Skip to main contentBiographyDyani White Hawk was born on October 31, 1976, in Madison, Wisconsin, where she grew up; she currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, and she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts and a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 2015 she received the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Regional Artist Fellowship, and in 2019, the Jerome Hill and USA Artist Fellowships. White Hawk combines her use of traditional Lakota mediums (such as porcupine quills or beads) and geometric patterns to her canvases to conceive intricate mixed media works.
Dyani White Hawk
Sičangu Lakota, born 1976
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Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, born 1953
Anishinaabe / Sičaŋǧu Lakota, born 1964
Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, born 1957
Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations, born 1959
Chickasaw / Choctaw, born 1943
Taskigi (Bear Clan) / Diné (Tsinajinnie Clan), born 1954
