CV and short Bio
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EDUCATION
2004 San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco - CA
Master in Fine Arts - Major in Sculpture with heavy concentration in New Genres
1998 Massachusetts College of Art Boston - MA
Bachelor in Fine Arts - Major in Photography with a minor in sculpture
COLLABORATIONS
Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden - Smithsonian Institute - Washington DC Rirkrit Tiravanija: "Who’s Afraid Of Red, Yellow, And Green" - Drawing collaboration - 2019
Art Museum Of The Americas - Washington DC - Carolina Mayorga's Pink Ranchos
“Light & The State Of A Homeless Mind” Interactive Performance Art - 2019
New York Photo Festival Collaboration with DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) – Brooklyn, Dumbo
BackPack Gallery collaboration with Project Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica - 2012
Visarts Curatorial Project - Rockville, MD
Experimental Performance Art exhibition Curator of SOLO LAB 5- 2019 - present
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery - DC
Artidote Collaboration with Carolina Maryoca. “Champ It“ performance - 2021
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT
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Museum Specialist - Hirshhorn Museum - Washington DC - 2014 to present
Preparator/ Special Project Curator - Visarts - Rockville, MD - 2020 to present
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (for a full record contact artist)
“Smash” - installation performance art - Gibbbs Gallery - Rockville, MD - February - 2025
“The Lift” - site-specific performance art - Common Ground Gallery - Rockville, MD - July 2024
“Up Lift” - site-specific performance installation - Freight Gallery - Washington DC - July 2024
“DysFUNctional Beauty Immersion” - Visarts Next Gen Studio - June 2023 - Rockville - 2023
Artspace Gallery “Dysfunctional Beauty” - Richmond - VA - March 2023
Art Truck Project - Arlington Arts Council - Spring 2023 - “Count Your Joys” - 2023 - 8 Solo Activations
”Tools for the Mind” - Solo Exhibition - Black Rock Arts Foundation - January 2020
Portals: Governors Island - “Dysfunctional Porch” - September 2019 - NYC
“Interactive Variable” Solo exhibition - Common Ground Gallery at Visarts - RockVille, MD - January 25th, 2019 “integration” Solo exhibition - Otis Street Gallery - Mount Rainer, MD/ DC area - March 30, 2019
“Comfort” interactive performance - DCAC gallery at Woodrow Wilson House - Washington DC - May 2018
Art On The Edge - “Suffocate With Your...” interactive performance art - May 2018
Honorarium Sculpture - “One Star Double Wishes” interactive sculpture - Torpedo Art Factory - Alexandria- VA - April to September 2018 Bresler Gallery - Dysfunctional Composition - May 2018
“Let’s Do A Workout” performance art at Arlington Art Center May 2018
Bresler Artist Residency “In Progress” - Visarts, Rockville - MD - February 2018
NOVA College in Manassas, VA - “MEASURE” Solo Exhibition at Colgan Art Gallery - February 2018
King Street Atrium Gallery - Montgomery College - Solo Collaboration with Student Body and BackPack Gallery - October, 2017 - Silver pring, MD Governors Island Art Fair - Joy Count performance - 2017
Joy Count performance - Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival - 2017
Rated art 2017 - BackPack Gallery Performance - Blind Drawing & Joy Count - Arlington - VA - 2017
“Points Of Drawing” - 50/50 Interactive Drawing Project at Capitol Plaza I - Washington - DC - February 2017
“You Are In Control” - Solo Performance and exhibition - January 2017 - NOVA College Contemporary Art - Woodbridge , VA
Hillyer Art Space - Solo Exhibition - “Interactive Lines” - April - 2016 - Washington DC
Solo Exhibition at Industry Lab Gallery “Form Phobia To Drawing” - Cambridge - MA - 2016
“Offobia Shrine” performance- Bennett Park Art Atrium - Rosslyn, VA - 2016
“Special Opportunity Grant 2015-16” recipient - “EVERYONE IS A VIP ” performance Interactive Performance - Alexandria, VA
Art All Night: Nuit Blanche DC - performance with BackPack Gallery project - Fall 2015 - Washington DC City of Alexandria Arts Commission“Special Opportunity Grant 2015-16” recipient - “EVERYONE IS A VIP ”
Interactive Performance - Alexandria, VA at Torpedo Factory Art Center
Industry Lab - BackPack Gallery Project - Summer 2015 - Cambridge, MA
Rated ART -” Everyone is A VIP” Performance - Arlington Art Center - VA - May 2015
Solo Fall 2014 - Arlington Art Center - Arlington- VA
City of Alexandria “Special Opportunity Grant 2014” for Summer Exhibition Exhibitions for Fall 2014- Governor Island Art Fair and Dumbo Arts Festival - NYC King Art Fair honorarium stipend to perform with BackPack Gallery
Dumbo Arts Festival - Brooklyn - NY - September, 2013
New York Photo Festival Collaboration with DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) – Brooklyn, Dumbo - 2012 Uppsala Art Museum - Kulternatten 2009 - Video projection of 9 short videos - Uppsala , Sweden - 2009
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (for a full record contact artist)
Otis Street Studio Gallery - 10th year anniversary exhibition - Washington DC - 2025
Lights Out 2023 - Brentwood Arts Exchange - Mount Rainer - MD
George Mason University Exhibitions Gallery - Arlington - VA - 2022 - Solo LED Videos in the courtyard - Cast\ Recast Exhibiton - October, 2022 Nueva Vida - Mexican Cultural Center - Washington DC, - October 2022
