Bio
Elisabeth Heying is an artist, material researcher and educator. Her paintings explore place, landscape and surface as records of and containers for human experience. The inherent identities of material, both within the landscape and within the painting process, serve as a reflexive key to unlocking connection between people and place.
Born in Minnesota, Heying received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2022, and her BFA in 2015. She was the founding director of a state of the art facility called StudioLab, where she educated SAIC students on how to make and use traditional and modern painting and drawing materials between 2016 and 2022. In this role, she developed educational resource collections including a Library, a Material Archive of historic pigments and materials and a Virtual Database of instructional videos. Heying serves as a Board Member of Pigments Revealed International, and has been a member of the ASTM Artists’ Materials Subcommittee, as well as a Golden Artist Educator, since 2017. She received the Roads Scholarship for Research and Travel in 2020, has exhibited widely in group exhibitions throughout Chicago and the Midwest, debuted her first solo exhibitions, Ache of Erosion (2021) and Shifting Matters (2022), and her first international showing, Preposiciones de Tierra (2023), in Santiago, Chile. Heying spent 2022-2023 living in Santiago, creating an archive of local earth pigments and creating a body of work.
Heying received a Fulbright Award to conduct her project titled “Throughlines in the Cypriot Landscape: Pigments and the Essence of Place.” She currently resides in Nicosia, Cyprus and is conducting her project investigating earth pigments alongside industrial and archaeological histories embedded in the local landscape.
CONTACT
elisabeth.heying@gmail.com
All artwork is available for purchase, unless indicated as SOLD. Small works on paper are available for direct purchase on my SALE page. Please contact me for prices, inquiries, comments, studio visits, exhibitions, etc.!