Curriculum Vitae

HEATHER CAMERON
B. 1958, Winnipeg, Manitoba

EDUCATION:
Ontario College of Art, Experimental Art. Honours A.O.C.A., 1989.
Kutenai Art Therapy Institute, Graduate Diploma in Art Therapy, 2004.
George Brown College, Graphic Design. Honours Diploma, 1982.

SELECTED ONE PERSON SHOWS:
2019 The Wild Braid, Gabriola Arts & Heritage Centre
2004 Remembering, Repeating and Working Through. Grand Forks Art Gallery, BC
2002 Flight. Handwork Studio, Nelson, BC
2000 In Dreams. Nelson Museum, Nelson, BC
1997 Paragons. Mercer Union Project Room, Toronto, Ont.
1997 Consuming Passion. Neutral Ground, Regina, Sask
1994 For Home and Country. Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Sask.
1991 Fair Domain. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ont.
1990 Unsettled Accounts. Grand Theatre, Kingston, Ont.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2021 Triple Thread, (three person show) Gabriola Arts & Heritage Centre
2020 Beneath the Surface, (two person show) Gabriola Arts & Heritage Centre
2017 Landfall and Departure: Prologue, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC
2015 Canadiana, Twin Beaches Gallery, Gabriola Island, BC
2014 Field Trip, Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria, BC
2012 Fibreworks 2012, Cambridge Galleries, juried, Cambridge, ON
2008 Connecting Communities (Artist residency), Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2008 Tract House (with Lisa Anne Auerbach), Baltimore Public Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2006 Faint Evidence, Oxygen Gallery, Nelson, BC
2005 Chasing Amnesia, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
1998 Reading Art. Swift Current National Exhibition Centre, Swift Current, SK
1995 WINDOWS: Storefronts on Art. Organised by Susan Whitney, Regina, SK
1992 The State of Viewing. Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON (As member of Place and Show)
1991 Homefront: Contemporary Issues in Interior Decorating. Site specific 
installation, StreetCity, Toronto, ON. (As member of Place and Show)
1990 Cold City Invitational. Cold City Gallery,Toronto, Ont. (as member of Place and Show)
ec: e without the bar is c. (As member of Place and Show) Embassy Cultural House, London, ON

TOURING EXHIBITIONS:
1994-1995 For Home and Country, 12 Saskatchewan communities (OSAC) 

GRANTS:
2021 Project Assistance for Visual Artists, British Columbia Arts Council
1997 Visual Arts "B" Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
1996 Visual Arts "B" Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
1996 Visual Arts Short Term Grant, Canada Council
1995 Visual Arts "B" Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
1992 Project Grant, Canada Council
1991 Short Term Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Travel Grant, Canada Council

COLLECTIONS:
Dunlop Art Gallery
Cambridge Galleries
Saskatchewan Arts Board
Canada Council Art Bank
Private collections in Canada, the USA, and Japan

PUBLICATIONS:
Craft: Transforming Traditional Crafts 07, p. 152-153 (2008) O’Reilly Media
Craft: Perceptions and Practise Volume II. (2005).
Paula Gustafson (Ed.), Vancouver: Ronsdale Press

RELATED ACTIVITY: 
2022 Workshop leader, Playwrights Theatre Centre and The Public Swoon production of Mermaid Spring, Vancouver, BC
2019 Resident textile artist and workshop leader, The Public Swoon production of Mermaid Spring, Vancouver, BC
2018 Artist talk, “Adaptation and the Codex Canadensis”,
Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, Amsterdam
2006-2009 Swap-O-Rama-Rama producer, with Wendy Tremayne. 
San Francisco CA, Austin TX, Vancouver BC, Sheboygan, WI
2004- Professional Art Therapist
2001 Board of Directors, Nelson and District Arts Council
1997 Contract Assistant to the Director, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
1997 Advisory Board, North Central Street Culture Project, Regina, SK
1995-1997 Board of Directors and Programming Chair, Neutral Ground, Regina, SK
1994-1998 Editor, CARFAC SASK Newsletter, Regina, SK
1990-1991 Arts Critic and Writer, Between the Lines, Kingston, Ont.
1988-1989 Gallery Assistant, Gallery 76, Toronto, Ont.
Assistant to Artist, Robert Fones, Toronto, Ont.