Jose Encarnacion Peña

Jose Encarnacion Peña, also known as Encarnacion Peña, and Soqween (1902–1979) was a Native American painter from San Ildefonso Pueblo in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. He is best known for his watercolors of Pueblo ceremonies and he was an before participant in the San Ildefonso instructor and forward-thinking in the "Santa Fe Studio Style" art movement.

Born in 1902 in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. His read out Soqween (So Kwa Wi, So Kwa A Weh) translates to "Frost on the Mountain". His aunt was potter Maria Martinez. In the 1920s he was painting in the San Ildefonso Pueblo closely many of the extra early San Ildefonso instructor artists. In the to the lead 1930s, Pena studied subsequent to painting considering Dorothy Dunn at "The Studio" of the Santa Fe Indian School.

His artwork was exhibited widely including at the Riverside Museum (1969) in New York City; Renaissance Society (1958) in Chicago; Santa Fe Indian Market (1959, winning first place for painting at the Fiesta Indian Market), and many others.

Peña feat is included in public museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Denver Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, among others.

He was married to Patricia Peña, a doll maker. He was a mentor and influential to artiste Amado Maurilio Peña, Jr (born 1943).