Education

1974

Indiana University, M.F.A.

1972

Boston University School for the Arts, B.F.A.

1971

Tanglewood Summer Institute, Lenox, MA (scholarship)

1970

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (scholarship)

Teaching

1976-

Professor of Art, Smith College

Awards and Honors

2005

Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship in Painting

1981

Finalist in Painting, Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation Fellowship
Commission, Merck Pharmaceutical (research center lobby, Blue Bell, PA)

1978

Blanche Colman Foundation Grant

Solo and Two-Person(*) Exhibitions

2018

(forthcoming) Rafius Fane Gallery, Boston MA

2017

(forthcoming) New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA

2013

*Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA "Surface Tension"

2012

Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA. “Animalmineralvegetable” (a slightly different version of "Animalmineralvegetable" at Smith College Museum of Art)

2012

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA. “Animalmineralvegetable”

2007

Gordon College, Wenham, MA. “Approaching the Liminal”

2007

Chazan Gallery @ Wheeler, Providence, RI “Susan Heideman/Jason Travers”

2006

Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY. “Nature’s Insides”

2005

Oresman Gallery, Brown Fine Arts Center, Smith College, Northampton, MA. “relic-works”

2002

Glen Urquhart School, Beverly Farms, MA

2000

Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI. “Mary Armstrong and Susan Heideman”

1996

Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA

1996

Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI. “Mary Armstrong and Susan Heideman”

1995

Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA

1995

New England Biolabs, Beverley, MA. “Terry Albright and Susan Heideman”

1994

Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA

1992

Bowery Gallery, NYC

1988

Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1985

Smith College Museum of Art Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1983

Haber Theodore Gallery, NYC

1981

Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1978

Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1976

Hildreth Gallery, Nasson College, Springvale, ME

1975

Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI

1974

Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA. “Surface Tension: Reconsidering Water as Subject”

2009

Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA. “Float”

2005

Smith College Museum of Art.  “A Distinct Impression:  The American Artist and the Monotype”

2004-03

Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI

2002

A.I.R. Gallery, New York City. “Generations”
Lenore Gray Gallery. “Summer Group Show”
Federal Reserve Gallery, Boston, MA. “DeCordova Downtown”

2000-99

Wiggins Gallery Boston Public Library. “Women in Watercolor”

1999

Janice Charach Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI. “Seven Hands On”
Smith College Museum of Art. “Idea<>Form"

1998

Creiger-Dane Gallery at 125 Summer St., Boston, MA
Creiger-Dane Gallery at Offices Unlimited, Boston MA

1997

Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI. “August Group Show”

1995

GW Einstein Gallery, NYC. “The $800 Show”
McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College. “Inspired by Nature; A Contemporary View”
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. “Herbert Plimpton Collection of Realist Art”
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston University. “Alumni Drawings; Celebrating Forty Years
of the Visual Arts at Boston University”

1994-93

Wiggins Gallery, Boston Public Library. “Women in Watercolor”
GW Einstein Gallery, NYC. “Small works/Personal Choices”

1990

Wiggins Gallery, Boston Public Library. “A Salute to Boston”

1987

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. “Drawings from Boston: Selections from the Boston Public Library”
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. “New Work from Old Friends”

1986

New Art Center (formerly Newton Art Center), Newton, MA. “Watercolors in the 1980's”
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA. "Nature Observed”

1984

Haber Theodore Gallery, NYC. "Images"

1982

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. "Herbert W. Plimpton Collection of Realist Art”
Haber Theodore Gallery, NYC. “Season Preview”
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. “Art on Paper 1981,
The 17th Weatherspoon Annual Exhibition”
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA. “Art of the State”
Haber Theodore Gallery, NYC. “Season Preview”

1980

Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA. “Works on Paper”
University of New Hampshire Art Gallery, Durham, NH. “Images in Landscape; The Last Decade”

1979

Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA. “Works on Paper”
Betsy van Buren Gallery, Cambridge, MA. “New Talent from Skowhegan”

1978

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA. “For Collectors”
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. “DeCordova Collects New England Art”

1977

University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA. “Four-College Faculty Exhibition”

1976

Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA. “New Talent”

1975

State University at Potsdam, NY. “Potsdam National Drawing Exhibition"

Summer shows at the Alpha Gallery in 1976, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987

Reviews

2000

"Armstrong's Still-Lifes Are Alive With Patterns," Providence Journal, January 20-23, by Channing Gray.

