HomeMy WebLinkAboutCV Heather Parrish_March2025Heather Parrish
heather.r.parrish@gmail.com
www.heatherparrish.art (2018-present)
www.heatherparrish.net (pre-2018)
512.589.0241
Education
2014 MFA, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
1999 BA, Kinesiology with K-12 Teaching Certification, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2004-11 Austin Community College, numerous courses in studio art and metal arts
Gallery Representation
Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Austin, Texas
Collaborative Public Event
2025 [Upcoming] Meandering River Project A multi-dimensional event series fostering connection
through space, time and community with the Iowa River. This is an iterative project
with two participatory performances planned for May and September/October.
Contributors are Stephanie Miracle (Dance), Jenna Supp-Montgomery
(Communications/Religious Studies), Liz McTernan (Visual Art), Eric Gidal (English),
David Cwiertny (Civil Engineering), Larry Weber (Hydraulics), Ramin Roshandel
(Music)
Solo Exhibitions
2025 [Upcoming] Project Art, University of Iowa Hospital, Iowa City, IA
2024 Cocoon with a Universe, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
2023 Precipitate, a Scope Collective project, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, link
2022 Seeing Out the Other Eye: A view through Waller Creek, Flatbed Center for Contemporary
Printmaking, Austin, TX link
Fugitive::Grounds, Ezra Stiles College Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
In conjunction with Desert Futures: Sahara conference, a Border Work collaboration
with political geographer Dr. Leslie Gross Wyrtzen
2019 Border Disruption, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
In conjunction with The Line Crossed Us: New Directions in Critical Border Studies, a
Border Work collaboration with political geographer Dr. Leslie Gross Wyrtzen
2018 TimeSpaceShadow, Artlink Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
2014 Homing, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN
Passages, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
Two/T hree-Person Exhibitions
2023 Narrated Memories TAG Gallery, Austin Community College, Austin, TX
Invited distinguished alumni artist in celebration of 50th Anniversary link
2017 Constructed Atopia/Structured Utopia, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Select Group Exhibitions
2024 Channel, Water Stories Exhibition, with Scope Collective, BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
(curated by Elena Soterakis) link
As the Phoenix, Mid America Print Council Exhibition, displayed in permanent collection at
Department of Cancer Biology, KU Med Cancer Center, Kansas City, MO
River Below, River Within, Open Air Media Festival, Public Space 1, Iowa City, IA
Print & Craft Showcase: Known Points, Form & Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM link
Mad World 24, SoMad Gallery, New York, NY, with Scope Collective link
2023 Insurgent Ecologies, Antenna and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane
University, New Orleans, LA (curators Imani Jacqueline Brown and Shana M. Griffin) in
collaboration with Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse, Corinne Teed, Jon Lund, link
11th International Printmaking Douro Biennial, Douro Museum in Régua, Portugal
(curated by Nuno Canelas) (catalog) link
The Contemporary Print, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM link
The Contemporary Print, PrintAustin, TAGallery, Austin Community College, Austin, TX link
Trazando Las Líneas / Tracing the Lines, Inkfest at St. Michael’s Printshop, Newfoundland
and Labrador, Canada link
The Inky Photographers, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX link
2022 31x12 Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Austin, TX link
2021 5th Global Print 2021, Douro Museum, Régua, Portugal
Landscape of Material and Mind, SciArt Initiative Exhibition, Scope Collective, New York
Hall of Science, Queens, NY link
Epiphanies, Scope Collective, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH link
