{{short description|American contemporary artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = Dyani White Hawk | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1976 | birth_place = Madison, Wisconsin | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = Haskell Indian Nations University, Institute of American Indian Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison | field = | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = | partner = | website = {{URL|dyaniwhitehawk.com/}} }} '''Dyani White Hawk Polk''' (born 1976) is an American contemporary artist and curator of Sicangu Lakota, German, and Welsh ancestry based out of Minnesota.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |last=Sheets |first=Hilarie M. |date=16 October 2025 |title=Finding Affinity Between Native and Western Abstraction |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/arts/design/dyani-white-hawk-indigenous-abstract-art.html/ |url-access=registration |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251026143929/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/arts/design/dyani-white-hawk-indigenous-abstract-art.html/ |archive-date=26 October 2025 |access-date=29 March 2026 |work=The New York Times |pages=F.6 |publication-date=19 October 2025 |id={{ProQuest|3262777667}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/dyani-white-hawk|title=Dyani White Hawk - Native Arts and Cultures Foundation|website=Native Arts and Cultures Foundation|date=21 October 2015 |language=en-US|access-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250604182303/http://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/dyani-white-hawk|archive-date=4 June 2025|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite news |last=Ross |first=Jenna |date=15 September 2024 |title=With many hands, art magic is created: Dyani White Hawk celebrates community with new sculpture |work=Minneapolis Star Tribune |pages=E.1 |id={{ProQuest|3104852712}}}}</ref> From 2010 to 2015, White Hawk was a curator for the Minneapolis gallery All My Relations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/ace-gallery-director-dyani-white-hawk-polk-resigns-amrg-post/295787361/|title=Ace gallery director Dyani White Hawk Polk resigns AMRG post|website=Minneapolis Star Tribune|date=10 March 2015 |access-date=5 March 2016|last=Abbe|first=Mary|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241204063137/https://www.startribune.com/ace-gallery-director-dyani-white-hawk-polk-resigns-amrg-post/295787361|archive-date=4 December 2024|url-status=live|url-access=registration}}</ref> As an artist, White Hawk's work aesthetic is characterized by a combination of modern abstract painting and traditional Lakota art. White Hawk's pieces reflect both her Western, American upbringing and her indigenous ancestors mediums and modes for creating visual art.
White Hawk's work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the Ca' Foscari University in Venice, Italy, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe, and Minneapolis Institute of Art. Many of White Hawk's works have also been acquisitioned into the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and the Tweed Museum of Art.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dyani White Hawk Polk|url=https://www.firstpeoplesfund.org/artist-in-business-leadership-fellows/dyani-white-hawk-polk|website=First Peoples Fund|language=en-US|access-date=12 May 2020|date=2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251107184113/https://www.firstpeoplesfund.org/artist-in-business-leadership-fellows/dyani-white-hawk-polk|archive-date=7 November 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> In October 2023, she was named one of the MacArthur Fellows<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=4 October 2023 |title=Dyani White Hawk - 2023 MacArthur Fellow |url=https://www.macfound.org/videos/2023-macarthur-fellow-white-hawk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250827202901/https://www.macfound.org/videos/2023-macarthur-fellow-white-hawk |archive-date=27 August 2025 |access-date=24 March 2026 |website=MacArthur Foundation}}</ref> to recognize her art "revealing the underrecognized yet enduring influence of Indigenous aesthetics on modern and contemporary art."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Awards > Fellows > Dyani White Hawk |url=https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/ |access-date=5 October 2023 |website=MacArthur Fellows Program|date=2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260207005603/https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2023/dyani-white-hawk|archive-date=7 February 2026|url-status=live|publisher=MacArthur Foundation}}</ref> In April 2024, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=11 April 2024 |title=Three Minnesotans announced as Guggenheim Fellows |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/04/11/three-minnesotans-announced-as-guggenheim-fellows |access-date=16 April 2024 |website=MPR News |language=en|last=Sparber|first=Max|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251109105528/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/04/11/three-minnesotans-announced-as-guggenheim-fellows|archive-date=9 November 2025|url-status=live|last2=Cipolle|first2=Alex V.}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
