Duane Slick

Duane Slick is an artist of Native American descent, the Meskwaki Nation of Iowa, his acrylic paintings blend the subjects of oral and visual Native American traditions with a focus on trickster strategies and modernist/post-modernist painting histories. His work has been described as “dream paintings whose aim is the exploration of matters spiritual, not physical.”

Born in Waterloo, IA, Slick earned his BFA from the University of Northern Iowa and his MFA from the University of California, Davis. He began teaching painting and printmaking at RISD in 1995 and has also lectured at colleges and universities across the US and taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. His work has been exhibited widely- most recently in a national touring exhibition titled; “Native Art NOW!” organized by the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis and “Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades Of Native Painting at the National Museum of the American Indian. His work is included in collections at The Des Moines Art Center,The Decordova Museum, and the Eitlejorg Museum among many others He has a forthcomoing solo exhibition titled: "The Coyote Makes the Sunset Better" opening in 2022 at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield CT.