Overflow: The Mississippi in Every State Imaginable, CoProsperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
(collaboration with Sarah Kanouse, Ryan Griffis, Corinne Teed and Over the Levee,
Under the Plow: An Experiential Curriculum Project) link
Many Waters, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN (collaboration with Sarah
Kanouse, Ryan Griffis, Corinne Teed) link
2020 Shape of a Practice, The Current: Mississippi. An Anthropocene River, HKW, Berlin,
Germany (collaboration with Sarah Kanouse, Ryan Griffis, Corinne Teed) link
Trazando Las Líneas / Tracing the Lines, Center for Embodied Pedagogy and Action,
San Juan, Puerto Rico [postponed due to pandemic to 2025]
Sympoeisis: Printmaking in the Expanded Field, Clara Hatton Gallery, Ft. Collins, CO
10th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro 2020, Douro Museum, Portugal
Intersecting Methods Portfolios Exhibitions: Bringing Together the Arts & the Sciences,
University of Stockton Art Gallery, Galloway Township, NJ
Habitus: Contemplative Manifesto, Lufrano Intercultural Gallery, University of North
Florida, Jacksonville, FL
2019 4th New York International Miniature Print Exhibition, Manhattan Graphics Center, NY, NY
Experimental Engagements, SLSA (Society for Literature, Science and Art), University of
California, Irvine, CA
4th Global Print 2019, Teixeira Lopes Museum/Diogo de Macedo Galleries, Gaia, Portugal
Scope: Theater of Collaborative Survival, DEPTH Exhibition, Science Gallery, Detroit, MI
In collaboration with Dr. Elizabeth Hénaff (Biologist; Assistant Professor, Integrated
Digital Media, NYU) and Léonard Roussel (Sound Engineer, Arup Firm, NY)
Habitus: Contemplative Manifesto, Juried Exhibition, University of Dallas, Dallas, TX
Traveling Juried Members Show, Southern Graphics Council International, Dallas, TX
2018 Celebration: 5th Year Anniversary Invitational, Linea de Costa Gallery, Rota, Spain
INTERSTICES / the space between, PINEA de Costa Gallery, Rota, Spain
2017 Mid America Print Council Juried Members’ Exhibition, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence,KS
Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition, Tokushima, Japan
Art of Valor, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
HereThere, Ink Shop Printmaking Center, Ithaca, NY
Place, Crossroads Gallery, South Bend, IN
Print Austin Exchange Portfolio, NJ Weaver Studio, Austin, TX
2016 Talleres de la Frontera, Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture, South Bend, IN
WPA Exhibition, The Noble Swede Gallery, LaGrange, TX
Return, Print Austin, Austin Community College Kramer Gallery, Austin, TX
Intersecting Methods, R&D Editions, Juried Portfolio Exchange, Greenbelt, MD
2015 Homecoming, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Intertwined, Airside Gallery East, Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, TX
Special Blend - The Contemporary Austin Teen-Mentor Collab, Pump Project, Austin, TX
People’s Show, People’s Gallery, City Hall, Austin, TX
Due West, University Park, Austin, TX
2014 Rust City Portfolio, Mid-America Print Council, Detroit, MI
Indefinite Spaces, Crossroads Gallery of Contemporary Art, South Bend, IN
Bibliography/Media
2024 link
(also new one about Water Stories)
2023 John Richards, Bocce Ball Films, “How Do You Ask Consent of a Microbe? Questioning
Coexistence in the Anthropocene at the Gowanus Canal”, a short documentary film
about Scope Collective, featuring the Precipitate exhibition, Open Source Gallery. link
Adelaide Roueche-Beard, “Art + Political Engagement: TAG In-Gallery Programming
Recap” TAG Gallery on-line article, November 8, 2023 link
TAG Gallery, Interview, Narrated Memories Exhibit - Heather Parrish, link
2022 Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, “Questioning Waller Creek: Heather Parrish at Flatbed
Press”, Sightlines Magazine, June 24, 2022 Exhibition Review link
2022 “Top 5 in Texas, July 14-22, 2022: Seeing Out the Other Eye” Glasstire {Texas Visual
Arts}, July 14, 2022 link
2022 Seeing Out the Other Eye. The Line-up: Eight Exhibitions to See In Austin, Texas,
June 2022. Reviewed by Sightlines: Arts, Culture, News, Idease, online magazine.
