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Edgar Heap of Birds, Honor Song

Oklahoma Contemporary Museum
Oklahoma City, OK Exhibition



Oklahoma Contemporary is honored to present Neufs for Oklahoma Autumn, a basketball court installation commissioned as a public art iteration of the Neuf painting series (1981–ongoing) by renowned artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation). Neufs for Oklahoma Autumn, composed of imagery inspired by Oklahoma tribal lands, will be installed at Campbell Art Park and will be presented as part of the spring 2025 exhibition Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: HONOR SONG, the inaugural retrospective for the visionary artist’s lauded forty-year career.

Presented in collaboration with the artist, Project Backboard, and Common Practice in association and concurrent with Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: HONOR SONG, Neufs for Oklahoma Autumn draws audiences beyond typical art-settings and serve as a literal canvas for dialogue, site for contemplation, and platform for storytelling: connecting histories, traditions, narratives. The large-scale, functional versions of his painting series will stand as a powerful testament to the intersection of sports, culture, and identity in our state, inviting engagement with Campbell Art Park in unprecedented ways.