Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940, St. Ignatius Indian Mission, Flathead Indian Reservation, MT, d. 2025, Corrales, NM) was an enrolled Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Montana. Smith received her Associate of Arts Degree at Olympic College in Bremerton, WA in 1960, her BA in Art Education from Framingham State College, MA in 1976, and her MA in Visual Arts from the University of New Mexico in 1980. In 2020, Smith’s 1992 painting Target became the first by a Native American artist to join the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art, and in 2023 she became the first artist to curate an exhibition there, presenting The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans. Her most recent institutional solo exhibitions include Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (2025-6); Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ (2025); Saint Louis Art Museum, MO (2024-5); and The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (2023), the first retrospective at the museum dedicated to a Native Artist, which travelled to The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX (2023-4) and Seattle Art Museum, WA (2024). Her numerous collections include Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern Art, Quito, Ecuador; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, amongst others.