Among 2025’s Most Anticipated Exhibitions:
Dyani White Hawk’s Love Language

Acclaimed UK news outlet The Guardian and online contemporary art resource Ocula name Dyani White Hawk’s first major museum survey, Love Language, at the Walker Art Center, among the most anticipated exhibitions of 2025. 

Ocula’s pick by their editorial team is a global highlight of major surveys, many by leading women artists including Emily Kame Kngwarreye at London’s Tate Modern, and Lee Bul at Hong Kong’s M+. Among the eight exhibitions selected in the U.S., White Hawk’s is included alongside Lorna Simpson at the Guggenheim, and two others at the Walker Art Center: Christine Sun Kim and Kandice Williams.

The Guardian’s selection of Love Language is one of the ten “most exciting U.S. exhibitions in 2025,” alongside Ruth Asawa at SFMoMA and Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim. They reported that amidst daunting current affairs, powerful exhibitions like White Hawk’s can “offer space for rest, respite and the return of some amount of optimism in spite of what may come this year.” 

Love Language surveys 15 years of White Hawk’s practice foregrounding Lakota knowledge, forms and motifs, which also serves to expand the art historical narrative of abstraction. Featuring nearly 100 works including multimedia paintings, sculpture and video, the exhibition is organized in four sections centered on Indigenous value systems: See; Honor, Nurture; and Celebrate. 

Dyani White Hawk: Love Language is co-organized by the Walker Art Center and Remai Modern (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada), and is co-curated by Siri Engberg (Walker Art Center) and Tarah Hogue (Métis), Adjunct Curator of Indigenous Arts, Remai Modern; with Brandon Eng, Curatorial Assistant, Walker Art Center. The exhibition opens at the Walker Art Center on October 18, 2025 and runs through February 15, 2026, before traveling to the Remai Modern. An exhibition catalog will also be available.