Artist Info: Heather McPherson
Bio
Heather McPherson was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1980. She graduated from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2005 with a major in Painting and a minor in Printmaking. As a child she rode to Pennsylvania on an Amtrak train every summer. She often spent the night looking at houses in unknown towns, trying to imagine what the occupants of those houses were doing and what their lives were like. Those early experiences have informed her explorations of houses and people, and the loose narratives we can gain from the exteriors of where we live. She has shown in Atlanta, Alabama, Ontario and Madrid, and has been featured on Juxtapoz, MTV, Wooster Collective and in the AJC.
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Artist's CV
EDUCATION
B.F.A. Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH, 2005
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 “shack, shanty, flat”, Get This! Gallery, Atlanta, GA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Three McPhersons, Mobile Arts Council, Mobile, AL
Surface, Fulton County Arts and Culture, Atlanta, GA
Gone With the Twins, Get This!, Atlanta, GA
Hambidge House 16th Annual Auction, Bradford Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Dashboard’s Dash Bash, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA
Streetela’s Launch, 900 Dekalb, Atlanta, GA
Madrid Street Advertising Takeover, street installation, Madrid, Spain
Art Papers 12th Annual Art Auction, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2010 Nick of Time, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Toronto Street Advertising Takeover, street installation, Toronto, Canada
Living Walls, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
Nevermind the Lines, Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Creative Boxes, Creative Loafing, Atlanta, GA
The Underbelly Project, undisclosed location, New York, NY
The Wanderers, Art on the BeltLine, Atlanta, GA
Dashboard’s Let’s Make it Big!, Blue Tower Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Here We Hide, Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Not You Self-Portrait Show, Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA
GRANTS/AWARDS/PUBLICATIONS
NOPLACENESS, Atlanta Art Now, book project of Possible Futures, 2011
Creative Loafing, Best of 2011 readers’ pick: Best Opening, “Gone With the Twins”, Get This! Gallery
Creative Loafing, Best of 2011 readers’ pick: Best Exhibit in a Gallery, “Gone With the Twins”, Get This! Gallery
Creative Loafing, Best of 2010 readers’ pick: Best Opening, “Here We Hide”, Mint Gallery
Creative Loafing, Best of 2010 readers’ pick: Best Art Exhibit in a Gallery, “Here We Hide”, Mint Gallery
Recipient 2010 Art on the BeltLine grant
COMMISSIONS
2011 MTV’s GYT Campaign (video)
2010 Used Film Photography Studio (murals)
Creative Loafing (newspaper box)
COLLECTIONS
2012 Steve Shane, New York City, NY