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Chris Pappan
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Chris Pappan

born 1971 Colorado Springs, Colorado; lives Chicago, Illinois
BiographyChris Pappan is a Chicago-based mixed media artist of Kaw, Osage, and Cheyenne River Sioux heritage. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chris is a self-described Native American Lowbrow artist, basing his work on American Indian ledger drawings of the mid to late 19th century with a 21st Century twist. His work is in the collections of the Field Museum in Chicago, IL; National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.; and The Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas, as well as other public and private collections around the world.

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