HEIDI POLLARD
Born in Detroit, Michigan
Lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
2017
Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation Grant
2016
Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters & Sculptors Grant.
Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Artist in Residence, Albuquerque, NM.
2012
2007
CUE Art Foundation, Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY.
2005
St. Michael’s College, Artist-in-Residence, Burlington, VT.
2003
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Grantee, New York, NY.
Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence, Sausalito, CA.
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation / Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop Program, Participant, Baltimore, MD.
2002
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Fellowship.
2001
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Emerge 2002, Fellowship, Newark, NJ.
2000
Ragdale Foundation, Fellowship, Lake Forest, IL.
Ucross Foundation, Fellowship, Clearmont, WY.
1999
New Mexico State University, Purchase Award, Close to the Border VII, Las Cruces, NM.
SOLO & 2-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010
Dibden Center for the Arts Theater, Unsayable, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT.
2009
Bowery Poetry Club, FIVE:Art Wall Installation, New York, NY.
2007
Exhibit 208, Succotash Special, Albuquerque, NM.
Harwood Art Center, Recent Work, Albuquerque, NM.
P.S. 122, Two-Person Show with Theresa Bloise, New York, NY.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Gallery Fritz, Gallery Artists, Santa Fe, NM.
Exhibit 208, Gallery Artists, Albuquerque, NM.
2019
Gallery Fritz, 300K Away, Santa Fe, NM.
Exhibit/208, 20th Anniversary Show, Albuquerque, NM.
2018
Gold/scopophilia, Radical Vernacular, Montclair, NJ.
Gallery Fritz, Small Metals, Santa Fe, NM.
2017
Tamarind Institute, Ivory Black & Flake White, Albuquerque, NM.
Sanitary Tortilla Factory, The Story of Ourselves: Sketchbook Exchange with Incarcerated Girls, Albuquerque, NM.
Joseph Nease Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition, Duluth, MN.
Roswell Museum, RAiR 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Roswell, NM.
Isaac’s Pipe & Supply, 222 Installation Invitational, Roswell, NM.
MCLA Gallery 51, Cloud Headed, North Adams, MA.
Freeman Gallery, Twice As Much, Cape Neddick, ME.
Galerie Souterraine, Mighty Minis, West Cornwall, CT.
MCLA Gallery 51, Babel's Bricks, North Adams, MA.
Isaacs Pipe & Supply, High Low & Pain Reliever, Roswell, NM.
Exhibit/208, s(and) art collective: TONDO, Albuquerque, NM.
OASIS Institute, 3 Dimensions, Albuquerque, NM.
2012
Born in Detroit, Michigan
Lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
2017
Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation Grant
2016
Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters & Sculptors Grant.
Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Artist in Residence, Albuquerque, NM.
2012
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Individual Support Grant,
New York, NY.
2010
Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Fellowship, Roswell, NM.
2007
CUE Art Foundation, Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY.
2005
St. Michael’s College, Artist-in-Residence, Burlington, VT.
2003
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Grantee, New York, NY.
Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence, Sausalito, CA.
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation / Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop Program, Participant, Baltimore, MD.
2002
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Fellowship.
2001
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Emerge 2002, Fellowship, Newark, NJ.
2000
Ragdale Foundation, Fellowship, Lake Forest, IL.
Ucross Foundation, Fellowship, Clearmont, WY.
1999
New Mexico State University, Purchase Award, Close to the Border VII, Las Cruces, NM.
SOLO & 2-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019
Joseph Nease Gallery, Heaven & Other Realms,
Duluth, MN.
Gold/scopophilia*, My Own Mara, Montclair, NJ.
2017
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Call & Response, Albuquerque, NM.
Exhibit 208, Good to Go, Albuquerque, NM.
2015
Joseph Nease Gallery, Heaven & Other Realms,
Duluth, MN.
Gold/scopophilia*, My Own Mara, Montclair, NJ.
2017
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Call & Response, Albuquerque, NM.
Exhibit 208, Good to Go, Albuquerque, NM.
2015
Inpost Artspace/Outpost Performance Space, Gone Fishing, Albuquerque, NM.
SCA Contemporary, This Is What Happened, 2-person show with Valerie Roybal, Albuquerque, NM.
2013
Ingham Chapman Gallery, University of New Mexico, Heidi Pollard: Recent Work, Gallup, NM.
2012
John Davis Gallery, solo exhibition, Hudson, NY.
2011
Transvagrant@Warschaw Gallery, Heidi Pollard: Recent Works, San Pedro, CA.
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Heidi Pollard: Good Night!, Roswell, NM.
2010
Dibden Center for the Arts Theater, Unsayable, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT.
2009
Bowery Poetry Club, FIVE:Art Wall Installation, New York, NY.
2007
Exhibit 208, Succotash Special, Albuquerque, NM.
Harwood Art Center, Recent Work, Albuquerque, NM.
P.S. 122, Two-Person Show with Theresa Bloise, New York, NY.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Gallery Fritz, Gallery Artists, Santa Fe, NM.
Exhibit 208, Gallery Artists, Albuquerque, NM.
2019
Gallery Fritz, 300K Away, Santa Fe, NM.
Exhibit/208, 20th Anniversary Show, Albuquerque, NM.
2018
Gold/scopophilia, Radical Vernacular, Montclair, NJ.
Gallery Fritz, Small Metals, Santa Fe, NM.
2017
Tamarind Institute, Ivory Black & Flake White, Albuquerque, NM.
Sanitary Tortilla Factory, The Story of Ourselves: Sketchbook Exchange with Incarcerated Girls, Albuquerque, NM.
Joseph Nease Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition, Duluth, MN.
Roswell Museum, RAiR 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Roswell, NM.
Isaac’s Pipe & Supply, 222 Installation Invitational, Roswell, NM.
MCLA Gallery 51, Cloud Headed, North Adams, MA.
Freeman Gallery, Twice As Much, Cape Neddick, ME.
Galerie Souterraine, Mighty Minis, West Cornwall, CT.
MCLA Gallery 51, Babel's Bricks, North Adams, MA.
Isaacs Pipe & Supply, High Low & Pain Reliever, Roswell, NM.
Exhibit/208, s(and) art collective: TONDO, Albuquerque, NM.
2016
New Mexico Museum of Art, Alcoves 16/17.3, Santa Fe, NM.
Amy Simon Fine Art, 50 Shades of Black & White, Westport, CT.
Transmitter, The B & W Project, Brooklyn, NY.
Phil Space, The World is Flat Not Round, Santa Fe, NM.
Abrams Art Gallery, Exchange: Between You and Me, U of NM Hospital, Albuquerque, NM.
Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Non-Finito: Unfinished Works and Their Counterparts, Albuqerque, NM.
2015
New Mexico Museum of Art, Alcoves 16/17.3, Santa Fe, NM.
Amy Simon Fine Art, 50 Shades of Black & White, Westport, CT.
Transmitter, The B & W Project, Brooklyn, NY.
Phil Space, The World is Flat Not Round, Santa Fe, NM.
Abrams Art Gallery, Exchange: Between You and Me, U of NM Hospital, Albuquerque, NM.
Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Non-Finito: Unfinished Works and Their Counterparts, Albuqerque, NM.
2015
Page Coleman Gallery, WILD + LIFE, Albuquerque, NM.
Exhibit 208, s(and), an introduction, Albuquerque, NM.
Exhibit 208, s(and), an introduction, Albuquerque, NM.
Key Projects, Runcible Spoon, Long Island City, NY.
Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA), The Two States of W.W., Brooklyn, NY.
2014
Exhibit 208. ...roll on... , Albuquerque, NM.
TransVagrant@Warschaw Gallery, Winter, San Pedro, CA.
SCA Contemporary, Adaptations: Visual Artists Work with Profound Disease & Illness, Albuquerque, NM.
Harwood Art Center, Encompass, Albuquerque, NM.
2013
New Mexico Museum of Art, Art on the Edge; Toby Kamps, curator,
Santa Fe, NM.
2012
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Contemporary Art Society Prize 2012, four-person exhibit, Albuquerque, NM. Juried by Dave Hickey,
Libby Lumpkin and Luanne McKinnon.
Ventana 244 Gallery, The Matter at Hand: Heidi Pollard, Jennifer Wynne Reeves, Susanna Starr, Brooklyn, NY.
