Edited with text by Tarah Hogue, Siri Engberg. Text by Dyani White Hawk, mary v. bordeaux, Joyce Tsai, heather ahtone, Marie Watt, Christi Belcourt, Candice Hopkins, Layli Long Soldier.
A landmark mid-career survey for the famed Lakota artist known for her monumental geometric paintings and installations incorporating traditional quillwork and beadwork
Published with Remai Modern.
Rooted in intergenerational knowledge, the art of Dyani White Hawk centers on connection—between one another, past and present, earth and sky. By foregrounding Lakota forms and motifs, she challenges prevailing narratives surrounding abstract art. Accompanying White Hawk's major mid-career survey exhibition, this publication gathers new scholarship examining 15 years of the artist's work across multimedia paintings, sculpture, video, works on paper and more. Opening with early pieces that combine quillwork, lane stitch beadwork and painting, the artist examines, dissects and reassembles elements of her own Sicángu Lakota and European American ancestries, putting these in active conversation with histories of abstract painting. In other works, she marries traditional techniques with outsize scale, highlighting her ongoing commitment to formal and material experimentation. The book features a new group of these works, from her monumental Wopila | Lineage paintings to a new series of towering columnar sculptures made from loomed beads, assembled in dizzying arrays of pattern and color. Made in collaboration with a skilled team of studio beadworkers, these shimmering surfaces invite close inspection of both their material construction and their cultural and historical underpinnings. Dyani White Hawk (born 1976) was raised in Madison, Wisconsin, and received her BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been the recipient of prestigious awards, most recently including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2024), Creative Capital grant (2024) and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship "Genius Grant" (2023). Her work has been exhibited at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Denver Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. She lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Detail, "Carry II" (2019), buckskin, synthetic sinew, glass beads, brass sequins, copper vessel, copper ladle. From 'Dyani White Hawk: Love Language.'
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White Hawk [...] has recently received a surge of recognition in the art world for her multidisciplinary work that puts abstraction long used by the Lakota people in active conversation with elements of mid-20th century American painting including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Hard-Edge and Minimalism.
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This week, as all the world watches the Twin Cities, we are pleased to feature a work by Minneapolis-based Lakota artist Dyani White Hawk, whose work is on view now at the Walker Art Center in the landmark mid-career survey, Love Language. “I think about how I want my work to operate in the world,” White Hawk is quoted. “What do I want it to do? What do I want it to do for Native audiences? What do I want it to do for non-Native audiences? What do I want it to do beyond my lifetime, as I send it forward? For me personally, the goal is healing.” Pictured here, Round Dance (2023), is comprised of acrylic, oblong glass beads and synthetic sinew on aluminum panel. “One can view White Hawk’s work as beautiful and grand from a Western cultural perspective,” essayist Heather Ahtone writes. “But one can also choose to engage in the conversation she is offering, a gift from one culture to another, that asks us as participants within the art world to consider our responsibilities as we carry on using the historic values that continue to harm our shared planet and resources. What if we choose to value the earth’s resources responsibly? What if we choose to care for one another over profits? These questions are offered as a gift through the work. White Hawk is asking us to think of our lineage and what we will leave behind to the next generation. Can we value kinship as much as gold?” continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $70 GBP £40.00 ISBN: 9781935963349 PUBLISHER: Walker Art Center AVAILABLE: 12/2/2025 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by Walker Art Center. Edited with text by Tarah Hogue, Siri Engberg. Text by Dyani White Hawk, mary v. bordeaux, Joyce Tsai, heather ahtone, Marie Watt, Christi Belcourt, Candice Hopkins, Layli Long Soldier.
A landmark mid-career survey for the famed Lakota artist known for her monumental geometric paintings and installations incorporating traditional quillwork and beadwork
Published with Remai Modern.
Rooted in intergenerational knowledge, the art of Dyani White Hawk centers on connection—between one another, past and present, earth and sky. By foregrounding Lakota forms and motifs, she challenges prevailing narratives surrounding abstract art. Accompanying White Hawk's major mid-career survey exhibition, this publication gathers new scholarship examining 15 years of the artist's work across multimedia paintings, sculpture, video, works on paper and more.
Opening with early pieces that combine quillwork, lane stitch beadwork and painting, the artist examines, dissects and reassembles elements of her own Sicángu Lakota and European American ancestries, putting these in active conversation with histories of abstract painting. In other works, she marries traditional techniques with outsize scale, highlighting her ongoing commitment to formal and material experimentation. The book features a new group of these works, from her monumental Wopila | Lineage paintings to a new series of towering columnar sculptures made from loomed beads, assembled in dizzying arrays of pattern and color. Made in collaboration with a skilled team of studio beadworkers, these shimmering surfaces invite close inspection of both their material construction and their cultural and historical underpinnings.
Dyani White Hawk (born 1976) was raised in Madison, Wisconsin, and received her BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been the recipient of prestigious awards, most recently including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2024), Creative Capital grant (2024) and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship "Genius Grant" (2023). Her work has been exhibited at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Denver Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. She lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
