SELECT Solo EXHIBITIONS
Firefly, Breakfront Project Space, Baltimore, 2024
Shadowbox, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio, 2023
The Kitchen at 14 Rua de Santo Amaro at Buinho Fab lab and Creative Residency, Messejana, Portugal, January 2022
Greenbelt EarthSplash, solo public art project commissioned by ProArt Art Organization, Wise + Big Stone Gap, Virginia, 2021
The Thin Place, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD, August - October, 2019
REMAKE / REMODEL, Salisbury University, 2018, with Artist Aurora Robson. Co-curated by Tara Gladden and Elizabeth Kauffman
Encampment, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD. 2017
Periodicities Of Chaotic Forcing, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, March 2016
Feynman’s Sister and other Space Weather Hazards, Gibbs Street Gallery, VisArts at Rockville, Maryland. Solo, October 2015
Satellite, Sandbox Gallery, Chesterton, MD, September 2015
Things Fall Apart, Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA. Solo. 2013
Radiant, Slocumb Gallery, Slocum Galleries at Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson, TN, 2013
Solid Objects and the Wandering Clew and a permanent site-specific installation, Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA. Solo, 2013
What Comes Later, Kohl Gallery, Washington College, Chestertown, MD. Two-person with Benjamin Bellas, 2012
Into this Honeyed Presence Strewn, Gilliam Center for the Arts, University of Virginia's College at Wise, VA, 2010
Fractious Happy, Delaware Center for the Creative Arts, Wilmington, DE, 2009
Blue Ghost Revisited, Site-specific installation, Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University
Blue Ghost, Site-specific installation at Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Beneath, Behind, Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 2007
Heather Harvey, This Century Art Gallery, Williamsburg, VA. 2005.
Group EXHIBITIONS + Projects
Shadow-Work, NARS Foundation, Season III International Residency Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY, 2023
Color | Surface | Space and the Abstract Imagination, Kohl Gallery, Chestertown, MD, 2023
The Invincible Visible, Katzen Arts Center at American University, Transformer’s 19th Annual Exhibition & Benefit Auction. 2023
MSAC Maryland Arts Directory Triennial Juried Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland, 2023, Juried by Jayme McLellan and José Ruiz 2023
Whimsy, Gallery 115, Frederick, MD, two-person with Shana Kohnstamm, Curator Rula Jones, November 2021-January 2022
Mournful Maroon, Collaboration with poet Ann Iverson in non-profit quarterly online journal, The Light Ekphrastic, Feb 2023 edition
The Most Lamentable Comedy, a joint project of Transformer and but, also. Rotunda Gallery, GW Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, December 2022
UNDER $500, Benefit art exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland, 2022
Revolve:R, ed. four. A multidisciplinary international collaboration of visual artists, poets, filmmakers, sound artists, and musicians. Organized by Sam Treadaway and Ricarda Vidal 2021-23
Put it to the Fire, Brentwood Arts Exchange Gallery, Brentwood, MD, Sobia Ahmad, juror, 2021
Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, 2021
ICA Baltimore, 2020 Flat Files Program, Baltimore, MD
By the People x Monochrome Collective Art Fair, Washington DC, 2020
Artworks for Freedom, Easton, Maryland. Exhibition and grass roots campaign to raise awareness of human trafficking, 2017
Heated Exchange, J. Wayne Stark Galleries at Texas A&M University, and Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL. 2016, 2014
NUTUREart Benefit, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York City, NY. Jurors: Jennie Lamensdorf, James Panero, Amy Smith-Stewart, and Mark Tribe, 2013
Radiant, Slocumb Gallery, Slocum Galleries at Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson, TN, 2013
Regeneration, The Painting Center, New York City, NY. 2012
From These Hills: Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands, William King Museum, Abingdon, VA, 2009
Melted, PAAL, Petersburg, VA, 2011
Scaffolding, Charles Harris Library Gallery, Wise, VA, 2009
KY7 Biennial, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY, 2008
TriState Sculptors Exhibition, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 2008
Divas and Iron Chefs of Encaustic, traveled to: UTSA Gallery, University of Texas-San Antonio; McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas; Emerson Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. 2007/8. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2006
So Inclined, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY, 2007
We and Us, PLAySPACE Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2007
Griddy Galore, FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2006
The Old Grey Whistle Test, Plant Zero, Richmond, VA, 2006
ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA. Three-person with Jared Clark & Jason Coates, 2006
Emerging/Transition, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2006
W/E, Claremont Graduate University Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2006.
Primary, Hunt Gallery, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA, 2006.
