Heather Bennett
Heather Bennett maintains a multimedia practice consisting of photography, video, drawing, text, sculpture, installation, and often collaborates with musicians and writers. Her work traces the female subject and its historic irrelevance, focusing on representation in contemporary culture. By disrupting assumptions, she attempts to realign and reframe, even recreate, the relegated, feminine tinged space.
Bennett’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally, including six solo exhibitions in New York City with the Stephan Stoyanov Gallery. Bennett’s solo exhibition, The Uncovered Works of Hannah Berman was hosted by the Eva Hober Gallery in Paris, France and her works have been exhibited at Graffit Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Austria, and Gallieri S.E. in Norway among others. She has participated in FIAC Contemporary Art Fair, Paris, France; LOOP Contemporary Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain; and ROMA Contemporary Arts Fair, Rome Italy. Her work has been the subject of numerous reviews in varied publications, such as Artnet, Art Review Magazine, Art Press, ArtPapers, The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, and Hyperallergic. A monograph of Bennett’s work was published in conjunction with Stephan Stoyanov Gallery in New York in 2010 called, Sidetrack: (Snapshots, Outtakes and Polaroids 2001-2008), covering eight years of work with essays by feminist art historian and critic Jenni Sorkin and former Boston MFA curator and current custodian of the Holtzer Family Foundation, William Stover.
Bennett earned a BA and BFA at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and an MFA at Hunter College in New York. Her work is represented by Gallieri S.E. in Norway and Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis, MO. Currently, she is a senior lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, where she joined the faculty as the Louis D. Beaumont Visiting Artist Fellow in 2013.
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Work by Heather Bennett
Pine Valley, 2018
42” x 63”.
archival digital print on platine rag.
edition of 3.
Midnight Special, 2020
Installation view at Monaco Gallery.
Installation view, showing MS (Head) and Desire is About Vanishing, 2020
MS (Head), 2018, 25” x 12.5”, drawing.
Desire is About Vanishing, 2020, leather chaise, mirrors, book.
Night Watch, 2019
50 x 84".
ink and graphite on black rag.
White Wedding, 2020
10” x 8”.
collage with leather strap.
Drawn, 2020
42 x 24".
leather, video projection.
The Loved One for JLM, 2016
from “Photos of Gifts” series, digital print on platine rag, 42” x 63”,edition of 3.
Somebody with a Little Hammer for JLM, 2017
from “Photos of Gifts” series, digital print on platine rag, 42” x 63”, edition of 3.
Silk Shirt for JLM, 2017
from “Photos of Gifts” series, digital print on platine rag, 42” x 63”, edition of 3.
On The Road, 2013
42” x 42”, (approx. 44” x 44” framed), digital print on premium luster, edition of 3.
Crush, 2011
42" x 63" (framed approx. 44" x 65"), digital print on Somerset Velvet, edition of 3.
HBB for Krista, 2021
Installation shot at Mario Mauroner Galery, Austria
HBB for Krista, 2020
from “Photos of Gifts” series, digital print on platine rag, 42” x 63”, edition of 3.