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Through a transdisciplinary practice verging on sculpture, performance and video, Lu Heintz engages feminist ethics of care, labor, and technology. Heintz’s artistic practice has grown out of DIY spaces, collectives, community organizing and intersectional care webs. They have received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Exhibitions include the RISD Museum (RI); Metal Museum(TN); Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (TX); Strano Film Fest (IT); and Wedding Cake House (RI). Heintz is an Assistant Professor of Open Media in the Department of Fine Arts at Brandeis University. Areas of focus include gender justice, affect, performance studies, and feminist economic perspectives. Heintz has contributed essays to Book Marks (Pressing Concern Books: NY, 2020), Repair: Sustainable Design Futures (Routledge: London, 2023),  Event Scores by Artist-Parents (Rooftop Ins.: Hong Kong, 2023) and Document (Are.na: NY, 2025).

Lu Heintz     
www.luheintz.com
                              
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025    ad losa, Heima, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2023    Everyday Archeology, Fuller Speed, Providence, RI
2021    Habitus, The Dirt Palace Storefront Gallery, Providence, RI
2017    Openwork, 159 Sutton, Providence, RI
2016    in tra versions, SAAHP Gallery, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
2016    Love Songs, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI  
2015    Work/Love, Carroll House Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH
2012    ENTER|RE-ENTER: Lauren Fisher and Lu Heintz, R.K. Projects, Providence, RI  
2009    Molting, KMOCA, Kingston, NY
2007    The FE Show, Hygienic Art, New London, CT

PERFORMANCES
2025    riverside, with LN Celestine, May 31, Building 8, Providence, RI
2024    Everything else is soon,  June 1, Overlap Gallery, Newport, RI
2021    We’re not taking anything with us, August 13, Arts Letters & Numbers, Averill Park, NY
2019    Sight Words, Laundered Matter, January 18, Johnson Laundromat, Johnson, VT
2018    With Holdings, with Erika Morillo, June 28, Arts Letters & Numbers, Averill Park, NY
2016    Love Recital, January 26, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
2015    Intervals, October 20, Keene State College, Keene, NH

SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2023    Shark Hut, site specific installation with Mary Babcock, Baer Art Center, Hosfós, Iceland
2019    Erbarme Dich, performing as Assembly of Light, Bach to the Future, Nov 8,
            Manning Chapel, Brown University, RI
2019    Cake Pass, Assembly of Light, film short for Ruffles, Repair & Ritual, RISD Museum, RI
2019    She Died for Our Convenience, performing as Strange Attractor Theater, May 4, Paragon Mills, Providence, RI
2019    Re Membranzas, film short, co-edited with Erika Morillo, produced by Amine Kouider
2018    WARP Repair Shop, performing as WARP collective, Oct 6-7, The RISD Museum
2017     Work as Repetitive Pattern, performing as WARP collective, August 4, Sutton St Gallery, Providence, RI  

SELECTED SCREENINGS
2018    Strano Film Festival, Piccolomini Castle, Capestrano, IT
2017    Love’s Labours, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, CA
2016    Brood Film Fest, Exeter Phoenix, UK
2016    NEK Animation Festival, St. Johnsbury, VT

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025    A Gathering: Gardens, Portals, Protests. Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (curated by Olivia Baldwin)
2025    Building Infinity, Olneyville Retrospective, Building 8, Providence, RI (curated by Serra Fels)
2025    Alt TXT, online show, Field Projects New York, NY (curated by Angelica Aranda & Tereza Chanaki)
2025    Interwoven Narratives, New England Art Center, Boston, MA (Juror: Kate Irvin)
2025    Wardrobe, Krikorian Gallery, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA
2024    Dreams of a Common Language, Overlap Gallery, Newport, RI  (curated by Alicia Renadette)
2023    Care and Collaboration, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX (curated by Sarah Sudoff)
2021    Layering Community on the Wynantskill, Arts Letters & Numbers, Averill Park, NY (curated by Diane DeBlois)
2021    RISD Faculty Exhibition, Chace Gallery, The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2019    Ruffle, Repair & Ritual: Fine Art of Fixing, The Wedding Cake House, Providence, RI (curated by Xander Marro, Pippi      Zornoza and Faythe Levine) (catalogue)
2018    The Sweater Show, Trade Pop-up, Providence, RI  (curated by Priscilla Carrion and Shirla Auguste)
2017    Sunshine Pool & Fence Co.,  Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket, RI (curated by Nina Ruelle)
2016    To the Moon, The Wurks, Providence, RI (curated by Colin Bliss)
2015    Project AfterBirth, White Moose Gallery, Barnstaple, UK (curated by Mila Oshin)
2015    Now You See Me, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT (Juror: Dina Deitsch)  
2012    The Fells Summer Exhibition, The Fells, Newbury, NH  
2012    Forged, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA (Juror: Twylene Moyer)
2010    Different Tempers, Metal Museum, Memphis, TN (curated by Susan Ramljak) (catalogue)
2010    Art in the Park, Elm Park, Worcester, MA (Juror: Dean Snyder)

