EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca New York, 2001
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1995
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018-9 Eyes On Julie Buffalohead, Denver Art Museum (July 29 - Feb, 2019)
2018 Julie Buffalohead: You and I, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
(Sept 11 - Dec 7, 2018)
2017 Julie Buffalohead, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis (Nov 18 – Dec 23)
2015-6 Entwined: New Prints by Julie Buffalohead, Highpoint Center for Printmaking,
Minneapolis (Feb 6 - March 28, 2015)
2015-6 Rochester Art Center MN (Oct 2 - Jan 3, 2016) small catalogue
2015 The Truth About Stories: Julie Buffalohead, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts,
Santa Fe NM (Spring)
2014-5 Julie Buffalohead: Coyote Dreams, Minnesota Museum of American Art,
St Paul (Dec 18 - Feb 22)
2014-5 Plains Art Museum, Fargo (March 27 – Aug 29) small catalogue
2014 Julie Buffalohead: Uncommon Stories, Bockley Gallery (Sept 19 – Oct 25)
2012-3 Julie Buffalohead, Let the Show Begin, Smithsonian National Museum of the
American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, New York (Oct 13 – Jan 13)
2012 Julie Buffalohead, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis (Oct 13 – Nov 10)
2010 Julie Buffalohead, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis (Sept 10 – Oct 9)
2008 Expecting, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis (Sept 6 – Oct 11)
2003 Alice P. Rogers Gallery, St. Johns University, Collegeville MN
2000 Offerings from the Heart, Carl N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting, Smithsonian National Museum of the
American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, New York
2019 Hearts of Our People, curated by Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves, Minneapolis
Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN
2019 An Opera for Animals, curated by Comsin Costinas and Claire Shea, Para Site, Hong
Kong (March 23–June 9); Rockbund Museum of Art, Shanghai (June 22–Aug 25)
2019 BECOMING: Transformations in American Indian Art, curated by Meg Bero,
Schingoethe Center, Aurora University, Aurora IL (Feb 1–April 26)
2018-9 Of Legends and Lore, curated by Cynthia Nourse Thompson, Walton Arts Center,
Fayetteville AK (Oct 23–Jan 12)
2018 Julie Buffalohead and Nathanael Flink, Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids MN
2017-8 Native Art Now!, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art,
Indianapolis IN (Nov 10 - Jan 28, 2018)
2017 Turtle Island, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts,
Philadelphia (May 18 - July 17)
2016-7 From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation, curated
by Heather Ahtone and James T. Bialac, Oklahoma State University,
Museum of Art (Sept 26 - Jan 28, 2017)
2016-7 Arriving at Fresh Water: Frank Big Bear, Andrea Carlson, Jim Denomie,
Louise Erdrich, Dyani White Hawk, Tom Jones, Truman Lowe, curated
by Jill Ahlberg Yohe, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
(May 9 - February 28, 2016)
2016-7 Plains Art Museum, Fargo ND (Oct 1- Jan 7, 2017)
2015 A Curious Bestiary: Julie Buffalohead, Emmy Lingscheit, Ashton Ludden,
Meghan O’Conner, Beauvais Lyons, Briony Morrow-Cribbs, Johanna Winters,
Davidson Galleries, Seattle (July 1 - 31)
2014 Storytelling: The Contemporary Native Art Biennial, 2nd Edition, Art Mûr,
Montréal, Québec (May 3 - June 21)
2013-4 RED: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship exhibition, Eiteljorg Museum
of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis (Nov 9 - Feb 2)
2012-3 Art in the Age of Globalizaion: Global Migrations and the Landscape, curated by
Elizabeth Armstrong and David Little, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Sept 16, 2012 -
July 14, 2013)
2012 Ded Unk’unpi - We Are Here, All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis (Aug 3rd – Sept 28),
James J. Hill House, Minnestoa Historical Society, St. Paul (Oct 13 - Jan 13)
2010-1 Transcending Traditions: Contemporary American Indian Artwork, Mesa Arts Center,
Mesa AZ (Sept 10- Jan 2, 2011)
2010-1 Animal Instinct: Allegory, Allusion, and Anthropomorphism, curated by Leslie
Umberger, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI (Oct 17, 2010 - June 5,
2011)
2010 Four Points: the Art of Julie Buffalohead, Andrea Carlson, Jim Denomie, and Star
Wallowing Bull, Johnson Heritage Post, Art Gallery, Grand Marais MN
2010 Telling Stories: Julie Buffalohead and Steven Yazzie, Berlin Gallery, Phoenix
(Jan 15 – Feb 12)
2008 Carolyn Anderson, Frank Big Bear, Julie Buffalohead, Andrea Carlson, Jim Denomie,
Carl Gawboy, Star Wallowing Bull, Augsburg College, Minneapolis
2006 Year One, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis
2005 Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis
2004 Exploration / Exploitation, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis MO
2004 A Bakers Dozen, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis
2002-4 Uncanny Vision; Contemporary Romantic Landscapes, Plains Art Museum, Fargo MN
2003 The Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson WI
2003 McKnight Foundation Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2002 New Art of the West 8, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art,
Indianapolis IN
2002 Three Sisters, Ancient Traders Gallery, Minneapolis
2002 Modern Warriors: Artworks by Julie Buffalohead, Star Wallowing Bull, Jim Denomie,
Texas Woman’s University, Department of Visual Arts, West Fine Arts Gallery, Denton
2002 Rewritings: New Paintings from Native America, Group Show: Norman Akers,
Julie Buffalohead, Jim Denomie, Mario Martinez, Artist Exhibition Space, Phoenix
2001 The Myth That is True: An Exhibition of Native American Women, O’Shaughnessy
Educational Center, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN
2001 Minnesota Art with a Twist, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
2001 Contemporary Native Art in Minnesota, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
2001 Six World Views: Contemporary Native Artists of Minnesota, Iowa State University,
Ames IA
1999 We Are Related: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, Katherine E. Nash Gallery,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1994 Hair Police Gallery, Minneapolis
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Guggenheim Fellowship Fine Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation NYC
2017 Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board
2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
2015 McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts
2013 Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art
2003 McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts
2002 Artist Fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board
1999 John Hartell Graduate Award from Cornell University
1998 Sage Fellowship Full Tuition Scholarship from Cornell University
1998 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant
1995 Native Arts Circle Grant, Minneapolis
1993 Shirley and Miles Fiterman Scholarship, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Denver Art Museum
Detroit Insitute of Arts
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN
The Field Museum, Chicago IL
Heard Museum, Pheonix AZ
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul
National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States, Jackson WY
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City MO
Rockwell Museum, Corning NY
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC
Schingoethe Center, Aurora University, Aurora IL
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum, Cullowhee NC
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis