Artwork by Dyani White Hawk depicting a series of black triangles against a multicolored ground.

Dyani White Hawk
Spotlight Artist in Residence
Spring 2026

BIOGRAPHY

Dyani White Hawk is a multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis. Her practice, strongly rooted in painting and beadwork, extends into sculpture, installation, video, and performance, reflecting upon cross-cultural experiences through the amalgamation of influences from Lakota and Euro/American abstraction. A mid-career survey Dyani White Hawk: Love Language, co-organized by the Walker Art Center and Remai Modern, will open at Remai Modern on April 25, 2026. 

She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman, Academy of Arts and Letters, United States Artists, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Jerome Foundation, McKnight Foundation and Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Her work is among many public and private collections.


COURSES TAUGHT

Dyani White Hawk will be at UC Davis from April 27 - May 1, 2026.


PUBLIC LECTURE

White Hawk will give a public lecture on Thursday, April 30, 2026 from 4:30 - 6 p.m. at the Manetti Shrem Museum. The talk is co-sponsored by the Gorman Museum of Native American Art and the Manetti Shrem Museum. Doors open at 4 p.m. 


PHOTOS

Photographs will be available at the conclusion of the residency.

Banner photo credit:  Dyani White Hawk, Walk With Me, 2024, acrylic and rhinestone chain on canvas, 42 x 72 in. Courtesy of the artist.