 Paul Chaat Smith, Associate Curator, National Museum of the American Indian.
Considered a leading expert on American Indian art and politics and the intersection of Native identity and mass culture, Paul Chaat Smith is the co-author of one of the standard texts in Native Studies and American history courses, Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (1996). In 2004, he organized the permanent history exhibition at the core of the inaugural exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC. A year later, he organized James Luna’s exhibition Emendatio at the 2005 Venice Biennale, and organized and presented in a major symposium there. The day-long conversation, entitled Vision, Space, Desire: Global Perspectives and Cultural Hybridity, examined the ways in which the global art world regards non-Western cultures. Smith has explored the work of Richard Ray Whitman, Baco Ohama, Faye HeavyShield, and Kent Monkman in exhibitions and essays and lectured at such institutions as the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles. He is the founding editor of the American Indian Movement's Treaty Council News and is a member of the Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma.
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