Wówahokuŋkiya | Lead
<p>Dyani White Hawk, <em>Wówahokuŋkiya | Lead</em>, 2019. Screenprint with metallic foil, sheet: 55 3/8 × 31 7/8 in. (140.7 × 81 cm) Image: 44 1/4 × 21 5/16 in. (112.4 × 54.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing and Print Committee 2022.182.1. © Dyani White Hawk</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 2019
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 55 3/8 × 31 7/8 in. (140.7 × 81 cm) Image: 44 1/4 × 21 5/16 in. (112.4 × 54.1 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Dyani White Hawk
Artist

Mixed Media
Dyani White Hawk Polk is an American contemporary artist and curator of Sicangu Lakota, German, and Welsh ancestry based out of Minnesota. From 2010 to 2015, White Hawk was a curator for the Minneapolis gallery All My Relations. As an artist, White Hawk's work aesthetic is characterized by a combination of modern abstract painting and traditional Lakota art. White Hawk's pieces reflect both her Western, American upbringing and her indigenous ancestors mediums and modes for creating visual art.
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- Dyani White Hawk
- Year
- 2019
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 55 3/8 × 31 7/8 in. (140.7 × 81 cm) Image: 44 1/4 × 21 5/16 in. (112.4 × 54.1 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-2019-168025
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified


