Biography

Sign of the Cross (Self-portrait), 2018

Cheyenne Echo graduated with a BA in Art from the University of California Irvine in 2019. She is currently at California Institute of the Arts working on an MFA in Photography and Media Studies.

She has received grants to research and photograph in several countries including France, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan.

She currently works as an image-maker within a realm of expanded self-portraiture. She considers her work to be moving toward an abstract externalization of internal contemplations about the self and personal identity. She is especially fascinated by extant cultural expectations and how historical realities affect the experiences of those existing in the present.

In coming years, she strives to explore the tension between dichotomies of the past and present, the individual and universal, the empowered and powerless, and the internal and external world via visual contemplation of her own identity.