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Hachivi Edgar
Heap of Birds b. 1954,
Wichita Kansas
First Nations Affiliation: Cheyenne; Arapaho
Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds completed his B.F.A. at the University of Kansas, studied at
the Royal College of Art in London, and graduated with an M.F.A. from Temple University in
Philadelphia. As an associate art professor at the University of Oklahoma, Heap of Birds's
practice is distinguished by his sophisticated analysis of language and his appropriation
of public spaces such as billboards and city bus panels to disrupt the onslaught of
Eurocentric discourse. In addition to his activities as a printmaker, painter, and video
artist, Heap of Birds also curates and lectures internationally on Native art. His work
was included in two critical Canadian exhibitions of First Nations art: Lost Illusions (Vancouver
Art Gallery, 1991), and Land, Spirit, Power (National Gallery of Canada, 1992). He
has also exhibited extensively in the United States.
R E C E N T E X H I B I T I O
N S
| 1996-97 |
Native Streams:
Contemporary Native American Art.
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Turman Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre
Haute |
| 1995 |
Hachivi Edgar Heap
of Birds and Artists of Tandanya and Boomalli.
St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri |
| 1994 |
Narratives.
Painted Bride Art Centre, Philadelphia |
| 1993 |
Death, Reverence,
and the Struggle for Equality in America.
Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1992 |
Green Acres:
Neo-Colonialism in the US.
Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
Land, Spirit, Power.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario |
| 1991 |
Hard Weed.
Artspeak Gallery, British Columbia, and Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University,
Columbus
Lost Illusions.
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
The Un-Making of Nature.
Whitney Museum of American Art, Stanford, Connecticut |
| 1990 |
Claim Your Colour.
Exit Art, New York |
S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T
I O N S
Joselyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, Washington
S E L E C T E D B I B L I O G
R A P H Y
Abbott, Lawrence, ed. I Stand in the Center of
the Good. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
Heap of Birds, Hachivi Edgar. Hachivi Edgar
Heap of Birds: Claim Your Color. Curated by Jeanette Ingberman; texts by Papo Colo.
New York, NY: Exit Art, 1990.
Danzker, Jo-anne Birnie. "The revolver:
Cultural convergence, or, should artists appropriate Native imagery ?" Canadian
Art 7, no. 3 (Fall 1990): 23-24.
"Edgar Heap of Birds Hachivi." Border/Lines
Magazine 23 (Winter 1991/ 1992): 19-21.
Lost Illusions: Recent Landscape Art: Renee
Green, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, John Miller, Eleanor Bond, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun,
Jeff Wall, Rasheed Araeen, Rodney Graham, Deborah Bright. Vancouver, British Columbia:
Vancouver Art Gallery, 1991.
Nemiroff, Diana, Robert Houle, and Charlotte
Townsend-Gault. Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada.
Ottawa, Ontario: National Gallery of Canada, 1992.
Pakasaar, Helga, Deborah Doxtater, Jean Fisher,
and Rick Hill. Revisions. Banff, Alberta: Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre,
1992.
Review: Plug in Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Winnipeg
Free Press, 19 March 1994, p. B6.
Rinder, Lawrence. Is What Is. Berkeley,
California: University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, 1992.
Snodgrass, Susan. Tell Your Self. Sydney,
Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995.
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