Project Description

b. 1964, Corvallis, OR

Heather Hutchison, was born in 1964, in Corvallis, Oregon, where her father, an itinerant caricaturist and cartoonist was drawing sorority and fraternity members at Oregon State University. She was raised moving between coastal Oregon, Laguna Beach, Marin County, and the mile-high desert along the southern border in Bisbee, Arizona. Her self-directed studies as an artist brought her from the San Francisco Bay Area to New York City in 1986, where she kept studios on 24th street between 10th and 11th avenues and later, in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Since 2001, she has lived, worked, and raised her family in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.

Largely self-taught, Hutchison has developed and innovated methods and mediums including hand-building and bending Plexiglas forms to facilitate her artistic process. Notably Hutchison’s works are constructed of utilitarian, and often re-purposed materials and incorporate ambient light as a primary material. She shares similar concerns with the Light and Space artists and has spent decades observing and contemplating nature. Hutchison’s works capture the essence of the phenomena of light in natural environments. Each piece is a direct inquiry into the perceptual experience of color, light, and shadow particular to a time of day and place. In recent works, Hutchison emphasizes the horizontal world that surrounds us and finds inspiration in the ever-present rhythms and syncopations of nature.

In 1989, Hutchison had her first solo exhibition at Bess Cutler Gallery in SoHo, followed by multiple solo exhibitions with representation by Jamison Thomas Gallery in SoHo, Nohra Haime Gallery in the Fuller Building on 57th Street, Margaret Thatcher Projects in Chelsea, Patricia Shea Gallery, and Shea & Bornstein Galleries in Los Angeles. Most recent solo exhibitions include; Louis Stern Fine Art, Los Angeles (2022, 2017), Winston Wächter Fine Art, Chelsea, NYC (2020, 2016), and Alfstad& Contemporary, Sarasota, FL (2018).

Museum collections include the Brooklyn Museum, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Hutchison has been included in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, the Montclair Art Museum, the Smithsonian, and the Knoxville Museum of Art, as well as having been included in the 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Heather Hutchison has been the grateful recipient of an emergency grant from Anonymous Was A Woman (2020) the Gottlieb Foundation Individual Artist grant (2019, 2011), the Pollock-Krasner award (2012) and a SOS Grant from NYFA (2009). Her work has been discussed in The New York Times, Artnews, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and other fine publications and media.

