{"id":1808271,"date":"2026-03-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1808271"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:00:00","slug":"painter-emmi-whitehorse-joins-white-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1808271","title":{"rendered":"Painter Emmi Whitehorse Joins White Cube"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tWhite Cube will now represent Emmi Whitehorse, alongside New York\u2013based Garth Greenan Gallery, which has exhibited her work since 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhite Cube will feature Whitehorse\u2019s 2025 painting Father Sky meets Mother Earth<\/em> in its booth at Art Basel Hong Kong later this month. The representation comes after she had a solo exhibition at White Cube\u2019s Paris location last September.<\/p>\n

\n\tAn enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, Whitehorse joining White Cube makes her one of the few Indigenous artists to have representation with an international blue-chip gallery.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhitehorse is best known for dreamy, ethereal semi-abstract paintings that often feature light oil washes in gradients of just a few shades of color\u2014blues, greens, oranges, reds, for example\u2014that are filled with marks of flora and fauna. Whitehorse has described these works as landscapes, indebted to the Navajo philosophy of H\u00f3zh\u00f3<\/em>, reflecting \u201ca harmonious balance between humanity, beauty and nature,\u201d according to a release.<\/p>\n

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Emmi Whitehorse, Shallows<\/em>, 2025.<\/span>Art: \u00a9Emmi Whitehorse; Photo: Ollie Hammick\/\u00a9White Cube\/Courtesy the artist, White Cube, and Garth Greenan Gallery<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tWhitehorse was born in 1957 in Crown Point, New Mexico, and received her bachelor\u2019s in painting in 1980 and her master\u2019s in printing in 1982, both from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. During her time as a student, she cofounded, with late artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), the Grey Canyon Group, a collective of Native American artists whose work aimed to challenge stereotypes of Indigenous people through their art.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhitehorse has exhibited consistently throughout her career, though her biggest showcase to date came in 2024 when she was included in the main exhibition of that year\u2019s Venice Biennale, \u201cStranieri Ovunque \u2013 Foreigners Everywhere,\u201d curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Her work has also been included in major traveling group exhibitions, such as \u201cThe Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans\u201d (2023\u201324) at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C., and \u201cHearts of Our People\u201d (2019) at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.<\/p>\n

\n\tHer work is included in dozens of institutional collections, including the NGA, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite her importance, Whitehorse\u2019s last institutional solo exhibition was in 2006 at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an email to ARTnews<\/em>, White Cube\u2019s global artistic director Susan May said, \u201cWe are delighted to welcome Emmi Whitehorse to the gallery. Her meditative and poetic paintings, inspired by the landscape she grew up in, encourage us to reconsider our relationship with nature. The sumptuous colour, gestural marks and symbolic motifs in the work point to the beauty of the natural world, while underlining humanity\u2019s interdependency with the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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