Heather Harvey works across traditional art genres including painting, drawing, and sculpture, as well as post-studio, ephemeral approaches including walking to collect trash, plants, debris, and other found materials. Her projects grow out of an interest in the sciences (astronomy, physics, biology, geology), philosophy, poetry, psychoanalytical perspectives, and social justice issues. An enduring motivation is the need to metabolize inner experience and come to terms with the realities of being human. Her work layers subjective, personal, and emotional reckonings alongside conceptual and aesthetic interests. Through this complex interweaving of objective versus subjective experiences, she tries to make sense of the world and our fragile place in it.
Heather Harvey is an American artist living on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. Recent solo exhibitions include The Thin Place, at the Academy Art Museum, in Easton, Maryland; The Kitchen at 14 Rua de Santo Amaro, in Messejana, Portugal; and Remake-Remodel at Salisbury University, MD. She was artist-in-residence at Cultivate’s La Baldi Residency in Italy and Buinho’s Creative Hub in Portugal. She is the recipient of several grants including the MSAC Independent artist award (2014, 2017, 2021), the Sustainable Arts Foundation (2015), and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship (2009-10). Her residency at NARS Foundation is supported by Washington College in Chestertown, MD and the Maryland State Art Council.
