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Heather Cox is an artist who lives and works in New York City. She received her early training in book arts and photography at Mills College. She went on to study sculpture at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She currently works at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the Conservation Department.

Education 

1998   MFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts & Tufts University, Boston, MA
1997   Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1988   BA Mills College, Oakland, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2015   Pinned, The LGBT Community Center, New York, NY
2013   Crush, Project Atrium, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
           Clipped, W10W, Time Equities Inc., Art-In-Buildings, New York, NY
2009   New Work, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2008   Migration, Knoedler Project Space, New York, NY
2005   Phalanx, Gesheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004   Tissue, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
2000   Rapt: 13,000 Eyes, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023   Paper Cuts, Elza Kayal Gallery, New York, NY

           Fresh 2023, online exhibition at Klompching.com

           Scribbles: Habits, Compulsions & Outpourings, Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY

           Spring Exhibition, 6ftApArt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2022   Look this Way, JVS Space, New York, NY

           Among Friends, Equity Gallery, New York NY

           Living with Art, Art Lives Here Salon, New York, NY

           Photo but Not Photo, online exhibition at Float Magazine

2021   Viva La Memento Mori, AHA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

           Force for Change, online exhibition at Clifford Chance  

2020   Mask, Vicki Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO

           USPS Project, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2019   South Bronx Independent Artist's Coalition Exhibition, Hell Gate Art, Bronx, NY

           Among Friends/Entre Amigos, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY

2018   Marks of Resistance, Clifford Chance Art Program, New York, NY & Washington, DC
           Among  Friends, Dary Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2017   Westside Exposure, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2016   Of An Urban Nature, +1+1 Pop Up at Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
           LGBTQ Survival Guide, The Center, New York, NY
2015   +1+1, MADE/LABspace at the Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL
          The Human Condition, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2014   An Aberrant View, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
           Main Window, 1 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
           Paper-Made, Jamestown Arts Center, Jamestown, RI
2012   Group Show, CollectiCo/Art, New York, NY
2011   Information Revisited, Mahoney Library, Morristown, NJ
2010   At the Edge, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH
           Information Revisited, Belskie Museum of Art, Closter, NJ
           Think Pink, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2009   Site Specifics, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
           Layered/Boxed, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY & Art Chicago
2008   Bring It to the Table, Spring Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007   Make Time, Spring Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
           Postcards From the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2006   Block Party, 267A State Street, Brooklyn, NY
2005   Body Files, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
          Traces, Spring Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
          Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Recipients Exhibition, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY
          Body Human, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
2004  Threads, Associations & Implications, Stay Gold Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
          Yard Sale, Track House, Oak Park, IL
          The Great Indoors, Spring Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
          Constructing Identity, Univ of Connecticut/Stamford Art Gallery, Stamford, CT
2003  Gifted, Spring Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
          Brooklyn on 57th Street, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
          Paper 2003, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2002  Pop Icons and the Reconstructed Body, Artspace, New Haven, CT
          Gowanus Artists at 718, Gallery 718, Brooklyn, NY
          Configuring Identity, Untitled Space Gallery, New Haven, CT
2001  The Life You Save May Be Your Own, 31 Grand, Brooklyn, NY
          Cross Pollination, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY & Los Angeles Arboretum, Los Angeles, CA

Publications

2021   So..., Stenen Press, New York, NY 

1988   Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists, Eucalyptus Press, Oakland, CA.                   Contributing writer and photo editor. 

Awards

1998   Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
1997   Ann and Graham Gund Fellowship

Residencies 

2001   Atlantic Center for the Arts
1999   Rotunda Gallery & Brooklyn Community Access Television

Lectures & Panels

2017   Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2013   Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
2008   Pratt Institute, New York, NY
2005   Long Island University, Brookville, NY
2003   Art in General, New York, NY
2001   Cooper Union, New York, NY
1998   Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
1998   Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA