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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.

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Artwork details

Lady Liberty

, 2024
Oil on canvas46 × 84 inches
Lady Liberty, 2024. Oil on canvas. 46 × 84 inches.

Artwork

  • 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.
  • A vibrant green background painting of a playful scene with a bear joyfully rolling on its back under a tree. Three rabbits stand nearby, one holding a red object. Three birds with red accent perch on leafy branches above.
  • A primarily blue and green background painting of a girl and a fox connected by a red rope with tassels. The rope leads a group of animals on green grass against a blue sky. Near by are birds and a basket of oranges.
  • A crimson background painting of woman in a yellow top and gray skirt. The woman is lying down, curled up on top of a crimson surface. Near her are three geese and a white wolf-appearing animal lying on a blue patterned cloth.
  • A primarily red-hued painting featuring a girl in traditional attire and pigtailed hair. Near by are four foxes,  three on four legs and one standing up to grab a green fruit from a tree. On the tree is a rabbit eating the same green fruit. Below the rabbit is a basket with more of the green fruit.

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