The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced 188 artists, scholars, photographers, novelists, essayists, poets, historians, choreographers, environmentalists and data scientists to the ranks of 19,000 fellows honored since 1925. Now in its 99th year, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recognizes the 2024 class of trail-blazing fellows across 52 fields.
Dyani White Hawk, who has a studio in the Casket Arts Building, is one of three Minnesota-based fellows. The others are David Mura, Writer, Minneapolis, MN, and Lamar Peterson, Artist & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of Drawing
and Painting, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) is a visual artist and independent curator based in Minneapolis. White Hawk earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011) and BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2008). She served as Gallery Director and Curator for the All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis from 2011-2015.
Each Guggenheim fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under “the freest possible conditions,” according to the foundation.
Support for White Hawk’s work has included the 2024 Creative Capital grant, 2023 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 2021 Anonymous Was a Woman Award, Academy of Arts and Letters Award, 2021 and 2013 McKnight Foundation Fellowship, 2020 Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize, 2019 United States Artists Fellowship in Visual Art, Eiteljorg Fellowship for Contemporary Art, Jerome Hill Artists Fellowship, Forecast for Public Art Mid-Career Development Grant, 2018 Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists, 2017 and 2015 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowships and 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. She has participated in residencies in Australia, Russia, and Germany.