Mallery Quetawki

Mallery Quetawki is from Zuni Pueblo and of the Badger Clan and child of the Turkey Clan. She is the mother of two and shares residence in both Albuquerque and Zuni Pueblo. She received her B.S. in Biology with a minor in Art studio in the summer of 2009 from the University of New Mexico. She is currently the Artist-in-Residence with the Community Environmental Health Program at the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy. Mallery has used art to translate scientific ideas, health impacts, and research on uranium mines that are currently undergoing study in several Indigenous communities. Her work has been featured on National Institutes of Health websites and published in peer-reviewed journals on environmental health and academic medicine.

Mallery has a large-scale mural titled, “Morning Prayer” on permanent display at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center which depicts the history of the Zuni People from Creation to modern times. Other noted works include an interactive Google Doodle that kicked off Native American Heritage Month on November 1, 2021. Currently her painting entitled, “Our Cultures, Our Languages” is on display in the Grounded in Clay exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York City through June 2024.