David Bunn Martine - June 2022

David Bunn Martine, born David Bunn Siklos in 1960 in Southampton, Long Island, New York, is of Shinnecock/Montauk, Chiricahua Fort Sill Apache from his mother Marjorie, a classically trained opera and concert singer. His father, Thomas Siklos is a Hungarian music director, organist and voice teacher. He comes from an artistic family for several generations.

David is currently Director/Curator of the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum, Shinnecock Reservation, Southampton, NY; Chairperson of American Indian Artists Inc.(AMERINDA) based in New York City; and also a painter and sculptor for 30 years.

In 2014, he has add another gallery of commissioned portraits. Custom commissioned portraits are now be ordered according to the custom specifications of a client. A single figure, multiple figures, animals, custom backgrounds and three standard sizes in oil on canvas. Check the specifics in the Terms and Conditions section.

In 2013 he completed on an oral history book of his family through four verbatum oral histories from both the Native American and Hungarian heritage. Time and Memories, Histories and Stories of A Shinnecock-Apache-Hungarian Family, Compiled and Edited by David Bunn Martine, released in 2013, and available for sale at www.lulu.com, contains oral histories from David's Grandmother, Alice Osceola Bunn Martinez; uncle, David Walkus Martinez; mother, Marjorie Carola Martinez; and father, Thomas Siklos.