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Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
Dyani White Hawk
Photography by Edward C. Robison III.

Dyani White Hawk

Sičangu Lakota, born 1976
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BiographyDyani White Hawk (Sičangu Lakota), earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011) and BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts (2008). She is a recipient of the 2019 Untited States Artists Fellowship in Visual Art, the 2018 Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists, the 2017 and 2015 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowships, the 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, and the 2013 McKnight Visual Arts Fellowship.

White Hawk’s exactingly executed paintings often combine the Lakota art of quill work with strong lines that echo blanket and moccasin patterns. Often the scale of her work, large canvases as well as small or “extreme close-ups”, creates an interesting confusion between landscape and object or between pattern and figure. Her care in using her abstraction to bring American Indian tradition into a dynamic contemporary context reveals a powerful intellect and a remarkably original artist.

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