Emmi Whitehorse

Emmi Whitehorse is a Native American artist of Navajo descent whose work blends abstraction with references to the natural landscape, traditional Navajo symbols, and written notation systems. Her layered paintings on paper and canvas incorporate mark-making, subtle earth tones, and organic forms that evoke the high desert terrain of the American Southwest. Whitehorse is recognized as a significant voice in contemporary Native American art, bridging cultural heritage with modernist abstraction.