White Hawk was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. Her mother, author, speaker, and indigenous rights activist, Sandy White Hawk, was adopted from the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota to non-Native Wisconsin parents, and as a young child in Wisconsin, the artist had very little connection to her Rosebud family. It wasn't until she was a teen that she began learning about her Lakota ancestry and grappling with issues of heritage and identity. According to White Hawk "my life experiences have been a continual negotiation of both Western and Indigenous educations, value systems, and worldviews."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cowboysindians.com/2015/12/dyani-white-hawk/|title=Dyani White Hawk|website=Cowboys & Indians|date=17 December 2015 |language=en-US|access-date=5 March 2016|last=Joseph|first=Dana|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250807055955/http://www.cowboysindians.com/2015/12/dyani-white-hawk/|archive-date=7 August 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
White Hawk received her first undergraduate degree in 2003 from Haskell Indian Nations University. In 2008, she earned a BFA in 2-D Studio Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), and in 2011 she graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with an MFA in Studio Arts.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://elmhurst-art-museum.squarespace.com/dyani-white-hawk/|title=Dyani White Hawk|website=Elmhurst Art Museum|access-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117021150/http://elmhurst-art-museum.squarespace.com/dyani-white-hawk/|archive-date=17 January 2017|url-status=dead|date=2015}}</ref>
White Hawk credits her mother with encouraging her artistic talent at a young age, but the artist's first painting was completed as part of her IAIA admission portfolio. Her early artwork tends to borrow influence from popular culture and street art. White Hawk cites later influences ranging from abstract modernists such as Mark Rothko and Marsden Hartley, to Native history traditional tribal art forms. Although she tends to favor artistic traditions specific to her Lakota tribe, White Hawk has also found influence in other Native artistic traditions, such as Navajo weaving.<ref>{{cite interview|last=White Hawk Polk|first=Dyani|subject-link=Dyani White Hawk|interviewer=Stacey Thunder|title=Dyani White Hawk Polk Interview|work=Native Report|publisher=WDSE/WRPT PBS|location=Duluth|date=24 April 2014|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qmf68M_pc|access-date=24 March 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005060513/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qmf68M_pc|url-status=live|archive-date=5 October 2023|via=YouTube}}</ref>
==Work==
White Hawk is known for her easel-sized paintings that depict abstract compositions emphasizing saturated colors arranged in symmetrical and asymmetrical patterns. She often privileges patterns and lines that replicate quillwork, beadwork, and textiles. In the painting ''Seeing'' (2010), for instance, the square canvas is divided into nine smaller squares to create a gridded composition. But the grid yields to deep blue sky peppered with cumulus clouds that appear to recede into the distance; this interruption to the grid is also contained by it, as the sky occupies the central cruciform shape of the composition. Appearing to overlap this firmament are four beige-and-blue striped squares that anchor the painting in each corner.<ref>{{cite web|title=Painting - dyani white hawk|url=http://www.dyaniwhitehawk.com/painting/#jp-carousel-264}}</ref>
Primarily through abstraction, White Hawk examines the relationship of traditional art making in Native American communities to more contemporary practices. Often, her work comments on the problematic minimizing of Native artists versus the recognition given to Western artists who take influence from Native art forms.<ref>Hopkins, Candice. "Dyani White Hawk." McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, 2014-2015.</ref> Moccasin toes, ledger drawings, blanket designs, porcupine quills, teepee forms and other Native American motifs often are the subjects of White Hawk's exacting oil paintings.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/last-picture-show-for-mcknight-foundation/240583571/|title=Last picture show for McKnight Foundation|date=16 January 2014|website=Minneapolis Star Tribune|access-date=5 January 2016|last=Abbe|first=Mary|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117021154/http://www.startribune.com/last-picture-show-for-mcknight-foundation/240583571/|archive-date=17 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
