Bunky Echo-Hawk
Bunky Echo–Hawk | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1975 Yakama Nation Reservation, Toppenish, Washington |
| Nationality | Pawnee Nation / Yakama Nation |
| Education | Associate of Art degree, Creative Writing, Institute of American Indian Arts; Toyota Fellow, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University |
| Known for | Acrylic painting, poetry |
| Movement | Hip hop, |
Bunky Echo–Hawk (born 1975) is a Native American artist and poet who is known for his acrylic paintings about Native American topics and hip-hop culture.
Biography[]
Bunky Echo–Hawk is a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, and an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in the 1990s. He served as the "co-founder and the Executive Director of NVision, a national Native nonprofit that focuses on Native youth development,"[1] and he is also a traditional singer and dancer.[2]
Themes and style[]
Scholar Olena McLaughlin, writing in the journal Transmotion, categorizes Echo-Hawk's work as follows: "Although it is within the stream of Native Pop, Echo-Hawk’s work leans more towards Pop Surrealism or Lowbrow, a movement that emerged in the 1970s after Pop Art. It engages popular culture, but in a more concrete story-telling way with slightly less ambiguity."[3]
Paintings[]
- Blistering in the Sun
- Crazy Horse's Victory
- Darth Custer
- Downwind from Hanford
- If Yoda was an Indian
- Inheriting the Legacy
- Insecurity
- Peaceful Negotiations
- Peyoda
- Rebound
- Sitting Bull Intimate
- Triple Threat
- If Yoda Was an Indian He Would Dance the Tail Every Time
- WarDrobe
Collections[]
Exhibitions[]
- "Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America," National Museum of the American Indian, 2009
- Founder's Day Performance, Live audience intervention painting, Feb. 1, 2010, Willamette University[5]
- Shows in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York and Greensboro, NC [6]
References[]
- ^ "Bunky Echo-Hawk". Retrieved 2012-09-02.
- ^ "Making Pathways w/Bunky Echohawk". Snag Magazine. 2011. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
- ^ "View of Native Pop: Bunky Echo-Hawk and Steven Paul Judd Subvert Star Wars". Journals.kent.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "Bunky Echohawk". ethnicpaintings.com. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - ^ "Founder's Day Performance". Willamette University. 2010-01-19. Archived from the original on 2013-05-25. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
- ^ "Bunky Echo-Hawk". Retrieved 2012-09-02.
External links[]
- bunkyechohawk.com, official website
- Oral History Interview with Bunky Echo-Hawk
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Native Americans
- 21st-century Native Americans
- American hip hop
- Institute of American Indian Arts alumni
- Naropa University alumni
- Native American painters
- Pawnee people
- Yakama
- 20th-century American painters
- 21st-century American painters
- 20th-century male artists
- 21st-century male artists
- People from Toppenish, Washington
- Painters from Washington (state)
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