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
2025    Theodore and Jane Norman Award, faculty fellowship, Brandeis University
2024    Commemoration Lab Fellowship, Mellon Foundation, in partnership with City of Providence ACT
2020    Decolonial Teaching in Action, faculty fellowship, Center for Social Equity and Inclusion, Rhode Island School of Design
2019    RISCA Full Fellowship Film & Video, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
2019    VSC Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2016    VCFA Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2016    Residency Grant, Assets for Artists, MASS MoCA
2014    Promise Award, Sustainable Arts Foundation  
2014    Outstanding Student Achievement in Sculpture, International Sculpture Center
2014    Art in Transit Award, City of Providence Dept. Art Culture + Tourism  
2013    Merit Scholarship, Vermont College of Fine Arts
2009    Individual Artist Award, New York State Council on the Arts    

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adria Arch, "A Gathering: Gardens, Portals, Protests." Art Spiel, July 16, 2025
Liz Maynard, “Dreams of a Common Language.” Art Spiel, May 29 2024
Eleanor Olson, “Dreams of a Common Language.” Art New England, April 2024
Simone Solondz,“RISD’s Foundry Inspires Sculpture Course Focused on the Making Body.” RISD News, Feb 20. 2024
Natalie Hegert, “Finding Equilibrium, Releasing Pressure: Exhibitions in Lubbock Address Women’s Labor and Care.”
    Glasstire, March 22, 2023
Julia Barber,“Piece of Cake.” Providence Monthly, October, 2022
Alicia Toldi and Carolina Porras,“The Wedding Cake House.” Piney Wood Atlas, Vol. IV: The Northeast, Mar 29, 2021
Xander Marro, “Dirt Palace in Conversation with Lu Heintz.” Dirt Palace blog, April 13, 2021
    http://dirtpalace.blogspot.com/2021/04/habitus-dirt-palace-interview-with-lu.html
Kerry Cardoza, “A Feminist Art Collective Gets a Historic Home.” Hyperallergic, October 17, 2019
    https://hyperallergic.com/522070/wedding-cake-house-providence-rhode-island/
Holly Gaboriault, “Hard Hats and Embroidery: Women of the Tirocchi House” Ruffles Repair and Ritual: An Anthology of         Writing. Mary Kim Arnold and Taylor M. Polites, eds. Providence, RI: Dirt Palace Projects, 2019

PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
2025    “A Year Uncounted” Are.na Annual 2025, eds. Meg Miller and Michelle Santiago
2023    “What is the Work of Love Today? Repair, Care and Carrying.” Repair: Sustainable Design Futures, eds. Markus Berger  and Kate Irvin, New York: Routledge, pp. 96-103
2023    “To Disconnect From Screens.” Event Scores by Artist-Parents, Hong Kong: Rooftop Institute, pp. 190-193        
2020    “Notes from Boying.” Book Marks, ed. Anne Elizabeth Moore, Detroit, MI: Pressing Concern Books         
2019    “Professions.” Volume III: Work Book, The Tool Book Project, ed. Sarah G. Sharp, released October 24, 2019        https://www.toolbookproject.org/volume-iii-work-book
2016    “L is for Language, Labor and Love.” Digital Institute for Early Parenthood, Under Wraps Research Programme,     https:// www.diep.org.uk/research/research-programme/

RESIDENCIES
2025    Heima, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2023    Baer Art Center, Hofsós, Iceland
2021    Arts Letters & Numbers, Averill Park, NY
2019    Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2018    Arts Letters & Numbers, Averill Park, NY
2016    Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2016    MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

COLLECTIONS
Digital Institute for Early Parenthood, UK / IE
The Dirt Palace, Providence, RI
F.A.G. / Feminist Art Gallery, Toronto, CA
The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
The Wedding Cake House, Providence, RI

SELECTED COMMISIONS
2025    Pond Lands, Commemorative Lab initiative for revisioning monuments, Providence, RI
2021    Sidewalk Tattoos, Art in City Life: City of Providence Dept. of Art, Culture + Tourism
2019    Sewing Room, wallpaper installation, The Wedding Cake House, Providence, RI
2014    Montgomery Ave R-line Shelter, City of Providence Dept.of Art Culture + Tourism, RI

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2024-present  Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2021-2024      Part-time Faculty, Sculpture Department, Rhode Island School of Design
2017-2024      Part-time Faculty, Experimental and Foundation Studies, RISD

EDUCATION
2016    MFA Visual Art, Vermont College of Fine Arts         
2001    BFA Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design