1972
Born: Minneapolis
Enrolled
Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma
Lives and works St. Paul
EDUCATION
2001
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1995
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000
Offerings from the Heart, Carl N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis
2003
Julie Buffalohead, Alice P. Rogers Gallery, St. Johns University, Collegeville, Minnesota
2008
Expecting, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, September 6–October 11
2010
Julie Buffalohead, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, September 10–October 9
2012
Julie Buffalohead, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, October 13–November 10
2012–2013
Julie Buffalohead: Let the Show Begin, Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian, New York, October 13–January 13
2014
Julie Buffalohead: Uncommon Stories, Bockley Gallery, September 19–October 25
2014–2015
Julie Buffalohead: Coyote Dreams, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, December 18, 2014– February 22, 2015; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, March 27–August 29, 2015
2015
The Truth about Stories: Julie Buffalohead, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe
2015–2016
Entwined: New Prints by Julie Buffalohead, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, February 6– March 28, 2015; Rochester Art Center, Minnesota, October 2, 2015–January 3, 2016
2017
Julie Buffalohead, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, November 18–December 23
2018
Julie Buffalohead: You and I, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, September 11–December 7
2018–2019
Eyes on Julie Buffalohead, Denver Art Museum, July 29, 2018–February 2019
2019–2020
Storytelling: Julie Buffalohead, Minneapolis Institute of Art, November 23, 2019–September 6, 2020
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1994
Hair Police Gallery, Minneapolis
1999
We Are Related: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
2001
The Myth That is True: An Exhibition of Native American Women, O’Shaughnessy Educational Center, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul
Minnesota Art with a Twist, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
Contemporary Native Art in Minnesota, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
Six World Views: Contemporary Native Artists of Minnesota, Iowa State University, Ames
2002
New Art of the West 8, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis
Three Sisters, Ancient Traders Gallery, Minneapolis
Modern Warriors: Artworks by Julie Buffalohead, Star Wallowing Bull, Jim Denomie, West Fine Atrs Gallery, Texas Woman’s University, Denton
Rewritings: New Paintings from Native America, Artists Exhibition Space, Phoenix
2002–2004
Uncanny Vision: Contemporary Romantic Landscapes, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
2003
The Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, Wisconsin
McKnight Foundation Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2004
Exploration/Exploitation, St. Louis Artists’ Guild
A Baker’s Dozen, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis
2005
Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis
2006
Year One, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis
2008
Carolyn Anderson, Frank Big Bear, Julie Buffalohead, Andrea Carlson, Kim Denomie, Carl Gawboy, Star Wallowing Bull, Augsburg College, Minneapolis
2010
Four Points: The Art of Julie Buffalohead, Andrea Carlson, Jim Denomie, and Star Wallowing Bull, Johnson Heritage Post, Art Gallery, Grand Marais, Minnesota
Telling Stories: Julie Buffalohead and Steven Yazzie, Berlin Gallery, Phoenix, January 15–February 12
2010–2011
Transcending Traditions: Contemporary American Indian Artwork, Mesa Arts Center, Arizona, September 10, 2010–January 2, 2011
Animal Instinct: Allegory, Allusion, and Anthropomorphism, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, October 17, 2010– June 5, 2011
2012
Ded Unk’unpi – We Are Here, All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, August 3–September 28; James J. Hill House, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, October 13–January 13
2012–2013
Art in the Age of Globalization: Global Migrations and the Landscape, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, September 16, 2012–July 14, 2013
2013–2014
RED: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg
Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, November 9, 2013–February 2, 2014
2014
Storytelling: The Contemporary Native Art Biennial, 2nd Edition, Art Mûr, Montreal, May 3–June 21
2015
A Curious Bestiary: Julie Buffalohead, Emmy Lingscheit, Asthon Ludden, Meghan O’Conner, Beauvais Lyons, Briony Morrow-Cribbs, Johanna Winters, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, July 1–31
2016–2017
Arriving at Fresh Water: Frank Big Bear, Andrea Carlson, Jim Denomie, Louise Erdrich, Dyani White Hawk, Tom Jones, Truman Lowe, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, May 9, 2016–February 28, 2017
From the Belly of Our Being: Art By and About Native Creation, Museum of Art, Oklahoma State University, September 26, 2016–January 28, 2017
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, October 1, 2016–January 7, 2017
2017
Turtle Island, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, May 18–July 17
2017–2018
Native Art Now!, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, November 10, 2017– January 28, 2018
2018
Julie Buffalohead and Nathaneal Flink, Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, Minnesota
2018–2019
Of Legends and Lore, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 23, 2018–January 12, 2019
2019
BECOMING: Transformations in American Indian Art, Schingoethe Center, Aurora University, Illinois, February 1–April 26
An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong, March 23– June 9; Rockbund Museum of Art, Shanghai, June 22–August 25
Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, New York
2019–2020
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, Minneapolis Institute of Art, June 2–August 18, 2019; Frist Museum, Nashville, September 27, 2019–January 12, 2020; Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., February 21–May 17, 2020; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 28–September 20, 2020
2021
2019 Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant Honorees, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts, May 7–June 20
Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming, May 22–August 22
Shared Ideologies, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia, June 26–November 21
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Denver Art Museum
Detroit Insitute of Arts
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis
The Field Museum, Chicago
Heard Museum, Phoenix
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul
National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States, Jackson, Wyoming
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
Schingoethe Center, Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum, Cullowhee, North Carolina
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Selected Bibliography
BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
McNutt, Jennifer Complo, ed. and Ashley Holland. RED: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship 2013. Indianapolis: Eitilijorg Museum, 2014.
