Heather Stivison

Abbreviated CV

EDUCATION
•MFA in Painting, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Thesis of Distinction.
•BA in Fine Arts, Excelsior College, NY, Cum Laude
•Extensive additional studies in painting, drawing, book illustration, and textile design at
  Parsons School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and Montclair State University

RESIDENCY
2024    Vermont Studio Center

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024    Borders and Boundaries, Pleiades Gallery, NY, NY
2023    Seeds of Change: Paintings of Climate Change and Hope, Pleiades Gallery, NY, NY
2022    Surrounded by Water, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
2020    Waking Dreams, Gallery 244, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA
2018    Quench! The Vault Gallery, Dartmouth, MA

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION

2019 Heather Stivison & Patricia White. Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA

FOUR-PERSON EXHIBITION

2022 Tides and Currents, University of Connecticut at Avery Point (also featured lecturer)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

  • Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? A National Association of Women Artists Massachusetts exhibition, juried by contemporary art curator Craig Bloodgood. The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA

  • Here, I’ll Get That For You: Strokes of Kindness in Art, in Life, by invitation, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA

  • Art With Intention, Gallery Sitka, Newport, RI

  • South Coast Artists Spring Invitational, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI

  • Postcards to Venice, by invitation, Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice, Italy

  • 135th Annual NAWA Members’ Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists Signature Members, ONE ART SPACE, New York, NY

  • Pleiades 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY

  • Ambition, Juried NAWA exhibition, The Wedeman Gallery, Yamawaki Art and Cultural Center, Lassell University, Newton, MA

  • Aqueous, an international juried exhibition presented online by Art Fluent

2023

  • FEMALE, National Association of Women Artists Massachusetts Chapter, juried by the museum director, Berkshire Art Museum, MA

  • 134th Annual Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists, ONE ART SPACE, Tribeca, NYC

  • Exquisite Codes, a collaborative project organized by Jill Krutick Fine Art, and hosted by fine art gallerist/curator Diana Hohenthal in partnership with SHIM Art Network. Presented at Bla-Bla Projektraum, Berlin Germany.

  • From Landscapes to Mindscapes, National Association of Women Artists, Online

  • Depth Perception, National Association of Women Artists. Wellfleet Preservation Hall, MA

  • Synergy, Part Two, an art/science collaboration with WHOI-MIT research scientists (partially funded by MIT grant), Falmouth Art Center, MA

  • Black and White, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI

  • 32nd Annual Fakes and Forgeries, Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, RI

  • Winter Solstice, selected gallery artists at Pleiades Gallery, NYC

  • Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories, National Association of Women Artists, New York Public Library on 53rd St., NYC

  • Aqua, international juried online exhibition by Gallerium Art, Canada.

2022

  • 133rd Annual Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists, ONE ART SPACE, Tribeca, NYC

  • Changing Lives, Changing the Future, National Association of Women Artists Massachusetts Chapter, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA

  • Exquisite Corpse, a collaborative installation. By invitation, SHIM Art Network. Centro Espositivo San Vidal, Campo San Zaccaria, Venice Italy

  • SYNERGY II, an art/science collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI

  • Tides and Currents, University of Connecticut at Avery Point, featured artist and lecturer, CT

  • Inspired by Inness, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

  • Trust the Process, John Joseph Moakley U.S. Federal Courthouse, Boston, MA

  • Pages, Studio Montclair Leach Gallery, Montclair NJ

  • CT+6, annual regional show featuring artists from CT, MA, RI, NH, ME, VT, NY. Hartford, CT

  • South Coast Artists Invitational, Dedee Shattuck Gallery Westport, MA

  • Annual Summer Exhibition, Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA

  • Small Works, National Association of Women Artists annual exhibition, online

  • State of the Art 2022, a Studio Montclair exhibition, Montclair, NJ

  • Wabi Sabi, An Art-Fluent international juried show

  • American Women Artists 2022, Spring Juried Show online

2021

  • Perspectives 2021, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, International Juried Exhibition, South Korea

  • WOMXN, National Association of Women Artists juried exhibition, Marblehead Arts Association, MA

  • Changing the World: Women Role Models, national juried exhibition, Women’s Caucus for Art, Washington D.C.

  • Old Myths, New Stories, Women’s Caucus for Art, National Juried Exhibition. Curtis Cultural Arts Center, Greenwood Village, CO

  • Some Like it Hot, National Association of Women Artists, online.

  • 24th Annual Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club National Juried Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NYC

  • Below the Surface, a two-year grant-funded art and ocean science collaboration with the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, Falmouth Art Center, MA

  • Crocker-Kingsley, National Juried Exhibition, Blueline Arts Rosedale, CA

  • ConTEXT, An Art Fluent International Juried Online Exhibition

  • The Magic of Water, Cape Cod Cultural Center National Juried Exhibition, MA

  • South Coast Artists Invitational, Gallery at Four. Tiverton, RI

  • Time and Tide, Art Gallery 118, National Juried Exhibition. Brooklyn, NY

  • Faces and Figures, Flagler County Art League National. Palm Coast, FL

  • Back to Nature, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA

2020

  • Women Making Their Mark, O’Hanlon Center for Art, National Juried Exhibition. Mill Valley, CA.

  • Just Like a Woman, The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, MA. National Exhibition

  • Scylla: The Ugly Truth Revealed, part of the National Endowment for the Arts 2020 Big Read. Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA

  • Suffrage and Struggle: Feminist Art and the 19th Amendment Centennial, Regional Juried ExhibitionSalve Regina University, Newport, RI

  • 14th Annual International MFA/MA exhibition of Master Pieces, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH

  • Shifting Sights, presented online due to Covid by A R E A Gallery, Boston MA

  • SHIM Masters Show, presented online due to Covid, organized by SHIM Art Network with support from The Social Distance Art Project, UK

  • Inclusivity: For a Better World, Art League of Rhode Island, 0nline  due to Covid

  • State of the Art 2020, online due to Covid, Studio Montclair, Montclair NJ

  • Gallery X-Mas, Gallery X, New Bedford MA

SELECTED EARLIER EXHIBITIONS

  • Winter Works, the Annual Juried Exhibition of New England Artists, Bromfield Gallery, Boston. MA

  • In Transit, Arts League of Rhode Island, Vets Gallery, Providence; RI

  • Transformations, Parker Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY; part of a year-a series featuring two MacArthur “Genius” Award winners

  • Shift/Fix(ed), Hunter College Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED RECENT AWARDS
2024

  • Second Prize, South Coast Artists Members’ Invitational, Bristol Art Museum

2023    

  • Work of Merit, Black and White, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI

  • Judges Award in the 32nd Annual Fakes and Forgeries, Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, RI

  • Award for Drawing, Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY.

2022    

  • The Judith Cantor Memorial Award for mixed media drawing by the National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY

  • Best Social Commentary in Changing Lives, Changing the Future, National Association of Women Artists Massachusetts, Boston, MA

2021  

  • Best Representational Painting, Some Like it Hot, National Association of Women Artists, MA