Nationality Canadian Home town Chicago Role Sculptor | Name Richard Hunt Known for Sculpture | |
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Born 1951 Alert Bay, B.C., Canada Education School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1957), University of Illinois at Chicago Books Outside in: Public Sculpture by Richard Hunt Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Logan Medal of the Arts | ||
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Richard Hunt (born 1951, Kwakwaka'wakw, formerly "Kwakiutl") is a Canadian First Nations artist from coastal British Columbia.
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Hunt was born in 1951 at Alert Bay, B.C., but has lived most of his life in Victoria, B.C. On his father's side, he is a descendant of the renowned Native ethnologist George Hunt. He began carving at the age of thirteen. In 1973 he began carving with his father Henry Hunt at Thunderbird Park at the British Columbia Provincial Museum in Victoria.
Richard's maternal grandfather was the artist Mungo Martin. His brothers Tony and Stanley Hunt are also carvers.
Richard Hunt designed the medals for the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships held Aug. 17-21, 2006 at Saanich Commonwealth Place. Among his other projects, he repainted the totem pole at Rideau Hall, which his grandfather Mungo Martin had given to Governor General Lord Alexander in 1946.
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Honors
In 1991, Hunt was inducted into the Order of British Columbia. He is also a member of the Order of Canada.
He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Victoria in 2004. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.