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
2020
Anonymous Was A Woman, Grant
2019
Gottlieb Foundation, Individual Support Grant
2012
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Grant
2011
Gottlieb Foundation, Individual Support Grant
2009
New York Foundation for the Arts, S.O.S. Grant
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Heavenly Stones and Earthly Stones, 57w57arts, NY, NY
2022
Where the Light Slips In, Louis Stern Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Heather Hutchison: At The Edge, Louis Stern Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Heather Hutchison: Mid Air, Winston Wachter Fine Art, NY, NY
2019
Heather Hutchison: In Praise Of Shadows, 11 Jane Street Art CenterSaugerties, NY
2018
Heather Hutchison: Forever Changes, Alfstad& Contemporary, Sarasota, FL
2017
Heather Hutchison: GLOWING, Louis Stern Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Heather Hutchison: What I Learned From the Sky, Winston Wachter Fine Art, NY, NY
2014
Heather Hutchison: Here Now, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
2013
Occupied Space, Imogen Holloway, Saugerties, NY (Installation)
2012
Hot Flash, Imogen Holloway, Saugerties, NY (Installation)
2011
Heather Hutchison: Studies in Light, 1991-2011, WFG Gallery, Woodstock, NY
2009
Dissolution, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY (Installation)
2007
Black and Light, Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY (Installation)
2006
Heather Hutchison: Night as Clear as Day, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2003
Heather Hutchison: Sheer Painting, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
1995
Heather Hutchison: Daily Thoughts for Daily Needs, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Heather Hutchison: Translucid Passages, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Heather Hutchison: Bold as Love, Patricia Shea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992
Heather Hutchison: Cross-Currents, Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Heather Hutchison: Five Easy Pieces, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Heather Hutchison: The Density Series, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Heather Hutchison, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Lumen, Albany International Airport, Rotunda Gallery, Albany, NY. Shaina
Gates, Ben Godward, Heather Hutchison Curator Kathy Greenwood
2022
Framing the Stretcher, Mizuma + Kipps Gallery, New York, NY Christian
Bonnefoi, Mark Dagley, Daniel Dezeuze, Max Estenger, Laurence Grave,
Heather Hutchison, Pierre Louaver, Lauren Luloff, Fabian Marcaccio, Chris
Watts, Alexi Worth. Curator Gwenael Kerlidou
2022
Scape, Glen Hansen Studio, Southhold, NY
2022
A Sense of Place, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Nancy Azara, Jenne Currie,
Donald Elder, Yale Epstein, Mary Frank, Heather Hutchison, Portia Munson,
Judy Pfaff, Joan Snyder, and Hongnian Zhang. Woodstock, NY
2022
The Color Yellow, Glen Hansen Studio, Southold, NY
2021
Albany International Airport, “Sunrise/Sunset”, Albany, NY
2021
Chromatic, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2021
25TH Anniversary Exhibition Part I, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY
2020
On the Same Wavelength, Louis Stern Fine Art, Doug Ohlson, James Little,
Heather Hutchison, Mark Leonard, Los Angeles, CA
2019
International Sculpture Day, Cross Contemporary Art @ JJ Newberry, Saugerties, NY
2018
Beyond Black and White, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Plus One, Project: Art space, New York, NY
2017
Huygge, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
2016
Luminance, The Painter’s Gallery, Fleischmanns, NY
2016
Cowgirls, Brick Gallery, Catskill, NY
2015
In This Light; Stuart Arends, Heather Hutchison, Maria Walker, Lesley Heller
Workspace NY, NY
2015
Sum of the Parts, Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art, Portland, OR
2015
Excavate, CHHS Projects, Widow Jane Mine, Stone Ridge, NY, Curator Laura Johansen
2015
Sideshow Nation; Thru the Rabbithole, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
An Exhibition in Print “Encaustic Works: nuance”, Curated by Michelle Stuart
2014
Summer Selections 2014, Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2014
50/50; Heather Hutchison / Mark Thomas Kanter, WFG Gallery, Woodstock, NY
2014
From the Vault, Imogene Holloway, Saugerties, NY
2014
Sideshow Gallery, “Sideshow Nation; The Alamo”, Williamsburg, NY
2013
Actions or Interventions, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Leaf In A Landscape, Imogen Holloway, Joy Taylor, Heather Hutchison,
Robert Otto Epstein. Saugerties, NY
2013
Natural Elements, art space 64@ Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Curator Holly
Shen Chaves
2013
Sideshow Nation, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY. Curator Rich Timperio
2012
Zoom In, Imogene Holloway, Saugerties, NY. Curator Diane Dwyer
2012
The Sky is Falling, Kleinert-James Art Center, Woodstock, NY. Curator Alan Baer
2011
Plane Speaking, McKenzie Gallery, New York, NY. Curator Valerie McKenzie
2011
Obsessive/ Reductive, College of the Canyons Gallery, Santa Clarita, CA
2011
It’s All Good (Apocolypse Now), Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curator Rich Timperio
2011
18+1, Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY
2011
Living Here, KTD Monastery, Woodstock, NY. Curator Cate Woodruff
2010
Metamorphosis, Nohra Haime Gallery,Ne w York, NY
2010
It’s a Wonderful 10th, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY. Curator Richard Timperio
2009
ECOTONES AND TRANSITION ZONES, Samuel Dorsky Museum, SUNY, New
Paltz, NY. Curator Brian Wallace
2009
Intangible Mood, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Layered/ Boxed, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
2009
It’s a Wonderful Life, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY. Curator Richard Timperio
2008
The Idea of Nature, 33 Bond Gallery, New York, NY. Curator Bill Weiss 2008
Summer Journeys, Summer Dreams, Pentimente Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2008
Obsessive/ Reductive, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY. Curator Peter
Barrett
2008
Blue, Kleinert James Art Center, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY.
Curator Portia Munson
2008
Regarding Global Warming and Climate Change, The Fisher Studio at Bard
College, Anandale-on-Hudson, NY. Curator Sigrid Sandstrom
2008
Re-Mix, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2008
Peace, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY. Curator Richard Timperio
2007
Luxe, Calme, et Volupté, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Curator
Joanne Mattera
2007
War is Over Again, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Please Do Not Touch, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY
2006
Cowgirls of The Hudson Valley, Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY
2006
Lights, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2006
7+14, Kleinert-James Art Center, Woodstock, NY
2005
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY. Curator Laura Moriarty
2005
Hope, Gavin Brown Enterprises, Passerby, New York, NY
2005
This is not an archive. This must be the place, The Center for Curatorial Studies
at Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY. Curators Bard CCS students
2002
Breathing Room, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2002
Ordinate/Coordinate, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2000
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville,
TN. Curator Gail Stavitsky
2000
Melting Pot, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
1999
Transparent Façade, Otis College of Art and Design, LA, CA. Curator Fran
Siegel
1999
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair,
NJ. Curator Gail Stavitsky
1999
Gridlock, Concerning the Grid in Contemporary Art, University of Rhode
sland Fine Arts Center, Kingston, RI. Curator Judith Tolnick
1998
Get Close, Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Section 33, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY. Curator Joy Glidden
1998
Regatta 98 (Miraculously Sublime), Sideshow Gallery Inc., Brooklyn, NY
1998
Transparent Façade, The Work Space, New York, NY. Curator Fran Siegel
1997
New York Next Generation, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Pallazzo Penna,
Perugia,Italy. Curator Barbara Rose
1997
Invitational; Deborah Ascheim, John Evans, Heather Hutchison, Mary Judge,
Knoedler Gallery, New York NY, Curator Marella Consolini
1997
Heather Hutchison, Paul Manes, Roberto Pietrosanti, Galerie Extra Moenia,
Todi, Italy
1997
Peeling a Grape, Condeso-Lawler Gallery, New York, NY. Curator Margaret
Thatcher
1995
Permanent Collection Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1995
Painting Outside Painting, 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American
Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, “,” Washington, DC. Curator Teri Sultan
1995
Minimal: Optimal, Elga Wimmer Gallery, Part 1 New York, NY
1995
Exemplary Images, Greystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995
Wax, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Down The Garden Path, The Workspace, New York, NY. Curator Lesley Heller
1995
Art Miami, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Works on Paper, The Armory, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1995
ADAA, The Art Show, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Benefit Auction, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1994
Human Services of New York Benefit Auction, Christie’s, New York, NY
1994
Burning!, Patrice Landau Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Art Miami, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1994
FIAC, Nohra Haime Gallery, Paris
1993
Larry Bell, Heather Hutchison, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
1993
Heather Hutchison, Susana Jaime-Mena, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1993
As Above, So Below, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Benefit Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill
1993
Intuitive Perceptions, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY 1993
Art Miami, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1993
The Art Show, ADAA, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1993
FIAC, Paris, France. Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Transparency and Shape, Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, NY. Curator Christopher
French
1992
New York Selections, Sunrise Museum, Charlestown, West Virginia
1992
Chicago International Art Expo 1992, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Cross-Currents, Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1992
Benefit Auction, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Three Women, Thomas Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
1991
Benefit Auction, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1991
Current Minimalist, Atlanta Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA
1991
Home for June, HOME for Contemporary Theatre, New York, NY. Curator Eric
Oppenheim
1991
Compulsion, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY. Curator Jeffrey Thomas
1991
L.A. Art Fair, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Intimate Relations, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY Chicago
1991
International Art Fair, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Sum of the Parts, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Homage to the Square, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1990
New Work by Gallery Artists, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
1990
L.A. Art Fair, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Art of the Contemporary Triptych, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY
1989
December Group Show, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Forms and Variations, H.B.O. Inc. Headquarters, New York, NY
 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Harvard Business School, Schwartz Art Collection, Boston, MA
Art in Embassies, Beijing, China
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Avampato Discovery Museum, Charlestown, West Virginia
SAP America, Wayne, PA
Readers Digest, Pleasantville, NY
Brooklyn Union Gas, Brooklyn, NY
Bliss Art, Chicago, IL
IDS Financial Services, Minneapollis, MN
Cooper Fund, Chicago, ILL
Cantor-Fitzgerald, New York, NY

