California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, Summer Session, 1975

1989-Present Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma

2002 Visiting Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, Winter Term, Providence, Rhode Island

2002 Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, Michealis School of Art, Cape Town, South Africa School of Art, Summer Term, Cape Town, South Africa

1998-99 Visiting Associate Professor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1988-1989 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

Greatmore Art Studios Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2002

GOCAIA Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, 2001

LeWallen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1999

Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds

Kieale Visual Arts Center, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, 1998

Paul Mesaros Gallery, University of West Virginia, Morganstown, West Virginia, 1997

Matrix Program, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1992

C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, California, 1992

A Retrospective Exhibition of 100 Works, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, Kansas, 1989,

Exit Art, New York, New York, 1990

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, 1990

Center of the American Indian, Kirkpatrick Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1984

Painting Presentation with Language Installation; I-80 Series, Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, Nebraska, 1982

Painting Presentation with Language Installation, Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, Oklahoma, 1982

Eagles Speak Honoring the Unity of Eagles from Southern Africa and North America, Collaborative Group Exhibition, Curator and Exhibiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, 2002

Noble Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma, 2001

Gallery 224, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2000 (catalogue)

University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 1997

C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, 2000

National Museum of the American Indian, New York, New York, 2000 (catalogue)

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts, 1999 (catalogue)

Catherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1999 (catalogue)

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College State University of New York, Purchase, New York, 1999 (catalogue)

Wanuskewin Gallery Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1998

The Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1998

Neutral Ground Gallery Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1998

University at Buffalo, Art Gallery, Center for Arts Atrium, Buffalo, New York, 1998

Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, 1997

The Real West, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, 1996

Public Enemy Care For Youth, Pacific Arts Festival, Apia, Western Samoa, 1996

Nationally Touring Exhibition: 1996 

Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Minnesota Center for Book Arts, National Touring Exhibition, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1996

Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1996

Centro Cultural De La Raza, San Diego, California, 1995

Volume One, Book Arts By Native American Artists

American Indian Community House Gallery, New York, New York, 1994

Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1994

Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania and The Gallery of Art, Edinboro University, Edinboro, Pennsylvania, 1994

Amnesty International, National Conference, North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, 1993

Indigenous Investigations  2 person exhibition, 

Gallery of Art, North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, 1993

Amnesty International, Regional Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1993

Charter Oak Cultural Center Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, 1992

Green Acres-New Colonialism In The United States

Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, California, 1992

Internationally Touring Exhibition, Curated by Asian American Art Center, NY, NY

Asian American Art Center and Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, New York, 1989

University Galleries, Department of Art, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1992

Negotiations and Identity, CRCA, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, 1991

Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, 1991

Counter Media  

Key Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, 1991

City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1991 Tulsa University, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1990

Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stanford, Connecticut, 1991

Houston at Orchard Alternative Space, New York, New York, 1989

Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1989

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California, 1989

Privileged Must Share

Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas, 1989

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 1989

Modes of Address  

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, 1989

Representation/ Re-Presentation  

Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1988

Randolph Street Gallery Chicago, Illinois, 1988

Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Center, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1988 (catalogue)

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1987 (catalogue)

 Harcus Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1987

Documenta 8: In Memory Of Native Americans, In Memory Of Jews-Relocate Destroy, 

Kassal, Germany, 1987

Individual Artists of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1987

Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 1987

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York, 1986

Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1986

Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, Long Island, New York, 1986 (catalogue)

Southwestern Oklahoma State University in conjunction with "New World Expressions", a Native Art History course presented by Heap of Birds, Weatherford, Oklahoma, 1986

Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1985

Permanent Language Installation, State Museum, Oklahoma Historical Society, Wiley Post Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1985

Washington Projects for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1985

Whitney Biennial with Group Material, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, 1985

Massive Political Group Show II  

ABC NO RIO, New York, New York, 1985

Ronald Feldman Fine Art, New York, New York, 1984 (catalogue)

Racist America  

Dramatis Personae, New York, New York, 1984

10th Street and Avenue A, Outdoor Walls, New York, New York, 1984

Palis de Nation, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1984

Language Installation, Terminal New York, Brooklyn, New York, 1983

Messages to the Public, Computer Light Billboard Project, Spectacolor Inc., One Times Square, New York, New York,

