Nowness: Edgar Heap of Birds

Nowness/Art Basel

Director/Cinematographer/Editor - Shaandiin Tome

How the natural world and Native American culture influence the Cheyenne-Arapaho artist’s decades-long practice.

For the last three decades, Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds has addressed the tumultuous, often violent, experience of Indigenous Americans through a multidisciplinary practice. In this episode of Meet the artists, we visit the artist in his Oklahoma City studio, and on the reservation where his family still holds land – directed by Albuquerque-based Diné filmmaker, Shaandiin Tome

Edgar Heap of Birds on channeling nature and Native American culture into art

Composition by Forrest Goodluck