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2022
Must See Exhibitions, ARTFORUM, Louis Stern Fine Art, Los Angeles, Jan-March,
2022.
2020
BARBARA ROSE. Heather Hutchison with Barbara Rose, The Brooklyn Rail,
March 2020. Illustrated
2018
NIKI KOTTMAN, Sky’s the Limit, Your Observer, February 15, 2018. pp. 1-3. Illus.
2016
VIOLET SNOW. Looking Upward, The Woodstock Times, June 30, 2016, pp 22-23. illustrated
2014
MICHELLE STUART. Encaustic Works: nuance, pp.3,5,7,116-120 illustrated. R&F
Paints. (January 1, 2014)
2014
CLAIRE LAMBE. Hutchison & Kanter: 100%, Roll Magazine online, September, 2014
2013
SARA CORONA. I Magnifici 9 New York. L’arte diventa più indipendente,
Art Tribune, July 12, 2013
2013
BRIAN EDMONDS. Exhibition-Robert Otto Epstein, Joy Taylor, and Heather
2012
CHRIS JOY & ZACHARY KEETING. Heather Hutchison: Studio Visit, Gorky’s
Granddaughter, February, 2012
2012
PAUL SMART. The Sky is Falling, The Woodstock Times, October 18, 2012 , p.26.
Hutchison @Imogen Holloway Gallery, Curating Contemporary, July 6, 2013
2010
LISSA RANKIN. Encaustic Art (2010) pp 66,67. illustrated. Random House
2008
AMY ESHOO. 560 BROADWAY, A NEW YORK DRAWING COLLECTION at
WORK, 1991-2006, (2008) Yale University Press
2006
PAUL SMART. Through a Plexiglas, Brightly, The Woodstock Times, February 16,
2006 , p.8. illustrated
2006
GEORGE QUASHA. boxed light bodies, Margaret Thatcher Projects, January
2006, exhibition essay
2006
CINDY MOORE. Capturing the Beast in the Beauty, NY ARTS, 2006, illustrated
2003
PAUL SMART. Encaustic Comments, The Woodstock Times, November 13, 2003 p.10
2003
KEN JOHNSON. Weekend, Art in Review, THE NEW YORK TIMES March 14, 2003
2001
JOANNE MATTERA. The Art of Encaustic Painting (2001), illustrated. Watson Gupthill
1999
LILY WEI. Transparent Facade: From New York to Los Angeles, OTIS COLLEGE
OF ART AND DESIGN, 1999, exhibition catalog. illustrated.
1999
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT. Light & Space Pieces-Coming From New York?, LOS
ANGELES TIMES, Sept. 16, 1999
1999
JUDITH TOLNICK. Unlocking the Grid, UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND, 1999
1999
WILLIAM ZIMMER. Wax as Medium and Message, THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 6, 1999
1998
CHARLES A. RILEY II. THE SAINTS OF MODERN ART: THE ASCETIC IDEAL IN
CONTEMPORARY PAINTING, SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE,DANCE,MUSIC,
LITERATURE, and PHILOSOPHY, (May 1998) pp. 115-116, 148. Univ. Press of New England
KEN JOHNSON. Art in Review, THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 14, 1998
PETER FRANK. Transparent Facade, LA WEEKLY, October, 1999
1997
JEFF WRIGHT. Inviting Directions, Four Points at Knoedler & Co., Cover, 1997,
Volume 11, #5, pp. 14–15
1997
BARBARA ROSE. New York, New Generation, PALLAZO PENNA, Perugia, Italy.
 
