Heather Beardsley
Period: 2024/06/17 ~ 2024/08/24
Nation: USA
Genre: Installation
Heather Beardsley is an American visual artist that creates mixed-media projects at the intersection of art, science, and environmental issues. Beardsley received her MFA in fiber from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015, and her BA art from the University of Virginia in 2009. She spent a year in Vienna, Austria on a Fulbright Scholarship for Installation Art, and in 2017, she was awarded a year-long Braunschweig Projects International Artist Fellowship by the government of Lower Saxony,Germany. Some of her residencies include Kultur Kontakt Austria in Vienna; Shangyuan Art Museum in Beijing, China; IZOLYATSIA in Kyiv, Ukraine; and La Box in Bourges, France. Beardsley has shown her work both nationally and internationally, including group exhibitions at Science Gallery Dublin, Museodel Traje in Madrid, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, and Museum Rijswijk in the Netherlands. In 2023, she had her first solo museum exhibition,Heather Beardsley: Strange Plants, at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk,VA.
