Born in Syracuse, NY
Lives and works in Ithaca, NY
Education
1975 MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1959 BFA, Beaver College, Glenside, PA
Solo Exhibitions
2007
Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery; New York; catalogue
2005
Kay WalkingStick: A Mythic Journey, Paintings from Three Decades, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
2004
Kay WalkingStick: Mythic Dances, Paintings from Four Decades, Southeast Missouri Regional Museum, Southeast Missouri University, Cape Girardeau, MO; catalogue
2003
Sensual Texture: The Art of Kay WalkingStick, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Continuum 12 Artists: Kay WalkingStick/Rick Bartow, Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, New York,
2002
Haptic Memory: Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York; brochure
2001
National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
2000
Kay WalkingStick: works on paper from The Italian Suite, 1997-1999 and Dancing to Rome, 2000, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1999
Paintings and Drawings, Miami Dade Community College, FL
The Heritage of Our Ancestors: Paintings by Kay WalkingStick and Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1997
Collector’s Show, selected by director and chief curator Townsend Wolfe, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
1995
Works on Paper, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Common Ground: Phil Young and Kay WalkingStick, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1994
Paintings and Works on Paper, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1993
Galerie Calumet, Heidelberg, Germany
1992
Works on Paper, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Works on Paper, Jersey City Museum, NJ
1991
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Kay WalkingStick: 1974-1990, The Hillwood Art Museum of Long Island University, CW Post Campus, Brookville, NY; traveled to Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, and Hartwick College Gallery, Oneonta, NY
1990
M-13 Gallery, New York
Rathbone Gallery, Junior College of Albany, NY
1988
Wenger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987
M-13 Gallery, New York
1986
Beaver College, Spruance Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Ohio State University, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
Carl N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA
1984
Fort Lewis College, Fine Arts Gallery, Durango, CO
Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
1981
Painting on Paper, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
1979
Wenger Gallery, San Diego, CA
1978
Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
1975
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Museum and Corporate Collections
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Museum of American Indian, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Montclair Art Museum, NJ
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
The Newark Museum, NJ
San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, CA
Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, OK
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Davidson College, NC
Rollins College, Roanoke, VA
Sweet Briar College, VA
City University of New York
University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ
Bailey-Howe Library of the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Cherokee Heritage Foundation, Tahlequah, OK
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York
AT&T, Morristown, NJ
Best Products, Ashland, VA
Cumberland Family Care Center, Brooklyn, NY
Johnson & Johnson, Personal Product Division, New Brunswick, NJ
Lake Shore National Bank, Chicago, IL
RJR Nabisco World Headquarters, East Hanover, NJ
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., Montvale, NJ
Catalogues and Publications
2007
Nadelman, Cynthia, “Recent Paintings,” June Kelly Gallery, New York
Power, Susan C., “Art of the Cherokee Prehistory To The Present,” The University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, pp. 6, 19-20, 39, 216-18, 236-39, 246-47; Continuum Series, 238-39; Wallowa Mtns. Memory Var. #404, 238
2004
Transcultural New Jersey: Diverse Artists Shaping Culture and Communities, Transcultural New Jersey Inititative, chief curators and organizers Isabel Nazario and Jeffrey Wechsler, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
2002
Haptic Memory: Recent Paintings, essay by Eleanor Heartney, June Kelly Gallery, NewYork; brochure
2001
Primal Visions: Albert Bierstadt “Discovers” America, essays by Linda S. Ferber, Diane P. Fischer, John Zielenski and Kay WalkingStick, published by the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expressions in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax, by Joanne Mattera, published by Watson-Guptill
