(Born 1956, Navajo)  Born in Crownpoint, New Mexico, Emmi Whitehorse earned her B.A. from the University of New Mexico in Painting in 1980.  Two years later she completed her M.A. in Printmaking and Art History.  

 In her words "I have intentionally avoided politically-oriented subject matter and angst-ridden or physical wrestling with the art of painting itself.  To make art, the act of making art must stay true to a harmonious balance of beauty, nature, humanity and the whole universe.  This in accordance with Navajo philosophy.  I have chosen to focus on nature, on landscape."

Whitehorse’s work has been the subject of dozens of museum and gallery presentations since 1979. Her solo exhibitions have been held at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado (2006); Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska (2001); Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona (1997); and The Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1991). 

 Her work is held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana; Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Westfalisches Museum, Munster, Germany; The Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, among many others.