Solo, Curated, and Collaborative Exhibitions
2022 Dream Earth People on Sabbatical co-curated ArtSeed’s Annual Year-End Exhibition, Seed and China Brotsky Galleries, San Francisco
2021 New Normal: Learning from the Past to Move Forward Together, co-curated ArtSeed’s Annual Year-End Exhibition, Seed and China Brotsky Galleries, San Francisco
2020 Only Zombies Race to Mass Destruction, co-curated ArtSeed’s Annual Year-End Exhibition, Seed and China Brotsky Galleries, San Francisco
2019 Rendering Power, Envisioning Freedom: Lawmakers, Lost Lives, and Peaceful Resolutions,
co-curated ArtSeed’s Annual Year-End Exhibition, Seed and China Brotsky Galleries, San Francisco;
Urban Art: The Eleventh Hour, directed and co-curated, Seed Gallery, Tides Converge, Presidio.
2018 Peculiar Institutions, Curator and co-featured, Think Round Fine Arts, San Francisco.
Mailing Home: Who Was John Brown? Who Is Jim Crow? Who Are We? Co-curated ArtSeed’s Annual Year-End Exhibition, Seed Gallery and China Brotsky Gallery, Thoreau Center for Sustainability in the Presidio of San Francisco.
2017 Being in Turbulent Times, Solo Exhibition in June, Hardin Studios, San Francisco.
Marching Home: Grasping Valor, Preserving Freedom, Protecting the Earth on the Way to Peace! ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco.
2016 Cottage Industry 16: Locomotion, Collaboration, Let’s Beat Poverty and Racism in All Their Forms! Curator, ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco.
2015 Cottage Industry 15: Communication, Collaboration, Let’s Beat Poverty and Racism in All Their Forms! Curator, ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco.
Freedom Art Indulgence, Imagine Bus Project Signature Event, SOMArts, San Francisco.
2014 Steinberg’s Abstention, Solo Exhibition in June, Hardin Studios, San Francisco.
Legacies and Living Spaces, ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco.
2013 Sums, Sustenance, and the Five Sense, ArtSeed Exhibition, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco.
2012 75 Reasons We Are The Bridge! ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco.
2011 Stocking the Pequod, ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco.
2010 Health, Healing and Community, ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco.
2009 Structure and the Meaning of Life, ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco.
2008 James Grant and Company, curated Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco.
Hereafter: Futures With Which We Can Live? Conceived, curated Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco.
2007 If I Ruled the World, Thoreau Gallery
Achenbach Inspired, The Point Gallery, curator, San Francisco.
2006 Forming ArtSeed, conceived and organized with Marissa Kunz, curator Thoreau Gallery, SF.
2005 ArtSeed Bridges, conceived and organized. Collaborative installation, performance, SFAI.
2004 Coloring Sounds: Songlines for Seibert’s Pipes, Solo Exhibition, The LAB, San Francisco.
2001 Dante’s (ArtSeed) Inferno, San Francisco Public Library, Western Addition Branch
Sticky Business (Art Growing Out of the Real World), Hunter’s Point Gallery, San Francisco.
2000 Gods and Monsters, ArtSeed installation and performance, Southern Exposure, San Francisco.
Friends of ArtSeed, Studio One, Oakland, California.
1998 House of Daddy Dreams, with Dean and Juliet MacCannell, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas.
1994 (Qu)alms, Solo Exhibition, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco (artist’s book and brochure)
Onomatopoeias, Solo Exhibition, Davis Art Center, Davis, California.
1993 Inklings & Iotas, Solo Exhibition, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
1992 Kinder, Adult, Elder Signs, Solo Exhibition, Bechtel International Center, Stanford University.
1991 Signs, Cries, and Incentives, Solo Exhibition, DiverseWorks Artspace (artist’s book and brochure).
1987 Habits, 1401 West Gray Art Space, Houston, Texas.
1986 Climbing the Walls, Solo Exhibition, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1983 Mapping the Body, Solo Exhibition, O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston, Texas.
