photo credited to Eduardo Velazquez, 2009



Robert Chase Heishman is a multidisciplinary artist whose work revolves around seeing one thing through another: currently by exploring the soap opera character from which he was named after, and formerly by photographing through Braille word-formations and other photographic-based explorations. Heishman received his B.F.A. in Photography and Art History in 2008 from the Kansas City Art Institute. He created an original décor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Split-Sides (2003), has contributed artwork for Sigur Rós' BA BA TI KI DI DO, has spoke at Columbia College in Chicago, Kansas University, and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. He has held residency at the Charlotte Street Foundation of Kansas City, and is in the photography collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Starting in the Fall 2010, he will be attending Northwestern University's Art Theory & Practice graduate MFA program.