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Dyani White Hawk Polk (full name)

"Dyani White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota), earned her MFA in studio arts in 2011 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed a BFA in 2008 from the Institute of American Indian Arts. White Hawk is a 2015 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Regional Artist Fellowship recipient, 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant recipient, 2013 McKnight Visual Arts Fellowship recipient, a 2012 SWAIA Discovery Fellowship recipient and won the 2011 Best of Classification (Painting, Drawing, Graphics and Photography) at the Santa Fe Indian Art Market. She draws from her multi-cultural background and education to create paintings and mixed media works that speak to her upbringing as a Lakota woman in an urban American landscape."

Though thoroughly modern/contemporary in the expression of her ideas and themes, Dyani White Hawk's work, both as a curator and as an artist, references her cultural understandings and heritage.

CURATORIAL HISTORY

Gallery Director and Curator, 6/2011 - 3/2015 All My Relations Gallery / Native American Community Development Institute – Minneapolis, MN

LISTED AWARDS

2015 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Regional Artist Fellowship recipient

2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant

2013 McKnight Visual Arts Fellowship recipient,

2012 SWAIA Discovery Fellowship recipient 2011 Best of Classification (Painting, Drawing, Graphics and Photography) at the Santa Fe Indian Art Market