HEATHER BEARDSLEY
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​​Heather Beardsley

Education

Fulbright Research Scholarship, 2015-2016
Art and Science Masters Program, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna, Austria


Masters of Fine Arts, May 2015
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Arts, May 2012
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, May 2009
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA


Solo Exhibitions

2024     Oceans Between Us, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2024    Tell the Bees, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, USA 
2023    Heather Beardsley: Strange Plants, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, USA
2022    
Pteridomania, Shenandoah Valley Art Center, Waynesboro, VA, USA
2022    This Will Be for Thousands of Years, Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, VA, USA
2022    A Dream of Strange Cities, Artspace, Richmond, VA, USA 
2019     Folding City, Rogers Studio Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, USA 
2019     Strange Plants, IZONE, Kyiv, Ukraine             
2018     Variations on a Theme, Merion Hall Gallery, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2017     Biomimikry, Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Braunschweig, Germany
2016     Encoded Elucidations, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria


Two and Three Person Exhibitions


2023    Hexagonal, with Dan Flounders and Garth Fry, Assembly, Norfolk, VA, USA
2023    The Nature of Things, with Hilarys Waters Fayle and Kris Iden, Flippo Gallery, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA,
​             USA 
​2019    Once I had…, with Britta Benno, Kraam Art Space, Tallinn, Estonia
2019    Red Thread, with Guido Nosari, Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2018    Transmigration, with Anne Stagg, Curfman Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA


Group Exhibitions

2025     Homes & Habitats, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, VA, USA
2024     Tschua: Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosity, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2024     totgeliebt, Semmelweissklinik, Vienna, Austria
2024     Dollhaus: Reimagining the Domestic Space, Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, VA, USA
2024     Alpha 60, augmented reality exhibition in Arnold Arboretum, Boston, MA, USA 
2024     15 Ans de La Box, La Box Gallery, ENSA Bourges, Bourges, France
2023    In the Middle with You, The Middle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023    Organic Matter, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA, USA
2023    Unbound 12, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA 
2023    Beyond the Frame:
 A Contemporary Exploration in Mixed Media Photography, Target Gallery, Torpedo Art Center, Alexandria
             VA, USA 
2022    More than Shelter, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA 
2022    Flora/Fauna/Fiber, Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, USA
2022    Other Ways of Seeing, The Plaxall Gallery at Culture Lab LIC, Queens, NY, USA 
2021     2021 Textile Biennial, Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, Netherlands
2020    Rogers Art Loft Year One Retrospective, Rogers Studio Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2020    Sea of Change, Virginia Beach Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA, USA 
2020    Devotion: Sewing the Sacred, Surface Design Association Exhibition in Print 
2020    Tiny but Mighty National Juried Exhibition,  d'Art Center, Norfolk, VA, USA 
2020     Flat Files at OyG, Ortega y Gasset Projects, New York, NY, USA 
2019      Shangyuan 2019 Residency Program Closing Exhibition, Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019      8th World Textile Art Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, Museo del Traje, Madrid, Spain 
2019      Depth, Michigan Science Center, curated by Science Gallery Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA 
2019      Shangyuan Artist in Residence Opening Exhibition, Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019      Fantastic Fibers 2019, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY, USA 
2019      New Waves 2019, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, USA 
2019      Memory Palace, Jackson Dinsdale Art Center,  Hastings, NE, USA 
2018      Werkpräsentation der KulturKontakt A.I.R.: Austrian Chancellory, Vienna, Austria 
2018      Transcultural Emancipatioin, Fluc, Vienna, Austria  
2018      Collider, Circa Modern, Chicago, IL, USA
2018      BARTR x Tinta, Tinta, Budapest, Hungary 
2018      Circular, Gestalt Projects, Santa Monica, CA, USA 
2018      Off the Wall, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC, USA
2018      Amateras Annual Mini Paper Art Competition, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria 
2018      The 12th International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art "Scythia", Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine 
2018      Fake, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 
2018      Material, D'Art Center, Norfolk, VA, USA 
2018      Books Undone, The Gallery at Penn College, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA, USA
2017      Botanik, Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, USA             

