Education:

• Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Fine Arts Concentration in painting minor in drawing, 2011- 2015

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Publications:

• Art of Hearts magazine, Issue #5 first anniversary, 2024 

• Create! Podcast, Pulling Back the Curtain: Scenic Painting & More with Heather Heitzenrater,  Feb 11, 2022

• Beautiful Bizarre blog, Painting Curious, Chaotic Worlds With Heather Heitzenrater, Feb 24, 2022

• Candyfloss magazine, Issue #2, 2021

• Artistic Platforms Magazine, issue #20, 2019

• Adorn Me: Poet Artists Magazine, 2019

• Pikchru Magazine, 2019

• Pretty Girls Making Cool Shit Blog, 2019

• Artistic Platform Magazine, 2019
   

• Glorious Color: Poet Artists Magazine, 2018

• BOOOOOOM Magazine online featured artist, 2018

• Buzzfeed article One Hundred Artists One Tribe, 2018

• Minus 37 Article, 2018

• Publication in Poet Artist Magazine: The New Nude Issue 86 curated by Walt Morton, 2017            

• Chimera Journal, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 2014

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Awards:

• Jurors Choice Award for as the World Falls Down, Panza Gallery Pittsburgh, PA, 2019

• Juror's Choice Award for the Academy Center for the Arts National Juried Show, Lynchburg, VA, 2018

• People's Choice Award 3rd place, Heat Wave, Blick Art Materials Pittsburgh, 2018

• Featured Visual Raw Artist for the month of August, 2015

 

Exhibitions:

• Strange Paradise, Annimarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, MD 2022

• Dreamland solo show, Curio Gallery, PA 2022

• Imaginarium solo show, boxheart gallery, PA 2022

• Surreal Salon 13, Baton Rouge Gallery, LA 2021

• Congruence, I Like Your Work Podcast, Summer 2020

• One: Anniversary Show, PxP Contemporary, PA, 2020

• Surreal 12, Baton Rouge Gallery, LA, 2020

• Surreal Salon 11, Baton Rouge Gallery, LA, 2019

• Distilled, Member and Instructor Show, Pittsburgh Center of the Arts, PA, 2019

• Radial: A Sampling of Artists from Radiant Hall, Westmoreland County Community College, PA, 2019

• Flora and Fauna, Paragon Gallery, Phoenixville, PA, 2019

• Mystical Mundane: New works from Christopher Boring and Heather Heitzenrater, Gallery One Collective Works, PA, 2019

• Artist of the Month at Artisan Café, PA, 2019

• As the World Falls Down, Panza Gallery, PA, 2019

• You are Here Annual Juried Show, PA, 2019

• Red Carpet Project, Gallery One Collective Works, 2019

• 107th Annual Show, Westmoreland Museum, 2019

• Bare Form, Monongalia Arts Center, Morgantown, WV, 2018

• The Figure Revealed, Kaviar and Forge Gallery, Louisville, KY, 2018

• Thresholds, Solo Show, Boxheart Gallery, Pittsburgh, 2017

• Lynchburgh, VA Art Center Annual National Juried Show, 2017

• Storytellers, Group Show, Percolate Gallery, Pittsburgh, 2017

• A Legacy of Observation, Edinboro University Painting Alumni Show, Crary Gallery, Warren, PA, 2017

• Associated Artists of Pittsburgh new members show, Jask Gallery and Framehouse, Pittsburgh, 2017

• The Realist, Seton Hill University, Greensburgh, PA, 2017

• Radiant Hall 5 Year Anniversary Show, Jask Gallery and Framehouse, Pittsburgh, 2017

• Blick Artist of the Month solo show, Blick Art Materials, Pittsburgh, 2016

• Erie Art Museum 93rd Annual Spring Show, 2016

• Annual Juried Student Show, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 2015

• Chimera Soiree, Erie Art Museum, 2014

• Shattered, Bates Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 2014                

• Annual Juried Student Show, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 2013        

• Annual Juried Student Show, Bruce Ballery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 2012 

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Organizations and Committees:

• Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, 2017 - Present

• Radiant Hall Studio Artist, 2016 - Present

• Pittsburgh Society of Artists, 2015 -2019          

• Edinboro University of Pennsylvania’s Drawing and Painting Club President, 2014 -2015      

• Edinboro University of Pennsylvania’s Drawing and Painting Club Secretary, 2013 - 2014

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Employment:

​Scenic Painting

• Scenic Artist for ScareHouse, 2017- Present

• Scenic Artist for Pittsburgh City Theater 2018 - 2020

Juror/curating

• Curator for Out of Shape, Ketchup City Creative - 2022

• Curator for There for I am, Spinning plate gallery - 2021 

• Curator For Prism, Ketchup City Creative - 2020

• Juror for Upper St. Clare Mt. Lebanon Galleria Show - 2018

• Juror for grades 6th -8th Pittsburgh Public School Art Show - 2018

• Exhibition Chair for Pittsburgh Society of Artists, 2017 - 2018​

Instructor

• Figure Drawing & Painting Instructor at Pittsburgh Center of the Arts 2017 - Present 

• Drawing Instructor at Fox Chapel High School for Adult Night Classes 2018-2019

• Artist talk for Upper St. Clare Art League - 2018

• Artist talk for Penn Hills Art League - 2018

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