Solo Exhibitions
2024 June 15 - Through The Looking Glass, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY
2013 Weirding Way, Carter & Citizen, Los Angeles, CA
2011 I Want To Teach The World To Sing, Land of Tomorrow Gallery, Louisville, KY
2011 Mirror Gaze, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA
2009 A Study in Portraiture: Act II, MOT International, London, curated by Caryn Coleman
2009 A Study in Portraiture: Act I, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA, curated by Caryn Coleman
2007 Corpus Battaglia, Matrushka, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Century’s End, sixspace, LosAngeles, CA
2005 The Extended Family, Newman and Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Corpus Battaglia, Suite 106, New York, NY
2003 Zombies, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Reaching for Bermuda Triangle, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, CA
Group Exhibitions
2013 On the Desperate Edge of Now (forthcoming), Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Caryn Coleman
2012 The Paranoia of Time, Carter & Citizen, Los Angeles, CA, curated by John Knuth
2011 Eros and Civilization, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Ben Lord
2011 Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Doug Harvey
2010 39 Now, den contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Sophia Lee
2010 Pyschic Outlaws, Luckman Gallery Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Annie Buckley
2010 Fuck Heads: Portraiture in the Silicon Elightenment, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Angela Dufresne
2010 Ultra Silvam, Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Pavel Pys
2009 LA 2019 Cults, Collectives & Cocooning, 18th St. Art Center, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Ciara Ennis
2008 Celebration, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Group Show, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Pulsing, Burning, Glendale College, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Painted Faces, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA
2007 Ego, Jail, Los Angeles. CA 2005 Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Mercer St., Suite 106, New York, NY
2005 Photos, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
2005/06 Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, CC Wattis Institute / Independent Curators International, multiple venues, curated by Matthew Higgs
2004 Magic, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Faith, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Snapshot, sixspace, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Viewfinder, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 A Visit to Bran, Matruschka, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Recess, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Wild Strawberries & Familiar Haunts, Suite 106 Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Angst, R.A.R.E. Gallery, New York, NY
2003 City Mouse/Country Mouse, Space 101, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Helicopter, Leonard Tachmes Gallery, Miami, FL
Education
2001 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1995 BFA, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1994 New York Studio Program, Parsons School of Art and Design, NY
Selected Bibliography
2013 “The Fall of the House of Usher”, The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Caryn Coleman, January
2011 Artforum.com, Mirror Gaze “Critic’s Pick” by Annie Buckley, January
2011 Los Angeles Times, “Art review: Heather Cantrell at Kinkead Contemporary” by Sharon Mizota, January
2011 Blink magazine, Issue #7, November 2011 flavorpill.net, “Heather Cantrell: You, Me, and Everyone She Knows” by Shana Nys Dambrot
2011 flavorpill.net, “Heather Cantrell: Mirror Gaze, editor pick” by Tanja M. Laden
2009 Artforum, “A Study in Portraiture by Heather Cantrell” by Natilee Harren, October
2009 LA Weekly, “Heather Cantrell at Kinkead Contemporary” by Christopher Miles, Vol. 31, no. 35, July
2009 Flavorpill.net, “A Study in Portraiture by Heather Cantrell”, July
2006 LA Weekly, “Must See Art” by Amra Brooks, Nov. 3-9, pg. 68
2006 Los Angles Times, “Games of dress-up: To what purpose?” by Leah Ollman, Nov. 17, pg. E21
2006 “Heather Cantrell - Century’s End”, catalogue published by sixspace, October
2005 Los Angeles Times, “A Lens and a Mirror” by David Pagel, September 7, pg.3
2004 Frieze, “Likeness”, No. 85, pg. 72 September
2004 The Art Newspaper, “Lively Times in the Dead Zone”, No.147, pg. 32 May
2004 “Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists” catalog and front cover image
2003 Wired Magazine, The Red Krayola, November pg. 90