Dwayne “Chuck” Wilcox has been a full-time artist since 1987, but is a lifelong producer of art. His first commission was at the age of 17. With no formal art training, Chuck’s talent comes from being self-taught. Dwayne Wilcox uses ledger art to picture a living culture through humor and irony and share a continuing view of how natives see American culture.
Dwayne Wilcox was born in Kadoka, South Dakota, grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation, and is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. He has been a full-time artist since 1987, but a lifelong producer of art. Wilcox’s work has been widely exhibited and is in the collections of institutions throughout the United States, including the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Peabody Museum at Harvard University, Museum of Nebraska Art, Charles M. Russell Museum, and National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. His drawings have received numerous awards from the Santa Fe Indian Market, Heard Museum’s Indian Art Market, and South Dakota Governor’s Award in the Art for Distinction in Creative Achievement, and he has received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship and a Bush Artist Fellowship. He resides in Rapid City, South Dakota.