Spirit Maps, by Joanne Arretam, published by Weiser Books, York Beach, ME
Catalogues and Publications
2001
Native America Collected, The Culture of an Art World, by Margaret Dubin, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, cover and pp. 22, 37, 112, 113, 162
The American West: People, Places and Ideas, by Suzan Campbell, essay by Kathleen E. Ash-Milby, published by Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, NY, pp.123-1242000
2000
end papers: Drawings 1890-1900 and 1990-2000, curated and authored by Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs Dr. Judy Collischan, published by Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
Self-Portraits by Women Artists, by Cheney, Faxon and Russo, published by Ashgate Press, Brookfield, MA
1999
Indian Time: Art in the New Millenium, introduction by Joanna Osburn Bigfeather, essay by Bentley Spang, published by Institute of American Indian Art Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Who Stole the Tee Pee?, essays by Richard Hill, Sr., and Truman Lowe, published by The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Atlatl, Inc., Phoenix, AZ
Anticipating the Dawn, Contemporary Art by Native American Women, essays by Margaret Archuleta and Nancy Marie Mithlo, Ph.D., published by Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Women Artists of Color, A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas, edited by Phoebe Farris, published by Greenwood Press, Westport, CT and London, England, pp.108-116
1999
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, essays by Dr. Gail Stavitsky, Dr. Danielle Rice and Richard Frumess, published by the Montclair Art Museum, NJ
1998
Self-Portraits by Women Painters, by Liana Cheney, Alicia Faxon and Kathleen Russo, Scholar Press, London, England
1997
Discovering Native American Art, by Abby Remer, Davis Publications, Worcester, MA
The Telling of the World: Native American Legends and Stories, Editor William S. Penn, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, New York
Women of Color in Art, Unit IV, Native American, Slide Resource Series
Women’s Caucus for Art, Women of Color in Art Committee and Universal Slide Company, Sarasota, FL
1996
Lives and Works: Talks with Women Artists, Vol.2, Beryl Smith, Joan Arbeiter and Sally Shearer Swenson, Scarecrow Press, fall, Lanham, MD
Native American Art Masterpieces, David W. Penney, published by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., Southport, CT
Catalogues and Publications
1996
Changing Horizons: Landscape on the Eve of the Millennium, essays by George G. King and Naomi Vine, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists, foreword by William Nathaniel Banks, essays by Robert Storr and Tom Wolf, published by MacDowell Colony in Petersborough, NH
Native Stream, essay by Margaret Archuleta, “Swimming Upstream: Diversity in Native American Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, published by Jan Cicero Gallery and Turman Art Gallery of Indiana State University
Contemporary Native Art 1996, a Calendar, Garfinkel Publications, Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada
1995
History of Art, by H.R. Janson, Prentice Hall & Abrams, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and New York
Indian Humor, essays by Jolene Rickard and Paul Chaet Smith, published by American Indian Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Strategies of Narration, Cairo Biennial by Deborah Cullen, published by the USIA, Washington, DC
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, ed. Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, Garland Publishing Company, New York and London
Understanding Art, 4th Ed., by Lois Ficher-Rathus, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Contemporary Native Art 1995, a Calendar, Garfinkel Publications, Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada
1994
I Stand in the Center of the Good: Interviews with Contemporary Native
American Artists, by Lawrence Abbott, University of Nebraska Press, fall
Lives & Works, Vol. II, Sally Swenson, Beryl Smith, Joan Arbeiter, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ & London, England, fall
Native American Biographies, Globe Book Co., Paramus, NJ
Native American Art, by David Penney, published by Hugh Lauter Levin Assoc., Southport, CN
Contemporary Native Art 1994, a Calendar, Garfinkel Publications, Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada
1993
Contemporary Native Art 1993, a Calendar, Garfinkel Publications, Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada
1992
Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Museum of Canada, essays by Robert Houle, Diana Nemeroff, Charlotte Tounsend-Gault, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
