LAURA HEIT

Iris Project Resident: May 22 - May 29, 2023

An interdisciplinary artist, Laura Heit’s work has been exhibited and screened in the US and abroad, at venues including Track 16 (Los Angeles, CA), Boise Art Museum (Boise ID), Adams and Ollman (Portland, OR), The Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, OR), The Schneider Museum of Art (Ashland OR), She Works Flexible (Houston, TX), REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA), Walker Art Center (Minne-apolis, MN), MoMA (NYC, NY), Millennium Film (NYC, NY), Pompidou (Paris, France), TBA Festival (Portland, OR), the Guggenheim Museum (NYC, NY), Walt Disney Hall (Los Angeles, CA), and Detroit Institute of the Arts (Detroit, MI) among others. Her grants include; 2016 Oregon Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship, Artist Project Grant Regional Arts & Culture Council including the 2014 Innovation Award, The British Council, and the MacDowell Colony. She has previously held positions at SAIC, and Cal Arts where she was co-director of the Experimental Animation Department. She currently teaches Animated Arts at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her book Animators Sketchbooks was published in 2013 by Thames and Hudson. She currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

This residency program is possible thanks to The Ford Family Foundation's support and partnerships with Yucca Valley Material Lab and Venice Arts.