NO OBJECT: An Abstract Show, Artspace, Richmond, VA. Leigh Ann Chambers, juror, 2003
Residencies
NARS Foundation Artist in Residency Program, Brooklyn, New York, Summer 2023
Cultivate’s La Baldi Residency, Artist-in-Residence, Montegiovi, Italy, Summer 2022
Buinho Creative Hub, Artist-in-Residence, Messejana, Portugal. January 2022
John Cage Memorial Park Artist Residency at Chance House, Maryland, July-August, 2018
Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship Art Residency, February 2015
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency Fellowship, Sweetbriar, VA, 2014
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency Fellowship, Sweetbriar, VA, 2003
AWARDS AND other DISTINCTIONS
Transformer Flat Files Program, Washington, DC, 2021-present
Professional Development Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, 2023
Professional Development Grant, Maryland State Art Council, 2022
Faculty Travel Grant, NARS Foundation AIR program, 2023
Independent Visual Artist Award ($10K), Maryland State Arts Council, 2021
Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council, Artistic Discipline: Sculpture, 2017
Holstein Program Prize in Ethics for Curricular Innovation, Washington College, Maryland, 2017
Sustainable Arts Fellowship, $2,000 Stipend Award for Vermont Studio Center Residency, 2015
Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council, Artistic Discipline: Sculpture, 2014
Faculty Enhancement Grant for Fellowship Artist Residency at Vermont Studio Center, 2015.
Faculty Enhancement Grant, for Fellowship Artist Residency at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2014
Semi-Finalist, Trawick Prize, 2009, 2013
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Artist Fellowship in Sculpture, 2009-2010
Co-Curator artNOW:DC, Kohl Gallery, Washington College, Chestertown, MD 2013. Co-curated with Natalie Cheung
Round Table Discussion, The Painting Center, New York, NY, January 5, 2012, with artists Richard Nickolson, Lois Swirnoff, Richard Raisalis, Alice Oh, and Heather Harvey
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth University, Painting and Printmaking, 2007
B.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth University, Painting and Printmaking, 2003
Bibliography
Revolve:R, edition four, hardcover, 273 pages, Arrow Bookworks, 2023
“In The Galleries: Transformer 20,” Washington Post, Review by Mark Jenkins, December 2, 2022
“Whimsy,” Curatorial Essay by Rula Jones, 2021
“Heather Harvey: The Thin Place,” Academy Art Museum Magazine, Summer 2019
“Seriousness of Purpose and a Sense of Play, Heather Harvey” Washington College Review, Vol. XXVI, May 2019
“Remake, Remodel” Curatorial Essay by Tara Gladden, 2018
“SSG Artist Podcast: Heather Harvey,” Podcast interview with Second Street Gallery Executive Director, Warren Craghead. https://soundcloud.com/user-44562390/16-03-harvey-pod, March 2016.
“Artist Spotlight: HEATHER HARVEY” - Artist Interview, Second Street Gallery, March 2016.
“Review: What Comes Later,” Chestertown Spy, by Mary McCoy, September 5, 2012.
“Re-generating Josef Albers,” by Jennifer Cognard-Black, exhibition catalog essay for Re-Generation exhibition, 2012.
“Josef Alber’s Legacy of Teaching” Painter’s Table Magazine, by Brett Baker, 2011.
“Regeneration” Curatorial Essay by Carrie Patterson, 2011
“Fractious Happy,” for solo exhibition, by Carina Evangelista, Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art, 2009
“From These Hills” William King Museum, Curatorial Statement by Ray Kass, 2009
"The Power of Molten Media," Richmond Times-Dispatch, by Roy Proctor, October 12, 2008
“Artists Wax Eloquent in an Ancient Medium,” Washington Post, by Michael O'Sullivan, April 25, 2008
Lawrence Rinder, 2007 M.F.A. Exhibition catalog, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Keeping it Real” bt Virginia Spivey, exhibition catalog essay for The Divas and Iron Chefs of Encaustic, 2007.
“A Conceptual Leap From the Dark Tombs of Antiquity to the Light, Here and Now,” by Joanne Mattera, exhibition catalog essay, 2007.
Reni Gower, Curator’s Remarks in exhibition catalog for The Divas and Iron Chefs of Encaustic, 2007.
“Mapping the MFA Studio: Flow and Interchange in the First Year,” by Paul Ryan, Exhibition essay for “The Old Grey Whistle Test,” 2006.
Currently Associate Professor and Studio Art Coordinator at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, USA.