2017      War in the Arts: Redeeming Spirits, Orange Hall Gallery, SUNY Orange, NY, USA         
2017      Department Of, Montagehalle, University of Fine Arts- Braunschweig, Braunchschweig, Germany 
2017      Prescriptions: artist books, Tempelman Gallery, University of Kent, Kent, UK
2017      Shout, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA 
2017      Wild Cuts, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA 
2017      Fight or Flight, The Painting Center, New York, NY, USA 
2017      Paper Works, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX, USA 
2017      We the People: Political Art in an Age of Discord, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA 
2017      Nearby - Faraway: 19th Annual Mini-Textile Exhibition, Gallery SVÚ, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017      30th Annual Women's Works, Old Court House Art Center, Woodstock, IL, USA
2016      Crafting Community: SDA 2016 Inaugural International Exhibition In Print (print exhibition)

2016      New Fibers 2016, Eastern Michigan University Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI, USA 
2016      19th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA 
2016      Inspirácia Papierom III, Galeria X, Bratislava, Slovakia
2016      Prescriptions, The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury, UK (catalogue)
2015      Cut / Create: The Endless Possibilities of Paper, Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2013      Radius250 2013, artspace, Richmond, VA, USA
2013      Smörgåsbord, Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD, USA

Residencies/ Fellowships

2024     Pier-2 Art Center Artist in Residence, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
2023     CANTemporaries Art Residency, CAN Foundation, Newport News, VA, USA 
2022      Artist in Residence, La Box, École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges, Bourges, France 
2020     33 Officina Creativa, Toffia, Italy (cancelled due to COVID-19)​
2020     Sirius Arts Centre Artist in Residence, Cobh, Ireland 
2019      Rogers Arts Loft Artist in Residence, Las Vegas, NV                     
2019      IZOLYATSIA Residency Program, sponsored by US Embassy, Kyiv, Ukraine 
2019      Shangyuan Art Museum Artist in Residence, Beijing, China
2018      Artist in Residence, KulturKontakt Austria, awarded by the Austrian Federal Chancellory, Vienna, Austria
2018      Artist Residency, fee supported, BARTR, Budapest, Hungary             
2017      Braunschweig Projects International Artist Scholarship, awarded by the Ministry of Science and Culture from the
              State of Lower-Saxony, Germany


Awards and Grants


2024
2022     Honorable Mention- This Will Be for Thousands of Years, Best Museum Exhibition (New Work) 0f
                   2022 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, VEER Magazine issue, December 2022
2020    Pandemic Relief Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art, USA
2020    Merit Award, Sea of Change, Virginia Beach Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA, USA

2020    Merit Award, Tiny But Mighty National Juried Exhibition, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA, USA
2020    Modern Meets Tradition Award, Devotion: Sewing the Sacred, Surface Design Association Exhibition in Print
2018     Finalist, Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art, Mainline Art Center, Haverford, PA, USA
2017     Peripheral Visions Publication Fellowship, Peripheral Vision Arts, Dallas, USA
2017     First Place, 30th Annual Women's Works, Old Court House Art Center, Woodstock, IL, USA
2015     Fulbright Scholarship Research Grant for Installation Art, Vienna, Austria

