Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is internationally prominent for her groundbreaking artwork that made visible the history and experiences of Indigenous people. Smith is today considered one of the most prominent Native American artists of the past century and is recognized for merging contemporary issues with Indigenous heritage. She was honored in 2023 with a major solo retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the first Native American artist in the museum’s history to receive such an exhibition.

Smith’s art transcends boundaries—both cultural and artistic—through her deep commitment to storytelling, preservation of Native American truths, and the reclamation of Indigenous identities. Over the course of more than five decades, her art across a diverse range of media, has served as a powerful means for her voice to be heard and for her unflinching efforts in behalf of redefining the history and identity of Indigenous people in American life.

Credited with having “broken the mold,” Fritz Scholder's paintings and the spirit of artistic independence they represented earned him worldwide recognition and made him the most successful and highly regarded painter of Native Americans in U.S. history.

Fritz Scholder is famed for his ground-breaking reinvention of the way Native Americans are portrayed in fine art that began in the 1960s and departed radically from traditional, stereotypical depictions of the mythic Indian. Scholder came to prominence while teaching at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in the mid-1960s where he became committed to a new, controversial, conceptualization of contemporary Native American art.