List of Native American artists
This is a list of visual artists who are Native Americans in the United States. The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 defines "Native American" as being enrolled in either federally recognized tribes or state recognized tribes or "an individual certified as an Indian artisan by an Indian Tribe." This does not include non-Native American artists using Native American themes. Additions to the list need to reference a recognized, documented source and specifically name tribal affiliation according to federal and state lists. Indigenous American artists outside the United States can be found at List of indigenous artists of the Americas.
Basket makers
- Elsie Allen, Cloverdale Pomo
- Annie Antone, Tohono O'odham
- Mary Knight Benson, Pomo,
- William Ralganal Benson, Pomo,
- Carrie Bethel, Mono Lake Paiute
- Susan Billy, Hopland Band Pomo
- Mary Holiday Black, Navajo
- Sally Black, Diné
- Loren Bommelyn, Smith River Tolowa
- Nellie Charlie, Mono Lake Paiute
- Chipeta, Uncompahgre Ute
- Kelly Church, Gun Lake Potawatomi
- Mike Dart, Cherokee Nation
- Lena Frank Dick, Washoe
- Mavis Doering, Cherokee Nation
- Joe Feddersen, Okanagan/Sinixt
- Iva Honyestewa, Hopi
- Terrol Dew Johnson, Tohono O'odham
- Yvonne Walker Keshick, Little Traverse Odawa
- Louisa Keyser, Washoe
- Mary Leaf, Mohawk
- Julia Marden, Aquinnah Wampanoag
- Sarah Jim Mayo, Washoe
- Mabel McKay, Pomo/Patwin
- Geo Soctomah Neptune, Passamaquoddy
- Julia Parker, Coast Miwok/Kashaya Pomo
- Essie Parrish, Kashaya Pomo
- Christine Navarro Paul, Chitimacha,
- Sheila Kanieson Ransom Akwesasne
- April Stone, Lake Superior Chippewa
- Boeda Strand, Snohomish
- Lucy Telles, Mono Lake Paiute/Miwok
Beadwork and quillwork artists
- Tahnee Ahtone, Kiowa/Muscogee/Seminole
- Richard Aitson, Kiowa/Kiowa Apache beadwork artist
- Marcus Amerman, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
- Imogene Goodshot Arquero, beadwork artist
- Martha Berry, Cherokee Nation
- Carla Hemlock, Mohawk
- Sarah Ortegon HighWalking, Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho
- Rhonda Holy Bear, Cheyenne River Lakota, sculptor, beadworker, dollmaker, born 1959
- Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty, Assiniboine-Sioux
- Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty, Assiniboine-Sioux
- Teri Greeves, Kiowa
- Vanessa Jennings, Kiowa/Kiowa Apache/Gila River Pima
- Maude Kegg, Mille Lacs Ojibwe
- Yvonne Walker Keshick, Little Traverse Odawa
- Katrina Mitten, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma beadwork artist
- Elias Not Afraid, Apsáalooke artist known for his traditional and non-traditional beadwork,
- Jamie Okuma, Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock
- Emily Waheneka, Warm Springs/Wasco/Paiute
Ceramic artists and potters
- Aguilar Family, Kewa Pueblo
- Mrs. Ramos Aguilar, Kewa Pueblo
- Tammie Allen, Jicarilla Apache
- Nathan Begaye, Navajo, Hopi
- Asuncion Aguilar Cate, Kewa Pueblo
- Crucita Gonzales Calabaza, San Ildefonso Pueblo
- Marie Chino, Acoma
- Vera Chino, Acoma
- Helen Quintana Cordero, Cochiti Pueblo
