Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940-

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (born January 15, 1940) is an artist, curator, educator, and activist. Since the 1970s, Smith has been well-known for her abstract paintings and and lithographs that combine text and image. More recently, she has advanced her work with mixed media and collage techniques. Drawing from a Native worldview, her work comments on American Indian identity, histories of oppression, and environmental issues.

Born at the St. Ignatius Indian Mission on her reservation, Smith is an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Smith received an Associate of Arts Degree at Olympic College in Bremerton Washington in 1960, a BA in Art Education from Framingham State College, Massachusetts in 1976, and an MA in Visual Arts from the University of New Mexico in 1980.

Her works have been widely exhibited and many are in the permanent collections of prominent art museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum,the Walker Art Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her work has also been collected by New Mexico Museum of Art and the Albuquerque Museum,both located in a southwestern landscape that has continually served as one of her greatest sources of inspiration. In 2020, the National Gallery of Art announced it had bought her painting "I See Red: Target", which thus became the first painting on canvas by a Native American artist in the gallery.

Smith currently lives and works in Corrales, New Mexico, near the Rio Grande, with her family.