As an artist of Lakota, German, and Welsh heritage who grew up within both Native and urban American communities, Dyani White Hawk (b. 1976, Madison, Wisconsin) draws from personal experiences as well as the history of Lakota abstraction and Euro-American abstraction to create works that ask us to think critically about how the mainstream retelling of histories has excluded vast segments of our population. She earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2024), Creative Capital grant (2024), MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2023), Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2021), Academy of Arts and Letters Award, McKnight Foundation Fellowship (2013 and 2013), Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize (2020), United States Artists Fellowship in Visual Art (2019), Eiteljorg Fellowship for Contemporary Art, Jerome Hill Artists Fellowship, Forecast for Public Art Mid-Career Development Grant, Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2018), Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowships (2017 and 2015) and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2014). She has participated in residencies in Australia, Russia, and Germany. Her work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American 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.