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Gina Gray (1954-2014) was an Osage artist and activist whose colorful paintings and prints have been widely exhibited in institutions devoted to Native American art.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, Gray came of age as a teenage activist in the American Indian movement. She participated in the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, the site of an 1890 massacre of Native American civilians by the U.S. military.
She later went on to become a prominent artistic voice for the Osage tribe. The bold colors and dream-like quality of her compositions combine traditional Osage imagery and mythology with the directness and simplicity of modern art.
Her work has been featured in exhibits at galleries throughout Indian country: in Arizona, the Heard Museum in Phoenix; in New Mexico, the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum and the Wheelwright Museum both in Santa Fe; in Oklahoma, Tsa-la-Gi Cherokee Center Museum, Tahlequah and Gilcrease Museum and Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa; in South Dakota, the Red Cloud Indian Art Museum in Pine Ridge; and in Washington state, the Daybreak Star Museum in Seattle. She has also had work featured at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.[12] [13]
Gray owned and operated art galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Tulsa, Oklahoma;[11] and most recently in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.[13] As well her work being part of numerous private collections and galleries throughout the world, some of her art is owned by the Sultan of Brunei[11] and two royal princes of Jordan—his Royal Highness Prince Tlal bin Mohammed and His Royal Highness Prince Ghazi bin Mohammed.[12]