“Perspectivas Latinas” / “Latin Perspectives”, Martino and Chaney Gallery - Annapolis, MD - September 2022
DADA Exhibition - Rhizome DC - 2021
Washington Sculptor Group - McLean Project for the Arts - 2020
Art Museum of The Americas - “Joy Count” performance - Washington, DC - 2019 DADA Exhibition - Rizhone Gallery - Washington, DC - 2019
H Space Gallery - By The People - Washington, DC- 2019
Mexican Cultural Institute - Latinas4lLatinas - Washington - DC - 2017 ThinkSmall9 - Artspace - Richmound, VA - 2017
Home + Discordance = US - NYU Washington DC - 2017
Talk Show - Olly Olly - Fairfax, VA - 2017
Alchemical Vessels exhibition - Joan Hisaoka Gallery - Washington DC - March & April 2017 “Ipseity” Exhibition - Target Gallery at Torpedo Factory - Alexandria - February 2017
Bennett Park Art Atrium “In One Night” performance - Rosslyn, VA - November 2016 Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery - Life Soundtrack - October 2016
Hillyer Art Space - Flesh and Bone Drawing Exhibition - Washington DC - October 2015
Phillips Collection & Hillyer Art Space performance at FTF event - 2014
Cuisine des Artistes 2014/DCArts center at Meridian House - Performance “You Are Live Art” SOMArts Main Gallery - “Everyone Is A VIP” performance - San Francisco, CA - 2014
PUBLICATIONS
Harvard University Archive - Scientific Photograph in “Single molecule studies of enzymatic dynamic fluctuations” , Hollis Number 010999526 – 2007
Wall street journal - http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/05/17/new-york-photo-festival-2012-brings-curators-into-focus/
Resource Magazine - http://resourcemagonline.com/new-york-photo-festival-2012-2/
Marin Pang Journal - http://marionpang.com/category/art/
New Yorker magazine - http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/above-and-beyond/dumbo-arts-festival
Prince William Living Magazine - http://princewilliamliving.com/2017/01/artist-heloisa-escudero-interactive-works-on-display-at-nova-woodbridge/
New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/arts/design/an-art-fair-for-the-99-percent.html
Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/in-the- galleries-interact--integrate-requires-audience-participation/2018/05/03/3093634a-4cb2-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.bfd29138e0bd
RECENT GRANTS - HONORARIUM STIPENDS - ARTIST RESIDENCIES & LECTURE
Visarts Curatorial Project - Rockville, MD - 2019 -present
City Of Alexandria Art in Odd Places - Honorarium Stipend for Sculpture - April 2018 Visarts Bresler Artist Residency - Visarts, Rockville - MD
Artist in Residency at Montgomery College - Fall 2017
“Rated ART” 2017 - Commissions from Arlington Art Center - VA
NoMA BID - Lobby Gallery - Artist Commission - 2017 -19
Artist Lecture Exhibition Stipend - Nova College Woodbridge - January 2017
Special Opportunity Grant 2015-16 from the City of Alexandria Arts Commission, VA Special Opportunity Grant 2014 from the City of Alexandria Arts Commission, VA “Rated ART” 2016 - Commissions from Arlington Art Center - VA
Kings Arts Fair honorarium stipend to perform with BackPack Gallery 2014 Honorarium Stipend from Dumbo Arts Festival from 2011 - 2014
SOMarts Gallery stipend to perform at “100 Performances” - 2014
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Heloisa Escudero was born and grew up in in São Paulo, Brazil, but relocated to the United States in 1987 where her interest in Fine Arts developed. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and a Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. She holds American, Italian and Brazilian citizenships. She is interested in conceptually based art that is both tactile and interactive. Her most recent art projects focus on art that emphasizes the participation of the viewer. In 2007 she moved to Sweden where she worked as a full-time artist, creating four successful projects and exhibiting in Sweden at the Uppsala Art Museum and in Spain at the University of Valencia. While in Sweden she built the first three BackPack Gallery Sculpture Units, starting the BackPack Gallery Project. One of her BackPack Gallery exhibitions/ performances was held at the popular urban park, The High line. In the beginning of 2013 Heloisa set up her studio in Arlington, Virginia, where she works on several different art projects. When Heloisa Escudero is not in her studio making art she is working at the Hirshhorn Museum as an Exhibit Specialist and as Curator for Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and SoloLab 5 Project at Visarts. Escudero has been showing in the DC area, New York city and Boston on a regular basis and her recent solo exhibition is part of the lecture artist program at the NOVA College in Woodbridge, VA. Every year she participates in the Governors Island Art Fair in New York City where her performance engages the audience to interact and become part of the art. In the Fall of 2017 she completed an Artist In Resident at Montgomery College in Silver Spring, MD. On January 2018 Heloisa began a five months Bresler Artist Residenct at Vistart where she end the program with a solo show in 2019. Escudero has had numerous solo exhibitions including Arlington Art Center (Arlignton-VA), Object Center Gallery (Boston-MA), The New Gallery at NOVA Woodbridge Campus (Woodbridge-VA) and many more. Her art has been mentioned at the the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Resource Maga zine, Harvard University Archive, Several times in the
Washington Post and etc.
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