Heap of Birds harnesses color, text, place, and the language of abstraction to reconstruct histories, engage with the treatment of global Indigenous communities, and advance the rights of, and for, people and land.
— Pablo N. Barrera
Honor Song is published to coincide with the first major retrospective exhibition of the artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, known internationally for his conceptual artwork—colorful text-based prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures, and public interventions—that addresses Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and relationships to place. Organized with the artist, the book spans more than four decades of his making, tracing Heap of Birds’ trajectory from the 1970s to the present through prints, drawings, abstract paintings, blown-glass vessels, and public sculptures. The publication includes texts by exhibition co-curators Pablo N. Barrera and AnnaVittoria Pickett; David Levi Strauss; Suzan Shown Harjo; and Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds.
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds is a multidisciplinary artist and citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation, for which he serves as headsman of the Elk Scraper Warrior Society, instructing ceremony on tribal lands near Geary, OK. Heap of Birds has participated in over 200 national and international exhibitions since the early 1980s, and his works are housed in museum collections worldwide. For thirty years, Heap of Birds was a professor of Fine Arts and Native American Studies, serving as visiting lecturer in over fourteen countries. He continues to live, work, and mentor in Oklahoma City.
Heap of Birds harnesses color, text, place, and the language of abstraction to reconstruct histories, engage with the treatment of global Indigenous communities, and advance the rights of, and for, people and land.
— Pablo N. Barrera
Honor Song is published to coincide with the first major retrospective exhibition of the artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, known internationally for his conceptual artwork—colorful text-based prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures, and public interventions—that addresses Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and relationships to place. Organized with the artist, the book spans more than four decades of his making, tracing Heap of Birds’ trajectory from the 1970s to the present through prints, drawings, abstract paintings, blown-glass vessels, and public sculptures. The publication includes texts by exhibition co-curators Pablo N. Barrera and AnnaVittoria Pickett; David Levi Strauss; Suzan Shown Harjo; and Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds.
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds is a multidisciplinary artist and citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation, for which he serves as headsman of the Elk Scraper Warrior Society, instructing ceremony on tribal lands near Geary, OK. Heap of Birds has participated in over 200 national and international exhibitions since the early 1980s, and his works are housed in museum collections worldwide. For thirty years, Heap of Birds was a professor of Fine Arts and Native American Studies, serving as visiting lecturer in over fourteen countries. He continues to live, work, and mentor in Oklahoma City.
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