ROBERT CHASE HEISHMAN
born 1984; Des Moines, Iowa
lives and works in Chicago, Illinois
EDUCATION:
2012 --- MFA candidate, Art Theory & Practice, Northwestern University
2008 --- BFA, Photography / New Media, Kansas City Art Institute
2008 --- BFA, Art History, Kansas City Art Institute
WORKS:
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES:
2011 --- Split-Sides, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
------------ How To Do Something, All Alone, By Yourself, Subterranean Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2010 --- Thinking Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ Kansas City Flatfile Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ You're Such A Good Sport, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2009 --- End of an Era: Polaroid Exhibition, Center Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
------------ Eyes To The World, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ Infostructure, Dan Lough Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ No Requests, Please, Arts Incubator, Kansas City, Missouri (performance)
------------ Paul Shortt Invitational, Fishtank Performance Space, Kansas City, Missouri (performance)
2008 --- New Works, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
------------ WIND / MIND, The Writerʼs Place, Kansas City, Missouri ***solo exhibition
2007 --- Benefit of the Doubt, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, New York
------------ Slop, Swap & Shop, The Project Space, Kansas City, Missouri
2006 --- To A, to B, to See, Upstairs Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
COMMISSIONS:
2004 --- BA BA TI KI DI DO, Sigur Rós, Geffen Records
2003 --- Split-Sides, Décor Artist, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
GRANTS:
2011 --- Travel Grant, Art Theory & Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
2009 --- Inspiration Grant, ArtsKC Fund, Arts Council of Metropolitan, Kansas City, Missouri
2006 --- Magic Sock Fund Grant / Kansas City Art Institute
COLLECTIONS / DONATIONS:
2012 --- Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
------------ Permanent Collection, Trevor Carlson, private collector, Brooklyn, New York
2010 --- Permanent Collection, Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
2007 --- Donation, Chez Bushwick, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, New York
------------ Donation, Human Rights Campaign, Art Auction, Chicago, Illinois
2005 --- Donation, Human Rights Campaign, Art Auction, Washington, D.C.
2003 --- Permanent Collection, Trevor Carlson, private collector, New York, New York
PUBLIC TALKS & EVENTS
2010 --- Tea Party Conversation, "Commodity, Commotion, Communication", Project Space, Kansas City, Missouri
2009 --- Artist talk, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ Let's Paint Tv w/ John Kilduff, Project Space, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 --- Artist talk, Contemporary Conversations program series,The Writerʼs Place, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ WIND / MIND: night of readings, The Writerʼs Place, Kansas City, Missouri
2005 --- Talk w/ Merce Cunningham and Trevor Carlson, Lied Center of Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas
2003 --- Conversations of Cunningham symposium, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED PRESS / PUBLICATIONS:
2010 --- "Thinking Photography" Explores Photography Legacy at KCAI", KCUR 89.3 FM, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ "Thinking (about) Photography", Review Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ "ART OF SPORT : SPORT OF ART", Review Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 --- “Whatʼs In A Frame? Experiments In Photography”, Review Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ "Compendium: The Survival Kit Edition", book, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ “Robert Heishmanʼs Still life series”, i heart photograph, Online Blog
------------ “Music as Muse”, KKFI FM 90.1 program, hosts Maria Vasquez Boyd & Mark Manning, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ “Robert Heishman Hosts A Night of Readings”, The Pitch, Kansas City, Missouri
2006 --- “Art Begets Art”, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ “Robert Heishman on ʻSplit-Sides”, KCUR FM 89.3, Kansas City, Missouri
2004 --- “Through the pinhole; KC Photographer sets designs for ballet”, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ “A Dance Encounter”, Lawrence Journal World, Lawrence, Kansas
2003 --- “Double or Nothing; Merce Cunningham goes rock”, The New Yorker, New York, New York
------------ “Roll the Dice, Crank the Amp, and See What Happens”, The New York Times, New York, New York
TEACHING:
2012 --- Northwestern University, Contemporary Art Survey (TA for Lane Reylea), Evanston, Illinois
2011 --- Northwestern University, Introduction to Sculpture (TA for Michael Rakowitz), Evanston, Illinois
------------ Kansas City Art Institute, PreCollege Summer ArtLab: Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
2010 --- Kansas City Art Institute, PreCollege Summer ArtLab: Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
RESIDENCIES / AWARDS:
2010 --- (Nomination) Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award, Kansas City, Missouri
2010 --- Art Through Architecture program, Kansas City, Missouri
2009 --- Art Through Architecture program, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ Charlotte Street Foundation: Urban Culture Project, artist-in-residence, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 --- Art Through Architecture program, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ Charlotte Street Foundation: Urban Culture Project, artist-in-residence, Kansas City, Missouri
