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Defamed American painter
Bunky Echo–Hawk
BornWalter Roy Echo-Hawk Jr.
1975 (age 48–49)
Yakama Nation Reservation, Toppenish, Washington, U.S.
NationalityYakama 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

Bunky Echo–Hawk (born 1975) is a Native American artist and poet who is best known for his acrylic paintings concerning Native American topics and hip-hop culture. He works in a variety of media that include paintings, graphic design, photography, and writing.

Biography

Walter Roy "Bunky" Echo–Hawk Jr. is a descendant of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, and an enrolled citizen 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," and he is also a traditional singer and dancer. In 2020, Echo-Hawk was featured in the PBS series American Masters for his work on Native rights and environmentalism.

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." In 2011 and beyond, Echo-Hawk collaborated with Nike to develop Native-inspired apparel through their N-7 and Power of Perseverance Collection.

Personal life and arrest

On October 16, 2021, Echo-Hawk was injured and his 15-year-old daughter Alexie was killed in a head-on crash early morning, as they were driving to the Pawnee Nation for a ceremonial tribal dance in Oklahoma.

On January 10, 2022, Bunky Echo-Hawk was arrested for "lewd or indecent acts to children under 16." A young 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'." His preliminary hearing was scheduled for March 15, 2022.

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". University of North Dakota. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  3. "Bunky Echo-Hawk". Beatnation.org. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
  4. "Making Pathways w/Bunky Echohawk". Snag Magazine. 2011. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
  5. "Bunky Echo-Hawk: The Resistance | American Masters | PBS". Pbs.org. 13 October 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  6. McLaughlin, Olena (2017). "View of Native Pop: Bunky Echo-Hawk and Steven Paul Judd Subvert Star Wars". Transmotion. 3 (2): 30–52. doi:10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.223. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
  7. "N7: The Power of Perseverance". News.nike.com. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  8. "Family Tries To Move Forward After Double Fatal I-70 Crash That Killed Colorado Teen Heading To Pawnee Ceremonial Dance". Denver.cbslocal.com. 23 October 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  9. "Founder's Day Performance". Willamette University. 2010-01-19. Archived from the original on 2013-05-25. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
  10. "Bunky Echo-Hawk". Beatnation.org. Retrieved 2012-09-02.

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