- Arthur and Hilda Coriz, Kewa Pueblo
- Juanita Suazo Dubray, Taos Pueblo
- Anthony Durand, Picuris Pueblo
- Cora Durand, Picuris Pueblo
- Betty Gaedtke, Quapaw
- Felipita Aguilar Garcia, Kewa Pueblo
- Tammy Garcia, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Bill Glass Jr., Cherokee Nation
- Rose Gonzales, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo
- Luther Gutierrez, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Margaret Gutierrez, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Laurencita Herrera, Cochiti Pueblo
- Daisy Hooee, Hopi-Tewa
- Lisa Holt, Cochiti Pueblo
- Michael Kanteena, Laguna Pueblo
- Lucy M. Lewis, Acoma Pueblo
- Otellie Loloma, Hopi
- Joseph Lonewolf, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Julian Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo
- Maria Montoya Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo
- Maria Ramita Martinez, Picuris Pueblo
- Grace Medicine Flower, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Helen Naha, Hopi
- Tyra Naha, Hopi
- Priscilla Namingha Hopi-Tewa
- Nampeyo, Hopi-Tewa/Hopi
- Elva Nampeyo, Hopi
- Fannie Nampeyo, Hopi
- Dextra Nampeyo Quotskuyva, Hopi-Tewa
- Jody Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Nora Naranjo Morse, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Joy Navasie, Hopi-Tewa
- Inez Ortiz, Cochiti Pueblo
- Al Qöyawayma, Hopi
- Harlan Reano, Kewa Pueblo
- Ida Redbird, Maricopa/Halchidhoma
- Jeri Redcorn, Caddo/Citizen Potawatomi,
- Diego Romero, Cochiti Pueblo
- Ida Sahmie, Navajo
- Gwen Setalla, Hopi
- Linda and Merton Sisneros, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Anita Suazo, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Roxanne Swentzell, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Margaret Tafoya, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Sara Fina Tafoya, Santa Clara Pueblo,
- Leonidas Tapia, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo
- Robert Tenorio, Kewa Pueblo
- Mary Ellen Toya, Jemez Pueblo
- Faye Tso, Navajo
- Lonnie Vigil, Nambé Pueblo
- Nathan Youngblood, Santa Clara Pueblo
Diverse cultural artists
- David Moses Bridges, birchbark artist, canoe maker
- Nora Thompson Dean,
- Ishi, Yahi, bowmaker and flintknapper
- Vanessa Jennings, Kiowa/Kiowa Apache/Gila River Pima
- Tomah Joseph, birchbark artist, canoe maker
- Charles Littleleaf, Blackfoot/Warm Springs, flute maker
- Tom Mauchahty-Ware, Kiowa-/Comanche, flute maker
- Scarface Charley, Modoc, linguist and furniture-maker
- Hastings Shade, Cherokee Nation, marble- and gig-maker
- Tommy Wildcat, Cherokee Nation, flute and rattle maker
Fashion designers
- Loren Aragon, Acoma Pueblo
- Felix Earle, Diné Navajo Nation
- Patricia Michaels, Taos Pueblo
- Ardina Moore, Quapaw/Osage
- Lloyd Kiva New, Cherokee Nation
- Bethany Yellowtail Northern Cheyenne/Crow
- Jamie Okuma, Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock
- Virgil Ortiz, Cochiti Pueblo
Glass artists
- Marcus Amerman, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
- Preston Singletary, Tlingit
Installation and new genres artists
- Natalie Ball, Klamath/Modoc