For the Seventh Generation: Native Americans Counter the Quincentenary, Columbus, New York, Introduction by Phil Young, Golden Artists Colors, New Bell, NY
Catalogues and Publications
1992
We, The Human Beings: 27 Contemporary Native American Artists, essays by Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith and Elizabeth Woody, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop: Artists of Color, essay by Noah Jemison, foreword by Kay WalkingStick, Printmaking Workshop, NY
1991
Shared Visions, Native American Painters and Sculptors of the 20th Century, by Margaret Archuleta and Dr. Rennard Strickland, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ Q, a Journal of Art, Kay WalkingStick, article by Duane Potter, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Kay WalkingStick, Paintings 1974-1990, essay by Holland Cotter, foreword by Dr. Thomas Leavitt, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY
Interface/Innerface, Interpreting the Real, essay by Elizabeth Bryant, Security Pacific Corporation, Seattle, WA
Mixed Blessings, Lucy R. Lippard, Pantheon Books, New York
1990
The Decade Show, an anthology of essays which includes, “A Central Margin,” by Jimmie Durham, coordinator, Linda Craighead, Museum Of Contemporary Hispanic Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1989
Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, by Dr. JudithVan Wagner, Hudson Hills Press, Inc., New York
1988
Autobiography, In Her Own Image, essays by Judith Wilson and Moira Roth, introduction by Howardena Pindell, INTAR Latin American Gallery, New York
1987
Contemporary Women's Art Calendar, 1988 Ed., Bo-Tee Productions, Palo Alton, CA
We the People, essay by Jimmie Durham, “Savage Attacks on White Women, As Usual,” Artist’s Space, New York
The Soaring Spirit, Contemporary Native American Arts, text by Diane A. Hartman, Curator of Anthropology, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
The Painting and Sculpture Collection: Acquisitions since 1972, Albright-Knox Gallery, Hudson Hills Press, New York
1986
AdoRnmenT’s, introduction, “On Jewelry and Other Pleasures,” by John Perreault and “Body Transformations,” by Judith C. Van Wagner,
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York
1985
Second Biennial National American Fine Arts Invitational, guest juror's statement by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Erin Younger, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Homage to the American Elm, introduction by Sydney Waller and Bruce D. Kurtz, Gallery 53, Cooperstown, New York
18th Annual Auction, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
Catalogues and Publications
1985
Four Native American Painters, introduction by Kitty McManas-Zurco, College of Wooster Art Museum, OH
Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar, and Sage, introduction, “My Mother’s Daughter: A History of Native American Women in Art,” by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Erin Younger, Atalt 1, Phoenix, AZ
1984
Structures: Thirteen New Jersey Artists, foreword by Robert Koenig, The Montclair Art Museum, NJ
New Jersey Curator’s Choice, introduction by Stuart J. White and Alison G. Wells, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Signale, Indianischer Kunstler, introduction by Katrina Hartje, Indianischer Malnei in Nordamerika, by Axel Schulze-Thulein, Praehistoriche Urformen inder. Zeitgenossischen Kunot, by Dr. K.H. Hoyer, Die Kunst des Uberlebens, by Dr. BinPeyer, Galerie Akmak, Berlin, W. Germany
1983
Contemporary Native American Art, essays by George Longfish and Joan Randell, University of Oklahoma, Stillwater, OK
1982
Artists’ Tribute to Bertha Urdang, introduction by Igal Zalmona and Andrea Miller-Keller, “Thirty years with Art,” by Bertha Urdang, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Fellowship Exhibition, NJSCA, introduction by Thomas Moran and Cynthia Sanford, Jersey City Museum, NJ
1981
Invitational, introduction by Andrea Belag, Robert Ferguson and Cynthia Sanford, Jersey City Museum, NJ
1980
Conceptual Art: Four Native American Women, Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, OK
1979
Painting as Percept, introduction by Anita Feldman, Erikson Gallery, New York
1976
Artist’s Choice/W.I.A., introduction by Tanya Duane and C. Roser, Women in the Arts Foundation, New York
1975
4th Annual Contemporary Reflections 1974-75, introduction by Larry Contemporary Reflections/Selected Works, introduction by Kichi Usui, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oaklan University, Rochester, MI
Works on Paper/Women Artists, statements by Jane Blum, Lucy Lippard, Cindy Nemser, Linda Nochlin, C. Roser, Brooklyn Museum, NY