EDUCATION
University of Kansas • Lawrence, Kansas
M.F.A. in Painting • 1997
University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A. in Studio Art • 1991
B.A. in Art History • 1991
University of Heidelberg • Germany • 1988—89
Goethe Institute • Boppard, Germany • September 1988
SOLO & SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts • Fond du Lac, Wisconsin • scheduled February/March 2025 • Solo
Dalton Gallery • Rock HIll, South Carolina • scheduled October/November 2024 • Solo
Grants Pass Museum of Art • Grants Pass, Oregon • scheduled August/September 2024 • Solo
Crary Art Gallery • Warren , Pennsylvania • scheduled August/September 2024 • Solo
Delaplaine Arts Center • Frederick, Maryland • scheduled September/October 2023 • Solo
Kirkland Arts Center Gallery • Clinton, New York • 2022 • Solo
Crossing Arts Alliance Gallery • Brainerd, Minnesota • 2023 • Solo
Women United Art Movement • Online • 2022 • Solo
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts • Mill Valley, California • 2022 • Small Group
Buckham Gallery • Flint, Michigan • 2022 • Solo
Abington Art Center • Jenkintown, Pennsylvania • 2022 • Solo
Gearbox Gallery • Oakland, California • scheduled 2022 • 2-Person
East Central College Art Gallery • Union, Missouri • scheduled 2022 • Solo
Ice House Gallery • Petaluma, California • 2021• Small Group
Gallery 118 • Brooklyn, New York • 2021• Solo
Fusion Art • Santa Fe, New Mexico • 2021 • Solo
Columbia Basin College Esvelt Gallery • Pasco, Washington • 2021 • Solo
Umpqua Community College • Roseburg, Oregon • 2019 • Solo
Music Orange • San Francisco, California • 2018—Present • Solo
San Francisco City College • San Francisco, California • 2018 • Solo
Triton Museum of Art • Santa Clara, California • 2010—2011 • Solo
West Valley College • Saratoga, California • 2007—present (permanent installation) • Solo
Triton Museum of Art • Santa Clara, California • 2003—2004 • Small Group
Richmond Art Center • Richmond, California • 2003 • Small Group
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery • San Francisco, California • 2001 • Small Group
Fetterly Gallery • Vallejo, California • 2000—2001 • Solo
Art & Design Gallery, University of Kansas • Lawrence, Kansas • 1997 • Solo
C. S. Bath • San Francisco, California • 1993 • Solo
San Francisco Audio Network • San Francisco, California • 1993 • Solo
Bridge Gallery • Santa Cruz, California • 1991 • Solo
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Fondamenta Gallery • Rome, Italy • 2023
Rochester Institute of Technology, Inter-Society Color Council Conference: Color Impact • Rochester, New York • 2023
Palo Alto Art Center • Palo Alto, California • 2023
Brea Gallery • Brea, California • 2023
Women United Art Movement • Online • 2023
Art Emerge Galleery • West Hollywood, California • 2023
Gallery Omata • Hong Kong, China • 2023
University of Texas • Tyler, Texas • 2023
Marin Society of Artists • San Rafael, California • 2023
Melissa Morgan Fine Art • Palm Desert, California • 2022
The Huntington Library Art Museum • San Marino, California • 2022
The Holy Art • London, England • 2022
Art2Life • Sausalito, California • 2022
Cincinnati Art Club • Cincinnati, Ohio • 2022
Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University • Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania • 2022
Art Fluent• Online • 2022
Marin Society of Artists • San Rafael, California • 2022
Create! Magazine • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • 2022
South Arkansas Arts Center • El Dorado, Arkansas • 2022
Gallery 118 • Brooklyn, New York • 2022
Red Bluff Art Gallery • Online • 2022
National Art League • Douglaston/Queens, New York • 2022
Art2Life Gallery • Sausalito, California • 2022
Lakeland Art Guild • Lakeland, Florida • 2022
Yorba Wines • Sutter Creek, California • 2022