- Sarah Biscarra-Dilley, Northern Chumash
- Raven Chacon, Navajo Nation,
- Corwin Clairmont, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation
- Gerald Clarke, Cahuilla
- Joe Feddersen, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
- Nicholas Galanin, Tlingit/Unangax
- Virgil Ortiz, Cochiti Pueblo
- Truman Lowe, Ho-Chunk
- Cannupa Hanska Luger Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara/Lakota
- James Luna, Luiseño
- Da-ka-xeen Mehner, Tlingit/Nisga'a
- Bently Spang, Northern Cheyenne,
- Nora Naranjo Morse, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Wendy Red Star, Apsáalooke
- Santiago X, Louisiana Coushatta, multidisplinary artist, architect
- Charlene Teters, Spokane
- Marie Watt, Seneca
- Richard Ray Whitman, Yuchi/Muscogee
- Holly Wilson
Metalsmiths and jewelers
- Narciso Abeyta, Navajo
- Keri Ataumbi, Kiowa
- Klee Benally, Navajo
- Heidi BigKnife, Shawnee
- Gail Bird, Kewa Pueblo-Laguna Pueblo
- Gomeo Bobelu, Zuni
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Cheyenne
- Della Casa Appa, Zuni
- Bernard Dawahoya, Hopi
- Yazzie Johnson, Navajo
- Fred Kabotie, Hopi
- Michael Kabotie, Hopi
- Ruddell Laconsello, Diné and Nancy Laconsello, A:shiwi ; artist team
- Charles Loloma, Hopi
- Angie Reano Owen, Kewa Pueblo
- Atsidi Sani, "Old Smith", Navajo
- Emory Sekaquaptewa, Hopi
- Sequoyah, Cherokee
- Tommy Singer, Navajo
- Orville Tsinnie, Diné
- Linda Yamane, Rumsien/Ohlone
Mixed-media artists
- Melissa Melero-Moose mixed-media artist, curator
- Rose B. Simpson mixed-media artist and sculptor
Painters
- Jim Abeita, Navajo
- Narciso Abeyta, Navajo
- Spencer Asah, Kiowa, one of the Kiowa Six
- Gilbert Benjamin Atencio, San Ildefonso Pueblo
- Pat Atencio, San Ildefonso Pueblo
- Tony Atencio, San Ildefonso Pueblo
- James Auchiah, Kiowa, one of the Kiowa Six
- Frank Austin, Navajo
- Amos Bad Heart Bull, Oglala Lakota Sioux
- Margarete Bagshaw, Santa Clara Pueblo-descent
- Rick Bartow, Wiyot
- Stanley Battese, Navajo
- Fred Beaver, Muscogee Creek/Seminole
- Clifford Beck, Navajo
- Timothy Bedah, Navajo
- Apie Begay, Navajo
- Arthur C. Begay, Navajo
- Harrison Begay, Navajo
- Keats Begay, Navajo
- Black Hawk, Sans Arc Lakota
- Archie Blackowl, Southern Cheyenne
- Acee Blue Eagle, Muscogee Creek
- Roy Boney Jr., Cherokee Nation
- David Bradley, White Earth Ojibwe
- Gibson Byrd, Shawnee Tribe
- T.C. Cannon, Kiowa/Caddo
- Pop Chalee, Taos Pueblo
- Robert Chee, Navajo
- Adele Collins, Chickasaw painter,
- Jesse Cornplanter, Seneca
- Woody Crumbo, Citizen Potawatomi
- David Cusick, Tuscarora, painter and author
- Dennis Cusick, Tuscarora painter
- Talmadge Davis, Cherokee Nation
- Frank Day, Bald Rock Konkow Maidu
- Angel De Cora, Winnebago
- Gregg Deal, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe
- Jim Denomie, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe
- Patrick DesJarlait Red Lake Ojibwe painter
- Cecil Dick, Cherokee Nation
- Margaret Dillard, Chickasaw
- Dohasan, Kiowa
- Robert Draper, Navajo
- Bunky Echo-Hawk, Yakama/Pawnee
- Joseph Erb, Cherokee Nation
- Harry Fonseca, Maidu
- Carl Nelson Gorman, Navajo