Though thoroughly modern/contemporary in the expression of her ideas and themes, White Hawk, both as a curator and as an artist, explores her cultural heritage. She writes: "As a woman of Sicangu Lakota and European ancestry, raised among Native communities within urban American environments, my work is an investigation of communal and personal definitions. It is a journey into understanding the history of this land and our relationships with and within it."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Deats|first1=Suzanne|title=Contemporary Native American Artists|date=|publisher=Gibbs Smith|location=Salt Lake City|isbn=978-1423605591|edition=First|year=2012|language=en|oclc=855023293|others=Principal photography by Kitty Leaken|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Contemporary_Native_American_Artists/cYg0AAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=understanding%20the%20history%20of%20this%20land%20and%20our%20relationships%20with%20and%20within%20it|access-date=24 March 2026|via=Google Books}}</ref> White Hawk has exhibited work at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, and the Indian Arts and Culture Museum. Her work has been collected by the Akta Lakota Museum, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Wisconsin Union Art Collection, the Robert Penn Collection of Contemporary Northern Plains Indian Art of the University of South Dakota<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bockleygallery.com/artist_white_hawk/index.html|title=Artists :: Dyani White Hawk|website=Bockley Gallery|access-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802060409/http://bockleygallery.com/artist_white_hawk/index.html|archive-date=2 August 2021|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collections.artsmia.org/art/125785/untitled-dyani-white-hawk|title=Art: Untitled (Quiet Strength I), 2016, Dyani White Hawk|website=Minneapolis Institute of Art|access-date=9 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251117004339/https://collections.artsmia.org/art/125785/untitled-dyani-white-hawk|archive-date=17 November 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
White Hawk's work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the Ca' Foscari University in Venice, Italy, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, and the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe.<ref name=":0" /> White Hawk is currently represented by Shiprock Santa Fe and Bockley Gallery.<ref name=":1" />
White Hawk's painting earned the "Best of Classification" award at the 2011 Santa Fe Indian Art Market and a First Place in painting at the 2011 Northern Plains Indian Art Market. She was a SWAIA discovery fellowship recipient in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://swaia.org/About_SWAIA/SWAIA_Fellowships/2012_SWAIA_Fellowship_Recipients/|title=2012 SWAIA Fellowship Recipients - Discovery Fellows|website=Southwestern Association for Indian Arts|access-date=5 March 2016|date=2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611212117/http://swaia.org/About_SWAIA/SWAIA_Fellowships/2012_SWAIA_Fellowship_Recipients/|archive-date=11 June 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2013, White Hawk was the recipient of the McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship.<ref name=":2" />
White Hawk is known for her art that represents the Native American culture.<ref name=":5" /> White Hawk included several messages in her artwork. "I am your Relative," was created to depict eight Native women sharing their prayer and personal stories related to their Native land."<ref>{{Cite web|date=10 November 2020|title=Exhibition: <em>Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives</em>|url=https://www.kemperart.org/exhibition/dyani-white-hawk-speaking-to-relatives|access-date=14 April 2021|website=Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260329202228/https://www.kemperart.org/exhibition/dyani-white-hawk-speaking-to-relatives|archive-date=29 March 2026|url-status=live}}</ref> White Hawks art is located in many different museums and she also has participated in cross-cultural residences in at least 4 different countries.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=HP Editions: Dyani White Hawk|url=https://www.highpointprintmaking.org/dyani-white-hawk/|access-date=14 April 2021|website=Highpoint Center for Printmaking|date= |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826011347/https://www.highpointprintmaking.org/dyani-white-hawk/|archive-date=26 August 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> White Hawk used "abstraction to bring American Indian tradition into a dynamic contemporary context."