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AMBER HEATON
amber.n.heaton@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2012 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, MFA
2009 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, BFA
1998 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, BUS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 From the Sides, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
Digits, Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA
2018 Evenly Even, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2016 Everything is Equal, This Friday or Next Friday, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Friends of Friends, Current Work, Salt Lake City, UT
2021 Forbidden Fruit, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
RISD Faculty Exhibition, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2020 Reclaiming, Reimagining - Online Exhibition, Field Projects, New York, NY
2019 Ad Astra Per Aspera, The Wassaic Project: Maxon Mills, Wassaic, NY
Poiesis, Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2018 Art, Artists & You, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY
The New Non: New Narratives in Non-Representational Art and Abstraction, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
Special FX, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Scholarship for Advanced Studies in Book Arts Exhibition, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2017 Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, NY
Preset Bodies, Ribuoli Digital, New York, NY
Salon 7, Brooklyn, NY
Light Years Away, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ, curated by Wavelength
Natura Mathematica, Central Booking, New York, NY
2016 Endless Biennial, 20/20 Gallery, New York, NY
New Prints 2015/16, Soeffker Gallery, St. Paul, MN
Innervisions: New Prints 2016/Summer, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
Vanishing Point, Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ
2015 Triennale de l’Art Imprimé Contemporain, Musée Des Beaux-Art, Le Locle, Switzerland
Portal: Governor’s Island, 4Heads, Governor’s Island, NY
The Contemporary Print, Big Medium at Print Austin 2015, Austin, TX
2014 2014 Pacific States Biennial National, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Campus Center Gallery, Hilo, HI
Stand Out Prints 2014, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
88th Annual International Competition Online Exhibition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Downstate/Upstate - RBPMW Printmakers, The Ink Shop, Ithaca, NY
The Dean Hotel: Video Program, Season 1, The Dean, Providence, RI
#secretEVE, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2013 Traces of Absence, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
Pressing Relations, Art Connects New York, Brooklyn, NY
As the Eye is Formed, Parrish Museum, Water Mill, NY, curated by Peter Campus
New Prints 2013/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
2012 Adjunct Faculty Exhibition, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
Show Me Your Glands, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
RISD MFA Exhibition, Providence, RI
Mediated Realities, Cohen Gallery, Providence, RI
Come Here, I Need You, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI,
2011 On the Threshold of Something Else, Something Other..., Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
AWARDS | RESIDENCIES
2018 Wassaic Project Summer Residency, Wassaic, NY
2016-17 Scholarship for Advanced Studies in Book Arts, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2016 Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2010-12 Printmaking Department Graduate Fellowship, RISD, Providence, RI
2001-03 Fulbright ETA Fellowship, South Korea
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Laura Berman, “Amber Heaton,” Reflection on Color and Printmaking (March 20)
2020 Nick Naber, “Social Distancing: Remote Visits Part IV,” The Coastal Post (Sept. 15)
2019 Sarah Cascone, “Editors’ Picks: 15 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” Artnet (May 13)
2015 Sarah Cascone, “At the Governors Island Art Fair, Artist Get a Room of Their Own,” Artnet (Sept. 3)
Meg Busacca, “Top 5 Installations to See at 4Heads Governors Island Art Fair,” Design & Trend (Sept. 4)
2012 Joel Kuennen, “Who’s Next? MFA’s from Yale, RISD, and SAIC,” Art Slant (May 31)
Greg Cook, “The ‘2012 RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition’: Stars on parade,” The Boston Phoenix (May 23)
ARTIST LECTURES
2022 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO (forthcoming)
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
2021 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
New York University, Brooklyn, NY
2020 New York University, New York, NY
Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
2019 Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Art, Rochester, NY
Cedar Crest College, Art and Art Therapy Department, Allentown, PA
2018 Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2017 University of Rochester, Department of Art and Art History, Rochester, NY
2016 Hamline University, Visual Art Department, St. Paul, MN
2014 Rutgers University, Artists’ Books Class, New Brunswick, NJ,
2012 Rhode Island School of Design, Pre-college Program, Providence, RI
2012 Museum of Art - Rhode Island School of Design, Teen Program, Providence, RI
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Printmaking Department, Providence, RI
Instructor, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY
Instructor, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO (forthcoming)
2021 Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Printmaking Department, Providence, RI
Instructor, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
2018 Instructor, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
2017-18 Instructor, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2014-18 Instructor, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY
2015 Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Printmaking Department, Providence, RI
2012 Adjunct Lecturer, Brown University, Department of Visual Arts, Providence, RI
Instructor of Record, Rhode Island School of Design, Printmaking Department, Providence, RI