HEATHER LEIGH MCPHERSON
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EDUCATION
2008 MFA Painting, with honors, Rhode Island School of Design
2006 BFA Painting, with honors, Washington University in St. Louis School of Art
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2015- Present
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Providence College
2017-2020
Chair, Department of Art and Art History, Providence College
2009-2015
Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Providence College
2008- 2009
Special Lecturer, Department of Art and Art History, Providence College
EXHIBITION RECORD
Solo and Two-person Projects
2021 Below the Thin: Heather Leigh McPherson and Sarah West, Take It Easy, Atlanta, GA
2018 Raid The Database 3 with Heather Leigh McPherson (web-based), RISD Museum
2017 Tip of The Nose, GRIN gallery, Providence, RI
2016 High Bottom, Actual Size LA, Los Angeles, CA
2015 30 Special Colors, Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO
Anytime Concept, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
A Platform For Traits, curated by Jamilee Lacy, PC-Galleries, Providence College, Providence, RI
2014 Hot Salad, 186 Carpenter, Providence, RI
Ginny Casey and Heather Leigh McPherson, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Group Projects
2021 Cyborgian Swamp Thing II: Or, the Post-human Untergang, curated by Andrew Woolbright, Below Grand, New York, NY.
2020 Wintergarden (3-person show with Scott Alario and Judd Schiffman). 159 Sutton, Providence RI.
2019 Can You Dream It (Yes I Can), Kristen Lorello Gallery, New York, NY
Dot Conference, curated by Kirstin Lamb, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY.
2018 The Little Baby Show, 315 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 UNTITLED Art Fair, GRIN gallery, Booth C24, Miami Beach, FL
[Old/New] Psychedelic Providence, curated by Jamilee Lacy, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL
The 2016 deCordova New England Biennial, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Ground Rules, curated by Corey Oberlander and Lindsay Stapleton, Sugar Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2015 Improvised Showboat #7: Command-Z, curated by Sharon Butler, Lauren Britton, and Zachary Keating, 55 Washington Street, New York, NY
RISCA Fellowship Exhibition, Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
2014 From here to there: Providence College Studio Art Faculty Showcase, PC-Galleries, Providence, RI
About The Body, 1989 Gallery, Larchmont, NY, curated by Lauren Britton
Swell, GRIN Gallery, Providence, RI
2013 Drunk Tank Pink, curated by Benjamin Sutton, Field Projects, New York, NY
Eastern Argus: One Hundred Eyes, curated by Timothy Wilson, TNC Gallery, New York, NY
Radius, Keeseh Studios, Providence, RI, curated by Bunny Harvey
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND RESIDENCIES
2020 I-Park Foundation Artist Residency, East Haddam, CT (declined)
CAFR Grant, Providence College Committee on Aid to Faculty Research
2018 Summer painting faculty, Dimensional Image Making, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO, August 2018.
2016 Artist Residency, Kingman ArtHub, Kingman, AZ, March 7-April 15.
2015 CAFR Grant, Providence College Committee on Aid to Faculty Research
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, 2015 Merit Fellowship in Painting
2014 Artist Residency, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, May 2-31.
2013 CAFR Grant, Providence College Committee on Aid to Faculty Research
2007 Graduate Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design, Graduate Studies
2006 Commencement Speaker, Washington University in St. Louis School of Art
John T. Milliken Foreign Travel Scholarship recipient, Washington University in St. Louis School of Art
2004 Irving L. Sorger Award in Core, Washington University in St. Louis School of Art