Cheyenne Echo graduated with a BA in Art from the University of California Irvine in 2019. She is currently enrolled in the program for MFA in Photography and Media Studies at California Institute of the Arts. She has received grants to research and photograph in several countries including France, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan.

Her artmaking practice comes directly from an attempt to explore the illicit unconscious identities harbored within the self, hidden in order to survive the identities projected onto us. She often inhabits a stylistically vintage, feminized pretense in order to address hard truths - that we will never see ourselves for ourselves (à la Peter Campus’ dor), that we live in a world that we consistently cannot control, and that history lives through us and is not necessarily past.

She currently works within a realm of expanded self-portraiture. Her work is an extension 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, and she uses her body to address these realities.

Threads throughout her recent work include archetypal symbols of Americana which access these identities; selected objects include: red/white/blue backdrops, mid-century foods like Jell-O and drive-thru hamburgers, sparkling stars, Christian symbols, and, of course, roses - which point to the likes of formal critiques of traditionalism vis-à-vis American Beauty or Blue Velvet. Through the associations with these objects she aims to access the void of culture in “traditional” America in order to examine the vicissitudes of constructed identity, questioning ‘whiteness’ from within.