Na’aman, Oded. Journal of Abscence: New York City, February-June, 2013. New York: Bookieman Publishing, 2013: 10–11.
Oklahoma State University Museum of Art. From the Belly of Our Being: Art By and About Native Creation. Stillwater: Oklahoma State University Press, 2016.
PERIODICALS
Abatemarco I, Michael. “Animal Dreams: Julie Buffalohead.” Santa Fe New Mexican, August 17, 2018.
Mary Abbe. “Julie Buffalohead Tells Trickster Talks with her Art.” Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 5, 2015.
Ballas, Anthony. “Eyes On: Julie Buffalohead and Eyes On: Shimabuku, Denver Art Museum.” Journal of Visual Art Practice. (January 11, 2019).
Bond, Sarah. “Seeing Ourselves in Animals Throughout Art History.” Hyperallergic, October 2, 2018.
Buffalohead, Julie. “A Little Medicine and Magic.” Ecotone 14, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2018): 117–123.
Eler, Alicia. “Animal Tricksters Rule in Julie Buffalohead’s Narrative Artworks.” Star Tribune, December 15, 2017.
Ferber, Andrea L. “The National Museum of Wildlife Art.” First American Art Magazine, no. 29 (2021): 74–75.
Gabler, Jay. “Julie Buffalohead.” Artforum (February 2015).
Gustafson, Amy Carlson. “St. Paul Artist Julie Buffalohead Explores Native American Themes.” St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 9, 2015.
Herrera, Allison. “KFAI (Minneapolis/ St. Paul): Julie Buffalohead.” Ampers, December 13, 2010.
“Julie Buffalohead Exhibition Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York Oct. 20.” Smithsonian, October 11, 2012.
Kavass, Veronica. “‘Coyote Dreams’ in Dark Fairy Tales.” MNartists.org, February 20, 2015.
Klefstad, Ann.“4-DGlasses.”MNartists.org,September 23, 2010.
Locke, Deborah. “Julie Buffalohead’s Art Gives No Answers to the Viewer.” The Circle (December 2017).
Moutinho, Amanda. “The Gray Area,” Boulder Weekly (March 7, 2019).
Sheila Regan. “Julie Buffalohead’s Contemporary Allegories.” CityPages Blog, September 29, 2014.
Regan, Sheila. “Julie Buffalohead’s Theater of Animals.” Hyperallergic. February 16, 2015.
Regan, Sheila. “Whimsy, wolves, and masks: Julie Buffohead at Bockley Gallery.” CityPages Blog. October 18, 2012
Riddle, Mason. “Julie Buffalohead: Uncommon Stories.” First American Art Magazine, no. 5 (Winter 2014): 66. Robinson, Megan.
“Julie Buffalohead’s Modern Mythology.” Art & Object (July 31, 2018).
Silberman, Robert. “Complexity and Contradiction in Native American Surrealism.” Journal of Surrealism and the America 7, no. 1 (2013): 108–130.
Thackara, Tess. “The Hand of Native American Women, Visible at Last.” New York Times, June 1, 2019.
Wilkinson, Wendy. “Art Gallery: Julie Buffalohead.” Cowboys & Indians (June 11, 2019).
Judy Woodward. “Julie Buffalohead and her furry little friends deconstruct the obvious.” Park Bugle, April 22, 2013.
Xenos, Stephanie. “Animal Magnetism: Whimsy Meets Weighty in Paintings Occupied by Woodland Creatures.” Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine. (December 2014): 176.