Janet Kurnetowski Gallery, Morphed, Brooklyn, NY.
A.I.R. Gallery, Righteous Perpetrators, Brooklyn, NY.
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Under 35, Santa Fe, NM.
AFA Gallery, Intramurals, Scranton, PA
FPAC Gallery, Roswell, Boston, MA.
2011
SCA Contemporary Art, Always Nowadays: Painting in the Land of Enchantment, Albuquerque, NM. Curators: Larry Bob Phillips and Karl Hofmann.
2010
AQUA ART FAIR, Horse Trader Curatorial Projects, Miami, FL.
The Affordable Art Fair, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY.
artSTRAND, headJAM, Provincetown, MA.
artSTRAND, PLACE, Provincetown, MA.
Deep Space New York, Drawing on Drawing,New York, NY.
Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Paper Works, Brooklyn, NY.
2009
Horse Trader Gallery at the Brooklyn Artillery Fair, Brooklyn, NY.
MomentaArt & Sara Meltzer Gallery, MomentaArt Benefit, New York, NY.
Metro Pictures, Postcards From the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit, New York, NY.
2008
NEXT Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, CUE Art Foundation Booth, in conjunction with Art Chicago, Chicago, IL.
McKenzie Fine Art, Horror Vacui, New York, NY.
Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Pink and Bent, New York, NY.
CUE Art Foundation, Benefit Art Auction, New York, NY.
PS 122 Gallery, 122 for $122, New York, NY.
Aljira, A Day in April Never Came So Sweet, Newark, NJ.
Harwood Art Center, 12 x 12, Albuquerque, NM.
2007
One Night Stand, If Then, As If, Brooklyn, NY.
James Cohan Gallery, Postcards From the Edge Visual Aids Benefit, New York, NY.
P.S. 122, 122 for $122 Benefit, New York, NY.
2006
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Postcards From the Edge Visual Aids Benefit, New York, NY.
P.S. 122, 122 for $122 Benefit, New York, NY.
The Garage, April is the Cruelest Month, Jersey City, NJ.
2004
Stedman Gallery, Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts,
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Camden, NJ.
2003
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Dancing in the Dark, Newark, NJ. Curator: Calvin Reid.
2002
Victory Hall, Merge, Jersey City, NJ.
Jersey City Museum, Benefit Art Raffle, Jersey City, NJ.
Momenta Art, Benefit Show, Brooklyn, NY.
2001
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, la la land, Philadelphia, PA.
2000
Vox Populi, A Compliment to Love, Philadelphia, PA.
1999
Harwood Art Center, Vs.: Books & Paintings, 2-person show with Cynthia Vogt, Albuquerque, NM.
516 Artspace, Impromptu: Albuquerque Abstract Artists, Albuquerque, NM.
Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Contemporary Art 1999,
Los Alamos, NM. Juror: Louis Grachos.
1998
University Art Gallery, NM State University, Close to the Border IIV/Cerca De La Frontiera IIV, Las Cruces, NM.
Jurors: Marysol Nieves, Alberto Ruy Sanchez.
Albuquerque Art Museum, 9th Annual Art of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM. Jurors: Harmony Hammond, David Floria, & Gail Bird.
Dartmouth Street Gallery, Surface/Meaning, Albuquerque, NM.
1997
New Mexico State Fair Arts Gallery, New Mexico Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM. Juror: Louis Grachos.
1996
Space 47, ARTernatives 96, San Luis Obispo, CA.
Juror: Neil Korten.
NM State Fair Fine Arts Gallery, NM Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM. Juror: Elizabeth Smith.
TEACHING AND PRESENTATIONS
2016
New Mexico School for the Arts, Guest Artist, Santa Fe, NM.
2013
University of New Mexico, Visiting Artist, Gallup, NM.
2010
Johnson State College, Visiting Artist, Johnson, VT.
2006
State University of New York, Purchase College, Instructor,
Drawing I, Purchase, NY.
2005
St. Michael’s College, Instructor, Drawing I, Colchester, VT.
2000
St. Louis Community College, Visiting Artist, St. Louis, MO.
EDUCATION
1994-95
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA. Graduate studies in Painting.
