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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, an enrolled Flathead Salish, is one of the most acclaimed Native American Indian artists today. Smith has had over 80 solo exhibits in the past 30 years. Over that same time, she has organized and/or curated over 30 Native exhibitions, and lectured at more than 175 universities, museums and conferences internationally. Smith has completed several collaborative public art works such as the floor design in the Great Hall of the new Denver Airport; an in-situ sculpture piece in Yerba Buena Park, San Francisco and a mile-long sidewalk history trail in West Seattle.
Smith calls herself a cultural art worker. Elaborating on her Native worldview, Smith's work addresses today’s tribal politics, human rights and environmental issues with humor.
Critic Gerrit Henry, (Art in America 2001) wrote: “For all the primal nature of her origins, Smith adeptly takes on contemporary American society in her paintings, drawings and prints, looking at things Native and national through bifocals of the old and the new, the sacred and the profane, the divine and the witty.”