ArtDesk Conversation with Edgar Heap of Birds

Enjoy an ArtDesk Conversation with Edgar Heap of Birds.

Oklahoma Contemporary presented the first major retrospective of Oklahoma City-based artist Edgar Heap of Birds (b. 1954, Wichita, Kansas; Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation), who is known internationally for conceptual artwork that addresses Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and relationships to place. Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: HONOR SONG is a landmark for American art, for the region, and for the city: the artist’s first institutional survey in his home-state of the last forty years. The exhibition spans over four decades of art production, tracing Heap of Birds’s trajectory from the 1970s to the present through colorful prints, abstract paintings, drawings, glassworks, sculptures, and public works.

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: HONOR SONG was on view February 20–August 4, 2025.