Heidi Howard
Opening Reception May 31, 6 - 9 pmPROVINCETOWN
May 31 – June 24, 2019
Heidi Howard (b. 1986, New York, NY) is a painter who lives and works in Queens, New York, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her figurative work draws on the intimacies of friendship as a foundational element of her inventive paintings, which are characterized by loose, free strokes and detailed, staccato texture. A 2014 graduate of Columbia University's Master of Fine Arts program, Howard has twice exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York: the 2017 show Woven Traits, as well as Portrait and Dream in 2015. Additional solo and two person exhibitions include, Like Water For Faces, Continuo, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Roots Run Gold to Pink, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA; Heidi Howard and Liz Phillips: Relative Fields in a Garden, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, USA, Heidi Howard and Katy Cowan: Something of a body, of a tempo, et al. gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA; and Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard: Verano, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA. Group exhibitions include zeit-geist-zeit, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA; Against Forgetting, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA; Red Matters, Hunterdon Museums of Art, Clinton, NJ; Bomb Pop Up!, Brooklyn, NY; and Intimisms, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY. Howard's press reviews include The Brooklyn Rail, Art F City, and online magazines artcritical.com and onverge.com.
BORN
1986, New York, New York, United States
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Woven Traits, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2015
Portrait and Dream, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011
Painting for Love, Con Artist Gallery, New York, NY, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Against Forgetting I, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Plǝt-, Supersimetrica, Madrid, Spain
Concurrent Realities, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
2017
Verano, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA (two-person exhibition with Esteban Cabeza de Baca)
Red Matters, Hunterdon Museums of Art, Clinton, NJ, USA, organized by Heather Cammarata-Seale
Spring 2017, Gaa Gallery Cologne Project Space, Cologne, Germany
2016
Bomb Pop Up!, 1822 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA, curated by Drea Cofield
Intimisms, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA, organized by Aliza Nisenbaum
2015
Scent, Dickinson Roundell Inc., New York, NY, USA organized by Julio Felix
Figuration: Inside/Out, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Sight | Site | Cite, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA, organized by Noah Becker, Jeffrey Grunthaner and Julian A. Jimarez Howard
Signature Piece, Café Edna, Greenpoint, NY, USA, organized by Krisstofer Marchena
60 Americans Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, NY, USA, curated by Noah Becker, Terrence Sanders & Alexander Venet
New Work New York 695 Grand Street, Bushwick, NY, USA, curated by Kat Griefen
2014
Nancy Margolis Gallery @ Miami Project, Miami, FL, USA
Four from Fourteen, Nathan A. Bernstein Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Queens, NY, USA, curated by Ruba Katrib
2013
United Against Speculation, The Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY, USA, curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu
Networking Tips for Shy People, 200 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA, curated by Amanda Ryan, Ruth Patir and Cole Sayer
The Beauty of Friends Coming Together, Industry Cities, Brooklyn, NY, USA, curated by Phong Bui
And after a pause, it continued., The Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA curated by Jenny Jasky
Magical Thinking, 200 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA, curated by Juliette Premmereur and Dana Liss
Seeking Space, The Loom, Brooklyn, NY, USA curated by Jillian Salik and Julia Sinelnikova
2012
For Her Love, Arts East New York Inc., Brooklyn, NY, USA, curated by Erika Petterson
2011
The Lifecatching Project, Con Artist Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Seeking Space The Loom, Brooklyn, NY, USA, curated by Jillian Salik and Julia Sinelnikova
2010
Seeking Space, 330 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY, USA, curated by Jillian Salik and Julia Sinelnikova
Sideshow Silent Art Auction, The Gowanus Hotel Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY curated by Sarah Zar
2009
It’s a Wonderful Life, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA, curated by Richard Timperio
2008
Brooklyn Rail Auction, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, NY, USA, curated by Phong Bui
Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, USA, curated by Dean Daderko
2007
Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, USA, curated by Edwin Ramoran
EDUCATION
2014 Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, MFA
2008 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, USA, BA in Liberal Arts
2006 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
2005 Instituto Lorenzo de' Medici, Florence, Italy
2004 Reed College, Portland, OR, USA
2004 The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY, USA
2003 Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
AWARDS
2013 Rose Biller Scholarship
2013 Edward Mazzella Scholarship
2013 Faber Birren Scholarship
2013 Andrew Fisher Fellowship
2011 The Vermont Studio Center Artist/Writer Grant
RESIDENCIES
2018 Artist in Residence, Palazzo Monti Residency Program, Brescia, Italy
2014 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence, Woodstock, NY, USA
2011 Artist in Residence, The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA
Gaa Gallery Wellfleet is pleased to present zeit-geist-zeit, a group exhibition of paintings and sculpture from artists whose works engage with thematic and cultural concerns of time and place. This exhibition opens with a public reception on Saturday, August 3 from 6 - 8 pm at Gaa Gallery Wellfleet, located at 230B Main Street. Exhibited artists include Kate Bancroft, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Patrice Aphrodite Helmar, Heidi Howard, Arghavan Khosravi, Gary Kuehn, Judy Pfaff, Johanna Robinson, James Everett Stanley, Erin Woodbrey, and Peter Zimmermann.
Gaa Gallery Wellfleet is pleased to present Verano, a two-person exhibition of new paintings by Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard. Opening Reception Saturday, September 2, 5 - 8pm. This exhibition runs September 2 - November 26, 2017.
Heidi Howard will have her second solo exhibition, Woven Traits at Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY. Open May 18 - June 24, 2017.
Gaa Gallery is pleased to present Spring 2017, a group exhibition featuring the work of Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Heidi Howard, Barry Stone, and Peter Zimmermann. The Gaa Gallery Project Space Cologne is located at Große Brinkgasse 8, 50672 Cologne, with parking available across the street at the Parkhaus Bazaar de Cologne. The exhibition will be open daily, April 23 - 30, 11am - 6pm. Closed Tuesday, April 25. Opening reception Sunday, April 23 from 11am - 4pm.