- R.C. Gorman, Navajo
- Franklin Gritts, Keetoowah Cherokee
- Enoch Kelly Haney, Seminole/Muscogee
- Helen Hardin, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Albert Harjo, Muscogee Creek
- Benjamin Harjo Jr., Absentee Shawnee/Seminole
- Sharron Ahtone Harjo, Kiowa
- Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Southern Cheyenne
- Joan Hill, Muscogee Creek/Cherokee
- Jack Hokeah, Kiowa, one of the Kiowa Six
- Michael Horse, Apache/Yaqui-descent
- Lynnette Haozous, Chiricahua Apache/Navajo/Taos Pueblo
- Allan Houser, Chiricahua Apache
- Norma Howard, Choctaw Nation/Mississippi Choctaw/Chickasaw
- Oscar Howe, Yanktonai Dakota
- Howling Wolf, Southern Cheyenne
- Sharon Irla, Cherokee Nation
- David Johns, Navajo
- Ruthe Blalock Jones, Shawnee/Peoria
- Fred Kabotie, Hopi
- Michael Kabotie, Hopi
- Betty Keener Archuleta, Cherokee Nation
- Kicking Bear, Oglala Lakota
- Sylvia Lark, Seneca
- James Lavadour, Walla Walla
- Annie Little Warrior, also Annie Red Tomahawk, Hunkpapa Lakota
- Judith Lowry, Maidu/Pit River tribes
- Albert Looking Elk, Taos Pueblo
- Albert Lujan, Taos Pueblo
- Oren Lyons, Seneca Nation
- Julian Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo
- Mario Martinez, Yaqui
- Solomon McCombs, Muscogee Creek
- Douglas Miles, San Carlos Apache/Akimel O'odham
- Juan Mirabal, Taos Pueblo
- Isabel Montoya, San Ildefonso Pueblo
- Stephen Mopope, Kiowa, one of the Kiowa Six
- George Morrison, Ojibwe
- Naiche, Chiricahua Apache
- Gerald Nailor, Sr., Navajo
- Dan Namingha, Hopi
- Jackson Narcomey, Muscogee Creek/Seminole,
- Doc Tate Nevaquaya
- Lloyd Kiva New, Cherokee Nation,
- Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez
- Diane O'Leary, Comanche,
- Fernando Padilla, Jr., San Felipe Pueblo/Navajo
- Tonita Peña, San Ildefonso Pueblo
- St. David Pendleton Oakerhater, Southern Cheyenne,
- Oqwa Pi,, San Ildefonso Pueblo
- Sanford Plummer, Seneca
- Harvey Pratt, Cheyenne-Arapaho
- Joseph Rael, Picuris Pueblo/Ute
- Kevin Red Star, Crow Nation
- Mateo Romero, Cochiti Pueblo
- Paladine Roye, Ponca
- Will Sampson, Muscogee Creek
- Percy Tsisete Sandy, Zuni Pueblo,
- Duane Slick, Meskwaki/Fox/Ho-Chunk
- Fritz Scholder, La Jolla Luiseño
- Silver Horn Kiowa
- Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Salish-Kootenai/Métis/Cree, Shoshone/Bannock
- Lois Smoky Kaulaity, Kiowa, one of the Kiowa Six
- Ernest Spybuck, Absentee Shawnee
- Virginia Stroud, Keetoowah Cherokee/Muscogee
- Carl Sweezy, Southern Arapaho
- Moses Stranger Horse, Brulé Lakota
- Quincy Tahoma, Navajo
- Tichkematse,
- Jerome Tiger, Muscogee Creek/Seminole
- Johnny Tiger, Jr., Muscogee Creek/Seminole
- Monroe Tsatoke, Kiowa, one of the Kiowa Six
- Awa Tsireh, San Ildefonso Pueblo
- Frank Tuttle, Concow Maidu/Yuki/Wailaki
- Pablita Velarde, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Kay WalkingStick, Cherokee Nation
- Paul War Cloud
- Pop Wea, Taos Pueblo
- Dick West, Southern Cheyenne
- White Horse, Kiowa
- Dyani White Hawk, Sicangu Lakota
- Emmi Whitehorse, Navajo
- Elizabeth Woody, Navajo/Tenino /Wasco/Yakama
- Beatien Yazz, Navajo
- Melanie Yazzie, Navajo