link
2020 Circular Linear SciArt Magazine: Culture of Contamination, Vol. 43, December 2020
link
Publications as Author/Contributor
2024 [book chapter, peer-reviewed, at press] Working the Border: Interdisciplinary encounters
across intellectual, material and political boundaries, co-authored with Leslie
Gross-Wyrtzen, PhD., Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences, edited by
Sheila McManus, Paul McKenzie-Jones and Julie Young, published by Athabasca
University Press, Lethbridge, Canada link
[collection, peer-reviewed, at press] Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art:
Engaging the Margins, edited by Jesse Jackson and Antoinette LaFarge, published by
BRILL Academic Press, Leiden, Netherlands
2023 Open Source Gallery 2023 Exhibitions Catalog, with essay Helen Betya Rubinstein
11th International Printmaking Douro Biennial Catalog, Douro Museum in Régua,
Portugal (curated by Nuno Canelas) link
2019 ‘Between Floodlines: The Driftless Area in the Anthropocene’, field guide/artist book
created in collaboration with Prof. Sam Munoz (Geography, Northeastern University) in a
five volume set with other contributors Sarah Kanouse (Northeastern University), Corinne
Teed (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), Ryan Griffis (Univeristy of Illinois,
Urbana-Champagne), Rozalinda Brocila (Chicago Art Institute), Nicholas Brown
(Northeastern University). Part of the Mississippi.Anthropocene Project, sponsored by
HKW, Berlin, Germany link
‘Video/Animation: Heather Parrish and Nathan Melz’, MAPC Journal, Volume 28/29:
The Membership Edition, p. 61
Individual Project Collaborations
2018 Field Notes: 1, handmade editioned artist book with poet Nekeisha Alayna Alexis &
illustrator Dorothy Jean
2017 ‘The River that Binds Us’, community mural project, with Nalani Stolz and Maclovio Cantú,
commissioned by the Near Northwest Neighborhood Association, South Bend, IN
‘Faces of Our Beloved Community’, community photo booth project with Zane Norman,
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, People’s History of Elkhart, Elkhart, IN
2016 ‘Dystopic Solutions: Bio-remediation’, editioned silkscreen on archival print, with Dr.
Elizabeth Hénaff, R&D Editions Portfolio, College Park, MD
‘Parallel Transparencies’, editioned artist book, with Cherie Weaver, SIFT Book Arts
Collective, New Orleans, LA
‘Bitter Harvest’, editioned screen print, with Jason Shenk of People’s History of Elkhart, IN
2015 ‘Hive Mind’, stop-motion animation installation in a bee hive, with Brenna Dwyer, The
Contemporary Austin, Artist Mentor Program, Austin, TX
Artist Lectures, Presentations, Workshops
2024 University of Iowa, Faculty Research Presentation, Iowa City, IA
Cornell College, Visiting Artist Lecture, Intermedia Class, Mt. Vernon, IA
Grinnell College, Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Department, Grinnell, IA
Grinnell College, Workshop: Experimenting with Natural Ink, Grinnell, IA
2023 TAG Gallery, Panel discussion: Artists in Conversation, in conjunction with Narrated
Memories exhibition, Austin Community College, Austin, TX
Civic Art Lab, Symposium presentation with Scope Collective, New York, NY
Frogman’s Print Workshop, Workshop Instructor: Polymer Photogravure, Iowa City, IA
Frogman’s Print Workshop, Artist/Faculty Lecture, Iowa City, IA
2022 Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Artist Talk, Seeing Out the Other Eye
Exhibition, in conversation with historian Katherine Pace, Austin, TX
University of Texas at Austin, Visiting Artist Talk, Advance Printmaking Class, Austin, TX
2021 Iowa State University, Visiting Artist Talk, Printmaking Area, Ames, IA
2020 Embracing the Wilds Conference, Western Printmakers Association, Panel
Presentation/chair, [Not] A Trace: Bordering, Memory, and Belonging, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO (virtual)
The Hour of Decision: Power, Persistence, Purpose and Possibility in African Studies,
African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Presenters/Authors: Gross-Wyrtzen,
Leslie, Parrish, Heather Policing the Virus: Borders, prisons and racialized containment
in Morocco and the United States, virtual, Peer-Reviewed/Refereed Composed images
presented in collaboration with Dr. Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen’s performative presentation
