Grounded in a celebration of Lakota art forms, visual motifs, and value systems, White Hawk’s work challenges prevailing narratives and histories of abstraction and amplifies the influence of Indigenous cultural production on modern and contemporary art. The most comprehensive assessment of White Hawk’s work to date, the survey will unfold in a loose chronology through the interconnected themes see, honor, nurture and celebrate, chosen by the artist to underscore Indigenous value systems. White Hawk’s first major monograph will be published on the occasion of the exhibition and will be designed in close collaboration with the artist. It will offer new scholarship that provides a deeper assessment of her practice through commissioned essays, a roundtable discussion with Native scholars and artists as well as contributions from the co-curators.
Dyani White Hawk: Love Languages
“It is an honor to be part of The Warhol Foundation’s mission to support the visual arts coupled with its commitment to specifically support the voices of women, POC, Native Americans, and LGBTQ. It is simply thrilling to be part of an organization where we get to see these values writ large and implement real change in real life ways in the visual arts community that still so needs to move forward in terms of social justice, equality, and diversity. We put our money where our mouth is. How many institutions actually do that?”
Deborah Kass, Artist