Bemis Alumni ARTalks: Dyani White Hawk
More than 1,500 artists have participated in the Bemis Residency and Exhibition Programs in the 40 years since its founding. Where are they now? How did their experience at Bemis advance their practice? Join us for virtual conversations with Bemis alumni and Rachel Adams, Bemis Chief Curator and Director of Programs. The series kicks off with 2020 Bemis Alumni Award winner Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota), a visual artist and independent curator based in Minneapolis. White Hawk was a Bemis 2017–18 exhibiting artist in Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly.
Installation view of Dyani White Hawk: She Gives at the Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND; Courtesy of the artist and Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND.
Dyani White Hawk; Carry II, 2019; Glass beads, brass sequins, synthetic sinew, buckskin, thread, copper pot and copper ladle 122 x 12 x 10 inches; Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
Dyani White Hawk; Carry II (detail), 2019; Glass beads, brass sequins, synthetic sinew, buckskin, thread, copper pot and copper ladle 122 x 12 x 10 inches; Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
Dyani White Hawk earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011) and a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2008). She served as Gallery Director and Curator for the All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis from 2011–2015. Support for White Hawk’s work has included 2020 Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize, 2019 United States Artists Fellowship in Visual Art, 2019 Eiteljorg Fellowship for Contemporary Art, 2019 Jerome Hill Artists Fellowship, 2019 Forecast for Public Art Mid-Career Development Grant, 2018 Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists, 2017 and 2015 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowships and 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. She has participated in residencies in Australia and Russia and Germany. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Denver Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Tweed Museum of Art, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Akta Lakota Museum among other public and private collections. She is represented by Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis.
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