Rayshele Kamke

Portrait Art Gallery

Portrait Photography Gallery

Event & Sport Photography Gallery

Rayshele Kamke Bio

Rayshele Kamke (BA, Metro State) is a BIPOC Hudson-based artist focused on Portraiture artwork including drawings, paintings and photography. She is an enrolled member of Leech Lake Reservation. She has exhibited in group exhibitions including; Student Salon, Gordon Parks Gallery at Metropolitan State University, Indigenous Sovereignty & Environmental Justice and Resilient Generations at Solidarity Street Gallery, White and Black at the Hallberg Center for the Arts, We are Still Here at Friedli Gallery, Land and Body Sovereignty and Roots at Kouba Gallery, and Native Voices of Power at FOK Studios.Kamke has received awards such as, Metro State Art Purchase Award in 2021 and 2024 and the Harlan Boss Award for the Arts scholarship in 2026. She has been commissioned to create several portraiture works as well as her photography for events and portraits. Kamke works out of her home studio in Hudson, WI.

My Art Journey

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651.206.4196
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Artist Statement

My art primarily focuses on portraiture work. I use different mediums like charcoal, pastels, acrylic paint, and photography. My work helps me connect more to my culture and gives me a stronger sense of identity and belonging. I am an enrolled member of Leech Lake Reservation, Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. I am a BIPOC artist and use my art as one way to help bring awareness to contemporary issues for native people. I often focus on these contemporary issues in my art. One of those issues are MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), they are ten times more likely to go missing or murdered than the average person. I hope my art evokes emotion from people and draws them in to learn more about the piece and that it sparks curiosity in their mind on the topic. I hope this curiosity leads to them sharing what they learn within their community. Bringing awareness and better visibility can lead to further research and resources to support these issues.

Rayshele Kamke Resume

Hudson, WI | 651.206.4196 | [email protected]

EDUCATION 2026 - BA, Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, MN
Major: Studio ArtsGROUP EXHIBITIONS2021 Solidarity Street Gallery, Indigenous Sovereignty +Environmental Justice, St. Paul, MN.
2022 Solidarity Street Gallery, Resilient Generations, St. Paul, MN.
2022 All My Relations Gallery, Noojimo She Heals, Minneapolis, MN.
2022 Friedli Gallery, We are Still Here, St. Paul, MN.
2023 Hallberg Center for the Arts, White and Black, Wyoming, MN.
2023 Friedli Gallery, We are Still Here, St. Paul, MN.
2024 Kouba Gallery, Land and Body Sovereignty, Bloomington, MN.
2025 Kouba Gallery, Roots, Bloomington, MN.
2026 FOK Studios, Native Voices of Power, St. Paul, MN.
2026 Gordon Parks Gallery, Student Salon, St. Paul, MN. (Upcoming)AWARDS AND OTHER HONORS2021 Art Purchase Award, Metro State University, St. Paul, MN.
2024 Art Purchase Award, Metro State University, St. Paul, MN.
2026 Harlan Boss Award for the Arts Scholarship, St. Paul, MN.