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Solo Exhibitions

2007 At the Crossroads, Oklahoma State Capitol, East Gallery, Oklahoma City OK
2006-7 Face to Face: Portraits by America Meredith, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe NM. Catalog.
2006 Between Cultures: Conflict and Common Ground, North Fourth Art Center, Albuquerque NM
2005 SFAI MFA Graduation Show, Herbst Pavilion, Ft. Mason Center, San Francisco CA. Catalog
2004 Loyal, Lomega Lions Community Center, Loyal OK
2003
Solo Exhibition, Indiana University Purdue University Indiana Cultural Gallery, Indianapolis IN

2001-2

America Meredith: Paintings, Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko OK. Catalog

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

Cherokee Nation Intertribal Art Market, Catoosa OK. Annual participant since 2006
Cherokee Homecoming, Cherokee Heritage Center, Tahlequah OK. Annual participant since 1995, except 2003
Speaking from the Earth, Think Visual Gallery, Point Arena CA. Link
Blazing Saddles, Pop Gallery, Santa Fe NM
SWAIA Indian Market, Santa Fe NM. Annual participant since 2003
My Way, Humble Gallery, Santa Fe NM
Trail of Tears Show, Cherokee Heritage Center, Tahlequah OK. Annual participant since 1995
Graphic Storytelling as Activism, Euphrat Museum, Cupertino CA
  Heard Indian Fair and Market, Heard Museum, Phoenix AZ. Annual participant since 2004
2007-8 Current Realities: A Dialogue with the People, IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City OK; Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko OK; Living Arts, Tulsa OK. An OklaDada project.
2007 Internal Exile, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco CA
%$@# Art Let’s Ride, This Is Not a Shop, Dublin, Ireland
The Plants Are Our Allies, Gary Farmer Gallery, Santa Fe NM
Looking Indian, Untitled Art Space, Oklahoma City OK. Catalog
Do Not Park Bicycles: Aborginal Cycling Culture, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Catalog.
America the Beautiful, Steckline Gallery of Newman University, Wichita KS
Art from Indian Territory, Traveling Exhibit, OK. Catalog
American Icons through Indigenous Eyes, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington DC. Catalog.
Green Art Show, Myers Studio, Tahlequah OK
2005-7 Impacted Nations, Traveling Exhibit, NY, CO, MN, NM
2006 Columbuscide, IAIA Museum, Santa Fe NM
  Lawrence Indian Art Show, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence KS
  Relations: Indigenous Dialogue, IAIA Museum, Santa Fe NM
  Humor Without Reservations, Tribes Gallery, Norman OK
  Native Pop, Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe NM
2005-6 Ghosts of Little Boy: Artists for Peace, NJAHS Peace Gallery, San Francisco CA
  Earth and Sky, City Arts, Oklahoma City OK. With Benjamin Harjo and Charley Pratt
2005 Native American Contemporary Art, Jewish Community Center Gallery, San Barbara CA
17th Annual Lawrence Indian Art Show, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence KS
Shaking the Tree, IAIA Museum, Santa Fe NM. With Heidi Bigknife.
Native American Voices, Friends Gallery, Pasadena CA
Instinctual Distractions, Ar+space, San Francisco CA
Belief, Art SF, San Francisco CA
2004 Ad Hoc, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco CA
  Artspan Exhibition, SOMARTS Cultural Center, San Francisco CA  
  Cahokia Mounds Contemporary Art Show, Cahokia Mounds Museum, Collinsville IL
 
Contemporary Cherokee Art, Cherokee Heritage Center, Tahlequah OK
2003

Eiteljorg Indian Market, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN

 
Comikz: Contemporary Caricature and Sequential Art, Whitney Young Cultural Center, San Francisco CA

4 Views: IAIA Triennial, Institute of American Indian Arts Gallery, Santa Fe NM. With Shonto Begay, Alex Jacobs, and Joe Dale Nevaquaya. Catalog

Green Before Spring, Whitney Young Cultural Center, San Francisco CA

2000 

Five Civilized Tribes Art Show, Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee OK. Annual participant since 1995

1999

Watercolor Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy of Drama and Art, Glasgow UK

 

Eilbotekultur, Lucky Seven, Zürich Switzerland

 

Three Sisters, Jacobson House, Norman OK. With Kelly Church and Allison Francisco

 

