User:Atakra/Hoka Skenandore

Hoka Skenandore is a Oneida-Oglala Lakota-Luiseño painter from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Background
Hoka Skenandore was born on April 7, 1982 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His parents are Joseph Skenandore (La Jolla Luiseño) and Olivia Skenandore (Oneida-Oglala Lakota). His grandmother was Rose Kerstetter.

Education
Skenandore earned his BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2006, becoming the third generation of his family to study art at IAIA. He served as student government president at IAIA.

Art career
Rewrite: In 2006, Skenandore won the Diederich Award for Painting at the Red Cloud Art Show in Pine Ridge, SD. Still in high school, Skenandore won second Place, New Directions: Mixed Media, at the SWAIA Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM. His work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions in New Mexico, California, South Dakota, Colorado, and most recently, the “Outsiders Within: Contemporary Work from Regional Latina/o and Native American Artists” exhibition at the Tempe Center for the Arts in Tempe, AZ.

Notable collections

 * Red Cloud Heritage Center and Museum, Pine Ridge, South Dakota