Public Lectures and Workshops

2023     Cyanotype Workshop, Torggler Fine Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA, USA
2023     Visiting Artist, Intro to Sculpture Class with Ryan Lytle, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA, USA
2023     Visiting Artist Lecture, Fashion Embellishments Course, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2022     Visiting Artist Talk, Environmental Science Program, Brock Environmental Center,
                   Virginia Beach, VA, USA
2022.     Image Transfer Workshop, Torggler Fine Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA, USA
2022     Coffee + Conversation, with Mel Price, in conjunction with More Than Shelter, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art,
                    Virginia Beach, VA, USA
2022     Artist in Residence Lecture, École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Bourges, Bourges, France
2022    Panelist, Fulbright Info Session, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2022     Artist in Residence Lecture, ENSA Bourges, Bourges, France
2021      Visiting Artist Lecture, Grant-Writing Seminar, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2021      Visiting Artist Lecture, Fashion Embellishments Course, School of the Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago, USA
2019      Cyanotype Workshop, Las Vegas Natural History Museum, Las Vegas, USA
2019      Artist in Residence Lecture, Rogers Studio Gallery,  Las Vegas, NV, USA
2019      Artist in Residence Lecture, IZOLYATSIA, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019      Artist in Residence Lecture, Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019      Visiting Artist Lecture, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA
2018      Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2018      Stop Motion Animation Workshop, BARTR Art Residency, Budapest, Hungary
2017     "Biomimickry", artist lecture, Braunschweig Staatliches Naturhistorischesmuseum, Braunschweig, Germany
2016     "Conceptual Map-making: Reenvisioning the Objects in Vienna’s Globenmuseum", presentation, Fulbright Seminar
               in American Studies, Strobl, Austria

​Institutional Collections

Amateras Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria
Artists' Books and the Medical Humanities Project, University of Kent, Kent, UK
Candela Collection, Richmond, VA, USA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, USA
Rogers Arts Foundation, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China

World Textile Art Organization, Miami, Florida, USA

Publications

​
2023    Photo Trouvée Magazine, issue 10, pp. 82-85, 15 Apr. 2023, 
2022    Eberhart, Jenna. “11 Contemporary Textile Artists to Celebrate During Women's History Month.” Not Real Art, 23 Mar. 2022,
                 https://notrealart.com/contemporary-textile-artists-womens-history-month-2022/. 
2022    Manby, Jo. “Plant Apocalypse – Heather Beardsley’s Speculative Embroidery.” The Fourdrinier, 3 Jan. 2022,
                  https://www.thefourdrinier.com/.
​2021    Laurens, Morgan. “Q+Art: Heather Beardsley Brings Wide-Eyed Wonder to the Art of Science.”
                  Not Real Art World, 18 Aug.2021,   
             
​                  https://notrealart.com/artist-heather-beardsley-art-and-science/.
2020    Autumnus, E-Squared Magazine, issue 5, pp. 131-135, Fall 2020
2020    Adams, Helen. “Heather Beardsley.” Textile Curator: Waking up the World to ContemporaryTextile Art, 10 Aug. 2020,
                   www.textilecurator.com/home-default/home-2-2/heatherbeardsley/
2020    Tomasello, Anne Marie “Artist Highlight: Heather Beardsley ‘The Nomad Artist’.” Studio Practice Blog, Apr. 2020
                   https://www.amtmaker.com/heatherbeardsley
2019    Biennial Edition, Peripheral ARTeries, Fall 2019
2019    Average Art Magazine, vol. 36, July 2019
2019    Beardsley, Heather. “Heather Beardsley | Biomimicry.” The Art Blog, 2019,
                 http://the-art-blog.info/7376/heather-beardsley-biomimicry/
2019    Bleakley, Alan, editor. “A Manifesto for Artists’ Books & the Medical Humanities.”Routledge Handbook of the Medical
                  Humanities
, by Stella Bolaki, Routledge, 2019.
2019    Krysa, Danielle. “Heather Beardsley.” The Jealous Curator, 27 Feb. 2019,
                  http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2019/02/27/heather-beardsley/
2018    BARTR 2018 Anthology, in collaboration with Hurrikan Press and Vulkan Gallery, Budapest, Hungary



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        • Strange Plants, Animations
        • Strange Plants, Timelapse Videos
      • Stitched and Stained
      • Cross-Pollination
      • Oceans Between Us
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      • Once I Had...
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      • Strange Plants, Found Textiles
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