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/Americanabstraction. White Hawk was featured in the 2022 Whitney Biennial and recent solo exhibitions Reflection at Various Small Fires, Los Angeles and Speaking to Relatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

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 such as the Brooklyn Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Denver Art Museum, Guggenheim, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is represented by Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis.

White Hawk is the spring quarter spotlight artist in The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies.

Artist talk: Thursday, April 30, 2026 from 4:30 – 6 p.m. Manetti Shrem Museum

Organized by The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies in the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program. Co-sponsored by the Gorman Museum of Native American Art and the Manetti Shrem Museum.