Emmi Whitehorse
b. 1957 · USA
About Emmi Whitehorse
Emmi Whitehorse (Diné, born 1957) is a painter and printmaker born in Crownpoint, New Mexico, who grew up at Whitehorse Lake and lives and works in Santa Fe. She earned a BA in painting and an MA in printmaking from the University of New Mexico.
Working in oil, chalk, graphite, pastel, and other media on paper mounted to canvas, Whitehorse builds layered fields of line, color, and organic signs from sustained attention to land, weather, water, and changing light. She has described land as the continuous subject of her work; National Gallery accounts also connect her process to the Diné concept of Hózhó, understood as balance among nature, humanity, and the wider universe. In 2024 her work appeared for the first time in Biennale Arte in Venice.
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Emmi Whitehorse (Diné, born 1957) is a painter and printmaker born in Crownpoint, New Mexico, who grew up at Whitehorse Lake and lives and works in Santa Fe. She earned a BA in painting and an MA in printmaking from the University of New Mexico.
Working in oil, chalk, graphite, pastel, and other media on paper mounted to canvas, Whitehorse builds layered fields of line, color, and organic signs from sustained attention to land, weather, water, and changing light. She has described land as the continuous subject of her work; National Gallery accounts also connect her process to the Diné concept of Hózhó, understood as balance among nature, humanity, and the wider universe. In 2024 her work appeared for the first time in Biennale Arte in Venice.