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Duane Slick

Native American painter and professor (born 1961) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Duane Slick (born 1961)[1] is a Meskwaki artist and educator of Ho-Chunk descent. He is known for his monochromatic paintings.[2][3] He has taught fine arts at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) since 1995.[4]

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Duane Slick was born 1961 in Waterloo, Iowa, to a Meskwaki father and a Ho-Chunk mother.[4][5]

He received a BFA degree in painting and a BA degree in Art Education from the University of Northern Iowa.[when?] Slick completed an MFA degree in 1990 in painting from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis).[6] While at UC Davis, he was mentored by artist George Longfish.[7] He previously taught at Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from 1992 to 1995.[8] Since 1995, Slick has taught printmaking and painting at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).[4]

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Duane Slick, Oval and Deluge, 1993, Acrylic on linen, 11 x 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)

In 2010, he was a resident at School for Advanced Research (SAR), where he created his work Field Mouse Goes to War.[9] In 2012, Slick was awarded the Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, and his work was included in the associated group exhibition, We Are Here! (2012).[10][3]

Slick's work is included in many public art collections including the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution,[11] Milwaukee Art Museum,[12] Chazen Museum of Art,[13] Danforth Art Museum,[14] and the Des Moines Art Center,[15] among others.

His first solo museum exhibition, The Coyote Makes the Sunset Better, premiered in 2022 at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.[16][17]

Slick was also a co-curator of Marking Resilience: Indigenous North American Prints, a 2023 exhibition staged by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[18]

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