Son of famed Tesuque Pueblo painter Patrick Swazo-Hinds. From the beginning, Mark was surrounded by art in every form. He studied under Allen Houser at the Institute of American Indian Art during his college years, and went on to carve fetishes. His peices became highly desirable by the mid 1980's.

The sculptures of Mark Swazo-Hines echo traditional Pueblo Indian ideologies in marble, limestone, and alabaster. Ancient animal fetish and human deity elements are adorned with exotic and wild bird feathers and ancient pottery shards that bridge the past to the present with graceful simplicity. Mark says, “The feathers are from the sky. The stones are from the earth. With that union is my creation.”