HOCK E AYE VI   EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS

The artworks of HOCK E AYE VI  EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS  include multi-disciplinary forms of public art messages, large scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.

Heap of Birds received his M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , his B.F.A. from The University of Kansas, Lawrence , Kansas and has undertaken graduate studies at The Royal College of Art, London , England . 

The artist has exhibited his works at The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, Documenta, Kassal, Germany, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, Association for Visual Arts Museum, Cape Town, South Africa, Lewallen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Hong Kong Art Center, China.

He has served as visiting lecturer in London , England , Western Samoa , Chiang Mai and Bangkok , Thailand , Johannesburg , South Africa , Barcelona , Spain , Belfast , Northern Ireland , Norrkoping , Sweden and Hararre , Zimbabwe .

Heap of Birds has taught as Visiting Professor at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island and Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa.  At The University of Oklahoma Professor Heap of Birds teaches in Native American Studies and Fine Arts.  His seminars explore issues of the contemporary artist on a local, national and international basis.

He has received grants and awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Lila Wallace Foundation, Bonfil Stanton Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trust.

Currently Heap of Birds is creating a fifty-foot signature, outdoor sculpture titled: Wheel.  The circular porcelain enamel on steel work was commissioned by The Denver Art Museum and is inspired by the traditional Medicine Wheel of the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming .   

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