Locals, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA

Exhibitions Curated

2008

Anti Anti Anti Anti, Hall of Flowers, San Francisco CA. link

2007  Regeneration, Hall of Flowers, San Francisco CA. link
 

Velocity: The Art of San Francisco Bike Messengers, Balazo 18 Gallery, San Francisco CA. link

2006

Frybread and Roses: Art of Native Labor, Cherokee Heritage Center, Tahlequah OK; Daily Brews Café and Gallery, Wayland MI; Counterpulse Gallery, San Francisco CA. link

  Insubordination, Hall of Flowers, San Francisco CA. link
2005 Haunted, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco CA. link
2003
Facing East: Cherokee Art in the New Indian Territory, Red Earth Indian Center, Oklahoma City OK. link

2002

Deliverance, Lo-Fi Gallery, San Francisco CA. link

 

Friends of Thunder: A Celebration of Cherokee Culture, Jacobson House, Norman OK. Catalog

2000

Right of Way, Space 4040, Philadelphia PA

1999 Da: Half of a Surrealist Movement, Epicenter Zone, San Francisco CA
1996 CMWC Art Show, Acme Gallery, San Francisco CA
1993 Laughing at the Face of Death, Komotion Gallery, San Francisco CA

Awards and Fellowships

2008 San Francisco Arts Commission, Cultural Equity Individual Artist Grant
  Trail of Tears Show, Honorable Mention, Painting Division
2007 Cherokee Homecoming, Judge's Choice Award
  SWAIA Indian Market, IAIA Distinguished Alumni Award - For Excellence in Contemporary Native American Arts
SWAIA Indian Market, First Place, Realistic Acrylic Painting Category
2006 SF Weekly, voted best San Francisco painter of 2006, tied with Mitsy Avila Ovalles
  Lawrence Indian Arts Show, Honorable Mention, Painting Division
  SWAIA Indian Market, Honorable Mention, Abstract Watercolor Painting
  Trail of Tears Show, Honorable Mention, Painting Division
  Heard Museum Indian Art Market, Honorable Mention, Painting Division
2005 Cherokee Homecoming, Honorable Mention
  SWAIA Indian Market, First Place, Realistic Miniature Painting
  San Francisco Art Institute, Graduate Fellowship, 2003 - 2005
2004 SWAIA Indian Market, Third Place, Opaque Water-Based Realistic Painting
  Cahokia Mounds Contemporary Art Show, Third Place, 2-D Art
  Trail of Tears Show, First Place, Painting Division
  Heard Museum Indian Art Market, Honorable Mention, Painting Division
2003 SWAIA Indian Market, First Place, Opaque Water-Based Abstract Painting
  SWAIA Indian Market, Second Place, Realistic Miniature Painting
  Eiteljorg Indian Art Market, Honorable Mention Painting Division
2001 Cherokee Homecoming, First Place, Visual Arts Division
2000 Cherokee Homecoming, Honorable Mention, Painting Division
1999 Five Civilized Tribes Show, Honorable Mention, Graphics Division
  Five Civilized Tribes Show, First Place in Painting Division
1997-8 City College of San Francisco Native American Students Organization, Vice-President and Princess

Gallery Representation

Okalee Contemporary Art Gallery, Seminole Tribe of Florida, 5710 Seminole Way, Fort Lauderdale FL. Contact Michole Eldred, curator. 893.902.1113 ext. 106. Link
Standing Buffalo Gallery, 106 E. Main Street, Norman OK 73069. Contact Tom Farris, owner. Link

Presentations

2008

American Indian Culture and Education Program, Ways of Our Ancestors Camp, Briones Regional Park, Orinda CA. Three craft classes for elementary school children.

