Saint Louis, Missouri based artist Heather Bennett maintains a multimedia practice which consists of photography, video, drawing, text, sculpture, installation, as well as collaborations with musicians and writers. Her work traces the female subject and its historic irrelevance, focusing specifically on representation in contemporary culture. By disrupting assumptions, she attempts to realign and reframe, even recreate, the relegated, feminine-tinged space.
Bennett earned a BA and BFA at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and an MFA at Hunter College in New York. She spent 14 years living and working in New York City before joining the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis as the Louis D. Beaumont Visiting Artist Fellow in 2013. She is now a Senior Lecturer and Minor Advisor in Art at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
Elevate, with Michael Drummond, 21c Museum Hotel, St. Louis 2026
Beyond Rules, Centre for Contemporary Art and Library, Burgas, Bulgaria 2026
Dangerous Beauty, ArtDepot, Innsbruck, Austria 2025
REMIX, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis 2025
Night Watch (Origin of the World), University of Illinois Springfield 2023
To Pillar, To Platform, curated by Kalaija Mallery, The Luminary, St. Louis 2023
My One and Only, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg 2022
Farce, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna 2021
Midnight Special, Monaco, St. Louis 2020
Six solo exhibitions with Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York
The Uncovered Works of Hanna Berman, Eva Hober Gallery, Paris
Art fairs: FIAC, Paris; LOOP, Barcelona; ROMA, Rome
Regional Arts Commission Artist Support Grant, St. Louis 2026, 2023, 2017
Sam Fox School Faculty Research Award, in support of REMIX 2025
Louis D. Beaumont Visiting Artist Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis 2013
The Somerville Art Prize, New York 2002
Sidetrack: Snapshots, Outtakes and Polaroids 2001 to 2008, monograph with essays by Jenni Sorkin and William Stover. Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York 2010
Untitled 2001 to 2003
The Uncovered Works of Hanna Berman 2005 to 2006
The Empire Trilogy 2008
Sidetrack 2010
Photos of Gifts 2013 to 2021
Four Stories 2011 to 2014
Midnight Special 2020
The New York Times, Artnet, ArtReview, Art Press, Art Papers, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, Hyperallergic, The New York Photo Review, Wall Street International Magazine
Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis
Galleri S.E., Norway
