Richard Hunt (artist)

Richard Hunt CM OBC RCA (born 1951, Kwakwaka'wakw) is a Canadian First Nations artist from coastal British Columbia.

On his father's side, he is a descendant of the renowned Native ethnologist George Hunt.

In 1973 he began working with his father Henry Hunt at Thunderbird Park at the British Columbia Provincial Museum in Victoria.

Richard Hunt designed the medals for the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships held August 17-21, 2006 at Saanich Commonwealth Place.

[1] Among his other projects, he repainted the totem pole at Rideau Hall, which his grandfather Mungo Martin had given to Governor General Lord Alexander in 1946.