Meet Heidi
Heidi Reynolds is a creative experimenter based in Boston, MA. She earned her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts where she focused on video, performance, and installation. Her work investigates the interaction of the inner and outer spaces of memory and connection through community engagement, public interventions, and activism. She approaches art as an ever-evolving process. She is passionate about engaging with the community through her art and believes in bringing art out of the gallery to create conversations in the places we sometimes least expect. Heidi considers her visual vocabulary her first language and hopes to connect with others through her work. Heidi teaches art in the Boston area and founded Re-create studio, a mobile art studio.
Artist Statement
My work deals with our migrating response to trauma, its lasting repercussions, and the subsequent examination of past, present, and future facets of our lives. Experiencing traumatic change disrupts our comfortable patterns and feelings of stability. Our notions of permanence are skewed, and a subsequent critical examination occurs, eliciting questions about memory as well as our current reality. Is it possible to disentangle a single experience from our web of consciousness? How does our changing experience and morphing identity affect our perception of past traumatic events? How do we both anchor ourselves and move forward through the turbid present?
I also take great interest in connecting with others through the traumas we have all shared- both large and small. Exploring vulnerability, change, and our need for community through playful actions can be healing for all. I explore these themes in interactive sculpture, installation, video, painting, and photography.
Education, Exhibitions and Honors
Tufts University: Master of Fine Art: Multi-Media 2012
School of the Museum of Fine Arts: Post Baccalaureate in Fine Art 2008
Alfred University, Bachelor of Science 1999
Follow Your Art, Melrose, MA Artist in Residence Exhibition 2021
Follow Your Art, Melrose, MA Artist in Residence 2021
New Bedford Art Museum: "Who Saved Who." Curated show 2019
Arlington Center for the Arts: "I'm New Here: Perspectives on Migration" 2018
Porchfest-fest, Jamaica Plain Guest Artist 2015
Figment Festival, Boston MA: Curated Exhibition 2015
De-Construkt Gallery, Brooklyn NY: Artist in Residence: 2014
Union Square Plaza, Somerville, MA: “ Rolling Gallery” Thesis Exhibition 2012
Distillery Gallery, Boston MA: Solo Show 2012
Fringe Collaborative, Somerville MA: Interactive Exhibition 2012
Sherman Gallery, Somerville MA: Interactive Exhibition 2012
Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA: Solo Show 2012
Grace Space, New York City, NY: Performance Artist 2012
Montague Travel Grant Recipient: Nungua, Ghana 2012
Lucky Gallery, Brooklyn NY: Featured Performing Artist 2011
Lucky Gallery, Brooklyn NY: Featured Performing artist 2010
SMFA, Boston MA: Juried Show Selection 2010
SMFA, Boston MA: Post-Baccalaureate Show 2008
Dean’s Discretionary Grant Recipient: Vieques Island, Puerto Rico 2008
SMFA, Boston MA: Post-Baccalaureate Scholarship Recipient 2007
Lilypad Gallery, Cambridge MA: Solo Show 2007
Presidential scholarship 1995-99
