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Robert Montoya

Robert Montoya (Born 1947) is active/lives in New Mexico.  Robert Montoya is known for Indian motif, mural, lithography.

Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1947, Robert Montoya spent the first thirteen years of his life on the campus of the Santa Fe Indian School where his parents were teachers.

Soe Khuwa Pin, Montoya''s Tewa name, means Fog Mountain, allying him with things of the imagination and spirit. His artwork is a changing blend of contemporary and traditional Indian art styles and draws from the sources of pueblo life, religious symbols, pictographs, and the artist's imagination. The work grows from roots in the two distinct pueblo cultures of his father and of his mother.

An honor graduate of the University of New Mexico with a fine-arts degree in architecture, Montoya was awarded the American Indian Ford Foundation Fellowship to the University of Oklahoma where he earned his graduate degree in city and urban planning. He co-founded and is now senior partner of Mimbres and Associates, one of the largest planning and architectural firms in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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