Nationally Touring Exhibition, (catalogue)

Kitchen Center for Video, Performance, and Dance, Sponsored by the Museum of the American Indian, New York, New York, 1983

Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, Nebraska, 1983 Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa, 1984

University Art Gallery, California State University, Dominquez Hills, Carson, California

Examining the Economic Effects of U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policies; Chaired by Dennis Banks, D.Q. University, Davis, California, 1982 (catalogue)

Angry Art  

Catherine Street Artist Project/ Basement Workshop, New York, New York, 1982 New York, New York, 1982

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1981

Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art, Seattle, Washington, 1981

Native American Center for the Living Arts, Niagara Falls, New York, 1981

Organization of Independent Artists, New York, New York, 1981

Confluence’s Of Tradition And Change: Twenty-Two Native American Artists, 

Nationally Touring Exhibition, (catalogue)

C.N. Gorman Museum and Richard L Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, California, 1981

Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, 1977

Wheel, 

is an on-going process of creating a 50 foot, outdoor porcelain and steel signature sculptural work which will be sited at The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado. The sculpture receives its inspiration from the traditional Medicine Wheel of the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming. Wheel shall relay the history of Colorado and be dedicated in 2004.

Outdoor Installation of (12) tribal sign panels, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2002

Lithography print produced, Crow’s Shadow Press, Institute of the Arts Umatilla Nation, Pendleton, Oregon, 2002

Permanent Digital Photo Mural Cheyenne Cultural Center, Clinton, Oklahoma 2001

Lithography print portfolio production, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 2001

Collaborative Cheyenne Text Mural, Globe Café, Seattle, Washington, 2001

Outdoor Installation of (7) tribal sign panels, Jacobson House, Norman, Oklahoma, 2000 Jacobson House, Norman, Oklahoma, 2000

Outdoor sculpture, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1996-1999

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Bus-bench project: Text placed upon 26 civic benches, Summer 1996

St. Louis, Missouri: Metro-link transit system, subway advertising panels, executed on each subway car, 1995 and 1996

Music CD Jacket design with prose insert, Amnesty International, 1996

Outdoor, roadside panel, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, 1996 (permanent)

Public Sign Installation, Main Place Mall, Public Art Project, Keepers of the Western Door, Sponsored by CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., 1996

Los Angeles (artists’ internet coop website): http://www.FAVELA.org. Los Angeles, California, 1995-on-going

Consultant, interviewer and camera operator on video project. 42 min. VHS documentary, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 1995

Learn A War Cry  

Text Installation, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 1994

Woodland Pattern Book Art Center, 

Text Mural, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1994-95

A suite of screen prints, Art Awareness, Lexington, New York, 1993

A series of (7) billboards, size 10’X 20’ each, Sponsored by The Wexner Center, presented city-wide, Columbus, Ohio,

A presentation of 24 text panels at The Three Rivers Art Festival, Point State Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1992

(2) Outdoor 4’X 10’ panels, Commissioned by and presented for the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1992

A screen-printing production of a suite of silk scarves, size 42"X 42" and the production of a text-based shirt edition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992

Outdoor Installation of (12) First Nations sign panels, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1992

A 400 foot sign installation of 40 metal, screen-printed signs, honoring the 40 Dakota Warriors executed on December 26, 1862 by order of President Abraham Lincoln. The work was installed on the West River Parkway, Mississippi River, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sponsored by The Walker Arts Center, 1991

A public art project consisting of (30) bus transport signs, each 30"X 90"., sponsored by The San Jose Museum of Art in conjunction with Claim Your Color. Project text listed Mission Gifts given to Native people in California. Words offered in red color on white ground read: Syphilis, Small Pox, Scarlet Fever, Forced Baptisms, Mission Gifts-Ending Native Lives, Santa Clara County, California, 1991

A permanent installation of 15 pastel drawings, Harold Washington Library Center, City of Chicago Public Art Program, 1991

Porcelain enamel sculpture with text and images. Two large panels, each standing erect, size 42"x 96" in Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington, Sponsored by Art in Public Places, Seattle Arts Commission, 1991 (permanent)

In Permanent Collection, Seattle Art Center, Statewide Circulating Exhibition, Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington, 1985

An Installation of (12) tribal sign panels, Sponsored by The Public Art Fund, City Hall Park, New York, New York, 1988

Eagles Speak,

Presentation of New Video Project with Solo Exhibition, Greatmore Art Studios, Cape Town, South Africa, 2002 and Presentation of Video Project as part of the Group Exhibition, The Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa, 2002.

