Lee Heekin

Lee Heekin has been surrounded by art for as long as she can remember. Her early exposure to galleries, fine art and museums around the world by her Art Historian Mother, helped shape her constant love of art. Lee received her MFA from Pratt Art Institute in New York in 2008 and graduated with distinction in Fine Arts from Kenyon College in 2001. Lee teaches studio art and has shown her work in and around New York, CT, Georgia, Massachusetts, Long Island, North Carolina, and Colorado just to name a few. A Brooklyn transplant, Heekin currently lives and works in her studio in Boulder, CO. She continues to exhibit her work and is represented by Walker Fine Art Gallery in Denver, CO.
Heekin explores issues of confinement across a variety of subjects and in many different processes. She uses wood, wax, resin, oil and Acrylic to explore the tension between accepting and defying boundaries, whatever and wherever they are. Her grids and rigidity of form speak to the fragmentation and boundaries in our world. “I have always been drawn to the order of a grid. I am intrigued by how a simple form such as a box can accumulate to create something that is no longer a rigid form but an organic form”

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2008 MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
*President of the Pratt Artist League
2003 MAT, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, Art Ed
2001 BA, Kenyon College, OH, Fine Arts
*Awarded Distinction in Fine Arts
1997 Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, CT
Silvermine Arts Guild, Norwalk, Connecticut, June-July
2001 Pendland Art School, North Carolina, August
Connecting Collections, A workshop through the Whitney, MOMA, MET, NYC, July-August
2000 School for Field Studies Kenya, Africa –Wildlife Management, Ecology,
and Environmental Studies.

SOLO SHOWS
2021. (group) Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
2015 Fragmented, Made Life, Boulder, CO

2009 New Works by Lee Heekin, Fredrick Victoria Gallery, NYN2008
2008 Porous Boundaries, Pratt Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Wallace performing Arts Center, “Lines Of Confinement”, Greenwich, CT

2001 Olin Art Gallery, Senior Thesis Art show, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

SELECTED SHOWS
2018 Away from the Wall, National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, NYNY
2018 Here, There, Now, Museum of Boulder, MOB, Boulder CO
2018 Vantage Points, Walker Fine Art Gallery, Denver,CO
2018 The Unshow, Made Life, Boulder CO
2017 Human / Nature, Walker Fine Art Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 "All Colorado Juried show", Greenwood Village Art Center, CO
2016 "Time", Walker Fine Arts, Denver, CO
2016 "Heated Moments", 8 artists working in wax, Faith Center Gallery, Boulder, CO
2016 Black Box Gallery, Made Life, BCC Group Show, Boulder, Co
2015 S P A C E, Gallery 970, Loveland. CO
2015 Fire House Art Center, Longmont, Co
2015 DOUBLE OR NOTHING, Walker Fine Arts Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 Art in Context, Boulder Creative Collective, t, Boulder Co
2013 Touch, Taste View Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder, CO
2010 ...