Heather Friedli

Heather Friedli is best known for her contemporary impressionist oil paintings, depicting her family heritage and the land in which she lives. Bold brush strokes and brilliant colors light up scenes of cloudscapes, water, and native flora and fauna. Many pieces are created in the context of wilderness adventures; she often brings her paints outdoors to create work that shares with the viewer her experience of immersion in the landscape. Within these colorful works, Heather explores the spiritual world through the lens of culture and lived experience of place. Heather’s work is creative, soulful, bold, and powerful. Heather Friedli was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1982. In 2010 Heather through hiked the Appalachian Trail, the completion of which inspired her to create a series of work highlighting her family’s native Odawa and Mexican Heritages within abstracted and dreamlike natural landscapes. She

Maryland Institute College of Art, Fibers, BFA 2005

Solo Exhibition, "One in the Land" Frameworks Gallery, Saint Paul, MN, Nov/Jan 2019/2020
"We Are Still Here" Indigenous Artist Exhibition, Sept/Oct 2019
Solo Exhibition, "Minnesota Cloudscapes" Norseman Distillery, May/June 2019
Solo Exhibition, "Minnesota Cloudscapes" Landmark Gallery, May 2019
Salon Alla Prima, The Gallery at Zeller Studio, Spring 2019.
“Other” : Hispanic/Latino Artists Exhibition, Landmark Gallery, October 2018.
Holiday Market at the Schmidt, November, 2017, 2018, 2019
“Women’s Voices”, April 2018, Sower Gallery, Chaska MN
Women Of the Schmidt, March 2018
Saint Paul Art Crawl, 2017, 2018, 2019
US National Snow Sculpting Competition, 2017, 2019 (1st Place)
Solo Show, Chanhassen Library, MN, February 2016
Minnesota State Snow Sculpting Competition- 2013, 2014 (3rd Place), 2015, 2016 (1st Place), 2018
Ely Greenstone Juried Art Show- 2011, 2012
Ely Art Walk- 2011, 2012
Ely Winter Festival Snowcarvers Symposium- 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019