Bunky Echo-Hawk

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.

Bunky Echo–Hawk
Born1975
Yakama Nation Reservation, Toppenish, Washington
NationalityPawnee Nation / Yakama Nation
EducationAssociate of Art degree, Creative Writing, Institute of American Indian Arts; Toyota Fellow, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University
Known forAcrylic painting, poetry
MovementHip hop, Native pop

Biography

Walter Roy "Bunky" Echo–Hawk Jr.[1] 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,"[2] and he is also a traditional singer and dancer.[3]

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."[4]

Arrest

On January 10, 2022, Bunky Echo-Hawk was arrested for "lewd or indecent acts to children under 16."[1] A girl reported to a Pawnee County DHS worker that "she was repeatedly touched inappropriately by Echo-Hawk, 46, between 'from the time she was 7 or 8 until 11 or 12 years old'."[1] His preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 15, 2022.[1]

Public collections

Exhibitions

References
  1. Kunze, Jenna (7 February 2022). "Renowned Artist "Bunky" Echo-Hawk Charged in Oklahoma". Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  2. "Bunky Echo-Hawk". Retrieved 2012-09-02.
  3. "Making Pathways w/Bunky Echohawk". Snag Magazine. 2011. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
  4. "View of Native Pop: Bunky Echo-Hawk and Steven Paul Judd Subvert Star Wars". Journals.kent.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
  5. "Founder's Day Performance". Willamette University. 2010-01-19. Archived from the original on 2013-05-25. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
  6. "Bunky Echo-Hawk". Retrieved 2012-09-02.
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