Edgar Heap of Birds

Native American artist Edgar Heap of Birds (Hock E Aye Vi) was born in Wichita, KS. He earned a BFA from the University of Kansas, Lawrence; studied at the Royal College of Art, London; and earned an MFA from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University, Philadelphia. His work includes multidisciplinary forms of public art messages, large scale drawings, acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass, and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.

He has exhibited his work at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Nations, Concho, OK; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; the Documenta contemporary-art exhibition, Kassel, Germany; Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland; Berkeley Art Museum, California; Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa; Hong Kong Arts Centre, China; Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia; Grand Palais, Paris; Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore; and the Venice Biennale, Italy.

In 2012, Heap of Birds was named a United States Artists Fellow and Distinguished Alumni of the University of Kansas in 2014. He has received honorary Doctor of Fine Arts and letters degrees by the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, in 2008; Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada in 2017; and California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, in 2018.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

Artist Info


Born

1954

Wichita, KS

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Heritage

Native American