born 1984; Des Moines, Iowa
lives and works in Chicago, Illinois
EDUCATION:
2012 --- MFA candidate, Art Theory & Practice, Northwestern University
2008 --- BFA, Photography / New Media, Kansas City Art Institute
2008 --- BFA, Art History, Kansas City Art Institute
WORKS:
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES:
2011 --- Split-Sides, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
------------ How To Do Something, All Alone, By Yourself, Subterranean Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2010 --- Thinking Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ Kansas City Flatfile Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ You're Such A Good Sport, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2009 --- End of an Era: Polaroid Exhibition, Center Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
------------ Eyes To The World, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ Infostructure, Dan Lough Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ No Requests, Please, Arts Incubator, Kansas City, Missouri (performance)
------------ Paul Shortt Invitational, Fishtank Performance Space, Kansas City, Missouri (performance)
2008 --- New Works, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
------------ WIND / MIND, The Writerʼs Place, Kansas City, Missouri ***solo exhibition
2007 --- Benefit of the Doubt, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, New York
------------ Slop, Swap & Shop, The Project Space, Kansas City, Missouri
2006 --- To A, to B, to See, Upstairs Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
COMMISSIONS:
2004 --- BA BA TI KI DI DO, Sigur Rós, Geffen Records
2003 --- Split-Sides, Décor Artist, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
GRANTS:
2011 --- Travel Grant, Art Theory & Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
2009 --- Inspiration Grant, ArtsKC Fund, Arts Council of Metropolitan, Kansas City, Missouri
2006 --- Magic Sock Fund Grant / Kansas City Art Institute
COLLECTIONS / DONATIONS:
2012 --- Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
------------ Permanent Collection, Trevor Carlson, private collector, Brooklyn, New York
2010 --- Permanent Collection, Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
2007 --- Donation, Chez Bushwick, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, New York
------------ Donation, Human Rights Campaign, Art Auction, Chicago, Illinois
2005 --- Donation, Human Rights Campaign, Art Auction, Washington, D.C.
2003 --- Permanent Collection, Trevor Carlson, private collector, New York, New York
PUBLIC TALKS & EVENTS
2010 --- Tea Party Conversation, "Commodity, Commotion, Communication", Project Space, Kansas City, Missouri
2009 --- Artist talk, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ Let's Paint Tv w/ John Kilduff, Project Space, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 --- Artist talk, Contemporary Conversations program series,The Writerʼs Place, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ WIND / MIND: night of readings, The Writerʼs Place, Kansas City, Missouri
2005 --- Talk w/ Merce Cunningham and Trevor Carlson, Lied Center of Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas
2003 --- Conversations of Cunningham symposium, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED PRESS / PUBLICATIONS:
2010 --- "Thinking Photography" Explores Photography Legacy at KCAI", KCUR 89.3 FM, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ "Thinking (about) Photography", Review Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ "ART OF SPORT : SPORT OF ART", Review Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 --- “Whatʼs In A Frame? Experiments In Photography”, Review Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ "Compendium: The Survival Kit Edition", book, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ “Robert Heishmanʼs Still life series”, i heart photograph, Online Blog
------------ “Music as Muse”, KKFI FM 90.1 program, hosts Maria Vasquez Boyd & Mark Manning, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ “Robert Heishman Hosts A Night of Readings”, The Pitch, Kansas City, Missouri
2006 --- “Art Begets Art”, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ “Robert Heishman on ʻSplit-Sides”, KCUR FM 89.3, Kansas City, Missouri
2004 --- “Through the pinhole; KC Photographer sets designs for ballet”, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ “A Dance Encounter”, Lawrence Journal World, Lawrence, Kansas
2003 --- “Double or Nothing; Merce Cunningham goes rock”, The New Yorker, New York, New York
------------ “Roll the Dice, Crank the Amp, and See What Happens”, The New York Times, New York, New York
TEACHING:
2012 --- Northwestern University, Contemporary Art Survey (TA for Lane Reylea), Evanston, Illinois
2011 --- Northwestern University, Introduction to Sculpture (TA for Michael Rakowitz), Evanston, Illinois
------------ Kansas City Art Institute, PreCollege Summer ArtLab: Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
2010 --- Kansas City Art Institute, PreCollege Summer ArtLab: Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
RESIDENCIES / AWARDS:
2010 --- (Nomination) Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award, Kansas City, Missouri
2010 --- Art Through Architecture program, Kansas City, Missouri
2009 --- Art Through Architecture program, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ Charlotte Street Foundation: Urban Culture Project, artist-in-residence, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 --- Art Through Architecture program, Kansas City, Missouri
------------ Charlotte Street Foundation: Urban Culture Project, artist-in-residence, Kansas City, Missouri