Elisabeth Heying

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About Elisabeth Heying

Elisabeth Heying is an artist, material researcher and educator. Her paintings explore place, landscape and surface as records of and containers for human experience. The inherent identities of material, both within the landscape and within the painting process, serve as a reflexive key to unlocking connection between people and place. Born in Minnesota, Heying received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2022, and her BFA in 2015. She was the founding director of a state of the art facility called StudioLab, where she educated SAIC students on how to make and use traditional and modern painting and drawing materials between 2016 and 2022. In this role, she developed educational resource collections including a Library, a Material Archive of historic pigments and materials and a Virtual Database of instructional videos. Heying serves as a Board Member of Pigments Revealed International, and has been a member of the ASTM Artists’ Materials Subcommittee, as well as a Golden Artist Educator, since 2017. She received the Roads Scholarship for Research and Travel in 2020, has exhibited widely in group exhibitions throughout Chicago and the Midwest, and debuted her first two solo exhibitions, Ache of Erosion, and Shifting Matters, in 2021 and 2022. Currently, Heying resides in Santiago, Chile where she is researching local earth pigments and making paintings in her studio.