1982 Introductions, Solo Exhibition, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 | Artists Go Lightly, juried exhibition benefiting the SF Tenants Union, Temporary Autonomous Museum, San FranciscoPower in a Global Society, collaboration organized by World Savvy, Zeum Arts and Technology Museum, San Francisco |
2006 | Annual Art Auction, The LAB, San Francisco |
2005 | Big Deal, Visual Aids Annual Art Auction, San FranciscoThe Drawing Room, curated by Lauren Davies, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
Freedom of Impression: Prints from the Graphic Arts Workshop, San Francisco Art Commission, City Hall Young Art Lives! ArtSeed Benefit Auction, Giant Killer Robot Studios; Inner EarFundraiser, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco Families In Paradise, an installation by Heidi Hardin, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco |
2003 | Seventh Heaven, The LAB, San Francisco; No War, The Luggage Store, San FranciscoArt: Uninterrupted, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
Proof of life, Meridian Gallery; A Dialogue on Paper, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco |
2001 | Big Deal, Visual Aids Benefit Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco |
2000 | Blueprint, TILT, Southern Exposure; Big Deal, Benefit Exhibition, SOMArts, San FranciscoTender and Y2K Youth 2000, Southern Exposure, San Francisco; Opening Tricks,
Afishionados, Sticks Gallery, Berkeley; Art Auction, Walter/McBean Gallery, SF Art Institute |
1998 | Summons I, 509 Cultural Center; Fast Art Stop, San Francisco Art Commission, Grove StreetGive and Take, Mills Building; Self, Stuff, and Others, The Randall Museum, S.F.A.E.P |
1997 | Art, an Anti-destiny, Global Culture Center, La Grande Arche, Paris; Dreams and Nightmares, SF Art Commission Gallery; One-Mile Shebang, Collision Gallery; Sixth Annual, The Luggage Store;Thirteenth Annual, McBean Gallery; Post-postcard II, Four-Walls, SF |
1996 | Discards, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; Big Deal, SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco |
1995 | Visual AIDS, Space 743; Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration, Intersection for the Arts, S. F. |
1994 | Commodities and Discards, Haines Gallery; Holiday Store, New Langton Arts, SF; Tenth Annual, Berkeley Art Center; Crocker-Kingsley Annual, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento |
Selected Awards
2007 | Teaching Artist Residency, Young Artist at Work, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco |
2006 | Teaching Artist Residency, Young Artist at Work, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco |
2003 | Artist Residency, Shipyard Trust for the Arts, Bayview Opera HouseIndividual Artist Commission, Cultural Equity Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission |
2000 | LEF Foundation Grant in support of ArtSeed’s summer camp and websiteArtist-in-Residence, de Young Museum Artist Studio, San Francisco |
1997 | Artist-in Residence Fellowship, Centrum, Port Townsend, WA |
1995 | Commission, Muni Key Stops Project, San Francisco Arts Commission |
1994 | LEF Foundation and the Zellerbach Family Fund Grants supporting the (Qu)alms project |
1992-95 | Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA |
1987 | Artist in Residence Fellowship, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CAFirst Award, East End Show, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston |
1984 | Commission, fifteen paintings, Transco Energy Company, Houston |
Selected Professional Activities
2007 | Guest Speaker, Saratoga Parent Association |
2006 | Juror, Bridge Design Competition, Student Impact Project, Engineers for the Arts, San Francisco |
2004 | Panelist, The Drawing Room, organized by Lauren Davies, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA |
2003 | Founder, ArtSeed, taxexempt, arts-in-community, youth-leadership nonprofit, San FranciscoDirector/Instructor, Conceptual ArtSeed Workshop, Pacific Community Charter School, Pt. Arena, CA
Director/Instructor, ArtSeed’s Fine Arts Summer Camp, Bayview Opera House, San Francisco Conceived & organized, From Hand to Hand, panel discussion & Flash! performances, The LAB, SF |
2002 | Director, Art Is Education workshop, Oakland Museum of California, OaklandJuror, Youth Arts Festival Exhibition, Zeum, San Francisco |
2001 | Director, ArtSeed Family Day oil painting workshop, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
1999-00 | Artist-in-Residence, de Young Museum Artist Studio; I Ching Inferno, The Lab,Instructor, Synergy, SFAEP,Western Addition Beacon Center; Curator, Studio One, Oakland
Organized ArtSeed’s summer camp and website; Hills Project Artist-in-Residence, |
1992-93 | Guest Lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute, San Jose State and Stanford University |
Selected Press
2004 | David Buck, “’The Drawing Room’ at Kala Art Institute,” Artweek, April, Volume 35, Issue 3 |
2003 | Meredith Tromble, “Pointed Remarks,” Shipyard Trust for the Arts Newsletter, May |
2001 | Christine Jegan, “ArtSeed…Connects Children,” San Francisco Observer, MayJosefa Vaughan (quoted), “Times Like These,” Studio Notes, October-December, #34 |
1995 | Terri Cohn, “Some Collaborations,” Art Week, May |
1994 | Diane Roby, “The Stuff of Life,” Artweek, August 18. |
1983 | Patricia Johnson, “Josefa Vaughan’s Triple Threat…,” Houston Chronicle, May 6 |