American Flashcards

 Presentation of collaborative video piece (Heap of Birds with Pierre Lobstein, of Paris, France) titled: Sharp Rocks. This video was licensed to the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in 1992 for a year-long national broadcast to numerous stations across the United States as part of the American Flashcards series.

Pacific Film Archive, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, 1991

Native American Arts and Identity, St. Lawrence University, St. Lawrence, New York, 1990

International Video Touring Project, Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1987

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

National Endowment of the Arts, 

Washington D.C., Art Context, Artist in Residence Program, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, 2001

Cross Cultural Creative Values of the Shona, Khosian and Narragansett Tribal Classic Arts and the Contemporary Art of Today, 2001

For Travel to South Africa and Zimbabwe, University of Oklahoma, 2001  

Finalist, Fulbright Research Award to Zimbabwe, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 2001

Comparative Tribal Renewal Sensibilities of Southern African and Oklahoma, 1999

Grants received for Wheel, The Bonfil Stanton Foundation, 1999

for Australia, University of Oklahoma, 1997

in Australia, 1994. This community-to-community residency, undertaken in Sydney and Adelaide, Australia, culminated in a collaborative exhibition of art work by sixteen contemporary aboriginal Australian artists and Heap of Birds. The exhibition opened at The University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas and toured nationally.

Arts America Speaker and Cultural Specialist, 

Arts America Program, an office of the United States Information Agency’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. This exchange project was administered by the United States Embassy in Sydney, Australia in October of 1994.

Cheyenne Belief Systems and the Artistic Parallels to Australian Aboriginal Central Desert and Urban Life Experience, 1994

Project title: Message for Fort Reno. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Inter-Arts Program of The National Endowment for the Arts, 1991-92

Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Painting, Providence, Rhode Island, 2002

Brown University, List Art Center, Department of Art, Providence, Rhode Island, 2002

Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 2002

About Studio/About T.V. Community Art Space, Web TV Internet Broadcast and Video Lecture, Bangkok, Thailand, 2002

Artist in Residence, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, 2002

Chariho Public School, Narragansett Reservation Area, Chariho, Rhode Island, 2002

University of Houston and Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2002

University of Wisconsin, Department of Art and Native American Studies, Madison, Wisconsin, 2002

Graduation Ceremony Keynote Address, Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation, Geary, Oklahoma, 2002

Bush Radio, Salt River Road Community Radio Station, Cape Town, South Africa, 2002

Unified Field Summit on Science, Art and Spirituality, Western States Arts Federation, Aspen, Colorado, 2002

Gifted and Talented Program, Geary Elementary School, Geary Public Schools, Geary, Oklahoma, 2002

Putnam City Indian Education Program, Putnam City Public Schools, Warr Acres, Oklahoma, 2002

Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Studies Program, New York, New York, 2001

Texas Art Education Association, Keynote Conference Speaker, Lubbock, Texas, 2001

Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 2001

Texas Art Education Association, Keynote Conference Speaker, Lubbock, Texas, 2001

Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 2001

Public Art Seminar, Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2001

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase New York, 2000

Native Arts Network: 2000, Keynote Address, ATLATL New York, New York, 2000

Oklahoma Multi-Cultural Leadership Institute, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 1999

Tisch School of the Arts, American Photography Institute, New York University, New York, New York, 1999

Native American Studies Conference, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999

Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Studies Program New York, New York, 1999

Yale Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1998

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1998

University at Buffalo, Art Gallery / Research Center in Art and Culture Buffalo, New York, 1998

Off Shore/On Site, Festival of the Dreaming, Olympic Arts Festival, Residency Project, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, Australia, 1997