1999

"Magnificent Seven Create Eclectic Show," Detroit Free Press, May 30, 1999, by Keri Guton.
"Artists Team Up to Reveal Creative Process," Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 13, by Christopher Boucher.

1997

"August Group Show," Art New England, December 97/January 98, by Alicia Faxon

1996

1995

"Boston College Museum of Art/Chestnut Hill.  ‘Inspired by Nature; A Contemporary View’,”
Art New England, December 1995/January 1996, by Rich McKown.                   
"Bromfield Gallery/Boston. ‘Susan Heideman, Maria Coppola, Erica Licea-Kane, Adam Sherman’,"
Art New England, April/May, by Marc Mannheimer.
"Bromfield Gallery Offers Lessons in Sight," Boston Herald, January 13, by Joanne Silver.

1987

"DeCordova Contrasts Artists Then and Now," Boston Globe, July 19, by Robert Taylor.

1986

"Susan Heideman," Art New England, February, by Patricia Wright.

1985

"Perspectives," Boston Globe, December 12, by Christine Temin.

Collaborative Projects

2005

relic-works. Linked poems (Annie Boutelle) and images (Susan Heideman) on themes and objects
in the 2001 Amsterdam/Utrecht exhibition, "The Way to Heaven."  Hard-cover book form of project
(see Bibliography) conceived of by Heideman and designed by Barry Moser.

1999

Hermitage. Painting, poem, and video. Painting: Hermitage, by Susan Heideman; poem:
"at the edge of light Susan Heideman’s Hermitage," by Annie Boutelle; Video, Hermitage,
a Heideman and Boutelle co-production.  One of nine collaborations comprising
Smith College Museum of Art’s exhibition, "Idea<>Form," 1999. (See Group Exhibitions)

Bibliography

2016-17

Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition

2012

Animalmineralvegetable. Smith College Museum of Art.

2007

relic-works; a collaboration, by Susan Heideman and Annie Boutelle, essay by Henk van Os. 
Hugorose Press.

2000

DeCordova Downtown: Art That Means Business. DeCordova Museum.

1999

Office Environments Contemporary Art Exhibition 1998-99. Creiger Associates Incorporated. (catalog)
Idea<>Form; Looking at the Creative Process. Smith College Museum of Art. (catalog)

1990

Oil Pastel, by Kenneth Leslie.  Watson-Guptill Publications.

1987

Drawings From Boston, Selections from the Boston Public Library Collections.  (BPL catalog)

1985

Susan Heideman by Betsy Jones, Curator, Smith College Museum of Art. (brochure with Jones essay
and four images)

1979

DeCordova Collects New England Art. DeCordova Museum. (catalog)

1978

Watercolor Your Way. Carl Schmalz, Watson-Guptill Publications.

1975

2nd National Drawing Exhibit; State University College at
Potsdam, State University College at Potsdam, NY. (catalog)

Published Articles

2003

"Dwight Tryon and Painting at Smith," pp. 91-92, Image and Word; Art and Art History at Smith,
by Art Department faculty and staff, Smith College.

2000

"Face to Face; van Gogh's Portraits," Art New England, October/November.

Unpublished Articles (delivered as lectures)

1996

"Educating Women in the Arts: What Can Women’s Colleges Teach Us?"  College Art Association
Women’s Caucus for Art, Boston, MA, February.

1994

"The Rustling of Molecules; Meditations on Mondrian’s Chrysanthemum Drawing."  Smith College
Museum of Art, October.