Cherokee Humanities Class, Cherokee Nation Tribal Complex, Tahlequah OK. Discussion about Cherokee values in personal art
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley CA. Two lectures about the evolution of tribal governments in tandem with US federal Indian policy
Stanford University, Palo Alto CA. Cherokee Art History, 18th Century to Present, presented to the Stanford Cherokee Student Organization
2007 DeAnza College, Cupertino CA. Three one-hour slide presentations about Cherokee Art History, 18th Century to Present
  De Young Museum, San Francisco CA. Watercolor painting demonstration
  Cherokee Society of the Greater Bay Area, Berkeley CA. Slide lecture about Cherokee Art History, 18th Century to Present
2006 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley CA. Interactive presentation about Native American identity
2005 City College of San Francisco, San Francisco CA. Five one-hour lectures
  University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson AZ. Four days of monotype and linocut printing demonstrations. One-hour slide presentation about personal art work
  Cherokee Humanities Class, Cherokee Nation Tribal Complex, Tahlequah OK. Discussion about Cherokee art and its connection to tribal life
  University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley CA. Interactive presentation about Native American identity
2004 DeAnza College, Cupertino CA. Three one-hour slide presentations about personal art work
2003 Cherokee Heritage Center, Tahlequah OK. Cherokee Humanities Class, offered by University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Eight one-hour slide lectures on Cherokee art history
 
Studio Gallery, Hays KS. Slide lecture about contemporary Native American art
2002 Jacobson House, Norman OK. Slide lecture about personal art work
1997 Friends of St. Francis School, San Francisco CA. Presentation about Cherokee culture and dance
  Park Presidio Preschool, San Francisco CA. Presentation about Cherokee culture and dance
1996 Moscone School, San Francisco CA. Presentation about Native American history
1995 Institute of American Indian Art Museum, Santa Fe NM. Native Voices Reading Series
1994 Westminster Middle School, Oklahoma City OK. Lecture about current issues in Native America

Bibliography

Bear, Mariah, Executive Editor. American Indian: Celebrating the Voices, Traditions & Wisdom of Native Americans. San Francisco: Gold St. Press, 2008: 266-7.
Blomberg, Nancy J., Editor. [Re]inventing the Wheel. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2008: 122-3.
DeFrange, Ann. "Cherokee Spokes Woman: Oklahoma native gives voice to many in San Francisco." Daily Oklahoman, 20.September.2005
Diaz, RoseMary. "Send in the Clowns." Santa Fean, August 2003
Fauntleroy, Gussie. “Groundbreakers: America Meredith, Painting in Cherokee.” Native Peoples, Jan/Feb.2008: 36-7
Fogelson, Raymond D, volume editor. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 14. Southeast. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2004: 752, 765
Garrigues, Lisa. “Cherokee artist America Meredith puts words on wheels.” Indian Country Today. 25.July.2007: 1.
Harjo, Suzan Shown. “a generation of innovation.” Santa Fean Indian Market Magazine. August.2007: 117, 210.
Lippard, Lucy. “Out of the Box.” Face to Face: Portraits by America Meredith, Santa Fe NM: Wheelwright Museum, 2006: 5-8
Martin, Charles. “Animatribe.” Oklahoma Gazette, 21.February.2007: 46
Pleshaw, Gregory. “Faceoff.” The New Mexican: Winterlife, Winter 2006
Pleshaw, Gregory. “Tribes + Tribulations.” Santa Fean Indian Market Magazine, August 2006: 116, 199 197-199
Power, Susan C. Art of the Cherokee: Prehistory to Present. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007: 201
Randall, Teri Thomson. "America Meredith: shattering stereotypes with cartoons." The New Mexican, 22-23.August.2003
Stevens, Amanda. “Art Draws Inspiration from Ancestors.” Rio Rancho Journal, 8.September.2006: 3
Swanhuyser, Hiya. "Look Carefully: Art that goes bump in the night." SF Weekly, 27.August.2005
Swindell, Carol. "America Meredith artwork to be showcased in museum." Anadarko Daily News, 16.November.2001
Walker, Amy . "Artist America Meredith Gives Spoke Cards a Cherokee Spin." Momentum, #28 (2007): 19
Wasserman, Shoshona. “Earth and Sky.” Art Focus Oklahoma, November/December 2005: 1, 8
Weideman, Paul. “Of different minds and mixed legacies: America Meredith, Visible and Indivisible.” Pasatiempo: 17.November.2006: 41, 43
Woodard, Joseph. "Rare, Native American Visions." Santa Barbara News Press, October.2005
"America Meredith: Paintings." SPIMA News, November.2002: 5
"Loyal Art Show." Watonga Republican, 7.July.2004: 4

Education

2003-5 MFA, painting. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
2000-2
BFA with distinction, painting. University of Oklahoma, College of Fine Arts, Norman OK
1996-2000
AA, applied art. City College of San Francisco, San Francisco CA
1996 University of Science and Arts in Oklahoma, Chickasha OK
1995 Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe NM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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