University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia, 1997

Whitney Museum of Art, Independent Studies Program, New York, New York, 1996

Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, Juror, Feldman Artist/Scholar Grant Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1995

8th Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1995

College of Fine Arts, University of Oklahoma, Inaugural Symposium, Norman, Oklahoma, 1995

Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program New York, New York, 1994

Association of American Cultures, National Arts Conference Columbus, Ohio, 1994

The Institute of International Education, United Nations Plaza, New York, New York, 1994

The Women’s Caucus on the Arts and The College Art Association, Seattle, Washington, 1993

Fundacion "La Caxa" and Arts International/Institute of International Education, Crossing Cultures, Barcelona, Spain, 1993

Institute of American Indian Arts, The College of Santa Fe and New Mexico

Gallery of Art and School of Social Work, Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, 1992

Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, 1992

Kirkpatrick Center, Oklahoma State Arts Council, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1992

International Sculpture Conference, The Sculptor as Social Agent, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992

Chautauqua-Chicago, Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, Illinois, 1992

Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Sculpture and Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, 1992

Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California, 1992

College Art Association, Studio Session: African and the Americans, Chicago, Illinois, 1992

Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program New York, New York, 1992

Panelist, Border Issues, CRCA, University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas, 1991

University of Washington, Keynote Speaker, "Do Artists Make a Difference", International Conference Concerning Public Art, Seattle, Washington, 1991

Quinault Tribal Educational Center, Quinault Reservation Olympic Peninsula, Washington, 1991

Tulsa University, in Conjunction with Tulsa Arts Coalition and Mid-America Arts Alliance, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1991

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1990

Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia Print Club Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1990

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1989

La Jolla Museum of Art and The University of California San Diego, California, 1989

"Open Dialogue", The Association of American Cultures Washington, D.C., 1988

Explorations in Creativity, Riverside Indian School, Anadarko, Oklahoma, 1987

National Association of Artists Organizations, National Conference, Houston, Texas, 1986

"New World Expressions", A Native Art History Course, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, Oklahoma, 1986

EXHIBITION CURATOR / JUROR:

Eagles Speak,  

Honoring the Unity of Eagles from Southern Africa and North America, Collaborative Group Exhibition, Curator and Exhibiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, 2002

The Association for Visual Arts Museum, Cape Town, South Africa, 2002.

Co-Curator and Exhibiting Artist, Noble Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma, 2001

Cherokee Cultural Heritage Center, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 2001

Member Curatorial Team, Millennium Exhibition Project, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1998-2000

Curator, Days of Invention, Touring group Exhibition:  

Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1997

Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas, 1997

Juror, Native American Student Art Exhibition, School of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 1996 and 1997

Curator, No Beads No Trinkets, Four Directions Council Delegation, Palais de Nation, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1984

Curator, Modern Native American Abstraction, Nationally Touring Exhibition, 1983 (catalogue)

Curator, Cheyenne Ways and Meanings An Exhibition of Cheyenne Artifacts, History and Poetry, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1980

University of Science and Arts,

Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Umatilla Nation, Pendleton, Oregon, 2001

Heritage and Preservation Panel, Washington, D.C., 1999

Public Art Commission, Seattle, Washington, 1999

New Genre Grants Panel, Washington, D.C., 1995

This program, sponsored by The NEA, Rockefeller Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation, was administered by Diverse Works Artist Space, Houston, Texas, 1994

Public Art Support Group, Mankato, Minnesota, 1991

Two consultations were provided for architectural planning concerning three new museum facilities and recommendations toward new museum policy measures. Washington, D.C., and Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1991

Art is My Sharp Rock,

30 Minute Video Documentary, Work in Progress, By George Burdeau, 2003

Eagles Speak,  30 Minute Video Documentary, By Nick Mazonowicz, 2002

Art Con Text, Exhibition Notes #17, Eagles Speak, The RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 2002

Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Modern Warrior,  Undergraduate Thesis,Andrew Kimear, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, 2002

Object, Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, History of Art Department, University College, London, England, 2001

Art Beyond the West, Michael Kampen O’Riley, Laurence King Publishing, London, England, 2001

Edmond Monthly, Norman Living, Historic Living, and Nichols Hills News, November Issues, 2001, Mattison Avenue Publishing, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Ambiguo, Proyecto de Interferencia Cultural # 7, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2000

