Grant Hayunga

Grant Hayunga
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Born	(1970-06-23) June 23, 1970 (age 47) Manhattan
Nationality	Frisian American
Education	Rhode Island School of Design
Known for	painter, musician, singer/songwriter

Grant David Hayunga, (born June 23, 1970) is an American painter and musician of Frisian descent.

Grant is the son of Del Hayunga, a businessman, and Jean Meyer Hayunga, a public health nurse and home maker. His brother, Blake Hayunga, is a real estate manager/developer in San Francisco. Hayunga's parents moved to [New York City] in 1970 to embark on their careers and soon moved to New Jersey, then Minnesota, where Hayunga attended St. Paul Academy. The family moved to Louisville, Kentucky in the mid-1980s, where he attended Ballard High School and first assembled his band, Goshen. Since the first lineup, Goshen has had a revolving cast, with the exception of the current band including Hayunga, Elizabeth DeCicco, Jim Palmer on drums and Jason Reed on bass.

Hayunga attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) on a merit scholarship in Providence, Rhode Island. Selling paintings before he graduated, he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he joined Linda Durham Contemporary Art. His first solo show with Linda Durham was in 1993. His next solo show was at Gallery De Praktijk in Amsterdam, entitled "The Red Peyote Papers".

By 2006 Hayunga was working on his sixth album, Lioness, with the Palmer brothers in Santa Fe. The cover features Hayunga's piece "Lioness" from The Red Peyote Series.

Hayunga's 2008 solo show with Linda Durham Contemporary Art was entitled Tree Skeletons. This was an evolution of his earlier series, Ojo de la Tierra, and his final show with the gallery. After two decades, Hayunga moved on from Linda Durham Contemporary Art to LAUNCHPROJECTS with Cyndi Conn and Ben Lincoln.