ABOUT THE ARTIST

Bio:

Heidi Schwegler explores a wide range of materials in the service of messy and depressing subject matter. She has participated in numerous shows, including exhibitions at Raid Projects, (LA), Platform China (Beijing), Scope Art 2004 (New York), and the Hallie Ford Museum (Oregon). Schwegler is a recent Ford Family Fellow (OR), received a 2010 MacDowell Colony Fellowship (NH) and several RACC Individual Project Grants (OR). She has lectured on her work at contemporary art and design at institutions such as the Burg Giebichenstein, (Germany), Cranbrook Academy of Art (Michigan) and Kendall College of Art and Design (Michigan). Reviews of Schwegler’s work have been published in Art in America, ArtNews and the Huffington Post. She earned her MFA from the University of Oregon and is Associate Professor at Oregon College of Art and Craft.

CV:

2013

Museum of Contemporary Craft, Hallie Ford Fellows Group Show

2012

‘The Known World’, Chambers Gallery, Portland, OR  solo

2011

‘Imposter’, RAID Projects, LA

2010

Portland2010, Portland Biennial, ‘Swimming Through Nitroglycerin’

‘Hold’, Disjecta, Portland, OR solo

Collections

Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR

Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, OR

Bruce Guenther, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Portland Art Museum

White House

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Media Description:

Video, freestanding sculpture, wall mounted framed digital images

Image:

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Detail of Dead Inside, 2010, powder coated chainlink fence, motor

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