Artist Dyani White Hawk joins the Brooklyn Rail for a conversation on Zoom.
In this Talk
Visit Dyani White Hawk: Love Language on view at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis through February 15, 2026
Dyani White Hawk (b. 1976) turns a critical eye toward the construction of American art history. She lays bare the exclusionary hierarchies that have long governed cultural legitimacy, authority, value, and visibility. Her paintings, sculptures, and installations ask viewers to consider how such structures shape not only aesthetic judgment and cultural memory, but also the terms of community itself. In this light, White Hawk reframes Indigenous art and Western abstraction as inseparable practices—linked by a shared history that dominant narratives have labored to separate and obscure.
