Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds: Honor Song
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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…mehr

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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 (Wixáritari) and AnnaVittoria Pickett; David Levi Strauss; Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation/ Hotvlkvlke Mvskokvlke, Nuyakv); Kiona Millirons; and Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds )Navajo Nation). Heap of Birds's work is housed in numerous public collections worldwide, including Art Basel U.S. Corp. (NY), the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art Gallery (NY), FORGE Project Collection (NY, Unceded lands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck), Museum of Modern Art (NY), Walker Art Center (MN), and Whitney Museum of American Art (NY). Exhibition dates: January 30–October 20, 2025 Mary LeFlore Clements Oklahoma Gallery February 20–August 4, 2025 Eleanor Kirkpatrick Main Gallery Opening April 24, 2025 Campbell Art Park
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Born in Wichita, Kansas in 1954, 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. He received his BFA from the University of Kansas (1976), undertook graduate studies in painting at the Royal College of Art, London (1977), and received an MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University (1979). 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. He has received numerous honors and awards, including induction as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020) and was named a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards in Art (2024). For thirty years, Heap of Birds was a professor of Fine Arts and Native American Studies, serving as visiting lecturer in over fourteen countries at schools including Yale University and Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Heap of Birds has been awarded honorary Doctorate degrees by multiple institutions, including the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston (2008), Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada (2017), and California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, (2018). He continues to live, work, and mentor in Oklahoma City. Pablo N. Barrera (Wixáritari) is Adjunct Curator at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center appointed as the lead curator of HONOR SONG. Barrera collaborates with local art communities to produce exhibitions and explore innovative strategies that support formal/informal learning of art. He is committed to raising public awareness of the invaluable role that Indigenous artistic perspectives contribute toward globalizing the arts. Barrera has independently curated shows in London, Seoul and New York. AnnaVittoria Pickett is Director of Exhibitions at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center and co-curator for HONOR SONG. She is a nonprofit professional experienced in education and a visual artist with a practice encompassing ceramics, printmaking, and installation. For five years, Pickett honed her technical expertise at a professional printmaking facility, supporting large-scale projects and fostering collaboration between artists and community. As Director, she oversees a dynamic program of exhibitions, working closely with curators, artists, and stakeholders to bring compelling contemporary art to the region.  David Levi Strauss (b. 1953, in Junction City, Kansas) is an American poet, essayist, art and cultural critic, and educator. He is the author of a book of poetry, four books of essays, and numerous monographs and catalogues on artists. He was Chair of the graduate program in Art Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City from 2007 until that program closed in 2021. Strauss’ principal subject in his books of essays has been the relation between aesthetics and politics. He has been called “the undisputed champion of literary art writing,” and writer Lucy Sante called him “photography’s troubled conscience.” Suzan Shown Harjo (b. 1945, Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation/ Hotvlkvlke Mvskokvlke, Nuyakv) is an American advocate for Native American rights. She is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate who has helped Native peoples recover more than one million acres (4,000 km²) of tribal lands. After co-producing the first American Indian news show in the nation, she served as Congressional liaison for Indian affairs in the President Jimmy Carter administration and later as president of the National Council of American Indians. Harjo is president of the Morning Star Institute, a national Native American rights organization. In 2014, Harjo received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and in 2022 Harjo was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. Kiona Millirons is a visual and teaching artist. She is passionate about art and its impact on human development and positive change. Kiona holds a BFA from Oklahoma City University and a MFA from the University of Oklahoma. Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds is a citizen of the Diné/Navajo Nation, where she was born and raised. In 2021, she earned a PhD from Middlesex University, where her research focused on contemporary Native American/Indigenous visual artists and performance studies, advocating for a greater de-colonial understanding of the complex ways in which contemporary Indigenous artists and their communities are positioned differently within a globalized, capitalist system. From 2007-2018, Ketchum-Heap of Birds was an instructor in the Native American Studies Department at the University of Oklahoma, Norman where she was affiliate faculty in the Women and Gender Studies program and the Center for Social Justice. More recently, she taught Native American Art at the University of Tulsa. Dr. Ketchum-Heap of Birds is currently on the board of Spiderwoman Theater Company (the longest running Native American feminist theater group in the USA) and continues to write and curate independently as a proud Diné scholar.