London Art Biennale • London, England • 2021
Helvet Art • Geneva, Switzerland • 2021
Society of Canadian Artists • Toronto, Canada • 2021
Barrett Art Center • Poughkeepsie, New York • 2021
Stamford Art Association • Stamford, Connecticut • 2021
Art House • Messina, Italy • 2021
Seager Gray Gallery • Mill Valley, California • 2021
New Britain Museum of American Art • New Britain, Connecticut • 2021
Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University • Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania • 2021
Site: Brooklyn • Brooklyn, New York • 2021
Goldwell Museum • Beatty, Nevada • 2021
San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center • Tarzana, California • 2021
Arc Gallery • San Francisco, California • 2021
Art League of Hilton Head Biennale• Hilton Head, South Carolina • 2021
Liminal Art Gallery • Toronto, Canada • 2021
Piedmont Center for the Arts • Piedmont, California • 2021
Museum of Contemporary Art • Wausau, Wisconsin • 2021
University of Southern Mississippi • Hattiesburg, Mississippi • 2021
Viridian Artists Gallery • New York, New York • 2021
Athens Arts Gallery • Crawfordsville, Indiana • 2021
Art Center Gallery • Dover, New Hampshire • 2021
Sacramento Fine Arts Center • Carmichael, California • 2021
Marin Society of Artists • San Rafael, California • 2021
Essex Gallery • Westport, Connecticut • 2021
Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community • Harrisonburg, Virginia • 2021
Indiana University at Kokomo Downtown Gallery • Kokomo, Indiana • 2021
The Curator’s Salon• London, England • 2021
Rhode Island Watercolor Society • Pawtucket, Rhode Island • 2021
Incuarts • Honolulu, Hawaii • 2021
Melvin Art Gallery • Lakeland, Florida • 2021
Michael Rosen Fine Arts • Providence, Rhode Island • 2021
Oxford Arts Alliance • Oxford, Pennsylvania • 2021
Artsy Shark • Online • 2021
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts • Mystic, Connecticut • 2021
Paper Circle • Nelsonville, Ohio • 2021
State of the Art Gallery • Ithaca, New York • 2021
Willard Arts Center • Idaho Falls, Idaho • 2021
CorkHouse • Savannah, Georgia • 2021
Gallery Route One • Point Reyes, California • 2021
Elizabeth Jones Art Center • Portland, Oregon • 2021
The Arts and Culture Alliance • Knoxville, Tennessee • 2021
Woodwalk Gallery • Egg Harbor, Wisconsin • 2021
The Art Guild • Port Washington, New York • 2021
Ground Floor Gallery • Surprise, Arizona • 2021
San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center • Tarzana, California • 2021
Visionary Art Collective • New York, New York • 2021
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts • Mystic, Connecticut • 2021
Studio Channel Islands • Camarillo, California • 2021
Biafarin Awards Exhibition• Online • 2021
de Young Museum • San Francisco, California • 2020
RedArtBox Gallery • Tokyo, Japan • 2020
Artios Gallery • New York, New York • 2020
Bougie Art Gallery • Toronto, Canada • 2020
Wailoa Center • Hilo, Hawaii • 2020
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts • Mill Valley, California • 2020
Mt. Si Artist Guild • Snoqualmie, Washington • 2020
State of the Art Gallery • Ithaca, New York • 2020
Artless Bastard Gallery • West De Pere, Wisconsin • 2020
Grand Prairie Arts Council • Grand Prairie, Texas • 2020
RG Endres Gallery • Prairie Village, Kansas • 2020
Oxford Arts Alliance • Oxford, Pennsylvania • 2020
National Art League • Douglaston/Queens, New York • 2020
Crooked Tree Arts Center • Petoskey, Michigan • 2020
Medford Arts Center • Medford, New Jersey • 2020
The Joe Center for the Arts• Port St. Joe, Florida • 2020
J. Mane Gallery• Online • 2020
Gearbox Gallery • Oakland, California • 2020
The Old Courthouse Figurative League • Woodstock, Illinois • 2020
Colors of Humanity Gallery • Everett, Pennsylvania • 2020
Alaska Watercolor Society • Anchorage, Alaska • 2020
