Elizabeth “Liz” Skye is Oglála and Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Elizabeth is 23 years old and is the third youngest daughter of Mary DeCory and Martin Skye. Liz grew up in north central Sioux Falls, South Dakota where she graduated from Lincoln High School. As a young child, she was very excited to learn about art, her culture, and the cultures of others. Her senior year of 2015, she was accepted to USD where she began training for a BFA with specialization in ceramics. Accompanied by minors in art history and psychology, Skye researched topics related to contemporary indigeneity, representation within history, feminism, and settler colonialism.

Her work implores techniques inspired by Oscar Howe, while also being inspired by artists such as Egon Schiele, James Luna, Virgil Ortiz, and her contemporaries such as fellow muralist painter, Reyna Hernandez, past OHSAI students, and Instagram artists. Skye is very much drawn to urban art such as graffiti and hip hop culture— evidentiary in her color usage and visual language.