelheim, Germany, May 1–June 20
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Emmi Whitehorse, Ramona Sakiestewa, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 6–28

1994
Sharing the Heritage: American Indian Art from Oklahoma Private Collections, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, June 9–September 11
46th American Academy of Arts and Letters, Purchase Exhibition, New York, New York, November 7–December 4
Self Portrait, David Rettig Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Of Paper and Glass, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico
El Mundo del Arte de Nuevo Mexico, La Oficina del Alcalde de Guadalajara, México

1995
Seinsichten aus Welten, Die Künstler, January 1–31
Brücken und Abgrenzungen: Zeitgenössische Indianische Kunst, Haus der Redoute, Bad Godesberg, Germany, January 25–February 19
Lithographs by New Mexico Artists, The Fitzgerald Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 21–August 18

1996
New Art of the West 5, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana

1996–1997
Native Streams, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, January 12–February 24, 1996; Turman Art Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana, March 23–April 18, 1996;
Holter Art Museum, Helena, Montana, May 10–June 23, 1996; Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio, September 7–October 26, 1996; South Bend Regional Art Museum, Indiana, December 7, 1996–January 26, 1997; Emison Art Center, Greencastle, Indiana, February 12–March 19, 1997
Contemporary New Mexico Artists: Sketches and Schemas, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 22, 1996–January 11, 1997

1997
CAS Collects New Mexico, Anderson Contemporary Art Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 26–February 23

1998
Crossing Cultures, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 1–30
The City Series: Taos, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Indiana, September 12–November 29
Nourishing Hearts, Creative Hands: Contemporary Art by Native American Women, Hampton University Museum, Virginia, October 23–December 6
Group Show, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, Oregon

1998–1999
The Native American Spirit in Contemporary Art: Visual Arts Exhibitions, Main Gallery, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 20, 1998–January 15, 1999

1999–2000
Mixed Blessings, Amerika Haus, Frankfurt, Germany, September 10, 1999–January 21, 2000

2000
Multiple Impressions: Native American Artists and the Print, The Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico, April 2–June 9
New Art of the West 7, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 5–August 7
30 Years of Collecting 20th Century Art by Women, Spaightwood Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
Earthly Visions, Landscape: Real and Imagined, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2001–2003
Lasting Impressions, Joseph Cross Gallery, University of Arizona, October 5–27, 2001; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, February 2–March 17, 2002; Phippen Art Museum, Prescott, Arizona, May 10–June 13, 2003

2002
Western Visions: Pop, Perspective and Politics, Center for the Visual Arts, The Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado, July 12–August 24
Summer Group Show, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Summer Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2002–2003
Art in Two Worlds: The Native American Fine Art Invitational 1983–1997, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, September 23, 2002–January 26, 2003
Common Ground: Contemporary Native American Art from the TMA Permanent Collection and Private Collections, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, October 18, 2002–May 18, 2003

2003
Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, California, May 10–August 11, 2003; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, October 10–January 5, 2003; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, April 17–July 20, 2003; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, September 19–November 16, 2003
Native Inspiration, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 8–September 6
Summer Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2004
Annual Indian Market Show, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 13–September 7
Expanded Visions: Four Women Artists Print the American West, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, California

2005
Myth and Meta-language, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 2–October 2
New Classics, Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Rolling Thunder: Art from the Plains, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado

2007
Unlimited Boundaries: Dichotomy of Place in Contemporary Native American Art, Albuquerque Museum of Art, New Mexico, January 28–April 15
Off The Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, New York, New York, March 3–September 3

2008
Facing West, Landfall Press Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 1–June 30
Without Limits: Contemporary Indian Market Exhibition, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 15–September 13
Fall Redux, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2008–09
Maverick Art, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, California, October 4, 2008–January 4, 2009
Common Ground: Art in New Mexico, Albuquerque Museum of Art, New Mexico, December 21, 2008–April 12, 2009

2009
Into the Now, From Then, Chiaroscuro, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 14–September 12
Grand Opening at 702 1⁄2 Canyon, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2010
Into the Void: Abstract Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona, July 17–October 26; Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, California

2011
Pressing Ideas–50 Years of Women’s Lithographs for Tamarind, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., June 17–October 2
Modern Times–Kunst der Indianischen Moderne und Postmoderne, Galerieverein Leonberg, Germany, June 26–August 7
Trio: Cunnignham, Fields, Whitehorse, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 19–September 10

2011–2012
Collector's Legacy, Rockwell Museum of Art, Corning, New York, October 28, 2011–January 2, 2012

2012
Octopus Dreams, Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia, June 29–August 26
Celebrating Diversities in Art, Springfield Art Museum, Missouri

2013
Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 29–September 21
Rick Bartow, Rose Simpson, Emmi Whitehorse, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 16–September 14

2014
Contemporary Native Group Show, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 22–31

2015
Indian Art Market, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 7–September 5
Weaving Past into Present: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking, International Print Center New York, New York, September 24–November 10

2016
Personal Journeys: American Indian Landscapes, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, February 27–September 28
Slipstream, Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas, Texas, May 28–August 6, 2016

2017
New Impressions: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts, January 20–June 15

2017–2018
Catch 22: Paradox on Paper, Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 12, 2017–March 31, 2018
Unmoored Geographies: Works from the Permanent Collection, Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, September 9, 2017–March 25, 2018

2019
Six Navajo Masters: Abeyta, Begay, Johns, Whitehorse, Whitethorne & Yazzie, Booth Western Museum, Cartersville, Georgia, May 16–August 4

2019–2020
Hearts of Our People, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, June 2–August 18, 2019; Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, September 27, 2019–January 12, 2020; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., February 21–May 17, 2020; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 27, 2020–September 13, 2020

2019–2022
Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting, George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian, New York, New York, November 16, 2019–January 2, 2022
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 2019–February 20, 2022

2020
Earth & Sky: Emmi Whitehorse and Don Redman, Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas, Texas, January 25–March 21
Indelible Ink: Native Women, Printmaking, Collaboration, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, February 7–May 9
Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona, February 29–September 20

2020–2021
physical/digital: representations of the body from the permanent collection, Heard Museum, online, December 31, 2020–2021

2021
Conversations: Artworks in Dialogue, The Collection of Daniel E. Prall, Roswell Museum, New Mexico, July 2–November 21
15th Annual Contemporary Native Art Exhibition: Native Visions, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 6–September 4

2021–2022
Evocations: Celebrating the Museum's Collection, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas, April 20, 2021–March 13, 2022
Shared Ideologies, Sheridan & Spigel Galleries, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia, September 1, 2021–February 13, 2022
Linger and Flow, Tuttleman Sculpture Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, September 16, 2021–April 3, 2022
Holiday Group Show, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 3, 2021–January 8, 2022

2022
Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 20–May 15
Spring Group Show: Part II, Chiaroscuro Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 22–May 21

2023
Winter Group Show, Chiaroscuro Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 3–April 1
Spring Group Show, Chiaroscuro Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 14–May 27

2023–2024
The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., September 22, 2023–January 15, 2024; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, April 19–September 15, 2024

2024
Time Travelers: Foundations, Transformations, and Expansions at the Centennial, Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, Arizona, March 17–October 6
Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, April 20–November 24
Mother Lode: Material and Memory, James Cohan, New York, June 21–July 26
Echoes of the New Frontier, COL Gallery, San Francisco, July 19–August 17th

Typography of Standing Ruins #2

Selected Works