<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 February 2021 |title=Tamarind Highlights Lithograph by Dyani White Hawk |work=Federal News Service |id={{ProQuest|2487066653}}}}</ref> This is depicted in her artwork "I am your relative." White Hawk was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/journal/joan-mitchell-foundation-announces-the-2014-painters-sculptors-grant-recipi|title=Announcing 2014 Recipients of Painters & Sculptors Grants|last=|first=|website=Joan Mitchell Foundation|date=17 December 2014 |access-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250803074341/https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/journal/joan-mitchell-foundation-announces-the-2014-painters-sculptors-grant-recipi|archive-date=3 August 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015 and 2017, the artist was awarded a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Regional Artist Fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 October 2015 |title=Dyani White Hawk - 2015 Regional Artist Fellowship |url=https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/dyani-white-hawk |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250604182303/https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/dyani-white-hawk |archive-date=4 June 2025 |access-date=29 March 2026 |website=Native Arts and Cultures Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=18 April 2017 |title=Dyani White Hawk - 2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship |url=https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/dyani-white-hawk-2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250528133215/https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/dyani-white-hawk-2 |archive-date=28 May 2025 |access-date=29 March 2026 |website=Native Arts and Cultures Foundation}}</ref> She is also a recipient of the 2018 Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists and the 2019 U.S. Fellowship for Visual Art.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":12" />
White Hawk was commissioned to create <em>Wopila | Lineage</em> (2022), a 14-by-8-foot work composed of a half million glass bugle beads, for the 2022 Whitney Biennial.<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":8">{{Cite news |last=Mothes |first=Kate |date=1 October 2025 |title=Lakota and Western Art History Converge in Dyani White Hawk’s Vibrant Works |url=https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/dyani-white-hawk-mixed-media-lakota-modern-art/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260107021956/https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/dyani-white-hawk-mixed-media-lakota-modern-art/ |archive-date=7 January 2026 |access-date=29 March 2026 |work=Colossal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Whitney Biennial 2022: Dyani Whitehawk|url=https://whitney.org/media/53080|website=Whitney Museum of American Art|language=en-US|access-date=2 November 2022|date=20 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251216113805/https://whitney.org/media/53080|archive-date=16 December 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> The piece's title references the Lakota word for deep gratitude. The piece, she states, is "meant to honor and show gratitude for the lineage of Lakota women and their contributions to abstraction, for Indigenous women at large and their contributions to art on this continent, for the generations of practiced abstraction that helped nurture and guide the work of the Western artists that were inspired by their work and brought that back into their studios with them as they created easel paintings. I'm pulling from those histories—from my own very specific history of Lakota abstraction, from Indigenous abstract practices at large, from abstract easel painting practices—and hoping to create opportunities for conversation around how connected those histories are and the fact that one doesn't happen without the other."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Beauty Is Medicinal: Dyani White Hawk on her Whitney Biennial Artwork|url=https://bockleygallery.com/dyani-white-hawk-interview-whitney-biennial-wopila-lineage/|website=Bockley Gallery|date=6 October 2022 |language=en-US|access-date=2 November 2022|last=Schmelzer|first=Paul|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241103164447/https://bockleygallery.com/dyani-white-hawk-interview-whitney-biennial-wopila-lineage/|archive-date=3 November 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>
