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Biography
Heidi Schwegler (born 1967 in San Antonio, Texas) is an artist in Portland, Oregon. She is the Chair of the Masters in Fine Arts Program in Applied Craft and Design, a program jointly offered by Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Art and Craft. Schwegler has been included in the Portland2016 Biennial, the Portland2010 Biennial, and the Oregon Biennial in 1999.
In interviews, Schwegler has expressed "an affinity for the ruin, non-sites and discarded objects". Schwegler calls herself "an urban archaeologist" who prefers "to mine the peripheral ruin, the discarded stuff that is ignored and considered worthless. By reassigning the value and purpose of something recognizable, I emphasize the perforation between what it was and what it has now become." Pulling from the traditions of craft and conceptual art, Schwegler uses a variety of mediums, including glass, metal, sculpture, photography, and installation.
Schwegler is represented by UPFOR Gallery in Portland, Oregon and Mark Moore Fine Art in Orange Park Acres, California.
Education
Schwegler received her BFAs in Art History and Metals from the University of Kansas and her MFA in Metals from the University of Oregon.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- Extinction Anxiety, Upfor Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2017
- Botched Execution, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, 2015
- November's Bone, Halsey McKay Gallery, New York, NY, 2016
- Uncommon Likeness: Identity in Flux, Sheldon Museum of Art, NE, 2016
- Wrest_01, Gray Box, University of Oregon, Portland, Oregon, 2015
- Lunch, Soil Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2015
Selected Group Exhibitions
- Portland2016 Biennial, Disjecta, Portland, Oregon, 2016
- Portland2010 Biennial, Disjecta, Portland, Oregon, 2010
- Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, 1999
- April Meetings New Media Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 2014
- Group Show, Mas Attack Series, Torrance Art Museum, California, 2014
- Hallie Ford Fellows Group Show, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, 2013
- Imposter’, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, California, 2011
Awards
- Yaddo Residency, 2016
- Hallie Ford Fellowship, 2010
- MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2010
- Finalist, Contemporary NW Art Awards, Portland Museum, 2010