20th-century Native American artists

American humorist and entertainer (1879–1935)

Mexican film director and actor (1904-1986)

African American sculptor (1844–1907)

Native American activist

Ishi ( – March 25, 1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States. The rest of the Yahi (as well as many members of their parent tribe, the Yana) were killed in the California genocide in the 19th century. Widely described as the "last wild Indian" in the United States, Ishi lived most of his life isolated from modern North American culture, and was the last known Native manufacturer of stone arrowheads. In 1911, aged 50, he emerged at a barn and corral, from downtown Oroville, California.

Muscogee Creek actor from Oklahoma (1933–1987)

Native American potter 1887-1980

Native American writer, lecturer, interpreter and artist (1854–1903)

Washoe basket weaver (ca. 1829-1925)

Nampeyo (1859 – 1942) was a Hopi-Tewa potter who lived on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. Her Tewa name was also spelled Num-pa-yu, meaning "snake that does not bite". Her name is also cited as "Nung-beh-yong," Tewa for Sand Snake.

American cinematographer (1908-1988)

Chief Naiche ( ; –1919) was the final hereditary chief of the Chiricahua band of Apache Indians.

Ho-chunk painter and illustrator who taught art at the early 20th century (1871-1919)

American artist (1915–1994)

Chiricahua Apache painter and sculptor from Oklahoma and New Mexico (1914-1994)

Native American painter and printmaker (1940–2025)

K'apovi (Santa Clara Pueblo) artist (1964-2015)

Diné (Navajo) painter and printmaker (1931–2005)

Navajo artist

Hopi painter, silversmith, farmer, writer, and educator (1900-1986)

Navajo composer and artist (born 1977)

Choctaw-Cherokee painter and sculptor (born 1972)

K'apovi (Santa Clara Pueblo) artist (1943-1984)

Ojibwe traditionalist, bead artist, and author from Minnesota

Luiseño-Mexican-American performance and installation artist from the La Jolla Indian Reservation in California. (1950–2018)

Eastern Band Cherokee woodcarver and educator from Qualla Boundary, North Carolina

Yuchi-Muscogee Creek artist, videographer, poet and actor

Museum curator, anthropologist, Native American activist, A'aninin tribe