Following up on her 2020 work, ''I Am Your Relative'', which looked at stereotypes and violence again Indigenous women and girls,<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" /><ref name=":10" /> White Hawk created a video series with Razelle Benally, ''Listen''.<ref name=":9" /> ''Listen'' is a series of videos of Indigenous women speaking their native languages.<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":10">{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Exhibitions: Dyani White Hawk <em>Hear Her</em> |url=https://halsey.charleston.edu/main-exhibitions/hear-her/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260215144347/https://halsey.charleston.edu/main-exhibitions/hear-her/ |archive-date=15 February 2026 |access-date=29 March 2026 |website=Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art |publisher=College of Charleston}}</ref><ref name=":11" /> Lacking any subtitles, the intent of the video series was to raise awareness of the sounds of Indigenous languages.<ref name=":9" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Roberts |first=Isabel |date=22 November 2022 |title=White Hawk Reflects on Resilience |url=https://www.risd.edu/news/stories/risd-painting-and-textiles-departments-welcome-indigenous-artist-dyani-white-hawk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251014105705/https://www.risd.edu/news/stories/risd-painting-and-textiles-departments-welcome-indigenous-artist-dyani-white-hawk |archive-date=14 October 2025 |access-date=29 March 2026 |work=Rhode Island School of Design}}</ref>
White Hawk was ''The Minnesota Star Tribune's'' artist of the year in 2025.<ref name=":6">{{Cite news |last=Eler |first=Alicia |date=19 December 2025 |title=Dyani White Hawk is Minnesota Star Tribune’s Artist of the Year |url=https://www.startribune.com/dyani-white-hawk-is-minnesota-star-tribunes-artist-of-the-year/601485325 |url-access=registration |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251220034348/https://www.startribune.com/dyani-white-hawk-is-minnesota-star-tribunes-artist-of-the-year/601485325 |archive-date=20 December 2025 |access-date=29 March 2026 |work=The Minnesota Star Tribune |pages=E.1 |publication-date=21 December 2025 |id={{ProQuest|3285815082}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Roy |first=Lisa |date=December 2025 |title=Dyani White Hawk Continues to make international news |url=https://northeastminneapolisartsdistrict.org/dyani-white-hawk-speaking-in-a-love-language-of-form-line-and-kinship/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260330003336/https://northeastminneapolisartsdistrict.org/dyani-white-hawk-speaking-in-a-love-language-of-form-line-and-kinship/ |archive-date=30 March 2026 |access-date=29 March 2026 |website=Northeast Minneapolis Arts District |language=en-US}}</ref> Additionally, White Hawk will debut work at both JFK International Airport in New York and the Portland International Airport.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" />
==Solo exhibitions== * 2025 - ''Love Language'', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":11">{{Cite news |last=Dickinson |first=Sheila |date=27 January 2026 |title=For Dyani White Hawk, Love Is an Act of Resistance |url=https://hyperallergic.com/for-dyani-white-hawk-love-is-an-act-of-resistance/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260219031603/https://hyperallergic.com/for-dyani-white-hawk-love-is-an-act-of-resistance/ |archive-date=19 February 2026 |access-date=29 March 2026 |work=Hyperallergic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Cipolle |first=Alex V. |date=18 October 2025 |title=New Dyani White Hawk show at the Walker is a 'love letter' to community |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/10/18/new-dyani-white-hawk-show-at-the-walker-is-a-love-letter-to-community |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251019070144/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/10/18/new-dyani-white-hawk-show-at-the-walker-is-a-love-letter-to-community |archive-date=19 October 2025 |access-date=29 March 2026 |work=MRP News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Regan |first=Sheila |date=22 October 2025 |title=Radiant 'Love Language' at Walker Art Center puts Lakota design in contemporary spotlight |url=https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2025/10/minneapolis-based-internationally-acclaimed-lakota-artist-dyani-white-hawk-connects-practices-across-place-and-time/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260109141934/https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2025/10/minneapolis-based-internationally-acclaimed-lakota-artist-dyani-white-hawk-connects-practices-across-place-and-time/ |archive-date=9 January 2026 |access-date=29 March 2026 |work=MinnPost}}</ref> * 2022 - ''Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives,'' Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO<ref name=":12">{{Cite news |last=Trice |first=Emilie |date=16 March 2022 |title=Review: Dyani White Hawk: Speaking To Relatives at MCA Denver |url=https://southwestcontemporary.com/review-dyani-white-hawk-speaking-to-relatives-at-mca-denver/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260217152443/https://southwestcontemporary.com/review-dyani-white-hawk-speaking-to-relatives-at-mca-denver/ |archive-date=17 February 2026 |access-date=29 March 2026 |work=Southwest Contemporary |issn=2766-3000}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Exhibitions - <em>Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives</em> |url=https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/dyani-white-hawk?