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, Native pop

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]

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

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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^[4]
• Shows in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York and Greensboro, NC ^[5]

References

1. "Bunky Echo-Hawk". Retrieved 2012-09-02.
2. "Making Pathways w/Bunky Echohawk". Snag Magazine. 2011. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
3. "Bunky Echohawk". ethnicpaintings.com.
4. "Founder's Day Performance". Willamette University. 2010-01-19. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
5. "Bunky Echo-Hawk". Retrieved 2012-09-02.

External links

• bunkyechohawk.com, official website