exhibition catalog. 1997. Illustrated
1997
BARBARA ROSE. New York’s New Art Scene, ARTE IN December/January1997
1997
DIEDRE STEIN-GREBEN. Exhibition Review, ART NEWS, December 1997
1997
VALERY OISTEANU. Invitational ’97, NY ARTS MAGAZINE,1997 illustrated
1996
SAUL OSTROW. History Is Now, THE NEW ART EXAMINER, March 1996 1996
STEPHEN WALLACE. Shows Not to Miss, Art and Antiques, Jan. 1996
1996
JOHNATHON GOODMAN. Painting Outside Painting (Exhibition review, ART
NEWS. April 1996
1995
JO ANN LEWIS. Painting Outside the Lines, THE WASHINGTON POST,1995. illus.
1995
TERRIE SULTAN. The Rapture of Materiality, THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART
BIENNIAL EXHIBITION OF AMERICAN PAINTING, December 1995, pp.18-23.
exhibition catalog. illustrated
1995
SUE SCOTT. Daily Thoughts for Daily Needs, NOHRA HAIME GALLERY, 1995.
exhibition catalogue. Illustrated
1995
SUE SCOTT. Daily Thoughts for Daily Needs, Nohra Haime Gallery, Sept. 1995.
exhibition catalogue. Illustrated
1995
JOANNA SHAW-EAGLE. Painting Beyond Traditional Limits, THE WASHINGTON
TIMES,1995
1995
MAIA DAMIANOVIC. Painting Outside Painting, THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF
ART, Dec. 1995. Exhibition catalog illustrated.
1994
GAIL STAVITSKY. Waxing Poetic (Encaustic Art in America, MONTCLAIR ART
MUSEUM, pp.47-48. exhibition catalog. Illustrated
1994
DEIDRE STEIN. Heather Hutchison Gravity and Light, ARTNEWS, April 1994,
pp.101-102. illustrated
1994
REGAN UPSHAW. New York Review, ART IN AMERICA, July 1994, p. 98.
illustrated
1994
MEREDITH BERGMANN. Reviews: Heather Hutchison, THE NEW YORK REVIEW
OF ART, May 1994
1993
PETER SLATIN. Intuitive Perception, ARTNEWS, May 1993, pp. 141. illustrated
1992
ROBERT MORGAN. Three New York Reviews, LUSTY MOVER, Fall 1992 1992
PIETRO BELLASI. New Abstraction and Abstract Society, TEMA CELESTE, Jan.-
March,1992, illustrated.
1992
CHRISTOPHER FRENCH. Transparency & Shape, ELGA WIMMER GALLERY,
1992. exhibition catalog
1992
HIRSCH, FAYE. Exhibition Review, Print Collectors Newsletter, Oct. 1992 p. 147
1991
CHARLES A. RILEY II. Chicago Fairs, Art & Auction, May 1991, Volume XIII, No.
10, pp. 92.93.96
1990
ELEANOR HEARTNEY. Exhibition Review, ART NEWS, December 1990 illustrated

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