Indian Time, Art in the New Millennium, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2000

Bridgeways, Detours, and Passages Within: Examining the Interrelationship of an Artist’s Processes Through a Case Study of Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Masters of Education Thesis, Cynthia A. Cotner, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2000

Who Stole the Teepee?, National Museum of The American Indian, New York, New York, 2000

Visit Teepee Town, Native Writing After the Detours, Dianne Glancy and Mark Nowak, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1999

Native American Art in the Twentieth Century, W. Jackson Rushing III, Routledge Press, London, England, 1999

Billboard, Art on the Road, A Retrospective Exhibition of Artists Billboards of the Last 30 Years, Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.

of the Last 30 Years, Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999

Absence/Presence, The Artistic Memory of the Holocaust and Genocide, Stephen C. Feinstein, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1999

Face Forward, Self Portraiture in Contemporary Art, Universal Lithographers Inc., Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 1998, for The John Michael Kohler Arts Center of the Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc.

The Next Word, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, 1998

Native North American Art, Janet C. Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1998

Literature, Scott B. Vickers, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1998, also Cover Design by Edgar Heap of Birds

Beauty is Nowhere, Ethical Issues in Art and Design, Richard Roth and Susan King Roth, G&B Arts International imprint, The Gordon Breach Publishing Group, Amsterdam B.V., 1998

Edgar Heap of Birds: Confronting Issues of Race, Representation and History in Public Art, Tonia Allison Lowe, Master of Fine Arts Thesis, Department of Art, University of Colorado, 1997

The Lure of the Local, Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, Lucy R. Lippard, The New Press, New York, New York, 1997

An Interview with Edgar Heap of Birds, Andrea Yangas, Thresholds Journal: Viewing Culture, University of California, May, 1997

16 Songs/ Issues of Personal Assessment and Indigenous Renewal Edgar Heap of Birds, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 1996

Special Issue Newsletter No. 3, Autumn 1996, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, Sydney, Australia, 1996

Plains Indian Drawings 1865-1935, Pages from a Visual History, Janet Catherine Berlo, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with The American Federation of Arts and The Drawing Center, New York, New York, 1996

Gifts of the Spirit, Works by Nineteenth-Century Contemporary American Artists, An Exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, Acme Printing, Wilmington, Massachusetts, 1996

Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1996

CORTEXt: A Survey of Recent Visual Poetry, Bob Harris, Nicholas Frank and Johanna Drucker, Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1995

Mapping The Terrain, New Genre Public Art, Suzanne Lacy, Bay Press, Seattle, Washington, 1995

La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine et Ses Invites des USA, Mairie du 6eme Arrondissment, Paris, France, 1995

Face Forward: Self Portraiture in Contemporary Art John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 1995

Land Spirit Power, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas, 1994

Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, Terry Barrett, Ohio State University, Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain View California,

I Stand in the Center of the Good, Interviews with Contemporary Native American Artists, Lawrence Abbott, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska and London, England, 1994

Native American Art, David W. Penney and George C. Longfish, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1994

Localities of Desire, Contemporary Art in An International World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 1994

Tell Yourself, Exhibition Notes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1994

C Magazine, "The Past Position and Future of Native Artists in North America", Toronto, Canada, Summer Issue, 1994

Croton Bug, Poetry Anthology, "Public Enemy Care for Youth", Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1994

Revisions, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre of the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1992

Green Acres-New Colonialism In The United States Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, 1992 (catalogue)

Movement Research, Performance Journal # 4, Winter/Spring New York, New York, 1992

Matrix, Exhibition Notes, Eagles Speak, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1992

Eye of Nature, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Center of the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1992

Lost Illusions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1991

Border Issues, Negotiations and Identity, CRCA, University of Texas Arlington, 1991

The UnMaking of Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, 1990

Re-Imaging America: The Arts of Social Change, Guest Editor, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Santa Cruz, California, 1990

Awards in 1989, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, New York, 1989 

Public Signs, Public Messages, Paper Air, Winter Issue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1989

Makers, Renegade 17/18, Point Riders Press, Cottonwood Arts Foundation, Norman, Oklahoma, 1988

