Skye Little Cloud (b. 2008, The Bronx, NY, lives and works in Brooklyn) is a Yankton, Sāmoan, and Kickapú interdisciplinary artist and curator whose artistic practice lies in creating personal narratives that seek to articulate the beauty and complexity of the contemporary Indigenous experience.
Her visual practice lies in articulating the beauty and complexity of the contemporary Indigenous experience while grappling with a post-colonial climate. She views the collective experience of Indigenous women and Two-Spirit as specifically momentous while we face a eurocentric and patriarchal world. Returning to Indigenous knowledge while emphasizing the history of matrilineal systems is a principal priority of her artistic endeavors. Through the use of paint as her medium, Little Cloud creates realms of complexity and nuance that seek to grapple with her mixed identity.
While Little Cloud's work does aim to combine the many facets of her identity into a cohesive visual language, it does not seek to fully come to terms with itself. Rather, her work allows elements to be disconnected and even juxtaposed or hypocritical to reflect her view on human nature and her contemporary experience.
Her work has been exhibited in places like the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, the Denver Art Museum, and the Fort Collins Museum of Art. She has curated exhibitions such as "Modern Matriarch: Knowledge Keepers" at the Creative Nations gallery in Boulder, CO, featuring artists such as Danielle SeeWalker, Leilani Nobuku, and Kristina Maldonado BadHand.
Little Cloud is a current student at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, while her studio is based in Longmont, CO. Throughout Little Cloud's work, Indigenous feminisms are always at the center of her practice with a focus on authenticity, empowerment, reclamation, and repatriation.