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=1533813116 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260330010136/https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/dyani-white-hawk?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=1533813116 |archive-date=30 March 2026 |access-date=29 March 2026 |website=Museum of Contemporary Art Denver}}</ref> * 2016 - ''Storied Abstraction'', Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Exhibitions: Dyani White Hawk - Storied Abstraction |url=http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_white_hawk/exhibition_3/01.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024022827/http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_white_hawk/exhibition_3/01.html |archive-date=24 October 2016 |website=Bockley Gallery}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Events - Storied Abstraction - Dyani White Hawk |url=https://www.mplsart.com/events/storied-abstraction-dyani-white-hawk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017004928/https://www.mplsart.com/events/storied-abstraction-dyani-white-hawk |archive-date=17 October 2016 |access-date=29 March 2026 |website=MPLSART.COM |language=en}}</ref> * 2015 - ''Dyani White Hawk'', Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM * 2014 - ''Into the Light: Paintings and Prints by Dyani White Hawk'', Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN<ref>{{Cite news |last=Abbe |first=Mary |date=20 June 2014 |title=Into the Light |work=Minneapolis Star Tribune |pages=E.16 |id={{ProQuest|1540550065}}}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=http://www.bockleygallery.com/exhibitions.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030002912/http://www.bockleygallery.com/exhibitions.html |archive-date=30 October 2016 |website=Bockley Gallery}}</ref> * 2013 - ''An Exhibition of Works by Dyani White Hawk'', Gallery 110, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD * 2012 - ''Dyani White Hawk'', Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN<ref>{{Cite news |last=Riddle |first=Mason |date=30 March 2012 |title=Art spotlights: Sharon Louden, Dyani White Hawk and '365D' |work=Minneapolis Star Tribune |pages=E.16 |id={{ProQuest|962405259}}}}</ref><ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=Dyani White Hawk |url=http://bockleygallery.com/posters/white_hawk.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116171236/http://bockleygallery.com/posters/white_hawk.pdf |archive-date=16 November 2016 |website=Bockley Gallery}}</ref> * 2011 - ''Inseparable'', Art Lofts Gallery, Madison, WI
== Group exhibitions ==
* 2019-2020 - ''Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists'', traveling exhibition, June 2 - August 18, 2019 at Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; September 27, 2019 - January 12, 2020 at Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; February 21 - May 17, 2020 at Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; June 27 - September 13, 2020 at Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists|last1=Greeves|first1=Teri|publisher=Minneapolis Institute of Art|year=2019|isbn=9780295745794|location=Minneapolis, MN|pages=205–210|language=en|oclc=1057740182|others=Curated by Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves.|author-link=Teri Greeves|chapter=Beadwork Conversations: Dyani White Hawk and Graci Horne}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists|last1=Hoska|first1=Dakota|publisher=Minneapolis Institute of Art|year=2019|isbn=9780295745794|location=Minneapolis, MN|pages=293–296|language=en|oclc=1057740182|others=Curated by Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves.|chapter=Seven Sisters: Native Women Painters Connected through Time by Medium}}</ref> *2020 ''- Indelible Ink: Native Women, Printmaking, Collaboration''. University of New Mexico Art Museum.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Exhibition - Indelible Ink: Native Women, Printmaking, Collaboration|url=https://artmuseum.unm.edu/exhibition/indelible-ink-native-women-printmaking-collaboration/|access-date=31 March 2021|language=en-US|date=2020|website=University of New Mexico Art Museum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251114054541/https://artmuseum.unm.edu/exhibition/indelible-ink-native-women-printmaking-collaboration/|archive-date=14 November 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2024 ''Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection'', Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).<ref name="BAMPFA">{{cite web |title=Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection |url=https://bampfa.org/making-their-mark |website=BAMPFA |access-date=23 April 2026 |language=en |date=21 March 2024}}</ref>
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