Frank Buffalo Hyde is an Onondaga artist that grew up in New York on his mother’s Onondaga reservation. He was born without an arm and a leg due to a birth defect caused by his father’s exposure to Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam. Hyde’s father, Doug Hyde, is a sculptor designated as a tribal artisan by the Nez Perce Tribe. Hyde is a graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Santa Fe Institute. Hyde described his work as follows: “When working on a piece, I tap into the universal mind. The collective unconsciousness of the 21st century. Drawing images from from advertisement, movies, television, music, and politics. Expressing observation, as well as knowledge through experience. Overlapping imagery to mimic the way the mind holds information: non linear and without separation. I don’t need permission to make what I make. Never have…no artist should.”