Dakota Hoska (Oglála Lakȟóta Nation, Pine Ridge, Wounded Knee) is the National Gallery of Art’s inaugural curator of Native American and global Indigenous art, a role she has held since 2025.

Prior to joining the National Gallery, Hoska was associate curator of Native art at the Denver Art Museum (DAM). At DAM, she was responsible for a collection of 18,000 works by Indigenous artists, served as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) coordinator, and worked collectively with the curatorial team to reinstall 20,000 square feet of permanent collection gallery spaces. She was also one of three main contributors to Here, Now: Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum (2022), DAM’s first publication on its Indigenous arts of North America collection since the 1970s, which received a Choice Outstanding Academic Titles award. Hoska also curated Sustained! The Persistent Genius of Indigenous Art (2024) and Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky (2025–2026). In 2024 Hoska received the Association for Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums’ Community Impact Award for a joint project between DAM and the Acoma Pueblo to conserve rare textiles for an exhibit at the Haak’u Museum and Sky City Cultural Center.

Before working at DAM, Hoska was a research assistant at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), where she helped to develop the groundbreaking exhibition Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists (2019). She has been a Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Native American Museum Fellow at Mia and an American Indian Museum Fellow at the Minnesota Historical Society. Hoska serves on multiple national advisory councils and frequently writes about and presents on issues related to curating Native North American art collections.

Hoska holds an MA in art history with an emphasis on Native American art history from the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and a BFA in drawing and painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.