Jolene Rickard

Jolene Rickard is an Associate Professor at Cornell University in the departments of History of Art and Art, and the former Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program 2008-2020 (AIISP). She is a visual historian, artist and curator interested in the intersection of Indigenous art and post-neo-anticolonialism with an emphasis on Hodinöhsö:ni perspectives.

A selection of publications includes: Diversifying Sovereignty and the Reception of Indigenous Art, Art Journal 76, no. 2 (2017), Aesthetics, Violence and Indigeneity, Public 27, no. 54 (Winter 2016), Arts of Dispossession, in From Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic: Landscape Painting in the Americas, Art Gallery of Ontario (2015), The Emergence of Global Indigenous Art, Sakahán, National Gallery of Canada (2013), and Visualizing Sovereignty in the Time of Biometric Sensors, The South Atlantic Quarterly: Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and the Law, 110:2 (2011). Exhibitions include the Minneapolis Institute of Arts national exhibition, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, 2019-2021, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Art For a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950’s to Now, 2018-2020. She co-curated two of the four inaugural exhibitions of the National Museum of the American Indian (2004-2014).

Her most recent curatorial intervention, Deskaheh à Genève, 1923-2023 : Défendre la souveraineté des Haudenosaunee / Deskaheh in Geneva, 1923-2023 : Defending Haudenosaunee Sovereignty (Geneva, Switzerland, 2023). Jolene is on the Forge Project Indigenous Steering Council, the editorial board of American Art, a board member for the Otsego Institute for Native American Art board and an advisor to GRASAC – The Great Lakes Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Culture. Jolene is from the Skarù·ręʔ / Tuscarora Nation, Hodinöhsö:ni Confederacy.