The newest exhibition at the Heard Museum opens in April.

“Bob Haozous: A Retrospective View” is the first major retrospective for the artist Bob Haozous (Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache, b. 1943). The exhibition brings together six decades of his work including sculptures, paintings, prints, and jewelry.

The exhibition opens Friday, April 4.

“Bob Haozous has created unique sculptures in stone, wood, and steel throughout his career, as well as drawings, paintings and jewelry,” Diana Pardue, Heard Museum chief curator, shared in a press release. “In each of these artforms, he invites the viewer to look closely. At times, the works seem whimsical or humorous, but each contains a message.”

The exhibition examines the timely social commentary embedded in Haozous’s work and his overlooked contributions to the field of contemporary art through the presentation of more than 75 works, the Heard notes.

Throughout his career, Haozous has shaped current dialogues about the complicated reality of American Indian creative expression as art, commodity, and cultural practice, a press release explains. Haozous uses satire and irony to reconsider figurative traditions within Indigenous art while contemplating the philosophical meaning of being Indigenous in the postmodern world.

Haozous is known for his monumental works including five steel sculptures commissioned by the Phoenix Aviation Department. Titled “Homage to Hohokam” and erected on 24th Street, these works merge nature and commerce.

“Bob Haozous: A Retrospective View” is made possible by Lila Harnett, Elizabeth Firestone Graham, Susan Esco Chandler and Alfred D. Chandler, and by supporters of the Heard Museum Grand Gallery Exhibition Fund.

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Ticket prices for the museum are: adults are $26; seniors (65+) are $21;military members are $21 (with valid ID);university/college students with a valid ID are $10; children (6-17) are $10; all children 5 years and under, American Indians (with Tribal ID or CIB) and Heard Museum members are free.

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The Heard was founded in 1929.

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Bob Haozous’ “Market Chief,” a work from 1981 made of African Wonderstone.

(Photo provided by Heard Museum)