Oqwa Pi was born in 1899 in San Ildefonso Pueblo () in New Mexico. He was educated at the
Santa Fe Indian School, where he learned watercolor and mural paintings; He attended the
Santa Fe Indian School, studying under
Dorothy Dunn. Pi has a mural at the Santa Fe Indian School, in the dining room. Oqwa Pi's paintings were executed in one of the two specific styles that are associated with the
San Ildefonso school, a Native
art movement of self-taught artists from 1900 to 1935. His subjects include festivals, dances and native ceremonies. and Ramos Sánchez (born 1926). His grandson, Russell Sánchez is a painter and potter. ==Collections==