LEE HEEKIN CV
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024. Walker Fine Art Gallery, Stripped, March 16th Group Show, Denver, CO
2023. Black, White or Gray, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
BVSD Educator Show, The Dairy Art Center, Boulder CO
Open Studios Tour, Boulder, Co
2021 Alternative Facts: Photography by Any Means, PACE Center Art Gallery, Parker, CO
2021 Tension and Release, Walker Fine Art Gallery, Boulder, CO
2021. Negative Space, R Gallery, Boulder Co
2020 Nobo Arts, Niche Co-working Space, Boulder, CO
2018 Away from the Wall, National Arts Club, NYNY
2018 There Here Near, Museum of Boulder, Boulder, CO
2018 Vantage Points, Walker Fine Arts Gallery, Denver, CO
2017 Tectonic Shifts, McNichols Civic Center, Denver, CO
2017 Human / Nature, Walker Fine Art Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 All Colorado Art Show, Greenwood Village, CO
2016 Altering Natural Perceptions, Walker Fine Arts, Denver, Colorado
2016 Heated Moments, 8 Artists working in Wax, Faith Center Gallery, Boulder, CO
2016 Black Box Gallery, Made Life, BCC Group Show, Boulder, CO
2016 Time, Walker Fine Arts, Denver, CO
2015 S P A C E, Gallery 970, Loveland. CO
2015 Fire House Art Center, Longmont, CO
2015 DOUBLE OR NOTHING, Walker Fine Arts Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 Art in Context, Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder Co
2013 Touch, Taste View, Russack House, Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder, CO
2010 The Loading Dock, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Patchogue Biennial, Patchogue, NY
2009 The Fuel House, Philadelphia. PA
2009 Seeking Solitude, RFK Gallery, GA
2009 Fire Proof, SHO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Pool Art Fair, NYNY
2008 Preeminent Notions, Lucky Gallery, RedhHook Brooklyn, NY
2008 Light/Picture/Paint, 717 Studio Gallery, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
2008 The Looking Glass, The Apartment, Gramercy Park, NY
2008 VCU Exchange Show, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2007 The Lack of Desire, Brooklyn Arts Council Collective Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 UNDERCURRENT, White Box Annex, Group Show, Chelsea, NY
2007 One Night Stand, Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2007 MFA Group Show, Pratt Institute, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Writing Our Future, National Arts Club New York, NY,
2006 122 for 122, PS122 Gallery, NY, NY
2005 Arts to the Avenue, Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich CT
2004 Group Show New York Academy of Arts, New York, NY
2003 Northern Westchester Hospital, Juried Group show, Westchester, N
EDUCATION
2008 MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2008 *President of the Pratt Artist League
2003 MAT, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, Art Education k-12
2001 BA, Kenyon College, OH, Fine Arts and Environmental Studies
2001 *Awarded Distinction in Fine Arts
1997 Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, CT
RESIDENCIES / INTERNATIONAL STUDY
2003 Silvermine Arts Center, Norwalk, Connecticut, June-July
2001 Penland School of Craft, North Carolina, August
2001 Connecting Collections, workshop through the Whitney, MOMA, MET, NYC
2000 Anderson Ranch Art Center, 2-week Photography Intensive, Aspen, CO
2000 School for Field Studies Kenya, Africa –Wildlife Management, Ecology, and Environmental Studies.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Fragmented, Made Life, Boulder, CO
2008 New Works by Lee Heekin, Fredrick Victoria Gallery, NYNY
2008 Porous Boundaries, Pratt Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Wallace Performing Arts Center, “Lines Of Confinement”, Greenwich, CT
2001 Olin Art Gallery, Senior Thesis Art Show, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
GRANTS/AWARDS
2023 Recipient of Donors grant, studio supplies for Peak to Peak, BVSD, Lafayette, CO
2014 Recipient of the Neo-data Endowment grant from the Boulder Arts Alliance
2005 Recipient of the faculty development award to support travel, teaching and painting murals
HCI KENYA, Homeless Children International-Kenya at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
2001 Awarded distinction in Fine Arts, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
COMMISSIONS/COLLECTIONS
2021 Hidden Grid, Tullis Collection, West Palm Beach, FL
2019 Possibility, 2019, Private Collector, New Canaan, CT
2018 Spill, 2018, Collector, Castle Rock, CO
2018 Expand, 2018 Collector Lyons, CO
2017 Looking Through, 2017, Mcguirk Commission/ Collection, Boulder, CO
2016 “Make, Move, Remove- Your Boundaries”, Collector, Telluride, CO
2015 Nancy and Robert Mohr Collection/commission, Boulder CO
2014 Cohen Commission, ‘Nothing is Fixed, 2014, Boulder Co
2008 Art curator and Collector Heidi Lee, purchased, Bird Boundary, 2008 NYNY
EXPERIENCE
2017-24 Fine Arts Teacher, BVSD, Boulder, CO
2013-16 Founder, Director, Curator, and Chief Marketing Officer of the
Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder, Co
2014 Designed and taught a 2-day intensive workshop with local students to construct and paint set
for Boulder Opera Company’s performance of Hansel and Gretel.
2010-12 Visual art Teacher, Southern Hills Middle School, Boulder, CO
2008-10 Visual Art Teacher, The Browning School, (k-12) Manhattan, NY
Taught K-12 studio art Full time
2006-08 President of Pratt Artist League, organized, directed, and curated art shows
throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan, for Pratt Graduate Art Students, NYNY
2006-07 Gallery Assistant, Sarah Meltzer Gallery, NYNY
2001-06 Visual Art Teacher, Stanwich School, (k-9) Taught k-9 full-time Greenwich, CT
2000-03 Outdoor Education/ Hiking guide. Overland Adventures, Williamstown, Mass
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Celebrating Women Artists, Kenyon College Catalogue, Gambier OH
2019 Bouldercoloradousa.com “what to do in boulder”-/events/open-studios/LeeHeekin open studio
2016 5280 Magazine, Denver, CO
2015 Boulder Lifestyle Magazine, Month of Modern, Boulder CO
2015 Mile High Style Feature: Artist Spotlight, Boulder CO
2014 Daily Camera, local Artist organizes a set design workshop with students to create sets for
Boulder Opera Company’s performance of Hansel and Gretel.
2005 News Channel 12 interview, Ct Painting Murals in Kenya
Greenwich Time, FrontPage, Teacher finds Spirit of Christmas in Kenya, 1/15
2003 Greenwich Time Newspaper New Angle on Picasso, 11/1, p. A4
2002 Arts and Activities Magazine, MasterPieces: Picasso Collage, Sept issue, p.37
GROUPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Colorado Art Education Association
1/3 Founder of the Boulder Creative Collective
NoBo Arts District
Open Studios, Boulder CO
Boulder County Arts Alliance
*President of the Pratt Artists League
Greenwich Arts Council
Brooklyn Arts Council
Hudson Valley for Contemporary Arts