realArt Gallery • Agoura Hills, California • 2020
Taos Art Insurgency • Taos, New Mexico • 2020
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts • Mill Valley, California • 2020
Attleboro Arts Museum • Attleboro, Massachusetts • 2020
Emerald Art Center • Springfield, Oregon • 2020
Marin Society of Artists • San Rafael, California • 2020
d-Art Center • Norfolk, Virginia • 2020
College of the Sequoias • Visalia, California • 2020
Shockboxx Gallery • Hermosa Beach, California • 2020
Cultural Center of Cape Cod • South Yarmouth, Massachusetts • 2020
Core New Art Space • Lakewood, Colorado • 2020
Kelwood Contemporary Art • Baton Rouge, Louisiana • 2020
Eastern Kentucky University • Richmond, Kentucky • 2020
Hopkins Center for the Arts • Hopkins, Minnesota • 2020
Sanchez Art Center• Pacifica, California • 2020
Fe Gallery • Sacramento, California • 2020
Self Help Graphics and Art • Los Angeles, California • 2020
West Valley College Art Gallery • Saratoga, California • 1998—2022
Arts Benicia • Benicia, California • 2019
Art Works Downtown • San Rafael, California • 2019
Gallery 621 • Benicia, California • 2019
Fort Works Art • Fort Worth, Texas • 2019
Sebastopol Center for the Arts • Sebastopol, California • 2019
Vanessa Lacy Gallery • Kansas City, Missouri • 2019
SG Gallery • Venice, Italy • 2019
University of Alaska • Anchorage, Alaska • 2019
Specto Art Space • Harrisonburg, Virginia • 2019
StARTup at Midway Gallery • San Francisco, California • 2019
Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County• Fayetteville, North Carolina• 2019
Blackboard Gallery • Camarillo, California • 2019
Alexandria Museum of Art • Alexandria, Louisiana • 2019
International Society of Acrylic Painters • Online • 2019
Studio Channel Islands • Camarillo, California • 2019
Tubac Center of the Arts • Tubac, Arizona • 2019
Site: Brooklyn • Brooklyn, New York • 2019
Dora Lee Langdon Center • Granbury, Texas • 2019
Webster Arts • St. Louis, Missouri • 2019
Las Laguna Gallery • Laguna Beach, California • 2019
Old Court House Arts Center • Woodstock, Illinois • 2019
311 Gallery • Raleigh, North Carolina • 2019
Sebastopol Center for the Arts • Sebastopol, California • 2018
Triton Museum of Art • Santa Clara, California • 2013
Art Ark Gallery • San Jose, California • 2013
Art Ark Gallery • San Jose, California • 2012
Woman Made Gallery • Chicago, Illinois• 2003
The Stage Gallery • Merrick, New York • 2003
Berkeley Art Center • Berkeley, California • 2002, 2003
St. Supery Gallery • Rutherford, California • 2001
Napa Valley College Art Gallery • Napa, California • 1997—2001
Works Gallery • San Jose, California • 1999
Los Medanos College Art Gallery • Pittsburg, California • 1999
Museum of Arts Downtown Los Angeles • Los Angeles, California • 1998
750 Gallery • Sacramento, California • 1998
Center for Visual Art Gallery • Oakland, California • 1998
Santa Cruz Art League • Santa Cruz, California • 1998
Big Twelve Conference Invitational • Dallas, Texas • 1997
Art and Design Gallery, University of Kansas • Lawrence, Kansas • 1994, 1995
City of San Francisco Open Studio • San Francisco, California • 1993
Pickard-Smith Gallery • Santa Cruz, California • 1991
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2nd Place, Brea Gallery • 2023
“38th Annual Made in California”, Brea, California
Special Mention Award, Art Vue Annual Prize • 2023
Brussels, Belgium
Finalist, Boynes Emerging Artist Award • 2022
“7th Edition”, Melbourne, Australia
2nd Place, Art2Life • 2022
“International Juried Art Exhibition”, Sausalito, California
Best Abstract Award, Cincinnati Art Club • 2022
“Viewpoint 54”, Cincinnati, Ohio
1st Place, Faber Birren National Color Award • 2021
Endowed to Stamford Art Association, Stamford, Connecticut
1st Place, Art House • 2021
“Art House Art Contest”, Messina, Italy
Best of Show Award, Athens Arts Gallery • 2021
“Untitled 2.0”, Crawfordsville, Indiana
Best of Show Award, San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center • 2021
“Artopia”, Tarzana, California
Best of Show Award, Sacramento Fine Arts Center • 2021
“Bold Expressions”, Carmichael, California
1st Place, Gallery Route One • 2021
“Crossing the Divide”, Point Reyes Station, California
1st Place, Willard Arts Center • 2021
“13th Annual Juried Exhibition”, Idaho Falls, Idaho
1st Place, Ground Floor Gallery • 2021
“Make Me Laugh”, Surprise, Arizona
2nd Place, Viridian Artists Gallery • 2021
“31st International Juried Exhibition”, New York, New York
2nd Place, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University • 2021
“12th Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Exhibition”, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
2nd Place, TheArtList.com • 2021
“Artist of the Month”, Online
Special Mention Award, Art Show International • 2022
“Spring 2022 Artist Grant”, Los Angeles, California
Juror’s Prize, State of the Art Gallery • 2021
“Juried Exhibit”, Ithaca, New York
Runner Up Award, Art Show International • 2021
“Winter 2021 Artist Grant”, Los Angeles, California
Juror’s Citation Award, The Arts and Culture Alliance • 2021
“No Bigger than a Breadbox”, Knoxville, Tennessee
Honorable Mention Award, The Art Guild • 2021
“The Painted Moment”, Port Washington, New York
1st Place, Prisma International Art Award • 2020
5th Edition-Year 2, Rome, Italy
Best in Show Award, Grand Prairie Arts Council • 2020
“2020 Juried Show”, Grand Prairie, Texas
1st Place Award, Medford Art Center • 2020
“Fall Juried Exhibition”, Medford, New Jersey
1st Place Award, Gearbox Gallery • 2020
“Sanctuary”, Oakland, California
Jack Richeson & Co. Award, National Art League • 2020
“90th Annual Open Juried Exhibit”, Douglaston/Queens, New York
3rd Place Award, Mt. Si Artist Guild • 2020
“Mt. Si Art Show 2020”, Snoqualmie, Washington
Merit Award, College of the Sequoias • 2020
“2020 Human Rights Exhibit”, Visalia, California
Honorable Mention Award, J. Mane Gallery • 2020
“Eat”, Online
Noteworthy Award, Colors of Humanity Gallery • 2020
“Wet Paint”, Everett, Pennsylvania
Theme Award, Giles Gallery • 2020
“Balance and Resilience”, Richmond, Kentucky
Oak TREE (Totally Remarkable and Extraordinary Employee) Award, West Valley College • 2020
Saratoga, California
Faculty Excellence Award, West Valley College • 2011
West Valley College, Saratoga, California
Juror’s Award, 750 Gallery • 1998
Sacramento, California
Graduate School Honors Fellowship, University of Kansas • 1996
Lawrence, Kansas
Hollander Family Foundation Scholarship, University of Kansas • 1996
Lawrence, Kansas
Beatrice L. Bonine Painting Scholarship, University of Kansas • 1995
Lawrence, Kansas
Daniel MacMorris Scholarship, University of Kansas • 1995
Lawrence, Kansas
Chancellor’s Award, University of California, Santa Cruz • 1991
Santa Cruz, California
Juror’s Award, Pickard-Smith Gallery • 1991
Santa Cruz, California
PUBLICATIONS
I Like Your Work Catalog • “Summer Exhibition”, July 2023
Vassar Review • “Interiors & Intimacies”, May 2023
The Artful Collecive • Issue #2, May 2023
Suboart Magazine • Issue #5, April 2023
Create! Magazine • Issue #34, February 2023
Boynes Emerging Artist • Interview, February 2023
Art Vue Magazine • 2022 Annual Prize, February 2023
NotRealArt.com • Interview, Decemberr 2022
Ilikeyourworkpodcast.com• Studio Visit Artist, October 2022
Friend of the Artist Series • Studio Image Project, October 2022
The Huts Magazine • Issue #6, September 2022
Create! Magazine • Issue #31, July 2022
The Pacific Sun • July 27, 2022
48hills.org • Interview, June 8, 2022
Createmagazine.com • Interview, April 2022
Create! Magazine • Issue #29, February 2022
Art Seen Magazine • Spring Issue #3, Interview pp. 24-29, February 2022
All She Makes Magazine • Issue #4, February 2022
Art Ascent Magazine • Issue #53, Image pg. 51, January 2022
Friend of the Artist Series • Studio Image Project, January 2022
New Visionary Magazine • Issue #1, January 2022
Gearboxgallery.com • Interview, January 6, 2022
Artists of the Bay Area • Jen Tough Gallery, November 2021
KQED Arts & Culture, Interview • San Francisco, California • 2021
Visionary Art Collective, Interview • Brooklyn, New York • 2021
All She Makes, Interview • New York, New York • 2021
East Bay Artists 2021 • Books Inc., November 2021
ArtWalk Magazine • Summer 2021 Issue, September 2021
Creative Quarterly • Issue #63, August 2021
Art Seen Magazine • Issue #1, May, 2021
Artistonish Magazine • Issue #7, February, 2021
Gearboxgallery.com • Interview, August 10, 2020
Thought Art Magazine • Issue #3, November 2020
East Bay Artists 2020 • Books Inc., November 2020
WEAD Magazine • Issue #11, November 2020
Salann Magazine • Edition 1, May 2019
Monsterbet by Heidi Brueckner • September 2018
Voices Literary Magazine • Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 40, 41, 44
Triton Museum of Art Museum Currents • October—December, 2003, p. 1
College Art Association News • Volume 25, Number 6, November, 2000, p. 11
The Contra Costa Times/The Ledger Dispatch • Friday, September 17, 1999, p. 4
The Forum (Journal of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges) • 1998 Edition, p. 35
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Artist Residency • Wildacres Residency, Little Switzerland, NC • 2023
Artist’s Talk • KAXE-KBXE Northern Community Radio, Brainerd, Minnesota • 2023
Visiting Artist • I Like Your Work Works Community, Columbus, Ohio • 2022
Artist’s Talk • Buckham Gallery, Flint, Michigan • 2022
Juror: Prisma International Art Award • 6th Edition-Year 2, Rome, Italy • 2020
Kipaipai Professional Practices Seminar • Ojai, California • 2022
Visionary Art Collective, Directory and Interview • New York, New York • 2021
All She Makes, Interview and Directory • New York, New York • 2021—Present
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Encaustic Workshop • Snowmass, Colorado • 2021
Artist’s Talk • Liminal Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada • 2021
Artist’s Talk • Esvelt Gallery, Pasco, Washington • 2021
Kipaipai Professional Practices Seminar • Mill Valley, California • 2021
Kipaipai Professional Practices Seminar • Online • 2021
Director: WVC Satellite Crochet Coral Reef • West Valley College, Saratoga, California • 2017-2019
Creation and Publication of “Monsterbet” by Heidi Brueckner • September 2018
Sabbatical Project: Painting, Research, Digital Image Collection • West Valley College, Saratoga, California• 2006
Juror: Olympiad of the Arts • Olympiad of the Arts, West Valley College Art Gallery, Saratoga, California • 2002—2009
Art Auctioneer • KTEH Public Television, San Jose, California • 2003
Visiting Artist/Lecturer • Lawrence Public School District, Lawrence, Kansas • 1997
Visiting Artist/Lecturer • Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas • 1996
Visiting Artist/Lecturer • Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas • 1996
FULL-TIME TEACHING, PROFESSOR
West Valley College • Saratoga, California • Fall 2000—Present
PART-TIME TEACHING, LECTURER OR INSTRUCTOR
University of California, Berkeley Extension • Berkeley, California • Spring 2000—Summer 2000
Los Medanos College • Pittsburg, California • Fall 1999—Spring 2000
Napa Valley College • Napa, California • Fall 1997—Summer 2000
West Valley College • Saratoga, California • Fall 1998—Fall 1999
Pacific Art League • Palo Alto, California • Summer 1998
Hartnell College • Salinas, California • Fall 1997
University of Kansas • Lawrence, Kansas • Spring 1996—Spring 1997
Town School For Boys, Art Department • San Francisco, California • Fall 1992—Spring 1994