Re-Visions Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Center, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1988

Eight Native American Artists, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1987

We Always Turn Around On Purpose, SUNY, College at Old Westbury, Long Island, New York, 1986

Image/Word, The Art of Reading, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California, 1985,

Modern Native American Abstraction, Edgar Heap of Birds, Globe Color Press, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1993

Contemporary Native American Art, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 1983

American Indian International Tribunal Examining the Economic Effects of U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policies; D.Q. University, Davis, California, 1982

I-80 Series: Edgar Heap of Birds, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska,1982

Confluences of Tradition and Change, Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, California, 1981

ADVISORY BOARDS:

Social and Public Arts Resource Center (SPARC),

Member, Committee "A", Native American Studies Program, University of Oklahoma, 2000, 2001 and 2003

Member, Program Committee, Native American Studies Program, University of Oklahoma, 1999

Member, University Council on Awards and Honors University of Oklahoma, 1996

Member, University American Indian Task Force, University of Oklahoma, 1995-1996

Member, School of Art, 2-D Studio Faculty Position Search Committee University of Oklahoma, 1995-1996

Member, School of Art, Committee A, University of Oklahoma, 1996-1997

Member, University Committee on Racial and Sexual Harassment, University of Oklahoma, 1996

Member, School of Art, Painting Faculty Position Search Committee, University of Oklahoma, 1996

Faculty Sponsor, "Big Idea" Student Group, School of Art, University of Oklahoma, 1996-1997

Member, University Council on Awards and Honors, University of Oklahoma, 1995

Member, School of Art, Lightwell Gallery Committee, University of Oklahoma, 1995

University of Oklahoma, 1992-94

Member, School of Art Space Use Committee, University of Oklahoma, 1994

Member, College of Fine Arts Summer Wind Steering Committee University of Oklahoma, 1994

Member, School of Art Sculpture Faculty Search Committee University of Oklahoma, 1994

Member, University Council of Faculty Awards and Honors University of Oklahoma, 1993

Member, Norman Campus Strategic Planning Task Force Sub-Committee On Institutional Equity Issues, University of Oklahoma, 1992

Member, University of Oklahoma Racial and Ethnic Harassment Hearing Panel, 1991-93

Member, Search Committee to identify Director School of Art, University of Oklahoma, 1992

Member, Search Committee to Identify the New Dean of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of Oklahoma, 1990-91

Coordinator, Visiting Artist/Curator Talks, School of Art, University of Oklahoma, Cecelia Munoz, 1992; Lawrence Rinder, 1991; Dana McBride, 1990; Richard Ray Whitman, 1989.

Curator, Department of Painting, Advanced Painting, student exhibitions, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1991 and Individual Artists of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1990

INSTITUTIONS OF ADVANCED STUDY ATTENDED BY HEAP OF BIRDS’ STUDENTS:

The Whitney Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Of Circularity and Linearity in the Work of Bear’s Heart, by Edgar Heap of Birds, Exhibition Catalogue from: Plains Indian Drawings 1865-1935, Pages from a Visual History, Published by Harry N. Abrams, 1996

16 Songs/Issues of Personal Assessment and Indigenous Renewal, Exhibition Catalogue, The University of North Texas Art Gallery, Exhibition Catalogue, The University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 1996

Land Spirit Power, Exhibition Catalogue, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 1992

Completing The Circle: Artists’ Books On The Environment, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1992

The Myth of the Primitive, Routledge Press, London and New York, edited and compiled by Susan Hiller, London, England, 1991

What Makes A Man, Exhibition Catalogue, Matt’s Gallery, London, England, 1988

Blasted Allegories, an Anthology of Artists Writings, New Museum-MIT Press New York, New York, 1987

"Visual Artists Organizations, Past-Present and Future" After Image Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, 1986

Comment, Representation, Realize, Territory of Oklahoma, Individual Artists of Oklahoma, 1983 and Arsenals Offering Earth Poison, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, 1984

Modern Native American Abstraction: Exhibition Catalogue, Philadelphia Art  Alliance and The Indian Rights Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1983

Plains Pictographic Art: An Evolving Tradition, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1985