Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) is a visual artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. White Hawk earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011) and BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2008). She served as Gallery Director and Curator for the All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis from 2011-2015.

Support for White Hawk’s work has included the Carolyn Galsoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize (2020); United States Artists Fellowship in Visual Art (2019); Eiteljorg Fellowship for Contemporary Art (2019); Jerome Hill Artists Fellowship (2019); Forecast for Public Art Grants (2020 and 2019); Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2018); Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship (2017 and 2015); Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2014); and the McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship (2013/14). She has participated in residencies in New Orleans and Santa Fe as well as in Australia, Russia and Germany. Her work is in the collections of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Portland Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Walker Art Center, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Tweed Museum of Art, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Akta Lakota Museum among many other public and private collections. She is represented by Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis.

Photo credit: Dyani White Hawk, Untitled (All the colors), 2020, acrylic, bugle beads, thread and synthetic sinew on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery.

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