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Julie Buffalohead (born 1972), a citizen of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, is a painter based in St. Paul Minnesota. She received her Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Cornell University in 2001. Exhibiting nationally, she is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, the McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and the Fellowship for Visual Artists from the Minnesota State Arts Board

Creating her pieces using mixed media, Buffalohead draws on her own experiences as an American Indian woman to provide visual commentary on current and past events. Her subjects are typically animal characters, using a human archetype, engaging in dreamscapes that reimagine our current world. Focusing primarily on events relating to her tribal experiences, Buffalohead uses personal metaphor and a narrative style to highlight stereotypes of her heritage. "But I try to be provocative. I use stereotypes because Indians didn't have a hand in creating them. It's my way of saying, 'This is not who we are. This is your invention.' But I also use a lot of Indian myths and narratives and characters, so you're presented with what I believe Indians are about"