2019 The Line Crossed Us: New Directions in Critical Border Studies, Conference Presentation,
Working the border: Interdisciplinary encounters across intellectual, material and
political boundaries, collaboration with Dr. Leslie Gross Wyrtzen, Lethbridge
University, Lethbridge, Canada
Stanley Museum of Art, SmART Talk, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
SLSA (Society for Literature, Science and Art) Conference, Artist Round Table Discussion,
University of California Irvine Experimental Engagements,, Irvine, CA
2015 The Contemporary Austin, Teen Mentor Program- seven-months of weekly mentorship
culminating in a collaborative art exhibition, Austin, TX
2014 Krasl Art Center, Artist Lecture, St. Joseph, MI
Fellowships & Grants
2024 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant $5,000, supported by the Greater New York Arts, Development
Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), for Scope Collective’s
exhibition at BioBAT Art Space in Brooklyn, NY
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Local Arts Support Grant, $5,000 for Scope
Collective’s exhibition at BioBAT Art Space in Brooklyn, NY
Performance/ Exhibition Subvention Grant, $2,500 for Scope Collective’s exhibition
BioBat Art Space in Brooklyn, NY
2023 Exhibition Subvention Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, $2,500 University of Iowa
for Narrated Memories exhibition, TAG Gallery, Austin, TX
2022 Art & the Humanities Initiative Grant, $7,500 University of Iowa, for Border Work
Fugitive::Grounds Exhibition at Ezra Styles Gallery, Yale University, CT
2021 Old Gold Fellowship, $3,000 University of Iowa
2020 Obermann Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty Fellowship, University of Iowa
2019 IP Stanley International Travel Award, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Artist Residencies
2024 BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn, New York - one-year residency with Scope Collective
Urban Soils Institute Artist Residency, Governor’s Island, NY, with Scope Collective
2022 Devto Printmaking Institute, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
2021 Collaborative Print Studio/Artist Residency, Flatbed Press for Contemporary Print, Austin, TX
2018 PINEA-LINEA DE COSTA Artist Residency, Rota, Spain
2016 Segura Studios, Themed Group Residency: Borders, South Bend, IN
2013 Flatbed Press Artist Residency, Austin, TX
Professional Work Experience
2018-present Assistant Professor Printmaking, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Courses: Printmaking & the Politics of Protest, New Media in Printmaking, Intaglio,
Woodcut & Relief, Screenprint, Advanced Printmaking, Graduate Print
Workshop
Service: Area Head of Printmaking, Curriculum Committee, DEI Committee, Faculty
Senate Representative, BFA/MA/MFA Thesis Committees, Search
Committees for Visiting Assistant Professor, Instructional Track Faculty,
and Grant Wood Fellows
2016-2018 Visiting Lecturer/Research Associate, Printmaking, University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, IN. Courses: Screenprint, Woodcut & Relief, Studio/Safety Specialist
2011-2014 Instructor of Record, Printmaking, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Courses: Screenprint, Woodcut & Relief, Poster Shop, Book Arts and Paper Making
2008-2011, Professional Lead Printer and Workshop Instructor, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
2014-2015 (Intaglio, Book Making, Relief Printing, Monotype, Experimental Prints)
Professional Contributions
2019-present Assistant Editor, Mid America Print Council Journal
2024-present Board of Directors, Public Space One (local non-profit, artist-run community org)
2023 Faculty Instructor, Frogman’s Print Workshop, Polymer Photogravure, Iowa City, IA
2023 MFA Program Visiting Artist Studio Critiques, Maharishi University, Fairfield, IA
2022 Mentor, Southern Graphics Council International Conference
2021 Critical Creative Working Group,Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University
of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Professional Organizations
College Art Association
Society of Science, Literature and the Arts
Mid America Print Council
Southern Graphics Council International