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Julie Buffalohead

2025 Milestone Grantee

Bio

Buffalohead (b. 1972, Minneapolis, MN) received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from Cornell University. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant, Guggenheim Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, and the McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts. She has had solo exhibitions at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Denver Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM; and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, New York. She lives and works in St. Paul, MN.

Lady Liberty, 2024Oil on canvas46 × 84 inches

  • Crimson background painting with a wolf faced woman figure. Figure holds and squeezes left breast, ejaculating fluids. On the right holds a cane with two ties, one white and one blue. Figure is wearing a crimson skirt with patterns against crimson background. On the left of the painting are two racooms on top of piled objects resembling images of the flags of the United States. To the right of the figure is a vane also resembling the flag.
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