Ego Trippin’, Letter H

Hoka Skenandore freely admits this piece is about his ego. You can see his face behind the brightly colored abstractions. Hoka painted a separate piece for each letter of his first name. Hoka lives in Oklahoma. He spent much of his youth tagging buildings and other inanimate objects as a graffiti artist. Hoka is the third generation of a family of American Indian artists to graduate from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona, California, South Dakota, and Colorado. Hoka’s paintings are also part of the permanent collection of the Heritage Center ar the Red Cloud School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.