Education
2014 Columbia University, NY, NY, MFA
2008 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, BA, Liberal Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2022 “Exchange Place Portraits” Jersey City, NJ
2020 “HEIDI HOWARD” One River School, Englewood, NJ
2019 “Like Water For Faces” Continuo, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2019 “Roots Run Gold to Pink” Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2017 “Woven Traits” Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
2015 “Portrait and Dream” Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
2011 “Painting for Love” Con Artist Gallery, New York, NY
Two-Person Exhibitions
2018-20 “Heidi Howard and Liz Phillips: Relative Fields in a Garden” Queens Museum, Queens, NY, curated by Sophia Marisa Lucas and Baseera Khan
2019 “Heidi Howard and Katy Cowan: Something of a body, of a tempo” et al. gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 “Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard: Verano” Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Performances
2022 "Sea Gestures: Sound Swim" Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
2019 “Relative Fields in Motion” conceived and directed by Heidi Howard, electronics by Liz Phillips, movement by Cynthia Koppe, saxophone by Earl Howard at the Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Group Exhibitions
2022 “Lichtung” Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2021 “Nightmares and Visions” Simone Subal Gallery, New York, curated by Baseera Khan
2020 “DRAWN: Concept and Craft” Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, curated by Tomas Vu, Wendy Earle, Brian Novatny
2020 “Bubble Orchestra” The Virtual Dream Center
2019 "Friends and Family" Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles CA, curated by Keith Mayerson
2019 “Zeit-Geist-Zeit” Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2019 “May China” Tongda Group, Chengdu, China
2019 “May China” Xi’anAcademy of Fine Arts, Xi’an, China
2019 “Francesca Longhini, Kara Rooney and Heidi Howard” Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
2018-2019 “The Queens International 2018: Volumes” Queens Museum, Queens, NY, curated by Sophia Marisa Lucas and Baseera Khan
2018 “Summer Jam, a painting show” W139, Amsterdam, NL, organized by Axel Linderholm, Melchior Jaspers and Nadia Benchagra
2018 “Against Forgetting” Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2018 “Plǝt-, Supersimetrica” Madrid, Spain, organized by Diego Diez and Dieuwertje Hehewerth
2018 “Concurrent Realities” Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2017 “Water and Dreams” Chicken Coop Gallery, Portland, OR and Green Gallery West, Milwaukee, WI, organized by Katy Cowan
2017 “SPRING 2017 - GROUP EXHIBITION” Gaa Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2017 “Red Matters” Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, organized by Heather Cammarata-Seale
2016 “Bomb Pop Up!” 1822 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Drea Cofield,
2016 “Intimisms” James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, organized by Aliza Nisenbaum
2015 “Scent” Dickinson Roundell Inc., New York, NY, organized by Julio Felix
2015 “Figuration: Inside/Out” Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
2015 “Sight | Site | Cite” Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, organized by Noah Becker, Jeffrey Grunthaner and Julian A. Jimarez Howard
2015 “Signature Piece” Café Edna, Greenpoint, NY, organized by Krisstofer Marchena
2015 “60 Americans” Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, NY, curated by Noah Becker, Terrence Sanders & Alexander Venet
2015 “New Work New York” 695 Grand Street, Bushwick, NY, curated by Kat Griefen
2014 “Nancy Margolis Gallery @ Miami Project” Miami, FL
2014 “Four from Fourteen” Nathan A. Bernstein Fine Art, New York, NY
2014 “2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition” Fisher Landau Center for Art, Queens, NY, curated by Ruba Katrib
2013 “United Against Speculation” The Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu
2013 “Networking Tips for Shy People” 200 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Amanda Ryan, Ruth Patir and Cole Sayer
2013 “The Beauty of Friends Coming Together” Industry Cities, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Phong Bui
2013 “And after a pause, it continued.” The Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Jenny Jaskey
2013 “Magical Thinking” 200 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Juliette Premmereur and Dana Liss
2012 “Seeking Space” The Loom, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jillian Salik and Julia Sinelnikova
2012 “For Her Love” Arts East New York Inc., Brooklyn, NY, curated by Erika Petterson
2011 “The Lifecatching Project” Con Artist Gallery, New York, NY
2011 “Seeking Space” The Loom, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jillian Salik and Julia Sinelnikova
2010 “Seeking Space” 330 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jillian Salik and Julia Sinelnikova
2010 “Sideshow Silent Art Auction” The Gowanus Hotel Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Sarah Zar
2009 “It’s a Wonderful Life” Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Richard Timperio
2008 “Brooklyn Rail Auction” Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Phong Bui
2008 Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, curated by Dean Daderko
2007 Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, curated by Edwin Ramoran
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Residencies and Awards
2022 Meta Open Arts Commission
2021 Yonkers Artist Residency Project
2021 Terra Summer Residency
2021 Atlantic Center for the Arts
2020 Artist in Residence UT Knoxville
2020 The Rauschenberg Residency
2019 Queens Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
2018 Carrizozo Artist-in-Residence
2018 Palazzo Monti
2013 Rose Biller Scholarship
2013 Edward Mazzella Scholarship
2013 Faber Birren Scholarship
2013 Andrew Fisher Fellowship
2014 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence
2011 The Vermont Studio Center, Artist/Writer Grant