1985-86
Philip Grausman Sculpture Studio, Apprentice, Washington, CT.
1980-85
B.F.A., University of Michigan School of Art & Design,
Ann Arbor, MI. Sculpture.
PUBLICATIONS
New York Arts Magazine
art ltd. magazine
Newsweek on-line
2009
Horse Trader Gallery at the Brooklyn Artillery Fair, Brooklyn, NY.
MomentaArt & Sara Meltzer Gallery, MomentaArt Benefit, New York, NY.
Metro Pictures, Postcards From the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit, New York, NY.
2008
NEXT Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, CUE Art Foundation Booth, in conjunction with Art Chicago, Chicago, IL.
McKenzie Fine Art, Horror Vacui, New York, NY.
Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Pink and Bent, New York, NY.
CUE Art Foundation, Benefit Art Auction, New York, NY.
PS 122 Gallery, 122 for $122, New York, NY.
Aljira, A Day in April Never Came So Sweet, Newark, NJ.
Harwood Art Center, 12 x 12, Albuquerque, NM.
2007
One Night Stand, If Then, As If, Brooklyn, NY.
James Cohan Gallery, Postcards From the Edge Visual Aids Benefit, New York, NY.
P.S. 122, 122 for $122 Benefit, New York, NY.
2006
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Postcards From the Edge Visual Aids Benefit, New York, NY.
P.S. 122, 122 for $122 Benefit, New York, NY.
The Garage, April is the Cruelest Month, Jersey City, NJ.
2004
Stedman Gallery, Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts,
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Camden, NJ.
2003
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Dancing in the Dark, Newark, NJ. Curator: Calvin Reid.
2002
Victory Hall, Merge, Jersey City, NJ.
Jersey City Museum, Benefit Art Raffle, Jersey City, NJ.
Momenta Art, Benefit Show, Brooklyn, NY.
2001
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, la la land, Philadelphia, PA.
2000
Vox Populi, A Compliment to Love, Philadelphia, PA.
1999
Harwood Art Center, Vs.: Books & Paintings, 2-person show with Cynthia Vogt, Albuquerque, NM.
516 Artspace, Impromptu: Albuquerque Abstract Artists, Albuquerque, NM.
Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Contemporary Art 1999,
Los Alamos, NM. Juror: Louis Grachos.
1998
University Art Gallery, NM State University, Close to the Border IIV/Cerca De La Frontiera IIV, Las Cruces, NM.
Jurors: Marysol Nieves, Alberto Ruy Sanchez.
Albuquerque Art Museum, 9th Annual Art of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM. Jurors: Harmony Hammond, David Floria, & Gail Bird.
Dartmouth Street Gallery, Surface/Meaning, Albuquerque, NM.
1997
New Mexico State Fair Arts Gallery, New Mexico Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM. Juror: Louis Grachos.
1996
Space 47, ARTernatives 96, San Luis Obispo, CA.
Juror: Neil Korten.
NM State Fair Fine Arts Gallery, NM Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM. Juror: Elizabeth Smith.
TEACHING AND PRESENTATIONS
2016
New Mexico School for the Arts, Guest Artist, Santa Fe, NM.
2013
University of New Mexico, Visiting Artist, Gallup, NM.
2010
Johnson State College, Visiting Artist, Johnson, VT.
2006
State University of New York, Purchase College, Instructor,
Drawing I, Purchase, NY.
2005
St. Michael’s College, Instructor, Drawing I, Colchester, VT.
2000
St. Louis Community College, Visiting Artist, St. Louis, MO.
EDUCATION
1994-95
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA. Graduate studies in Painting.
1985-86
Philip Grausman Sculpture Studio, Apprentice, Washington, CT.
1980-85
B.F.A., University of Michigan School of Art & Design,
Ann Arbor, MI. Sculpture.
PUBLICATIONS
New York Arts Magazine
art ltd. magazine
Newsweek on-line
Art New England
New American Paintings
New American Paintings
New Mexico Magazine
THE Magazine, Santa Fe
Pasatiempo
Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque Tribune
Weekly Alibi, Albuquerque
Shifter on-line arts journal
THE Magazine, Santa Fe
Pasatiempo
Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque Tribune
Weekly Alibi, Albuquerque
Shifter on-line arts journal
